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From the Washington Post news section:

In Black-led Compton, a Latino majority fights for political power

The city known for its Black culture has flipped majority Latino, but its leadership remains all Black. …

By Silvia Foster-Frau
May 15, 2023 at 5:00 a.m. EDT

… The city south of Los Angeles is known as one of the great hubs of Black culture, producing countless Black athletes, rap legends and other celebrities, from Serena and Venus Williams to N.W.A. and Kendrick Lamar.

But Compton is no longer a Black city. Forty years ago, the city’s population was 74 percent Black; now it is nearly 70 percent Latino.

… The city’s leadership still reflects its demographic past, with an all-Black city council and school board. It has never had a Latino mayor. Compton is part of a congressional district represented by a Latina lawmaker, but its first and sole Latino council member was ousted last year after being accused of election fraud.

Huh …

… In 2021, during the city’s last mayoral election, Latinos made up an estimated 38 percent of votes cast despite being 50 percent of registered voters, according to a Washington Post analysis of voter registration data from the political data firm L2. Black residents accounted for roughly 45 percent of votes cast, while making up only 32 percent of registered voters.

The entrenched Black leadership has also done little to engage with the Hispanic community, Latino activists say, while clashing over the need for Spanish-speaking government workers. That has resulted in a lack of murals and monuments dedicated to Latino heroes, they say.

“It’s a very pro-Black environment right now in the administration within Compton,” Diaz said. “It’s just constant events and movements that are pro-Black and not necessarily for all in Compton.”

… Some Black residents say they fought too hard for political power to relinquish it just yet — and that Compton’s Black leaders are still battling racism from other racial groups.

“It’s like Game of Thrones. We have to keep this power, we have to keep the little bit that we have, which is all we have,” said Nina Childs, a Black local activist and filmmaker. “And we’re not giving it up.”

The story of people of color calling on White leaders to cede power for more diverse representation is deeply rooted in American history. But Compton reflects a newer power struggle, which experts say the nation may see more of in the years to come as traditional White and Black strongholds grow more Latino and the Latino community demands more political representation.

The tension is driven by the continued growth of the Latino population, already about one fifth of the country, while the White population declines and the share of the Black population stagnates.

It’s a not so great replacement.

… Conducting conversations about increasing Latino representation with her Black counterparts without appearing anti-Black is already challenging, said Orozco.

Compton has been at the center of fights for power before. It was once a predominantly White, wealthy community that actors like Kevin Costner called home in the 1950s.

Kevin Costner wasn’t an actor in the 1950s. Heck, the two Bushes weren’t Presidents when they lived in Compton in 1950.

Black people were kept out by racial covenants that prevented them from buying homes. As those restrictions were lifted, Black families moved in and White people left. In 1963, the city elected its first Black city council member, marking the start of Compton’s rise as an iconic Black stronghold.

But as the city’s crime rate exploded in the 1980s, some Black families began to leave for wealthier, safer communities. They were replaced by Mexican and Central American immigrants, some of them undocumented, seeking cheap rent and working class jobs.

… Compton didn’t elect its first Hispanic city council member, Isaac Galvan, until 2013, after a lawsuit against the city argued that the at-large council positions discriminated against Latino voters. It led to single district council seats, and Galvan served for nine years until being ousted after a judge ruled he had rigged votes to win his 2021 reelection campaign. Galvan denied the allegations.

… Although about 65 percent of residents speak a language other than English at home, some government documents are still not translated into Spanish, local events rarely incorporate Latino cultural touchstones — such as mariachi troupes or papel picado — and Latinos are not represented enough in the artwork across the city, local Hispanic advocates say.

… Recently, President Biden signed a bill, introduced by one of the city’s two congresswomen, Nanette Diaz Barragán (D), to rename a post office after James Anderson Jr. — a Compton native who was the first Black Marine to earn a Medal of Honor.

So for once we have an extremely worthy black hero to honor, rather than a violent homeless bum or whatever, and the next group in line is sore about him.

 
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  1. Norman Rockwell would be proud.

    • Troll: Redneck Farmer
    • Replies: @usNthem
    @Stan Adams

    Jeebus

    , @Redneck Farmer
    @Stan Adams

    Definitely a LOL, but a great troll for bringing tears to places like Black Twitter! Thanks, Stan!

    Replies: @Stan Adams

    , @Mr. XYZ
    @Stan Adams

    She looks Jewish or maybe half-Jewish. Is she?

    Replies: @Roderick Spode

  2. I upvoted this guy for honesty. Was that so wrong?

  3. Recently, President Biden signed a bill … to rename a post office after James Anderson Jr. — a Compton native who was the first Black Marine to earn a Medal of Honor.

    Nice gesture, I suppose

    • LOL: Paul Jolliffe
    • Replies: @clifford brown
    @Jenner Ickham Errican

    I love Portlandia and Portland, Oregon prior to 2017. Portland really belies the Marxian adage "first time a tragedy, second time as a farce”. With Portlandia, we experience Portland as :"first time a farce, second time as a tragedy”.

    Replies: @Mr. Grey

    , @AndrewR
    @Jenner Ickham Errican

    This show is brilliant

    , @Bill Jones
    @Jenner Ickham Errican

    Wasn't Barry the Kenyan's sole achievement as a US Senator, before ascending to the Godhead, the renaming of a Post Office?

    , @Mr. Anon
    @Jenner Ickham Errican

    That was good. I'd never watched Portlandia but it looks entertaining. I noticed this one too:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsufMtUOXtI

    It really does sound like every single "true life" broadcast I've ever heard on NPR.

    , @The Germ Theory of Disease
    @Jenner Ickham Errican

    It's very funny, to be sure; but it's called "The Castle" and it was written by Franz Kafka roughly 100 years ago. Presumably the show's writers knew that.

    And you guys complain that Modernism offends your tender GK Chestertonian tastes.

    Replies: @Jenner Ickham Errican

  4. This country doesn’t need more Spanish speaking government workers, or any at all.

    I don’t care about either of these groups of people. Root for injuries.

    • Agree: bomag, Pop Warner
    • Replies: @Bernie
    @Mike Tre

    I am cheering for the Hispanics. Much less racist than the blacks.

    Replies: @Marko

  5. The Compton Courthouse is the second-worst place I’ve ever been. Spent a week on a jury there for an attempted murder trial about 15 years ago. What a mess.

    The racial demography of LA County is fascinating if you can get past the juvenile takes on redlining. I’d be interested to know the real details on how Boyar, Weingart and Taper, three Jews (and Boyar was a sort of Super-Jew), ended up founding Lakewood, which was extremely white from the start and to this day is almost Midwestern in its whiteness. The account usually goes that the area had racial covenants, but that by the time Boyar, Weingart and Taper showed up, those had been nullified by the courts, so of course Lakewood was always open to all races…yet it’s still the only white part of LA County you can get into for under a million. How did they work that?

    • Replies: @Pixo
    @Rusty Tailgate

    “ which was extremely white from the start and to this day is almost Midwestern in its whiteness.”

    I don’t think so. Here are the demographics of Lakewood, CA. Maybe you’re thinking of a specific neighborhood.

    32.5% White alone
    28.7% Hispanic
    21.1% Asian alone
    14.8% Black alone

    Lakewood HS is about 20% non hispanic white.

    Never been there, but it seems like an inconvenient location surrounded by run down third worldish old suburban tract home areas. Lots of three bedroom one bath houses on small lots.

    “ Midwestern in its whiteness”

    You know you’re in a white part of the Midwest when the hotel maids and gas station clerks are white.

    Replies: @Shetland, @Bernie

  6. anonymous[263] • Disclaimer says:

    The city that twerks!

    • LOL: Bardon Kaldian
  7. Latino? Latina? What happened to “Latinx”?

  8. @Stan Adams
    Norman Rockwell would be proud.

    https://i.ibb.co/rdT2gM7/AE07-DCFA-A7-EF-479-D-AC78-36-E6-A22802-FB.jpg

    Replies: @usNthem, @Redneck Farmer, @Mr. XYZ

    Jeebus

  9. The Democrat political whores in Chicago could care less about the voters. Chinatown Alderman voters had an Italian ex-cop running against Chinese female Nicole Lee, a Mayor Lightfoot appointee. The ex-cop sent out a flyer talking about how Lee voted for the CTA Red Line extension financing, in which Chinatown residents would PAY FOR the Red Line extension for Blacks past the 95th Street train stop via TIF funding. She won by a landslide in the runoff election.

    Such is the voter in Chicago.

  10. Anon[162] • Disclaimer says:

    For nonelective city jobs, merit hiring went out the window due to disparate impact, and current hiring favors relatives and friends of current black employees, who know the ins and outs.

    It’s like the D.C Metro and military jobs like quartermasters.

    The black middle class would not exist without these sorts of shenanigans. This kind of thing is the real “reparations.”

    • Thanks: bomag
    • Replies: @Rohirrimborn
    @Anon

    I commuted to work for years on the DC Metrorail. Several years ago they ran a campaign asking the ridership to respect Metro bus drivers. The campaign posters featured the tiny handful of non-black Metro employees. The gaslighting in the campaign was off-the-charts.

    Replies: @Anon

    , @Corpse Tooth
    @Anon

    "... military jobs like quartermasters."

    For Army blacks. You don't want Navy blacks navigating the ship.

  11. Better hair-related legislation is needed:

    Black Leadership Advisory Council highlights legislative progress on CROWN Act

    LANSING, Mich. — The Black Leadership Advisory Council (BLAC) joined Sen. Sarah Anthony to highlight the importance of the newly introduced CROWN (Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural hair) Act, aimed at eliminating hair discrimination and removing barriers to Black Michiganders achieving economic prosperity.

    The legislation would extend state law to protect Michiganders from hair-based discrimination by specifying hair texture and protective hairstyles, such as braids, locs and twists, as traits historically associated with race.

    “Since I first introduced the CROWN Act in 2019, we’ve heard countless heartbreaking stories from individuals who have faced hair discrimination across Michigan,” Sen. Anthony said. “It’s simple: How you choose to wear your hair shouldn’t hinder your success in school or the workplace. It’s time to pass the CROWN Act now.”

    https://www.michigan.gov/leo/news/2023/02/24/blac-highlights-legislative-progress-on-crown-act

    • Replies: @additionalMike
    @Anon7

    New York State has much the same silliness in its Human Rights Law (the state equivalent of a federal civil rights statute) because, well, the Dems run state government from top to bottom, much like California.
    Hair Rights are human rights!

    , @Sollipsist
    @Anon7

    The funniest part of the whole thing to me is that the demographic who is most concerned about "hair" is also the #1 market for wigs and hairpieces, more than balding men and drag queens put together.

    The group most likely to tell you to "be real" is at least 25% composed of fake hair, fake fingernails, and fake eyelashes. All of which utterly fail to resemble anything in nature.

  12. ‘…In 1963, the city elected its first Black city council member, marking the start of Compton’s rise as an iconic Black stronghold…’

    ‘Rise’ is definitely not the right word.

    • LOL: bomag
  13. Ex-Compton Councilman Isaac Galvan, dogged by election-rigging scandal, faces $240,000 fine

    Galvan, who was reelected to a third term by one vote last year, was forced out of office in May when a judge invalidated the results because of four illegally cast ballots.

    https://news.yahoo.com/ex-compton-councilman-isaac-galvan-014935166.html

    “Black culture has flipped majority Latino”
    What’s a Latino? While Blacks may be a smaller demographic they probably all identify as Black. The Latinos probably have multiple ancestries from many different locations and don’t identify with each other in a coherent manner. So when there is an elections Blacks are the largest coherent ethnic group.

    The issue might no be ethnic. Maybe it is old people, Black and other, voting for their SS increases against the interests of the youth.

    • Replies: @Almost Missouri
    @George


    Galvan, who was reelected to a third term by one vote last year, was forced out of office in May when a judge invalidated the results because of four illegally cast ballots.
     
    Just imagine how history would have changed if the same standard were applied to Federal elections, say in 2020.

    If only the US had equality under the law or some similar doctrine. Oh well, I guess all we can have is Our Democracy™.

    Replies: @James J. O'Meara

  14. On the topic of California blacks, the NYT has had multiple articles this week revealing Dyin’ Feinstein to be a drooling, damaged mess. Very unflattering. Why are they doing this? Apparently they want her to resign so that Newsom can replace her with a sacred black female who would become the automatic front runner in 2024 senate regular election. Everything seems to come down to black worship now.

    • Agree: Servenet
    • Replies: @tyrone
    @CalCooledge


    Newsom can replace her with a sacred black female
     
    ......That's why shifty Schiff and nasty Nancy are trying to get her '24....another democrat horror story.
    , @PhysicistDave
    @CalCooledge

    CalCooledge wrote:


    On the topic of California blacks, the NYT has had multiple articles this week revealing Dyin’ Feinstein to be a drooling, damaged mess. Very unflattering. Why are they doing this? Apparently they want her to resign so that Newsom can replace her with a sacred black female who would become the automatic front runner in 2024 senate regular election.
     
    Yes, that is what is happening.

    The Black female likely to be appointed is Rep. Barbara Lee.

    The front-runner for the Senate seat otherwise is Adam Schiff, who is Pelosi's pal, which is why Pelsoi is trying to pretend DiFi is still alive (Weekend at Bernies and all that).

    Barbara Lee is a far-left Democratic liberal.

    But Schiff is probably the biggest liar in American politics today, utterly subhuman scum.

    Lee, on occasion, has actually voted her conscience.

    A bad choice, but Lee is not as evil as Schiff.

    , @Anonymous
    @CalCooledge


    Everything seems to come down to black worship now.
     
    More like black dominance.
  15. How’s that colorblind civic nationalism working out for you, Steve?

    • Replies: @KenH
    @Citizen of a Silly Country


    How’s that colorblind civic nationalism working out for you, Steve?
     
    I'm sure if Steve-O went to Compton to deliver a speech about race blind civic nationalism it would resonate with blacks and Latinos followed by dancing in the streets. Sarcasm intended.

    Replies: @Citizen of a Silly Country

    , @Corvinus
    @Citizen of a Silly Country

    “How’s that colorblind civic nationalism working out for you, Steve?”

    It has its ups and downs. Always has. Always will. But Gen Z has bought into it. And you can’t stop it.

    Replies: @pyrrhus, @Art Deco, @Charles Erwin Wilson

  16. ‘How’s that colorblind civic nationalism working out for you, Steve?’

    Them’s war the days.

    • Replies: @pyrrhus
    @Colin Wright

    Civ-nattery....How quaint!

    Replies: @Colin Wright

  17. “But Compton reflects a newer power struggle, which experts say the nation may see more of in the years to come as traditional White and Black strongholds grow more Latino”

    Thank God we have “experts” to tell us the totally obvious.

    PS – the commenting interface stinks on an iPhone.

  18. @Jenner Ickham Errican

    Recently, President Biden signed a bill ... to rename a post office after James Anderson Jr. — a Compton native who was the first Black Marine to earn a Medal of Honor.
     
    Nice gesture, I suppose ...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8d-9ag9cHU4

    Replies: @clifford brown, @AndrewR, @Bill Jones, @Mr. Anon, @The Germ Theory of Disease

    I love Portlandia and Portland, Oregon prior to 2017. Portland really belies the Marxian adage “first time a tragedy, second time as a farce”. With Portlandia, we experience Portland as :“first time a farce, second time as a tragedy”.

    • Agree: Muggles
    • Replies: @Mr. Grey
    @clifford brown

    Before the last season of Portlandia, the woman's bookstore they used for one of their famous skits revoked permission to shoot in their store. They stopped production just in time before the Left lost all it's sense of humor.

  19. So for once we have an extremely worthy black hero to honor, rather than a violent homeless bum or whatever, and the next group in line is sore about him.

    Ooh! What group will come after Mexicans to colonize Compton? Tibetan lamas? Martians? Uplifted dogs and cats? Baboons with strains of human DNA? The intelligent paramecia from Blood Music?

  20. “It’s like Game of Thrones. We have to keep this power, we have to keep the little bit that we have, which is all we have,” said Nina Childs, a Black local activist and filmmaker. “And we’re not giving it up.”

    A HBO series about the political machinations between Blacks and Latinos in Compton politics would likely make for interesting and racially diverse programming. Of course, the HBO audience of high brow Whites, Blacks and Latinos are not particularly interested in the real world scrum of multiracial working class politics.

    • Replies: @fredyetagain aka superhonky
    @clifford brown


    A HBO series about the political machinations between Blacks and Latinos in Compton politics would likely make for interesting and racially diverse programming. Of course, the HBO audience of high brow Whites, Blacks and Latinos are not particularly interested in the real world scrum of multiracial working class politics.
     
    Agreed that such a show would make interesting viewing, but without concocting some way to make Whitey the villain, no way would it ever be made.

    Replies: @Mr. XYZ, @Malcolm X-Lax

    , @njguy73
    @clifford brown

    How about an HBO series about a declining industrial city focusing on Black drug dealers, White cops, and the failing school system?

    (Pause)

    Nah, it'll never catch on.

  21. I wish blacks would stop the whining or just disappear. They are a ball and chain on society.

    • Replies: @Servenet
    @Pastit

    You don't say.

  22. But as the city’s crime rate exploded in the 1980s, some Black families began to leave for wealthier, safer communities.

    Just when they get to be the majority, the crime rate explodes. Black people just can’t catch a break.

    • Replies: @Achmed E. Newman
    @Hypnotoad666

    Beat me to it - already had that line in the "clipboard"!

    Very good. I'm surprised iSteve didn't have fun with that one.

    , @Rohirrimborn
    @Hypnotoad666

    Black people just can’t catch a break.

    I agree it's so unfair how when Black! people congregate that "shots ring out" or someone is hit by a "stray bullet". It's racist that these afflictions happen disproportionately to them. Disparate impact!

    , @Corvinus
    @Hypnotoad666

    “Just when they get to be the majority, the crime rate explodes. Black people just can’t catch a break.”

    Let’s offer some context through the lens of how and why gangs formed in this iconic city, which indeed led to perverse levels of violence.

    https://www.streetgangs.com/crips/blackstreetgangs/#sthash.di1j81lp.dpbs

    —Several of the first black clubs to emerge in the late 1940s and early 1950s formed initially as a defensive reaction to combat much of the white violence that had been plaguing the black community for several years. In the surrounding communities of the original black ghetto of Central Avenue and Watts, and in the cities of Huntington Park and South Gate, white Angelenos were developing a dissatisfaction for the growing black population that was migrating from the South during WWII. During the 1940s, resentment from the white community grew as several blacks challenged the legal housing discrimination laws that prevented them from purchasing property outside the original settlement neighborhoods and integrate into the public schools. Areas outside of the original black settlement of Los Angeles were neighborhoods covered by legally enforced, racially restrictive covenants or deed restrictions. This practice, adapted by white homeowners, was established in 1922 and was designed to maintain social and racial homogeneity of neighborhoods by denying non-whites access to property ownership.—

    —In Huntington Park, Bell, and South Gate, towns that were predominately white, teenagers formed some of the early street clubs during the 1940s. One of the most infamous clubs of that time was the Spook Hunters, a group of white teenagers that often attacked black youths. If blacks were seen outside of the black settlement area, which was roughly bounded by Slauson to the South, Alameda Avenue to the east, and Main[5] Street to the west, they were often attacked. The name of this club emphasized their racist attitude towards blacks, as Spook Hunters is a derogatory term used to identify blacks and ?Hunters? highlighted their desire to attack blacks as their method of fighting integration and promoting residential segregation. Their animosity towards blacks was publicly known; the back of their club jackets displayed an animated black face with exaggerated facial features and a noose hanging around the neck. The Spook Hunters would often cross Alameda traveling west to violently attack black youths from the area. In Thrasher’s study of Chicago gangs, he observed a similar white gang in Chicago during the 1920s, the Dirty Dozens, who often attacked black youths with knives, blackjacks, and revolvers because of racial differences (Thrasher 1963:37). Raymond Wright was one of the founders of a black club called the Businessmen, a large East side club based at South Park between Slauson Avenue and Vernon Avenue. He stated that, “you couldn’t pass Alameda, because those white boys in South Gate would set you on fire,?[6] and fear of attack among black youths was not, surprisingly, common. In 1941, white students at Fremont High School threatened blacks by burning them in effigy and displaying posters saying, “we want no ni##ers at this school” (Bunch 1990: 118). There were racial confrontations at Manual Arts High School on Vermont and 42nd Street, and at Adams High School during the 1940s (Davis 1990:293). In 1943, conflicts between blacks and whites occurred at 5th and San Pedro Streets, resulting in a riot on Central Avenue (Bunch 1990:118). white clubs in Inglewood, Gardena, and on the West side engaged in similar acts, but the Spook Hunters were the most violent of all white clubs in Los Angeles.—

    Of course, there are white gangs in the U.S., but why would Mr. Sailer want to NOTICE that.

    https://amp.theguardian.com/society/2018/apr/05/white-gangs-rise-simon-city-royals-mississippi-chicago

    Replies: @Cool Daddy Jimbo, @ATBOTL, @Lime and Dime, @Curle

  23. @clifford brown

    “It’s like Game of Thrones. We have to keep this power, we have to keep the little bit that we have, which is all we have,” said Nina Childs, a Black local activist and filmmaker. “And we’re not giving it up.”
     
    A HBO series about the political machinations between Blacks and Latinos in Compton politics would likely make for interesting and racially diverse programming. Of course, the HBO audience of high brow Whites, Blacks and Latinos are not particularly interested in the real world scrum of multiracial working class politics.

    Replies: @fredyetagain aka superhonky, @njguy73

    A HBO series about the political machinations between Blacks and Latinos in Compton politics would likely make for interesting and racially diverse programming. Of course, the HBO audience of high brow Whites, Blacks and Latinos are not particularly interested in the real world scrum of multiracial working class politics.

    Agreed that such a show would make interesting viewing, but without concocting some way to make Whitey the villain, no way would it ever be made.

    • Agree: Renard
    • Replies: @Mr. XYZ
    @fredyetagain aka superhonky

    A white tragic hero would be much more interesting, frankly.

    , @Malcolm X-Lax
    @fredyetagain aka superhonky

    I have a vague memory of talk that Jaimie Foxx wanted to make a movie about the Zebra Killings. The hero of the story was to be one of the black detectives investigating the case who, despite trying to solve a crime involving black perps and white victims, was himself the victim of white racism within the force. I guess they couldn't make the pros, in terms of propaganda value, outweigh the cons of widely publicizing an event that most people are completely ignorant of to begin with and just decided it best to let it slip back down the memory hole.

  24. @Stan Adams
    Norman Rockwell would be proud.

    https://i.ibb.co/rdT2gM7/AE07-DCFA-A7-EF-479-D-AC78-36-E6-A22802-FB.jpg

    Replies: @usNthem, @Redneck Farmer, @Mr. XYZ

    Definitely a LOL, but a great troll for bringing tears to places like Black Twitter! Thanks, Stan!

    • Replies: @Stan Adams
    @Redneck Farmer

    You’re welcome, I’m sure.

    Steve did a couple of pieces mocking these ridiculous Rockwell remakes.

    This one is creepy:

    https://i.ibb.co/3zx4pCT/0-B08960-F-C1-D6-440-C-AFD8-50-E3-C913325-A.webp

    https://i.ibb.co/yVDCzcK/7-CA07250-5-FC8-4-D80-B7-A7-002-B6-E3-B7-AC8.jpg

  25. I wonder how the media’s going to handle it when explicitly anti-black riots break out among Los Angeles Hispanics — I mean on a scale too large to hide?

    It could get very bloody. And who’s going to police it?

    • Replies: @Mr. XYZ
    @Colin Wright

    This will be quite a sight for Gnon to behold.

    , @Renard
    @Colin Wright


    I wonder how the media’s going to handle it when explicitly anti-black riots break out among Los Angeles Hispanics
     
    Seriously? "Hispanics can be of any race" and in this case they will all miraculously be white.

    Replies: @Colin Wright

    , @AndrewR
    @Colin Wright

    Don't get our hopes up

    Replies: @Colin Wright

  26. Conducting conversations about increasing Latino representation with her Black counterparts without appearing anti-Black is already challenging, said Orozco.

    It’s almost like it’s some kind of zero-sum irreconcilable conflict or something. How can wanting less black representatives be anything other than anti-black?

    Because if you say “Well, it’s because the mass migration of people you didn’t want and has no say in, because it would displace you socially and economically, has displaced you, so it’s only fair we have politically representation. Even if you think it’s fundamentally unfair you got displaced without having any say at all.” it doesn’t exactly help, does it?

    “We’ve displaced you spatially and socially against your will, now let us finish the job and displace you politically”

    • Replies: @Dragoslav
    @Altai3

    “We’ve displaced you spatially and socially against your will, now let us finish the job and displace you politically”

    It's called karma. They displaced whites and now...

    Replies: @anonymouseperson, @RadicalCenter

  27. The one thing California has going for it is that its black population has been declining.

    • Replies: @tyrone
    @anti_black_lib

    And yet reparations is on the front burner.

  28. @CalCooledge
    On the topic of California blacks, the NYT has had multiple articles this week revealing Dyin' Feinstein to be a drooling, damaged mess. Very unflattering. Why are they doing this? Apparently they want her to resign so that Newsom can replace her with a sacred black female who would become the automatic front runner in 2024 senate regular election. Everything seems to come down to black worship now.

    Replies: @tyrone, @PhysicistDave, @Anonymous

    Newsom can replace her with a sacred black female

    ……That’s why shifty Schiff and nasty Nancy are trying to get her ’24….another democrat horror story.

  29. @anti_black_lib
    The one thing California has going for it is that its black population has been declining.

    Replies: @tyrone

    And yet reparations is on the front burner.

  30. @Stan Adams
    Norman Rockwell would be proud.

    https://i.ibb.co/rdT2gM7/AE07-DCFA-A7-EF-479-D-AC78-36-E6-A22802-FB.jpg

    Replies: @usNthem, @Redneck Farmer, @Mr. XYZ

    She looks Jewish or maybe half-Jewish. Is she?

    • Replies: @Roderick Spode
    @Mr. XYZ

    That's Rosario Dawson, my man. Likely not Jewish, although she never knew her biological father, a one Patrick C. Harris. I suppose he could've been Jewish.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosario_Dawson#Early_life

    Replies: @The Wild Geese Howard

  31. @Colin Wright
    I wonder how the media's going to handle it when explicitly anti-black riots break out among Los Angeles Hispanics -- I mean on a scale too large to hide?

    It could get very bloody. And who's going to police it?

    Replies: @Mr. XYZ, @Renard, @AndrewR

    This will be quite a sight for Gnon to behold.

  32. @fredyetagain aka superhonky
    @clifford brown


    A HBO series about the political machinations between Blacks and Latinos in Compton politics would likely make for interesting and racially diverse programming. Of course, the HBO audience of high brow Whites, Blacks and Latinos are not particularly interested in the real world scrum of multiracial working class politics.
     
    Agreed that such a show would make interesting viewing, but without concocting some way to make Whitey the villain, no way would it ever be made.

    Replies: @Mr. XYZ, @Malcolm X-Lax

    A white tragic hero would be much more interesting, frankly.

  33. @Hypnotoad666

    But as the city’s crime rate exploded in the 1980s, some Black families began to leave for wealthier, safer communities.
     
    Just when they get to be the majority, the crime rate explodes. Black people just can't catch a break.

    Replies: @Achmed E. Newman, @Rohirrimborn, @Corvinus

    Beat me to it – already had that line in the “clipboard”!

    Very good. I’m surprised iSteve didn’t have fun with that one.

  34. A few morals of this Compton as Wakanda tale (struck me, from a safe 6000 miles away):
    1. Blacks will let go of any power their (always local?) concentrations bestow on them with much less grace, let alone self abasing surrender, than whites.
    2. The wrinkle in the shepherding of minorities to some rainbow coalition power seems to be that these blighters won’t turn out to vote. One way around this is to corrupt the judiciary, media etc etc into a minority-fawning stance. Another, revealed here, is that as a minority loses its grasp on power it can be successfully motivated to turn up at elections (the blacks vote over residence spread in Compton). Is this likely to be a ‘wash’ nationally? Ie declining minority residence shares offset by greater turnout?
    3 oh the irony! Sentient blacks flee these model serf- and crime-doms too!
    4. Would an influx of muscular trans folk be the last stirring of this woeful wok?

  35. Anonymous[136] • Disclaimer says:

    Blacks and Mexicans duke it out in Compton.

    – Whites to blame.

    • Replies: @Dmon
    @Anonymous

    "...duke it out in Compton".

    Hey - another famous Comptonite.


    Born in Los Angeles, Snider was nicknamed "Duke" by his father at age 5.[1] Growing up in Southern California, Snider was a gifted all-around athlete, playing basketball, football, and baseball at Compton High School, class of 1944.
     
    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Duke_Snider_1953.jpg/200px-Duke_Snider_1953.jpg
  36. @George
    Ex-Compton Councilman Isaac Galvan, dogged by election-rigging scandal, faces $240,000 fine

    Galvan, who was reelected to a third term by one vote last year, was forced out of office in May when a judge invalidated the results because of four illegally cast ballots.

    https://news.yahoo.com/ex-compton-councilman-isaac-galvan-014935166.html

    "Black culture has flipped majority Latino"
    What's a Latino? While Blacks may be a smaller demographic they probably all identify as Black. The Latinos probably have multiple ancestries from many different locations and don't identify with each other in a coherent manner. So when there is an elections Blacks are the largest coherent ethnic group.

    The issue might no be ethnic. Maybe it is old people, Black and other, voting for their SS increases against the interests of the youth.

    Replies: @Almost Missouri

    Galvan, who was reelected to a third term by one vote last year, was forced out of office in May when a judge invalidated the results because of four illegally cast ballots.

    Just imagine how history would have changed if the same standard were applied to Federal elections, say in 2020.

    If only the US had equality under the law or some similar doctrine. Oh well, I guess all we can have is Our Democracy™.

    • Agree: bomag, res, ic1000, Kylie
    • Replies: @James J. O'Meara
    @Almost Missouri

    That would be “anti-democratic”!

    Literally.

  37. @Colin Wright
    I wonder how the media's going to handle it when explicitly anti-black riots break out among Los Angeles Hispanics -- I mean on a scale too large to hide?

    It could get very bloody. And who's going to police it?

    Replies: @Mr. XYZ, @Renard, @AndrewR

    I wonder how the media’s going to handle it when explicitly anti-black riots break out among Los Angeles Hispanics

    Seriously? “Hispanics can be of any race” and in this case they will all miraculously be white.

    • Replies: @Colin Wright
    @Renard


    Seriously? “Hispanics can be of any race” and in this case they will all miraculously be white.
     
    Just so long as we kinda squint and rally to the common cause.

    Puppets aside, Hispanics are perfectly happy to be white. How about if we let them?
  38. @Altai3

    Conducting conversations about increasing Latino representation with her Black counterparts without appearing anti-Black is already challenging, said Orozco.
     
    It's almost like it's some kind of zero-sum irreconcilable conflict or something. How can wanting less black representatives be anything other than anti-black?

    Because if you say "Well, it's because the mass migration of people you didn't want and has no say in, because it would displace you socially and economically, has displaced you, so it's only fair we have politically representation. Even if you think it's fundamentally unfair you got displaced without having any say at all." it doesn't exactly help, does it?

    "We've displaced you spatially and socially against your will, now let us finish the job and displace you politically"

    Replies: @Dragoslav

    “We’ve displaced you spatially and socially against your will, now let us finish the job and displace you politically”

    It’s called karma. They displaced whites and now…

    • Agree: anonymouseperson
    • Replies: @anonymouseperson
    @Dragoslav

    California was more then 80% white as late as 1970. Sad what has been lost. Watch some old tv shows set there in the sixties and seventies. Such a different (better) world.

    , @RadicalCenter
    @Dragoslav

    YES. Couldn't happen to nicer people.

  39. @Anon
    For nonelective city jobs, merit hiring went out the window due to disparate impact, and current hiring favors relatives and friends of current black employees, who know the ins and outs.

    It’s like the D.C Metro and military jobs like quartermasters.

    The black middle class would not exist without these sorts of shenanigans. This kind of thing is the real “reparations.”

    Replies: @Rohirrimborn, @Corpse Tooth

    I commuted to work for years on the DC Metrorail. Several years ago they ran a campaign asking the ridership to respect Metro bus drivers. The campaign posters featured the tiny handful of non-black Metro employees. The gaslighting in the campaign was off-the-charts.

    • Replies: @Anon
    @Rohirrimborn


    I commuted to work for years on the DC Metrorail. Several years ago they ran a campaign asking the ridership to respect Metro bus drivers. The campaign posters featured the tiny handful of non-black Metro employees. The gaslighting in the campaign was off-the-charts.
     
    The classic exposé series by Luke Rosiak in the Washington Times in 2012:

    2012-03-26 Metro derailed by culture of complacence, incompetence, lack of diversity
    https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/mar/26/metro-derailed-by-culture-of-complacence-incompete/

    2012-03-28 Even with big salaries, Metro can't fill its jobs
    https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/mar/27/even-with-big-salaries-metro-cant-fill-its-jobs/

    2012-04-02 Metro transit police: Not quite the region's finest
    https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/apr/1/metro-police-not-quite-dcs-finest/

    2012-04-02 Metro gag order at odds with law
    https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/apr/1/metro-gag-order-at-odds-with-law/

    2012-05-03 Metro closes ranks against outside 'attacks'
    https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/may/3/metro-closes-ranks-against-outside-attacks/

    2011-12-28 Report finds Metro hiring process skirted
    https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/dec/28/report-finds-metro-hiring-process-skirted/

    2012-07-26 Metro reimbursed questionable college courses for half-million dollars
    https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jul/26/college-takes-some-metro-workers-for-off-the-rails/
  40. @Hypnotoad666

    But as the city’s crime rate exploded in the 1980s, some Black families began to leave for wealthier, safer communities.
     
    Just when they get to be the majority, the crime rate explodes. Black people just can't catch a break.

    Replies: @Achmed E. Newman, @Rohirrimborn, @Corvinus

    Black people just can’t catch a break.

    I agree it’s so unfair how when Black! people congregate that “shots ring out” or someone is hit by a “stray bullet”. It’s racist that these afflictions happen disproportionately to them. Disparate impact!

  41. James J. O'Meara [AKA "Peter D. Bredon"] says:
    @Almost Missouri
    @George


    Galvan, who was reelected to a third term by one vote last year, was forced out of office in May when a judge invalidated the results because of four illegally cast ballots.
     
    Just imagine how history would have changed if the same standard were applied to Federal elections, say in 2020.

    If only the US had equality under the law or some similar doctrine. Oh well, I guess all we can have is Our Democracy™.

    Replies: @James J. O'Meara

    That would be “anti-democratic”!

    Literally.

  42. during the city’s last mayoral election, Latinos made up an estimated 38 percent of votes cast despite being 50 percent of registered voters, according to a Washington Post analysis of voter registration data from the political data firm L2. Black residents accounted for roughly 45 percent of votes cast, while making up only 32 percent of registered voters.

    Compton is 98% Black+Latino, yet Black+Latino voters are 82% and Black+Latino ballots are 83%. There is no arithmetic where the 2% non-Black+Latinos can be 18% of the voters, so that leaves two possibilities: the Washington Post+L2 analysis is incompetent, and/or the unexplained 15% of ballots come from 2AM ballot-dumps from the DNC headquarters.

    the White population declines and the share of the Black population stagnates.

    Still with the lies about the black population share “stagnating”. I guess the WaPo never reads the census. In reality, the black population is growing the fastest of all native-born groups, is currently at about 16% and still rising.

    The story of people of color calling on White leaders to cede power for more diverse representation is deeply rooted in American history.

    Apparently, the White leaders were even more “deeply rooted in American history”, y’know, if we’re having a contest over deep-rootedness…

    Although about 65 percent of residents speak a language other than English at home, some government documents are still not translated into Spanish, local events rarely incorporate Latino cultural touchstones — such as mariachi troupes or papel picado — and Latinos are not represented enough in the artwork across the city, local Hispanic advocates say.

    Hmm, so the premise is that the government should serve the ethnic interests of those who vote for it. Interesting. Wait’ll the White people find out about this!

    • LOL: Adam Smith
  43. @Jenner Ickham Errican

    Recently, President Biden signed a bill ... to rename a post office after James Anderson Jr. — a Compton native who was the first Black Marine to earn a Medal of Honor.
     
    Nice gesture, I suppose ...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8d-9ag9cHU4

    Replies: @clifford brown, @AndrewR, @Bill Jones, @Mr. Anon, @The Germ Theory of Disease

    This show is brilliant

  44. @Hypnotoad666

    But as the city’s crime rate exploded in the 1980s, some Black families began to leave for wealthier, safer communities.
     
    Just when they get to be the majority, the crime rate explodes. Black people just can't catch a break.

    Replies: @Achmed E. Newman, @Rohirrimborn, @Corvinus

    “Just when they get to be the majority, the crime rate explodes. Black people just can’t catch a break.”

    Let’s offer some context through the lens of how and why gangs formed in this iconic city, which indeed led to perverse levels of violence.

    https://www.streetgangs.com/crips/blackstreetgangs/#sthash.di1j81lp.dpbs

    —Several of the first black clubs to emerge in the late 1940s and early 1950s formed initially as a defensive reaction to combat much of the white violence that had been plaguing the black community for several years. In the surrounding communities of the original black ghetto of Central Avenue and Watts, and in the cities of Huntington Park and South Gate, white Angelenos were developing a dissatisfaction for the growing black population that was migrating from the South during WWII. During the 1940s, resentment from the white community grew as several blacks challenged the legal housing discrimination laws that prevented them from purchasing property outside the original settlement neighborhoods and integrate into the public schools. Areas outside of the original black settlement of Los Angeles were neighborhoods covered by legally enforced, racially restrictive covenants or deed restrictions. This practice, adapted by white homeowners, was established in 1922 and was designed to maintain social and racial homogeneity of neighborhoods by denying non-whites access to property ownership.—

    —In Huntington Park, Bell, and South Gate, towns that were predominately white, teenagers formed some of the early street clubs during the 1940s. One of the most infamous clubs of that time was the Spook Hunters, a group of white teenagers that often attacked black youths. If blacks were seen outside of the black settlement area, which was roughly bounded by Slauson to the South, Alameda Avenue to the east, and Main[5] Street to the west, they were often attacked. The name of this club emphasized their racist attitude towards blacks, as Spook Hunters is a derogatory term used to identify blacks and ?Hunters? highlighted their desire to attack blacks as their method of fighting integration and promoting residential segregation. Their animosity towards blacks was publicly known; the back of their club jackets displayed an animated black face with exaggerated facial features and a noose hanging around the neck. The Spook Hunters would often cross Alameda traveling west to violently attack black youths from the area. In Thrasher’s study of Chicago gangs, he observed a similar white gang in Chicago during the 1920s, the Dirty Dozens, who often attacked black youths with knives, blackjacks, and revolvers because of racial differences (Thrasher 1963:37). Raymond Wright was one of the founders of a black club called the Businessmen, a large East side club based at South Park between Slauson Avenue and Vernon Avenue. He stated that, “you couldn’t pass Alameda, because those white boys in South Gate would set you on fire,?[6] and fear of attack among black youths was not, surprisingly, common. In 1941, white students at Fremont High School threatened blacks by burning them in effigy and displaying posters saying, “we want no ni##ers at this school” (Bunch 1990: 118). There were racial confrontations at Manual Arts High School on Vermont and 42nd Street, and at Adams High School during the 1940s (Davis 1990:293). In 1943, conflicts between blacks and whites occurred at 5th and San Pedro Streets, resulting in a riot on Central Avenue (Bunch 1990:118). white clubs in Inglewood, Gardena, and on the West side engaged in similar acts, but the Spook Hunters were the most violent of all white clubs in Los Angeles.—

    Of course, there are white gangs in the U.S., but why would Mr. Sailer want to NOTICE that.

    https://amp.theguardian.com/society/2018/apr/05/white-gangs-rise-simon-city-royals-mississippi-chicago

    • Thanks: Gabe Ruth
    • Troll: Pixo, AceDeuce
    • Replies: @Cool Daddy Jimbo
    @Corvinus

    "There was a gang of mean white kids eighty years ago, so we've destroyed place we've lived ever since." Do you have any idea how stupid you sound?

    , @ATBOTL
    @Corvinus

    The white gangs you talk about were the good guys. More whites should have supported them to drive blacks entirely out of Southern California.

    Replies: @Corvinus

    , @Lime and Dime
    @Corvinus

    The question should be why these Black gangs are still around, as the White majority and racial housing covenants are long since gone. The explosion of Black violence as a result of White racism is not as good of an explanation for the crime wave as just comparing the crime rates. Funnily enough, even with these violent White gangs assaulting Blacks in favour of segregationist policy there wasn't much of a crime explosion when Whites enjoyed homogeneity.

    Of course the takeaway here is that muti-racial democracies are untenable in the face of ethnic partisianship, it will inevitably devolve into in-group nepotism. Americans certainly aren't ready for that conversation yet.

    Replies: @Corvinus

    , @Curle
    @Corvinus

    “This practice, adapted by white homeowners, was established in 1922 and was designed to maintain social and racial homogeneity of neighborhoods by denying non-whites access to property ownership.—”

    They left out lower crime and lower property values among things the gang sought to avoid.

    Replies: @Corvinus

  45. @Corvinus
    @Hypnotoad666

    “Just when they get to be the majority, the crime rate explodes. Black people just can’t catch a break.”

    Let’s offer some context through the lens of how and why gangs formed in this iconic city, which indeed led to perverse levels of violence.

    https://www.streetgangs.com/crips/blackstreetgangs/#sthash.di1j81lp.dpbs

    —Several of the first black clubs to emerge in the late 1940s and early 1950s formed initially as a defensive reaction to combat much of the white violence that had been plaguing the black community for several years. In the surrounding communities of the original black ghetto of Central Avenue and Watts, and in the cities of Huntington Park and South Gate, white Angelenos were developing a dissatisfaction for the growing black population that was migrating from the South during WWII. During the 1940s, resentment from the white community grew as several blacks challenged the legal housing discrimination laws that prevented them from purchasing property outside the original settlement neighborhoods and integrate into the public schools. Areas outside of the original black settlement of Los Angeles were neighborhoods covered by legally enforced, racially restrictive covenants or deed restrictions. This practice, adapted by white homeowners, was established in 1922 and was designed to maintain social and racial homogeneity of neighborhoods by denying non-whites access to property ownership.—

    —In Huntington Park, Bell, and South Gate, towns that were predominately white, teenagers formed some of the early street clubs during the 1940s. One of the most infamous clubs of that time was the Spook Hunters, a group of white teenagers that often attacked black youths. If blacks were seen outside of the black settlement area, which was roughly bounded by Slauson to the South, Alameda Avenue to the east, and Main[5] Street to the west, they were often attacked. The name of this club emphasized their racist attitude towards blacks, as Spook Hunters is a derogatory term used to identify blacks and ?Hunters? highlighted their desire to attack blacks as their method of fighting integration and promoting residential segregation. Their animosity towards blacks was publicly known; the back of their club jackets displayed an animated black face with exaggerated facial features and a noose hanging around the neck. The Spook Hunters would often cross Alameda traveling west to violently attack black youths from the area. In Thrasher’s study of Chicago gangs, he observed a similar white gang in Chicago during the 1920s, the Dirty Dozens, who often attacked black youths with knives, blackjacks, and revolvers because of racial differences (Thrasher 1963:37). Raymond Wright was one of the founders of a black club called the Businessmen, a large East side club based at South Park between Slauson Avenue and Vernon Avenue. He stated that, “you couldn’t pass Alameda, because those white boys in South Gate would set you on fire,?[6] and fear of attack among black youths was not, surprisingly, common. In 1941, white students at Fremont High School threatened blacks by burning them in effigy and displaying posters saying, “we want no ni##ers at this school” (Bunch 1990: 118). There were racial confrontations at Manual Arts High School on Vermont and 42nd Street, and at Adams High School during the 1940s (Davis 1990:293). In 1943, conflicts between blacks and whites occurred at 5th and San Pedro Streets, resulting in a riot on Central Avenue (Bunch 1990:118). white clubs in Inglewood, Gardena, and on the West side engaged in similar acts, but the Spook Hunters were the most violent of all white clubs in Los Angeles.—

    Of course, there are white gangs in the U.S., but why would Mr. Sailer want to NOTICE that.

    https://amp.theguardian.com/society/2018/apr/05/white-gangs-rise-simon-city-royals-mississippi-chicago

    Replies: @Cool Daddy Jimbo, @ATBOTL, @Lime and Dime, @Curle

    “There was a gang of mean white kids eighty years ago, so we’ve destroyed place we’ve lived ever since.” Do you have any idea how stupid you sound?

    • Thanks: RadicalCenter
  46. This piece does highlight the fact that Latinos are a lot less interested in voting than blacks, so the latter still have disproportionate political power even in areas where they shouldn’t, not to mention the nation at large. This will likely be the case for quite awhile, since the primary political interests of blacks are a) not to have government come down on them or their relatives for bad behavior, b) have government subsidize their lives through the social welfare system or job opportunities. Lose one or both of those things and a lot more blacks go to jail and just as many lose easy jobs with decent benefits, so pretty high stakes compared to everyone else.

    Still, situations like Compton will force Latinos to ask themselves just how much blackness they are willing to put up with, and I think there will come a time relatively soon when a critical mass realizes the answer is ‘very little’ if they are willing to be a bit more organized about it. That will give cover to a lot of middle of the road whites and Asians to pay less deference as well because they can simply line up with another minority group to salve their consciences.

    • Agree: Bernie
    • Replies: @Bernie
    @Arclight

    Seems like an opportunity.

  47. @Corvinus
    @Hypnotoad666

    “Just when they get to be the majority, the crime rate explodes. Black people just can’t catch a break.”

    Let’s offer some context through the lens of how and why gangs formed in this iconic city, which indeed led to perverse levels of violence.

    https://www.streetgangs.com/crips/blackstreetgangs/#sthash.di1j81lp.dpbs

    —Several of the first black clubs to emerge in the late 1940s and early 1950s formed initially as a defensive reaction to combat much of the white violence that had been plaguing the black community for several years. In the surrounding communities of the original black ghetto of Central Avenue and Watts, and in the cities of Huntington Park and South Gate, white Angelenos were developing a dissatisfaction for the growing black population that was migrating from the South during WWII. During the 1940s, resentment from the white community grew as several blacks challenged the legal housing discrimination laws that prevented them from purchasing property outside the original settlement neighborhoods and integrate into the public schools. Areas outside of the original black settlement of Los Angeles were neighborhoods covered by legally enforced, racially restrictive covenants or deed restrictions. This practice, adapted by white homeowners, was established in 1922 and was designed to maintain social and racial homogeneity of neighborhoods by denying non-whites access to property ownership.—

    —In Huntington Park, Bell, and South Gate, towns that were predominately white, teenagers formed some of the early street clubs during the 1940s. One of the most infamous clubs of that time was the Spook Hunters, a group of white teenagers that often attacked black youths. If blacks were seen outside of the black settlement area, which was roughly bounded by Slauson to the South, Alameda Avenue to the east, and Main[5] Street to the west, they were often attacked. The name of this club emphasized their racist attitude towards blacks, as Spook Hunters is a derogatory term used to identify blacks and ?Hunters? highlighted their desire to attack blacks as their method of fighting integration and promoting residential segregation. Their animosity towards blacks was publicly known; the back of their club jackets displayed an animated black face with exaggerated facial features and a noose hanging around the neck. The Spook Hunters would often cross Alameda traveling west to violently attack black youths from the area. In Thrasher’s study of Chicago gangs, he observed a similar white gang in Chicago during the 1920s, the Dirty Dozens, who often attacked black youths with knives, blackjacks, and revolvers because of racial differences (Thrasher 1963:37). Raymond Wright was one of the founders of a black club called the Businessmen, a large East side club based at South Park between Slauson Avenue and Vernon Avenue. He stated that, “you couldn’t pass Alameda, because those white boys in South Gate would set you on fire,?[6] and fear of attack among black youths was not, surprisingly, common. In 1941, white students at Fremont High School threatened blacks by burning them in effigy and displaying posters saying, “we want no ni##ers at this school” (Bunch 1990: 118). There were racial confrontations at Manual Arts High School on Vermont and 42nd Street, and at Adams High School during the 1940s (Davis 1990:293). In 1943, conflicts between blacks and whites occurred at 5th and San Pedro Streets, resulting in a riot on Central Avenue (Bunch 1990:118). white clubs in Inglewood, Gardena, and on the West side engaged in similar acts, but the Spook Hunters were the most violent of all white clubs in Los Angeles.—

    Of course, there are white gangs in the U.S., but why would Mr. Sailer want to NOTICE that.

    https://amp.theguardian.com/society/2018/apr/05/white-gangs-rise-simon-city-royals-mississippi-chicago

    Replies: @Cool Daddy Jimbo, @ATBOTL, @Lime and Dime, @Curle

    The white gangs you talk about were the good guys. More whites should have supported them to drive blacks entirely out of Southern California.

    • Agree: AceDeuce, RadicalCenter
    • Replies: @Corvinus
    @ATBOTL

    “The white gangs you talk about were the good guys. More whites should have supported them to drive blacks entirely out of Southern California.”

    We already know you are a fascist and anti-Christian. Of course, if you are one of these “good guys”, why aren’t you doing your part?

  48. @Jenner Ickham Errican

    Recently, President Biden signed a bill ... to rename a post office after James Anderson Jr. — a Compton native who was the first Black Marine to earn a Medal of Honor.
     
    Nice gesture, I suppose ...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8d-9ag9cHU4

    Replies: @clifford brown, @AndrewR, @Bill Jones, @Mr. Anon, @The Germ Theory of Disease

    Wasn’t Barry the Kenyan’s sole achievement as a US Senator, before ascending to the Godhead, the renaming of a Post Office?

  49. Pixo says:
    @Rusty Tailgate
    The Compton Courthouse is the second-worst place I've ever been. Spent a week on a jury there for an attempted murder trial about 15 years ago. What a mess.

    The racial demography of LA County is fascinating if you can get past the juvenile takes on redlining. I'd be interested to know the real details on how Boyar, Weingart and Taper, three Jews (and Boyar was a sort of Super-Jew), ended up founding Lakewood, which was extremely white from the start and to this day is almost Midwestern in its whiteness. The account usually goes that the area had racial covenants, but that by the time Boyar, Weingart and Taper showed up, those had been nullified by the courts, so of course Lakewood was always open to all races...yet it's still the only white part of LA County you can get into for under a million. How did they work that?

    Replies: @Pixo

    “ which was extremely white from the start and to this day is almost Midwestern in its whiteness.”

    I don’t think so. Here are the demographics of Lakewood, CA. Maybe you’re thinking of a specific neighborhood.

    32.5% White alone
    28.7% Hispanic
    21.1% Asian alone
    14.8% Black alone

    Lakewood HS is about 20% non hispanic white.

    Never been there, but it seems like an inconvenient location surrounded by run down third worldish old suburban tract home areas. Lots of three bedroom one bath houses on small lots.

    “ Midwestern in its whiteness”

    You know you’re in a white part of the Midwest when the hotel maids and gas station clerks are white.

    • Replies: @Shetland
    @Pixo

    Long-time Lakewood resident here.

    I would have to disagree about the city being in an inconvenient location; it is 15 minutes to local beaches and nearly all of the major LA freeways are minutes away.

    You are absolutely spot on about the racial makeup. It is a strange suburban city, as there is a sort of holdout of whites in a very specific region/neighborhood . Many of these whites seem to have roots in the city spanning back many generations. Many of them also appear to be very blue collar, something you would almost never see in the neighboring beach cities (hardcore SWPL whites).

    The city is quite functional, but I am not too sanguine about its future. As you noted, the younger demographic is decidedly nonwhite. I predict that it will follow a similar trajectory as other formerly nice suburban cities in the area like Downey and Norwalk. These cities, while semi-functional, are majority Latino and not the kind of place most here would find suitable to raise a family.

    , @Bernie
    @Pixo

    Was in North Platte Nebraska in 2017 and the maids and cooks were all white (and very friendly). Left some very nice tips for these remnants of a better time.

    Replies: @Paleo Liberal

  50. @Anon7
    Better hair-related legislation is needed:

    Black Leadership Advisory Council highlights legislative progress on CROWN Act

    LANSING, Mich. -- The Black Leadership Advisory Council (BLAC) joined Sen. Sarah Anthony to highlight the importance of the newly introduced CROWN (Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural hair) Act, aimed at eliminating hair discrimination and removing barriers to Black Michiganders achieving economic prosperity.

    The legislation would extend state law to protect Michiganders from hair-based discrimination by specifying hair texture and protective hairstyles, such as braids, locs and twists, as traits historically associated with race.

    “Since I first introduced the CROWN Act in 2019, we've heard countless heartbreaking stories from individuals who have faced hair discrimination across Michigan,” Sen. Anthony said. “It’s simple: How you choose to wear your hair shouldn’t hinder your success in school or the workplace. It’s time to pass the CROWN Act now.”

    https://www.michigan.gov/leo/news/2023/02/24/blac-highlights-legislative-progress-on-crown-act

     

    Replies: @additionalMike, @Sollipsist

    New York State has much the same silliness in its Human Rights Law (the state equivalent of a federal civil rights statute) because, well, the Dems run state government from top to bottom, much like California.
    Hair Rights are human rights!

  51. @Colin Wright
    I wonder how the media's going to handle it when explicitly anti-black riots break out among Los Angeles Hispanics -- I mean on a scale too large to hide?

    It could get very bloody. And who's going to police it?

    Replies: @Mr. XYZ, @Renard, @AndrewR

    Don’t get our hopes up

    • Replies: @Colin Wright
    @AndrewR


    'Don’t get our hopes up'
     
    Deep down inside, I'm a congenital optimist.
  52. Black Cleopatra OT: I don’t think this was posted to your Cleopatra Was Black article from last week, but I thought everyone might enjoy it.

    It’s not a typical Hitler parody, it has some informative intro material, but skip to 2:00 to get directly to the good bits:

    • Replies: @J.Ross
    @Anon7

    It's 2023 and they're still doing Downfall parodies amd they're still about as good as ever. Our ruling class is stagnant.

    , @Ron Mexico
    @Anon7

    Bruno Ganz deserved an Oscar.

  53. James Anderson, Jr., has a Wikipedia article, but no family listed whatsoever, except for “seven (nameless) siblings.” He wanted to be a Baptist minister.

  54. That has resulted in a lack of murals and monuments dedicated to Latino heroes

    The infamous mural and graffiti “flex move”, the human equivalent of dogs marking their territory by pissing on hydrants.

    I live in the shadow of Oakland, the mural capitol of the US….bleetch!

  55. I don’t buy the idea that Latinos were brought in intentionally as part of some clever plan to pacify blacks.

    In New England, I think it is 6 out of 10 blacks have roots from the Caribbean or Africa.

  56. If their main complaint is they want more hispanic murals and mariachi bands and decorative tissue paper at town festivals, that seems like an easy concession for the black politicians to make. Doesn’t even sound very expensive.

    Does Compton have significant rap tourism?

    • Replies: @Muggles
    @Erik L


    Does Compton have significant rap tourism?
     
    A lot of tinted glass SUVs driving by, windows lowered, with gun barrels sticking out.

    Does that count as tourism?
  57. @Corvinus
    @Hypnotoad666

    “Just when they get to be the majority, the crime rate explodes. Black people just can’t catch a break.”

    Let’s offer some context through the lens of how and why gangs formed in this iconic city, which indeed led to perverse levels of violence.

    https://www.streetgangs.com/crips/blackstreetgangs/#sthash.di1j81lp.dpbs

    —Several of the first black clubs to emerge in the late 1940s and early 1950s formed initially as a defensive reaction to combat much of the white violence that had been plaguing the black community for several years. In the surrounding communities of the original black ghetto of Central Avenue and Watts, and in the cities of Huntington Park and South Gate, white Angelenos were developing a dissatisfaction for the growing black population that was migrating from the South during WWII. During the 1940s, resentment from the white community grew as several blacks challenged the legal housing discrimination laws that prevented them from purchasing property outside the original settlement neighborhoods and integrate into the public schools. Areas outside of the original black settlement of Los Angeles were neighborhoods covered by legally enforced, racially restrictive covenants or deed restrictions. This practice, adapted by white homeowners, was established in 1922 and was designed to maintain social and racial homogeneity of neighborhoods by denying non-whites access to property ownership.—

    —In Huntington Park, Bell, and South Gate, towns that were predominately white, teenagers formed some of the early street clubs during the 1940s. One of the most infamous clubs of that time was the Spook Hunters, a group of white teenagers that often attacked black youths. If blacks were seen outside of the black settlement area, which was roughly bounded by Slauson to the South, Alameda Avenue to the east, and Main[5] Street to the west, they were often attacked. The name of this club emphasized their racist attitude towards blacks, as Spook Hunters is a derogatory term used to identify blacks and ?Hunters? highlighted their desire to attack blacks as their method of fighting integration and promoting residential segregation. Their animosity towards blacks was publicly known; the back of their club jackets displayed an animated black face with exaggerated facial features and a noose hanging around the neck. The Spook Hunters would often cross Alameda traveling west to violently attack black youths from the area. In Thrasher’s study of Chicago gangs, he observed a similar white gang in Chicago during the 1920s, the Dirty Dozens, who often attacked black youths with knives, blackjacks, and revolvers because of racial differences (Thrasher 1963:37). Raymond Wright was one of the founders of a black club called the Businessmen, a large East side club based at South Park between Slauson Avenue and Vernon Avenue. He stated that, “you couldn’t pass Alameda, because those white boys in South Gate would set you on fire,?[6] and fear of attack among black youths was not, surprisingly, common. In 1941, white students at Fremont High School threatened blacks by burning them in effigy and displaying posters saying, “we want no ni##ers at this school” (Bunch 1990: 118). There were racial confrontations at Manual Arts High School on Vermont and 42nd Street, and at Adams High School during the 1940s (Davis 1990:293). In 1943, conflicts between blacks and whites occurred at 5th and San Pedro Streets, resulting in a riot on Central Avenue (Bunch 1990:118). white clubs in Inglewood, Gardena, and on the West side engaged in similar acts, but the Spook Hunters were the most violent of all white clubs in Los Angeles.—

    Of course, there are white gangs in the U.S., but why would Mr. Sailer want to NOTICE that.

    https://amp.theguardian.com/society/2018/apr/05/white-gangs-rise-simon-city-royals-mississippi-chicago

    Replies: @Cool Daddy Jimbo, @ATBOTL, @Lime and Dime, @Curle

    The question should be why these Black gangs are still around, as the White majority and racial housing covenants are long since gone. The explosion of Black violence as a result of White racism is not as good of an explanation for the crime wave as just comparing the crime rates. Funnily enough, even with these violent White gangs assaulting Blacks in favour of segregationist policy there wasn’t much of a crime explosion when Whites enjoyed homogeneity.

    Of course the takeaway here is that muti-racial democracies are untenable in the face of ethnic partisianship, it will inevitably devolve into in-group nepotism. Americans certainly aren’t ready for that conversation yet.

    • Replies: @Corvinus
    @Lime and Dime

    “The question should be why these Black gangs are still around, as the White majority and racial housing covenants are long since gone.”

    Social ills. Remember, we also have white gangs that exist today as well—the Italian mafia, the Russians, the Armenians. They commit a host of crimes.

    “Funnily enough, even with these violent White gangs assaulting Blacks in favour of segregationist policy there wasn’t much of a crime explosion when Whites enjoyed homogeneity.”

    To the contrary, when the Irish and Italians came in droves to our country via immigration, there was a crime wave.

    “Of course the takeaway here is that muti-racial democracies are untenable”

    According to Who/Whom?

    “Americans certainly aren’t ready for that conversation yet.”

    We have had that conversation. So what is your specific plan for the U.S. to break up along racial or political lines? Hoe will it be done? Please, by all means, elaborate.

    Replies: @Bernie, @Anon

  58. @Anon7
    Better hair-related legislation is needed:

    Black Leadership Advisory Council highlights legislative progress on CROWN Act

    LANSING, Mich. -- The Black Leadership Advisory Council (BLAC) joined Sen. Sarah Anthony to highlight the importance of the newly introduced CROWN (Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural hair) Act, aimed at eliminating hair discrimination and removing barriers to Black Michiganders achieving economic prosperity.

    The legislation would extend state law to protect Michiganders from hair-based discrimination by specifying hair texture and protective hairstyles, such as braids, locs and twists, as traits historically associated with race.

    “Since I first introduced the CROWN Act in 2019, we've heard countless heartbreaking stories from individuals who have faced hair discrimination across Michigan,” Sen. Anthony said. “It’s simple: How you choose to wear your hair shouldn’t hinder your success in school or the workplace. It’s time to pass the CROWN Act now.”

    https://www.michigan.gov/leo/news/2023/02/24/blac-highlights-legislative-progress-on-crown-act

     

    Replies: @additionalMike, @Sollipsist

    The funniest part of the whole thing to me is that the demographic who is most concerned about “hair” is also the #1 market for wigs and hairpieces, more than balding men and drag queens put together.

    The group most likely to tell you to “be real” is at least 25% composed of fake hair, fake fingernails, and fake eyelashes. All of which utterly fail to resemble anything in nature.

  59. @Pixo
    @Rusty Tailgate

    “ which was extremely white from the start and to this day is almost Midwestern in its whiteness.”

    I don’t think so. Here are the demographics of Lakewood, CA. Maybe you’re thinking of a specific neighborhood.

    32.5% White alone
    28.7% Hispanic
    21.1% Asian alone
    14.8% Black alone

    Lakewood HS is about 20% non hispanic white.

    Never been there, but it seems like an inconvenient location surrounded by run down third worldish old suburban tract home areas. Lots of three bedroom one bath houses on small lots.

    “ Midwestern in its whiteness”

    You know you’re in a white part of the Midwest when the hotel maids and gas station clerks are white.

    Replies: @Shetland, @Bernie

    Long-time Lakewood resident here.

    I would have to disagree about the city being in an inconvenient location; it is 15 minutes to local beaches and nearly all of the major LA freeways are minutes away.

    You are absolutely spot on about the racial makeup. It is a strange suburban city, as there is a sort of holdout of whites in a very specific region/neighborhood . Many of these whites seem to have roots in the city spanning back many generations. Many of them also appear to be very blue collar, something you would almost never see in the neighboring beach cities (hardcore SWPL whites).

    The city is quite functional, but I am not too sanguine about its future. As you noted, the younger demographic is decidedly nonwhite. I predict that it will follow a similar trajectory as other formerly nice suburban cities in the area like Downey and Norwalk. These cities, while semi-functional, are majority Latino and not the kind of place most here would find suitable to raise a family.

    • Thanks: Pixo
  60. @Mr. XYZ
    @Stan Adams

    She looks Jewish or maybe half-Jewish. Is she?

    Replies: @Roderick Spode

    That’s Rosario Dawson, my man. Likely not Jewish, although she never knew her biological father, a one Patrick C. Harris. I suppose he could’ve been Jewish.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosario_Dawson#Early_life

    • Replies: @The Wild Geese Howard
    @Roderick Spode


    That’s Rosario Dawson, my man.
     
    Well, she's not half bad at dancing.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQfKbGBjorE

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9OfrQnijM4
  61. @Mike Tre
    This country doesn't need more Spanish speaking government workers, or any at all.

    I don't care about either of these groups of people. Root for injuries.

    Replies: @Bernie

    I am cheering for the Hispanics. Much less racist than the blacks.

    • Replies: @Marko
    @Bernie

    No. They both equally hate Whites, and will discriminate against them when the opportunity presents itself.

    Replies: @Colin Wright, @Rocko

  62. Dmon says:
    @Anonymous
    Blacks and Mexicans duke it out in Compton.

    - Whites to blame.

    Replies: @Dmon

    “…duke it out in Compton”.

    Hey – another famous Comptonite.

    Born in Los Angeles, Snider was nicknamed “Duke” by his father at age 5.[1] Growing up in Southern California, Snider was a gifted all-around athlete, playing basketball, football, and baseball at Compton High School, class of 1944.

  63. @Pixo
    @Rusty Tailgate

    “ which was extremely white from the start and to this day is almost Midwestern in its whiteness.”

    I don’t think so. Here are the demographics of Lakewood, CA. Maybe you’re thinking of a specific neighborhood.

    32.5% White alone
    28.7% Hispanic
    21.1% Asian alone
    14.8% Black alone

    Lakewood HS is about 20% non hispanic white.

    Never been there, but it seems like an inconvenient location surrounded by run down third worldish old suburban tract home areas. Lots of three bedroom one bath houses on small lots.

    “ Midwestern in its whiteness”

    You know you’re in a white part of the Midwest when the hotel maids and gas station clerks are white.

    Replies: @Shetland, @Bernie

    Was in North Platte Nebraska in 2017 and the maids and cooks were all white (and very friendly). Left some very nice tips for these remnants of a better time.

    • Replies: @Paleo Liberal
    @Bernie

    VERY common when traveling in the Midwest, outside big cities.

    Often the only non-white in the motel is a South Asian owner.

  64. @Arclight
    This piece does highlight the fact that Latinos are a lot less interested in voting than blacks, so the latter still have disproportionate political power even in areas where they shouldn't, not to mention the nation at large. This will likely be the case for quite awhile, since the primary political interests of blacks are a) not to have government come down on them or their relatives for bad behavior, b) have government subsidize their lives through the social welfare system or job opportunities. Lose one or both of those things and a lot more blacks go to jail and just as many lose easy jobs with decent benefits, so pretty high stakes compared to everyone else.

    Still, situations like Compton will force Latinos to ask themselves just how much blackness they are willing to put up with, and I think there will come a time relatively soon when a critical mass realizes the answer is 'very little' if they are willing to be a bit more organized about it. That will give cover to a lot of middle of the road whites and Asians to pay less deference as well because they can simply line up with another minority group to salve their consciences.

    Replies: @Bernie

    Seems like an opportunity.

  65. @Citizen of a Silly Country
    How's that colorblind civic nationalism working out for you, Steve?

    Replies: @KenH, @Corvinus

    How’s that colorblind civic nationalism working out for you, Steve?

    I’m sure if Steve-O went to Compton to deliver a speech about race blind civic nationalism it would resonate with blacks and Latinos followed by dancing in the streets. Sarcasm intended.

    • Replies: @Citizen of a Silly Country
    @KenH

    Yes, the irony of colorblind civic nationalism is that it's a white thing, and white thing only.

    But it makes whites who believe in it feel ever so good and morally superior, so, you know, it's worth losing the country over.

  66. “The story of people of color calling on White leaders to cede power for more diverse representation is deeply rooted in American history.”

    How deeply? Can you cite an example before 1850? Before 1790?

  67. KenH says:

    I’m always happy to read about blacks getting their just desserts and a taste of what they gave whitey when they began invading our cities and living spaces. What goes around comes around and now Latinos are chasing blacky out of places like Compton that they once chased whites out of with their violent crime and indolence.

  68. @Citizen of a Silly Country
    How's that colorblind civic nationalism working out for you, Steve?

    Replies: @KenH, @Corvinus

    “How’s that colorblind civic nationalism working out for you, Steve?”

    It has its ups and downs. Always has. Always will. But Gen Z has bought into it. And you can’t stop it.

    • Replies: @pyrrhus
    @Corvinus

    If so, all that vaxxing has taken a major toll on the Z's mentalities.......

    , @Art Deco
    @Corvinus

    But Gen Z has bought into it.
    ==
    Gen Z isn't notable for much other than being loosely wired.

    Replies: @Corvinus

    , @Charles Erwin Wilson
    @Corvinus


    “How’s that colorblind civic nationalism working out for you, Steve?”

    It has its ups and downs. Always has. Always will. But Gen Z has bought into it. And you can’t stop it.
     
    Citing Gen Z collectively, sans data, is unpersuasive. But you always revert to type, don't you Corvinus? The Angel of Light appreciates your service.

    And you do this knowing that you will swim in the lake. It sucks to be you.

    Replies: @Corvinus

  69. @AndrewR
    @Colin Wright

    Don't get our hopes up

    Replies: @Colin Wright

    ‘Don’t get our hopes up’

    Deep down inside, I’m a congenital optimist.

  70. @Renard
    @Colin Wright


    I wonder how the media’s going to handle it when explicitly anti-black riots break out among Los Angeles Hispanics
     
    Seriously? "Hispanics can be of any race" and in this case they will all miraculously be white.

    Replies: @Colin Wright

    Seriously? “Hispanics can be of any race” and in this case they will all miraculously be white.

    Just so long as we kinda squint and rally to the common cause.

    Puppets aside, Hispanics are perfectly happy to be white. How about if we let them?

  71. @Colin Wright

    'How’s that colorblind civic nationalism working out for you, Steve?'
     
    Them's war the days.

    Replies: @pyrrhus

    Civ-nattery….How quaint!

    • Replies: @Colin Wright
    @pyrrhus


    'Civ-nattery….How quaint!'
     
    It's more a matter of wanting to compromise, stack the deck, win Race War 2028 in six months rather than sixteen years, and have something left when it's over.

    Asians, Hispanics of the non-black persuasion, and white gentiles on one team, everyone else on the other. Deportation of all illegals and a complete bar on all further immigration, of course.

  72. @Corvinus
    @Citizen of a Silly Country

    “How’s that colorblind civic nationalism working out for you, Steve?”

    It has its ups and downs. Always has. Always will. But Gen Z has bought into it. And you can’t stop it.

    Replies: @pyrrhus, @Art Deco, @Charles Erwin Wilson

    If so, all that vaxxing has taken a major toll on the Z’s mentalities…….

  73. @ATBOTL
    @Corvinus

    The white gangs you talk about were the good guys. More whites should have supported them to drive blacks entirely out of Southern California.

    Replies: @Corvinus

    “The white gangs you talk about were the good guys. More whites should have supported them to drive blacks entirely out of Southern California.”

    We already know you are a fascist and anti-Christian. Of course, if you are one of these “good guys”, why aren’t you doing your part?

  74. @Lime and Dime
    @Corvinus

    The question should be why these Black gangs are still around, as the White majority and racial housing covenants are long since gone. The explosion of Black violence as a result of White racism is not as good of an explanation for the crime wave as just comparing the crime rates. Funnily enough, even with these violent White gangs assaulting Blacks in favour of segregationist policy there wasn't much of a crime explosion when Whites enjoyed homogeneity.

    Of course the takeaway here is that muti-racial democracies are untenable in the face of ethnic partisianship, it will inevitably devolve into in-group nepotism. Americans certainly aren't ready for that conversation yet.

    Replies: @Corvinus

    “The question should be why these Black gangs are still around, as the White majority and racial housing covenants are long since gone.”

    Social ills. Remember, we also have white gangs that exist today as well—the Italian mafia, the Russians, the Armenians. They commit a host of crimes.

    “Funnily enough, even with these violent White gangs assaulting Blacks in favour of segregationist policy there wasn’t much of a crime explosion when Whites enjoyed homogeneity.”

    To the contrary, when the Irish and Italians came in droves to our country via immigration, there was a crime wave.

    “Of course the takeaway here is that muti-racial democracies are untenable”

    According to Who/Whom?

    “Americans certainly aren’t ready for that conversation yet.”

    We have had that conversation. So what is your specific plan for the U.S. to break up along racial or political lines? Hoe will it be done? Please, by all means, elaborate.

    • Replies: @Bernie
    @Corvinus

    To the extent those whites commit crimes it would be listed in the white crime rate. Still way lower than the black crime rate. Also, we don't see those groups targeting blacks for crimes the way blacks target other races.

    , @Anon
    @Corvinus

    The Irish didn't bring a huge amount of crime, nothing like what's going on today. An interesting book about the Irish by Hasia Diner (who was Jewish), mentions the relatively low level of serious crime. There were criminal elements, but nothing like the crime that everyone today worries about when they walk the streets of most cities. Much the same about Italians although criminality was funneled into their own kind of gangs, so to speak, and didn't greatly affect those not associated.

    Replies: @Corvinus

  75. @Erik L
    If their main complaint is they want more hispanic murals and mariachi bands and decorative tissue paper at town festivals, that seems like an easy concession for the black politicians to make. Doesn't even sound very expensive.

    Does Compton have significant rap tourism?

    Replies: @Muggles

    Does Compton have significant rap tourism?

    A lot of tinted glass SUVs driving by, windows lowered, with gun barrels sticking out.

    Does that count as tourism?

  76. @Corvinus
    @Citizen of a Silly Country

    “How’s that colorblind civic nationalism working out for you, Steve?”

    It has its ups and downs. Always has. Always will. But Gen Z has bought into it. And you can’t stop it.

    Replies: @pyrrhus, @Art Deco, @Charles Erwin Wilson

    But Gen Z has bought into it.
    ==
    Gen Z isn’t notable for much other than being loosely wired.

    • Replies: @Corvinus
    @Art Deco

    “Gen Z isn’t notable for much other than being loosely wired”

    That’s exactly what a Boomer would say, and that’s why they want you gone.

    Replies: @Roderick Spode, @AceDeuce

  77. There is a Compton type political analogy in Houston TX right now.

    The Houston Independent School District (HISD), one of the largest in the US, and biggest one in Texas, was for recent decades run by a self perpetuating Democrat Party black mafia who got themselves re-elected with white liberal money. A few Hispanics in recent times also.

    But in the past 10 years Hispanics have outnumbered blacks (and Asians, Whites) and in the last election (around 2018 or so) managed to gain a majority on the HISD school board, which actually runs the district.

    As this board tried to manage the racial spoils system, it fell apart in a series of lawsuits by mainly Black! losers and school administrators who were being pushed out. Also due to the turnover, a huge amount of corruption and graft was uncovered. My, my.

    The board became so dysfunctional that the Texas Supreme Court appointed a legal Trustee to be the temporary chief executive. Finally, now the State Board of Education has installed a temporary leadership cadre of outsiders as per state law when local boards collapse or fail to follow the law.

    This has been going on for many years, though COVID also brought delays. As of June this year the appointed State Board will take over. Local Dem establishment and their newspaper mouthpiece the Houston Chronicle are wailing and moaning.

    “Undemocratic!”, etc. This has taken years and meanwhile educational performance scores are dropping. Charter schools popular. Looks like the Hispanic-Asian coalition will eventually force out the black mafia and their White female liberal enablers. (Most local Whites and Asians live in suburbs with their own school districts.)

    Not sure when actual elections will resume. The Comrades prefer chaos and failure to actual change of leadership. Just like the Old Times in the USSR!

  78. @fredyetagain aka superhonky
    @clifford brown


    A HBO series about the political machinations between Blacks and Latinos in Compton politics would likely make for interesting and racially diverse programming. Of course, the HBO audience of high brow Whites, Blacks and Latinos are not particularly interested in the real world scrum of multiracial working class politics.
     
    Agreed that such a show would make interesting viewing, but without concocting some way to make Whitey the villain, no way would it ever be made.

    Replies: @Mr. XYZ, @Malcolm X-Lax

    I have a vague memory of talk that Jaimie Foxx wanted to make a movie about the Zebra Killings. The hero of the story was to be one of the black detectives investigating the case who, despite trying to solve a crime involving black perps and white victims, was himself the victim of white racism within the force. I guess they couldn’t make the pros, in terms of propaganda value, outweigh the cons of widely publicizing an event that most people are completely ignorant of to begin with and just decided it best to let it slip back down the memory hole.

  79. @Corvinus
    @Lime and Dime

    “The question should be why these Black gangs are still around, as the White majority and racial housing covenants are long since gone.”

    Social ills. Remember, we also have white gangs that exist today as well—the Italian mafia, the Russians, the Armenians. They commit a host of crimes.

    “Funnily enough, even with these violent White gangs assaulting Blacks in favour of segregationist policy there wasn’t much of a crime explosion when Whites enjoyed homogeneity.”

    To the contrary, when the Irish and Italians came in droves to our country via immigration, there was a crime wave.

    “Of course the takeaway here is that muti-racial democracies are untenable”

    According to Who/Whom?

    “Americans certainly aren’t ready for that conversation yet.”

    We have had that conversation. So what is your specific plan for the U.S. to break up along racial or political lines? Hoe will it be done? Please, by all means, elaborate.

    Replies: @Bernie, @Anon

    To the extent those whites commit crimes it would be listed in the white crime rate. Still way lower than the black crime rate. Also, we don’t see those groups targeting blacks for crimes the way blacks target other races.

  80. @Jenner Ickham Errican

    Recently, President Biden signed a bill ... to rename a post office after James Anderson Jr. — a Compton native who was the first Black Marine to earn a Medal of Honor.
     
    Nice gesture, I suppose ...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8d-9ag9cHU4

    Replies: @clifford brown, @AndrewR, @Bill Jones, @Mr. Anon, @The Germ Theory of Disease

    That was good. I’d never watched Portlandia but it looks entertaining. I noticed this one too:

    It really does sound like every single “true life” broadcast I’ve ever heard on NPR.

  81. @Art Deco
    @Corvinus

    But Gen Z has bought into it.
    ==
    Gen Z isn't notable for much other than being loosely wired.

    Replies: @Corvinus

    “Gen Z isn’t notable for much other than being loosely wired”

    That’s exactly what a Boomer would say, and that’s why they want you gone.

    • Replies: @Roderick Spode
    @Corvinus

    This Millennial agrees with AD. Zoomers really are a mess. Too much internet, probably.

    , @AceDeuce
    @Corvinus

    Once the Boomers have all left the workforce, much less left the planet, this country will be full on its way to its death spiral.

    Those smug, weak, stupid little White weasels left behind are going to wish they were dead.

    Replies: @Joe825, @Corvinus

  82. @Anon
    For nonelective city jobs, merit hiring went out the window due to disparate impact, and current hiring favors relatives and friends of current black employees, who know the ins and outs.

    It’s like the D.C Metro and military jobs like quartermasters.

    The black middle class would not exist without these sorts of shenanigans. This kind of thing is the real “reparations.”

    Replies: @Rohirrimborn, @Corpse Tooth

    “… military jobs like quartermasters.”

    For Army blacks. You don’t want Navy blacks navigating the ship.

  83. In 2021, during the city’s last mayoral election, Latinos made up an estimated 38 percent of votes cast despite being 50 percent of registered voters, according to a Washington Post analysis of voter registration data from the political data firm L2. Black residents accounted for roughly 45 percent of votes cast, while making up only 32 percent of registered voters.

    My takeaway:

    In Compton Negros cast 45% of votes, Indio/Hispanics cast 38%, and “Others” cast 17%. A dominant 55% of those voting are not Negro. Eventually the Indio/Hispanics and “Others” will join forces to get rid of the current Negro, i.e corrupt and incompetent, government.

    On the national level Negros constitute somewhere between 12% and 15% of the population. This proportion is falling.

    Demonstrating their collective stupidity and/or failing to realize how thoroughly despised and feared is collective Negro dysfunction, Negros imagine that a decreasing proportion of Whites will increase the collective power of Negros. Instead Whites will remain a plurality and will eventually choose to align with other, non-Negro, racial power blocks.

    None of the non-Negro racial power blocks has any real fondness for Negros. The current state religion of negrolatry is not increasing this fondness. A racial reckoning is in our future and it will not be pretty.

    • Replies: @Currahee
    @Jus' Sayin'...

    Pretty is as pretty does.

  84. “Kevin Costner wasn’t an actor in the 1950s.”

    Kevin Costner wasn’t an actor in the 1960s. Kevin Costner certainly wasn’t an actor in the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2o10s, 2020s. Kevin recently dragged his ass through a show called Yellowstone — Dallas with silly gunplay. Kevin is the only actor who can make David Mamet dialog sound bad.

    • Agree: Johnnie Skywalker
  85. @Corvinus
    @Art Deco

    “Gen Z isn’t notable for much other than being loosely wired”

    That’s exactly what a Boomer would say, and that’s why they want you gone.

    Replies: @Roderick Spode, @AceDeuce

    This Millennial agrees with AD. Zoomers really are a mess. Too much internet, probably.

  86. @Anon7
    Black Cleopatra OT: I don't think this was posted to your Cleopatra Was Black article from last week, but I thought everyone might enjoy it.

    It's not a typical Hitler parody, it has some informative intro material, but skip to 2:00 to get directly to the good bits:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5e8tMBtAwpc

    Replies: @J.Ross, @Ron Mexico

    It’s 2023 and they’re still doing Downfall parodies amd they’re still about as good as ever. Our ruling class is stagnant.

  87. @KenH
    @Citizen of a Silly Country


    How’s that colorblind civic nationalism working out for you, Steve?
     
    I'm sure if Steve-O went to Compton to deliver a speech about race blind civic nationalism it would resonate with blacks and Latinos followed by dancing in the streets. Sarcasm intended.

    Replies: @Citizen of a Silly Country

    Yes, the irony of colorblind civic nationalism is that it’s a white thing, and white thing only.

    But it makes whites who believe in it feel ever so good and morally superior, so, you know, it’s worth losing the country over.

    • Agree: Colin Wright, Kylie, KenH
  88. Let’s hope the Reparations Project cost doesn’t balloon like this little baby.
    How will Steve afford it?

    In 2008, California voted yes on a $9 billion bond authorization to build the nation’s first high-speed railway. The plan is to construct an electric train that will connect Los Angeles with the Central Valley and then San Francisco in two hours and 40 minutes.

    But 15 years later, there is not a single mile of track laid, and executives involved say there isn’t enough money to finish the project. The latest estimates from the California High-Speed Rail Authority suggest it will cost between $88 billion and $128 billion to complete the entire system from LA to San Francisco. Inflation and higher construction costs have contributed to the high price tag.

    The project has spent $9.8 billion so far, according to Brian Kelly, CEO of the California High-Speed Rail Authority.

    https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2023/05/19/15-yrs-billions-not-a-mile-of-track-running-out-of-money-what-am-i-n552059

    • Thanks: Colin Wright
  89. HOLY SHIT.

    Russian electronic warfare (EW) remains potent, with an approximate distribution of at least one major system covering each 10 km of front. These systems are heavily weighted towards the defeat of UAVs and tend not to try and deconflict their effects. Ukrainian UAV losses remain at approximately 10,000 per month. Russian EW is also apparently achieving real time interception and decryption of Ukrainian Motorola 256-bit encrypted tactical communications systems, which are widely employed by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

    https://rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/special-resources/meatgrinder-russian-tactics-second-year-its-invasion-ukraine

    • Replies: @The Wild Geese Howard
    @Joe Stalin

    This report of Russian EW capability doesn't surprise me at all.

    Russian EW has been blowing out radio receiver front ends without a sweat since 2014.

    That's about all I can say.

    , @YetAnotherAnon
    @Joe Stalin

    Congrats, something with some actual data in it, though RUSI is MI6-adjacent so we won't hear any bad news - indeed they're explicit about that

    https://static.rusi.org/403-SR-Russian-Tactics-web-final.pdf

    "This report describes how Russia is currently carrying out its combat operations in Ukraine. It does not outline in detail which of these tactics are more or less successful, or describe Ukrainian tactics, as these are operationally sensitive"

    But it's interesting on the specifics of drone warfare


    It is typical for there to be between 25 and 50 UAVs from both sides operating over the contested area between the forward line of own troops (FLOT) and forward line of enemy troops (FLET) at any given time for each 10 km of frontage.
     
    And electronic warfare - I thought they were stripping washing machines to get basic chips out of them? I do think the sudden loss of Raspberry Pi production in the last 2 years may be related to keeping them from Russia - the RP4 is a pretty powerful beast.

    Interestingly, there is minimal interest among Russian crews in synchronising these effects with other activities or with deconflicting their effects. Instead, for the period when an EW team is deployed, it is weapons free with its system and tends to aggressively attack Ukrainian systems. The Shipovnik-Aero is proving a particularly effective system because it has a low signature and can further obfuscate this by imitating other emitters and communications devices. It also has a sophisticated range of effects for downing UAVs. The Russian military is also continuing to make extensive use of navigational interference in the battle area as a form of electronic protection. This is contributing to a Ukrainian loss rate in UAVs of approximately 10,000 per month.

    Alongside large systems such as the Shipovnik-Aero, the Russian military has been extensively rolling out EW effectors to be organic to units at all echelons. This includes counter-UAS capabilities assigned to each platoon, which usually include directional jammers and arrays for hijacking UAVs.
     

    Every platoon having anti-UAV capability? Doesn't seem too bad for a gas station with nukes. But it's the economic war in which Russia are really doing well.
  90. Anybody got a clue whence the surge of newbies?

    • Replies: @PhysicistDave
    @Bill Jones

    Bill Jones asked:


    Anybody got a clue whence the surge of newbies?
     
    I'm told the technical term is "glowies."

    America is traditionally a "high-trust" society.

    On both sides of our house and in the back and across the street we have recently had new neighbors move in, due to original homeowners in the neighborhood, who are now in their nineties, passing away. We assume we can trust all of our new neighbors -- this is an affluent, upper-middle-class neighborhood; the new neighbors are middle-aged professionals; etc.

    We're probably right: probably none of our new neighbors are going to engage in home burglary, rape my wife, etc.

    But we American tend to carry those trusting attitudes over onto the Internet.

    And that is a mistake.

    Sure: it is obvious that HA is an enemy alien.

    But it does not occur to most people here that Jack D might well be lying about being an attorney, that Corvinus could conceivably be in jail serving a life sentence, that Pixo could possibly be a convicted pedophile, or whatever.

    And yet that sort of thing happens on the Internet all the time.

    And we all know that... intellectually.

    But, as Americans our default setting is to assume it is not true of actual people we deal with.

    Which is quite dangerous.

    I suspect this is not as true of people from low-trust societies like, say, Rwanda or Haiti.

    We Americans do not understand how easily our virtues can be used to destroy us.

    Replies: @Colin Wright, @Patrick in SC

  91. @Corvinus
    @Art Deco

    “Gen Z isn’t notable for much other than being loosely wired”

    That’s exactly what a Boomer would say, and that’s why they want you gone.

    Replies: @Roderick Spode, @AceDeuce

    Once the Boomers have all left the workforce, much less left the planet, this country will be full on its way to its death spiral.

    Those smug, weak, stupid little White weasels left behind are going to wish they were dead.

    • LOL: AndrewR
    • Replies: @Joe825
    @AceDeuce

    boomers believe their own bullshit more than other generations. The world changed a lot in a short period and it really messed people up. Why do boomers believe they're strong?

    , @Corvinus
    @AceDeuce

    “Once the Boomers have all left the workforce, much less left the planet, this country will be full on its way to its death spiral.”

    Wait, I thought the Boomers weee the source of our problems now. And Jews. Can’t forget about them. Or so I’ve been told by the unz commentariat. Make up your mind.

    “Those smug, weak, stupid little White weasels left behind are going to wish they were dead”

    According to Who/Whom? See, this is why Gen Z has no use for you. And deservedly so.

    Replies: @Colin Wright

  92. This is happening everywhere and everyone is happy about it whether they admit it or not. Latinos don’t kill each other at anywhere near the same rate. You might not agree with it philosophically but it’s a relief.

    There was a time when they could make fun of themselves a bit but I think that time has passed.

  93. @AceDeuce
    @Corvinus

    Once the Boomers have all left the workforce, much less left the planet, this country will be full on its way to its death spiral.

    Those smug, weak, stupid little White weasels left behind are going to wish they were dead.

    Replies: @Joe825, @Corvinus

    boomers believe their own bullshit more than other generations. The world changed a lot in a short period and it really messed people up. Why do boomers believe they’re strong?

  94. @Redneck Farmer
    @Stan Adams

    Definitely a LOL, but a great troll for bringing tears to places like Black Twitter! Thanks, Stan!

    Replies: @Stan Adams

    You’re welcome, I’m sure.

    Steve did a couple of pieces mocking these ridiculous Rockwell remakes.

    This one is creepy:

    • LOL: Kylie
  95. Off topic cuz I haven’t found a way to email you directly, but oh please please please would you consider doing an isteve treatment of this article — by a Wellesley College professor! — about “black queer” paranoia and unhappiness on college campuses, where there is already as much Alphabet-Affirmation as is possible to imagine: https://fortune.com/2023/05/10/black-and-queer-on-campus-author-interview-hbcus-challenges-gay-students/

    Money quote: “Though there were students who see progress with respect to LGBTQ issues, very few offered optimistic views of the future for Black people in America, including queer Black people. Some were extremely discouraged about the future, and they believe the U.S. is becoming a more hostile place for people like them.” “more hostile” hahahahaha

  96. @AceDeuce
    @Corvinus

    Once the Boomers have all left the workforce, much less left the planet, this country will be full on its way to its death spiral.

    Those smug, weak, stupid little White weasels left behind are going to wish they were dead.

    Replies: @Joe825, @Corvinus

    “Once the Boomers have all left the workforce, much less left the planet, this country will be full on its way to its death spiral.”

    Wait, I thought the Boomers weee the source of our problems now. And Jews. Can’t forget about them. Or so I’ve been told by the unz commentariat. Make up your mind.

    “Those smug, weak, stupid little White weasels left behind are going to wish they were dead”

    According to Who/Whom? See, this is why Gen Z has no use for you. And deservedly so.

    • Replies: @Colin Wright
    @Corvinus


    '...See, this is why Gen Z has no use for you. And deservedly so.'
     
    You're big on stereotyping, bigotry, and promoting hatred and division, aren't you?
  97. Pixo says:

    Last month in 1.9% black Harbison Canyon, a rural area 40 minutes east of San Diego, some people rented a $1000 a night mansion and advertised a party there on social media with a $25 a night admission fee.

    You’ll never believe what happened next…. a shooting at 2am.

    It did not follow Sailer’s Law, as there were two dead and zero wounded. No witnesses among the 400 or so party guests.

    It did follow the Chicago AI-based rule that murderers and murdered are predictably the same demographics. One of the murdered, Seandell Jones, was convicted of murder of this high school boy in 2011,

    who was lured by him and two others in a fake Craigslist laptop sale, and when he resisted their robbery they killed him in front of his girlfriend.

    Seandell Jones managed to get his murder conviction vacated, but not armed robbery, for which he served about 8 years. Two years later, his partying days ended for good.

    • Replies: @newrouter
    @Pixo

    Oh my you found a White shooter who shoots good. Needle in the haystack detective work bro'!

  98. Anon[130] • Disclaimer says:
    @Rohirrimborn
    @Anon

    I commuted to work for years on the DC Metrorail. Several years ago they ran a campaign asking the ridership to respect Metro bus drivers. The campaign posters featured the tiny handful of non-black Metro employees. The gaslighting in the campaign was off-the-charts.

    Replies: @Anon

    I commuted to work for years on the DC Metrorail. Several years ago they ran a campaign asking the ridership to respect Metro bus drivers. The campaign posters featured the tiny handful of non-black Metro employees. The gaslighting in the campaign was off-the-charts.

    The classic exposé series by Luke Rosiak in the Washington Times in 2012:

    2012-03-26 Metro derailed by culture of complacence, incompetence, lack of diversity
    https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/mar/26/metro-derailed-by-culture-of-complacence-incompete/

    2012-03-28 Even with big salaries, Metro can’t fill its jobs
    https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/mar/27/even-with-big-salaries-metro-cant-fill-its-jobs/

    2012-04-02 Metro transit police: Not quite the region’s finest
    https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/apr/1/metro-police-not-quite-dcs-finest/

    2012-04-02 Metro gag order at odds with law
    https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/apr/1/metro-gag-order-at-odds-with-law/

    2012-05-03 Metro closes ranks against outside ‘attacks’
    https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/may/3/metro-closes-ranks-against-outside-attacks/

    2011-12-28 Report finds Metro hiring process skirted
    https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/dec/28/report-finds-metro-hiring-process-skirted/

    2012-07-26 Metro reimbursed questionable college courses for half-million dollars
    https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jul/26/college-takes-some-metro-workers-for-off-the-rails/

    • Thanks: AceDeuce
  99. @Corvinus
    @AceDeuce

    “Once the Boomers have all left the workforce, much less left the planet, this country will be full on its way to its death spiral.”

    Wait, I thought the Boomers weee the source of our problems now. And Jews. Can’t forget about them. Or so I’ve been told by the unz commentariat. Make up your mind.

    “Those smug, weak, stupid little White weasels left behind are going to wish they were dead”

    According to Who/Whom? See, this is why Gen Z has no use for you. And deservedly so.

    Replies: @Colin Wright

    ‘…See, this is why Gen Z has no use for you. And deservedly so.’

    You’re big on stereotyping, bigotry, and promoting hatred and division, aren’t you?

    • Agree: res
  100. @Pixo
    Last month in 1.9% black Harbison Canyon, a rural area 40 minutes east of San Diego, some people rented a $1000 a night mansion and advertised a party there on social media with a $25 a night admission fee.

    You’ll never believe what happened next…. a shooting at 2am.

    It did not follow Sailer’s Law, as there were two dead and zero wounded. No witnesses among the 400 or so party guests.

    It did follow the Chicago AI-based rule that murderers and murdered are predictably the same demographics. One of the murdered, Seandell Jones, was convicted of murder of this high school boy in 2011,

    https://images.findagrave.com/photos/2011/140/69823532_130599681132.jpg

    https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/60d30cca280000052d6fd9de.jpeg

    who was lured by him and two others in a fake Craigslist laptop sale, and when he resisted their robbery they killed him in front of his girlfriend.

    Seandell Jones managed to get his murder conviction vacated, but not armed robbery, for which he served about 8 years. Two years later, his partying days ended for good.

    Replies: @newrouter

    Oh my you found a White shooter who shoots good. Needle in the haystack detective work bro’!

  101. Here is the Stan Adams Saturday-night special, featuring Prince Harry and a random gay guy.

    Tonight’s episode is entitled “You Can’t Fix Stupid”:

    [MORE]

    • LOL: Prester John
    • Replies: @Kylie
    @Stan Adams

    Lol! Well done! You not only can't fix stupid, you can't get it to stfu.

    I had a very mild interest in Diana until Harry was a toddler. He was so repulsively bratty, not just "cheeky" or a "tinker" (as my British Facebook friend calls my naughty dog) that I quit reading anything about the BRF. He was obviously unintelligent as well as unpleasant from the start.

    If you're taking requests, could you do one where he crosses his arms and does that shoulder tapping to relieve stress?

    Replies: @Stan Adams

  102. OT, but good news — Bakhmut has finally been officially liberated by the Eastern Allies.

    The cost in human lives has been horrific: the Kiev regime has lost thousands, probably tens of thousands, in the more then seven-month long battle.

    To be sure, the importance is largely symbolic: as I have said again and again, you win a war not simply by seizing territory but rather by creating a situation in which the other side is either unable or unwilling to continue fighting.

    Zelesnky’s puppet masters in the US Deep State will probably not allow him to negotiate at least until the vaunted counter-offensive by the puppet regime occurs. Of course, by all accounts, including Kiev’s closest ally, the Poles, Kiev simply does not have the supplies or manpower to succeed in that counter-offensive. But they can no doubt induce Russian forces to make a tactical retreat here and there and thereby claim victory for the puppet regime.

    Which will simply prolong the slaughter until Russia, in the end, prevails.

    Even my li’l buddy HAsbara has admitted that Kiev cannot win without aid from the US and its Occupied Nations. And support in the West is drying up.

    Anyway, let us acknowledge the valor of the Ukrainians who fought and died, while mourning their pointless deaths.

    And let us celebrate that one more town has been liberated from the US Deep State and its puppets.

    And, above all, pray for peace everywhere.

    There must be a negotiated peace on the basis of the right of self-determination of peoples enshrined in Article 1 of the UN Charter and applied to the peoples of the Donbass.

    So that the killing will stop.

    • Thanks: JimDandy
    • Troll: Pixo
    • Replies: @Pixo
    @PhysicistDave

    Same old pattern: Ukraine liberates large areas, Russia’s counteroffensive consists of shelling a small rustbelt city for months and then occupying the depopulated rubble.

    https://static01.nyt.com/images/2022/02/25/us/ukraine-maps-promo-1645801007862/ukraine-maps-promo-1645801007862-videoSixteenByNine3000-v6.jpg

    Back on the topic of blacks, if we want to divide humankind into three races based on genetic distance, they wouldn’t be white black and yellow, but Khoe-San, African Pygmies, and Everyone Else.

    Very interesting and accessible paper covering a lot of African genetic issues like this:

    https://academic.oup.com/gbe/article/15/4/evad054/7092825

    The San in fact are almost an archaic lineage that never went fully extinct. They diverged as long as 300k years ago from other human lines, while Neanderthals are as little as 500k in their divergence.

    The paper also gets into black admixture in mixed Western Hemisphere and North African populations, European and Arab genes being introduced into North and Sub-Saharan (back to Africa), and possible functional ghost genes in Africans.

    Replies: @Colin Wright, @Mactoul, @PhysicistDave, @res, @Muggles

  103. @Bill Jones
    Anybody got a clue whence the surge of newbies?

    Replies: @PhysicistDave

    Bill Jones asked:

    Anybody got a clue whence the surge of newbies?

    I’m told the technical term is “glowies.”

    America is traditionally a “high-trust” society.

    On both sides of our house and in the back and across the street we have recently had new neighbors move in, due to original homeowners in the neighborhood, who are now in their nineties, passing away. We assume we can trust all of our new neighbors — this is an affluent, upper-middle-class neighborhood; the new neighbors are middle-aged professionals; etc.

    We’re probably right: probably none of our new neighbors are going to engage in home burglary, rape my wife, etc.

    But we American tend to carry those trusting attitudes over onto the Internet.

    And that is a mistake.

    Sure: it is obvious that HA is an enemy alien.

    But it does not occur to most people here that Jack D might well be lying about being an attorney, that Corvinus could conceivably be in jail serving a life sentence, that Pixo could possibly be a convicted pedophile, or whatever.

    And yet that sort of thing happens on the Internet all the time.

    And we all know that… intellectually.

    But, as Americans our default setting is to assume it is not true of actual people we deal with.

    Which is quite dangerous.

    I suspect this is not as true of people from low-trust societies like, say, Rwanda or Haiti.

    We Americans do not understand how easily our virtues can be used to destroy us.

    • Replies: @Colin Wright
    @PhysicistDave


    '....Sure: it is obvious that HA is an enemy alien.

    But it does not occur to most people here that Jack D might well be lying about being an attorney, that Corvinus could conceivably be in jail serving a life sentence, that Pixo could possibly be a convicted pedophile, or whatever...'
     
    But the only one of these I have even the most qualified respect for would be JackD. The rest could be anything at all -- it wouldn't necessarily affect my opinion of them.

    Replies: @PhysicistDave

    , @Patrick in SC
    @PhysicistDave


    that Corvinus could conceivably be in jail serving a life sentence
     
    More likely a mental institution (do we still have those?).

    Or in a cubicle in Langley, VA.
  104. Pixo says:
    @PhysicistDave
    OT, but good news -- Bakhmut has finally been officially liberated by the Eastern Allies.

    The cost in human lives has been horrific: the Kiev regime has lost thousands, probably tens of thousands, in the more then seven-month long battle.

    To be sure, the importance is largely symbolic: as I have said again and again, you win a war not simply by seizing territory but rather by creating a situation in which the other side is either unable or unwilling to continue fighting.

    Zelesnky's puppet masters in the US Deep State will probably not allow him to negotiate at least until the vaunted counter-offensive by the puppet regime occurs. Of course, by all accounts, including Kiev's closest ally, the Poles, Kiev simply does not have the supplies or manpower to succeed in that counter-offensive. But they can no doubt induce Russian forces to make a tactical retreat here and there and thereby claim victory for the puppet regime.

    Which will simply prolong the slaughter until Russia, in the end, prevails.

    Even my li'l buddy HAsbara has admitted that Kiev cannot win without aid from the US and its Occupied Nations. And support in the West is drying up.

    Anyway, let us acknowledge the valor of the Ukrainians who fought and died, while mourning their pointless deaths.

    And let us celebrate that one more town has been liberated from the US Deep State and its puppets.

    And, above all, pray for peace everywhere.

    There must be a negotiated peace on the basis of the right of self-determination of peoples enshrined in Article 1 of the UN Charter and applied to the peoples of the Donbass.

    So that the killing will stop.

    Replies: @Pixo

    Same old pattern: Ukraine liberates large areas, Russia’s counteroffensive consists of shelling a small rustbelt city for months and then occupying the depopulated rubble.

    Back on the topic of blacks, if we want to divide humankind into three races based on genetic distance, they wouldn’t be white black and yellow, but Khoe-San, African Pygmies, and Everyone Else.

    Very interesting and accessible paper covering a lot of African genetic issues like this:

    https://academic.oup.com/gbe/article/15/4/evad054/7092825

    The San in fact are almost an archaic lineage that never went fully extinct. They diverged as long as 300k years ago from other human lines, while Neanderthals are as little as 500k in their divergence.

    The paper also gets into black admixture in mixed Western Hemisphere and North African populations, European and Arab genes being introduced into North and Sub-Saharan (back to Africa), and possible functional ghost genes in Africans.

    • Replies: @Colin Wright
    @Pixo


    'Back on the topic of blacks, if we want to divide humankind into three races based on genetic distance, they wouldn’t be white black and yellow, but Khoe-San, African Pygmies, and Everyone Else.'
     
    But that doesn't mean much. So Bushmen and Pygmies are really distant.

    So? A rhesus monkey is more distant still. That doesn't somehow demonstrate we should expect a whole lot of black physicists.

    Actually and more to the point, Bushmen and Pygmies form such a vanishingly small proportion of humanity that it's hardly helpful to divide humanity into three categories and assign two of those categories to them. That'd be like dividing vehicles into unicycles, lunar satellites, and everything else. It's not a useful framework.

    Of course the major races of humanity are whites, Asians, and African blacks.

    , @Mactoul
    @Pixo

    As San have fully functional languages, it must mean that language arose prior to San split from other human lineages and thus fully modern language is 300 thousand year old at least.

    , @PhysicistDave
    @Pixo

    Our little Penis-Piano-Player worshiper Pixo wrote to me:


    Same old pattern: Ukraine liberates large areas, Russia’s counteroffensive consists of shelling a small rustbelt city for months and then occupying the depopulated rubble.
     
    I don't think Russia really controlled most of the area in blue on your map.

    In any case, it does not matter.

    As anyone familiar with military history knows, you do not win a war simply by conquering territory.

    At the end of WW I, the Allies did not control any part of Germany. German troops still occupied some Allied territory.

    But Germany lost.

    As I keep saying, again and again, you win a war not simply by seizing territory but rather by creating a situation in which the other side is either unwilling or unable to continue fighting.

    Given the dramatic imbalance in the correlation of forces between the puppet regime in Kiev and the Russian Federation, the only way Kiev can win is:

    A) Russia gives up.

    B) The US and its Occupied Nations become open belligerents -- boots on the ground.

    If the US ruling overclass had not stated, again and again, that this proxy war is intended to destroy Russia, maybe Russia would have indeed just given up.

    However, the Russian people now know this is an existential war for the survival of Russia, thanks to the reckless public statements of the US ruling elite.

    Do you think the Russians will give up when Russia's existence is at stake?

    Yes, this is a horrible war. Just maybe the US Deep State should not have orchestrated the coup against the democratically elected government of Ukraine in 2014. Just maybe the West should not have sabotaged the Minsk Accords, which offered a chance at peace (Merkel and Hollande have both confessed that those Accords were intended to be a sham). Just maybe the US Deep State should not have armed, funded, and encouraged the puppet regime in Kiev in its war against the Donbass.

    And, most of all, just maybe the US ruling elite should not have declared that the goal is to destroy Russia.

    But the evil perverted monsters who illegally occupy the seat of the US government, in violation of the US Constitution, did do all of that.

    And so now Ukraine suffers horribly. Until the US Deep State decides to allow peace, which may not happen until Russia conquers all of Ukraine.

    There must be a negotiated peace based on the principle of the self-determination of peoples enshrined in Article 1 of the UN Charter applied to the peoples of the Donbass.

    So that the mass murder can stop.

    Replies: @Pixo

    , @res
    @Pixo


    Same old pattern: Ukraine liberates large areas, Russia’s counteroffensive consists of shelling a small rustbelt city for months and then occupying the depopulated rubble.
     
    It is fun to see such a nice example of "sour grapes" stated unironically.

    Replies: @Pixo

    , @Muggles
    @Pixo


    Back on the topic of blacks, if we want to divide humankind into three races based on genetic distance, they wouldn’t be white black and yellow, but Khoe-San, African Pygmies, and Everyone Else.
     
    That's a stretch.

    Neanderthals and Denisovans are still among us, though pretty well diluted. Especially in Northern Europeans and some central Asians. Denisovans in south Asia and more remote south east Pacific islanders. Not much of that DNA though.

    They originally probably pre date those Khoe-San and Pygmies.

    I have wondered if the fairly small DNA contribution of Neanderthal DNA in Northern European moderns can be partly responsible for the political/intellectual dominance of this small group today? Certainly a heartiness and perhaps aggressiveness that others may lack. Also a kind of intellectual cunning to seek out other lands to occupy. Of course the Cro-Mags did wipe out their purebreds.

    Africans have no Neadderthal inherited genes. Nor do most Asians.

    Fred Flintstone is our racial archetype!

    Yaba Daba Doo!
  105. @PhysicistDave
    @Bill Jones

    Bill Jones asked:


    Anybody got a clue whence the surge of newbies?
     
    I'm told the technical term is "glowies."

    America is traditionally a "high-trust" society.

    On both sides of our house and in the back and across the street we have recently had new neighbors move in, due to original homeowners in the neighborhood, who are now in their nineties, passing away. We assume we can trust all of our new neighbors -- this is an affluent, upper-middle-class neighborhood; the new neighbors are middle-aged professionals; etc.

    We're probably right: probably none of our new neighbors are going to engage in home burglary, rape my wife, etc.

    But we American tend to carry those trusting attitudes over onto the Internet.

    And that is a mistake.

    Sure: it is obvious that HA is an enemy alien.

    But it does not occur to most people here that Jack D might well be lying about being an attorney, that Corvinus could conceivably be in jail serving a life sentence, that Pixo could possibly be a convicted pedophile, or whatever.

    And yet that sort of thing happens on the Internet all the time.

    And we all know that... intellectually.

    But, as Americans our default setting is to assume it is not true of actual people we deal with.

    Which is quite dangerous.

    I suspect this is not as true of people from low-trust societies like, say, Rwanda or Haiti.

    We Americans do not understand how easily our virtues can be used to destroy us.

    Replies: @Colin Wright, @Patrick in SC

    ‘….Sure: it is obvious that HA is an enemy alien.

    But it does not occur to most people here that Jack D might well be lying about being an attorney, that Corvinus could conceivably be in jail serving a life sentence, that Pixo could possibly be a convicted pedophile, or whatever…’

    But the only one of these I have even the most qualified respect for would be JackD. The rest could be anything at all — it wouldn’t necessarily affect my opinion of them.

    • Replies: @PhysicistDave
    @Colin Wright

    Colin Wright wrote to me:


    [Dave] Sure: it is obvious that HA is an enemy alien.

    But it does not occur to most people here that Jack D might well be lying about being an attorney, that Corvinus could conceivably be in jail serving a life sentence, that Pixo could possibly be a convicted pedophile, or whatever…’

    [CW] But the only one of these I have even the most qualified respect for would be JackD. The rest could be anything at all — it wouldn’t necessarily affect my opinion of them. But the only one of these I have even the most qualified respect for would be JackD. The rest could be anything at all — it wouldn’t necessarily affect my opinion of them.
     
    Well, of course aside from HA, who is obviously not an American and, as far as I know, has never claimed to be, I was just giving hypotheticals to illustrate how little we know about people we "know" on the Web.

    You, for example, have given some background about yourself (and of course your name) that sounds plausible; I am inclined to believe it because I cannot think of any reason you would invent the background you claimed.

    I claim to be a physicist named Dave Miller who lives in Sacramento and who has a Ph.D. from Stanford: on another thread one of the commenters found my Stanford Ph.D. thesis on the Web, and, with a bit of effort, anyone can find the patents on which I am co-inventor that use Galois-field theory for error-correction coding. Conceivably, I have gone to a lot of trouble to impersonate the real Dave Miller, but that does not make much sense: I am not so exciting as to be worth impersonating! It is reasonable to think I am for real.

    But it becomes especially problematic for someone like Jack D who claims to have a significant profession as an attorney in America, but who does not give his name, so we cannot check his claim. And, Jack has claimed that the USA did not exist before the Constitution: any American of normal intelligence who took civics or US history would know that is false. And a real attorney should know at least the very basics of American legal history, of which this fact is at the center.

    So, on the face of it, Jack D is lying: Jack D appears, prima facie, to be a fraud.

    It's hard to see how that could not be true.

    I've never been able to get Jack to address his bizarre ignorance of the American legal order: I think it is pretty clear why.

    Anyway, the general point stands. By the way, the sci-fi writer Vernor Vinge wrote a novella, True Names, anticipating this phenomenon of false cyberspace identities (and a lot more), way back in 1981. I suspect that this is and will continue to be a bigger problem than the supposed dangers of high-power AIs.

    Replies: @Art Deco, @Mark G.

  106. @Pixo
    @PhysicistDave

    Same old pattern: Ukraine liberates large areas, Russia’s counteroffensive consists of shelling a small rustbelt city for months and then occupying the depopulated rubble.

    https://static01.nyt.com/images/2022/02/25/us/ukraine-maps-promo-1645801007862/ukraine-maps-promo-1645801007862-videoSixteenByNine3000-v6.jpg

    Back on the topic of blacks, if we want to divide humankind into three races based on genetic distance, they wouldn’t be white black and yellow, but Khoe-San, African Pygmies, and Everyone Else.

    Very interesting and accessible paper covering a lot of African genetic issues like this:

    https://academic.oup.com/gbe/article/15/4/evad054/7092825

    The San in fact are almost an archaic lineage that never went fully extinct. They diverged as long as 300k years ago from other human lines, while Neanderthals are as little as 500k in their divergence.

    The paper also gets into black admixture in mixed Western Hemisphere and North African populations, European and Arab genes being introduced into North and Sub-Saharan (back to Africa), and possible functional ghost genes in Africans.

    Replies: @Colin Wright, @Mactoul, @PhysicistDave, @res, @Muggles

    ‘Back on the topic of blacks, if we want to divide humankind into three races based on genetic distance, they wouldn’t be white black and yellow, but Khoe-San, African Pygmies, and Everyone Else.’

    But that doesn’t mean much. So Bushmen and Pygmies are really distant.

    So? A rhesus monkey is more distant still. That doesn’t somehow demonstrate we should expect a whole lot of black physicists.

    Actually and more to the point, Bushmen and Pygmies form such a vanishingly small proportion of humanity that it’s hardly helpful to divide humanity into three categories and assign two of those categories to them. That’d be like dividing vehicles into unicycles, lunar satellites, and everything else. It’s not a useful framework.

    Of course the major races of humanity are whites, Asians, and African blacks.

    • Agree: Pixo
  107. @Joe Stalin

    HOLY SHIT.
     

    Russian electronic warfare (EW) remains potent, with an approximate distribution of at least one major system covering each 10 km of front. These systems are heavily weighted towards the defeat of UAVs and tend not to try and deconflict their effects. Ukrainian UAV losses remain at approximately 10,000 per month. Russian EW is also apparently achieving real time interception and decryption of Ukrainian Motorola 256-bit encrypted tactical communications systems, which are widely employed by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

    https://rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/special-resources/meatgrinder-russian-tactics-second-year-its-invasion-ukraine

     

    Replies: @The Wild Geese Howard, @YetAnotherAnon

    This report of Russian EW capability doesn’t surprise me at all.

    Russian EW has been blowing out radio receiver front ends without a sweat since 2014.

    That’s about all I can say.

  108. @Roderick Spode
    @Mr. XYZ

    That's Rosario Dawson, my man. Likely not Jewish, although she never knew her biological father, a one Patrick C. Harris. I suppose he could've been Jewish.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosario_Dawson#Early_life

    Replies: @The Wild Geese Howard

    That’s Rosario Dawson, my man.

    Well, she’s not half bad at dancing.

  109. Quite a few blacks in my city are still clinging to the masks. Vote by paper ballot = vote fraud. The Establishment let them do it to get rid of Trump. Now the Establishment has a problem: try and take cheating away from blacks enough to ensure white liberals win Democratic primaries, especially with Barack Obama lurking around to rally them if they don’t get their way.

    I expect major league vote fraud from now on. Only the Democratic Establishment could stop it at this point.

  110. @Jenner Ickham Errican

    Recently, President Biden signed a bill ... to rename a post office after James Anderson Jr. — a Compton native who was the first Black Marine to earn a Medal of Honor.
     
    Nice gesture, I suppose ...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8d-9ag9cHU4

    Replies: @clifford brown, @AndrewR, @Bill Jones, @Mr. Anon, @The Germ Theory of Disease

    It’s very funny, to be sure; but it’s called “The Castle” and it was written by Franz Kafka roughly 100 years ago. Presumably the show’s writers knew that.

    And you guys complain that Modernism offends your tender GK Chestertonian tastes.

    • Replies: @Jenner Ickham Errican
    @The Germ Theory of Disease


    Presumably the show’s writers knew that.
     
    Have you ever watched the show? Almost every segment is Kafkaesque and/or Sisyphean (going back a bit more than 100 years :) ). When it's good, it's great.
  111. @Pixo
    @PhysicistDave

    Same old pattern: Ukraine liberates large areas, Russia’s counteroffensive consists of shelling a small rustbelt city for months and then occupying the depopulated rubble.

    https://static01.nyt.com/images/2022/02/25/us/ukraine-maps-promo-1645801007862/ukraine-maps-promo-1645801007862-videoSixteenByNine3000-v6.jpg

    Back on the topic of blacks, if we want to divide humankind into three races based on genetic distance, they wouldn’t be white black and yellow, but Khoe-San, African Pygmies, and Everyone Else.

    Very interesting and accessible paper covering a lot of African genetic issues like this:

    https://academic.oup.com/gbe/article/15/4/evad054/7092825

    The San in fact are almost an archaic lineage that never went fully extinct. They diverged as long as 300k years ago from other human lines, while Neanderthals are as little as 500k in their divergence.

    The paper also gets into black admixture in mixed Western Hemisphere and North African populations, European and Arab genes being introduced into North and Sub-Saharan (back to Africa), and possible functional ghost genes in Africans.

    Replies: @Colin Wright, @Mactoul, @PhysicistDave, @res, @Muggles

    As San have fully functional languages, it must mean that language arose prior to San split from other human lineages and thus fully modern language is 300 thousand year old at least.

  112. @The Germ Theory of Disease
    @Jenner Ickham Errican

    It's very funny, to be sure; but it's called "The Castle" and it was written by Franz Kafka roughly 100 years ago. Presumably the show's writers knew that.

    And you guys complain that Modernism offends your tender GK Chestertonian tastes.

    Replies: @Jenner Ickham Errican

    Presumably the show’s writers knew that.

    Have you ever watched the show? Almost every segment is Kafkaesque and/or Sisyphean (going back a bit more than 100 years 🙂 ). When it’s good, it’s great.

  113. @Pixo
    @PhysicistDave

    Same old pattern: Ukraine liberates large areas, Russia’s counteroffensive consists of shelling a small rustbelt city for months and then occupying the depopulated rubble.

    https://static01.nyt.com/images/2022/02/25/us/ukraine-maps-promo-1645801007862/ukraine-maps-promo-1645801007862-videoSixteenByNine3000-v6.jpg

    Back on the topic of blacks, if we want to divide humankind into three races based on genetic distance, they wouldn’t be white black and yellow, but Khoe-San, African Pygmies, and Everyone Else.

    Very interesting and accessible paper covering a lot of African genetic issues like this:

    https://academic.oup.com/gbe/article/15/4/evad054/7092825

    The San in fact are almost an archaic lineage that never went fully extinct. They diverged as long as 300k years ago from other human lines, while Neanderthals are as little as 500k in their divergence.

    The paper also gets into black admixture in mixed Western Hemisphere and North African populations, European and Arab genes being introduced into North and Sub-Saharan (back to Africa), and possible functional ghost genes in Africans.

    Replies: @Colin Wright, @Mactoul, @PhysicistDave, @res, @Muggles

    Our little Penis-Piano-Player worshiper Pixo wrote to me:

    Same old pattern: Ukraine liberates large areas, Russia’s counteroffensive consists of shelling a small rustbelt city for months and then occupying the depopulated rubble.

    I don’t think Russia really controlled most of the area in blue on your map.

    In any case, it does not matter.

    As anyone familiar with military history knows, you do not win a war simply by conquering territory.

    At the end of WW I, the Allies did not control any part of Germany. German troops still occupied some Allied territory.

    But Germany lost.

    As I keep saying, again and again, you win a war not simply by seizing territory but rather by creating a situation in which the other side is either unwilling or unable to continue fighting.

    Given the dramatic imbalance in the correlation of forces between the puppet regime in Kiev and the Russian Federation, the only way Kiev can win is:

    A) Russia gives up.

    B) The US and its Occupied Nations become open belligerents — boots on the ground.

    If the US ruling overclass had not stated, again and again, that this proxy war is intended to destroy Russia, maybe Russia would have indeed just given up.

    However, the Russian people now know this is an existential war for the survival of Russia, thanks to the reckless public statements of the US ruling elite.

    Do you think the Russians will give up when Russia’s existence is at stake?

    Yes, this is a horrible war. Just maybe the US Deep State should not have orchestrated the coup against the democratically elected government of Ukraine in 2014. Just maybe the West should not have sabotaged the Minsk Accords, which offered a chance at peace (Merkel and Hollande have both confessed that those Accords were intended to be a sham). Just maybe the US Deep State should not have armed, funded, and encouraged the puppet regime in Kiev in its war against the Donbass.

    And, most of all, just maybe the US ruling elite should not have declared that the goal is to destroy Russia.

    But the evil perverted monsters who illegally occupy the seat of the US government, in violation of the US Constitution, did do all of that.

    And so now Ukraine suffers horribly. Until the US Deep State decides to allow peace, which may not happen until Russia conquers all of Ukraine.

    There must be a negotiated peace based on the principle of the self-determination of peoples enshrined in Article 1 of the UN Charter applied to the peoples of the Donbass.

    So that the mass murder can stop.

    • Agree: Robertson
    • Thanks: YetAnotherAnon, Mark G.
    • Replies: @Pixo
    @PhysicistDave

    “ However, the Russian people now know this is an existential war for the survival of Russia”

    What an intensely retarded statement.

    Russia lost the war the day it began because it was imprudent with little to gain and a lot to lose. It ruined its relationship with Europe and America, achieved an expanded NATO to Finland and Sweden, and showed the world how pathetic its military is in every single way. Poor commanders, poor soldiers, poor weaponry.

    How shocking was it Russia couldn’t achieve air superiority on its own border, or even take Kharkiv, with the element of surprise, only 30 miles from its border.

    Russia also lost in that it lost most of its friends on the right, like Trump and BoJo, leaving only lonely freakshows like you on its side.

    Replies: @Malcolm (Section 9, Department 17), @Colin Wright, @J.Ross, @PhysicistDave, @cool daddy jimbo

  114. @CalCooledge
    On the topic of California blacks, the NYT has had multiple articles this week revealing Dyin' Feinstein to be a drooling, damaged mess. Very unflattering. Why are they doing this? Apparently they want her to resign so that Newsom can replace her with a sacred black female who would become the automatic front runner in 2024 senate regular election. Everything seems to come down to black worship now.

    Replies: @tyrone, @PhysicistDave, @Anonymous

    CalCooledge wrote:

    On the topic of California blacks, the NYT has had multiple articles this week revealing Dyin’ Feinstein to be a drooling, damaged mess. Very unflattering. Why are they doing this? Apparently they want her to resign so that Newsom can replace her with a sacred black female who would become the automatic front runner in 2024 senate regular election.

    Yes, that is what is happening.

    The Black female likely to be appointed is Rep. Barbara Lee.

    The front-runner for the Senate seat otherwise is Adam Schiff, who is Pelosi’s pal, which is why Pelsoi is trying to pretend DiFi is still alive (Weekend at Bernies and all that).

    Barbara Lee is a far-left Democratic liberal.

    But Schiff is probably the biggest liar in American politics today, utterly subhuman scum.

    Lee, on occasion, has actually voted her conscience.

    A bad choice, but Lee is not as evil as Schiff.

  115. @Stan Adams
    Here is the Stan Adams Saturday-night special, featuring Prince Harry and a random gay guy.

    Tonight's episode is entitled "You Can't Fix Stupid":



    https://i.ibb.co/m50YcJJ/harry1.png
    https://i.ibb.co/3pn38G4/harry2.jpg
    https://i.ibb.co/Wgb9dnJ/harry3.png
    https://i.ibb.co/VDqM9M3/harry4.jpg

    Replies: @Kylie

    Lol! Well done! You not only can’t fix stupid, you can’t get it to stfu.

    I had a very mild interest in Diana until Harry was a toddler. He was so repulsively bratty, not just “cheeky” or a “tinker” (as my British Facebook friend calls my naughty dog) that I quit reading anything about the BRF. He was obviously unintelligent as well as unpleasant from the start.

    If you’re taking requests, could you do one where he crosses his arms and does that shoulder tapping to relieve stress?

    • Replies: @Stan Adams
    @Kylie

    Let me see what I can do here:



    https://i.ibb.co/kmQ3nRJ/IMG-1161.jpg

    https://i.ibb.co/y82Rnkd/IMG-1152.jpg

    https://i.ibb.co/9q69CcT/IMG-1156.jpg

    https://i.ibb.co/ZN8VyBJ/IMG-1162.jpg

    https://i.ibb.co/x6cPdD4/IMG-1155.jpg

    Replies: @Kylie, @Ralph L

  116. @Colin Wright
    @PhysicistDave


    '....Sure: it is obvious that HA is an enemy alien.

    But it does not occur to most people here that Jack D might well be lying about being an attorney, that Corvinus could conceivably be in jail serving a life sentence, that Pixo could possibly be a convicted pedophile, or whatever...'
     
    But the only one of these I have even the most qualified respect for would be JackD. The rest could be anything at all -- it wouldn't necessarily affect my opinion of them.

    Replies: @PhysicistDave

    Colin Wright wrote to me:

    [Dave] Sure: it is obvious that HA is an enemy alien.

    But it does not occur to most people here that Jack D might well be lying about being an attorney, that Corvinus could conceivably be in jail serving a life sentence, that Pixo could possibly be a convicted pedophile, or whatever…’

    [CW] But the only one of these I have even the most qualified respect for would be JackD. The rest could be anything at all — it wouldn’t necessarily affect my opinion of them. But the only one of these I have even the most qualified respect for would be JackD. The rest could be anything at all — it wouldn’t necessarily affect my opinion of them.

    Well, of course aside from HA, who is obviously not an American and, as far as I know, has never claimed to be, I was just giving hypotheticals to illustrate how little we know about people we “know” on the Web.

    You, for example, have given some background about yourself (and of course your name) that sounds plausible; I am inclined to believe it because I cannot think of any reason you would invent the background you claimed.

    I claim to be a physicist named Dave Miller who lives in Sacramento and who has a Ph.D. from Stanford: on another thread one of the commenters found my Stanford Ph.D. thesis on the Web, and, with a bit of effort, anyone can find the patents on which I am co-inventor that use Galois-field theory for error-correction coding. Conceivably, I have gone to a lot of trouble to impersonate the real Dave Miller, but that does not make much sense: I am not so exciting as to be worth impersonating! It is reasonable to think I am for real.

    But it becomes especially problematic for someone like Jack D who claims to have a significant profession as an attorney in America, but who does not give his name, so we cannot check his claim. And, Jack has claimed that the USA did not exist before the Constitution: any American of normal intelligence who took civics or US history would know that is false. And a real attorney should know at least the very basics of American legal history, of which this fact is at the center.

    So, on the face of it, Jack D is lying: Jack D appears, prima facie, to be a fraud.

    It’s hard to see how that could not be true.

    I’ve never been able to get Jack to address his bizarre ignorance of the American legal order: I think it is pretty clear why.

    Anyway, the general point stands. By the way, the sci-fi writer Vernor Vinge wrote a novella, True Names, anticipating this phenomenon of false cyberspace identities (and a lot more), way back in 1981. I suspect that this is and will continue to be a bigger problem than the supposed dangers of high-power AIs.

    • Replies: @Art Deco
    @PhysicistDave

    And, Jack has claimed that the USA did not exist before the Constitution: any American of normal intelligence who took civics or US history would know that is false.
    ==
    That assertion is a commonplace among adherents to a certain sort of historiography. Jonathan Rowe peddles it. Hendrick Hertzberg used to as well. Rowe's a lawyer, though I don't believe he earns his living that way.

    https://americancreation.blogspot.com/p/our-contributors_18.html

    Replies: @PhysicistDave

    , @Mark G.
    @PhysicistDave


    Well, of course aside from HA, who is obviously not an American and, as far as I know, has never claimed to be, I was just giving hypotheticals to illustrate how little we know about people we “know” on the Web.
     
    I agree it is fairly likely HA is not a native of this country. While his English is good, he uses some grammatical constructions not common among Americans. His extreme pro-Ukraine stance may involve ethnic hostility to Russia.

    There is another factor involved here, though. I think there is an authoritarian personality type, and he is an extreme example of that. During the Covid epidemic he was an ardent supporter of mandatory lockdowns, vaccinations and mask wearing. When I tried to make the moral case to him for not forcing someone to get a vaccination they don't want I was met with extreme hostility and sneering insults such as I was "afraid of needles". He is also hostile to marijuana use and I wouldn't be surprised if he wanted to bring back Prohibition, except this time replacing alcohol with marijuana.

    His indifference to the authoritarianism of Zelensky also extends to an indifference to the authoritarianism of a medieval theocracy and its ally, the kings of Europe. The 18th century Enlightenment era and its product, the American Revolution, was a rebellion against that so he would not be supportive of our traditional American political system with its belief in the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for everyone.

    Replies: @PhysicistDave

  117. @Pastit
    I wish blacks would stop the whining or just disappear. They are a ball and chain on society.

    Replies: @Servenet

    You don’t say.

  118. @Joe Stalin

    HOLY SHIT.
     

    Russian electronic warfare (EW) remains potent, with an approximate distribution of at least one major system covering each 10 km of front. These systems are heavily weighted towards the defeat of UAVs and tend not to try and deconflict their effects. Ukrainian UAV losses remain at approximately 10,000 per month. Russian EW is also apparently achieving real time interception and decryption of Ukrainian Motorola 256-bit encrypted tactical communications systems, which are widely employed by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

    https://rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/special-resources/meatgrinder-russian-tactics-second-year-its-invasion-ukraine

     

    Replies: @The Wild Geese Howard, @YetAnotherAnon

    Congrats, something with some actual data in it, though RUSI is MI6-adjacent so we won’t hear any bad news – indeed they’re explicit about that

    https://static.rusi.org/403-SR-Russian-Tactics-web-final.pdf

    “This report describes how Russia is currently carrying out its combat operations in Ukraine. It does not outline in detail which of these tactics are more or less successful, or describe Ukrainian tactics, as these are operationally sensitive”

    But it’s interesting on the specifics of drone warfare

    It is typical for there to be between 25 and 50 UAVs from both sides operating over the contested area between the forward line of own troops (FLOT) and forward line of enemy troops (FLET) at any given time for each 10 km of frontage.

    And electronic warfare – I thought they were stripping washing machines to get basic chips out of them? I do think the sudden loss of Raspberry Pi production in the last 2 years may be related to keeping them from Russia – the RP4 is a pretty powerful beast.

    Interestingly, there is minimal interest among Russian crews in synchronising these effects with other activities or with deconflicting their effects. Instead, for the period when an EW team is deployed, it is weapons free with its system and tends to aggressively attack Ukrainian systems. The Shipovnik-Aero is proving a particularly effective system because it has a low signature and can further obfuscate this by imitating other emitters and communications devices. It also has a sophisticated range of effects for downing UAVs. The Russian military is also continuing to make extensive use of navigational interference in the battle area as a form of electronic protection. This is contributing to a Ukrainian loss rate in UAVs of approximately 10,000 per month.

    Alongside large systems such as the Shipovnik-Aero, the Russian military has been extensively rolling out EW effectors to be organic to units at all echelons. This includes counter-UAS capabilities assigned to each platoon, which usually include directional jammers and arrays for hijacking UAVs.

    Every platoon having anti-UAV capability? Doesn’t seem too bad for a gas station with nukes. But it’s the economic war in which Russia are really doing well.

  119. @PhysicistDave
    @Colin Wright

    Colin Wright wrote to me:


    [Dave] Sure: it is obvious that HA is an enemy alien.

    But it does not occur to most people here that Jack D might well be lying about being an attorney, that Corvinus could conceivably be in jail serving a life sentence, that Pixo could possibly be a convicted pedophile, or whatever…’

    [CW] But the only one of these I have even the most qualified respect for would be JackD. The rest could be anything at all — it wouldn’t necessarily affect my opinion of them. But the only one of these I have even the most qualified respect for would be JackD. The rest could be anything at all — it wouldn’t necessarily affect my opinion of them.
     
    Well, of course aside from HA, who is obviously not an American and, as far as I know, has never claimed to be, I was just giving hypotheticals to illustrate how little we know about people we "know" on the Web.

    You, for example, have given some background about yourself (and of course your name) that sounds plausible; I am inclined to believe it because I cannot think of any reason you would invent the background you claimed.

    I claim to be a physicist named Dave Miller who lives in Sacramento and who has a Ph.D. from Stanford: on another thread one of the commenters found my Stanford Ph.D. thesis on the Web, and, with a bit of effort, anyone can find the patents on which I am co-inventor that use Galois-field theory for error-correction coding. Conceivably, I have gone to a lot of trouble to impersonate the real Dave Miller, but that does not make much sense: I am not so exciting as to be worth impersonating! It is reasonable to think I am for real.

    But it becomes especially problematic for someone like Jack D who claims to have a significant profession as an attorney in America, but who does not give his name, so we cannot check his claim. And, Jack has claimed that the USA did not exist before the Constitution: any American of normal intelligence who took civics or US history would know that is false. And a real attorney should know at least the very basics of American legal history, of which this fact is at the center.

    So, on the face of it, Jack D is lying: Jack D appears, prima facie, to be a fraud.

    It's hard to see how that could not be true.

    I've never been able to get Jack to address his bizarre ignorance of the American legal order: I think it is pretty clear why.

    Anyway, the general point stands. By the way, the sci-fi writer Vernor Vinge wrote a novella, True Names, anticipating this phenomenon of false cyberspace identities (and a lot more), way back in 1981. I suspect that this is and will continue to be a bigger problem than the supposed dangers of high-power AIs.

    Replies: @Art Deco, @Mark G.

    And, Jack has claimed that the USA did not exist before the Constitution: any American of normal intelligence who took civics or US history would know that is false.
    ==
    That assertion is a commonplace among adherents to a certain sort of historiography. Jonathan Rowe peddles it. Hendrick Hertzberg used to as well. Rowe’s a lawyer, though I don’t believe he earns his living that way.

    https://americancreation.blogspot.com/p/our-contributors_18.html

    • Replies: @PhysicistDave
    @Art Deco

    Art Deco wrote to me:


    [Dave] And, Jack has claimed that the USA did not exist before the Constitution: any American of normal intelligence who took civics or US history would know that is false.
    ==
    [AD}That assertion is a commonplace among adherents to a certain sort of historiography. Jonathan Rowe peddles it.
     
    Well, if they claim what you say, they are either pathological liars or illiterates.

    The historical record is absolutely open and shut and is learned by all Americans I know of in US history and civics classes. The Articles of Confederation, for example, start off:

    Article I. The Stile of this confederacy shall be, “The United States of America.”
     
    Since the Articles of Confederation obviously antedated the 1787 Constitution by some years, to claim that the USA did not exist prior to the 1787 Constitution really is a sign of extreme ignorance... or perhaps serious mental illness.

    To put it bluntly, this bizarre claim is as insane as claiming that France attacked Pearl Harbor or Stalin was the leader of Nazi Germany.

    Some things really are just insane.

    What you suggest merely raises the question of whether this "Jonathan Rowe" is also not what he claims to be.

    And, yes, I know that con artists like Jack D can argue that the sky is not blue but just a very unusual shade of green, and that the earth is not round because a perfect sphere would not have mountains and, after all, it all depends on what the meaning of the word "is" is.

    And, yes, I am clever enough that I could create a bullshit argument trying to back up Jack's claim.

    But, still... if I did, I would be lying.

    Eppur si muove.

    Jack D is a fraud.

    Replies: @quewin, @Curle

  120. @Anon7
    Black Cleopatra OT: I don't think this was posted to your Cleopatra Was Black article from last week, but I thought everyone might enjoy it.

    It's not a typical Hitler parody, it has some informative intro material, but skip to 2:00 to get directly to the good bits:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5e8tMBtAwpc

    Replies: @J.Ross, @Ron Mexico

    Bruno Ganz deserved an Oscar.

  121. @Art Deco
    @PhysicistDave

    And, Jack has claimed that the USA did not exist before the Constitution: any American of normal intelligence who took civics or US history would know that is false.
    ==
    That assertion is a commonplace among adherents to a certain sort of historiography. Jonathan Rowe peddles it. Hendrick Hertzberg used to as well. Rowe's a lawyer, though I don't believe he earns his living that way.

    https://americancreation.blogspot.com/p/our-contributors_18.html

    Replies: @PhysicistDave

    Art Deco wrote to me:

    [Dave] And, Jack has claimed that the USA did not exist before the Constitution: any American of normal intelligence who took civics or US history would know that is false.
    ==
    [AD}That assertion is a commonplace among adherents to a certain sort of historiography. Jonathan Rowe peddles it.

    Well, if they claim what you say, they are either pathological liars or illiterates.

    The historical record is absolutely open and shut and is learned by all Americans I know of in US history and civics classes. The Articles of Confederation, for example, start off:

    Article I. The Stile of this confederacy shall be, “The United States of America.”

    Since the Articles of Confederation obviously antedated the 1787 Constitution by some years, to claim that the USA did not exist prior to the 1787 Constitution really is a sign of extreme ignorance… or perhaps serious mental illness.

    To put it bluntly, this bizarre claim is as insane as claiming that France attacked Pearl Harbor or Stalin was the leader of Nazi Germany.

    Some things really are just insane.

    What you suggest merely raises the question of whether this “Jonathan Rowe” is also not what he claims to be.

    And, yes, I know that con artists like Jack D can argue that the sky is not blue but just a very unusual shade of green, and that the earth is not round because a perfect sphere would not have mountains and, after all, it all depends on what the meaning of the word “is” is.

    And, yes, I am clever enough that I could create a bullshit argument trying to back up Jack’s claim.

    But, still… if I did, I would be lying.

    Eppur si muove.

    Jack D is a fraud.

    • Replies: @quewin
    @PhysicistDave

    Given his claims to be a Jew, do you think he’s simply a troll or exhibiting the usual Ashkepathy?

    Replies: @PhysicistDave

    , @Curle
    @PhysicistDave

    “Since the Articles of Confederation obviously antedated the 1787 Constitution by some years, to claim that the USA did not exist prior to the 1787 Constitution really is a sign of extreme ignorance… or perhaps serious mental illness.”

    You are correct, of course, but here is what I think is going on. I believe the comment is intended to sustain the historical fiction that the United States under the Constitution was formed as an organic state with organic powers to which it could not be deprived. This error posits that the constitutional confederacy/union was different in this regard from the earlier confederacy under the Articles and that its authority over each state was not dependent on the acquiescence of those states as was the case with the Articles. There is, of course, nothing in the constitution to permit such an interpretation and Jus. Story’s alleged location of such authority in the preamble constitutes probably the greatest legal error in American history assuming that was Story’s intention (a matter not particularly clear). Nevertheless, it suited Lincoln’s purposes to assign Story such an intent and I suspect persons making the claim you object to are simply perpetuating this error. They are, in essence, making a distinction between a confederacy and an organic state. I cannot stress enough that this distinction is an false one.

    Replies: @PhysicistDave

  122. @PhysicistDave
    @Bill Jones

    Bill Jones asked:


    Anybody got a clue whence the surge of newbies?
     
    I'm told the technical term is "glowies."

    America is traditionally a "high-trust" society.

    On both sides of our house and in the back and across the street we have recently had new neighbors move in, due to original homeowners in the neighborhood, who are now in their nineties, passing away. We assume we can trust all of our new neighbors -- this is an affluent, upper-middle-class neighborhood; the new neighbors are middle-aged professionals; etc.

    We're probably right: probably none of our new neighbors are going to engage in home burglary, rape my wife, etc.

    But we American tend to carry those trusting attitudes over onto the Internet.

    And that is a mistake.

    Sure: it is obvious that HA is an enemy alien.

    But it does not occur to most people here that Jack D might well be lying about being an attorney, that Corvinus could conceivably be in jail serving a life sentence, that Pixo could possibly be a convicted pedophile, or whatever.

    And yet that sort of thing happens on the Internet all the time.

    And we all know that... intellectually.

    But, as Americans our default setting is to assume it is not true of actual people we deal with.

    Which is quite dangerous.

    I suspect this is not as true of people from low-trust societies like, say, Rwanda or Haiti.

    We Americans do not understand how easily our virtues can be used to destroy us.

    Replies: @Colin Wright, @Patrick in SC

    that Corvinus could conceivably be in jail serving a life sentence

    More likely a mental institution (do we still have those?).

    Or in a cubicle in Langley, VA.

  123. @Pixo
    @PhysicistDave

    Same old pattern: Ukraine liberates large areas, Russia’s counteroffensive consists of shelling a small rustbelt city for months and then occupying the depopulated rubble.

    https://static01.nyt.com/images/2022/02/25/us/ukraine-maps-promo-1645801007862/ukraine-maps-promo-1645801007862-videoSixteenByNine3000-v6.jpg

    Back on the topic of blacks, if we want to divide humankind into three races based on genetic distance, they wouldn’t be white black and yellow, but Khoe-San, African Pygmies, and Everyone Else.

    Very interesting and accessible paper covering a lot of African genetic issues like this:

    https://academic.oup.com/gbe/article/15/4/evad054/7092825

    The San in fact are almost an archaic lineage that never went fully extinct. They diverged as long as 300k years ago from other human lines, while Neanderthals are as little as 500k in their divergence.

    The paper also gets into black admixture in mixed Western Hemisphere and North African populations, European and Arab genes being introduced into North and Sub-Saharan (back to Africa), and possible functional ghost genes in Africans.

    Replies: @Colin Wright, @Mactoul, @PhysicistDave, @res, @Muggles

    Same old pattern: Ukraine liberates large areas, Russia’s counteroffensive consists of shelling a small rustbelt city for months and then occupying the depopulated rubble.

    It is fun to see such a nice example of “sour grapes” stated unironically.

    • Replies: @Pixo
    @res

    “ It is fun to see such a nice example of “sour grapes” stated unironically.”

    How is this different than you Putinists saying the massive amount of territory Ukraine reconquered doesn’t matter because, as PutinistDave says:

    “ As anyone familiar with military history knows, you do not win a war simply by conquering territory.”

    ?

  124. @Jus' Sayin'...

    In 2021, during the city’s last mayoral election, Latinos made up an estimated 38 percent of votes cast despite being 50 percent of registered voters, according to a Washington Post analysis of voter registration data from the political data firm L2. Black residents accounted for roughly 45 percent of votes cast, while making up only 32 percent of registered voters.
     
    My takeaway:

    In Compton Negros cast 45% of votes, Indio/Hispanics cast 38%, and "Others" cast 17%. A dominant 55% of those voting are not Negro. Eventually the Indio/Hispanics and "Others" will join forces to get rid of the current Negro, i.e corrupt and incompetent, government.

    On the national level Negros constitute somewhere between 12% and 15% of the population. This proportion is falling.

    Demonstrating their collective stupidity and/or failing to realize how thoroughly despised and feared is collective Negro dysfunction, Negros imagine that a decreasing proportion of Whites will increase the collective power of Negros. Instead Whites will remain a plurality and will eventually choose to align with other, non-Negro, racial power blocks.

    None of the non-Negro racial power blocks has any real fondness for Negros. The current state religion of negrolatry is not increasing this fondness. A racial reckoning is in our future and it will not be pretty.

    Replies: @Currahee

    Pretty is as pretty does.

  125. @pyrrhus
    @Colin Wright

    Civ-nattery....How quaint!

    Replies: @Colin Wright

    ‘Civ-nattery….How quaint!’

    It’s more a matter of wanting to compromise, stack the deck, win Race War 2028 in six months rather than sixteen years, and have something left when it’s over.

    Asians, Hispanics of the non-black persuasion, and white gentiles on one team, everyone else on the other. Deportation of all illegals and a complete bar on all further immigration, of course.

  126. Totally OT, but Polly Toynbee, Guardian liberal icon and reliable negative indicator (‘crime is falling, yet the prisons have never been so full‘), is serialising her memoirs in the Guardian.

    https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/may/20/polly-toynbee-what-my-privileged-start-in-life-taught-me-about-the-british-class-system

    Poll Pot is an exceptional lefty female in that she’s had 4 kids, plus at least one abortion described above.

    I forget which of her Oxford contemporaries described young Polly as a “sexy beast”. But there’s no doubt about it, she was delightful at 19.

  127. @Kylie
    @Stan Adams

    Lol! Well done! You not only can't fix stupid, you can't get it to stfu.

    I had a very mild interest in Diana until Harry was a toddler. He was so repulsively bratty, not just "cheeky" or a "tinker" (as my British Facebook friend calls my naughty dog) that I quit reading anything about the BRF. He was obviously unintelligent as well as unpleasant from the start.

    If you're taking requests, could you do one where he crosses his arms and does that shoulder tapping to relieve stress?

    Replies: @Stan Adams

    Let me see what I can do here:

    [MORE]

    • Thanks: Kylie
    • Replies: @Kylie
    @Stan Adams

    Lol! Brilliant! Thanks! Taking screenshots.

    Generally I dislike people making this type of request. It's as if they think whatever they're requesting comes off an assembly line.

    But ever since your late night Whiskey rant, I knew you, with your particular kind of creativity, would find a request inspiring, not daunting.

    Replies: @Stan Adams, @Stan Adams, @Stan Adams

    , @Ralph L
    @Stan Adams

    If you do reddit, there's
    https://www.reddit.com/r/SaintMeghanMarkle

    They'd love it if you posted it there.

    Replies: @Ralph L, @Stan Adams

  128. Will touchstones be the next tropes?

    touchstones — such as mariachi troupes or papel picado

  129. In 2021, during the city’s last mayoral election, Latinos made up an estimated 38 percent of votes cast despite being 50 percent of registered voters

    Maybe that’s because California’s automatic voter registration picked up a lot of illegal immigrants, many of which don’t even know they are registered? Or don’t want to risk breaking the law by casting a vote?

    • Replies: @Colin Wright
    @John Rohan


    'Maybe that’s because California’s automatic voter registration picked up a lot of illegal immigrants, many of which don’t even know they are registered? Or don’t want to risk breaking the law by casting a vote?
     
    That's exactly what happens.
  130. Irony on stilts, and this is only the beginning. Not surprisingly, this sort of thing is also happening elsewhere on other fronts (see below).

    https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/the-queers-versus-the-homosexuals-cfd

    Looks like the Coalition of The Fringes is not turning out quite the way it was intended to.

  131. Pixo says:
    @res
    @Pixo


    Same old pattern: Ukraine liberates large areas, Russia’s counteroffensive consists of shelling a small rustbelt city for months and then occupying the depopulated rubble.
     
    It is fun to see such a nice example of "sour grapes" stated unironically.

    Replies: @Pixo

    “ It is fun to see such a nice example of “sour grapes” stated unironically.”

    How is this different than you Putinists saying the massive amount of territory Ukraine reconquered doesn’t matter because, as PutinistDave says:

    “ As anyone familiar with military history knows, you do not win a war simply by conquering territory.”

    ?

  132. @Bernie
    @Pixo

    Was in North Platte Nebraska in 2017 and the maids and cooks were all white (and very friendly). Left some very nice tips for these remnants of a better time.

    Replies: @Paleo Liberal

    VERY common when traveling in the Midwest, outside big cities.

    Often the only non-white in the motel is a South Asian owner.

  133. @PhysicistDave
    @Art Deco

    Art Deco wrote to me:


    [Dave] And, Jack has claimed that the USA did not exist before the Constitution: any American of normal intelligence who took civics or US history would know that is false.
    ==
    [AD}That assertion is a commonplace among adherents to a certain sort of historiography. Jonathan Rowe peddles it.
     
    Well, if they claim what you say, they are either pathological liars or illiterates.

    The historical record is absolutely open and shut and is learned by all Americans I know of in US history and civics classes. The Articles of Confederation, for example, start off:

    Article I. The Stile of this confederacy shall be, “The United States of America.”
     
    Since the Articles of Confederation obviously antedated the 1787 Constitution by some years, to claim that the USA did not exist prior to the 1787 Constitution really is a sign of extreme ignorance... or perhaps serious mental illness.

    To put it bluntly, this bizarre claim is as insane as claiming that France attacked Pearl Harbor or Stalin was the leader of Nazi Germany.

    Some things really are just insane.

    What you suggest merely raises the question of whether this "Jonathan Rowe" is also not what he claims to be.

    And, yes, I know that con artists like Jack D can argue that the sky is not blue but just a very unusual shade of green, and that the earth is not round because a perfect sphere would not have mountains and, after all, it all depends on what the meaning of the word "is" is.

    And, yes, I am clever enough that I could create a bullshit argument trying to back up Jack's claim.

    But, still... if I did, I would be lying.

    Eppur si muove.

    Jack D is a fraud.

    Replies: @quewin, @Curle

    Given his claims to be a Jew, do you think he’s simply a troll or exhibiting the usual Ashkepathy?

    • Replies: @PhysicistDave
    @quewin

    quewin wrote to me:


    Given [Jack D] claims to be a Jew, do you think he’s simply a troll or exhibiting the usual Ashkepathy?
     
    The one time I recall Jack really losing his cool and getting angry at me was when I pointed out that the ancient Jews seem to have invented the idea of mass murder against people who hold the wrong religious views... and when I gave examples from the Hebrew Bible backing it up.

    I always try to be careful to point out that contemporary Jews are not responsible for the psychopathic evils of their ancestors, unless of course they celebrate or emulate those genocidal policies their ancestors celebrated.

    There are, as I have said, many times, "Righteous Jews" who eschew the evil aspects of Judaism.

    And I have also been brutally outspoken in attacking the millennium-long Reign of Terror that Christianity imposed on Europe from the latter centuries of the Roman Empire through to early modern times.

    So, I do not just pick on Judaism.

    But it is the one thing that caused Jack D to go ballistic.

    So, yeah, I think Jack D really is a Jew. And not at all a Righteous Jews. His sense of humanity is, well, simply lacking.
  134. @Stan Adams
    @Kylie

    Let me see what I can do here:



    https://i.ibb.co/kmQ3nRJ/IMG-1161.jpg

    https://i.ibb.co/y82Rnkd/IMG-1152.jpg

    https://i.ibb.co/9q69CcT/IMG-1156.jpg

    https://i.ibb.co/ZN8VyBJ/IMG-1162.jpg

    https://i.ibb.co/x6cPdD4/IMG-1155.jpg

    Replies: @Kylie, @Ralph L

    Lol! Brilliant! Thanks! Taking screenshots.

    Generally I dislike people making this type of request. It’s as if they think whatever they’re requesting comes off an assembly line.

    But ever since your late night Whiskey rant, I knew you, with your particular kind of creativity, would find a request inspiring, not daunting.

    • Replies: @Stan Adams
    @Kylie

    A few more:



    https://i.ibb.co/cy7CQFN/6-A20-E8-A6-71-E7-4647-BE98-F1168063-E05-F.jpg

    https://i.ibb.co/DwTjJcG/BC3-BC264-EAFB-4248-95-F9-285-F3-D14985-B.jpg

    https://i.ibb.co/k4cqSCg/AD61-A6-CE-6-DBA-4-F6-B-AD8-E-5609-F10-BD075.jpg

    https://i.ibb.co/m41yL45/EA5-CA4-E2-E4-DB-4498-A07-B-C58180894684.jpg

    https://i.ibb.co/hdkQGLf/512-E9380-DCFB-45-EB-B551-AA169-E0-D1-D28.jpg

    https://i.ibb.co/NrwmNCn/C6-EA0-E2-D-F8-C0-4940-8-EDE-3-A07138-CD692.jpg

    , @Stan Adams
    @Kylie

    One more for the road:



    https://i.ibb.co/yqsS71w/3279508-A-1-DC8-4918-8125-EE6-CA756-A5-ED.jpg

    https://i.ibb.co/4gpPJ9W/9-A70-DB55-24-BC-4-C1-C-A563-92-BDC1-C8-B314.jpg

    , @Stan Adams
    @Kylie

    I never did know when to quit:



    https://i.ibb.co/4YCY41V/A0-F9420-E-AFD3-4-EA5-B0-A9-9534-AB4-E0702.jpg

    https://i.ibb.co/Xyq4Wsz/AEC0-C0-D4-3-E10-497-F-A1-B7-EA641-BD0-EEA4.jpg

    https://i.ibb.co/KG8t9t6/BC45-A9-B6-17-E4-4660-8-D76-8-E796703359-F.jpg

    Replies: @Kylie

  135. @Pixo
    @PhysicistDave

    Same old pattern: Ukraine liberates large areas, Russia’s counteroffensive consists of shelling a small rustbelt city for months and then occupying the depopulated rubble.

    https://static01.nyt.com/images/2022/02/25/us/ukraine-maps-promo-1645801007862/ukraine-maps-promo-1645801007862-videoSixteenByNine3000-v6.jpg

    Back on the topic of blacks, if we want to divide humankind into three races based on genetic distance, they wouldn’t be white black and yellow, but Khoe-San, African Pygmies, and Everyone Else.

    Very interesting and accessible paper covering a lot of African genetic issues like this:

    https://academic.oup.com/gbe/article/15/4/evad054/7092825

    The San in fact are almost an archaic lineage that never went fully extinct. They diverged as long as 300k years ago from other human lines, while Neanderthals are as little as 500k in their divergence.

    The paper also gets into black admixture in mixed Western Hemisphere and North African populations, European and Arab genes being introduced into North and Sub-Saharan (back to Africa), and possible functional ghost genes in Africans.

    Replies: @Colin Wright, @Mactoul, @PhysicistDave, @res, @Muggles

    Back on the topic of blacks, if we want to divide humankind into three races based on genetic distance, they wouldn’t be white black and yellow, but Khoe-San, African Pygmies, and Everyone Else.

    That’s a stretch.

    Neanderthals and Denisovans are still among us, though pretty well diluted. Especially in Northern Europeans and some central Asians. Denisovans in south Asia and more remote south east Pacific islanders. Not much of that DNA though.

    They originally probably pre date those Khoe-San and Pygmies.

    I have wondered if the fairly small DNA contribution of Neanderthal DNA in Northern European moderns can be partly responsible for the political/intellectual dominance of this small group today? Certainly a heartiness and perhaps aggressiveness that others may lack. Also a kind of intellectual cunning to seek out other lands to occupy. Of course the Cro-Mags did wipe out their purebreds.

    Africans have no Neadderthal inherited genes. Nor do most Asians.

    Fred Flintstone is our racial archetype!

    Yaba Daba Doo!

  136. Pixo says:

    “ I have wondered if the fairly small DNA contribution of Neanderthal DNA in Northern European moderns can be partly responsible for the political/intellectual dominance of this small group today?”

    North and South Europeans have about the same amount of Neanderthal DNA (N-DNA).

    One article I found fairly convincing said that because of “purifying” evolution N-DNA is less likely to be functional. So 2.5% of our genome but maybe 1% of our genes that do anything.

    Modern Northern European as we think of them only came into existence in the past 8,000 years or so. That’s way after Neanderthal went extinct, about 40,000 years ago.

    • Replies: @Curle
    @Pixo

    https://newsroom.uw.edu/story/human-neanderthal-gene-variance-involved-autism

  137. Pixo says:
    @PhysicistDave
    @Pixo

    Our little Penis-Piano-Player worshiper Pixo wrote to me:


    Same old pattern: Ukraine liberates large areas, Russia’s counteroffensive consists of shelling a small rustbelt city for months and then occupying the depopulated rubble.
     
    I don't think Russia really controlled most of the area in blue on your map.

    In any case, it does not matter.

    As anyone familiar with military history knows, you do not win a war simply by conquering territory.

    At the end of WW I, the Allies did not control any part of Germany. German troops still occupied some Allied territory.

    But Germany lost.

    As I keep saying, again and again, you win a war not simply by seizing territory but rather by creating a situation in which the other side is either unwilling or unable to continue fighting.

    Given the dramatic imbalance in the correlation of forces between the puppet regime in Kiev and the Russian Federation, the only way Kiev can win is:

    A) Russia gives up.

    B) The US and its Occupied Nations become open belligerents -- boots on the ground.

    If the US ruling overclass had not stated, again and again, that this proxy war is intended to destroy Russia, maybe Russia would have indeed just given up.

    However, the Russian people now know this is an existential war for the survival of Russia, thanks to the reckless public statements of the US ruling elite.

    Do you think the Russians will give up when Russia's existence is at stake?

    Yes, this is a horrible war. Just maybe the US Deep State should not have orchestrated the coup against the democratically elected government of Ukraine in 2014. Just maybe the West should not have sabotaged the Minsk Accords, which offered a chance at peace (Merkel and Hollande have both confessed that those Accords were intended to be a sham). Just maybe the US Deep State should not have armed, funded, and encouraged the puppet regime in Kiev in its war against the Donbass.

    And, most of all, just maybe the US ruling elite should not have declared that the goal is to destroy Russia.

    But the evil perverted monsters who illegally occupy the seat of the US government, in violation of the US Constitution, did do all of that.

    And so now Ukraine suffers horribly. Until the US Deep State decides to allow peace, which may not happen until Russia conquers all of Ukraine.

    There must be a negotiated peace based on the principle of the self-determination of peoples enshrined in Article 1 of the UN Charter applied to the peoples of the Donbass.

    So that the mass murder can stop.

    Replies: @Pixo

    “ However, the Russian people now know this is an existential war for the survival of Russia”

    What an intensely retarded statement.

    Russia lost the war the day it began because it was imprudent with little to gain and a lot to lose. It ruined its relationship with Europe and America, achieved an expanded NATO to Finland and Sweden, and showed the world how pathetic its military is in every single way. Poor commanders, poor soldiers, poor weaponry.

    How shocking was it Russia couldn’t achieve air superiority on its own border, or even take Kharkiv, with the element of surprise, only 30 miles from its border.

    Russia also lost in that it lost most of its friends on the right, like Trump and BoJo, leaving only lonely freakshows like you on its side.

    • Agree: Art Deco
    • Replies: @Malcolm (Section 9, Department 17)
    @Pixo


    Russia lost the war the day it began because it was imprudent with little to gain and a lot to lose. It ruined its relationship with Europe and America, achieved an expanded NATO to Finland and Sweden, and showed the world how pathetic its military is in every single way. Poor commanders, poor soldiers, poor weaponry.
     
    Funny, the four-star head of of United States European Command, General Christoper Cavoli, said just the opposite three weeks ago.

    But whatever, you sound more glib in your assessment so I’m sure you’re right and not him.
    , @Colin Wright
    @Pixo


    '...Russia lost the war the day it began because it was imprudent with little to gain and a lot to lose. It ruined its relationship with Europe and America, achieved an expanded NATO to Finland and Sweden, and showed the world how pathetic its military is in every single way. Poor commanders, poor soldiers, poor weaponry...'
     
    Yeah; but hindsight is twenty/twenty. The idea was fairly obviously that it was 1968, and the Ukraine would play Czechoslovakia to Putin's Warsaw Pact. Russia invaded with a force that was grossly inadequate to meet any concerted opposition -- which it did meet.

    But that didn't work out -- and now here we are, with one of history's tackier wars -- all round. A pox on all our houses.
    , @J.Ross
    @Pixo

    You don't sound very familiar with that relationship, part of the reason the sanctions accomplished nothing was that we had already been sanctioning Russia for no reason over years and years. Meanwhile the rest of the world took the hint about the aging warlord losimg his mind -- and dropped the dollar.

    Replies: @Pixo

    , @PhysicistDave
    @Pixo

    Our dirty old pervert Pixo wrote to me:


    [Dave]“ However, the Russian people now know this is an existential war for the survival of Russia”

    [The Perv] What an intensely retarded statement.

    Russia lost the war the day it began because it was imprudent with little to gain and a lot to lose. It ruined its relationship with Europe and America...
     
    And that is a bad thing because...?

    You just don't get it, perv. No sane person really wants a relationship anymore with what the United States has become or with its Occupied Countries in Europe.

    The ruling class in the United State is sexually mutilating children who are confused about their "gender."

    I know it is hard for a perv like you to believe, but normal human beings are sickened by that.

    And then there is the contempt you yourself express towards adolescent girls:

    You think it’s good for a boy to graduate HS without ever touching a beer or beaver? Not me.

    I will be disappointed if my sons turn out that way.
     
    I know you think that is perfectly normal. And In today's America, maybe it is.

    But no sane father with daughters wants his girls to grow up in a country that takes it for granted that girls should be reduced to their sexual organs and thought of as sex toys for adolescent boys, as you expressed in the quote I just gave.

    And the US and its Captive Nations have deindustrialized: the world does not want you or need you economically. The West's economies consist of the equivalent of making a living by taking in each other's laundry.

    It is failing.

    You are a loser, a useless human parasite.

    The rest of the human race does not value you or the Deep State to which you you so meekly kowtow.

    The perv also wrote:

    Russia also lost in that it lost most of its friends on the right, like Trump and BoJo, leaving only lonely freakshows like you on its side.
     
    You really, truly do not see BoJo as a freak????

    And Trump will still be friendly to Russia if he gets back in, not that it matters.

    The "American Century" is over, kaput.

    The Heartland, Mackinder's "World Island," has triumphed.

    It's over, perv.

    The only remaining question is whether the loyal Americans can retake our country from the traitors and pervs like you and re-create a normal, decent life here in America.

    The Deep State will die. Will they take us down with it? Or can we restore the American Republic and eliminate traitors and pervs like you?
    , @cool daddy jimbo
    @Pixo


    Russia also lost in that it lost most of its friends on the right, like Trump and BoJo,
     
    Bon Jovi?
  138. @Bernie
    @Mike Tre

    I am cheering for the Hispanics. Much less racist than the blacks.

    Replies: @Marko

    No. They both equally hate Whites, and will discriminate against them when the opportunity presents itself.

    • Replies: @Colin Wright
    @Marko


    'No. They both equally hate Whites, and will discriminate against them when the opportunity presents itself.'
     
    You're more wrong than right. Deep down inside every Hispanic is a lower-middle class white, struggling to get out.

    The only real problem is that there're so many of them.
    , @Rocko
    @Marko

    I don't hate you. I just disdain you for being a lazy piece of shit. You would rather comment here than get your gringos in line. No wonder we are replacing you and the negros.

  139. @Pixo
    @PhysicistDave

    “ However, the Russian people now know this is an existential war for the survival of Russia”

    What an intensely retarded statement.

    Russia lost the war the day it began because it was imprudent with little to gain and a lot to lose. It ruined its relationship with Europe and America, achieved an expanded NATO to Finland and Sweden, and showed the world how pathetic its military is in every single way. Poor commanders, poor soldiers, poor weaponry.

    How shocking was it Russia couldn’t achieve air superiority on its own border, or even take Kharkiv, with the element of surprise, only 30 miles from its border.

    Russia also lost in that it lost most of its friends on the right, like Trump and BoJo, leaving only lonely freakshows like you on its side.

    Replies: @Malcolm (Section 9, Department 17), @Colin Wright, @J.Ross, @PhysicistDave, @cool daddy jimbo

    Russia lost the war the day it began because it was imprudent with little to gain and a lot to lose. It ruined its relationship with Europe and America, achieved an expanded NATO to Finland and Sweden, and showed the world how pathetic its military is in every single way. Poor commanders, poor soldiers, poor weaponry.

    Funny, the four-star head of of United States European Command, General Christoper Cavoli, said just the opposite three weeks ago.

    But whatever, you sound more glib in your assessment so I’m sure you’re right and not him.

  140. @Kylie
    @Stan Adams

    Lol! Brilliant! Thanks! Taking screenshots.

    Generally I dislike people making this type of request. It's as if they think whatever they're requesting comes off an assembly line.

    But ever since your late night Whiskey rant, I knew you, with your particular kind of creativity, would find a request inspiring, not daunting.

    Replies: @Stan Adams, @Stan Adams, @Stan Adams

    A few more:

    [MORE]

  141. @Kylie
    @Stan Adams

    Lol! Brilliant! Thanks! Taking screenshots.

    Generally I dislike people making this type of request. It's as if they think whatever they're requesting comes off an assembly line.

    But ever since your late night Whiskey rant, I knew you, with your particular kind of creativity, would find a request inspiring, not daunting.

    Replies: @Stan Adams, @Stan Adams, @Stan Adams

    One more for the road:

    [MORE]

  142. @clifford brown

    “It’s like Game of Thrones. We have to keep this power, we have to keep the little bit that we have, which is all we have,” said Nina Childs, a Black local activist and filmmaker. “And we’re not giving it up.”
     
    A HBO series about the political machinations between Blacks and Latinos in Compton politics would likely make for interesting and racially diverse programming. Of course, the HBO audience of high brow Whites, Blacks and Latinos are not particularly interested in the real world scrum of multiracial working class politics.

    Replies: @fredyetagain aka superhonky, @njguy73

    How about an HBO series about a declining industrial city focusing on Black drug dealers, White cops, and the failing school system?

    (Pause)

    Nah, it’ll never catch on.

  143. @Kylie
    @Stan Adams

    Lol! Brilliant! Thanks! Taking screenshots.

    Generally I dislike people making this type of request. It's as if they think whatever they're requesting comes off an assembly line.

    But ever since your late night Whiskey rant, I knew you, with your particular kind of creativity, would find a request inspiring, not daunting.

    Replies: @Stan Adams, @Stan Adams, @Stan Adams

    I never did know when to quit:

    [MORE]

    • Replies: @Kylie
    @Stan Adams

    LOL!!!

    These really are brilliant! Admittedly, Hazmat and Markle are inspirational but you have entered a new realm here. Well done!

    Have you read Spare? (I have but of course, at no monetary cost to myself, found a link to read it for free.). He really does go on and on about his "todger". Unbelievable--until one recalls his father fantasized about being a sanitary product.

    Thanks a million!

    Replies: @Stan Adams

  144. @John Rohan

    In 2021, during the city’s last mayoral election, Latinos made up an estimated 38 percent of votes cast despite being 50 percent of registered voters
     
    Maybe that's because California's automatic voter registration picked up a lot of illegal immigrants, many of which don't even know they are registered? Or don't want to risk breaking the law by casting a vote?

    Replies: @Colin Wright

    ‘Maybe that’s because California’s automatic voter registration picked up a lot of illegal immigrants, many of which don’t even know they are registered? Or don’t want to risk breaking the law by casting a vote?

    That’s exactly what happens.

  145. @Pixo
    @PhysicistDave

    “ However, the Russian people now know this is an existential war for the survival of Russia”

    What an intensely retarded statement.

    Russia lost the war the day it began because it was imprudent with little to gain and a lot to lose. It ruined its relationship with Europe and America, achieved an expanded NATO to Finland and Sweden, and showed the world how pathetic its military is in every single way. Poor commanders, poor soldiers, poor weaponry.

    How shocking was it Russia couldn’t achieve air superiority on its own border, or even take Kharkiv, with the element of surprise, only 30 miles from its border.

    Russia also lost in that it lost most of its friends on the right, like Trump and BoJo, leaving only lonely freakshows like you on its side.

    Replies: @Malcolm (Section 9, Department 17), @Colin Wright, @J.Ross, @PhysicistDave, @cool daddy jimbo

    ‘…Russia lost the war the day it began because it was imprudent with little to gain and a lot to lose. It ruined its relationship with Europe and America, achieved an expanded NATO to Finland and Sweden, and showed the world how pathetic its military is in every single way. Poor commanders, poor soldiers, poor weaponry…’

    Yeah; but hindsight is twenty/twenty. The idea was fairly obviously that it was 1968, and the Ukraine would play Czechoslovakia to Putin’s Warsaw Pact. Russia invaded with a force that was grossly inadequate to meet any concerted opposition — which it did meet.

    But that didn’t work out — and now here we are, with one of history’s tackier wars — all round. A pox on all our houses.

  146. @Marko
    @Bernie

    No. They both equally hate Whites, and will discriminate against them when the opportunity presents itself.

    Replies: @Colin Wright, @Rocko

    ‘No. They both equally hate Whites, and will discriminate against them when the opportunity presents itself.’

    You’re more wrong than right. Deep down inside every Hispanic is a lower-middle class white, struggling to get out.

    The only real problem is that there’re so many of them.

  147. @Corvinus
    @Citizen of a Silly Country

    “How’s that colorblind civic nationalism working out for you, Steve?”

    It has its ups and downs. Always has. Always will. But Gen Z has bought into it. And you can’t stop it.

    Replies: @pyrrhus, @Art Deco, @Charles Erwin Wilson

    “How’s that colorblind civic nationalism working out for you, Steve?”

    It has its ups and downs. Always has. Always will. But Gen Z has bought into it. And you can’t stop it.

    Citing Gen Z collectively, sans data, is unpersuasive. But you always revert to type, don’t you Corvinus? The Angel of Light appreciates your service.

    And you do this knowing that you will swim in the lake. It sucks to be you.

    • Replies: @Corvinus
    @Charles Erwin Wilson

    You’re already dead in the water.

  148. @PhysicistDave
    @Colin Wright

    Colin Wright wrote to me:


    [Dave] Sure: it is obvious that HA is an enemy alien.

    But it does not occur to most people here that Jack D might well be lying about being an attorney, that Corvinus could conceivably be in jail serving a life sentence, that Pixo could possibly be a convicted pedophile, or whatever…’

    [CW] But the only one of these I have even the most qualified respect for would be JackD. The rest could be anything at all — it wouldn’t necessarily affect my opinion of them. But the only one of these I have even the most qualified respect for would be JackD. The rest could be anything at all — it wouldn’t necessarily affect my opinion of them.
     
    Well, of course aside from HA, who is obviously not an American and, as far as I know, has never claimed to be, I was just giving hypotheticals to illustrate how little we know about people we "know" on the Web.

    You, for example, have given some background about yourself (and of course your name) that sounds plausible; I am inclined to believe it because I cannot think of any reason you would invent the background you claimed.

    I claim to be a physicist named Dave Miller who lives in Sacramento and who has a Ph.D. from Stanford: on another thread one of the commenters found my Stanford Ph.D. thesis on the Web, and, with a bit of effort, anyone can find the patents on which I am co-inventor that use Galois-field theory for error-correction coding. Conceivably, I have gone to a lot of trouble to impersonate the real Dave Miller, but that does not make much sense: I am not so exciting as to be worth impersonating! It is reasonable to think I am for real.

    But it becomes especially problematic for someone like Jack D who claims to have a significant profession as an attorney in America, but who does not give his name, so we cannot check his claim. And, Jack has claimed that the USA did not exist before the Constitution: any American of normal intelligence who took civics or US history would know that is false. And a real attorney should know at least the very basics of American legal history, of which this fact is at the center.

    So, on the face of it, Jack D is lying: Jack D appears, prima facie, to be a fraud.

    It's hard to see how that could not be true.

    I've never been able to get Jack to address his bizarre ignorance of the American legal order: I think it is pretty clear why.

    Anyway, the general point stands. By the way, the sci-fi writer Vernor Vinge wrote a novella, True Names, anticipating this phenomenon of false cyberspace identities (and a lot more), way back in 1981. I suspect that this is and will continue to be a bigger problem than the supposed dangers of high-power AIs.

    Replies: @Art Deco, @Mark G.

    Well, of course aside from HA, who is obviously not an American and, as far as I know, has never claimed to be, I was just giving hypotheticals to illustrate how little we know about people we “know” on the Web.

    I agree it is fairly likely HA is not a native of this country. While his English is good, he uses some grammatical constructions not common among Americans. His extreme pro-Ukraine stance may involve ethnic hostility to Russia.

    There is another factor involved here, though. I think there is an authoritarian personality type, and he is an extreme example of that. During the Covid epidemic he was an ardent supporter of mandatory lockdowns, vaccinations and mask wearing. When I tried to make the moral case to him for not forcing someone to get a vaccination they don’t want I was met with extreme hostility and sneering insults such as I was “afraid of needles”. He is also hostile to marijuana use and I wouldn’t be surprised if he wanted to bring back Prohibition, except this time replacing alcohol with marijuana.

    His indifference to the authoritarianism of Zelensky also extends to an indifference to the authoritarianism of a medieval theocracy and its ally, the kings of Europe. The 18th century Enlightenment era and its product, the American Revolution, was a rebellion against that so he would not be supportive of our traditional American political system with its belief in the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for everyone.

    • Replies: @PhysicistDave
    @Mark G.

    Mark G. wrote to me:


    I agree it is fairly likely HA is not a native of this country. While his English is good, he uses some grammatical constructions not common among Americans. His extreme pro-Ukraine stance may involve ethnic hostility to Russia.

    There is another factor involved here, though. I think there is an authoritarian personality type, and he is an extreme example of that.
     
    Yeah. I was really shocked early in the Ukraine conflict to see how eagerly HAsbara engaged in bizarre -- and obviously and bizarrely false -- ad hominem attacks against anyone who disagreed with him.

    I occasionally, for example, disagree with Twinkie, but Twinkie is a nice guy, and so I try to interact with him as I would with a neighbor.

    But I decided with HA to follow the "Silver Rule": do unto others as they do unto others. AKA "tit for tat."

    So, I have been honing my skill at ad hominem attacks by using HA as a punching bag.

    It has been... cathartic.

    I recommend it to everyone. Pile on to HA: he has it coming!

    After all, as the old saying goes, turnabout is always fair play!
  149. @Corvinus
    @Hypnotoad666

    “Just when they get to be the majority, the crime rate explodes. Black people just can’t catch a break.”

    Let’s offer some context through the lens of how and why gangs formed in this iconic city, which indeed led to perverse levels of violence.

    https://www.streetgangs.com/crips/blackstreetgangs/#sthash.di1j81lp.dpbs

    —Several of the first black clubs to emerge in the late 1940s and early 1950s formed initially as a defensive reaction to combat much of the white violence that had been plaguing the black community for several years. In the surrounding communities of the original black ghetto of Central Avenue and Watts, and in the cities of Huntington Park and South Gate, white Angelenos were developing a dissatisfaction for the growing black population that was migrating from the South during WWII. During the 1940s, resentment from the white community grew as several blacks challenged the legal housing discrimination laws that prevented them from purchasing property outside the original settlement neighborhoods and integrate into the public schools. Areas outside of the original black settlement of Los Angeles were neighborhoods covered by legally enforced, racially restrictive covenants or deed restrictions. This practice, adapted by white homeowners, was established in 1922 and was designed to maintain social and racial homogeneity of neighborhoods by denying non-whites access to property ownership.—

    —In Huntington Park, Bell, and South Gate, towns that were predominately white, teenagers formed some of the early street clubs during the 1940s. One of the most infamous clubs of that time was the Spook Hunters, a group of white teenagers that often attacked black youths. If blacks were seen outside of the black settlement area, which was roughly bounded by Slauson to the South, Alameda Avenue to the east, and Main[5] Street to the west, they were often attacked. The name of this club emphasized their racist attitude towards blacks, as Spook Hunters is a derogatory term used to identify blacks and ?Hunters? highlighted their desire to attack blacks as their method of fighting integration and promoting residential segregation. Their animosity towards blacks was publicly known; the back of their club jackets displayed an animated black face with exaggerated facial features and a noose hanging around the neck. The Spook Hunters would often cross Alameda traveling west to violently attack black youths from the area. In Thrasher’s study of Chicago gangs, he observed a similar white gang in Chicago during the 1920s, the Dirty Dozens, who often attacked black youths with knives, blackjacks, and revolvers because of racial differences (Thrasher 1963:37). Raymond Wright was one of the founders of a black club called the Businessmen, a large East side club based at South Park between Slauson Avenue and Vernon Avenue. He stated that, “you couldn’t pass Alameda, because those white boys in South Gate would set you on fire,?[6] and fear of attack among black youths was not, surprisingly, common. In 1941, white students at Fremont High School threatened blacks by burning them in effigy and displaying posters saying, “we want no ni##ers at this school” (Bunch 1990: 118). There were racial confrontations at Manual Arts High School on Vermont and 42nd Street, and at Adams High School during the 1940s (Davis 1990:293). In 1943, conflicts between blacks and whites occurred at 5th and San Pedro Streets, resulting in a riot on Central Avenue (Bunch 1990:118). white clubs in Inglewood, Gardena, and on the West side engaged in similar acts, but the Spook Hunters were the most violent of all white clubs in Los Angeles.—

    Of course, there are white gangs in the U.S., but why would Mr. Sailer want to NOTICE that.

    https://amp.theguardian.com/society/2018/apr/05/white-gangs-rise-simon-city-royals-mississippi-chicago

    Replies: @Cool Daddy Jimbo, @ATBOTL, @Lime and Dime, @Curle

    “This practice, adapted by white homeowners, was established in 1922 and was designed to maintain social and racial homogeneity of neighborhoods by denying non-whites access to property ownership.—”

    They left out lower crime and lower property values among things the gang sought to avoid.

    • Replies: @Corvinus
    @Curle

    “They left out lower crime and lower property values among things the gang sought to avoid”

    By employing extralegal means through the threat of force or the use of force. The ends don’t justify the means. Why don’t you get your neighborhood pals to put violent pressure on those undesirables to leave?

  150. @Stan Adams
    @Kylie

    Let me see what I can do here:



    https://i.ibb.co/kmQ3nRJ/IMG-1161.jpg

    https://i.ibb.co/y82Rnkd/IMG-1152.jpg

    https://i.ibb.co/9q69CcT/IMG-1156.jpg

    https://i.ibb.co/ZN8VyBJ/IMG-1162.jpg

    https://i.ibb.co/x6cPdD4/IMG-1155.jpg

    Replies: @Kylie, @Ralph L

    If you do reddit, there’s
    https://www.reddit.com/r/SaintMeghanMarkle

    They’d love it if you posted it there.

    • Agree: Kylie
    • Replies: @Ralph L
    @Ralph L

    Delete the xxx on that link. It isn't NSFW.
    The people who run reddit have been trying to restrict or censor the anti-Meghan sub.

    , @Stan Adams
    @Ralph L

    I don’t do Reddit, but thanks for the link.

  151. @Pixo
    @PhysicistDave

    “ However, the Russian people now know this is an existential war for the survival of Russia”

    What an intensely retarded statement.

    Russia lost the war the day it began because it was imprudent with little to gain and a lot to lose. It ruined its relationship with Europe and America, achieved an expanded NATO to Finland and Sweden, and showed the world how pathetic its military is in every single way. Poor commanders, poor soldiers, poor weaponry.

    How shocking was it Russia couldn’t achieve air superiority on its own border, or even take Kharkiv, with the element of surprise, only 30 miles from its border.

    Russia also lost in that it lost most of its friends on the right, like Trump and BoJo, leaving only lonely freakshows like you on its side.

    Replies: @Malcolm (Section 9, Department 17), @Colin Wright, @J.Ross, @PhysicistDave, @cool daddy jimbo

    You don’t sound very familiar with that relationship, part of the reason the sanctions accomplished nothing was that we had already been sanctioning Russia for no reason over years and years. Meanwhile the rest of the world took the hint about the aging warlord losimg his mind — and dropped the dollar.

    • Replies: @Pixo
    @J.Ross

    Nobody has “dropped the dollar.” All fake news. Also, the Chinese have their currency pegged to the dollar so even if people switched to the yuan they’d still be pegged to the dollar, which China has to maintain by… transactions in dollars.

    The sanctions are certainly hurting Russia. Russia is muddling through in large part because it had a huge rainy day fund, very low national debt, a stockpile of precious metals, and its exports are undifferentiated commodities that are tougher to sanction.

    I would agree a lot of Western sources overstated how much Russia’s economy would suffer from sanctions back in early 2022. But they still are having a recession deeper than any the USA has had since the Great Depression.

    Replies: @PhysicistDave

  152. Blacks replace whites. Latinos replace blacks. What goes around, comes around.

  153. @PhysicistDave
    @Art Deco

    Art Deco wrote to me:


    [Dave] And, Jack has claimed that the USA did not exist before the Constitution: any American of normal intelligence who took civics or US history would know that is false.
    ==
    [AD}That assertion is a commonplace among adherents to a certain sort of historiography. Jonathan Rowe peddles it.
     
    Well, if they claim what you say, they are either pathological liars or illiterates.

    The historical record is absolutely open and shut and is learned by all Americans I know of in US history and civics classes. The Articles of Confederation, for example, start off:

    Article I. The Stile of this confederacy shall be, “The United States of America.”
     
    Since the Articles of Confederation obviously antedated the 1787 Constitution by some years, to claim that the USA did not exist prior to the 1787 Constitution really is a sign of extreme ignorance... or perhaps serious mental illness.

    To put it bluntly, this bizarre claim is as insane as claiming that France attacked Pearl Harbor or Stalin was the leader of Nazi Germany.

    Some things really are just insane.

    What you suggest merely raises the question of whether this "Jonathan Rowe" is also not what he claims to be.

    And, yes, I know that con artists like Jack D can argue that the sky is not blue but just a very unusual shade of green, and that the earth is not round because a perfect sphere would not have mountains and, after all, it all depends on what the meaning of the word "is" is.

    And, yes, I am clever enough that I could create a bullshit argument trying to back up Jack's claim.

    But, still... if I did, I would be lying.

    Eppur si muove.

    Jack D is a fraud.

    Replies: @quewin, @Curle

    “Since the Articles of Confederation obviously antedated the 1787 Constitution by some years, to claim that the USA did not exist prior to the 1787 Constitution really is a sign of extreme ignorance… or perhaps serious mental illness.”

    You are correct, of course, but here is what I think is going on. I believe the comment is intended to sustain the historical fiction that the United States under the Constitution was formed as an organic state with organic powers to which it could not be deprived. This error posits that the constitutional confederacy/union was different in this regard from the earlier confederacy under the Articles and that its authority over each state was not dependent on the acquiescence of those states as was the case with the Articles. There is, of course, nothing in the constitution to permit such an interpretation and Jus. Story’s alleged location of such authority in the preamble constitutes probably the greatest legal error in American history assuming that was Story’s intention (a matter not particularly clear). Nevertheless, it suited Lincoln’s purposes to assign Story such an intent and I suspect persons making the claim you object to are simply perpetuating this error. They are, in essence, making a distinction between a confederacy and an organic state. I cannot stress enough that this distinction is an false one.

    • Replies: @PhysicistDave
    @Curle

    Curle wrote to me:


    You are correct, of course, but here is what I think is going on. I believe the comment is intended to sustain the historical fiction that the United States under the Constitution was formed as an organic state with organic powers to which it could not be deprived.
     
    Well, you raise an interesting point.

    I myself prefer the Articles of Confederation to the 1787 Constitution, though I would of course be satisfied to actually have a government that followed the Constitution.

    However, I think you far over-estimate Jack D's intelligence. If that had been his point, he would, as you note, still be mistaken.

    But I think, based on his past behavior, that Jack D is simply ignorant of the most basic facts of US history.

    Jack D is a fraud.
  154. @Dragoslav
    @Altai3

    “We’ve displaced you spatially and socially against your will, now let us finish the job and displace you politically”

    It's called karma. They displaced whites and now...

    Replies: @anonymouseperson, @RadicalCenter

    California was more then 80% white as late as 1970. Sad what has been lost. Watch some old tv shows set there in the sixties and seventies. Such a different (better) world.

  155. @Pixo
    “ I have wondered if the fairly small DNA contribution of Neanderthal DNA in Northern European moderns can be partly responsible for the political/intellectual dominance of this small group today?”

    North and South Europeans have about the same amount of Neanderthal DNA (N-DNA).

    One article I found fairly convincing said that because of “purifying” evolution N-DNA is less likely to be functional. So 2.5% of our genome but maybe 1% of our genes that do anything.

    Modern Northern European as we think of them only came into existence in the past 8,000 years or so. That’s way after Neanderthal went extinct, about 40,000 years ago.

    Replies: @Curle

  156. …while clashing over the need for Spanish-speaking government workers.

    “Need”? Does Compton get that many Mexican tourists?

  157. @Ralph L
    @Stan Adams

    If you do reddit, there's
    https://www.reddit.com/r/SaintMeghanMarkle

    They'd love it if you posted it there.

    Replies: @Ralph L, @Stan Adams

    Delete the xxx on that link. It isn’t NSFW.
    The people who run reddit have been trying to restrict or censor the anti-Meghan sub.

  158. @Ralph L
    @Stan Adams

    If you do reddit, there's
    https://www.reddit.com/r/SaintMeghanMarkle

    They'd love it if you posted it there.

    Replies: @Ralph L, @Stan Adams

    I don’t do Reddit, but thanks for the link.

  159. Pixo says:
    @J.Ross
    @Pixo

    You don't sound very familiar with that relationship, part of the reason the sanctions accomplished nothing was that we had already been sanctioning Russia for no reason over years and years. Meanwhile the rest of the world took the hint about the aging warlord losimg his mind -- and dropped the dollar.

    Replies: @Pixo

    Nobody has “dropped the dollar.” All fake news. Also, the Chinese have their currency pegged to the dollar so even if people switched to the yuan they’d still be pegged to the dollar, which China has to maintain by… transactions in dollars.

    The sanctions are certainly hurting Russia. Russia is muddling through in large part because it had a huge rainy day fund, very low national debt, a stockpile of precious metals, and its exports are undifferentiated commodities that are tougher to sanction.

    I would agree a lot of Western sources overstated how much Russia’s economy would suffer from sanctions back in early 2022. But they still are having a recession deeper than any the USA has had since the Great Depression.

    • Troll: PhysicistDave
    • Replies: @PhysicistDave
    @Pixo

    Our dirty old pervert Pixo wrote to J.Ross:


    I would agree a lot of Western sources overstated how much Russia’s economy would suffer from sanctions back in early 2022. But they still are having a recession deeper than any the USA has had since the Great Depression.
     
    You seem to be a complete ignoramus when it comes to economics.

    Didn't you see the IMF data that I posted from the pro-Kiev UK Spectator? See here:

    The West embarked on its sanctions war with an exaggerated sense of its own influence around the world. As we have discovered, non-western countries lack the will to impose sanctions on either Russia or on Russian oligarchs. The results of the miscalculation are there for all to see. In April last year, the IMF forecast that the Russian economy would contract by 8.5 per cent in 2022 and by a further 2.3 per cent this year. As it turned out, GDP fell by just 2.1 per cent last year, and this year the IMF is forecasting a small rise of 0.7 per cent. And that is all in spite of the war in Ukraine going much more badly than many imagined it would in February of last year. The Russian economy has not been destroyed; it has merely been reconfigured, reorientated to look eastwards and southwards rather than westwards.
     
    The IMF estimates correspond to no recession at all for this year. And a very modest recession for last year.

    Not nearly as bad as what the US suffered during the Great Recession (-5.1 %), not to mention the Covid disaster (-19.2%).

    Now, of course, I know that you know enormously more economics than the IMF! So, let's put their figures aside, even though anecdotal evidence backs up their numbers.

    You have made clear that you are a traitor to the United States. So, I know you have trouble grasping that people will accept economic hardship far, far greater than what Russia has suffered, indeed far, far greater than what the US suffered during the Great Depression in order to save their country.

    How do I know that? Because the Russians themselves did accept incalculable hardships during WW II.

    And the ruling US elite has made very explicit that the survival of Russia is what is at stake.

    This is WW III, with the US Deep State using the Ukrainians as dupes of the Deep State neocons to fight a proxy war against Russia.

    The Russians are not fighting for Vladimir Putin.

    They are fighting to save their country from a Satanic regime that sexually mutilates its own children who are confused about their "gender."

    And they know it.

    Any decent human beings will risk, as our Founders put it, their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to save their country from the evil perverts who control the United States of America.

    From people like you.

    Replies: @Pixo

  160. @quewin
    @PhysicistDave

    Given his claims to be a Jew, do you think he’s simply a troll or exhibiting the usual Ashkepathy?

    Replies: @PhysicistDave

    quewin wrote to me:

    Given [Jack D] claims to be a Jew, do you think he’s simply a troll or exhibiting the usual Ashkepathy?

    The one time I recall Jack really losing his cool and getting angry at me was when I pointed out that the ancient Jews seem to have invented the idea of mass murder against people who hold the wrong religious views… and when I gave examples from the Hebrew Bible backing it up.

    I always try to be careful to point out that contemporary Jews are not responsible for the psychopathic evils of their ancestors, unless of course they celebrate or emulate those genocidal policies their ancestors celebrated.

    There are, as I have said, many times, “Righteous Jews” who eschew the evil aspects of Judaism.

    And I have also been brutally outspoken in attacking the millennium-long Reign of Terror that Christianity imposed on Europe from the latter centuries of the Roman Empire through to early modern times.

    So, I do not just pick on Judaism.

    But it is the one thing that caused Jack D to go ballistic.

    So, yeah, I think Jack D really is a Jew. And not at all a Righteous Jews. His sense of humanity is, well, simply lacking.

  161. @Pixo
    @J.Ross

    Nobody has “dropped the dollar.” All fake news. Also, the Chinese have their currency pegged to the dollar so even if people switched to the yuan they’d still be pegged to the dollar, which China has to maintain by… transactions in dollars.

    The sanctions are certainly hurting Russia. Russia is muddling through in large part because it had a huge rainy day fund, very low national debt, a stockpile of precious metals, and its exports are undifferentiated commodities that are tougher to sanction.

    I would agree a lot of Western sources overstated how much Russia’s economy would suffer from sanctions back in early 2022. But they still are having a recession deeper than any the USA has had since the Great Depression.

    Replies: @PhysicistDave

    Our dirty old pervert Pixo wrote to J.Ross:

    I would agree a lot of Western sources overstated how much Russia’s economy would suffer from sanctions back in early 2022. But they still are having a recession deeper than any the USA has had since the Great Depression.

    You seem to be a complete ignoramus when it comes to economics.

    Didn’t you see the IMF data that I posted from the pro-Kiev UK Spectator? See here:

    The West embarked on its sanctions war with an exaggerated sense of its own influence around the world. As we have discovered, non-western countries lack the will to impose sanctions on either Russia or on Russian oligarchs. The results of the miscalculation are there for all to see. In April last year, the IMF forecast that the Russian economy would contract by 8.5 per cent in 2022 and by a further 2.3 per cent this year. As it turned out, GDP fell by just 2.1 per cent last year, and this year the IMF is forecasting a small rise of 0.7 per cent. And that is all in spite of the war in Ukraine going much more badly than many imagined it would in February of last year. The Russian economy has not been destroyed; it has merely been reconfigured, reorientated to look eastwards and southwards rather than westwards.

    The IMF estimates correspond to no recession at all for this year. And a very modest recession for last year.

    Not nearly as bad as what the US suffered during the Great Recession (-5.1 %), not to mention the Covid disaster (-19.2%).

    Now, of course, I know that you know enormously more economics than the IMF! So, let’s put their figures aside, even though anecdotal evidence backs up their numbers.

    You have made clear that you are a traitor to the United States. So, I know you have trouble grasping that people will accept economic hardship far, far greater than what Russia has suffered, indeed far, far greater than what the US suffered during the Great Depression in order to save their country.

    How do I know that? Because the Russians themselves did accept incalculable hardships during WW II.

    And the ruling US elite has made very explicit that the survival of Russia is what is at stake.

    This is WW III, with the US Deep State using the Ukrainians as dupes of the Deep State neocons to fight a proxy war against Russia.

    The Russians are not fighting for Vladimir Putin.

    They are fighting to save their country from a Satanic regime that sexually mutilates its own children who are confused about their “gender.”

    And they know it.

    Any decent human beings will risk, as our Founders put it, their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to save their country from the evil perverts who control the United States of America.

    From people like you.

    • Replies: @Pixo
    @PhysicistDave

    “ Our dirty old pervert Pixo wrote to J.Ross”

    I am in a monogamous and productive relationship with a beautiful young white woman. Your deranged and repulsive personality caused you to fail at doing the same. Instead you ended up with a ChiCom bride with limited options, who produced children as nutso as you, who were disciplined for making frivolous accusations against their fellow college students.

    The joy of having loving sons who look like me and will continue my ancient lineage: indescribable. You seethe because you’ll never have this. Putinist copypasta isn’t going to help you with the pain of being a failure of a man.

    Replies: @PhysicistDave, @Anon

  162. @Curle
    @PhysicistDave

    “Since the Articles of Confederation obviously antedated the 1787 Constitution by some years, to claim that the USA did not exist prior to the 1787 Constitution really is a sign of extreme ignorance… or perhaps serious mental illness.”

    You are correct, of course, but here is what I think is going on. I believe the comment is intended to sustain the historical fiction that the United States under the Constitution was formed as an organic state with organic powers to which it could not be deprived. This error posits that the constitutional confederacy/union was different in this regard from the earlier confederacy under the Articles and that its authority over each state was not dependent on the acquiescence of those states as was the case with the Articles. There is, of course, nothing in the constitution to permit such an interpretation and Jus. Story’s alleged location of such authority in the preamble constitutes probably the greatest legal error in American history assuming that was Story’s intention (a matter not particularly clear). Nevertheless, it suited Lincoln’s purposes to assign Story such an intent and I suspect persons making the claim you object to are simply perpetuating this error. They are, in essence, making a distinction between a confederacy and an organic state. I cannot stress enough that this distinction is an false one.

    Replies: @PhysicistDave

    Curle wrote to me:

    You are correct, of course, but here is what I think is going on. I believe the comment is intended to sustain the historical fiction that the United States under the Constitution was formed as an organic state with organic powers to which it could not be deprived.

    Well, you raise an interesting point.

    I myself prefer the Articles of Confederation to the 1787 Constitution, though I would of course be satisfied to actually have a government that followed the Constitution.

    However, I think you far over-estimate Jack D’s intelligence. If that had been his point, he would, as you note, still be mistaken.

    But I think, based on his past behavior, that Jack D is simply ignorant of the most basic facts of US history.

    Jack D is a fraud.

  163. @Mark G.
    @PhysicistDave


    Well, of course aside from HA, who is obviously not an American and, as far as I know, has never claimed to be, I was just giving hypotheticals to illustrate how little we know about people we “know” on the Web.
     
    I agree it is fairly likely HA is not a native of this country. While his English is good, he uses some grammatical constructions not common among Americans. His extreme pro-Ukraine stance may involve ethnic hostility to Russia.

    There is another factor involved here, though. I think there is an authoritarian personality type, and he is an extreme example of that. During the Covid epidemic he was an ardent supporter of mandatory lockdowns, vaccinations and mask wearing. When I tried to make the moral case to him for not forcing someone to get a vaccination they don't want I was met with extreme hostility and sneering insults such as I was "afraid of needles". He is also hostile to marijuana use and I wouldn't be surprised if he wanted to bring back Prohibition, except this time replacing alcohol with marijuana.

    His indifference to the authoritarianism of Zelensky also extends to an indifference to the authoritarianism of a medieval theocracy and its ally, the kings of Europe. The 18th century Enlightenment era and its product, the American Revolution, was a rebellion against that so he would not be supportive of our traditional American political system with its belief in the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for everyone.

    Replies: @PhysicistDave

    Mark G. wrote to me:

    I agree it is fairly likely HA is not a native of this country. While his English is good, he uses some grammatical constructions not common among Americans. His extreme pro-Ukraine stance may involve ethnic hostility to Russia.

    There is another factor involved here, though. I think there is an authoritarian personality type, and he is an extreme example of that.

    Yeah. I was really shocked early in the Ukraine conflict to see how eagerly HAsbara engaged in bizarre — and obviously and bizarrely false — ad hominem attacks against anyone who disagreed with him.

    I occasionally, for example, disagree with Twinkie, but Twinkie is a nice guy, and so I try to interact with him as I would with a neighbor.

    But I decided with HA to follow the “Silver Rule”: do unto others as they do unto others. AKA “tit for tat.”

    So, I have been honing my skill at ad hominem attacks by using HA as a punching bag.

    It has been… cathartic.

    I recommend it to everyone. Pile on to HA: he has it coming!

    After all, as the old saying goes, turnabout is always fair play!

  164. @Pixo
    @PhysicistDave

    “ However, the Russian people now know this is an existential war for the survival of Russia”

    What an intensely retarded statement.

    Russia lost the war the day it began because it was imprudent with little to gain and a lot to lose. It ruined its relationship with Europe and America, achieved an expanded NATO to Finland and Sweden, and showed the world how pathetic its military is in every single way. Poor commanders, poor soldiers, poor weaponry.

    How shocking was it Russia couldn’t achieve air superiority on its own border, or even take Kharkiv, with the element of surprise, only 30 miles from its border.

    Russia also lost in that it lost most of its friends on the right, like Trump and BoJo, leaving only lonely freakshows like you on its side.

    Replies: @Malcolm (Section 9, Department 17), @Colin Wright, @J.Ross, @PhysicistDave, @cool daddy jimbo

    Our dirty old pervert Pixo wrote to me:

    [Dave]“ However, the Russian people now know this is an existential war for the survival of Russia”

    [The Perv] What an intensely retarded statement.

    Russia lost the war the day it began because it was imprudent with little to gain and a lot to lose. It ruined its relationship with Europe and America…

    And that is a bad thing because…?

    You just don’t get it, perv. No sane person really wants a relationship anymore with what the United States has become or with its Occupied Countries in Europe.

    The ruling class in the United State is sexually mutilating children who are confused about their “gender.”

    I know it is hard for a perv like you to believe, but normal human beings are sickened by that.

    And then there is the contempt you yourself express towards adolescent girls:

    You think it’s good for a boy to graduate HS without ever touching a beer or beaver? Not me.

    I will be disappointed if my sons turn out that way.

    I know you think that is perfectly normal. And In today’s America, maybe it is.

    But no sane father with daughters wants his girls to grow up in a country that takes it for granted that girls should be reduced to their sexual organs and thought of as sex toys for adolescent boys, as you expressed in the quote I just gave.

    And the US and its Captive Nations have deindustrialized: the world does not want you or need you economically. The West’s economies consist of the equivalent of making a living by taking in each other’s laundry.

    It is failing.

    You are a loser, a useless human parasite.

    The rest of the human race does not value you or the Deep State to which you you so meekly kowtow.

    The perv also wrote:

    Russia also lost in that it lost most of its friends on the right, like Trump and BoJo, leaving only lonely freakshows like you on its side.

    You really, truly do not see BoJo as a freak????

    And Trump will still be friendly to Russia if he gets back in, not that it matters.

    The “American Century” is over, kaput.

    The Heartland, Mackinder’s “World Island,” has triumphed.

    It’s over, perv.

    The only remaining question is whether the loyal Americans can retake our country from the traitors and pervs like you and re-create a normal, decent life here in America.

    The Deep State will die. Will they take us down with it? Or can we restore the American Republic and eliminate traitors and pervs like you?

  165. @PhysicistDave
    @Pixo

    Our dirty old pervert Pixo wrote to J.Ross:


    I would agree a lot of Western sources overstated how much Russia’s economy would suffer from sanctions back in early 2022. But they still are having a recession deeper than any the USA has had since the Great Depression.
     
    You seem to be a complete ignoramus when it comes to economics.

    Didn't you see the IMF data that I posted from the pro-Kiev UK Spectator? See here:

    The West embarked on its sanctions war with an exaggerated sense of its own influence around the world. As we have discovered, non-western countries lack the will to impose sanctions on either Russia or on Russian oligarchs. The results of the miscalculation are there for all to see. In April last year, the IMF forecast that the Russian economy would contract by 8.5 per cent in 2022 and by a further 2.3 per cent this year. As it turned out, GDP fell by just 2.1 per cent last year, and this year the IMF is forecasting a small rise of 0.7 per cent. And that is all in spite of the war in Ukraine going much more badly than many imagined it would in February of last year. The Russian economy has not been destroyed; it has merely been reconfigured, reorientated to look eastwards and southwards rather than westwards.
     
    The IMF estimates correspond to no recession at all for this year. And a very modest recession for last year.

    Not nearly as bad as what the US suffered during the Great Recession (-5.1 %), not to mention the Covid disaster (-19.2%).

    Now, of course, I know that you know enormously more economics than the IMF! So, let's put their figures aside, even though anecdotal evidence backs up their numbers.

    You have made clear that you are a traitor to the United States. So, I know you have trouble grasping that people will accept economic hardship far, far greater than what Russia has suffered, indeed far, far greater than what the US suffered during the Great Depression in order to save their country.

    How do I know that? Because the Russians themselves did accept incalculable hardships during WW II.

    And the ruling US elite has made very explicit that the survival of Russia is what is at stake.

    This is WW III, with the US Deep State using the Ukrainians as dupes of the Deep State neocons to fight a proxy war against Russia.

    The Russians are not fighting for Vladimir Putin.

    They are fighting to save their country from a Satanic regime that sexually mutilates its own children who are confused about their "gender."

    And they know it.

    Any decent human beings will risk, as our Founders put it, their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to save their country from the evil perverts who control the United States of America.

    From people like you.

    Replies: @Pixo

    “ Our dirty old pervert Pixo wrote to J.Ross”

    I am in a monogamous and productive relationship with a beautiful young white woman. Your deranged and repulsive personality caused you to fail at doing the same. Instead you ended up with a ChiCom bride with limited options, who produced children as nutso as you, who were disciplined for making frivolous accusations against their fellow college students.

    The joy of having loving sons who look like me and will continue my ancient lineage: indescribable. You seethe because you’ll never have this. Putinist copypasta isn’t going to help you with the pain of being a failure of a man.

    • Replies: @PhysicistDave
    @Pixo

    The disgusting little evil pervert Pixo wrote to me:


    Instead you ended up with a ChiCom bride with limited options, who produced children as nutso as you, who were disciplined for making frivolous accusations against their fellow college students.
     
    The criminal who assaulted my daughter confessed to multiple crimes to the police; the campus paper covered it in a front-page story.

    But the university caved to the criminal's parents who were fat-cat West LA Jewish lawyers. We assume money passed hands. The two administrators responsible did leave shortly thereafter.

    You of course are a failure at life who is unable to engage in productive work (didn't you say you were a DEI consultant?). Hopefully, your wife will come to her senses and leave you soon and take the boys with her so that they can be raised by an actual man.

    The perv also wrote:

    The joy of having loving sons who look like me and will continue my ancient lineage: indescribable. You seethe because you’ll never have this. Putinist copypasta isn’t going to help you with the pain of being a failure of a man.
     
    Your sons won't have kids; Americans are becoming sterile.

    The future belongs to Asia. Putin is systematically crushing your evil, murderous, and corrupt Deep State.

    Your economy is collapsing. Your sons will end up even poorer than you.

    I suggest, pervert, that you teach your sons how to say, "Would you like soy sauce with that?"

    In Mandarin.

    Because that is all that is left of their future.

    Most of the human race hates you and people like you and only wants to see you die.

    Replies: @Achmed E. Newman

    , @Anon
    @Pixo

    So you are in a "monogamous relationship with a beautiful young woman," and will experience "The joy of having loving sons who look like me and will continue my ancient lineage."

    That's all very fine and no argument there, but PhysicistDave referenced your age, and what might be the words and attitude of a decent man with daughters (or sons for that matter.) He had a point. If you're going to be lofty, at least use words that are congruent. There's enough dissonance around.

  166. @Dragoslav
    @Altai3

    “We’ve displaced you spatially and socially against your will, now let us finish the job and displace you politically”

    It's called karma. They displaced whites and now...

    Replies: @anonymouseperson, @RadicalCenter

    YES. Couldn’t happen to nicer people.

  167. @clifford brown
    @Jenner Ickham Errican

    I love Portlandia and Portland, Oregon prior to 2017. Portland really belies the Marxian adage "first time a tragedy, second time as a farce”. With Portlandia, we experience Portland as :"first time a farce, second time as a tragedy”.

    Replies: @Mr. Grey

    Before the last season of Portlandia, the woman’s bookstore they used for one of their famous skits revoked permission to shoot in their store. They stopped production just in time before the Left lost all it’s sense of humor.

  168. @Stan Adams
    @Kylie

    I never did know when to quit:



    https://i.ibb.co/4YCY41V/A0-F9420-E-AFD3-4-EA5-B0-A9-9534-AB4-E0702.jpg

    https://i.ibb.co/Xyq4Wsz/AEC0-C0-D4-3-E10-497-F-A1-B7-EA641-BD0-EEA4.jpg

    https://i.ibb.co/KG8t9t6/BC45-A9-B6-17-E4-4660-8-D76-8-E796703359-F.jpg

    Replies: @Kylie

    LOL!!!

    These really are brilliant! Admittedly, Hazmat and Markle are inspirational but you have entered a new realm here. Well done!

    Have you read Spare? (I have but of course, at no monetary cost to myself, found a link to read it for free.). He really does go on and on about his “todger”. Unbelievable–until one recalls his father fantasized about being a sanitary product.

    Thanks a million!

    • Replies: @Stan Adams
    @Kylie

    Honestly, I haven’t read it.

    But I just skimmed through my free copy - [cough cough] Archive.org [clears throat] - and I was amused to learn that Harry does not share his father’s love for a certain prominent English playwright.



    https://i.ibb.co/NFbJ77y/20-F66-C1-D-60-EF-43-EA-94-F7-654-EB6392-ED4.jpg

    https://i.ibb.co/f1Spfw5/036-E0-EF7-0267-4-A0-E-ABFA-C95-EEE458-B9-F.jpg

    https://i.ibb.co/hmPstCw/5-D8-A3-ED5-C0-C7-403-D-BFC4-79202-ACF7-C2-E.jpg

    https://i.ibb.co/K22bbvQ/7-EFC574-B-ED3-F-43-EC-934-D-C953-BBEE5800.jpg

  169. @Pixo
    @PhysicistDave

    “ However, the Russian people now know this is an existential war for the survival of Russia”

    What an intensely retarded statement.

    Russia lost the war the day it began because it was imprudent with little to gain and a lot to lose. It ruined its relationship with Europe and America, achieved an expanded NATO to Finland and Sweden, and showed the world how pathetic its military is in every single way. Poor commanders, poor soldiers, poor weaponry.

    How shocking was it Russia couldn’t achieve air superiority on its own border, or even take Kharkiv, with the element of surprise, only 30 miles from its border.

    Russia also lost in that it lost most of its friends on the right, like Trump and BoJo, leaving only lonely freakshows like you on its side.

    Replies: @Malcolm (Section 9, Department 17), @Colin Wright, @J.Ross, @PhysicistDave, @cool daddy jimbo

    Russia also lost in that it lost most of its friends on the right, like Trump and BoJo,

    Bon Jovi?

    • Thanks: PhysicistDave
  170. Here in Norway ~80% of the immigrants lean Left, according to polls. But they don’t vote. With 40% participation they swing nothing. The welfare state have been good to them.
    Maybe the opportunities afforded in the US leads to less civic engagement for the new arrivals?

    ps.
    The boys are ready!

  171. Anon[164] • Disclaimer says:
    @Corvinus
    @Lime and Dime

    “The question should be why these Black gangs are still around, as the White majority and racial housing covenants are long since gone.”

    Social ills. Remember, we also have white gangs that exist today as well—the Italian mafia, the Russians, the Armenians. They commit a host of crimes.

    “Funnily enough, even with these violent White gangs assaulting Blacks in favour of segregationist policy there wasn’t much of a crime explosion when Whites enjoyed homogeneity.”

    To the contrary, when the Irish and Italians came in droves to our country via immigration, there was a crime wave.

    “Of course the takeaway here is that muti-racial democracies are untenable”

    According to Who/Whom?

    “Americans certainly aren’t ready for that conversation yet.”

    We have had that conversation. So what is your specific plan for the U.S. to break up along racial or political lines? Hoe will it be done? Please, by all means, elaborate.

    Replies: @Bernie, @Anon

    The Irish didn’t bring a huge amount of crime, nothing like what’s going on today. An interesting book about the Irish by Hasia Diner (who was Jewish), mentions the relatively low level of serious crime. There were criminal elements, but nothing like the crime that everyone today worries about when they walk the streets of most cities. Much the same about Italians although criminality was funneled into their own kind of gangs, so to speak, and didn’t greatly affect those not associated.

    • Replies: @Corvinus
    @Anon

    “The Irish didn’t bring a huge amount of crime”

    Lol, ever heard of the Gangs of New York and Boss Tweed?

    “An interesting book about the Irish by Hasia Diner (who was Jewish)”

    Wait, I was told we can’t trust Jews at all since they are anti-white. Didn’t you get the memo?

    “Much the same about Italians”

    You’re being an asshat now.

    Replies: @Catdompanj, @Rocko

  172. Wonderful news: 25 million Mexicans live within spraying distance of a huge volcano which appears about to blow:

    Mexico raises alert level as volcano ejects smoke, ash, lava

    Get ready, California! Get ready, Texas!

  173. @Kylie
    @Stan Adams

    LOL!!!

    These really are brilliant! Admittedly, Hazmat and Markle are inspirational but you have entered a new realm here. Well done!

    Have you read Spare? (I have but of course, at no monetary cost to myself, found a link to read it for free.). He really does go on and on about his "todger". Unbelievable--until one recalls his father fantasized about being a sanitary product.

    Thanks a million!

    Replies: @Stan Adams

    Honestly, I haven’t read it.

    But I just skimmed through my free copy – [cough cough] Archive.org [clears throat] – and I was amused to learn that Harry does not share his father’s love for a certain prominent English playwright.

    [MORE]

  174. @Anon
    @Corvinus

    The Irish didn't bring a huge amount of crime, nothing like what's going on today. An interesting book about the Irish by Hasia Diner (who was Jewish), mentions the relatively low level of serious crime. There were criminal elements, but nothing like the crime that everyone today worries about when they walk the streets of most cities. Much the same about Italians although criminality was funneled into their own kind of gangs, so to speak, and didn't greatly affect those not associated.

    Replies: @Corvinus

    “The Irish didn’t bring a huge amount of crime”

    Lol, ever heard of the Gangs of New York and Boss Tweed?

    “An interesting book about the Irish by Hasia Diner (who was Jewish)”

    Wait, I was told we can’t trust Jews at all since they are anti-white. Didn’t you get the memo?

    “Much the same about Italians”

    You’re being an asshat now.

    • Replies: @Catdompanj
    @Corvinus

    Your response to Anon's opinion of the Irish was stupidly bringing up Boss Tweed. Tweed was 3rd generation Scottish.
    As far as Anon's opinion about Italians? Your argument against it, was calling him an asshat.
    Which group will you slander next? Perhaps German immigrants, by bringing up Lafayette?

    Replies: @Corvinus

    , @Rocko
    @Corvinus

    Like whites didn't bring havoc to the places they inhabited. Of course they don't have crime but that's because they're pussies like you little Corvinus.

    Replies: @Corvinus

  175. @Charles Erwin Wilson
    @Corvinus


    “How’s that colorblind civic nationalism working out for you, Steve?”

    It has its ups and downs. Always has. Always will. But Gen Z has bought into it. And you can’t stop it.
     
    Citing Gen Z collectively, sans data, is unpersuasive. But you always revert to type, don't you Corvinus? The Angel of Light appreciates your service.

    And you do this knowing that you will swim in the lake. It sucks to be you.

    Replies: @Corvinus

    You’re already dead in the water.

  176. @Pixo
    @PhysicistDave

    “ Our dirty old pervert Pixo wrote to J.Ross”

    I am in a monogamous and productive relationship with a beautiful young white woman. Your deranged and repulsive personality caused you to fail at doing the same. Instead you ended up with a ChiCom bride with limited options, who produced children as nutso as you, who were disciplined for making frivolous accusations against their fellow college students.

    The joy of having loving sons who look like me and will continue my ancient lineage: indescribable. You seethe because you’ll never have this. Putinist copypasta isn’t going to help you with the pain of being a failure of a man.

    Replies: @PhysicistDave, @Anon

    The disgusting little evil pervert Pixo wrote to me:

    Instead you ended up with a ChiCom bride with limited options, who produced children as nutso as you, who were disciplined for making frivolous accusations against their fellow college students.

    The criminal who assaulted my daughter confessed to multiple crimes to the police; the campus paper covered it in a front-page story.

    But the university caved to the criminal’s parents who were fat-cat West LA Jewish lawyers. We assume money passed hands. The two administrators responsible did leave shortly thereafter.

    You of course are a failure at life who is unable to engage in productive work (didn’t you say you were a DEI consultant?). Hopefully, your wife will come to her senses and leave you soon and take the boys with her so that they can be raised by an actual man.

    The perv also wrote:

    The joy of having loving sons who look like me and will continue my ancient lineage: indescribable. You seethe because you’ll never have this. Putinist copypasta isn’t going to help you with the pain of being a failure of a man.

    Your sons won’t have kids; Americans are becoming sterile.

    The future belongs to Asia. Putin is systematically crushing your evil, murderous, and corrupt Deep State.

    Your economy is collapsing. Your sons will end up even poorer than you.

    I suggest, pervert, that you teach your sons how to say, “Would you like soy sauce with that?”

    In Mandarin.

    Because that is all that is left of their future.

    Most of the human race hates you and people like you and only wants to see you die.

    • Replies: @Achmed E. Newman
    @PhysicistDave

    OK, guys, come on now! Save this stuff for the next corporate DIE session.

  177. Anonymous[594] • Disclaimer says:
    @CalCooledge
    On the topic of California blacks, the NYT has had multiple articles this week revealing Dyin' Feinstein to be a drooling, damaged mess. Very unflattering. Why are they doing this? Apparently they want her to resign so that Newsom can replace her with a sacred black female who would become the automatic front runner in 2024 senate regular election. Everything seems to come down to black worship now.

    Replies: @tyrone, @PhysicistDave, @Anonymous

    Everything seems to come down to black worship now.

    More like black dominance.

  178. Anon[164] • Disclaimer says:
    @Pixo
    @PhysicistDave

    “ Our dirty old pervert Pixo wrote to J.Ross”

    I am in a monogamous and productive relationship with a beautiful young white woman. Your deranged and repulsive personality caused you to fail at doing the same. Instead you ended up with a ChiCom bride with limited options, who produced children as nutso as you, who were disciplined for making frivolous accusations against their fellow college students.

    The joy of having loving sons who look like me and will continue my ancient lineage: indescribable. You seethe because you’ll never have this. Putinist copypasta isn’t going to help you with the pain of being a failure of a man.

    Replies: @PhysicistDave, @Anon

    So you are in a “monogamous relationship with a beautiful young woman,” and will experience “The joy of having loving sons who look like me and will continue my ancient lineage.”

    That’s all very fine and no argument there, but PhysicistDave referenced your age, and what might be the words and attitude of a decent man with daughters (or sons for that matter.) He had a point. If you’re going to be lofty, at least use words that are congruent. There’s enough dissonance around.

  179. @Corvinus
    @Anon

    “The Irish didn’t bring a huge amount of crime”

    Lol, ever heard of the Gangs of New York and Boss Tweed?

    “An interesting book about the Irish by Hasia Diner (who was Jewish)”

    Wait, I was told we can’t trust Jews at all since they are anti-white. Didn’t you get the memo?

    “Much the same about Italians”

    You’re being an asshat now.

    Replies: @Catdompanj, @Rocko

    Your response to Anon’s opinion of the Irish was stupidly bringing up Boss Tweed. Tweed was 3rd generation Scottish.
    As far as Anon’s opinion about Italians? Your argument against it, was calling him an asshat.
    Which group will you slander next? Perhaps German immigrants, by bringing up Lafayette?

    • Replies: @Corvinus
    @Catdompanj

    “Your response to Anon’s opinion of the Irish was stupidly bringing up Boss Tweed. Tweed was 3rd generation Scottish.”

    The Irish played a violent role in ensuring his grip on NYC. Are you historically illiterate?

    “As far as Anon’s opinion about Italians?”

    It’s anti-white on her part as well.

  180. @Marko
    @Bernie

    No. They both equally hate Whites, and will discriminate against them when the opportunity presents itself.

    Replies: @Colin Wright, @Rocko

    I don’t hate you. I just disdain you for being a lazy piece of shit. You would rather comment here than get your gringos in line. No wonder we are replacing you and the negros.

  181. @Corvinus
    @Anon

    “The Irish didn’t bring a huge amount of crime”

    Lol, ever heard of the Gangs of New York and Boss Tweed?

    “An interesting book about the Irish by Hasia Diner (who was Jewish)”

    Wait, I was told we can’t trust Jews at all since they are anti-white. Didn’t you get the memo?

    “Much the same about Italians”

    You’re being an asshat now.

    Replies: @Catdompanj, @Rocko

    Like whites didn’t bring havoc to the places they inhabited. Of course they don’t have crime but that’s because they’re pussies like you little Corvinus.

    • Replies: @Corvinus
    @Rocko

    Pull a Kyle. Record it on social media. Until then, you’re a low T, armchair warrior.

  182. @Catdompanj
    @Corvinus

    Your response to Anon's opinion of the Irish was stupidly bringing up Boss Tweed. Tweed was 3rd generation Scottish.
    As far as Anon's opinion about Italians? Your argument against it, was calling him an asshat.
    Which group will you slander next? Perhaps German immigrants, by bringing up Lafayette?

    Replies: @Corvinus

    “Your response to Anon’s opinion of the Irish was stupidly bringing up Boss Tweed. Tweed was 3rd generation Scottish.”

    The Irish played a violent role in ensuring his grip on NYC. Are you historically illiterate?

    “As far as Anon’s opinion about Italians?”

    It’s anti-white on her part as well.

  183. @PhysicistDave
    @Pixo

    The disgusting little evil pervert Pixo wrote to me:


    Instead you ended up with a ChiCom bride with limited options, who produced children as nutso as you, who were disciplined for making frivolous accusations against their fellow college students.
     
    The criminal who assaulted my daughter confessed to multiple crimes to the police; the campus paper covered it in a front-page story.

    But the university caved to the criminal's parents who were fat-cat West LA Jewish lawyers. We assume money passed hands. The two administrators responsible did leave shortly thereafter.

    You of course are a failure at life who is unable to engage in productive work (didn't you say you were a DEI consultant?). Hopefully, your wife will come to her senses and leave you soon and take the boys with her so that they can be raised by an actual man.

    The perv also wrote:

    The joy of having loving sons who look like me and will continue my ancient lineage: indescribable. You seethe because you’ll never have this. Putinist copypasta isn’t going to help you with the pain of being a failure of a man.
     
    Your sons won't have kids; Americans are becoming sterile.

    The future belongs to Asia. Putin is systematically crushing your evil, murderous, and corrupt Deep State.

    Your economy is collapsing. Your sons will end up even poorer than you.

    I suggest, pervert, that you teach your sons how to say, "Would you like soy sauce with that?"

    In Mandarin.

    Because that is all that is left of their future.

    Most of the human race hates you and people like you and only wants to see you die.

    Replies: @Achmed E. Newman

    OK, guys, come on now! Save this stuff for the next corporate DIE session.

  184. @Rocko
    @Corvinus

    Like whites didn't bring havoc to the places they inhabited. Of course they don't have crime but that's because they're pussies like you little Corvinus.

    Replies: @Corvinus

    Pull a Kyle. Record it on social media. Until then, you’re a low T, armchair warrior.

  185. @Curle
    @Corvinus

    “This practice, adapted by white homeowners, was established in 1922 and was designed to maintain social and racial homogeneity of neighborhoods by denying non-whites access to property ownership.—”

    They left out lower crime and lower property values among things the gang sought to avoid.

    Replies: @Corvinus

    “They left out lower crime and lower property values among things the gang sought to avoid”

    By employing extralegal means through the threat of force or the use of force. The ends don’t justify the means. Why don’t you get your neighborhood pals to put violent pressure on those undesirables to leave?

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