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From my new Taki’s Magazine column:
Blacks Behaving Badly in Memphis
Steve SailerFebruary 01, 2023
One downside of reading me is that tomorrow’s headlines aren’t as full of surprises. For example, while much of the media world is currently stunned that the five Memphis cops who beat a black motorist to death are black, my regular readers aren’t.
Read the whole thing there.
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Well I don’t go to Taki’s Distaff Rag much but did today and it was a great piece. Well argued and unambiguous.
One minor snit (Isn’t there always?)
Should be
No?
Expenses must be trimmed, Sacrifices must be made.
Tyre, in a more unusual way, was just another poor victim of The Covid. Unfortunately for him, being a Californian expat, he was raised where those that matter have the luxury of telling the police what’s up; not the more traditional other way round.
“He was an avid skateboarder from Sacramento, California, and came to Memphis just before the coronavirus pandemic and got stuck.”
https://abc7.com/tyre-nichols-website-photography-death-body-cam-memphis/12744166/
Similarly, when every college in the country frets over getting their black student population up to around 12-13% to match the demographics, they don’t understand that that means the end of HBCUs and PBIs. They also don’t consider whether blacks actually prefer to be spread to the wind across the country and a permanent minority in every institution or whether they might enjoy being at a majority black school.
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/7c/61/4c/7c614c56a6d56fc4386f3aa370365150.png
Slightly OT but I hope helpful: Takimag is a pain to read on conventional browsers because of the animated ads. I have been using Reader Mode in Apple’s Safari browser on my iPhone, but that’s no good any more because it chops off the end of the article. Latest fix: use the Brave browser on an iPhone. Most ads disappear and Steve’s article appears in full.
What surprised me the most was not that The Five were black, but rather, that they were five. I would have thought that this was the kind of situation where group action is superior to what individual action would have been. It turned out to be exactly the opposite (as Ron would say). So I did a bit of quick research, and now I see that the factors leading to worse decision-making predominated. What really caught my eye was that where group members have a strong and conformist social identity, and, the feeling that they were extremely valuable, the group does a stupid thing.
https://opentextbc.ca/socialpsychology/chapter/group-decision-making/
In the broader culture, the lesson of the last 10 years or so is that the thing that makes cops bad is racism rather than poor training, poor impulse control, poor command, etc., and they're black themselves so they probably didn't think they could be the bad guys where the only morally culpable sin is racism. It's speculation, but could they have embraced a Dirty Harry ethos (or, more accurately, that of the SFPD Death Squad in Magnum Force) of "getting things done without the red tape?" The "cop who disregards the stupid rules to get the bad guys off the streets" is not an uncommon feature in American popular culture - doesn't McGarrett get a special warrant for his squad directly from the Governor of Hawaii in Hawaii Five-O?
Is this a LA Ramparts Scandal kind of situation?
This would make this different than the allegation that the officers were acting as the overseers for The Man.
Michael Lind has an interesting essay just up on The Tablet: “The Power-Mad Utopians:
America needs a broad popular front to stop the revolution from above that is transforming the country”, which ties together the Green New Deal, the Diversity-Inclusion-Equity scam, and the attempt to erase biological sex.
I would have liked him to have included the US proxy war against Russia, which is being run by the same people with the same darkly utopian goals, and I think the argument needs to be tied together with the concept of the ruling “overclass,” a term which Lind has popularized.
I also disagree with him that neo-liberal economic policies are “libertarian”: the destruction of the currency and turning our financial system and fiscal policy into Ponzi scams does not seem very “libertarian” to me!
But the essay does make some crucial points and, as usual with Lind, is quite readable.
https://archive.ph/3I6qC
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Ha! He's all but saying it's the neocons right there in the second or third paragraph! Truly an example of journalists being forbidden to say something obvious. There are no Republicans or Democrats, there's the Perpetual War Party and then the folks outside it.Replies: @HammerJack
Has this public intellectual said anything one way or the other about “the US proxy war against Russia”? (As you’ve repeatedly noted, to answer that question one would need to be familiar with Mr. Lind’s work since at least 2014.)
Or how about the other major issue of our time, the “overclass’s” management of the COVID dempanic?
I’ve lost most of my appetite for other side dishes of politics on the intellectual buffet.Replies: @PhysicistDave
And people who are not Leftist being sucked into seeing Libertarianism as anti-soclaiist has been ne essay for all this recent set of horrors to be smashed down on us, because no one for the establishment 'Right' wished to be seen as anti-Liberatraian and there pro-socialist when the super rich freaks would demand freedom from any government oversight to do what they wished with what they had earned.Replies: @Chrisnonymous
...and as long as that's not there, it's all a bit like discussing the problem with the flooding in the basement whilst tactfully not pointing out the busted pipe gushing water in plain sight.Replies: @Corpse Tooth
More or less a "squish" liberal who imagines a JFK fantasy world where as in the ancient days, Time Magazine and others doled out the Democrat Party line which seemed almost reasonable. After all, who didn't love FDR?
Sort of like a liberal version the then still breathing "conservative" CIA asset William F. Buckley Jr.
Now he seems to have finally gotten wind of the Comrades, after years of their neo Marxist identity politics, which may not Be A Good Thing.
Being a well fed academic think tanker and an Official Intellectual (and open government worshiper), he's finally getting wind of the modern Red Guards. Now doubting his wisdom...
These old fat White guys are no longer feted by the Obama led Democrat insiders and Biden string pullers. These old liberals weren't "haters" and tried to use White arguments and logic. Sure they ridiculed their opponents, and embraced marginalizing Reaganite working class conservatives, but they simply didn't hate enough.
So now "viewing with alarm" and baffled by who these feminist/nonbinary/Green religionist Marxists really are.
Too little, too late.Replies: @Stan Adams, @kaganovitch
Opera (with VPN) + AdblockPlus does the trick for me.
America needs a broad popular front to stop the revolution from above that is transforming the country", which ties together the Green New Deal, the Diversity-Inclusion-Equity scam, and the attempt to erase biological sex.
I would have liked him to have included the US proxy war against Russia, which is being run by the same people with the same darkly utopian goals, and I think the argument needs to be tied together with the concept of the ruling "overclass," a term which Lind has popularized.
I also disagree with him that neo-liberal economic policies are "libertarian": the destruction of the currency and turning our financial system and fiscal policy into Ponzi scams does not seem very "libertarian" to me!
But the essay does make some crucial points and, as usual with Lind, is quite readable.Replies: @J.Ross, @Greta Handel, @Shamu, @Guest007, @Prester John, @kaganovitch, @Pop Warner, @Colin Wright, @Muggles, @Chrisnonymous, @J.Ross
Thanks, very interesting. This is a brief FT piece on companies offloading labor costs under the guise of convenience. There is reason to believe this may actually be harmful, since the form-filling and rule-navigating which the customer does herself could have been a low wage first job.
https://archive.ph/3I6qC
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Ha! He’s all but saying it’s the neocons right there in the second or third paragraph! Truly an example of journalists being forbidden to say something obvious. There are no Republicans or Democrats, there’s the Perpetual War Party and then the folks outside it.
Jason Riley in the WSJ is chanelling Steve almost word for word. Adds some useful stats. He’s allowed to say these things because 1) it’s the WSJ and most importantly 2) he’s black.
https://www.nber.org/papers/w27324
which states:Prof. Roland Fryer is a star economist at Harvard; and he is allowed to depart from the approved racial narrative because he is black. I expect he would be very interested in Steve's findings about traffic fatalities.Replies: @Steve Sailer, @J.Ross
Because history does matter, in anything to to with the Sacred Cow Numinous Negro, the first issue is to know Who Created Whom to use against Whom?
In short, the Yankee WASP made the Negro the Scared Cow Numinous Negro in order to wage culture wear against the South and Southerners, which would morally justify all the dead in
‘the Civil War’ as well as all the theft by regional elites during Reconstruction. And like all such things the enemies list did not stay short. Large numbers of Irish Catholics made certain that the same Who group would make them another against Whom group. After all, the largest anti-draft riot during the sacred war to free the Numinous Negro was in NTYC and was largely Irish, and most of the leaders always coming back to asserting that they, buried in poverty, had no desire to die to free some other peoples;lke that the rich of NYC already were beginning to coddle at every opportunity.
And then as Irish were the primary foundation of the world’s first truly professional place force in NYC, cops had to become bad, because surly they existed just to harass the dusky hued angels. If not, then the basis of the NYC PD would have been black.
And so America’s actual race war, white elites using Negroes as weapons and tools against the whites they hate and fear, or just find icky, not only has been never ending but now has been made global.
If you fail to address how things became as they are, you sure are not going to take corrections. The great problem here is that buried deep in the minds and hearts of the Deep State and the elite whites of America is that if they were to undue any of that, they would ben exposed as just another set of self=righteous thugs who use idiots to wage proxy wars to make themselves richer and more powerful. And blacks are far from sharp enough figure out how that game always hurts the black community as a whole.
Is there a way to change any of that without essentially clearing away all off the Deep State elite types? I doubt it. And I expect them to keep pushing to advance hatred of White worldwide. After all, holding the power they do is because Massa Lincoln done freed them slaves and pleased God mightily.
Of course, it should be coupled with prohibitions for firearm possession for all of them as Federal Employees. If you are a Fed, you get a billy club and a smiley face button. But no guns, no mace, no tazers, and no body armor.
Most agree (including Sailer) that having proportionally more blacks police blacks is better for social cohesion. Obviously being a policeman is a “political” job in a key sense, and so community representation is important. That reasonable objective has a big tradeoff since blacks as a group have the worst probability distribution of relevant traits for that job. It is like the DMV woman with a loaded gun. There is no obvious solution to this problem other than avoiding neighborhoods with lots of blacks or black police officers, or both.
https://opentextbc.ca/socialpsychology/chapter/group-decision-making/Replies: @Hannah Katz, @Alec Leamas (working from home), @Inquiring Mind
Yes, a mob will do things that none of them as an individual would do. And a group of five “Sacred 13 Percenters” is definitely a mob.
America needs a broad popular front to stop the revolution from above that is transforming the country", which ties together the Green New Deal, the Diversity-Inclusion-Equity scam, and the attempt to erase biological sex.
I would have liked him to have included the US proxy war against Russia, which is being run by the same people with the same darkly utopian goals, and I think the argument needs to be tied together with the concept of the ruling "overclass," a term which Lind has popularized.
I also disagree with him that neo-liberal economic policies are "libertarian": the destruction of the currency and turning our financial system and fiscal policy into Ponzi scams does not seem very "libertarian" to me!
But the essay does make some crucial points and, as usual with Lind, is quite readable.Replies: @J.Ross, @Greta Handel, @Shamu, @Guest007, @Prester John, @kaganovitch, @Pop Warner, @Colin Wright, @Muggles, @Chrisnonymous, @J.Ross
Okay, I’ve never heard of Michael Lind. But it looks from an online glance that he may be another comfortable Establishment dissident.
Has this public intellectual said anything one way or the other about “the US proxy war against Russia”? (As you’ve repeatedly noted, to answer that question one would need to be familiar with Mr. Lind’s work since at least 2014.)
Or how about the other major issue of our time, the “overclass’s” management of the COVID dempanic?
I’ve lost most of my appetite for other side dishes of politics on the intellectual buffet.
In the article I linked to, Lind does attack the younger Bush for his attempts at:But I do not know if Lind has commented on the US proxy war in Ukraine.
Two general points:
First, Lind is an old-fashioned New Deal liberal. I am not -- I am a radical Jeffersonian, more or less a libertarian. So, of course, I disagree with Lind on a lot of concrete issues.
Nonetheless, I think Lind has a lot of interesting things to say.
Second, in my opinion, the critical issues we face right now are the Ukraine crisis, which could get us all killed, and the fiscal/monetary/financial Ponzi scheme created by the US ruling class that could destroy the world economy. And there are several other horrific things happening -- the attempt to erase human biology, the diversity-inclusion-equity scam, etc. And then there is the Covid scam, the open borders, the global-warming scam, the collapse of our education system, etc.
But, beyond these immediate threats, I think it is important to look at the underlying cause that ties these all together. And that underlying cause is that the ruling elite -- what I call the "parasitic verbalist overclass" -- is completely out of touch with reality and truly hates their fellow citizens, especially those who deal with material reality.
Lind has been pretty good at exploring that underlying problem, and, for that reason, I think he is important.Replies: @J.Ross, @Greta Handel
You have every right (and good reason) to toot your own horn here. However, I believe you are confusing “conventional wisdom” with “Lyin’ Press narrative that most people with common sense don’t believe anyway.”
You read the Lyin’ Press a lot, for work reasons. Lots of Americans know better and don’t, not just your readers.
If you look at the behavior of Americans of all races, it's quite obvious that they are fully aware of what Steve writes about even though they are not his readers.
Steve wastes his talents stating the obvious. He'd benefit humanity more by choosing a side and helping that side navigate the bizarre rules imposed on them by the ruling tribe.Replies: @Achmed E. Newman
America needs a broad popular front to stop the revolution from above that is transforming the country", which ties together the Green New Deal, the Diversity-Inclusion-Equity scam, and the attempt to erase biological sex.
I would have liked him to have included the US proxy war against Russia, which is being run by the same people with the same darkly utopian goals, and I think the argument needs to be tied together with the concept of the ruling "overclass," a term which Lind has popularized.
I also disagree with him that neo-liberal economic policies are "libertarian": the destruction of the currency and turning our financial system and fiscal policy into Ponzi scams does not seem very "libertarian" to me!
But the essay does make some crucial points and, as usual with Lind, is quite readable.Replies: @J.Ross, @Greta Handel, @Shamu, @Guest007, @Prester John, @kaganovitch, @Pop Warner, @Colin Wright, @Muggles, @Chrisnonymous, @J.Ross
Lind is also correct about that Libertarianj label, which I assume you reject because you are anti-soclaiist and have been led to see Libertarianism as the antidote. What Libertatiansims is guarantees demands for socialsm, because Libertarianism proclaims that people acting as they wish for their desires and needs will produce much good. So, yes, George Soros is a Libertarian, as is Bill Gates. They want to use their money and power as they wish, with oversight from anyone or anything else.
And people who are not Leftist being sucked into seeing Libertarianism as anti-soclaiist has been ne essay for all this recent set of horrors to be smashed down on us, because no one for the establishment ‘Right’ wished to be seen as anti-Liberatraian and there pro-socialist when the super rich freaks would demand freedom from any government oversight to do what they wished with what they had earned.
Racial violence just exploded in Alice Springs, Australia.
The quality of the reporting is awful.
America needs a broad popular front to stop the revolution from above that is transforming the country", which ties together the Green New Deal, the Diversity-Inclusion-Equity scam, and the attempt to erase biological sex.
I would have liked him to have included the US proxy war against Russia, which is being run by the same people with the same darkly utopian goals, and I think the argument needs to be tied together with the concept of the ruling "overclass," a term which Lind has popularized.
I also disagree with him that neo-liberal economic policies are "libertarian": the destruction of the currency and turning our financial system and fiscal policy into Ponzi scams does not seem very "libertarian" to me!
But the essay does make some crucial points and, as usual with Lind, is quite readable.Replies: @J.Ross, @Greta Handel, @Shamu, @Guest007, @Prester John, @kaganovitch, @Pop Warner, @Colin Wright, @Muggles, @Chrisnonymous, @J.Ross
The Utopians are those who believe that the U.S. can have the per capita GDP of Singapore with the social safety net of Sweden while having the population of Mexico City and Lagos. Delusional does not begin to describe them. They are also the people who repeat the meme that white Americans are too lazy to do manual labor, too stupid for high tech work, to0 twisted to get married, and too self to have children. thus, white Americans need to be replaced with immigrants to do the things Americans refuse to do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qly1tisGyP4
The Black writer Jason Whitlock has an essay up, “Yes, baby-mama culture explains the Tyre Nichols tragedy “ that bluntly lays out the problem that led to the Memphis tragedy. His key point:
It would be very nice if young men would become caring and responsible adults without any control and restraint by mature, adult males.
Some do.
Many do not.
I am afraid that, as a matter of socio-psychological reality, Whitlock is right.
BTW I've read that one of leading search phrases on Google is "Tyre Nichols criminal record". Unfortunately, in that market demand vastly exceeds supply; there's no information about that at all as far as I can tell (even via duckduckgo).Replies: @Jack D
Also to add this observation. Nichols was reportedly crying and yelling for his "mama"or mom during most of his vicious beatdown.
That is not something most 29 YO functional White males would do in a similar situation.
Definitely proof of Whitlock's "baby mama culture" observation.
I think much of black male violence directed at women (mainly but not exclusively black women) is due to this resentment against female "father figures" in their households. Women end up doing the discipline of young males (absent any fathers in the house) and often lose total control over them.
In "White cultural" families it is the young women who are normally the main and only object of "mother discipline" and hence, at some teen age as puberty kicks in hard, go off track and do nearly everything possible to piss off "mama" and her effort to control Young Hot Lovely.
In "black culture" families, females and males only get the Mama treatment. Daddy ain't home, ever.
So while the young women go off track, sow wild oats, most eventually return to the nest Mama has waiting for them. Wiser about men and the world. The male Wild Child, however, gets kicked out and while often returns (free food! free shelter!) still lacks any wisdom imparted by the absent male disciplinarian. Though sometimes this is replaced in sports by a male coach figure. If lucky enough to have that.
The young man can't circle back for Daddy wisdom since Daddy is a stranger, one among many revolving door older household males keeping Mama company, for a while anyway.
This lack of a family male role model for black males is well known and understood. Welfare keeps Daddy away, or prison, and the matriarchy is now complete.
Too bad we have to learn of Nichols love of "mama" while being kicked to death by other young black males. Wearing police uniforms. No, they ain't your mama and have their own resentment issues with her...Replies: @Joe Stalin, @Jack D, @onetwothree, @PhysicistDave
But there's the issue of causation: is the matriarchy a cause or an effect of black dysfunction? Or, does the black matriarchy have nothing to do with black dysfunction at all and is rather just the default way blacks organize their communities?Replies: @PhysicistDave
Gee, at first I thought the title was “Uprising Memphis,” but blacks running amok in American cities is run of the mill … indeed, unsurprising.
Because of the factors Steve describes, it’s impossible to have any organization or institution in which black are a significant factor perform well. My city has a mayoral election this year and one of the candidates running against the white guy is a black woman, to predictable hosannas about the possibilities of black female leadership. To an acquaintance who voiced this feeling, I asked them to name a well-run black led city or company – dead silence was the response.
We are also at the point in the NFL season where every year analysts bemoan the dearth of black head coaches, owners, executives, etc. Obviously the majority of owners and GMs have major reservations about the majority of the prospective black candidates, a subject that cannot be candidly discussed when something like 70 percent of the players are black. Like most things, when real money is on the line, a lot of the platitudes about diversity and inclusion go out the window.
“For example, while much of the media world is currently stunned ”
I don’t believe they’re stunned. That implies that the media possess some sort of honest naivety about negroes and their behavior. Most people know the media are not at all honest.
Where do 100% of MSM live? As far away from negroes as possible. (AFAFNAP) Where do their kids go to school? AFAFNAP. Where do they shop and recreate? AFAFNAP
The media know exactly what negroes are. So they aren’t stunned. If anything, they are disappointed that negroes continue to betray the narrative by behaving exactly as they do.
“He was an avid skateboarder from Sacramento, California, and came to Memphis just before the coronavirus pandemic and got stuck.”
https://abc7.com/tyre-nichols-website-photography-death-body-cam-memphis/12744166/Replies: @bomag
Another example of California exports not doing anybody any good.
No one is really surprised about what happened in Memphis. What distinguishes your readers is that we just don’t need to spin a new theory — add an epicycle as it were — to accommodate this new data point.
Puns unintended BTW.
Frankly, I don't really trust the cops in my town either. I stay away from them, and from the people who get the police calling on them.
I also wonder if anything other than brutality could possibly be effective in policing ghettos.Replies: @David Davenport, @Harry Baldwin
That’s some honesty you’ll never hear in the MSM.
OT — The Columbia Journalism Review catches up to anonymous on 4chan six years ago, savages the Washington Post and the New York Times for their completely laughable coverage of Trump’s non-existent Russian “connection.”
Overview:
https://www.foxnews.com/media/liberal-columbia-journal-review-offers-scathing-indictment-new-york-times-russiagate-coverage
Five part series:
https://www.cjr.org/special_report/trumped-up-press-versus-president-ed-note.php?a=home-hero&utm_source=cjr-org&utm_content=homehero
Seems to me that way, way back in the distant past, maybe the 1970’s, the Narrative would be: “I looked out and saw bad policing, so I decided to become a policeman to improve the lot; set an example; change the system from the inside; etc.”
The vibe was more to do it yourself; go to the inner city as a teacher/social worker/community organizer (BARRY!); Indian Reservation; third world; etc.
Now it’s sit back and tell others what to do. Might be time for all these progressives clucking their tongues to man up and do what’s needed to be done.
America needs a broad popular front to stop the revolution from above that is transforming the country", which ties together the Green New Deal, the Diversity-Inclusion-Equity scam, and the attempt to erase biological sex.
I would have liked him to have included the US proxy war against Russia, which is being run by the same people with the same darkly utopian goals, and I think the argument needs to be tied together with the concept of the ruling "overclass," a term which Lind has popularized.
I also disagree with him that neo-liberal economic policies are "libertarian": the destruction of the currency and turning our financial system and fiscal policy into Ponzi scams does not seem very "libertarian" to me!
But the essay does make some crucial points and, as usual with Lind, is quite readable.Replies: @J.Ross, @Greta Handel, @Shamu, @Guest007, @Prester John, @kaganovitch, @Pop Warner, @Colin Wright, @Muggles, @Chrisnonymous, @J.Ross
Thanks for this. I have always found Lind thoughtful and interesting to read, even if I haven’t always agreed with him (you’re right about “neo-liberal economic policies”). It is without question that this thing of ours has devolved into an outright oligarchy.
That sums it up pretty well.
BTW I’ve read that one of leading search phrases on Google is “Tyre Nichols criminal record”. Unfortunately, in that market demand vastly exceeds supply; there’s no information about that at all as far as I can tell (even via duckduckgo).
Do you or anyone else know the stats on this sort of behavior during segregation? I assume all the cops were black then for the black areas, at least in the south. I wonder if part of the complaints by middle class blacks was that they were tired of putting up with brutal, stupid cops in their towns.
Frankly, I don’t really trust the cops in my town either. I stay away from them, and from the people who get the police calling on them.
I also wonder if anything other than brutality could possibly be effective in policing ghettos.
In segregation times, there weren't many black policemen. Black parts of town were lightly policed.
The white policemen overlooked a lot of black crime, as long as the crime stayed in black neighborhoods.
Sylvester "Two-Gun Pete" Washington, a black detective working Chicago's south side in the 1930s - 40s, didn't think so.https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-city-cop-struck-fear-into-south-side-20130906-story.html
As someone who has worked for the federal government for over four decades, I’ve found that the common belief for government inefficiency inside it is that you just don’t have the right people in charge and if you could get the right people in charge government would work better. After 40 years, I’ve come to the conclusion that it is more a systemic rather than personnel problem.
Efficiency comes from competition and consumer choice. The best solution to inefficient government is to move as much of it as you can over to the private sector. In a few situations like the police or the military you can’t do this. Here the voters need to closely watch government to make sure it is focused on its core function. One of the main forms of government inefficiency is straying from its core function and spending effort on something else.
In the case of the Defense department that I work for, that would be affirmative action hiring, indoctrination of employees in woke leftism and getting involved in countries of no strategic value to the U.S. like the Ukraine. It would be the same with the police. The core function there is to catch robbers, murderers and rapists. It seems to be doing a poor job of that.
The unit I served in was all white and stayed white. It was Whitey McWhitey for nearly three years. Not a hint of affirmative action. A merit based system was in place for efficiency and cohesion which helped keep down injuries during training and deployment. This was in the 1990s.
https://opentextbc.ca/socialpsychology/chapter/group-decision-making/Replies: @Hannah Katz, @Alec Leamas (working from home), @Inquiring Mind
Watching the videos I just wonder whether these five guys conceived of the police as the “good gang,” which acts like other gangs but has the imprimatur of being the good guys with legal sanction and state issued weapons. This could be augmented by giving them a cool sounding gang name like “Scorpion Squad” in a down and out city with a sky high homicide rate and lots of other illicit, murderous gangs consisting of other black men in their twenties.
In the broader culture, the lesson of the last 10 years or so is that the thing that makes cops bad is racism rather than poor training, poor impulse control, poor command, etc., and they’re black themselves so they probably didn’t think they could be the bad guys where the only morally culpable sin is racism. It’s speculation, but could they have embraced a Dirty Harry ethos (or, more accurately, that of the SFPD Death Squad in Magnum Force) of “getting things done without the red tape?” The “cop who disregards the stupid rules to get the bad guys off the streets” is not an uncommon feature in American popular culture – doesn’t McGarrett get a special warrant for his squad directly from the Governor of Hawaii in Hawaii Five-O?
You read the Lyin' Press a lot, for work reasons. Lots of Americans know better and don't, not just your readers.Replies: @Citizen of a Silly Country, @kaganovitch
Yep, Steve mistakes saying out what most people know for revealing things that people don’t know.
If you look at the behavior of Americans of all races, it’s quite obvious that they are fully aware of what Steve writes about even though they are not his readers.
Steve wastes his talents stating the obvious. He’d benefit humanity more by choosing a side and helping that side navigate the bizarre rules imposed on them by the ruling tribe.
Sacred Cows, above criticism, but beneath agency.
A rapier not a bludgeon, Mr iSteve – well said.
Let’s see,
1. Debase citizenship with open borders.
2. Pay black women to breed the next generation of criminals.
3. Debase the currency by printing unlimited sums of free currency.
4. Taunt a nuclear-armed Russia with a proxy war on its border.
5. Invert the competence hierarchy by educating, hiring and promoting unqualified minorities.
6. Destroy male-female relationships via radical feminism followed by trans-activism.
7. Release the mentally ill onto the streets and turn them into zombies with illegal drugs.
I don’t think I could come up with a better plan to destroy America if I tried.
Yes he is–notwithstanding that the phenomenon which Whitlock is describing, leaving aside the specifics of the Nichols case, has been known for a long, long time. No politician these days would get away with using the term “matriarchy” to describe the average black family, as this would be the equivalent of touching a third rail.
Pretty consistent with general theme of the article is the absolute shit show on display in the AFC Championship game by Ron Torbert, the white hat referee. He messed up the play clock, resulting in extra downs for KC and looked absolutely confused throughout.
Torbert is given this honor of head referee because he’s black and for no other reason because he’s a notoriously bad official. Everyone knows this.
Again, a black man hoisted onto a position he has no business being in, resulting in a lot of harm to a lot of other black men.
We are also at the point in the NFL season where every year analysts bemoan the dearth of black head coaches, owners, executives, etc. Obviously the majority of owners and GMs have major reservations about the majority of the prospective black candidates, a subject that cannot be candidly discussed when something like 70 percent of the players are black. Like most things, when real money is on the line, a lot of the platitudes about diversity and inclusion go out the window.Replies: @Prester John, @Anonymous, @Known Fact
Yep. When money talks, people listen.
The major cities in the US, are not going to reinstitute law and order policies. It was still possible for Giuliani to do it because NYC was, at the time, 51% White. NY is now under 40 % and a good 50% of the Whites are far left. Blacks always vote black and will always vote black dem over black repub. There’s no saving the cities. In NY cops have backed off, arrests are way down, and the city just keeps sinking. People often don’t even bother to call the cops or reports thefts or harassment. We won’t be coming out of this until some very powerful people realize they’ve gone too far. Take a walk around Penn Station, that’s a long way off.
We are also at the point in the NFL season where every year analysts bemoan the dearth of black head coaches, owners, executives, etc. Obviously the majority of owners and GMs have major reservations about the majority of the prospective black candidates, a subject that cannot be candidly discussed when something like 70 percent of the players are black. Like most things, when real money is on the line, a lot of the platitudes about diversity and inclusion go out the window.Replies: @Prester John, @Anonymous, @Known Fact
My city, Boston, has a high-IQed NE Asian woman (not to be redundant) as mayor. A Harvard University and Harvard Law grad.
Makes not difference because she, like all elected politicians, has to be a faithful servant of the oligarchs. So all we get is more spending and more programs for NAMs. More affordable housing, more programs for disadvantaged minorities, more anti-crime social programs, and on and on. And all we see is resulting from it is more and more crime and decay.
So, while she’s nicer to look at and articulate and smart, in the end it’s no different from having some hostile moron black woman as mayor.
Yet another feral Negro is killed by da poh-liiiiice…
Time for yet another “outrage” – which, allegedly, already sweeps the country 😁😁😁 and will end in Restorative Racial Rrrrrevolu-shun…
Meanwhile in the REAL world almost nobody gives a flying f…ck. Those who do are mildly irritated and intermittently suffer from:
“Negro Fatigue”, or NF, is one of the fastest-growing chronic fatigue syndromes. Month by month, the number of people who are experiencing the symptoms of NF is growing. It affects primarily white people and Asians, mostly between the ages of 25 and 55, although anyone can experience it. City-dwellers are more likely than rural inhabitants to display its symptoms, but NF can strike any white person of any age or locale at any time.
Are you among those suffering from NF? Know these warning signs:
1. Increased blood pressure when in the presence of Negroes, or when viewing images of Negroes on TV or in print.
2. Lack of concern with what Negroes want, deserve, think, or feel.
3. Diminished patience with behaviors typical of Negroes, e.g., talking loudly in public, crotch-grabbing, ruining theatrical movies etc.
4. Increased awareness of the number of Negroes in one’s immediate environment.
5. Hyper-alertness when encountering Negroes in public.
6. Lack of desire to view or listen to Negro music, video programming, motion pictures, or other entertainments.
7. Anomalous behavior (e.g., walking away in mid-sentence) when conversing with other white people who seem concerned with the welfare of Negroes.
8. Decreased resistance to using the N-Word.
9. Increased feeling of annoyance when encountering the term N-word.
10. Scrupulous avoidance of contact with Negroes at work, school, shops, etc.
11. Hatred or cold indifference toward professional and collegiate sports, especially basketball; increased interest in “white” sports such as hockey, swimming, etc.
12. Sudden lack of shame in “white” behaviors (e.g. earning a living, abiding by the law, monogamous marriage, wearing Dockers, etc.).
Previous Unz Review post even has NF flyers template – to be printed and posted everywhere
https://www.unz.com/sbpdl/final-countdown-negro-fatigue-nf-is/
OT: Any comments on this chicken-wing embezzler?
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/harvey-school-worker-embezzlement-chicken-wing-orders/
2) She bought chicken wings which cannot be served to kids because they contains bones.
3) She picked them up herself and signed for them
4) She'd been doing this since 2020.
5) She only got caught because the school was $300K over its yearly budget halfway through the year.
6) She bought / stole 11,000 cases or about 440,000 lbs or 220 tons. That is 10-11 full sized tractor trailer loads of chicken wings.
7) Dollars to doughnuts that she had help.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/01/illinois-school-worker-allegedly-stole-1-5-million-of-food-mostly-chicken-wings-from-district/Replies: @kaganovitch, @HammerJack
Even the Memphis Police Department is matriarchal.
Good points on the zero-sum game of trying to achieve identical distributions of every group in every school, workplace, government, career, hobby. You can’t just say no to more white males where they are overrepresented, you’ll have start saying no to everybody else where they are overrepresented. Bright young lady gets into a top-ranked science university and wants to major in biology? “Sorry, women are overrepresented in those classes, we have to place you in a math major instead.”
In a lot of universities, the "studies" departments are refuges for the below average AA admits, while I'll bet that there aren't that many black female physics majors. If there are, they are probably black like Chandra Prescod-Weinstein is "black" or Liz Warren is an "Indian" - only in American "one drop rule" terms.
OT, but amusing. From Cali, at the intersection of Green Energy and Water Conservation:
https://nypost.com/2023/01/30/firefighters-use-6k-gallons-of-water-to-extinguish-burning-tesla/
This is the Lithium version.
https://youtu.be/cTJh_bzI0QQ?t=338
[5:38]Replies: @Dmon
Are they REALLY stunned or are they just pretending?
That many media outlets have suggested or implied that the black officers were expressing racism or have been conditioned by white supremacy expresses the absurdities of the lengths media will go to reinforce The Narrative.
It's more likely the public is stunned by these efforts to rationalize the officers' conduct.
May 25, 2020. An arrest goes wrong. Let’s charge the officers involved with life in prison. Let’s impugn all police officers in the country! Let’s threaten all officers.
Can’t recruit new officers? Let’s dramatically lower the standards. Don’t consider what might happen next.
We are living in Thomas Sowell’s world where the elite classes fail to consider “second stage” thinking. Or, at least their voters are ignorant of second stage thinking. The elites themselves may be well aware, but are so malevolent that they just want to bring the whole thing down, just as communists have always wanted to do to America.
Steve mentions in passing that Memphis has been able to keep its official population pretty stable by annexing 15 suburbs. This mode of expansion by some cities also serves to dilute their per-capita crime stats, somewhat disguising the utter mayhem in inner cities such as Jacksonville FL.
It also makes it harder to statistically compare one city to another — but law-abiding residents know chaos when they see it, despite the protestations of Govs Hochul and Pritzker that crime is really down and fear of crime is just a public “perception”
Reality is a stubborn creature.
Even after you sweep it out the front door, it will simply crawl in through the back door.
We are also at the point in the NFL season where every year analysts bemoan the dearth of black head coaches, owners, executives, etc. Obviously the majority of owners and GMs have major reservations about the majority of the prospective black candidates, a subject that cannot be candidly discussed when something like 70 percent of the players are black. Like most things, when real money is on the line, a lot of the platitudes about diversity and inclusion go out the window.Replies: @Prester John, @Anonymous, @Known Fact
Much like the media’s Racing Too White (or too male, or too whatever) before every Triple Crown day.
Yes, it’s interesting to see where the elites draw the line. MIT makes strong efforts to ensure that their enrollment is almost 50/50 male/female (despite the applicant pool being skewed male) but once you are in, they make no effort to control what “Courses” (MIT speak for majors) the students pick. The result is that there is a wide spread in gender ratios. For example, 3/4 of the undergraduates whose primary major is Brain and Cognitive Sciences are women, but only one in four undergraduates in Nuclear Science and Engineering is a woman. I’m sure that every department would like to be above average in female enrollment but this leads you to the Lake Woebegone Paradox – it’s impossible for all the children to be above average.
In a lot of universities, the “studies” departments are refuges for the below average AA admits, while I’ll bet that there aren’t that many black female physics majors. If there are, they are probably black like Chandra Prescod-Weinstein is “black” or Liz Warren is an “Indian” – only in American “one drop rule” terms.
The mantra from the usual sources continues…
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-01-30/tyre-nichols-memphis-black-officers-internalized-racism
At this point they may as well start claiming that White people have superpowers to the extent that we can command and direct other’s actions by mind control.
America needs a broad popular front to stop the revolution from above that is transforming the country", which ties together the Green New Deal, the Diversity-Inclusion-Equity scam, and the attempt to erase biological sex.
I would have liked him to have included the US proxy war against Russia, which is being run by the same people with the same darkly utopian goals, and I think the argument needs to be tied together with the concept of the ruling "overclass," a term which Lind has popularized.
I also disagree with him that neo-liberal economic policies are "libertarian": the destruction of the currency and turning our financial system and fiscal policy into Ponzi scams does not seem very "libertarian" to me!
But the essay does make some crucial points and, as usual with Lind, is quite readable.Replies: @J.Ross, @Greta Handel, @Shamu, @Guest007, @Prester John, @kaganovitch, @Pop Warner, @Colin Wright, @Muggles, @Chrisnonymous, @J.Ross
I would have liked him to have included the US proxy war against Russia, which is being run by the same people with the same darkly utopian goals, and I think the argument needs to be tied together with the concept of the ruling “overclass,” a term which Lind has popularized.
https://babylonbee.com/news/sad-mr-beast-spends-millions-curing-blind-people-when-he-couldve-sent-another-tank-to-ukraine
The imaginary quote from Mittens captures his combination of fatuousness and tone-deafness quite well.
That is good, but I don’t think Whitlock goes quite far enough. Black churches are totally dominated by women and that makes these problems much worse. Good for him for pointing out black women don’t get the blame they deserve for the state of black families though.
BTW I've read that one of leading search phrases on Google is "Tyre Nichols criminal record". Unfortunately, in that market demand vastly exceeds supply; there's no information about that at all as far as I can tell (even via duckduckgo).Replies: @Jack D
People want to blame the victim, because that way their universe is not disturbed. If it is true that the cops can just randomly stop someone driving down the street and beat them to death for no reason, that is deeply disturbing, because that someone could be YOU. So we go desperately looking for ways in which we are different than the victim. Surely the victim is a habitual criminal unlike yourself, or he has been dating the ex-wife of one of the cops, unlike yourself. At a minimum, he is a different race than you. He comes from a broken home, unlike you. Anything so that this horrible thing is happening to the OTHER and could not possibly happen to you.
Not for want of trying, no one appears to have been able to have dug up significant dirt on Tyre Nichols. He comes from a semi-intact family – he has a mother and a step-father. He seems to have been gainfully employed at Fedex. He was NOT an aspiring rapper. He had pretty harmless and not stereotypically black hobbies like skateboarding and photography. Quit trying to “other” him to make yourself feel less threatened – that’s an understandable human reaction but it’s sick. He really could have been you.
Should I have told her, "Mom, if the police shoot me for running away from them if they have no reason to suspect that I have a gun, they violated police policy, and the City will settle for multiple millions of dollars."?
I don't think I did. I think I thanked her for the advice, and since then I walk and don't run when police are around, and I keep my hands out of my pockets.
This is The Talk that it is supposed that Black men give their sons. It is good advice also for non-Black people because police deal with all manners of people who wish them harm simply for being police, so police need to be cautious around anyone with the least bit threatening behavior.
So why did this man run from the police, a group of 5 Black officers who certainly wouldn't be White Supremacists? Is there something more going on here?
https://opentextbc.ca/socialpsychology/chapter/group-decision-making/Replies: @Hannah Katz, @Alec Leamas (working from home), @Inquiring Mind
Yes, but are any of the officers gang members, which has been alleged on the Interwebs.
Is this a LA Ramparts Scandal kind of situation?
This would make this different than the allegation that the officers were acting as the overseers for The Man.
“People want to blame the victim,…”
No, I think most of us are perfectly happy blaming the black cops.
Either way, it’s blacks behaving badly, which is the whole point of the post.
America needs a broad popular front to stop the revolution from above that is transforming the country", which ties together the Green New Deal, the Diversity-Inclusion-Equity scam, and the attempt to erase biological sex.
I would have liked him to have included the US proxy war against Russia, which is being run by the same people with the same darkly utopian goals, and I think the argument needs to be tied together with the concept of the ruling "overclass," a term which Lind has popularized.
I also disagree with him that neo-liberal economic policies are "libertarian": the destruction of the currency and turning our financial system and fiscal policy into Ponzi scams does not seem very "libertarian" to me!
But the essay does make some crucial points and, as usual with Lind, is quite readable.Replies: @J.Ross, @Greta Handel, @Shamu, @Guest007, @Prester John, @kaganovitch, @Pop Warner, @Colin Wright, @Muggles, @Chrisnonymous, @J.Ross
Well it is published on Tablet, so you’re not going to get anybody to talk sense when it comes to Vladolf Putler
What else is there to say? This country has been in a stupor since WWII when people were slowly convinced that blacks are just the same as us, and if they weren’t oppressed by segregation, redlining, and restrictive covenants then they would be just as functional as whites. But that didn’t happen, and the unhinged negro fetishists that have run this country since the 60s will destroy pretty much every aspect of American life to fulfill their twisted desires.
Affirmative action in Memphis police hiring results not just in dumb blacks getting a badge, but dumb whites too. It guarantees that the most incompetent will get hired, and the especially incompetent among them will get promoted. This happens in every single American institution, and it has made life miserable for everybody who has to live under these institutions.
I no longer have patience for people who maintain these delusions, it’s not worth explaining why they are wrong when 2020 happened and should have made it self-evident. Anybody who still thinks blacks just need to be given more handouts or preferential treatment is stupid at best and evil at worst.
Maybe dial back your outrage? I just happen to be a supporter of the “knowledge is good” school of thought. Tyre tried to flee; it would be interesting to know if he had a reason.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna68192
I rarely post off-topic, but since Steve is a data crunching kind of dude, this could be worthy of an iSteve post:
https://www.psbr.law/nevada/deaths-in-us-national-parks/
Tangentially related as it one data thread discusses fatal vehicle accidents at national parks…
The problem with Babylon Bee is that they don’t know when to stop. The basic comic premise of the piece was funny, but saying, “MrBeast could have purchased one M1 Abrams tank or dozens of Javelin missiles that would have … been sold on the black market to pay Zelensky’s prostitution bill from his recent trip to D.C. ” is a bridge too far I think. It crosses the line from humor to slander. Now, if they had mentioned Hunter Biden’s prostitution bill, that would have been funny because a good joke has an element of truth in it.
https://nypost.com/2023/01/31/hunter-biden-paid-assistant-thousands-off-the-books-for-filthy-sex-chats-texts-show/
(Warning, NSFW or for children)
PS there’s a name for women who accept money for having sexual relations and I don’t think it’s “legal assistant”.
Saving use of my LOL button.
I think they adopted that over the top affect as a defensive measure against Snopes and Twitter "fact checking" their jokes.Replies: @That Would Be Telling
Yes…..Madame Vice President .
Doesn’t need to be cash to be compensation.
The Babylon Bee did not go far enough.Replies: @Jack D
Ah yes, Faber College! “Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son.”
Come to iSteve for the insight, stay for the Boomer movie references!
Could the reason be that he feared for his life at that point? “He fled and I would not have fled” is just another way to draw the circle of risk so that you can put yourself safely outside of it.
I agree – knowledge is good. The knowledge of the Internet appears to be that this guy has no criminal record. From that you can either conclude that there has been some massive conspiracy by Google, the NY Times, the CIA and the Elders of Zion to cleanse the Internet of his prior misdeeds or else that the guy in fact has no criminal record. Occam’s Butterknife points to the latter as the most likely explanation.
PS, there was no outrage. I was just offering an explanation of why there is, as you say, a strong demand for derogatory information about someone who was primarily a victim. Sometimes, people do “blame the victim” because they are the criminal or identify with the criminal’s group but in this case I think it is a psychological defense mechanism.
Cops arrest hundreds of thousands of people a year and no one gets hurt 99.9% of the time. Anyone who flees, thinking that'll reduce his chance of getting hurt, is an idiot and/or impulsive — exactly the profile of the kind of young men who tend to get into the most trouble.
Anyway, the truth will come out if there's a trial; we can reopen this discussion then.
Apropos of fuck all this caught my attention:
What world do these clowns live in?
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/objectivity-has-got-go-news-leaders-call-end-objective-journalism
You could replace “E pluribus Unum” as the national motto with these two sentences, as we slowly circle the drain.
Are certain regions or cities (Black and White) going to suffer or gain from regional IQ selection? I recall data showing that the few White children remaining in Baltimore had an IQ around 90(?). I can’t imagine what a Black area that goes through similar negative selection looks like. What’s the average IQ of Black areas that have seen an exodus of every Black able to hold down a steady job and stay out of jail?
Tyre was tased before he fled. Why did the white police officer use a TASER on him ? I assume Tyre refused to comply with the police instructions thus the officer tased him. The first officer to tase him was white and he has not been charged with a crime. Was the use of a TASER justified? If so this may explain why the white officer has not been charged.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna68192
Add feats of strength and agility to the qualifying test.
LOL!
Saving use of my LOL button.
The problem with Babylon Bee is that they don’t know when to stop.
I think they adopted that over the top affect as a defensive measure against Snopes and Twitter “fact checking” their jokes.
No joking, see for example "CNN Purchases Industrial-Sized Washing Machine To Spin News Before Publication" and how Facebook ran with a dubious interpretation of a legit Snopes fact check (TL:DR: "'Labeled Satire" but some people don't get that").
Expect that as what happened with Dave Rubin and Twitter such sanctions live on long after the tech firm Officially reverses itself.
Mom told me “don’t run in the presence of the police, even if you are not running from them. They might shoot you.”
Should I have told her, “Mom, if the police shoot me for running away from them if they have no reason to suspect that I have a gun, they violated police policy, and the City will settle for multiple millions of dollars.”?
I don’t think I did. I think I thanked her for the advice, and since then I walk and don’t run when police are around, and I keep my hands out of my pockets.
This is The Talk that it is supposed that Black men give their sons. It is good advice also for non-Black people because police deal with all manners of people who wish them harm simply for being police, so police need to be cautious around anyone with the least bit threatening behavior.
So why did this man run from the police, a group of 5 Black officers who certainly wouldn’t be White Supremacists? Is there something more going on here?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjbPi00k_MEReplies: @Forbes
Media is gaslighting the public with the propaganda that “much of the world is stunned” that five cops, allegedly, beat a black man to death.
That many media outlets have suggested or implied that the black officers were expressing racism or have been conditioned by white supremacy expresses the absurdities of the lengths media will go to reinforce The Narrative.
It’s more likely the public is stunned by these efforts to rationalize the officers’ conduct.
America needs a broad popular front to stop the revolution from above that is transforming the country", which ties together the Green New Deal, the Diversity-Inclusion-Equity scam, and the attempt to erase biological sex.
I would have liked him to have included the US proxy war against Russia, which is being run by the same people with the same darkly utopian goals, and I think the argument needs to be tied together with the concept of the ruling "overclass," a term which Lind has popularized.
I also disagree with him that neo-liberal economic policies are "libertarian": the destruction of the currency and turning our financial system and fiscal policy into Ponzi scams does not seem very "libertarian" to me!
But the essay does make some crucial points and, as usual with Lind, is quite readable.Replies: @J.Ross, @Greta Handel, @Shamu, @Guest007, @Prester John, @kaganovitch, @Pop Warner, @Colin Wright, @Muggles, @Chrisnonymous, @J.Ross
It all seems to miss the J-word.
…and as long as that’s not there, it’s all a bit like discussing the problem with the flooding in the basement whilst tactfully not pointing out the busted pipe gushing water in plain sight.
You read the Lyin' Press a lot, for work reasons. Lots of Americans know better and don't, not just your readers.Replies: @Citizen of a Silly Country, @kaganovitch
Spot on. Steve’s advantage here is not in ‘noticing’ , which, as demonstrated by revealed preference in choice of domicile, just about everybody has noticed. Steve’s advantage here is as a confirmed leper in sogenanntes ‘respectable society’, he can say what everyone knows out loud. As the Bobby McGee song has it “Freedom’s just another word for nothin left to lose..”
Women especially have a strong need to conform with group consensus. Men could to some extent survive as hermits but a woman, especially a woman with children (which in the past was pretty much all of them) could only survive in society.Replies: @HammerJack
iSteve, you completely overlooked the primary cause of increased traffic deaths in Memphis. Not from some racial reckoning hallucinated by your confirmation bias. C’mon, it’s because nonwhites experienced the roads becoming more racist over that period. It’s well known that roads are now killing proportionally fewer whites than blacks.
Hey hey, ho ho. Objectivity’s got to go:
"Everyone" knows that he is EEEVIL and there's no use pretend that he is not or that the opinions of white racists have any validity.Maybe it's better that way. If people had understood that Walter Cronkite was just another partisan NY Leftist hack and not the Voice of God, when he pronounced anathema on America's effort in Vietnam, people might not have bought into it. It's time to rip off the mask. When the Washington Post tells you something, from now on you don't have to accept it as objective truth - even they are no longer pretending that what they are telling you is the objective truth. If it's a story about blacks, look at the byline of the reporter and if she is black, consider what she is writing in the context of Downie's piece.That's the thing about credibility - once you have lost it, it's very difficult to get it back. People have a hunger for objective truth so if the MSM is no longer even pretending to sell you the objective truth (hey, what is objective truth anyway - it's just something that white people made up) people are going to look for the real thing elsewhere. If they wanted a subscription to the Daily Worker or Muhammad Speaks, they would have signed up directly.Replies: @New Dealer
I think it is evident taht white people need to start treating People of Colour a bit better. whites will soon a minority everywhere and what goes around comes around. The time for talking is fast ending. If systemic changes are not done the fire will come.
You mean blacks will take us whites to a new country, provide us free housing, food and health care, and where our descendants will be 100 times better off than if we had stayed here? Sounds good.
Hunter’s laptop wasn’t scrubbed from the Internet by a massive conspiracy? Discussion of who blew-up Nord Stream 2 is not scrubbed from the Internet by a massive conspiracy? The non-reporting on all the Pentagon and CIA assets obviously in Ukraine right now is not scrubbed from the Internet by massive conspiracy? After a decade of being burned by media lies of omission over variations of this same goddam story aren’t we entitled to be skeptical of the official narrative?
The US security establishment has a big incentive to lie about the extent of its involvement with the destruction of Nordstream and their presence in Ukraine. I don't see a comparable national interest at stake in scrubbing Tyre's criminal record. George Floyd was an even bigger national saint (because he was "murdered" by white cops) but they were still unable to scrub his record.
Steve plays the role of the little boy in the story of the Emperor’s New Clothes. The other people in the crowd can see perfectly well with their own eyes that the Emperor is buck naked but nobody wants to be the one to say it out loud – as long as everyone else is complimenting the Emperor on his beautiful clothes, they’ll be damned if the are going to be the first one to break the social consensus.
Women especially have a strong need to conform with group consensus. Men could to some extent survive as hermits but a woman, especially a woman with children (which in the past was pretty much all of them) could only survive in society.
Dear Steve —
You may already be familiar with the Claritas LLC segmentations of American society by ZIP code, but since I can’t find any references to Claritas, PRZM, or related terms when I search your work on UNZ, and since their findings may be of interest to some readers, I thought I’d send two links. The firm codified many of the classic nicknames for types of neighborhoods, some of which you’ve probably heard from marketers or pollsters — “Blueblood Estates” or “Kids and Cul-de-Sacs”, and less genteel classics like “Norma Rae-ville” or “Shotguns and Pickups”, which can still be found but now require a bit more digging. Their breakdown of 38126, the poorest ZIP code in Memphis, currently yields the euphemized terms “Family Thrifts”, “Park Bench Seniors”, “Lo-Tech Singles”, “New Beginnings”, and “Striving Selfies”. Still, despite the wokewashing, the discoveries live on.
Here’s their ZIP code looker-upper:
https://claritas360.claritas.com/mybestsegments/#zipLookup
And here’s the main site, which leads you to some expensive services but which also includes a few way fun free tools:
https://claritas.com/
Happy ZIPing, kids —
And yet you somehow about these things. How is it, oh wise one, that you know about Hunter’s laptop but you don’t know about Tyre’s criminal record? Being scrubbed from the MSM is only possible if you define MSM very narrowly to mean the Washington Post and the NY Times, but in reality the NY Post and the Daily Mail are MSM too even if the snooty guys who work for the NY Times look down their noses at them. This is putting aside all the “disrespectable” sources on the Internet which will give you even more information, which is sometimes even true now and then.
The US security establishment has a big incentive to lie about the extent of its involvement with the destruction of Nordstream and their presence in Ukraine. I don’t see a comparable national interest at stake in scrubbing Tyre’s criminal record. George Floyd was an even bigger national saint (because he was “murdered” by white cops) but they were still unable to scrub his record.
I think they adopted that over the top affect as a defensive measure against Snopes and Twitter "fact checking" their jokes.Replies: @That Would Be Telling
Said “fact checking” we should note translates directly into suppression by the totalitarian tech Left.
No joking, see for example “CNN Purchases Industrial-Sized Washing Machine To Spin News Before Publication” and how Facebook ran with a dubious interpretation of a legit Snopes fact check (TL:DR: “‘Labeled Satire” but some people don’t get that”).
Expect that as what happened with Dave Rubin and Twitter such sanctions live on long after the tech firm Officially reverses itself.
PS there’s a name for women who accept money for having sexual relations and I don’t think it’s “legal assistant”.
Yes…..Madame Vice President .
Doesn’t need to be cash to be compensation.
America needs a broad popular front to stop the revolution from above that is transforming the country", which ties together the Green New Deal, the Diversity-Inclusion-Equity scam, and the attempt to erase biological sex.
I would have liked him to have included the US proxy war against Russia, which is being run by the same people with the same darkly utopian goals, and I think the argument needs to be tied together with the concept of the ruling "overclass," a term which Lind has popularized.
I also disagree with him that neo-liberal economic policies are "libertarian": the destruction of the currency and turning our financial system and fiscal policy into Ponzi scams does not seem very "libertarian" to me!
But the essay does make some crucial points and, as usual with Lind, is quite readable.Replies: @J.Ross, @Greta Handel, @Shamu, @Guest007, @Prester John, @kaganovitch, @Pop Warner, @Colin Wright, @Muggles, @Chrisnonymous, @J.Ross
Interesting that just a decade ago or so Mr. Lind was a typical “house liberal” of the NYT variety and similar outlets. More recently online political sites.
More or less a “squish” liberal who imagines a JFK fantasy world where as in the ancient days, Time Magazine and others doled out the Democrat Party line which seemed almost reasonable. After all, who didn’t love FDR?
Sort of like a liberal version the then still breathing “conservative” CIA asset William F. Buckley Jr.
Now he seems to have finally gotten wind of the Comrades, after years of their neo Marxist identity politics, which may not Be A Good Thing.
Being a well fed academic think tanker and an Official Intellectual (and open government worshiper), he’s finally getting wind of the modern Red Guards. Now doubting his wisdom…
These old fat White guys are no longer feted by the Obama led Democrat insiders and Biden string pullers. These old liberals weren’t “haters” and tried to use White arguments and logic. Sure they ridiculed their opponents, and embraced marginalizing Reaganite working class conservatives, but they simply didn’t hate enough.
So now “viewing with alarm” and baffled by who these feminist/nonbinary/Green religionist Marxists really are.
Too little, too late.
I don't think that's quite so. Lind, although he started as a neo-con, has been anti-immigration for at least the last 30 years on economic and Nationalist grounds. As far as I know he has never wavered from that position. If, as commenter Thirdtwin memorably described Klaus Schwab recently as "the Hillary Clinton of Henry Kissingers", Lind may be said to be "the Pat Buchanan of William Kristols."
Hey hey, ho ho. Objectivity's got to go:Replies: @Jack D
It’s funny though that this only cuts one way – if your departure from objectivity in a rightward direction (let’s say that “your truth”, based on your “lived experience” is that climate change is not real), they are going to pull the “follow the science” gambit on you before you can finish your sentence.
It’s really quite obvious that reporters are more Leftist (and less smart) than ever so they are going to have trouble dealing with the idea that they are supposed to be objective professionals. How could something like the question of whether Donald Trump is EEEVIL possibly have two sides to it?
“Everyone” knows that he is EEEVIL and there’s no use pretend that he is not or that the opinions of white racists have any validity.
Maybe it’s better that way. If people had understood that Walter Cronkite was just another partisan NY Leftist hack and not the Voice of God, when he pronounced anathema on America’s effort in Vietnam, people might not have bought into it. It’s time to rip off the mask.
When the Washington Post tells you something, from now on you don’t have to accept it as objective truth – even they are no longer pretending that what they are telling you is the objective truth. If it’s a story about blacks, look at the byline of the reporter and if she is black, consider what she is writing in the context of Downie’s piece.
That’s the thing about credibility – once you have lost it, it’s very difficult to get it back. People have a hunger for objective truth so if the MSM is no longer even pretending to sell you the objective truth (hey, what is objective truth anyway – it’s just something that white people made up) people are going to look for the real thing elsewhere. If they wanted a subscription to the Daily Worker or Muhammad Speaks, they would have signed up directly.
That's because deception is not mere negation. If it were, all you would have to do to find out the truth is to negate anything the perfect liar says. Rather, deception is unpredictably uttering truths or falsehoods. Once you discover from better information elsewhere that a source often tells the truth but sometimes lies, anything new from that source is unbelievable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsus_in_uno,_falsus_in_omnibusIt's elementary. Knowing that, wouldn't a public health authority, responsible for life-and-death decisions, be scrupulously honest in its announcements, including qualification of statements, for example, stating than action is more likely better than not, or stating that the correct answer is not known? As of 2023, if a real threat arrives, people won't heed the advice of public health officials.Replies: @Alec Leamas (working from home)
Thanks for the free psychoanalysis (the breadth of your talents is quite breathtaking — law, psychology, aeronautics…) but as it happens, getting hurt by cops isn’t something I ever worry about.
Cops arrest hundreds of thousands of people a year and no one gets hurt 99.9% of the time. Anyone who flees, thinking that’ll reduce his chance of getting hurt, is an idiot and/or impulsive — exactly the profile of the kind of young men who tend to get into the most trouble.
Anyway, the truth will come out if there’s a trial; we can reopen this discussion then.
...and as long as that's not there, it's all a bit like discussing the problem with the flooding in the basement whilst tactfully not pointing out the busted pipe gushing water in plain sight.Replies: @Corpse Tooth
Yep.
On Tucker Carlson and elsewhere on Fox, Whitlock is usually pretty good.
Also to add this observation. Nichols was reportedly crying and yelling for his “mama”or mom during most of his vicious beatdown.
That is not something most 29 YO functional White males would do in a similar situation.
Definitely proof of Whitlock’s “baby mama culture” observation.
I think much of black male violence directed at women (mainly but not exclusively black women) is due to this resentment against female “father figures” in their households. Women end up doing the discipline of young males (absent any fathers in the house) and often lose total control over them.
In “White cultural” families it is the young women who are normally the main and only object of “mother discipline” and hence, at some teen age as puberty kicks in hard, go off track and do nearly everything possible to piss off “mama” and her effort to control Young Hot Lovely.
In “black culture” families, females and males only get the Mama treatment. Daddy ain’t home, ever.
So while the young women go off track, sow wild oats, most eventually return to the nest Mama has waiting for them. Wiser about men and the world. The male Wild Child, however, gets kicked out and while often returns (free food! free shelter!) still lacks any wisdom imparted by the absent male disciplinarian. Though sometimes this is replaced in sports by a male coach figure. If lucky enough to have that.
The young man can’t circle back for Daddy wisdom since Daddy is a stranger, one among many revolving door older household males keeping Mama company, for a while anyway.
This lack of a family male role model for black males is well known and understood. Welfare keeps Daddy away, or prison, and the matriarchy is now complete.
Too bad we have to learn of Nichols love of “mama” while being kicked to death by other young black males. Wearing police uniforms. No, they ain’t your mama and have their own resentment issues with her…
As a high-school student, I was about as nerdy as they come: I had been valedictorian in junior high and eventually became high-school valedictorian. I had no desire to be an athlete, but of course we all had to take phys-ed.
My sophomore year in PE, our PE teacher happened to be a young guy fresh out of the Marines -- on the face of it almost my exact opposite. But for some reason we got along well.
On one occasion for the PE test, we were supposed to climb a rope up to the rather high ceiling of the gym. I glanced up, turned to the coach, and told him that of course I could not do it. He smiled, acknowledged that maybe I could not, but told me that he would personally really appreciate it if I would give it my best shot.
And of course I made it all the way to the top, to my own amazement.
The point being that, of all the kids in my high school, I may have been the least likely to care whether a teacher was male or female, whether I could prove to the coach that I was a real man, etc.
But even in my case, this ex-Marine knew how to get me to go beyond what I thought I could do.
We're just not supposed to say this, but the truth is that almost all young males can be much more influenced and motivated by authoritative adult males, especially adult males who can exhibit physical strength, than by adult females.
In some sense, it really is not fair. But it is reality. And we better face up to it.
Black men kill each other with gleeful abandon on Chicago’s West and South sides and no one says “boo!” The outrage over this unfortunate incident is hypocritical.
Good article – if it really means that much to liberals to have quality, diverse cops then they have to forget about lots of blacks in the fire department, or law firms, or business school, etc.
It would be nice if Republicans actually started doing what most people want, which is to propose tougher sentences for criminals instead of restrictions on police. But instead you have Tim Scott out there trying to get police reform done again.
https://nypost.com/2023/01/30/firefighters-use-6k-gallons-of-water-to-extinguish-burning-tesla/Replies: @Joe Stalin
Remember Chemistry lab with Sodium metal in water?
This is the Lithium version.
[5:38]
Thresholds are an issue in changing demographics, and I think the situation raised in the article is a good example.
With a society that is filled with responsible people, you can crack down on the irresponsible people with initiatives like what Giuliani did in New York. Now, of course, we often don’t. But the point is that you can.
In Memphis, you have two choices: allow criminals to get away with crime, or create a corrupt law enforcement agency that may not be any better.
Progressives win a lot of arguments because they talk about progress as a linear process. There was an article on Unz recently that talked about how California is an example of how a multicultural society can work well. Therefore, everywhere should be like California.
Maybe. But California is an outlier; portions of the wealth of the entirety of the West flows to California due to its inherent advantages. Most places can’t be like California, and even California probably can’t be California if the prosperity of the West falters.
More or less a "squish" liberal who imagines a JFK fantasy world where as in the ancient days, Time Magazine and others doled out the Democrat Party line which seemed almost reasonable. After all, who didn't love FDR?
Sort of like a liberal version the then still breathing "conservative" CIA asset William F. Buckley Jr.
Now he seems to have finally gotten wind of the Comrades, after years of their neo Marxist identity politics, which may not Be A Good Thing.
Being a well fed academic think tanker and an Official Intellectual (and open government worshiper), he's finally getting wind of the modern Red Guards. Now doubting his wisdom...
These old fat White guys are no longer feted by the Obama led Democrat insiders and Biden string pullers. These old liberals weren't "haters" and tried to use White arguments and logic. Sure they ridiculed their opponents, and embraced marginalizing Reaganite working class conservatives, but they simply didn't hate enough.
So now "viewing with alarm" and baffled by who these feminist/nonbinary/Green religionist Marxists really are.
Too little, too late.Replies: @Stan Adams, @kaganovitch
Time was staunchly Republican until the Nixon era. It began drifting leftward after Henry Luce died.
You may already be familiar with the Claritas LLC segmentations of American society by ZIP code, but since I can't find any references to Claritas, PRZM, or related terms when I search your work on UNZ, and since their findings may be of interest to some readers, I thought I'd send two links. The firm codified many of the classic nicknames for types of neighborhoods, some of which you've probably heard from marketers or pollsters -- "Blueblood Estates" or "Kids and Cul-de-Sacs", and less genteel classics like "Norma Rae-ville" or "Shotguns and Pickups", which can still be found but now require a bit more digging. Their breakdown of 38126, the poorest ZIP code in Memphis, currently yields the euphemized terms "Family Thrifts", "Park Bench Seniors", "Lo-Tech Singles", "New Beginnings", and "Striving Selfies". Still, despite the wokewashing, the discoveries live on.
Here's their ZIP code looker-upper:
https://claritas360.claritas.com/mybestsegments/#zipLookup
And here's the main site, which leads you to some expensive services but which also includes a few way fun free tools:
https://claritas.com/
Happy ZIPing, kids --Replies: @Jack D
Maybe I’m dumb but I don’t understand their group names. I looked at my zip and the groups that they listed included Upper Crust (Wealthy Mature w/0 Kids), Movers & Shakers (Wealthy Older Mostly w/o Kids) and Gray Power (Wealthy Mature w/0 Kids). Isn’t this 3 different ways of saying “older rich white people”? As a whole, this is basically accurate but they seem to be making distinctions without a difference.
If you click on the subgroups, they give further defining traits. For example, Upper Crust “Owns a Lexus and Eats at California Pizza Kitchen” while OTOH, Movers and Shakers Owns a BMW and Eats at PF Chang’s ” How is this at all edifying? If I trade my BMW for a Lexus, am I now in a different group or did I just get a better lease rate or read the latest JD Power quality ratings? What if I prefer Mercedes? What if I avoid eating at shitty chain restaurants entirely?
I understand how it would be useful to slice and dice the population. If I was trying to sell Kia’s, a mailing to my zip code would be mostly a waste of $. But it seems to me that they have sliced and diced a bit too finely.
Also to add this observation. Nichols was reportedly crying and yelling for his "mama"or mom during most of his vicious beatdown.
That is not something most 29 YO functional White males would do in a similar situation.
Definitely proof of Whitlock's "baby mama culture" observation.
I think much of black male violence directed at women (mainly but not exclusively black women) is due to this resentment against female "father figures" in their households. Women end up doing the discipline of young males (absent any fathers in the house) and often lose total control over them.
In "White cultural" families it is the young women who are normally the main and only object of "mother discipline" and hence, at some teen age as puberty kicks in hard, go off track and do nearly everything possible to piss off "mama" and her effort to control Young Hot Lovely.
In "black culture" families, females and males only get the Mama treatment. Daddy ain't home, ever.
So while the young women go off track, sow wild oats, most eventually return to the nest Mama has waiting for them. Wiser about men and the world. The male Wild Child, however, gets kicked out and while often returns (free food! free shelter!) still lacks any wisdom imparted by the absent male disciplinarian. Though sometimes this is replaced in sports by a male coach figure. If lucky enough to have that.
The young man can't circle back for Daddy wisdom since Daddy is a stranger, one among many revolving door older household males keeping Mama company, for a while anyway.
This lack of a family male role model for black males is well known and understood. Welfare keeps Daddy away, or prison, and the matriarchy is now complete.
Too bad we have to learn of Nichols love of "mama" while being kicked to death by other young black males. Wearing police uniforms. No, they ain't your mama and have their own resentment issues with her...Replies: @Joe Stalin, @Jack D, @onetwothree, @PhysicistDave
I’ve read of soldiers wounded and dying in battle crying out for their mothers; giving Nichols the benefits of the doubt wouldn’t be a stretch. Undoubtedly, he understood his life was under serious threat viscerally, and his reactions should be taken that way.
Oh’s Tinys…
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/harvey-school-worker-embezzlement-chicken-wing-orders/Replies: @Jim Don Bob
1) I knew before I read the article that she was not Amish
2) She bought chicken wings which cannot be served to kids because they contains bones.
3) She picked them up herself and signed for them
4) She’d been doing this since 2020.
5) She only got caught because the school was $300K over its yearly budget halfway through the year.
6) She bought / stole 11,000 cases or about 440,000 lbs or 220 tons. That is 10-11 full sized tractor trailer loads of chicken wings.
7) Dollars to doughnuts that she had help.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/01/illinois-school-worker-allegedly-stole-1-5-million-of-food-mostly-chicken-wings-from-district/
Definitely had help. The wings were doubtless delivered straight to accomplices on the school's dime rather than being pilfered from school. The amounts are much too large to be possible otherwise.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/objectivity-has-got-go-news-leaders-call-end-objective-journalismReplies: @Jim Don Bob, @Corpse Tooth
Objectivity Has Got To Go, huh? That horse left the barn in the Cronkite years.
Also to add this observation. Nichols was reportedly crying and yelling for his "mama"or mom during most of his vicious beatdown.
That is not something most 29 YO functional White males would do in a similar situation.
Definitely proof of Whitlock's "baby mama culture" observation.
I think much of black male violence directed at women (mainly but not exclusively black women) is due to this resentment against female "father figures" in their households. Women end up doing the discipline of young males (absent any fathers in the house) and often lose total control over them.
In "White cultural" families it is the young women who are normally the main and only object of "mother discipline" and hence, at some teen age as puberty kicks in hard, go off track and do nearly everything possible to piss off "mama" and her effort to control Young Hot Lovely.
In "black culture" families, females and males only get the Mama treatment. Daddy ain't home, ever.
So while the young women go off track, sow wild oats, most eventually return to the nest Mama has waiting for them. Wiser about men and the world. The male Wild Child, however, gets kicked out and while often returns (free food! free shelter!) still lacks any wisdom imparted by the absent male disciplinarian. Though sometimes this is replaced in sports by a male coach figure. If lucky enough to have that.
The young man can't circle back for Daddy wisdom since Daddy is a stranger, one among many revolving door older household males keeping Mama company, for a while anyway.
This lack of a family male role model for black males is well known and understood. Welfare keeps Daddy away, or prison, and the matriarchy is now complete.
Too bad we have to learn of Nichols love of "mama" while being kicked to death by other young black males. Wearing police uniforms. No, they ain't your mama and have their own resentment issues with her...Replies: @Joe Stalin, @Jack D, @onetwothree, @PhysicistDave
If you are going to do some armchair analysis of black culture, you should focus on the criminals here (i.e the cops), not the victim. Tyre didn’t ask to be kicked to death. The fact that he cried out for his mama in his last conscious moments had nothing to do with why he was kicked to death because he wasn’t doing the kicking. In fact it is nothing but sad and heartbreaking (and I don’t agree that a white boy might not have the same last words). Nothing in a victim’s culture or upbringing or criminal history or whatever has any relevancy so what is the point of analyzing it in relation to him. It’s just another form of victim blaming.
Likely few do, perhaps by the blue moon, a crazed masochist makes the request.
"The fact that he cried out for his mama."
I find nothing unusual in this; not out of the realm for someone in extreme distress. Could be a little more to it in this case:
"Suspect Tyre Nichols' mother, Rowvaughn Wells, of 6743 Castle Gate Ln 38141, made the scene and advised that suspect Trye Nichols went out with friends, and she believes that they may have spiked his drink."
Is there a tox report?
After Trye assaulted someone prior the videoed stop (unsure as to who that was, another cop, or....?) he then proceeded to:
"…Nissan with Tennessee tag BJL2458 travelling at high speed…drove into oncoming traffic on East Raines Road…"
Good thing no innocent was killed, who knows what mayhem might have occurred had police not apprehended him.
Ya know if perps treated cops with the same respect/fear they show towards their bookies or drug dealers, there well could be five more cops out there serving on the mean streets of Memphis. Instead, there'll be a city a few million poorer, and a half dozen lives wrecked: to what end?
In short, the Yankee WASP made the Negro the Scared Cow Numinous Negro in order to wage culture wear against the South and Southerners, which would morally justify all the dead in
'the Civil War' as well as all the theft by regional elites during Reconstruction. And like all such things the enemies list did not stay short. Large numbers of Irish Catholics made certain that the same Who group would make them another against Whom group. After all, the largest anti-draft riot during the sacred war to free the Numinous Negro was in NTYC and was largely Irish, and most of the leaders always coming back to asserting that they, buried in poverty, had no desire to die to free some other peoples;lke that the rich of NYC already were beginning to coddle at every opportunity.
And then as Irish were the primary foundation of the world's first truly professional place force in NYC, cops had to become bad, because surly they existed just to harass the dusky hued angels. If not, then the basis of the NYC PD would have been black.
And so America's actual race war, white elites using Negroes as weapons and tools against the whites they hate and fear, or just find icky, not only has been never ending but now has been made global.
If you fail to address how things became as they are, you sure are not going to take corrections. The great problem here is that buried deep in the minds and hearts of the Deep State and the elite whites of America is that if they were to undue any of that, they would ben exposed as just another set of self=righteous thugs who use idiots to wage proxy wars to make themselves richer and more powerful. And blacks are far from sharp enough figure out how that game always hurts the black community as a whole.
Is there a way to change any of that without essentially clearing away all off the Deep State elite types? I doubt it. And I expect them to keep pushing to advance hatred of White worldwide. After all, holding the power they do is because Massa Lincoln done freed them slaves and pleased God mightily.Replies: @Ron Mexico, @Charles Erwin Wilson
Equally at the heart of Irish Catholic discontent was the WASP practice of paying the $300 draft replacement fee. I think John Fogerty wrote a song that might apply.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/objectivity-has-got-go-news-leaders-call-end-objective-journalismReplies: @Jim Don Bob, @Corpse Tooth
Objectivity is difficult for old model humans. The wide distribution of gene therapy drugs within the decaying NATO imperium will insure the rise of the new model human sans reproductive organs. They will be totally objective and servile whilst we old models are extinguished by Science.
Isn’t there some new “Sailer’s Law” we can glean from this affirmative action debacle? It could be useful, because lordy lord lord, the black bodies are piling up like never before, along with the least media coverage of the slaughter.
As far as the wokiest reasoning, it seems like they believe that it’s better to give meritless blacks jobs, that require merit to avoid needless deaths, for optics to support their false public claims about race being a social construct, even though the targeted minority suffers mortally, and in great numbers from their scheme, since black people, they presume, don’t reason or feel pain like non-blacks do.
Additionally, they can be easily fooled into supporting a political party that has decimated their numbers, and death is a cultural component of theirs to be taken for granted.
This keeps progressive maniacs in power, while keeping black numbers down.
It’s a pretty dark way to live a life, but the wokists have managed to make it work… for now.
"Everyone" knows that he is EEEVIL and there's no use pretend that he is not or that the opinions of white racists have any validity.Maybe it's better that way. If people had understood that Walter Cronkite was just another partisan NY Leftist hack and not the Voice of God, when he pronounced anathema on America's effort in Vietnam, people might not have bought into it. It's time to rip off the mask. When the Washington Post tells you something, from now on you don't have to accept it as objective truth - even they are no longer pretending that what they are telling you is the objective truth. If it's a story about blacks, look at the byline of the reporter and if she is black, consider what she is writing in the context of Downie's piece.That's the thing about credibility - once you have lost it, it's very difficult to get it back. People have a hunger for objective truth so if the MSM is no longer even pretending to sell you the objective truth (hey, what is objective truth anyway - it's just something that white people made up) people are going to look for the real thing elsewhere. If they wanted a subscription to the Daily Worker or Muhammad Speaks, they would have signed up directly.Replies: @New Dealer
Telling a single lie makes you a liar. But telling a single truth does not make you a truth-teller.
That’s because deception is not mere negation. If it were, all you would have to do to find out the truth is to negate anything the perfect liar says. Rather, deception is unpredictably uttering truths or falsehoods. Once you discover from better information elsewhere that a source often tells the truth but sometimes lies, anything new from that source is unbelievable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsus_in_uno,_falsus_in_omnibus
It’s elementary. Knowing that, wouldn’t a public health authority, responsible for life-and-death decisions, be scrupulously honest in its announcements, including qualification of statements, for example, stating than action is more likely better than not, or stating that the correct answer is not known? As of 2023, if a real threat arrives, people won’t heed the advice of public health officials.
“Defense”
The unit I served in was all white and stayed white. It was Whitey McWhitey for nearly three years. Not a hint of affirmative action. A merit based system was in place for efficiency and cohesion which helped keep down injuries during training and deployment. This was in the 1990s.
Wrong. Calling for mama when fearing death is widely attested: https://www.quora.com/Do-soldiers-dying-on-the-battlefield-really-call-for-mama-and-say-I-wanna-go-home. https://www.quora.com/Why-do-some-soldiers-call-for-their-mother-when-they-are-dying-on-the-battlefield
https://www.russellmoore.com/2019/05/08/why-do-dying-men-call-for-mama/
A three-year old in extreme distress will mutter mama mama mama; not actually calling for her.
I wonder what will become of Graceland,and the cemetery?
It seems Memphis’ decline is picking up speed.
I can’t imagine A white person wanting to live there.
Maybe,like Detroit,there will be a small section with livable conditions,around the Graceland area. It is,I’m sure,A great moneymaker.
Bye,Tyree,we will miss you!😉
Indeed, this reader’s lack of surprise is one measure of Steve’s work.
Whatever his agenda really is, I have learned some things from him.
February is here, and eventually the maple sugaring season.
The rest of the world can go to hell.
To borrow from old Ben Franklin - Maple syrup is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
That's because deception is not mere negation. If it were, all you would have to do to find out the truth is to negate anything the perfect liar says. Rather, deception is unpredictably uttering truths or falsehoods. Once you discover from better information elsewhere that a source often tells the truth but sometimes lies, anything new from that source is unbelievable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsus_in_uno,_falsus_in_omnibusIt's elementary. Knowing that, wouldn't a public health authority, responsible for life-and-death decisions, be scrupulously honest in its announcements, including qualification of statements, for example, stating than action is more likely better than not, or stating that the correct answer is not known? As of 2023, if a real threat arrives, people won't heed the advice of public health officials.Replies: @Alec Leamas (working from home)
Well, I suppose one way to look at it is to say you only get one good lie in those circumstances. Using it at the outset to dismiss the efficacy of masks, and then to shortly thereafter reverse it wasn’t a particularly good use of that lie, the ethics of lying to adults to get them to do something you want them to do aside. Once the credibility and ability to persuade is shot, you’ll naturally need to resort to ever more coercive means to yield the desired behavior.
What percentage of the population will lock down for ten days to “stop the spread of Airborne Ebolarabiesaids?” It would seem to me rather elementary that “public health” concerns not just science, but an understanding of human behavior and how to communicate health advice reliably to the public in such a way as to modify people’s behaviors in a manner salutary to their health.
And people who are not Leftist being sucked into seeing Libertarianism as anti-soclaiist has been ne essay for all this recent set of horrors to be smashed down on us, because no one for the establishment 'Right' wished to be seen as anti-Liberatraian and there pro-socialist when the super rich freaks would demand freedom from any government oversight to do what they wished with what they had earned.Replies: @Chrisnonymous
Shamu, you are apparently typing with your fins. It’s unreadable.
Who named the Scorpion Unit, that murdered Nichols? That’s a provocative name for a police unit.
Certainly black culture is completely dysfunctional in every measurable way. And certainly the black matriarchy is part of the dysfunction.
But there’s the issue of causation: is the matriarchy a cause or an effect of black dysfunction? Or, does the black matriarchy have nothing to do with black dysfunction at all and is rather just the default way blacks organize their communities?
For whatever reason -- genetics, culture, the heritage of slavery, continuing discrimination, or whatever -- there has always been some level of dysfunction in the Black community.
But the patronizing behavior of White liberals (and, yes, "Conservatives") has made it much, much worse.
If we accepted brutally evil behavior on the part of young White males in the way that we do tolerate such behavior by young Black males, then White neighborhoods too would become unlivable.
Adolescent and young adult males are high-energy, risk-taking, boundary-challenging beings in all races and ethnic groups.
I was about as restrained and well-behaved as an adolescent kid can be, and, yet, I still recall a few damn-fool things I did.
Don't you?
Mature males have to control young males.
If they don't, you end up with Hell on earth.
America needs a broad popular front to stop the revolution from above that is transforming the country", which ties together the Green New Deal, the Diversity-Inclusion-Equity scam, and the attempt to erase biological sex.
I would have liked him to have included the US proxy war against Russia, which is being run by the same people with the same darkly utopian goals, and I think the argument needs to be tied together with the concept of the ruling "overclass," a term which Lind has popularized.
I also disagree with him that neo-liberal economic policies are "libertarian": the destruction of the currency and turning our financial system and fiscal policy into Ponzi scams does not seem very "libertarian" to me!
But the essay does make some crucial points and, as usual with Lind, is quite readable.Replies: @J.Ross, @Greta Handel, @Shamu, @Guest007, @Prester John, @kaganovitch, @Pop Warner, @Colin Wright, @Muggles, @Chrisnonymous, @J.Ross
Recently, the SBU seems to be cleaning house with regard to corruption. This comes just after the GOP announces closer oversight of Ukrainian slush funds. Correlation or causation? The Treasury also makes a declaration at the same time. Maybe the SBU knows something the Treasury does not–or maybe it doesn’t!
Also to add this observation. Nichols was reportedly crying and yelling for his "mama"or mom during most of his vicious beatdown.
That is not something most 29 YO functional White males would do in a similar situation.
Definitely proof of Whitlock's "baby mama culture" observation.
I think much of black male violence directed at women (mainly but not exclusively black women) is due to this resentment against female "father figures" in their households. Women end up doing the discipline of young males (absent any fathers in the house) and often lose total control over them.
In "White cultural" families it is the young women who are normally the main and only object of "mother discipline" and hence, at some teen age as puberty kicks in hard, go off track and do nearly everything possible to piss off "mama" and her effort to control Young Hot Lovely.
In "black culture" families, females and males only get the Mama treatment. Daddy ain't home, ever.
So while the young women go off track, sow wild oats, most eventually return to the nest Mama has waiting for them. Wiser about men and the world. The male Wild Child, however, gets kicked out and while often returns (free food! free shelter!) still lacks any wisdom imparted by the absent male disciplinarian. Though sometimes this is replaced in sports by a male coach figure. If lucky enough to have that.
The young man can't circle back for Daddy wisdom since Daddy is a stranger, one among many revolving door older household males keeping Mama company, for a while anyway.
This lack of a family male role model for black males is well known and understood. Welfare keeps Daddy away, or prison, and the matriarchy is now complete.
Too bad we have to learn of Nichols love of "mama" while being kicked to death by other young black males. Wearing police uniforms. No, they ain't your mama and have their own resentment issues with her...Replies: @Joe Stalin, @Jack D, @onetwothree, @PhysicistDave
Also to add this observation. Nichols was reportedly crying and yelling for his “mama”or mom during most of his vicious beatdown.
That is not something most 29 YO functional White males would do in a similar situation.
It’s the most routine thing in a world when a man, white or otherwise, is injured in combat. I’d say getting beaten to death is pretty similar to most combat situations, and it’s unsurprising that Tyre would behave in a typical way.
People say stupid shit here all the time but it always bugs me to see gross misunderstandings of human nature.
My point was it is odd for a man 29 years old to repeatedly cry out that.
Yes, solders in combat, injured or dying, say that also. But most of those are very young, anywhere from 17-24. At that age "mama" is often the significant female in his universe.
For an older male, that tends to fade and get replaced. However in father absent black matriarchal culture the "mother" figure remains paramount.
The black (Black!) cops didn't seem to care about this anyway. At this juncture there is no reported motive for this murder being offered. Seems to be either vastly displaced anger over something else, some kind of group frenzy, or perhaps some personal motive by one of the "Scorpions" which has yet to be revealed.
When cops go bad, it's often quite bad. Recently in the Houston area a former suburban town cop was finally sentenced to death for hiring a hit man to kill his wife. The evidence was conclusive (hit man already in prison) but endless appeals have stalled this for years.
You would think they would know better, but no...
……What, like affirmative action ,minority set asides ,quotas in college admissions ,section eight housing ,etc.etc.etc……that sorta thing ,yeah ,whitey ain’t t been doing none of that stuff.
Women especially have a strong need to conform with group consensus. Men could to some extent survive as hermits but a woman, especially a woman with children (which in the past was pretty much all of them) could only survive in society.Replies: @HammerJack
It’s an interesting argument. The women I know will defend woke precepts to the absolute death. I swear to you, without exception they wouldn’t recant even as the guillotine blade is hoisted. And several of the men I know aren’t far behind. But not a single one of them lives near Diversity, or ever would. Some are in gated communities. Can’t be too careful!
More or less a "squish" liberal who imagines a JFK fantasy world where as in the ancient days, Time Magazine and others doled out the Democrat Party line which seemed almost reasonable. After all, who didn't love FDR?
Sort of like a liberal version the then still breathing "conservative" CIA asset William F. Buckley Jr.
Now he seems to have finally gotten wind of the Comrades, after years of their neo Marxist identity politics, which may not Be A Good Thing.
Being a well fed academic think tanker and an Official Intellectual (and open government worshiper), he's finally getting wind of the modern Red Guards. Now doubting his wisdom...
These old fat White guys are no longer feted by the Obama led Democrat insiders and Biden string pullers. These old liberals weren't "haters" and tried to use White arguments and logic. Sure they ridiculed their opponents, and embraced marginalizing Reaganite working class conservatives, but they simply didn't hate enough.
So now "viewing with alarm" and baffled by who these feminist/nonbinary/Green religionist Marxists really are.
Too little, too late.Replies: @Stan Adams, @kaganovitch
Interesting that just a decade ago or so Mr. Lind was a typical “house liberal” of the NYT variety and similar outlets. More recently online political sites.
I don’t think that’s quite so. Lind, although he started as a neo-con, has been anti-immigration for at least the last 30 years on economic and Nationalist grounds. As far as I know he has never wavered from that position. If, as commenter Thirdtwin memorably described Klaus Schwab recently as “the Hillary Clinton of Henry Kissingers”, Lind may be said to be “the Pat Buchanan of William Kristols.”
2) She bought chicken wings which cannot be served to kids because they contains bones.
3) She picked them up herself and signed for them
4) She'd been doing this since 2020.
5) She only got caught because the school was $300K over its yearly budget halfway through the year.
6) She bought / stole 11,000 cases or about 440,000 lbs or 220 tons. That is 10-11 full sized tractor trailer loads of chicken wings.
7) Dollars to doughnuts that she had help.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/01/illinois-school-worker-allegedly-stole-1-5-million-of-food-mostly-chicken-wings-from-district/Replies: @kaganovitch, @HammerJack
6) She bought / stole 11,000 cases or about 440,000 lbs or 220 tons. That is 10-11 full sized tractor trailer loads of chicken wings. 7) Dollars to doughnuts that she had help.
Definitely had help. The wings were doubtless delivered straight to accomplices on the school’s dime rather than being pilfered from school. The amounts are much too large to be possible otherwise.
A rapier not a bludgeon, Mr iSteve - well said.Replies: @Currahee
Perfectly stated.
https://archive.ph/3I6qC
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Ha! He's all but saying it's the neocons right there in the second or third paragraph! Truly an example of journalists being forbidden to say something obvious. There are no Republicans or Democrats, there's the Perpetual War Party and then the folks outside it.Replies: @HammerJack
Our Fearless Leaders appear to think we’re going to beat the pants off Russia and China at the same time, using our extremely fierce drag queen tranny armies. We may yet have fireworks after all.
Russia may be weak and/or confused–I certainly don’t know. I do know that China isn’t either of those things.
The latter of which is being driven too hard and is suffering from variations of "fierce drag queen tranny" crew like the black sailor who set fire to what in other navies would count as one of their biggest carriers or thereabouts, but on the other hand nuclear attack and non-nuclear missile subs have a hard floor of competence or you start losing them in the normal service of a blue water navy like our's. I do worry we're said to have only a thousand Mark 48 torpedoes as of 2001, but that's quiet enough to ruin a lot of ships if the subs can get there in time."Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face." What were people saying about Russia before the start of the "special military operation?" The PRC under Xi ... confused is not a bad word for the real world results of that not so great helmsman.
Taking Taiwan by force is not an easy prospect if you want to seize anything more than rubble at the end of it. That is, there are schemes to beat it down with IRBMs which the PRC has been building and emplacing for a very long time, or even nukes, followed by paratroopers, but an opposed amphibious assault has a lot of constraints for that island including only a few suitable beaches and periods in the year when the weather cooperates. The will and competence of both major combatants has not been tested in so many decades we really don't know how this might play out.Replies: @HammerJack, @HammerJack
America needs a broad popular front to stop the revolution from above that is transforming the country", which ties together the Green New Deal, the Diversity-Inclusion-Equity scam, and the attempt to erase biological sex.
I would have liked him to have included the US proxy war against Russia, which is being run by the same people with the same darkly utopian goals, and I think the argument needs to be tied together with the concept of the ruling "overclass," a term which Lind has popularized.
I also disagree with him that neo-liberal economic policies are "libertarian": the destruction of the currency and turning our financial system and fiscal policy into Ponzi scams does not seem very "libertarian" to me!
But the essay does make some crucial points and, as usual with Lind, is quite readable.Replies: @J.Ross, @Greta Handel, @Shamu, @Guest007, @Prester John, @kaganovitch, @Pop Warner, @Colin Wright, @Muggles, @Chrisnonymous, @J.Ross
Very good piece, says something I have been trying to tell people on and offline since 2016: Trunp was not a reaction to Obama, Trump was a reaction to W.
As did the Moynihan Report two years before Whitlock, age 57, was born.
http://randalolson.com/baby-name-explorer/index.html?BabyName=Jason
2) She bought chicken wings which cannot be served to kids because they contains bones.
3) She picked them up herself and signed for them
4) She'd been doing this since 2020.
5) She only got caught because the school was $300K over its yearly budget halfway through the year.
6) She bought / stole 11,000 cases or about 440,000 lbs or 220 tons. That is 10-11 full sized tractor trailer loads of chicken wings.
7) Dollars to doughnuts that she had help.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/01/illinois-school-worker-allegedly-stole-1-5-million-of-food-mostly-chicken-wings-from-district/Replies: @kaganovitch, @HammerJack
So much crime is frankly mystifying to me. I always wonder, how could they think they’d get away with that? Followed closely with, how did they get away with that?
How could he get away with this for 3-1/2 years? No one noticed the ‘serial numbers’? No counting machines detected the obvious lack of security features? The ones at my bank scan for these features along with the counting process. Old bills (w/o these features) are rejected and must then be examined by hand.
Sure, HD may not have such machines, but what about Wells Fargo? In place of the serial numbers, these bills had the text PLAYMONEY and no one noticed? For years??
It never occurred to me that Neocon Bill Kristol is a Utopian
There’s a book by Joel Garreau (I think) called ‘Edge City’ that goes into this in a helpful way. But I do think that some of the nicknames are just convenient verbal markers to refer to a slice of the population defined as between parameters only slightly different from others.
If you look at the behavior of Americans of all races, it's quite obvious that they are fully aware of what Steve writes about even though they are not his readers.
Steve wastes his talents stating the obvious. He'd benefit humanity more by choosing a side and helping that side navigate the bizarre rules imposed on them by the ruling tribe.Replies: @Achmed E. Newman
See, I don’t agree he wastes his time. With us commenters who already know the deal, it’s just a fun place to converse. However, Mr. Sailer reaches quite a few other people who write/speak for/to larger audiences, and maybe they can summon up an eeensy bit of courage using his info. Maybe …
OTOH, it would be more pleasing to me if we could read some posts that talked about solutions. I don’t mean the ones that involve “lone wolves” and such (which are part of our future, it seems), but at least group action of some sort. If nothing else, we need to quit trying to be civil, nice, and “fair” with the Communists arrayed against us.
Trying to convince our enemies of anything using logic and reason is stupid. They don’t care if you are absolutely right. They want to destroy.
“Tyre didn’t ask to be kicked to death.”
Likely few do, perhaps by the blue moon, a crazed masochist makes the request.
“The fact that he cried out for his mama.”
I find nothing unusual in this; not out of the realm for someone in extreme distress. Could be a little more to it in this case:
“Suspect Tyre Nichols’ mother, Rowvaughn Wells, of 6743 Castle Gate Ln 38141, made the scene and advised that suspect Trye Nichols went out with friends, and she believes that they may have spiked his drink.”
Is there a tox report?
After Trye assaulted someone prior the videoed stop (unsure as to who that was, another cop, or….?) he then proceeded to:
“…Nissan with Tennessee tag BJL2458 travelling at high speed…drove into oncoming traffic on East Raines Road…”
Good thing no innocent was killed, who knows what mayhem might have occurred had police not apprehended him.
Ya know if perps treated cops with the same respect/fear they show towards their bookies or drug dealers, there well could be five more cops out there serving on the mean streets of Memphis. Instead, there’ll be a city a few million poorer, and a half dozen lives wrecked: to what end?
I agree. OTOH, Kris Kristofferson did not own a huge walk-in closet with high-speed internet.
Thing is, our proxy war with Russia is primarily using up Army resources like 155 mm shells. A war with the PRC over Taiwan will be fought by our Air Force and Navy.
The latter of which is being driven too hard and is suffering from variations of “fierce drag queen tranny” crew like the black sailor who set fire to what in other navies would count as one of their biggest carriers or thereabouts, but on the other hand nuclear attack and non-nuclear missile subs have a hard floor of competence or you start losing them in the normal service of a blue water navy like our’s. I do worry we’re said to have only a thousand Mark 48 torpedoes as of 2001, but that’s quiet enough to ruin a lot of ships if the subs can get there in time.
“Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face.” What were people saying about Russia before the start of the “special military operation?” The PRC under Xi … confused is not a bad word for the real world results of that not so great helmsman.
Taking Taiwan by force is not an easy prospect if you want to seize anything more than rubble at the end of it. That is, there are schemes to beat it down with IRBMs which the PRC has been building and emplacing for a very long time, or even nukes, followed by paratroopers, but an opposed amphibious assault has a lot of constraints for that island including only a few suitable beaches and periods in the year when the weather cooperates. The will and competence of both major combatants has not been tested in so many decades we really don’t know how this might play out.
Interesting, I had missed that in WSJ but heard plenty about it on right-wing radio, and the gist from les actuals actuelles was that this was more of a big misstep on this guy’s part than a scientific prognostication. I don’t know about confusion, but I suspect that the result of a match-up between a gay version Late Soviet combined arms task force designed to pummel Arab civilians on flat dark earth, meeting a highly fraudulent inspection-passing atrocity police force, at sea, would be tragic to all parties involved, hilarious to uninvolved parties, and nutritious to sharks. They have a huge intelligence advantage (it is time to start talking about how the United States of America does not know how to do opsec and needs a crash review, before we discover the next document stash or hear about the next enemy asset in our House), but we know how to actually do stuff, provided the plan isn’t over-complicated and the other side cannot fight back.
The US usually sucks at keeping secrets and in humint but our sigint is second to none. We the public will never know the extent of our sigint but its capabilities are vast.
The Chinese should not be discounted but neither are they supermen. The Chinese government (unlike our own) doesn't enjoy foreign adventures so they don't really have anyone or anything that is really combat tested.Replies: @PhysicistDave, @J.Ross
1) “the supply of blacks competent to succeed” … And if you can find the supply, the question will be, “Is that supply pool really competent or just passed along at every level of education they ever sat for.
2) Are there any blacks defending the cops on the grounds of “That’s what you have to do sometimes with these N’s”? Sort of a Pastor Manning approach to one’s own kind??
3) the problem of finding enough cops, be they white or black, is always going to be a question of, “what margin of error are you willing to accept?”. As social standards have declined in the wake of the Holocaust Narrative, the need for tougher policing has gone up at the same time that (((society’s))) tolerance of errors in judgement by police has thinned. (Mainly due to the available of video + cat ladies viewing same).
4) If I were recruiting police, I would require a strict psychological screening to make sure that you didn’t have people who were “red on yellow snake” crazy and sadistic. And as long as the cop is psychologically balanced you can just assume in most cases if he has the beat or shoot a suspect it was probably necessary or at worst a lapse in judgment which should not be punished through anything more than being busted down a little.
Frankly, I don't really trust the cops in my town either. I stay away from them, and from the people who get the police calling on them.
I also wonder if anything other than brutality could possibly be effective in policing ghettos.Replies: @David Davenport, @Harry Baldwin
I assume all the cops were black then for the black areas, at least in the south.
In segregation times, there weren’t many black policemen. Black parts of town were lightly policed.
The white policemen overlooked a lot of black crime, as long as the crime stayed in black neighborhoods.
Interesting to read Riley repeat what Steve has pointed out many times – that crime soars following a well-publicised killing of a suspect by police. The view is backed up by academic research, by Tanya Devi and Roland Fryer of Harvard University. Above all, increased crime does not simply follow the death of a suspect or its investigation, but occurs only if there is “viral” coverage in the national media followed by investigation of an entire police department.
The research paper mentioned by Riley appears to be this one:
https://www.nber.org/papers/w27324
which states:
Prof. Roland Fryer is a star economist at Harvard; and he is allowed to depart from the approved racial narrative because he is black. I expect he would be very interested in Steve’s findings about traffic fatalities.
In short, the Yankee WASP made the Negro the Scared Cow Numinous Negro in order to wage culture wear against the South and Southerners, which would morally justify all the dead in
'the Civil War' as well as all the theft by regional elites during Reconstruction. And like all such things the enemies list did not stay short. Large numbers of Irish Catholics made certain that the same Who group would make them another against Whom group. After all, the largest anti-draft riot during the sacred war to free the Numinous Negro was in NTYC and was largely Irish, and most of the leaders always coming back to asserting that they, buried in poverty, had no desire to die to free some other peoples;lke that the rich of NYC already were beginning to coddle at every opportunity.
And then as Irish were the primary foundation of the world's first truly professional place force in NYC, cops had to become bad, because surly they existed just to harass the dusky hued angels. If not, then the basis of the NYC PD would have been black.
And so America's actual race war, white elites using Negroes as weapons and tools against the whites they hate and fear, or just find icky, not only has been never ending but now has been made global.
If you fail to address how things became as they are, you sure are not going to take corrections. The great problem here is that buried deep in the minds and hearts of the Deep State and the elite whites of America is that if they were to undue any of that, they would ben exposed as just another set of self=righteous thugs who use idiots to wage proxy wars to make themselves richer and more powerful. And blacks are far from sharp enough figure out how that game always hurts the black community as a whole.
Is there a way to change any of that without essentially clearing away all off the Deep State elite types? I doubt it. And I expect them to keep pushing to advance hatred of White worldwide. After all, holding the power they do is because Massa Lincoln done freed them slaves and pleased God mightily.Replies: @Ron Mexico, @Charles Erwin Wilson
As Victor Davis Hanson pointed out, the way to curtail the unwarranted power of the deep state is to reassign every FBI/CIA/NSA/DoJ/DoD employee to another federal agency (using randomization) where they keep their GS status, but cannot abuse the American people. Take the people replaced from those other agencies and plant them where the thugs were. Repeat the process on the same cycle as congressional elections. Then move the Fed offices from the east coast to the center of the country. Make the Fwerps get away from DC or get out of the government.
Of course, it should be coupled with prohibitions for firearm possession for all of them as Federal Employees. If you are a Fed, you get a billy club and a smiley face button. But no guns, no mace, no tazers, and no body armor.
I assume all the cops were black then for the black areas
You must be rather young. Your assumption that segregation-minded people would have the percentage of black policemen on their police force proportional to the percentage of blacks living in their town reflects that. That assumption is late 20th century.
Old-time segregationists, almost by definition, were not interested in that kind of fairness.
In general, before the 1960’s there was much less volent crime in America, so law ‘n’ order and policing was a less salient issue. That’s also something to consider.
https://www.nber.org/papers/w27324
which states:Prof. Roland Fryer is a star economist at Harvard; and he is allowed to depart from the approved racial narrative because he is black. I expect he would be very interested in Steve's findings about traffic fatalities.Replies: @Steve Sailer, @J.Ross
There are other times when DoJ investigations into police departments don’t hurt might even help: when there is statistical evidence of a problem over a reasonable period of time. For example, the Albuquerque police department was shooting a lot of people, but the national media didn’t care because there are so few blacks in New Mexico.
https://twitter.com/whstancil/status/1620087096173289474?t=zo6o1_dPqTCWO7j7i-ZRLg&s=19
What say you, the rule of law and law and order man?
>find in page
>”atlanta”
>one result but irrelevant
I’m late but smiling. Brandon Tatum dropped this yesterday and I should have posted this earlier.
The black female chief responsible for the “Scorpion” strike team in Memphis used to work in Atlanta. She was fired because she tried and failed to interfere in a pædophilia (!) investigation, to protect a buddy. Check her biography on the Memphis website (and that of her assistant), if you can.
https://www.blackenterprise.com/memphis-police-chiefcerelyn-davis-was-allegedly-fired-from-previous-atlanta-police-department-over-alleged-sex-crime-prob/
TALK ABOUT HIRING STANDARDS!
https://www.nber.org/papers/w27324
which states:Prof. Roland Fryer is a star economist at Harvard; and he is allowed to depart from the approved racial narrative because he is black. I expect he would be very interested in Steve's findings about traffic fatalities.Replies: @Steve Sailer, @J.Ross
Was Prof Fryer reinstated? Last I heard, he was crucified on a bogus sexual harassment claim, because he totally blew up the donation-guaranteeing black failure narrative.
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2021/7/7/fryer-returns-from-suspension/
Indeed. We have given Ukraine munitions which will take us years to replenish.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/01/war-games-2.php
I viewed a video of the Tyree Nichols beating yesterday. It is really difficult to tell what happened. I made the following observations after just one viewing.
1. Nichols tried to run away from the cops. While it is true he did not try to attack any of them, it looks like he was physically resisting arrest and had something to hide. Does anyone know if he had past troubles with the law?
2. It looks like the five cops who attacked Nichols did not handle him as brutally as the L.A. Four beat down Rodney King. They didn’t seem to beat him as much. Could Nichols have been on drugs that might have exacerbated his condition?
Theoretically, the Soviets had a huge intelligence advantage during the Cold War too and it availed them not because they didn’t have the ability to act on it because their system sucked so badly. Chances are the Russians had a lot of intelligence on the Ukrainian Army when they invaded (or at least PAID for a lot of intelligence) and that didn’t help them (much) either.
The US usually sucks at keeping secrets and in humint but our sigint is second to none. We the public will never know the extent of our sigint but its capabilities are vast.
The Chinese should not be discounted but neither are they supermen. The Chinese government (unlike our own) doesn’t enjoy foreign adventures so they don’t really have anyone or anything that is really combat tested.
Epic sentence from an epic post 👍🏻
The latter of which is being driven too hard and is suffering from variations of "fierce drag queen tranny" crew like the black sailor who set fire to what in other navies would count as one of their biggest carriers or thereabouts, but on the other hand nuclear attack and non-nuclear missile subs have a hard floor of competence or you start losing them in the normal service of a blue water navy like our's. I do worry we're said to have only a thousand Mark 48 torpedoes as of 2001, but that's quiet enough to ruin a lot of ships if the subs can get there in time."Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face." What were people saying about Russia before the start of the "special military operation?" The PRC under Xi ... confused is not a bad word for the real world results of that not so great helmsman.
Taking Taiwan by force is not an easy prospect if you want to seize anything more than rubble at the end of it. That is, there are schemes to beat it down with IRBMs which the PRC has been building and emplacing for a very long time, or even nukes, followed by paratroopers, but an opposed amphibious assault has a lot of constraints for that island including only a few suitable beaches and periods in the year when the weather cooperates. The will and competence of both major combatants has not been tested in so many decades we really don't know how this might play out.Replies: @HammerJack, @HammerJack
Time was, the Chinese leadership might not have minded too much. Now we have social media they have to be terrified of /s
BTW, I think that aircraft-carrier arsonist was white, no? Looked it up; Ryan Mays was found not guilty. I remember that, but I don’t remember if someone else was found responsible.
ETA: OK, now I see!
https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2022-09-30/sailor-acquitted-arson-uss-bonhomme-richard-7524805.html
But of course.
Also to add this observation. Nichols was reportedly crying and yelling for his "mama"or mom during most of his vicious beatdown.
That is not something most 29 YO functional White males would do in a similar situation.
Definitely proof of Whitlock's "baby mama culture" observation.
I think much of black male violence directed at women (mainly but not exclusively black women) is due to this resentment against female "father figures" in their households. Women end up doing the discipline of young males (absent any fathers in the house) and often lose total control over them.
In "White cultural" families it is the young women who are normally the main and only object of "mother discipline" and hence, at some teen age as puberty kicks in hard, go off track and do nearly everything possible to piss off "mama" and her effort to control Young Hot Lovely.
In "black culture" families, females and males only get the Mama treatment. Daddy ain't home, ever.
So while the young women go off track, sow wild oats, most eventually return to the nest Mama has waiting for them. Wiser about men and the world. The male Wild Child, however, gets kicked out and while often returns (free food! free shelter!) still lacks any wisdom imparted by the absent male disciplinarian. Though sometimes this is replaced in sports by a male coach figure. If lucky enough to have that.
The young man can't circle back for Daddy wisdom since Daddy is a stranger, one among many revolving door older household males keeping Mama company, for a while anyway.
This lack of a family male role model for black males is well known and understood. Welfare keeps Daddy away, or prison, and the matriarchy is now complete.
Too bad we have to learn of Nichols love of "mama" while being kicked to death by other young black males. Wearing police uniforms. No, they ain't your mama and have their own resentment issues with her...Replies: @Joe Stalin, @Jack D, @onetwothree, @PhysicistDave
Muggles wrote to me:
That’s an important point.
As a high-school student, I was about as nerdy as they come: I had been valedictorian in junior high and eventually became high-school valedictorian. I had no desire to be an athlete, but of course we all had to take phys-ed.
My sophomore year in PE, our PE teacher happened to be a young guy fresh out of the Marines — on the face of it almost my exact opposite. But for some reason we got along well.
On one occasion for the PE test, we were supposed to climb a rope up to the rather high ceiling of the gym. I glanced up, turned to the coach, and told him that of course I could not do it. He smiled, acknowledged that maybe I could not, but told me that he would personally really appreciate it if I would give it my best shot.
And of course I made it all the way to the top, to my own amazement.
The point being that, of all the kids in my high school, I may have been the least likely to care whether a teacher was male or female, whether I could prove to the coach that I was a real man, etc.
But even in my case, this ex-Marine knew how to get me to go beyond what I thought I could do.
We’re just not supposed to say this, but the truth is that almost all young males can be much more influenced and motivated by authoritative adult males, especially adult males who can exhibit physical strength, than by adult females.
In some sense, it really is not fair. But it is reality. And we better face up to it.
The US usually sucks at keeping secrets and in humint but our sigint is second to none. We the public will never know the extent of our sigint but its capabilities are vast.
The Chinese should not be discounted but neither are they supermen. The Chinese government (unlike our own) doesn't enjoy foreign adventures so they don't really have anyone or anything that is really combat tested.Replies: @PhysicistDave, @J.Ross
Jack D wrote to J.Ross
One of your wiser comments, Jack: I want to give credit where credit is due.
https://st2.depositphotos.com/4347901/6776/i/450/depositphotos_67765975-stock-photo-maple-sap-buckets-on-trees.jpgFebruary is here, and eventually the maple sugaring season.The rest of the world can go to hell.Replies: @kaganovitch
Feb. is here, and eventually the maple sugaring season. The rest of the world can go to hell.
To borrow from old Ben Franklin – Maple syrup is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
But there's the issue of causation: is the matriarchy a cause or an effect of black dysfunction? Or, does the black matriarchy have nothing to do with black dysfunction at all and is rather just the default way blacks organize their communities?Replies: @PhysicistDave
Anon[256] asked me:
It was not this bad — not nearly this bad — when Sailer and I were young kids.
For whatever reason — genetics, culture, the heritage of slavery, continuing discrimination, or whatever — there has always been some level of dysfunction in the Black community.
But the patronizing behavior of White liberals (and, yes, “Conservatives”) has made it much, much worse.
If we accepted brutally evil behavior on the part of young White males in the way that we do tolerate such behavior by young Black males, then White neighborhoods too would become unlivable.
Adolescent and young adult males are high-energy, risk-taking, boundary-challenging beings in all races and ethnic groups.
I was about as restrained and well-behaved as an adolescent kid can be, and, yet, I still recall a few damn-fool things I did.
Don’t you?
Mature males have to control young males.
If they don’t, you end up with Hell on earth.
The US usually sucks at keeping secrets and in humint but our sigint is second to none. We the public will never know the extent of our sigint but its capabilities are vast.
The Chinese should not be discounted but neither are they supermen. The Chinese government (unlike our own) doesn't enjoy foreign adventures so they don't really have anyone or anything that is really combat tested.Replies: @PhysicistDave, @J.Ross
They’ve engaged in plenty of foreign adventures, per the Leninist model, and pretty much got their ass kicked every time. Vietnam defeated them soundly, while still rebuilding from us. The Indians beat them. The only people they put the fear of godlessness into was … us. The current regime has foreign projects (to include military) but of a much less ambitious type. Except those missile base islands. You’re right that no currently serving Chinese has anything like the experience Americans take for granted after Wobama.
This is the Lithium version.
https://youtu.be/cTJh_bzI0QQ?t=338
[5:38]Replies: @Dmon
Yeah, I wondered why they use water instead of some kind of foam or CO2. I guess they don’t make big enough fire extinguishers to put out a burning Tesla. Near as I can tell, all the water is just to cool everything down enough to where the batteries burn themselves out without setting anything else on fire. There was a story of some burning Tesla that they used close to 30,000 gallons on. Luckily, it wasn’t in California, so no Fairy Shrimp were harmed. Based on the doomsday messages from Gov. Pelosispawn, there isn’t 30,000 gallons of water in the entire state – good thing that 20 billion imaginary train doesn’t run on steam.
Don’t get too worked up about the black pop. getting smaller and smaller. There’s always more at the door. Doesn’t anyone around here remember Steve’s Worlds Most Important Graph?
2) Are there any blacks defending the cops on the grounds of "That's what you have to do sometimes with these N's"? Sort of a Pastor Manning approach to one's own kind??
3) the problem of finding enough cops, be they white or black, is always going to be a question of, "what margin of error are you willing to accept?". As social standards have declined in the wake of the Holocaust Narrative, the need for tougher policing has gone up at the same time that (((society's))) tolerance of errors in judgement by police has thinned. (Mainly due to the available of video + cat ladies viewing same).
4) If I were recruiting police, I would require a strict psychological screening to make sure that you didn't have people who were "red on yellow snake" crazy and sadistic. And as long as the cop is psychologically balanced you can just assume in most cases if he has the beat or shoot a suspect it was probably necessary or at worst a lapse in judgment which should not be punished through anything more than being busted down a little.Replies: @Steve Sailer
I knew a guy who flunked out of Rice so he applied to become a cop. The police psychiatrist asked why he wanted to be a cop. He said the pay was pretty good. The shrink took his glasses off, rubbed his eyes, and said, “That’s the sanest answer anybody’s given me this month.”
black-drivers-and-pedestrians-most-likely-traffic-stop-targets-in-ohios-biggest-cities“we are likely to see a return to the Establishment’s lethal 2020 strategy of discouraging cops from pulling over as many irresponsible drivers”Except that didn’t happen in the manner you say it did. “First, pay the police much more. Second, tolerate less black representation”The devil is in the details. So, Mr. Sailer, what are they specifically?
Apparently he was suspended for two years and is now back.
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2021/7/7/fryer-returns-from-suspension/
Has this public intellectual said anything one way or the other about “the US proxy war against Russia”? (As you’ve repeatedly noted, to answer that question one would need to be familiar with Mr. Lind’s work since at least 2014.)
Or how about the other major issue of our time, the “overclass’s” management of the COVID dempanic?
I’ve lost most of my appetite for other side dishes of politics on the intellectual buffet.Replies: @PhysicistDave
Greta Handel asked me:
I don’t know.
In the article I linked to, Lind does attack the younger Bush for his attempts at:
But I do not know if Lind has commented on the US proxy war in Ukraine.
Two general points:
First, Lind is an old-fashioned New Deal liberal. I am not — I am a radical Jeffersonian, more or less a libertarian. So, of course, I disagree with Lind on a lot of concrete issues.
Nonetheless, I think Lind has a lot of interesting things to say.
Second, in my opinion, the critical issues we face right now are the Ukraine crisis, which could get us all killed, and the fiscal/monetary/financial Ponzi scheme created by the US ruling class that could destroy the world economy. And there are several other horrific things happening — the attempt to erase human biology, the diversity-inclusion-equity scam, etc. And then there is the Covid scam, the open borders, the global-warming scam, the collapse of our education system, etc.
But, beyond these immediate threats, I think it is important to look at the underlying cause that ties these all together. And that underlying cause is that the ruling elite — what I call the “parasitic verbalist overclass” — is completely out of touch with reality and truly hates their fellow citizens, especially those who deal with material reality.
Lind has been pretty good at exploring that underlying problem, and, for that reason, I think he is important.
In the article I linked to, Lind does attack the younger Bush for his attempts at:But I do not know if Lind has commented on the US proxy war in Ukraine.
Two general points:
First, Lind is an old-fashioned New Deal liberal. I am not -- I am a radical Jeffersonian, more or less a libertarian. So, of course, I disagree with Lind on a lot of concrete issues.
Nonetheless, I think Lind has a lot of interesting things to say.
Second, in my opinion, the critical issues we face right now are the Ukraine crisis, which could get us all killed, and the fiscal/monetary/financial Ponzi scheme created by the US ruling class that could destroy the world economy. And there are several other horrific things happening -- the attempt to erase human biology, the diversity-inclusion-equity scam, etc. And then there is the Covid scam, the open borders, the global-warming scam, the collapse of our education system, etc.
But, beyond these immediate threats, I think it is important to look at the underlying cause that ties these all together. And that underlying cause is that the ruling elite -- what I call the "parasitic verbalist overclass" -- is completely out of touch with reality and truly hates their fellow citizens, especially those who deal with material reality.
Lind has been pretty good at exploring that underlying problem, and, for that reason, I think he is important.Replies: @J.Ross, @Greta Handel
We have tremendous reason to come together and fight this evil elite and their death religion, which is exactly why the wurlitzer is churning out “attack your neighbor” 24/7. He effectively disapproves of the Ukrainian adventure given what he says about W (same players same logic same crimes).
“For example, I’m one of the few who point out that all the data show that America has a big problem with black violence.”
The MSM has pointed it out for years. What you fundamentally disagree with are the causes.
“In contrast, the conventional wisdom starts with simpleminded racist bigotry: Whites are the Bad Race and blacks are the Good Race.”
That’s a strawman, Mr. Sailer.
“But as I wrote during the first week of 2020’s Mostly Peaceful Protests:”
We’ve been over this before. You say you love data. Put your alleged expert pattern recognition skills to the test to bolster your case.
https://elephrame.com/textbook/BLM/chart
https://acleddata.com/2020/09/03/demonstrations-political-violence-in-america-new-data-for-summer-2020/
Mine the data. Clearly define terms and criteria. Establish how many BLM protests were violent and murderous, along with how and why each protest met that criteria, and how overall these protests are directly linked to the Ferguson Effect and racial reckoning.
And here is a useful database.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/police-shootings-database/
“For example, it’s unsurprising that 2020’s surge in bad driving by blacks””
And whites. And Hispanics. And especially those in big Ford and RAM trucks. But not Jews.
And the reality, iSteve, is that the police did NOT “back off” to arrest blacks for bad behavior.
https://www.austinmonitor.com/stories/2020/11/report-finds-racial-bias-in-2019-traffic-stops/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-met-chicago-police-traffic-stops-20190111-story.html
https://abc7news.com/san-francisco-police-sfpd-racial-profiling-traffic-stops/6422281
https://news.wosu.org/news/2019-12-19/
black-drivers-and-pedestrians-most-likely-traffic-stop-targets-in-ohios-biggest-cities
“we are likely to see a return to the Establishment’s lethal 2020 strategy of discouraging cops from pulling over as many irresponsible drivers”
Except that didn’t happen in the manner you say it did.
“First, pay the police much more. Second, tolerate less black representation”
The devil is in the details. So, Mr. Sailer, what are they specifically?
In the article I linked to, Lind does attack the younger Bush for his attempts at:But I do not know if Lind has commented on the US proxy war in Ukraine.
Two general points:
First, Lind is an old-fashioned New Deal liberal. I am not -- I am a radical Jeffersonian, more or less a libertarian. So, of course, I disagree with Lind on a lot of concrete issues.
Nonetheless, I think Lind has a lot of interesting things to say.
Second, in my opinion, the critical issues we face right now are the Ukraine crisis, which could get us all killed, and the fiscal/monetary/financial Ponzi scheme created by the US ruling class that could destroy the world economy. And there are several other horrific things happening -- the attempt to erase human biology, the diversity-inclusion-equity scam, etc. And then there is the Covid scam, the open borders, the global-warming scam, the collapse of our education system, etc.
But, beyond these immediate threats, I think it is important to look at the underlying cause that ties these all together. And that underlying cause is that the ruling elite -- what I call the "parasitic verbalist overclass" -- is completely out of touch with reality and truly hates their fellow citizens, especially those who deal with material reality.
Lind has been pretty good at exploring that underlying problem, and, for that reason, I think he is important.Replies: @J.Ross, @Greta Handel
Thanks for the thoughtful reply. But I’ll pass on your recommendation.
Any public intellectual whose dissidence never threatens – now – Raytheon or Pfizer effectively serves and is therefore part of the Establishment.
I can learn a lot more here talking with people like PhysicistDave.
“…what goes around comes around.”
You mean blacks will take us whites to a new country, provide us free housing, food and health care, and where our descendants will be 100 times better off than if we had stayed here? Sounds good.
Saint Tyre will be avenged! The incel yt puppet masters who are the TRUE killers will be exposed in due time!!!
Frankly, I don't really trust the cops in my town either. I stay away from them, and from the people who get the police calling on them.
I also wonder if anything other than brutality could possibly be effective in policing ghettos.Replies: @David Davenport, @Harry Baldwin
I also wonder if anything other than brutality could possibly be effective in policing ghettos.
Sylvester “Two-Gun Pete” Washington, a black detective working Chicago’s south side in the 1930s – 40s, didn’t think so.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-city-cop-struck-fear-into-south-side-20130906-story.html
Are you still losing your head over that Ugandan woman?
Correction: Whitlock is 55. (Still pretty old for a Jason). The Moynihan Report is 57, 58 in March.
http://randalolson.com/baby-name-explorer/index.html?BabyName=Jason
The latter of which is being driven too hard and is suffering from variations of "fierce drag queen tranny" crew like the black sailor who set fire to what in other navies would count as one of their biggest carriers or thereabouts, but on the other hand nuclear attack and non-nuclear missile subs have a hard floor of competence or you start losing them in the normal service of a blue water navy like our's. I do worry we're said to have only a thousand Mark 48 torpedoes as of 2001, but that's quiet enough to ruin a lot of ships if the subs can get there in time."Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face." What were people saying about Russia before the start of the "special military operation?" The PRC under Xi ... confused is not a bad word for the real world results of that not so great helmsman.
Taking Taiwan by force is not an easy prospect if you want to seize anything more than rubble at the end of it. That is, there are schemes to beat it down with IRBMs which the PRC has been building and emplacing for a very long time, or even nukes, followed by paratroopers, but an opposed amphibious assault has a lot of constraints for that island including only a few suitable beaches and periods in the year when the weather cooperates. The will and competence of both major combatants has not been tested in so many decades we really don't know how this might play out.Replies: @HammerJack, @HammerJack
Whoa, I just saw this. Is it even real?
https://mol.im/a/11707697
hashad? (or was that a still from a video?) a picture of the balloon and lots of local reporting and updating since I'd previously looked.The Chinese are laughing at us. DJT would have blown that balloon out of the sky stat, and fired any general who talked back. We are ruled by idiots and pussies.Replies: @Anonymous
OK, that was an expert smackdown! Props.
Right, because we know that Zelensky is a saint, and therefore would never sully himself with prostitutes. Oh really? Whom does Zelensky court? Are they virtuous Americans? Even a Philadelphia Lawyer, such as you, Jack, cannot restore the virginity of the whores in Congress. And there is no greater whoremonger than Zelensky.
The Babylon Bee did not go far enough.
Local media
hashad? (or was that a still from a video?) a picture of the balloon and lots of local reporting and updating since I’d previously looked.The Babylon Bee did not go far enough.Replies: @Jack D
Political humor without the humor is just politics.
No, I’m not “victim blaming” here as another commentator says. There is no shame for someone being seriously hurt to cry for his “mama.”
My point was it is odd for a man 29 years old to repeatedly cry out that.
Yes, solders in combat, injured or dying, say that also. But most of those are very young, anywhere from 17-24. At that age “mama” is often the significant female in his universe.
For an older male, that tends to fade and get replaced. However in father absent black matriarchal culture the “mother” figure remains paramount.
The black (Black!) cops didn’t seem to care about this anyway. At this juncture there is no reported motive for this murder being offered. Seems to be either vastly displaced anger over something else, some kind of group frenzy, or perhaps some personal motive by one of the “Scorpions” which has yet to be revealed.
When cops go bad, it’s often quite bad. Recently in the Houston area a former suburban town cop was finally sentenced to death for hiring a hit man to kill his wife. The evidence was conclusive (hit man already in prison) but endless appeals have stalled this for years.
You would think they would know better, but no…
Speaking of DoJ investigations, as well as Congressional inquiries…
What say you, the rule of law and law and order man?
Biden was told about the Chinese balloon on 1/28. Reports, perhaps false, say he wanted to shoot it down but was talked out of it by DoD.
The Chinese are laughing at us. DJT would have blown that balloon out of the sky stat, and fired any general who talked back. We are ruled by idiots and pussies.
The Chinese are laughing at us. DJT would have blown that balloon out of the sky stat, and fired any general who talked back. We are ruled by idiots and pussies.Replies: @Anonymous
I would want to recover it intact. Bring it down slowly somehow. Is that possible?