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From a Mercatus study:
The least regulated state is South Dakota, with about 44,000 regulatory restrictions, while the most regulated state is California, with 395,000.
In California, everybody wants California to remain exactly the way it was on the day he arrived.
Hence the enormous number of regulations cracking down on change.
This is known as Progressivism.
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Steve, if I recall you have a background in sales. Anyway been reading this book….about the atomization of American society and per the author’s thesis, it started with the marketing industrys move in the mid 1970s from mass marketing to targeted demographic marketing
What’s your take?
Millennium,millennialGeneration x, Gen x, GenXSilent generationGreatest Generation
So, on a per-capita basis, that gives SD 20 restrictions per person and CA ~101 per person, so CA is only five times worse that SD.
However, if you look at only citizens, then it is probably closer to 10 times worse.
Now, if only I could choose which 100 restrictions apply to me!
Great short post, Steve, with a good point. Wasn't California a much more wonderful place with 20 million people? Yeah, that was just rhetorical. We all know it was.
Diversity is Stringent
Hey, Steve/all
One of the contentions of the piece I’m going to link to below is that the “Great Replacement” is just a conspiracy theory.
http://www.post-gazette.com/news/crime-courts/2019/10/21/White-nationalism-online-supremacy-Tree-of-life-shooting-Robert-Bowers-screw-your-optics/stories/201910040166
Maybe you’d like to answer these questions for me: isn’t it the case that the left/elites/minorities/et al openly brag about the “Great Replacement”? Isn’t it also the case that our corporate overlords have marketing studies praising the “Great Replacement” as being good for business?
Do any of our guys have collections of leftist opinion pieces bragging about the decline of white numbers? I feel as though I see this stuff all the time in the WaPo or NYT.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-demise-of-the-white-majority-is-a-myth/2018/05/18/60fc897c-5233-11e8-abd8-265bd07a9859_story.html
Peter Brown.
_Minority Party: Why Democrats Face Defeat in 1992 and Beyond_.
1991/09/01.
Available as a used book.
ISBN-10: 0895265303; ISBN-13: 978-0895265302
Shows that Democrats thought that importing foreigners was the Democrat's only hope of survival, even back in 1991.
CounterinsurgencyReplies: @El Dato
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Billboard in Detroit: picture of a smiling behijabbed Muslima next to the words “Census means more money for our community.”
Detroit-area men who moved millions to Yemen spared prison
Since 2018, federal prosecutors in Detroit have charged nine people in an investigation of cash transfers to Yemen. Bank accounts were opened in the names of shell businesses, then used to deposit and wire roughly $90 million over a seven-year period, according to plea agreements filed in court.
“[The cash] was sent in a manner to conceal the true ownership of the currency, place it outside reach of law enforcement and evade income taxes,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Timothy Wyse said.
One by one, [95 year old Jimmy Carter appointee] U.S. District Judge Avern Cohn declined to send them to prison, despite guidelines that call for a few years or more behind bars. He noted that Yemen’s financial system is a mess and its residents desperately need help. Defense lawyers have praised the judge for educating himself about the poorest country in the Arab world and understanding cultural traditions...Replies: @J.Ross
"STOP FEEDING THE ANIMALS"
I hear there is some fear that the San Andreas fault is becoming a bit slippery?
California: Soon no longer a factor.
I remember as a child in the late ‘80s seeing a news report that predicted massive earthquakes would render California underwater and a chain of islands by 2000.
Progressives are the true conservatives!
We have closed the loop!
I’m against a fair amount of the regulation here, but it’s the overall sentiment wrong?
If you like SF as it is, it seems perfectly reasonable to me to not want to allow it to be turned into Manhattan.
The 'housing crisis' in SF (and other parts of California) is due to unwillingness to build new supply. This stems from a) fear of change that is innate to weak, socialist people, and b) a desire to create extreme scarcity.Replies: @The Anti-Gnostic, @anonymous, @AnotherDad
Counterinsurgency
Neoliberal YIMBYist, Matthew Yglesias, wants to do just that.
California has a lot of laws(and law enforcement) because its diversity makes it a low trust society.
There are no informal agreements based on shared values or similar world views; every interaction must be spelled out in advance and enforced by third parties.
This is also why California is so rigidly hierarchical and unequal..in the absence of strong, near dictatorial leadership, chaos would rule, as individual groups settled differences on their own.
At least Steve Sailer is honest about this being true of himself as well.
Ron Unz is a very notable exception to the rule, however.
If you like SF as it is, it seems perfectly reasonable to me to not want to allow it to be turned into Manhattan.Replies: @Thomm, @Counterinsurgency, @Clifford Brown
Then don’t complain about the homeless people.
The ‘housing crisis’ in SF (and other parts of California) is due to unwillingness to build new supply. This stems from a) fear of change that is innate to weak, socialist people, and b) a desire to create extreme scarcity.
You can come to my city and watch the steel canyons going up all over the place, and we still have homeless people on every block. Same thing with roads: we've been building them since the 1960's and they are as congested as ever. These are not supply-side problems.
Fresno median home value is $240K. Can't people move there?
Homelessness in the US is a mental illness/substance abuse problem, not a housing problem. And if you drive down housing prices to the point where $500K will get you a whole stadium like in Pontiac, Michigan, then the affluent capitalists and their high-class wives will just move away to another expensive, highly regulated city and pull up the drawbridge after themselves.Replies: @Thomm, @RadicalCenter
And, of course, most of the homeless issue does not revolve around the cost of housing--as big a crisis as it is.
Bottom line: because of suicidal immigration policy parts of America have stopped being Ben Franklin's America of cheap land and dear labor and have turned into ... Asia.Replies: @Alden
It’s time to call the newcomers ‘colonizers’.
One of the contentions of the piece I'm going to link to below is that the "Great Replacement" is just a conspiracy theory.
http://www.post-gazette.com/news/crime-courts/2019/10/21/White-nationalism-online-supremacy-Tree-of-life-shooting-Robert-Bowers-screw-your-optics/stories/201910040166
Maybe you'd like to answer these questions for me: isn't it the case that the left/elites/minorities/et al openly brag about the "Great Replacement"? Isn't it also the case that our corporate overlords have marketing studies praising the "Great Replacement" as being good for business?
Do any of our guys have collections of leftist opinion pieces bragging about the decline of white numbers? I feel as though I see this stuff all the time in the WaPo or NYT.Replies: @Justvisiting, @Hypnotoad666, @Counterinsurgency, @Sick of Orcs, @Malcolm X-Lax
Here is a good one–if you don’t want to scare white people just change definitions–dumb whitey will never figure it out!:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-demise-of-the-white-majority-is-a-myth/2018/05/18/60fc897c-5233-11e8-abd8-265bd07a9859_story.html
Alternatively, the founding stock of California had a high percentage of Yankee reformers. The largest population was the timid Midwesterner, who could be easily bullied by the reformers, in the same way New England bullied the midlanders in the 19th century.
California is a reminder that the world would be a better place if the Indians had slaughtered the first settlers in New England.
More money to send overseas with impunity, that’s the real Muslim community:
Detroit-area men who moved millions to Yemen spared prison
Since 2018, federal prosecutors in Detroit have charged nine people in an investigation of cash transfers to Yemen. Bank accounts were opened in the names of shell businesses, then used to deposit and wire roughly $90 million over a seven-year period, according to plea agreements filed in court.
“[The cash] was sent in a manner to conceal the true ownership of the currency, place it outside reach of law enforcement and evade income taxes,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Timothy Wyse said.
One by one, [95 year old Jimmy Carter appointee] U.S. District Judge Avern Cohn declined to send them to prison, despite guidelines that call for a few years or more behind bars. He noted that Yemen’s financial system is a mess and its residents desperately need help. Defense lawyers have praised the judge for educating himself about the poorest country in the Arab world and understanding cultural traditions…
If the purpose of California’s political culture was to prevent change, then it would not be fostering the Great Replacement.
No. The purpose of California’s political culture and its attendant regulations is to allow the Ruling Class to control the minutest details the lives of the proletariat. Movement toward this goal is what they call “progress”.
Remember the motto of the California Democratic Party: “Everything not forbidden in compulsory.”
No. The purpose of California’s political culture and its attendant regulations is to allow the Ruling Class to control the minutest details the lives of the proletariat. Movement toward this goal is what they call “progress”...'
Politics in California no more has a purpose than the homeless guy with the three shopping carts piled high with garbage is building a collection.
In both cases, it's a manifestation of mental illness, not a purposeful activity.Replies: @SunBakedSuburb
One of the contentions of the piece I'm going to link to below is that the "Great Replacement" is just a conspiracy theory.
http://www.post-gazette.com/news/crime-courts/2019/10/21/White-nationalism-online-supremacy-Tree-of-life-shooting-Robert-Bowers-screw-your-optics/stories/201910040166
Maybe you'd like to answer these questions for me: isn't it the case that the left/elites/minorities/et al openly brag about the "Great Replacement"? Isn't it also the case that our corporate overlords have marketing studies praising the "Great Replacement" as being good for business?
Do any of our guys have collections of leftist opinion pieces bragging about the decline of white numbers? I feel as though I see this stuff all the time in the WaPo or NYT.Replies: @Justvisiting, @Hypnotoad666, @Counterinsurgency, @Sick of Orcs, @Malcolm X-Lax
Replacement as the overt Democrat strategy for political dominance was laid out in the 2002 book The Emerging Democratic Majority, which became something of a Bible for Democrats. If you look for Dem pundits and operatives lauding the book, you’ll see about 15 years of crowing about how Republican-voting white people were dying off and being replaced by immigrants.
Post-2016, of course, the Dems realized that prematurely dancing on the grave of the White majority hadn’t been the smartest political move. So now the Party Line is that if you remember the prior 15 years you are a “conspiracy theorist.” In other words, they are trying to turn down the temperature to keep the frog from jumping out of the pot.
Steve, soon all White property will be seized in California to give to illegals and Blacks. Or Muslims. Or anyone sufficiently vibrant.
Be forewarned.
Nope, Steven Spielberg, Rob Reiner, Barbara Streisand, and Robert DeNiro are honorary non-White. So they are exempt.
When the big one comes, may Steve and his loved ones be safe.
All the rest of them can go down in flames. Ugh.
How much of this is driven by white liberal pols tilting further to the left/woke in an attempt to hold on to power in an increasingly nonwhite state? You’d think that would open up space for a right-leaning Latino pol running on an anti-woke, pro-environmental, pro-worker, restrictionist platform. Could you get a majority of Californians behind a platform that included these planks?:
– Higher minimum wage
– Steep fines for employers violating labor/immigration laws
– Eliminating “homelessness” by enforcing laws against vagrancy and giving bus tickets to offenders to a place with free housing, drug treatment, etc. far away in the sticks.
– A Florida-style wealth tax.
– Separate male and female bathrooms
– Keeping strict standards in the university systems, but adding trade schools non college-track young people.
What's truly interesting is that 50-60 years ago, California was middle-of-the-pack when it came to living costs: not the cheapest state in the Union, but not particularly expensive, either. In the 1960s, the place really was as close to the middle-class postwar ideal that you'd expect. Shocking, huh?
No such person exists. In particular, a pro-environment Latino? A SWPL fantasy.Replies: @danand
One of the contentions of the piece I'm going to link to below is that the "Great Replacement" is just a conspiracy theory.
http://www.post-gazette.com/news/crime-courts/2019/10/21/White-nationalism-online-supremacy-Tree-of-life-shooting-Robert-Bowers-screw-your-optics/stories/201910040166
Maybe you'd like to answer these questions for me: isn't it the case that the left/elites/minorities/et al openly brag about the "Great Replacement"? Isn't it also the case that our corporate overlords have marketing studies praising the "Great Replacement" as being good for business?
Do any of our guys have collections of leftist opinion pieces bragging about the decline of white numbers? I feel as though I see this stuff all the time in the WaPo or NYT.Replies: @Justvisiting, @Hypnotoad666, @Counterinsurgency, @Sick of Orcs, @Malcolm X-Lax
See also:
Peter Brown.
_Minority Party: Why Democrats Face Defeat in 1992 and Beyond_.
1991/09/01.
Available as a used book.
ISBN-10: 0895265303; ISBN-13: 978-0895265302
Shows that Democrats thought that importing foreigners was the Democrat’s only hope of survival, even back in 1991.
Counterinsurgency
If you like SF as it is, it seems perfectly reasonable to me to not want to allow it to be turned into Manhattan.Replies: @Thomm, @Counterinsurgency, @Clifford Brown
Sure, so first step is deport all the foreigners so that the population of SF is the population that built it, right? You’re in favor of that?
Counterinsurgency
- Higher minimum wage
- Steep fines for employers violating labor/immigration laws
- Eliminating "homelessness" by enforcing laws against vagrancy and giving bus tickets to offenders to a place with free housing, drug treatment, etc. far away in the sticks.
- A Florida-style wealth tax.
- Separate male and female bathrooms
- Keeping strict standards in the university systems, but adding trade schools non college-track young people.Replies: @nebulafox, @Redneck farmer, @David Davenport
Pushing nuclear power as an interim solution would be a great way of marrying environmental and economic concerns.
Also: needs to be young to truly get a mass following going. The leadership of the GOP and the Democrats, on a state and national level, shares a notable problem that relatively few people bring up: they are getting increasingly geriatric. Biden, McConnell, Pelosi, Trump, Sanders, and Warren are all 70+. Schumer isn’t far behind at 68, with Pence ticking in as a relative spring chicken at 60. Not shockingly, there are times where it seems like they genuinely don’t grasp how different establishing your life is now.
In California, it shouldn’t be shocking that state policy attempts to marry the concerns of aging, largely white Boomers (who can afford to live there because they bought houses long, long ago) with the concerns of big tech, and those of new immigrants of varying socioeconomic and legal status. Local Americans under the age of 50 are the ones who get screwed by the predictable resulting policies, from education to transportation. Probably the most explicitly affected area housing and family formation, because neighborhoods with good schools around are particularly unaffordable.
What’s truly interesting is that 50-60 years ago, California was middle-of-the-pack when it came to living costs: not the cheapest state in the Union, but not particularly expensive, either. In the 1960s, the place really was as close to the middle-class postwar ideal that you’d expect. Shocking, huh?
There was a bumper sticker in the 1970s, “Don’t Californicate Colorado.” The idea was to keep open spaces, buy up land and block development. It worked to some extent, but the Californicators still came, with lots of cash from the sale of their overpriced homes, and Democrat party politics. Thus the state is now purple.
The attempt to preserve Colorado did involve some regulations, and it was meant to keep things as they were. They even rejected the 1976 Winter Olympics, wisely, by referendum. Boulder, for another example, bought up as much land around itself as it could, and remains an expensive, White oasis, somewhat to the left of mainland China.
But aren’t the majority of California government interferences concerned with things other than real estate? That is a beautiful picture of the California coast up there, but what, exactly, is wrong with it? Here is a Colorado equivalent, the result of strict zoning and public ownership of surrounding land:
One must factor-in whether regulations (and rules, etc.) apply to all. I recently took my in-person drivers license renewal test here in Southern California. There I was in the inner-sanctum testing room, no visitors allowed says the sign. I am seated at my computer and the fellow at the next computer is being assisted by his test-taking mentor, standing and peering over his shoulder and brazenly, in a loud (Spanish) voice instructing how to answer the questions. I might add that the knowledge material is not all that difficult, for example you do indeed yield to a train and a shoulder harness goes over the shoulder.
- Higher minimum wage
- Steep fines for employers violating labor/immigration laws
- Eliminating "homelessness" by enforcing laws against vagrancy and giving bus tickets to offenders to a place with free housing, drug treatment, etc. far away in the sticks.
- A Florida-style wealth tax.
- Separate male and female bathrooms
- Keeping strict standards in the university systems, but adding trade schools non college-track young people.Replies: @nebulafox, @Redneck farmer, @David Davenport
Dave, never quit being an optimist.
It ain’t Michigan
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O.T.: Facebook is under pressure to stop a repeat of the 2016 presidential election in the U.S.
I bet they are.
o/t
Hot dogs rotting in 7/11
https://japantoday.com/category/business/seven-eleven-japan-to-end-some-24-hour-operations-amid-labor-crunch
Eliminating excess retail space, closing unprofitable locations, and reducing work hours are precisely what the doctored ordered for economies like Japan and America. The immigration argument would be settled in a single stroke once the chattering classes realize that "we do not need any more workers" implies "we do not need any more foreign workers," which is probably why they skillfully avoid allowing the proposition to come into consciousness.Replies: @216
There is a big difference between states that had a natural but slow trickle-in of settlement, such as South Dakota, and California. California was settled in a massive gold rush, and it filled up with wildcatters, ne’er-do-wells, and anyone looking to make a quick buck. This is the founding population of the state, and most of the inhabitants living there today are descended from these dubious people. There’s also a subset of founders who moved to the state hoping to strike it rich in the movie industry, and a third subset of ne’er-do-wells who moved in during the ’30s because they couldn’t hack in their own states during the Great Depression.
California, in the 1980s, decided to make itself into an ultra-massive boomtown with a boomtown type-economy (akin to what happened in the oil sands of North Dakota), that produced massive economic price distortions. Housing prices skyrocketed along with salaries as California voted for uncontrolled economic growth. The housing market became a bit of a Ponzi scheme, where you made out well as long as you could leave the next sucker after you holding the bag (the house). A founding population (the 49ers) who wanted to get rich quick had a lot of descendants who were mentally and emotionally a chip off the old block, and they have been voting for any social, political, and economic policy that promises to make them rich ever since.
California today is run exactly the way you would expect if you had a large founding population of greedy wildcatters and ne’er-do-wells. This is the distinctive Californian culture of today.
Because anyone who was anyone, and a whole lot of nobodies too, took massive doses of LSD in the 1970s.
So wouldn’t the most effective single measure to keep things as they were be a strictly enforced ban on the Mestizo invasion?
Shhhhh… don’t tell anybody this, ’cause if people find out they’ll ruin it. But South Dakota has no gun laws to speak of and no state income tax. If you can handle the winters, it might be a good bolt-hole when the boogaloo starts…
Uh, SB-54 isn’t the way California used to be.
Steve, if I recall you have a background in sales. Anyway been reading this book....about the atomization of American society and per the author's thesis, it started with the marketing industrys move in the mid 1970s from mass marketing to targeted demographic marketing
What's your take?Replies: @Hail, @not my economy, @Reg Cæsar
From the title, it sounds that book is a call for dissolution/partition.
From your description of the contents, the title seems an odd fit.
Search me.
If you click on the picture it takes you to a review on Amazon, if youre interested....
Did 1970 era population wish to maintain CA as it was? Or were they overridden?
The wealthy California elite don’t much deal with Mestizos, except compliant ones in service roles. Gated-Community Progressivism.
Where in the hell is that photo? It reminds me of the Cabots.
Dave Ensler has been trying to make a course north of Bandon called Pacific Gailes happen for half a decade. The land is stunning but the permit process is impossible.
Dave Ensler has not made a lot of courses but I love every single one he has made. Black Sheep was a field, flat Illinois land. It is special. He resurrected a Ross at Ravisloe. And made a great templatey course at Mt Prospect muni (which may have the best true Road Hole in Illinois.)
Heck, the part of this coast closer to Santa Barbara that's serviced by the freeway has practically no inhabitants and just one golf course, Sandpiper by Billy Bell Jr. Even though he was a pretty terrible golf course designer who got his jobs because his dad was George "Riviera" Thomas's right hand man, Sandpiper is still pretty awesome because who couldn't design a golf course on that kind of land?
As I may have have mentioned once or twice, the land northwest of Santa Monica -- the 140 miles from Malibu to Point Concepcion -- is remarkably underpopulated.Replies: @indocon, @Old Palo Altan
There should be a counter billboard that reads:
“STOP FEEDING THE ANIMALS”
Hot dogs rotting in 7/11https://japantoday.com/category/business/seven-eleven-japan-to-end-some-24-hour-operations-amid-labor-crunchReplies: @Intelligent Dasein, @Milo Minderbinder, @Chrisnonymous
The comments under that article reek of Boomerposting cluelessness, as usual.
Eliminating excess retail space, closing unprofitable locations, and reducing work hours are precisely what the doctored ordered for economies like Japan and America. The immigration argument would be settled in a single stroke once the chattering classes realize that “we do not need any more workers” implies “we do not need any more foreign workers,” which is probably why they skillfully avoid allowing the proposition to come into consciousness.
Locally, there are many cases in Cleveland/Akron where older office buildings have been converted into residential units.
Presumably Japan could convert these empty sites into larger apartments that would ease family formation.Replies: @Chrisnonymous
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KcznkUbU4U4Replies: @vinny, @Harry Baldwin, @the one they call Desanex
The real answer is that it’s a state that faced tragedy of the commons problems very quickly and early, plus a bunch of Yankee do-gooderism, plus hydrological tyranny
*shrugs*
Search me.
If you click on the picture it takes you to a review on Amazon, if youre interested….
However, if you look at only citizens, then it is probably closer to 10 times worse.
Now, if only I could choose which 100 restrictions apply to me!Replies: @Achmed E. Newman
Humor aside, for the moment, that’s what The State LUVS LUVS LUVS about having millions of regulations. If they want to get you for something that’s not against the law – say you’re one of those agitators – The State can find something that applies to you, Peripatetic Commenter.
Great short post, Steve, with a good point. Wasn’t California a much more wonderful place with 20 million people? Yeah, that was just rhetorical. We all know it was.
The 'housing crisis' in SF (and other parts of California) is due to unwillingness to build new supply. This stems from a) fear of change that is innate to weak, socialist people, and b) a desire to create extreme scarcity.Replies: @The Anti-Gnostic, @anonymous, @AnotherDad
California is hilariously under-developed, but the notion that people are homeless because San Francisco government keeps developers from building is not a serious one. You could pave over the whole peninsula, erect buildings 40-stories high by 20 across and subdivide them into 650 sq ft studios, and you’d still have homelessness.
You can come to my city and watch the steel canyons going up all over the place, and we still have homeless people on every block. Same thing with roads: we’ve been building them since the 1960’s and they are as congested as ever. These are not supply-side problems.
Fresno median home value is $240K. Can’t people move there?
Homelessness in the US is a mental illness/substance abuse problem, not a housing problem. And if you drive down housing prices to the point where $500K will get you a whole stadium like in Pontiac, Michigan, then the affluent capitalists and their high-class wives will just move away to another expensive, highly regulated city and pull up the drawbridge after themselves.
But others actually live in vans and RVs because they can't (or don't want to) pay exorbitant rent. They have jobs in the area, so can't move to Fresno.Replies: @Hail, @The Anti-Gnostic
You seem right that homelessness is mostly a problem of mental illness and substance abuse, but it IS getting harder and harder for a hardworking couple — even with college degrees and decent-paying full time jobs with benefits — to save for a house. Especially one in a safe, civilized place with suitable schools.
If you don’t inherit a house or live with relatives cheaply, you can work hard your whole life and never own a home in a growing number of places in “our” country.
Hot dogs rotting in 7/11https://japantoday.com/category/business/seven-eleven-japan-to-end-some-24-hour-operations-amid-labor-crunchReplies: @Intelligent Dasein, @Milo Minderbinder, @Chrisnonymous
I remember when Seven-Elevens were actually open from 7 to 11.
Peter Brown.
_Minority Party: Why Democrats Face Defeat in 1992 and Beyond_.
1991/09/01.
Available as a used book.
ISBN-10: 0895265303; ISBN-13: 978-0895265302
Shows that Democrats thought that importing foreigners was the Democrat's only hope of survival, even back in 1991.
CounterinsurgencyReplies: @El Dato
Correlated with the fall of the Soviet Union and the moment when certain Israeli realized the US could do the heavy lifting in the Middle East.
Counterinsurgency
Eliminating excess retail space, closing unprofitable locations, and reducing work hours are precisely what the doctored ordered for economies like Japan and America. The immigration argument would be settled in a single stroke once the chattering classes realize that "we do not need any more workers" implies "we do not need any more foreign workers," which is probably why they skillfully avoid allowing the proposition to come into consciousness.Replies: @216
There are cases in Japan where 7/11 are literally across the street from each other.
Locally, there are many cases in Cleveland/Akron where older office buildings have been converted into residential units.
Presumably Japan could convert these empty sites into larger apartments that would ease family formation.
Be forewarned.
Nope, Steven Spielberg, Rob Reiner, Barbara Streisand, and Robert DeNiro are honorary non-White. So they are exempt.Replies: @Tlotsi
Jews aren’t White.
You can come to my city and watch the steel canyons going up all over the place, and we still have homeless people on every block. Same thing with roads: we've been building them since the 1960's and they are as congested as ever. These are not supply-side problems.
Fresno median home value is $240K. Can't people move there?
Homelessness in the US is a mental illness/substance abuse problem, not a housing problem. And if you drive down housing prices to the point where $500K will get you a whole stadium like in Pontiac, Michigan, then the affluent capitalists and their high-class wives will just move away to another expensive, highly regulated city and pull up the drawbridge after themselves.Replies: @Thomm, @RadicalCenter
Some are homeless by choice (mainly because shelters don’t allow people to do drugs within them).
But others actually live in vans and RVs because they can’t (or don’t want to) pay exorbitant rent. They have jobs in the area, so can’t move to Fresno.
Homeless by Choice
Antifa by the Grace of God
Steve, if I recall you have a background in sales. Anyway been reading this book....about the atomization of American society and per the author's thesis, it started with the marketing industrys move in the mid 1970s from mass marketing to targeted demographic marketing
What's your take?Replies: @Hail, @not my economy, @Reg Cæsar
Hire an agency to run a microtargeting ad campaign about a breakup of the United States
But others actually live in vans and RVs because they can't (or don't want to) pay exorbitant rent. They have jobs in the area, so can't move to Fresno.Replies: @Hail, @The Anti-Gnostic
American by Birth
Homeless by Choice
Antifa by the Grace of God
South Dakota has been getting its fair share of glorious diversity thanks to the very good people at Lutheran Social Services. Most of them live in Sioux Falls and the surrounding area, but some smaller town farm operations are bringing in cheap labor too. The Black Hills is beautiful with slightly milder winters than the rest of the state most years.
Crime families moved out there in the 50-70’s so they knew how to turn CA into Sicily and Taormina. It is what it is 😉
But others actually live in vans and RVs because they can't (or don't want to) pay exorbitant rent. They have jobs in the area, so can't move to Fresno.Replies: @Hail, @The Anti-Gnostic
That’s like me complaining that the price of Ferraris is too damned high–those greedy Italians should be making more of them! San Francisco is on a peninsula inhabited by a lot of very wealthy people. If you’re not one of them, no Ferrari for you. It’s relative.
The 'housing crisis' in SF (and other parts of California) is due to unwillingness to build new supply. This stems from a) fear of change that is innate to weak, socialist people, and b) a desire to create extreme scarcity.Replies: @The Anti-Gnostic, @anonymous, @AnotherDad
Yeah, but the current homelessness in SF is not due to any housing crisis. Unless by “housing crisis” you mean “hardcore criminal drug users from around the country attracted by lax enforcement of vagrancy and burglary laws and a huge metastisizing degenerate lifestyle scene.”
The people who are down on their luck and living in a van or taking their family to the food bank are not the ones who have recently proliferated in the city of SF (or LA, Seattle, Denver, etc…)
The 'housing crisis' in SF (and other parts of California) is due to unwillingness to build new supply. This stems from a) fear of change that is innate to weak, socialist people, and b) a desire to create extreme scarcity.Replies: @The Anti-Gnostic, @anonymous, @AnotherDad
The housing crisis is mostly because of immigration. Though some Americans would have moved there anyway–California’s climate and scenery are nice–California’s population has doubled since 1970 while native American fertility has been sub-replacement.
And, of course, most of the homeless issue does not revolve around the cost of housing–as big a crisis as it is.
Bottom line: because of suicidal immigration policy parts of America have stopped being Ben Franklin’s America of cheap land and dear labor and have turned into … Asia.
Only housing can be built is to tear down all those little 3 bedroom row houses and build Hong Kong brutalist style 60 story high rises full of the tiny apartments Chinese love to crowd into.When we were looking at houses I looked at one one. 12 rooms if you counted the sunrooms abd kitchen. 5 medium size bedrooms up stairs. 4 rooms plus kitchen on the first floor. 2 sunrooms about 10 fr wide. 14 ft ceilings on the first floor. 12 ft ceilings on the 2nd floor Can you guess why Chinese love tall ceilings???
Because they can put triple bunk bed in a room with a tall ceiling.Anyway, I could hear sewing machines whirring in the basement. Living room, 7 sets of triple bunks. Dining room, 6 sets of triple bunks, library office, 4 sets of triple bunks, multipurpose room in the back same size as the living room, 7 sets of triple bunks. All 5 bedrooms had triple bunk beds. So did the sunrooms.
I counted 78 beds in that house. Plus the sewing machine noise from the basement. The operators may have slept in the work shop or up stairs.The bunks had steel rails. Big S hooks hung from the rails held bags of clothes and personal belongs. Those S hooks hung from bed rails are standard in China. San Francisco is 47 square miles. No one knows how many people live in the city. Chinese just don’t answer the census or any government forms except for the SSI, Medicare Medicaid free van service free bus passes, free meals, free food handouts at the churches that Chinese with ID claiming they are 65 get fixed up with within a week of their arrival. Social worker/translators take groups of them in senior citizen vans to social security and welfare offices.47 sq miles is a small city It was planned for small yards, flats and row houses and big and small parks and public spaces all over town. The Sunset district has a nice feature, a little 1/4 acre toddler park every few blocks. In Chinese terms, it’s wasted space and a perfect site for a 60 story high rise. To house the who knows how many people actually live in San Francisco now, and the Chinese who plan to mover here for the next hundred years; we’ll have to tear down every residential building, destroy every park and open space, even school playgrounds and erect 60 story high rises full of 600 sq ft apartments. And the Chinese legals and illegals will continue pouring in to the Golden Mountain. The old ones come because there’s no decent pension system in China. But every age group seems determined to invade and overwhelm San Francisco. Homeless people are homeless because they have no place to live. Massive immigration is the problem. 78 beds in a medium sized 9 room house with 2 1/2 bathrooms.
I left the Lutheran Church 5 years ago due to their idiocy.
And, of course, most of the homeless issue does not revolve around the cost of housing--as big a crisis as it is.
Bottom line: because of suicidal immigration policy parts of America have stopped being Ben Franklin's America of cheap land and dear labor and have turned into ... Asia.Replies: @Alden
The homeless problem in San Francisco is due to massive massive Chinese immigration and 20-25 Chinese living in a 1,000 sq ft house over a 1,000 garage that’s also some kind of poultry slaughter house, sewing factory, food prep for the restaurant whatever.
Only housing can be built is to tear down all those little 3 bedroom row houses and build Hong Kong brutalist style 60 story high rises full of the tiny apartments Chinese love to crowd into.
When we were looking at houses I looked at one one. 12 rooms if you counted the sunrooms abd kitchen. 5 medium size bedrooms up stairs. 4 rooms plus kitchen on the first floor. 2 sunrooms about 10 fr wide. 14 ft ceilings on the first floor. 12 ft ceilings on the 2nd floor
Can you guess why Chinese love tall ceilings???
Because they can put triple bunk bed in a room with a tall ceiling.
Anyway, I could hear sewing machines whirring in the basement. Living room, 7 sets of triple bunks. Dining room, 6 sets of triple bunks, library office, 4 sets of triple bunks, multipurpose room in the back same size as the living room, 7 sets of triple bunks. All 5 bedrooms had triple bunk beds. So did the sunrooms.
I counted 78 beds in that house. Plus the sewing machine noise from the basement. The operators may have slept in the work shop or up stairs.
The bunks had steel rails. Big S hooks hung from the rails held bags of clothes and personal belongs. Those S hooks hung from bed rails are standard in China.
San Francisco is 47 square miles. No one knows how many people live in the city. Chinese just don’t answer the census or any government forms except for the SSI, Medicare Medicaid free van service free bus passes, free meals, free food handouts at the churches that Chinese with ID claiming they are 65 get fixed up with within a week of their arrival.
Social worker/translators take groups of them in senior citizen vans to social security and welfare offices.
47 sq miles is a small city It was planned for small yards, flats and row houses and big and small parks and public spaces all over town. The Sunset district has a nice feature, a little 1/4 acre toddler park every few blocks. In Chinese terms, it’s wasted space and a perfect site for a 60 story high rise.
To house the who knows how many people actually live in San Francisco now, and the Chinese who plan to mover here for the next hundred years; we’ll have to tear down every residential building, destroy every park and open space, even school playgrounds and erect 60 story high rises full of 600 sq ft apartments.
And the Chinese legals and illegals will continue pouring in to the Golden Mountain. The old ones come because there’s no decent pension system in China. But every age group seems determined to invade and overwhelm San Francisco.
Homeless people are homeless because they have no place to live. Massive immigration is the problem.
78 beds in a medium sized 9 room house with 2 1/2 bathrooms.
No mafia ever in N California. Very small Jewish mafia operation in Los Angeles. The Jewish mafia was gone by 1960.
I'm skeptical of that.
Sure enough: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_crime_familyReplies: @Alden
Well, there is no ‘The’ Lutheran Church. Some of the church bodies are less idiotic than others. Some significant ones tend to be led by what might be called idiots, or a worse appellation. But every Western society today is led by much the same type. All the churches are downstream of culture.
Steve, if I recall you have a background in sales. Anyway been reading this book....about the atomization of American society and per the author's thesis, it started with the marketing industrys move in the mid 1970s from mass marketing to targeted demographic marketing
What's your take?Replies: @Hail, @not my economy, @Reg Cæsar
This bizarre naming of “generations” didn’t take off until the late 1980s. Before that, a boomer was weaponry, peaking during wartime, and millennial was a religious persuasion. Ngram can date Tom Brokaw’s stupid book title precisely.
Baby boom,boomer,baby boomer
Millennium,millennial
Generation x, Gen x, GenX
Silent generation
Greatest Generation
They tell me the Missouri Synod is pretty conservative.
No. The purpose of California’s political culture and its attendant regulations is to allow the Ruling Class to control the minutest details the lives of the proletariat. Movement toward this goal is what they call "progress".
Remember the motto of the California Democratic Party: “Everything not forbidden in compulsory.”Replies: @Colin Wright
‘…If the purpose of California’s political culture was to prevent change, then it would not be fostering the Great Replacement.
No. The purpose of California’s political culture and its attendant regulations is to allow the Ruling Class to control the minutest details the lives of the proletariat. Movement toward this goal is what they call “progress”…’
Politics in California no more has a purpose than the homeless guy with the three shopping carts piled high with garbage is building a collection.
In both cases, it’s a manifestation of mental illness, not a purposeful activity.
The same could apply to the Democratic Party as a whole. Here in the Golden State we are trying to survive the leadership of Governor Gavin Newsom (Getty). He destroyed San Francisco and now the entire state. He and his first partner, Hecate, have their eyes on the White House. Newsom is the reincarnation of Nero. He is also a vampire.Replies: @Old Palo Altan
If you like SF as it is, it seems perfectly reasonable to me to not want to allow it to be turned into Manhattan.Replies: @Thomm, @Counterinsurgency, @Clifford Brown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=83&v=EHSy9efmrdc
Neoliberal YIMBYist, Matthew Yglesias, wants to do just that.
‘No mafia ever in N California. ‘
I’m skeptical of that.
Sure enough: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_crime_family
Dave Ensler has been trying to make a course north of Bandon called Pacific Gailes happen for half a decade. The land is stunning but the permit process is impossible.
Dave Ensler has not made a lot of courses but I love every single one he has made. Black Sheep was a field, flat Illinois land. It is special. He resurrected a Ross at Ravisloe. And made a great templatey course at Mt Prospect muni (which may have the best true Road Hole in Illinois.)Replies: @Clifford Brown, @Steve Sailer
My guess is Santa Barbara County north of Point Concepcion and south of Jalama Beach. The whole area is gorgeous oceanfront property largely preserved except for the occasional cattle ranch.
There is Chinese organized crime and both the Nortenos and Surenos are quite active in San Francisco.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KcznkUbU4U4Replies: @vinny, @Harry Baldwin, @the one they call Desanex
Lee Marvin turned down a starring role in “The Wild Bunch” to star in “Paint Your Wagon.”
California, in the 1980s, decided to make itself into an ultra-massive boomtown with a boomtown type-economy (akin to what happened in the oil sands of North Dakota), that produced massive economic price distortions. Housing prices skyrocketed along with salaries as California voted for uncontrolled economic growth. The housing market became a bit of a Ponzi scheme, where you made out well as long as you could leave the next sucker after you holding the bag (the house). A founding population (the 49ers) who wanted to get rich quick had a lot of descendants who were mentally and emotionally a chip off the old block, and they have been voting for any social, political, and economic policy that promises to make them rich ever since.
California today is run exactly the way you would expect if you had a large founding population of greedy wildcatters and ne'er-do-wells. This is the distinctive Californian culture of today.Replies: @Redneck farmer
So, the mid-80s song “Welcome To The Boomtown” is about California?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boomtown_(David_%26_David_album)
Except, of course, when it comes to massive uncontrolled third world immigration.
*THAT* is the ‘exceptionalism’ which is the sine non qua *THE* fundamental governing rule and constant of all modern western governance.
Speaking of ‘progressive’ — Germany generally comes out at or near the top of (dumb) surveys of the most “popular” (admired) countries — eg see this BBC article.
The reality is that soon Germans will have to work/wait until they are 70 to receive their meager state pensions.
Deutschland the one place on planet earth where the majority of their population is driven and motivated to exist by their rabid hate and revulsion for the US Republican party, the place where BO is worshipped as a deity and viewed as the most intelligent human to have ever set foot on planet mirth.
Germany the home of the beloved "Meldepflicht", the oppressive big-brother law requiring that each and every citizen report their new address to the local "Meldeamt" upon changing residence.
Germany the psychotic zone in which they apparently think that they had indeed won the war and they are called upon to dictate internal US politics as reflected in their relentless media drive to see the US eliminate the second amendment so as to match the restrictive German gun ownership code.
Then on to their media demanding the elimination of the US electoral college, which caused their liebling HC to lose to the most hated man in German : DT.
And then on to the movement by the Greens (who actually set the national political tone ) to forbid the private ownership of automobiles.
I could go on and on with the list of German abberations starting with communism, ( yeah Marx was a Jew) , Antifa, Heroin, authority-worship. ( to be continued)
Authenticjazzman "Mensa" qualified since 1973, airborne trained US Army vet, and pro jazz performer.
Hey, the Mexicans tried, but not hard enough. We should make them work harder to take it back:
In the Battle of Cahuenga Pass in my neighborhood between Mexicans and Californios, the responsibility for firing the one cannon on each side was delegated to Americanos. Eventually, the two Yankees who were doing all the fighting recognized each other from their days on the East Coast and called the battle off.
Seven years later, California was an American state.
I guess that’s what you get for hiring foreigners to do the work you don’t want to do.
The reality is that soon Germans will have to work/wait until they are 70 to receive their meager state pensions.
https://twitter.com/tagesschau/status/1186248560246956035Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Anonymous, @Authenticjazzman
rMy vague impression is that Germans are surprisingly poor.
https://i.postimg.cc/1RY5bP7z/hg-in-die-armut-regiert.png
I mean, it's like several times the number of tourists from all other European countries combined. But maybe they just like the American West.Replies: @eah
Per the ‘Bund der Steuerzahler’, so-called ‘Tax Freedom Day’ for Germans in 2018 was July 18 — in most published accounts, Germans have personal wealth (Vermögen) lower than many other EU countries (eg Italy and France) — Germans are taxed into poverty: “in die Armut regiert”.
An Italian-American high school friend of mine was the son of a prominent Los Angeles bookie, who was in and out of jail. A couple of other Italian-Americans friends were big sports bettors and had their bookie threatening to have their legs broken when they owed him $800 in the early 1970s.
Dave Ensler has been trying to make a course north of Bandon called Pacific Gailes happen for half a decade. The land is stunning but the permit process is impossible.
Dave Ensler has not made a lot of courses but I love every single one he has made. Black Sheep was a field, flat Illinois land. It is special. He resurrected a Ross at Ravisloe. And made a great templatey course at Mt Prospect muni (which may have the best true Road Hole in Illinois.)Replies: @Clifford Brown, @Steve Sailer
I typed “Hollister Ranch” into the search engine. That’s the long stretch of coastline west of Santa Barbara, west of where the 101 freeway turns north over the Santa Ynez mountains. Only a few zillionaires own the land. Surfers have been fighting a long battle with the rich guys to get them to open access to their beaches like the state laws says.
Heck, the part of this coast closer to Santa Barbara that’s serviced by the freeway has practically no inhabitants and just one golf course, Sandpiper by Billy Bell Jr. Even though he was a pretty terrible golf course designer who got his jobs because his dad was George “Riviera” Thomas’s right hand man, Sandpiper is still pretty awesome because who couldn’t design a golf course on that kind of land?
As I may have have mentioned once or twice, the land northwest of Santa Monica — the 140 miles from Malibu to Point Concepcion — is remarkably underpopulated.
I don't see at all why anyone should begrudge these people their ranches: they run them superbly, and keep an entire section of the most beautiful coast-line on earth unspoilt.Long may it continue, and long may the scruffy time-wasting surfers be kept in their place, which should be confined to Malibu and places south.
California: Soon no longer a factor.Replies: @Corn, @SunBakedSuburb
Don’t get your hopes up.
I remember as a child in the late ‘80s seeing a news report that predicted massive earthquakes would render California underwater and a chain of islands by 2000.
Detroit-area men who moved millions to Yemen spared prison
Since 2018, federal prosecutors in Detroit have charged nine people in an investigation of cash transfers to Yemen. Bank accounts were opened in the names of shell businesses, then used to deposit and wire roughly $90 million over a seven-year period, according to plea agreements filed in court.
“[The cash] was sent in a manner to conceal the true ownership of the currency, place it outside reach of law enforcement and evade income taxes,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Timothy Wyse said.
One by one, [95 year old Jimmy Carter appointee] U.S. District Judge Avern Cohn declined to send them to prison, despite guidelines that call for a few years or more behind bars. He noted that Yemen’s financial system is a mess and its residents desperately need help. Defense lawyers have praised the judge for educating himself about the poorest country in the Arab world and understanding cultural traditions...Replies: @J.Ross
There’s another billboard in Detroit, up for years, specifically advertising a transfer service to send money to Yemen. It has the tagline “that’s better” (than sending good wishes?) and is from a major service like Western Union. So these guys got into trouble for the way they went about it but there is huge and openly advertised hawala to Yemen going on.
Locally, there are many cases in Cleveland/Akron where older office buildings have been converted into residential units.
Presumably Japan could convert these empty sites into larger apartments that would ease family formation.Replies: @Chrisnonymous
Ha, ha. Agree with your “rotting in X” riff on Steve, but Japan has the highest vacancy rate in the world. It’s not small apartments preventing family formation.
The reality is that soon Germans will have to work/wait until they are 70 to receive their meager state pensions.
https://twitter.com/tagesschau/status/1186248560246956035Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Anonymous, @Authenticjazzman
I thought all those ‘Syrians’ and Syrian impersonators whom Merkel invited in were supposed to ‘pay for German pensions’.
https://twitter.com/Netzdenunziant/status/1186677831360811009
Hot dogs rotting in 7/11https://japantoday.com/category/business/seven-eleven-japan-to-end-some-24-hour-operations-amid-labor-crunchReplies: @Intelligent Dasein, @Milo Minderbinder, @Chrisnonymous
yes, as I’ve predicted on this website before, Abe is the Invade/Invite PM, and Japan is slowly embracing anti-anti-immigrant views, like the US. The last time I addressed this, I mentioned that opinion formation here is top-down and inside to outside. The media reporting on “hot dogs rotting in 7/11” is not left-vs-right, like the US, but the middle aligning with the top.
The irony is Californians vote for progressives who want to flood their state with ever more people, which is hardly good for the environment. I imagine what life might be like living in CA in the 50’s, where so much of SoCal living was not about sitting in traffic, and the sight of concrete in neighborhoods was less common.
You can come to my city and watch the steel canyons going up all over the place, and we still have homeless people on every block. Same thing with roads: we've been building them since the 1960's and they are as congested as ever. These are not supply-side problems.
Fresno median home value is $240K. Can't people move there?
Homelessness in the US is a mental illness/substance abuse problem, not a housing problem. And if you drive down housing prices to the point where $500K will get you a whole stadium like in Pontiac, Michigan, then the affluent capitalists and their high-class wives will just move away to another expensive, highly regulated city and pull up the drawbridge after themselves.Replies: @Thomm, @RadicalCenter
And how do most people get the down payment for that house that costs “only” $250,000? People in this country are worse off than folks seem to think.
You seem right that homelessness is mostly a problem of mental illness and substance abuse, but it IS getting harder and harder for a hardworking couple — even with college degrees and decent-paying full time jobs with benefits — to save for a house. Especially one in a safe, civilized place with suitable schools.
If you don’t inherit a house or live with relatives cheaply, you can work hard your whole life and never own a home in a growing number of places in “our” country.
Heck, the part of this coast closer to Santa Barbara that's serviced by the freeway has practically no inhabitants and just one golf course, Sandpiper by Billy Bell Jr. Even though he was a pretty terrible golf course designer who got his jobs because his dad was George "Riviera" Thomas's right hand man, Sandpiper is still pretty awesome because who couldn't design a golf course on that kind of land?
As I may have have mentioned once or twice, the land northwest of Santa Monica -- the 140 miles from Malibu to Point Concepcion -- is remarkably underpopulated.Replies: @indocon, @Old Palo Altan
San Luis Obispo County, up 101 a little further is perhaps the last place in CA that still looks like CA of 60’s and 70’s.
But it too has changed: the fine second hand bookshops are mostly gone, and replaced by shoe and dress shops: all the usual effluvia of the mindless products of our useless, indeed actively pernicious, educational system. But, yes, at least the kids are white. Clean-cut too, at least in comparison to most other places.
But travel just a few miles either way, or inland, and the old California spreads itself luxuriously before one's admiring and nostalgic gaze.
One of the contentions of the piece I'm going to link to below is that the "Great Replacement" is just a conspiracy theory.
http://www.post-gazette.com/news/crime-courts/2019/10/21/White-nationalism-online-supremacy-Tree-of-life-shooting-Robert-Bowers-screw-your-optics/stories/201910040166
Maybe you'd like to answer these questions for me: isn't it the case that the left/elites/minorities/et al openly brag about the "Great Replacement"? Isn't it also the case that our corporate overlords have marketing studies praising the "Great Replacement" as being good for business?
Do any of our guys have collections of leftist opinion pieces bragging about the decline of white numbers? I feel as though I see this stuff all the time in the WaPo or NYT.Replies: @Justvisiting, @Hypnotoad666, @Counterinsurgency, @Sick of Orcs, @Malcolm X-Lax
Following is a transcript of a note on the office wall of one Mark Potok, former SPLC “hate group expert,” shown in the docu Alt-Right: Age of Rage (2018) without comment:
USA population
Non-Hispanic Whites
1920—-90%
1940—-90%
1960—-85%
1965—-83%
1980—-79%
2000—69%
2012—-64%
2014—-63%
2015—-62%
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KcznkUbU4U4Replies: @vinny, @Harry Baldwin, @the one they call Desanex
Paint Your Wagon came out in 1969. I wonder if Lee Marvin was a fan of the Allman Brothers?
“In California, everybody wants California to remain exactly the way it was on the day he arrived.
Hence the enormous number of regulations cracking down on change.
This is known as Progressivism.”
But, this is also true of Florida, yet it hasn’t turned as reliably “progressive” as California has. Why the difference?
And I wonder what impact the huge numbers on immigrants have on both states.
I was in South Dakota on a business trip in the late 1980’s or early ’90’s. One of the people I chatted with told me he’d bought a brand new Corvette. His total bill from the South Dakota DMV – all taxes, fees and everything: $25. (In fact, there may not have been any taxes involved in buying the car.)
At the time, buying a new, but ordinary (non-sports, non-luxury) car in my state would’ve set you back an additional $1000 in charges from our DMV. Triple that now. Because of this atmosphere of unobtrusive state government, I think there’s been an influx of some white people into SD. I personally know of three families who’ve moved there in the last several years. Hopefully this tendency will counter some of the Lutheran Church related diversity in the eastern part of the state that Barnard mentioned.
California: Soon no longer a factor.Replies: @Corn, @SunBakedSuburb
When it happens I’ll be drinking margaritas with Warren Zevon at the Hollywood Hawaiian Hotel.
Huh…..Based on how many of them you find vacationing in national parks in the American West, I always assumed they had a lot more disposable income than other Euros.
I mean, it’s like several times the number of tourists from all other European countries combined. But maybe they just like the American West.
But let me tell you an anecdote: a German friend of mine knows someone who works at the pension office -- people approaching retirement can come in and get info -- and my German friend told me that this person in the pension office said whenever it turns out that the calculation shows someone will get €1000+ euros/month (this is brutto = before taxes + health insurance + other deductions) as a pension, this gets great notice all around the office because it is so rare -- so you can work a lifetime and have significantly less than €1k/month to live on when you retire -- as a percentage of your (averaged over a number of years) last income level, the German state pension payout is among the lowest in Europe.
Above I said 2018 'Tax Freedom Day' in DE was Jul 18 -- and keep in mind DE has no military to speak of -- it is not a fighting force -- so where does all that money go?Replies: @Cortes
No. The purpose of California’s political culture and its attendant regulations is to allow the Ruling Class to control the minutest details the lives of the proletariat. Movement toward this goal is what they call “progress”...'
Politics in California no more has a purpose than the homeless guy with the three shopping carts piled high with garbage is building a collection.
In both cases, it's a manifestation of mental illness, not a purposeful activity.Replies: @SunBakedSuburb
“it’s a manifestation of mental illness”
The same could apply to the Democratic Party as a whole. Here in the Golden State we are trying to survive the leadership of Governor Gavin Newsom (Getty). He destroyed San Francisco and now the entire state. He and his first partner, Hecate, have their eyes on the White House. Newsom is the reincarnation of Nero. He is also a vampire.
Please elaborate.Replies: @danand
Sam Peckinpah directing Lee Marvin would have been too perfect. Although a drunken gun battle between the two probably would’ve shut down production.
Give California back to Mexico
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/California,_Falkirk
Are you joking? That was very much an LA-based album (and song).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boomtown_(David_%26_David_album)
The reality is that soon Germans will have to work/wait until they are 70 to receive their meager state pensions.
https://twitter.com/tagesschau/status/1186248560246956035Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Anonymous, @Authenticjazzman
Americans being totally deaf, dumb and blind regarding the nut-house otherwise known as Germany.
Deutschland the one place on planet earth where the majority of their population is driven and motivated to exist by their rabid hate and revulsion for the US Republican party, the place where BO is worshipped as a deity and viewed as the most intelligent human to have ever set foot on planet mirth.
Germany the home of the beloved “Meldepflicht”, the oppressive big-brother law requiring that each and every citizen report their new address to the local “Meldeamt” upon changing residence.
Germany the psychotic zone in which they apparently think that they had indeed won the war and they are called upon to dictate internal US politics as reflected in their relentless media drive to see the US eliminate the second amendment so as to match the restrictive German gun ownership code.
Then on to their media demanding the elimination of the US electoral college, which caused their liebling HC to lose to the most hated man in German : DT.
And then on to the movement by the Greens (who actually set the national political tone ) to forbid the private ownership of automobiles.
I could go on and on with the list of German abberations starting with communism, ( yeah Marx was a Jew) , Antifa, Heroin, authority-worship. ( to be continued)
Authenticjazzman “Mensa” qualified since 1973, airborne trained US Army vet, and pro jazz performer.
California is a reminder that the world would be a better place if the Indians had slaughtered the first settlers in New England.Replies: @Mike Zwick
Ronald Reagan was from Illinois. Was he one of the timid Midwesterners?
Yeah, well, some guy actually said this — pension not before 70 — back in 2015 — the reason he gave was the integration costs for refugees:
https://twitter.com/Netzdenunziant/status/1186677831360811009
I mean, it's like several times the number of tourists from all other European countries combined. But maybe they just like the American West.Replies: @eah
Look, a typical German gets 30 days of (paid) vacation — for a small family (the vast majority of German families are small), especially one with two incomes (which is most), a vacation in the US is easily affordable.
But let me tell you an anecdote: a German friend of mine knows someone who works at the pension office — people approaching retirement can come in and get info — and my German friend told me that this person in the pension office said whenever it turns out that the calculation shows someone will get €1000+ euros/month (this is brutto = before taxes + health insurance + other deductions) as a pension, this gets great notice all around the office because it is so rare — so you can work a lifetime and have significantly less than €1k/month to live on when you retire — as a percentage of your (averaged over a number of years) last income level, the German state pension payout is among the lowest in Europe.
Above I said 2018 ‘Tax Freedom Day’ in DE was Jul 18 — and keep in mind DE has no military to speak of — it is not a fighting force — so where does all that money go?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pensions_in_Germany
It’s not entirely accidental that many of the delightful places in southern countries of the EU are little havens of Kaffee und Kuchen for retirees from the Vaterland who enjoy their holiday homes for a break from the tedium of having to interact with Merkel’s millions.Replies: @eah
The conservatism of recent arrivals to California is mirrored in many small communities in the UK to which the middle classes repair in search of relatively cheap housing, clean environment, picturesque scenery and absence of immigrants. The “blow-ins” aka “White Settlers” vehemently oppose many improvements which locals want. The classic example is street lighting – a boon in tiny villages located where there’s no more than 5 decent hours of daylight November to February. Our clocks “go back” Saturday coming and sunset on Sunday is 16:49… much later than the tiny villages further north affected by the incomers’ resistance to change.
One of the contentions of the piece I'm going to link to below is that the "Great Replacement" is just a conspiracy theory.
http://www.post-gazette.com/news/crime-courts/2019/10/21/White-nationalism-online-supremacy-Tree-of-life-shooting-Robert-Bowers-screw-your-optics/stories/201910040166
Maybe you'd like to answer these questions for me: isn't it the case that the left/elites/minorities/et al openly brag about the "Great Replacement"? Isn't it also the case that our corporate overlords have marketing studies praising the "Great Replacement" as being good for business?
Do any of our guys have collections of leftist opinion pieces bragging about the decline of white numbers? I feel as though I see this stuff all the time in the WaPo or NYT.Replies: @Justvisiting, @Hypnotoad666, @Counterinsurgency, @Sick of Orcs, @Malcolm X-Lax
This got a tiny amount of attention at the time but seems to have been largely forgotten. Just call it gentle genocide. I’m surprised they have this on his Wikipedia page.
It reminds me of my grandmother, who would sometimes praise people for not bothering her with phonecalls and visits.
But let me tell you an anecdote: a German friend of mine knows someone who works at the pension office -- people approaching retirement can come in and get info -- and my German friend told me that this person in the pension office said whenever it turns out that the calculation shows someone will get €1000+ euros/month (this is brutto = before taxes + health insurance + other deductions) as a pension, this gets great notice all around the office because it is so rare -- so you can work a lifetime and have significantly less than €1k/month to live on when you retire -- as a percentage of your (averaged over a number of years) last income level, the German state pension payout is among the lowest in Europe.
Above I said 2018 'Tax Freedom Day' in DE was Jul 18 -- and keep in mind DE has no military to speak of -- it is not a fighting force -- so where does all that money go?Replies: @Cortes
Consider me a sceptic:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pensions_in_Germany
It’s not entirely accidental that many of the delightful places in southern countries of the EU are little havens of Kaffee und Kuchen for retirees from the Vaterland who enjoy their holiday homes for a break from the tedium of having to interact with Merkel’s millions.
Germans are not well paid; even educated technical workers, eg engineers -- look at the PDF at this link --> link -- it gives the monthly salary for the various levels (Tarifstufe) for workers represented by IG Metall (a trade union) -- note: these tables are valid also for engineers, whose salaries are generally not individually negotiated: you are at some Tarifstufe, and this is what you get until you are moved up to the next one -- look at the table: the highest level in Bayern, generally Germany's costliest state, EG 17, is only €6k/month -- so you could be a HW or SW engineer, and unless your employer decides to reward you with a special contract outside the tarif structure (uncommon), you will never make more than €72k/year even in München, where the cost of living is very high -- compare that to engineering salaries in the US -- it is, on average, very significantly less than what engineers in the US make.
And most Germans make a lot less than an engineer -- I once saw a graphic about Berlin that said if your gross salary was > €3800/month (or so), then you were in the top 10% of earners in Berlin.Replies: @danand
Or to Scotland?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/California,_Falkirk
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pensions_in_Germany
It’s not entirely accidental that many of the delightful places in southern countries of the EU are little havens of Kaffee und Kuchen for retirees from the Vaterland who enjoy their holiday homes for a break from the tedium of having to interact with Merkel’s millions.Replies: @eah
Exactly what are you skeptical about? — what am I supposed to get out of your link? — Germans can, if they choose, invest their after tax money in other pension-like schemes (something similar to an annuity), which will give them additional income when they retire (the general term is private Altersvorsorge — these are fairly heavily advertised, and there are a number of different types) — but in general there is no “matching” by an employer, like eg a typical 401-K — some large companies still offer a Betriebspension, but it is typically very small, because the employees also (must) contribute to the state pension system (gesetzliche Rentenversicherung).
Germans are not well paid; even educated technical workers, eg engineers — look at the PDF at this link –> link — it gives the monthly salary for the various levels (Tarifstufe) for workers represented by IG Metall (a trade union) — note: these tables are valid also for engineers, whose salaries are generally not individually negotiated: you are at some Tarifstufe, and this is what you get until you are moved up to the next one — look at the table: the highest level in Bayern, generally Germany’s costliest state, EG 17, is only €6k/month — so you could be a HW or SW engineer, and unless your employer decides to reward you with a special contract outside the tarif structure (uncommon), you will never make more than €72k/year even in München, where the cost of living is very high — compare that to engineering salaries in the US — it is, on average, very significantly less than what engineers in the US make.
And most Germans make a lot less than an engineer — I once saw a graphic about Berlin that said if your gross salary was > €3800/month (or so), then you were in the top 10% of earners in Berlin.
I’ve always found it, for lack of a better term, “odd” that Germany, holding its place as the most productive of the large european nations, is still so ”poor“ relative to the US.
https://flic.kr/p/2hzaWUQ
“In California, everybody wants California to remain exactly the way it was on the day he arrived. Hence the enormous number of regulations cracking down on change.”
False premise followed by non sequitur.
“This is known as Progressivism.”
No, this is known as Progressivism.
http://www-personal.umd.umich.edu/~ppennock/Progressive%20Reforms.htm
Double bogey for Mr. Sailer. Make sure you mark it down on your scorecard.
Then why are Californians always shaming people who live in colder climates into moving there?
I'm skeptical of that.
Sure enough: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_crime_familyReplies: @Alden
Never heard of them in 27 years in San Francisco County Criminal Courts.
I’m very aware of the San Francisco Tongs and have posted about them. Neither Chinese nor Hispanics are Italian. Hispanics are mostly based in Salinas Watsonville
There’s a Mosque in St Louis Obispo. The university seems the only university in California that’s mostly White.
Oddly enough, in 1966, Lee Marvin starred in the excellent, less-bloody The Professionals.
- Higher minimum wage
- Steep fines for employers violating labor/immigration laws
- Eliminating "homelessness" by enforcing laws against vagrancy and giving bus tickets to offenders to a place with free housing, drug treatment, etc. far away in the sticks.
- A Florida-style wealth tax.
- Separate male and female bathrooms
- Keeping strict standards in the university systems, but adding trade schools non college-track young people.Replies: @nebulafox, @Redneck farmer, @David Davenport
a right-leaning Latino pol running on an anti-woke, pro-environmental, pro-worker, restrictionist platform.
No such person exists. In particular, a pro-environment Latino? A SWPL fantasy.
https://youtu.be/TePnO3wGXEo
Maybe Halsey, she’s a populists. Opps, my bad, she's popular, and obviously talented too.
https://youtu.be/ySmBqIKZi3E
False premise followed by non sequitur.
"This is known as Progressivism."
No, this is known as Progressivism.
http://www-personal.umd.umich.edu/~ppennock/Progressive%20Reforms.htm
Double bogey for Mr. Sailer. Make sure you mark it down on your scorecard.Replies: @R.G. Camara
Now now, little one, stop hyperventilating so much, you’ll give yourself a heart attack!
That sounds passive-aggressive. I’m not sure it’s something his son would have liked to hear.
It reminds me of my grandmother, who would sometimes praise people for not bothering her with phonecalls and visits.
Germans are not well paid; even educated technical workers, eg engineers -- look at the PDF at this link --> link -- it gives the monthly salary for the various levels (Tarifstufe) for workers represented by IG Metall (a trade union) -- note: these tables are valid also for engineers, whose salaries are generally not individually negotiated: you are at some Tarifstufe, and this is what you get until you are moved up to the next one -- look at the table: the highest level in Bayern, generally Germany's costliest state, EG 17, is only €6k/month -- so you could be a HW or SW engineer, and unless your employer decides to reward you with a special contract outside the tarif structure (uncommon), you will never make more than €72k/year even in München, where the cost of living is very high -- compare that to engineering salaries in the US -- it is, on average, very significantly less than what engineers in the US make.
And most Germans make a lot less than an engineer -- I once saw a graphic about Berlin that said if your gross salary was > €3800/month (or so), then you were in the top 10% of earners in Berlin.Replies: @danand
Eah,
I’ve always found it, for lack of a better term, “odd” that Germany, holding its place as the most productive of the large european nations, is still so ”poor“ relative to the US.
No such person exists. In particular, a pro-environment Latino? A SWPL fantasy.Replies: @danand
David, maybe Dave is right? Maybe somebody from the Eastside.
Maybe Halsey, she’s a populists. Opps, my bad, she’s popular, and obviously talented too.
Heck, the part of this coast closer to Santa Barbara that's serviced by the freeway has practically no inhabitants and just one golf course, Sandpiper by Billy Bell Jr. Even though he was a pretty terrible golf course designer who got his jobs because his dad was George "Riviera" Thomas's right hand man, Sandpiper is still pretty awesome because who couldn't design a golf course on that kind of land?
As I may have have mentioned once or twice, the land northwest of Santa Monica -- the 140 miles from Malibu to Point Concepcion -- is remarkably underpopulated.Replies: @indocon, @Old Palo Altan
Some of my relations were at school (the Cate School) with various of the Hollisters. I think they’ve mostly sold up by now. I later knew well a man who was the heir of the Santa Barbara Ranch itself: the combined total of his family’s holdings ultimately reached over half a million acres.
I don’t see at all why anyone should begrudge these people their ranches: they run them superbly, and keep an entire section of the most beautiful coast-line on earth unspoilt.
Long may it continue, and long may the scruffy time-wasting surfers be kept in their place, which should be confined to Malibu and places south.
I always stop in or near San Luis Obispo on my way north or south from Pebble Beach to Holmby Hills
But it too has changed: the fine second hand bookshops are mostly gone, and replaced by shoe and dress shops: all the usual effluvia of the mindless products of our useless, indeed actively pernicious, educational system. But, yes, at least the kids are white. Clean-cut too, at least in comparison to most other places.
But travel just a few miles either way, or inland, and the old California spreads itself luxuriously before one’s admiring and nostalgic gaze.
The same could apply to the Democratic Party as a whole. Here in the Golden State we are trying to survive the leadership of Governor Gavin Newsom (Getty). He destroyed San Francisco and now the entire state. He and his first partner, Hecate, have their eyes on the White House. Newsom is the reincarnation of Nero. He is also a vampire.Replies: @Old Palo Altan
“He is also a vampire”.
Please elaborate.
Old Palo Altan, perhaps SunBakedSurburb is refering Gavin Newsom's affinity for "vampire facial treatments". Governor Newsom's office put out an advisory/warning concerning a vampire treatment spa located in Albuquerque, New Mexico a while back: some of the clients may have been exposed to HIV. Good chance Newsom was aware of the spa as a result of his dealings/connections with that world?
I any event, I'd say there's a good chance in a decade or so America/Twitter will follow a president Newsom. He deserves it, he's had to overcome a lot:Not to mention having to come up and under the 3 suit change per day, boogie nightin', San Francisco original treat, Super Slick - Willie Brown. Willie loved those young lookers like Gavin & Kamela, and they gave him some lovin' back.
https://flic.kr/p/2hzkr6S
https://flic.kr/p/2hzpaus
""Newsom's first political experience came when he volunteered for Willie Brown's successful campaign for mayor in 1995. Newsom hosted a private fundraiser at his PlumpJack Café.[11] In 1996, Brown appointed Newsom to a vacant seat on the Parking and Traffic Commission, and he was later elected president of the commission. In 1997, Brown appointed him to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors seat vacated by Kevin Shelley. At the time, he became the youngest member of San Francisco's board of supervisors and also, like Shelley before him, the board's only white heterosexual male.
Please elaborate.Replies: @danand
Old Palo Altan, perhaps SunBakedSurburb is refering Gavin Newsom’s affinity for “vampire facial treatments”. Governor Newsom’s office put out an advisory/warning concerning a vampire treatment spa located in Albuquerque, New Mexico a while back: some of the clients may have been exposed to HIV. Good chance Newsom was aware of the spa as a result of his dealings/connections with that world?
I any event, I’d say there’s a good chance in a decade or so America/Twitter will follow a president Newsom. He deserves it, he’s had to overcome a lot:
Not to mention having to come up and under the 3 suit change per day, boogie nightin’, San Francisco original treat, Super Slick – Willie Brown. Willie loved those young lookers like Gavin & Kamela, and they gave him some lovin’ back.
“”Newsom’s first political experience came when he volunteered for Willie Brown’s successful campaign for mayor in 1995. Newsom hosted a private fundraiser at his PlumpJack Café.[11] In 1996, Brown appointed Newsom to a vacant seat on the Parking and Traffic Commission, and he was later elected president of the commission. In 1997, Brown appointed him to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors seat vacated by Kevin Shelley. At the time, he became the youngest member of San Francisco’s board of supervisors and also, like Shelley before him, the board’s only white heterosexual male.
Thank you very much (truly), but somehow I feel that’s more than I needed to know.
I take it then that Californians are an updated version of character Tancredi from the film The Leopard. Instead of
“If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.”
they say
“If we want things to stay as they are, REGULATIONS will have to change.”
Early 1990s were about the time the Democratic Party and its constituencies sort of branched off and formed an entity completely separate from the United States. _Minority Party_ was an attempt to stop that.
Counterinsurgency
Las Vegas & LA are tied.
a Lutheran church. Joining one as soon as we move away.