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In recent years, Wikipedia has been infiltrated by a coterie of fanatical hate-filled science denialists who have managed to rule by fiat that any evidence for a connection between racial ancestry and intelligence is, by definition and without appeal, “pseudoscience” and anyone researching the subject or related subjects is a “pseudoscientist.” No outlets or individuals tainted by connection to this “pseudoscience” can be cited.
Hilariously, under the science denialists’ self-imposed rules, Wikipedia’s long entry denouncing that arch-demon Richard Lynn, the prolific intelligence researcher, has not yet noted that Lynn died a few weeks ago at age 93:
In the Talk section, one Wikipedia editor wonders:
11 days Richard Lynn and still not reported. Kinda grotesque
But the united science denialists crow in response that only Bad People have mentioned the death of the Bad Man, so therefore, according to the rules they imposed on Wikipedia, the fact that he’s no longer alive can’t be mentioned in Wikipedia.
But I’m still free to say it here: Richard Lynn, rest in peace.
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In a normal world, this kind of oversight and obvious slop would relegate the channel to low-status. Oddly, here today we all live with creatures like Wikipedia in spite of their obvious shortcomings.
Why?
Why are there not more normal, competing, superior, accurate, truthful alternatives? Why don’t we all just use those alternatives? (I realize my second question is purely imaginary, since there don’t seem to be viable alternatives.)
Truly, if “we” are so capable and “superior,” then why don’t “we” build our own Wikipedias? What is really going on here? I mean, we can bellyache all day long — and we do here! — but how is it that we even care about such drivel?
https://www.britannica.com/
And it is just sad to think that anybody, in 2023, thinks of the 'achievement' of getting a NY Times obituary, or having the foolish clowns at Wikipedia care about you, as anything other than a sign that the mediocrities who desire power have some idea, in their overwhelming mediocrity and distance from the truth of science and art, that they should mention you.Replies: @Richard B
Those of us bound by reality want our system to work for us. We do not have time to distort the world in which we live, and we do not pretend that we can offer utopia.
The utopians want to remake humanity in the image of the new Soviet man. Never mind that it failed and must fail. Supposedly G.K. Chesterton did not remark, "When a man stops believing in God, he doesn’t believe in nothing, he believes in anything." But those who object to that quote were not there. And the evidence is that those who deny reality are encircled and encompassed by Chesterton's stricture.
They may snuff out our lives, but they cannot snuff out the truth.
BUT that is over, due to the Leftists March through the institutions. Only an express right wing Wikipedia clone can maintain freedom and honesty
Any organization or enterprise that is not expressly right wing will become left wing over time [2nd of Robert Conquest’s Laws ] aka O’Sullivan’s Law
https://sincerity.net/left-wing-wins-osullivan/
White supremacists at it again.
Cops search for anti-Semitic vandal who graffitied UES synagogue
https://nypost.com/2023/08/13/cops-search-for-anti-semitic-vandal-who-graffitied-nyc-synagogue
No one wants to be the first to stop not clapping.
Maybe this is the first example of a new trend? Maybe their Emmanuel Goldstein hate figures will be made immortal? That way they can always be said to be out there somewhere doing evil.
Why?
Why are there not more normal, competing, superior, accurate, truthful alternatives? Why don't we all just use those alternatives? (I realize my second question is purely imaginary, since there don't seem to be viable alternatives.)
Truly, if "we" are so capable and "superior," then why don't "we" build our own Wikipedias? What is really going on here? I mean, we can bellyache all day long -- and we do here! -- but how is it that we even care about such drivel?Replies: @HammerJack, @I. Racist, @anonymous, @Charles Erwin Wilson, @Moral Stone, @Donke, @4HONESTY.com, @Pendragon
FWIW, Britannica is only half as bad as Wokepedia.
https://www.britannica.com/
And then there’s Rushton.
Just be careful. People have been known to contract AIDS reading the Talk section of Wikipedia.
Why?
Why are there not more normal, competing, superior, accurate, truthful alternatives? Why don't we all just use those alternatives? (I realize my second question is purely imaginary, since there don't seem to be viable alternatives.)
Truly, if "we" are so capable and "superior," then why don't "we" build our own Wikipedias? What is really going on here? I mean, we can bellyache all day long -- and we do here! -- but how is it that we even care about such drivel?Replies: @HammerJack, @I. Racist, @anonymous, @Charles Erwin Wilson, @Moral Stone, @Donke, @4HONESTY.com, @Pendragon
Infogalactic is the Wikipedia clone for crimethinkers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lynn
https://infogalactic.com/info/Richard_LynnReplies: @res
Why?
Why are there not more normal, competing, superior, accurate, truthful alternatives? Why don't we all just use those alternatives? (I realize my second question is purely imaginary, since there don't seem to be viable alternatives.)
Truly, if "we" are so capable and "superior," then why don't "we" build our own Wikipedias? What is really going on here? I mean, we can bellyache all day long -- and we do here! -- but how is it that we even care about such drivel?Replies: @HammerJack, @I. Racist, @anonymous, @Charles Erwin Wilson, @Moral Stone, @Donke, @4HONESTY.com, @Pendragon
I have often tried, here, to set the record straight when people claimed to know more than they obviously knew. Nobody – or almost nobody – cared. So ask yourself – Why should wikipedia be any good if Unz is full of misinformation?
I have argued with them all. Jew-haters with a delusional love for Germany who knew no German, “scientists” who (correctly) feared that others would think they knew little about science because they had a doctorate but could not argue basic scientific arguments, clownish young “fans” of Elvis who claimed he was the greatest American artist, but who had never heard of Faulkner’s better stories or Edgar Allen Poe’s better poems. Many such cases.
And it is just sad to think that anybody, in 2023, thinks of the ‘achievement’ of getting a NY Times obituary, or having the foolish clowns at Wikipedia care about you, as anything other than a sign that the mediocrities who desire power have some idea, in their overwhelming mediocrity and distance from the truth of science and art, that they should mention you.
It is a simple thing to achieve goals that are important, it is not worthwhile to achieve the goals set by wikipedia and its ilk.
Steve, instruct your family that upon your death they are to refuse to publicly announce it or respond to any inquiries from the mainstream press. We’ll do the rest and make sure in the Talk section of your page that you live forever and Wikipedia never gets “reliable” evidence that you are dead.
Maybe a striking prosthetics artist from Hollywood can do two or three increasingly decrepit versions of you with makeup and you can record a few video interviews with cooperating u podcasters about reports of your death being exaggerated and put in the can for postmortem upload.
FWIW, the Russian version does mention his death, in a revision that went in on July 23. It reads as follows (my translation):
“A great shock, news of his death on July 17, 2023 elicited a stormy reaction from racist media outlets such as Unz and American Renaissance.”
I didn’t even he died recently. Was he vaxxed?
Why?
Why are there not more normal, competing, superior, accurate, truthful alternatives? Why don't we all just use those alternatives? (I realize my second question is purely imaginary, since there don't seem to be viable alternatives.)
Truly, if "we" are so capable and "superior," then why don't "we" build our own Wikipedias? What is really going on here? I mean, we can bellyache all day long -- and we do here! -- but how is it that we even care about such drivel?Replies: @HammerJack, @I. Racist, @anonymous, @Charles Erwin Wilson, @Moral Stone, @Donke, @4HONESTY.com, @Pendragon
Dear Brother Buzz,
True.
The network effect. The Wikipedia drones, drowned in propaganda, self-confined to subterranean blinders and basement dwellings, and afflicted by the dishonest drone-speak imposed on them, accept the Marxist wholesale distortion of reality. And their network has been coopted and dominated by the “rich men north of Richmond.”
Those of us bound by reality want our system to work for us. We do not have time to distort the world in which we live, and we do not pretend that we can offer utopia.
The utopians want to remake humanity in the image of the new Soviet man. Never mind that it failed and must fail. Supposedly G.K. Chesterton did not remark, “When a man stops believing in God, he doesn’t believe in nothing, he believes in anything.” But those who object to that quote were not there. And the evidence is that those who deny reality are encircled and encompassed by Chesterton’s stricture.
They may snuff out our lives, but they cannot snuff out the truth.
“In recent years”? More like 20.
In any event, Richard Lynn, RIP.
“Wikipedia and Race”
https://nicholasstixuncensored.blogspot.com/2023/01/wikipedia-and-race.html
Imagine how long he might have lived, if not for apartheid.
Why?
Why are there not more normal, competing, superior, accurate, truthful alternatives? Why don't we all just use those alternatives? (I realize my second question is purely imaginary, since there don't seem to be viable alternatives.)
Truly, if "we" are so capable and "superior," then why don't "we" build our own Wikipedias? What is really going on here? I mean, we can bellyache all day long -- and we do here! -- but how is it that we even care about such drivel?Replies: @HammerJack, @I. Racist, @anonymous, @Charles Erwin Wilson, @Moral Stone, @Donke, @4HONESTY.com, @Pendragon
Good question, one I’ve been thinking about as well. The simplest answer I’ve come up with is that sites like Wikipedia provide some of the most accurate and up-to-date information across a variety of topics. The caveat is that this excludes any topic with a potential political/moral angle the offends our commissars. But if you want a primer on diamagnetism or the battle of Hastings, Wikipedia is still by far the best single repository of such knowledge.
But this may be naïve of me. You know what they say about academia and its low stakes...
No, he was 93.
OT:
I’m pleased to see you decided to dress in coat and tie.
Then I see this picture and get disappointed:
I think you need to be like John von Neumann and dress in a suit, even when out hiking.
Lynn’s entry on Infogalactic is a carbon copy of Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lynn
https://infogalactic.com/info/Richard_Lynn
BTW, is there really NO obituary of Richard Lynn in the mainstream press? Not even a local paper?Replies: @Anon, @Colin Wright
OFF TOPIC UDATE:
A test for “Sailer’s Law of Mass Shootings”
From today’s Minneapolis Star-Tribune:
One dead out of seven shot, with TWO shooters. Borderline.
But you have to like the factual reporting style here:Do patrons of County/Western bars "gather to share their love of music and for each other"?
Exactly what is going on in their bathrooms? How is "love shared"? Do we want to know?
Could be racial (Blacks! not liking public "sharing of love for each other") or failed romance (ditto) or just someone not paying their debts on time.
I'm sure the Minneapolis PD has put their finest detectives on the case. Both of them...Replies: @Reg Cæsar
Not only is Wikipedia bad, it seems to be getting worse.
Aside from more substantial matters, the grammar’s getting awful. Half the time, when I read a piece, I’m going, ‘run on…fragment…wrong word…’ Sometimes, it’s so bad you literally cannot make out what the writer is attempting to convey.
Well I suppose this is just as good a time as ever for the funniest, best rock n roll song evah.
Accept no substitutes! Be in love with modern moonlight!
On the other hand given that Granny Warren is our idiot Senator #1, the following tune could be the ticket:: https://youtu.be/0LByr0Qf4x8I’d argue that Easy Eddie Markey did more good for the people of the Bay State as an ice cream man than he ever did in Congress…Replies: @Reg Cæsar
And it is just sad to think that anybody, in 2023, thinks of the 'achievement' of getting a NY Times obituary, or having the foolish clowns at Wikipedia care about you, as anything other than a sign that the mediocrities who desire power have some idea, in their overwhelming mediocrity and distance from the truth of science and art, that they should mention you.Replies: @Richard B
Speaking of delusional mediocrity and misinformation.
Maybe a striking prosthetics artist from Hollywood can do two or three increasingly decrepit versions of you with makeup and you can record a few video interviews with cooperating u podcasters about reports of your death being exaggerated and put in the can for postmortem upload.Replies: @Matthew Kelly, @Known Fact
aiSteve shall be immortal.
Suppose in the Middle Ages someone proved the Church had no idea what it was talking about on matters of theology. Imagine someone challenged the authority of the Church on biblical issues. How would that work out for them?
Richard Lynn challenged the authority of the Academy and Intellectuals on social issues.
This affront will not be tolerated.
I’ve long suspected that the major EGOT awards were untrustworthy, but the more obscure categories which the public didn’t care about– bluegrass, sound mixing, editing, lighting design, stunt coordination, “new age, ambient or chant”– yes, that’s a category– would be less political and grain-of-saltworthy.
But this may be naïve of me. You know what they say about academia and its low stakes…
Richard Lynn the anti-Franco.
I think Wikipedia has entered a new phase as there are people helping run the site now who weren’t born yet when it went live. Wikipedia is a volunteer project and hasn’t been tainted by government money the way a lot of Silicon Valley companies have. I was defending them when it seemed like everyone on the right assumed that they simply must be part of the leftist hivemind. Wikipedia had a full-length article on race and intelligence at a time when Britannica dismissed the subject with a single sentence something like “Intelligence is a trait sometimes claimed to correlate with racial ancestry, but the differences within races are much greater than the claimed differences between races.”
I wouldn’t say that Wikipedia is lost. I suspect that if they’ve joined the hivemind it’s due to control from the Wikimedia Foundation, the part of the project that most resembles a traditional corporation (unelected, paid, not volunteers). But if those people job-hop as much as other people in the Bay Area do, especially since for-profit companies are likely to pay more, the character of the Wikimedia Foundation may change again and become more like it was in the beginning. That said, I’ll end this comment the same way it began … Wikipedia has been around long enough now that to the younger generation it has literally always been there … having lost its novelty, people may not care so much about what positions it takes on controversial issues.
"Volunteers" are where you find them.
I suspect the Russians, Chinese, Brits, etc. are all doing this as well.
"Public sourced" is like public beaches, full of noise and crap.
Unlike, say, the iSteve comment section.Replies: @Reg Cæsar
I'm disappointed that we're no longer getting the free exchange of ideas I remember from Wikipedia's early days, but I still think that they're giving the topic much better treatment than Encyclopedia Britannica's single dismissive sentence (if it's even still there at all), and certainly much better than the white guilt sessions that are taught in high school and university courses, where the topic won't even come up.
For those who didn’t see it, from Jared Taylor:
https://www.amren.com/commentary/2023/07/richard-lynn-a-wonderful-man-and-a-great-scientist/
I salute you Professor Lynn, Rest in Peace.
https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/2023/07/eulogy-for-richard-lynn-1930-2023/Replies: @res
Even more amusing if you look at the talk page for Richard Lynn their refusal to use amren as a source caused them to realize that Roger Pearson dying was only sourced by amren on his wiki page, thus causing them to remove amren as a source on his page as well and removing the fact he died 8 months ago on January 4th 2023.
I wouldn't say that Wikipedia is lost. I suspect that if they've joined the hivemind it's due to control from the Wikimedia Foundation, the part of the project that most resembles a traditional corporation (unelected, paid, not volunteers). But if those people job-hop as much as other people in the Bay Area do, especially since for-profit companies are likely to pay more, the character of the Wikimedia Foundation may change again and become more like it was in the beginning. That said, I'll end this comment the same way it began ... Wikipedia has been around long enough now that to the younger generation it has literally always been there ... having lost its novelty, people may not care so much about what positions it takes on controversial issues.Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Muggles, @Sleep
My impression is that the recent absurdity of Wikipedia’s articles touching on race and IQ is due to a conspiracy among some volunteers to utterly censor whatever Wikipedia has to say on the subject. A handful of hate-driven fanatics can wield a lot of power over the global culture just by working together to rig the obscure, tedious system by which Wikipedia articles are edited.
* Substitute preferred goodthink term here, if desired
The Same Man: George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh in Love and War
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51TSYrwziKL._SX329_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg
Another example of this kind of thing is the way that district attorney elections were targeted. You don’t have to change laws or elect a majority of the legislators if you can get your guy into the single elected position responsible for deciding whether to even bother enforcing the laws. Laws? What laws?
Lynn? I would rank him with Jensen ,Shockley,Fuckunda…
This is the fourth indictment of Donald Trump!
Questions.
What are the odds that he’ll be found guilt on at least one count by at least one jury?
If he’s guilty, what are the odds that he’ll go to jail?
If he’s sentenced to a jail sentence, then what happens?
If he’s elected president in 2024, how would that impact all of this?
If Trump is in jail during the presidential primary or general election, can he still run?
The USA is driving full speed at a wall.
How does this end?
Aside from more substantial matters, the grammar's getting awful. Half the time, when I read a piece, I'm going, 'run on...fragment...wrong word...' Sometimes, it's so bad you literally cannot make out what the writer is attempting to convey.Replies: @EdwardM
You mean like, the non-late Richard Lynn “advocates for a genetic relationship between race and intelligence”?
The verb choice there is scurrilous, implying that this is just Lynn’s ideological or emotional position or preference, rather than a scientific conclusion that (while in principle is open to scientific debate) is a statement of purported fact.
I suppose one could charitably say that this is Lynn’s theory and one advocates for a theory, but we know what the writer is trying to convey in this case.
In my experience- mostly on non-controversial matters- there is a small group of people who are insanely knowledgeable of every arcane Wikipedia rule- for all I know, they wrote them themselves- and use them to enforce whatever view they want. Again, it is possible to use them thusly because of how arcane they are; perhaps, again, that is a deliberate move.
My only comfort is that these people probably aren’t doing anything more productive with their lives.
Or was that “The Devil In Miss Jones”?
That’s a good idea and you beat me to it. There is no reason why it can’t be done with him and many others.
Have an AI read everything available from Steve, learn his thinking, method and style, and then set it about reading, studying and noticing things and writing about them thereafter…
This might be possible for anyone, living or already gone.
While I respect his courage and all that,I don’t like him because of his apparent anti-Irish bigotry.
I realize ,o’ course,around here,this is a huge plus!
Lynn is an Ulsterman,many of whom,are shits. Look at Paisley. (The reverend,not the country singer.)Lynn came of age when the odious hold of the pig Orange men was beginning to crumble. Lynn surely saw the writing on the wall. Literally. Its Belfast.😉
Didn’t he come up with some cock-a-mamie scheme to have Irish sterilized so that…they…would…sort of..all die out? For the good of Ireland?
People vastly underestimate the unhinged lunatic vicious psychopathic hatred that the Brits displayed toward the Irish. That is of course,by design.
Commentary on blacks is a Shakespearean Sonnet compared to the bottomless cruelty of anti-Irish shit.
I saw a quote by Tennyson recently along these lines,though can’t be sure he actually said it.Not worth repeating,nothing new.
Wasn’t he aware that one hell of a lot of the “noble six hundred were Irish”?
Yeah Lynn was a great man,the type we need. But maybe better next time?
Landlady: "Oh, brilliant, splendid."
Me: "And then we're going to Ireland."
Landlady: [Pause, then with perfect diction] "We don't ... like the Irish."If I had to guess at the landlord's career, I would say: retired colonel. So maybe they had good reason to not have enjoyed their years in Belfast.But still, English snobbery is really something, in part because they are indeed superior, at least at bias. The English are the world's best at microaggressions.Replies: @Graham, @YetAnotherAnon, @Cagey Beast
Why?
Why are there not more normal, competing, superior, accurate, truthful alternatives? Why don't we all just use those alternatives? (I realize my second question is purely imaginary, since there don't seem to be viable alternatives.)
Truly, if "we" are so capable and "superior," then why don't "we" build our own Wikipedias? What is really going on here? I mean, we can bellyache all day long -- and we do here! -- but how is it that we even care about such drivel?Replies: @HammerJack, @I. Racist, @anonymous, @Charles Erwin Wilson, @Moral Stone, @Donke, @4HONESTY.com, @Pendragon
Several exist and have been tried. Just because you built it, doesn’t mean they will come. The momentum necessary to dislodge what has taken Wikipedia decades to build is simply not going to be possible.
Why indeed does anyone care what the massively powerful western propaganda machine has to say? Not me!
I realize ,o' course,around here,this is a huge plus!
Lynn is an Ulsterman,many of whom,are shits. Look at Paisley. (The reverend,not the country singer.)Lynn came of age when the odious hold of the pig Orange men was beginning to crumble. Lynn surely saw the writing on the wall. Literally. Its Belfast.😉
Didn't he come up with some cock-a-mamie scheme to have Irish sterilized so that...they...would...sort of..all die out? For the good of Ireland?
People vastly underestimate the unhinged lunatic vicious psychopathic hatred that the Brits displayed toward the Irish. That is of course,by design.
Commentary on blacks is a Shakespearean Sonnet compared to the bottomless cruelty of anti-Irish shit.
I saw a quote by Tennyson recently along these lines,though can't be sure he actually said it.Not worth repeating,nothing new.
Wasn't he aware that one hell of a lot of the "noble six hundred were Irish"? Yeah Lynn was a great man,the type we need. But maybe better next time?Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Art Deco
I can remember staying at a fancy bed and breakfast out past Heathrow airport in London’s really nice western suburbs on our honeymoon. The High Tory 60-something couple who owned it asked where we were going next:
Me: “We’re going to Oxford, Stratford, the Cotswolds, and Bath.”
Landlady: “Oh, brilliant, splendid.”
Me: “And then we’re going to Ireland.”
Landlady: [Pause, then with perfect diction] “We don’t … like the Irish.”
If I had to guess at the landlord’s career, I would say: retired colonel. So maybe they had good reason to not have enjoyed their years in Belfast.
But still, English snobbery is really something, in part because they are indeed superior, at least at bias. The English are the world’s best at microaggressions.
I discount your remarks about English snobbery, bias and microaggressions. Apart from displaying the traits you criticise, they invite the questions, "Where's your evidence?" and "Compared to whom?".Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Brit
Pretty sure they didn't like the English, but they were polite if frigidly so.
Landlady: "Oh, brilliant, splendid."
Me: "And then we're going to Ireland."
Landlady: [Pause, then with perfect diction] "We don't ... like the Irish."If I had to guess at the landlord's career, I would say: retired colonel. So maybe they had good reason to not have enjoyed their years in Belfast.But still, English snobbery is really something, in part because they are indeed superior, at least at bias. The English are the world's best at microaggressions.Replies: @Graham, @YetAnotherAnon, @Cagey Beast
The English and the Irish get on rather well at the moment. I don’t think there ever was psychopathic hatred, but there was bitterness during the Troubles; although most people prefixed any complaints with the phrase, “Of course, nearly all Irish people are perfectly fine, but…”. If your hosts all those years ago were anti-Irish it may well have been to do with a military experience. Captured British soldiers were tortured to death out there.
I discount your remarks about English snobbery, bias and microaggressions. Apart from displaying the traits you criticise, they invite the questions, “Where’s your evidence?” and “Compared to whom?”.
they invite the questions, “Where’s your evidence?” and “Compared to whoReplies: @Gordo, @Corvinus
As is the CIA, as an "agency". The FBI, a "bureau", is neuter.Replies: @The Alarmist
I discount your remarks about English snobbery, bias and microaggressions. Apart from displaying the traits you criticise, they invite the questions, "Where's your evidence?" and "Compared to whom?".Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Brit
they invite the questions, “Where’s your evidence?” and “Compared to who
I discount your remarks about English snobbery, bias and microaggressions. Apart from displaying the traits you criticise, they invite the questions, "Where's your evidence?" and "Compared to whom?".Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Brit
Ex British military of all ranks can be tremendously anti Irish, like the (now almost entirely dead) cohort of British military that served in mandate Palestine could be surprisingly anti-Semitic in unguarded moments. In both cases there was a deliberately nasty campaign going on in which a minority terrorist faction was trying to drive a wedge between “their” people and the British military by a campaign of outrages in order to get, sometimes successfully, a reaction.
Even Hollywood covered the Irish version of this in The Crying Game in that brief period when Cold War liberals were aware that the IRA were perhaps the anti American side.
Outside the military anti-Irishness is barely a force outside a declining element in the north west of England and the west of Scotland – the bits facing the Irish coast. However among anyone over about 40 (and rising) there is a visceral reaction to the IRA which is generally – at least outside the ex-military – believed not to be supported by the average Irishman. This played very badly for the Labour Party’s pro IRA leader Jeremy Corbyn in the 2017 and 2019 elections.
There’s also a secular/Protestant reaction to Catholicism which can assume that the Irish are Catholic, but of around the same intensity that WASPy and other upper middle class non RC American liberals show before they realise you’re Catholic.
I think the Irish are the only national group whose longevity decreases when coming to the UK. They tend to live in a fairly rural primitive way, almost semi-gypsy. Which works in Ireland. But when they replicate that in an industrialised nation, it can get grim.
“This played very badly for the Labour Party’s pro IRA leader Jeremy Corbyn in the 2017 and 2019 elections.”
In the 2017 election what did for him was Brexit, and his impossible situation in being a pro-Brexit leader in a very pro-European party – Conservative strategists successfully painted him as a prisoner of the pro-Europeans who would take us back into Europe. Certainly his love of the IRA didn’t help among the oldies, but young middle class voters (with no memories of atrocities) loved him. All my kids were Corbynistas.
In 2019 it was Israel that did for him – literally. Half his own National Executive were sabotaging his campaign and briefing against him. Because he thought the Palestinians were getting a rough deal.
Mind, you can say the same thing that was said of Corbyn – “got a lot of people inspired to get into politics who previously had no interest” about Brexit, for which the turnout was higher than at any GE for decades.
But the Conservative Government then “got Brexit done” by keeping the borders open (1.1 million visas in Boris’ last year), while Boris bought a manor house with a moat round it.
There was certainly an effort by the Conservatives to portray Labour as wanting to take us back into the EU but the current Labour line of accepting the referendum result seemed to keep almost all of the Red Wall safe while allowing Labour to take some hitherto safe Tory seats like Canterbury and Kensington on student and upper middle class votes.
In 2017 the Tories certainly picked up older voters who had voted Labour all their life - but it was Corbyn and particularly being pro IRA rather than Labour's view on Brexit was the reason I heard.
In 2019 despite a much more left wing manifesto the only policy change that really seemed to land on the doorstep was Brexit and Labour's change to a (sort of) second referendum. That was the difference between the surprisingly narrow defeat of 2017 and the landslide against them in 2019. The anti-IRA stuff was present in both elections.
Landlady: "Oh, brilliant, splendid."
Me: "And then we're going to Ireland."
Landlady: [Pause, then with perfect diction] "We don't ... like the Irish."If I had to guess at the landlord's career, I would say: retired colonel. So maybe they had good reason to not have enjoyed their years in Belfast.But still, English snobbery is really something, in part because they are indeed superior, at least at bias. The English are the world's best at microaggressions.Replies: @Graham, @YetAnotherAnon, @Cagey Beast
We stayed in a B&B in Dingle, County Kerry where the landlord’s daughter would hardly speak to us. Huge poster of Charlie Haughey (dodgy pro-Republican PM) on the lounge wall, local church a memorial to the fallen of “1916-19–” – in other words the struggle continues.
Pretty sure they didn’t like the English, but they were polite if frigidly so.
Accept no substitutes! Be in love with modern moonlight!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZWoJ8_75MoReplies: @Ganderson
A few years back there was a proposal to make “Roadrunner “ the official song of this benighted Commonwealth. Beats the shit out of “Dirty Water”; although perhaps given the demographic of the western part of the state “I Was Dancing in a Lesbian Bar” might be apropos.
The great Howie Carr is fond of pointing out that our idiot Senator #2, Ed “Mr. Frosty”Markey, has not had a real job since he drove an ice cream truck; thus this song might be considered:
On the other hand given that Granny Warren is our idiot Senator #1, the following tune could be the ticket::
I’d argue that Easy Eddie Markey did more good for the people of the Bay State as an ice cream man than he ever did in Congress…
Gloria had moved to the UK, where her version was a hit. She later got involved with Marc Bolan, and killed him when she banged a gong with their Mini. (He couldn't drive.) Their son Rolan, Bowie's godson, is almost 50. The mulatto child Linda Lewis offered to bear for Elton John would be even older, but was never to be. He couldn't bring himself to do it, even with a Coke bottle. (Sorry, enough digressive rock trivia...)
"Anything Goes" discusses Plymouth Rock in the introductory verse, but Massachusetts would never accept an official song written by a Yalie. As for Richman, he's the Norm Crosby of pop.Replies: @Ganderson
Landlady: "Oh, brilliant, splendid."
Me: "And then we're going to Ireland."
Landlady: [Pause, then with perfect diction] "We don't ... like the Irish."If I had to guess at the landlord's career, I would say: retired colonel. So maybe they had good reason to not have enjoyed their years in Belfast.But still, English snobbery is really something, in part because they are indeed superior, at least at bias. The English are the world's best at microaggressions.Replies: @Graham, @YetAnotherAnon, @Cagey Beast
The IRA was going strong with their bombing campaign back then. She and her husband (and their social circle) likely felt differently about the Irish before the Troubles began in the late 1960’s. I know the Irish themselves felt radically different about one another as the 70’s and 80’s rolled on.
This seems to be a pattern. Henry Harpending had only one obituary (in the New York Times). The Salt Lake Tribune didn’t have one, even though he was a well-known professor at The University of Utah.
Things are pretty bad when even good Mormons have internalized the rules of what to write and what not to write.
There was no obituary at all for Pierre van den Berghe when he died in 2019, even though he was a leading anthropologist. But he became interested in sociobiology, and that, apparently, was an unforgivable deviation.
they invite the questions, “Where’s your evidence?” and “Compared to whoReplies: @Gordo, @Corvinus
Would that be the Englishman known as Oscar Fingal O’Flaherty Wills Wilde?
I realize ,o' course,around here,this is a huge plus!
Lynn is an Ulsterman,many of whom,are shits. Look at Paisley. (The reverend,not the country singer.)Lynn came of age when the odious hold of the pig Orange men was beginning to crumble. Lynn surely saw the writing on the wall. Literally. Its Belfast.😉
Didn't he come up with some cock-a-mamie scheme to have Irish sterilized so that...they...would...sort of..all die out? For the good of Ireland?
People vastly underestimate the unhinged lunatic vicious psychopathic hatred that the Brits displayed toward the Irish. That is of course,by design.
Commentary on blacks is a Shakespearean Sonnet compared to the bottomless cruelty of anti-Irish shit.
I saw a quote by Tennyson recently along these lines,though can't be sure he actually said it.Not worth repeating,nothing new.
Wasn't he aware that one hell of a lot of the "noble six hundred were Irish"? Yeah Lynn was a great man,the type we need. But maybe better next time?Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Art Deco
For reasons obscure (or known only to an odd subset of anthropologists), the Celtic peoples outside of what is today Scotland proved unable to construct and maintain a political architecture more sophisticated and extensive than a local chieftaincy. Interestingly, it was only the territory most thoroughly absorbed politically (Wales) that proved able to preserve crucial aspects of their vernacular culture. As for the Irish, they’ve disposed of their distinctiveness in the last 30 years and are now just Eurotrash with brogues. Scottish particularlism is notable for a resentment of Westminster conjoined to an embrace of Brussels; they’re unserious and abusive. One of the more recent bosses of the Welsh National Party was a ghastly social worker who couldn’t speak Welsh.
If "distinctive" means speaking the Irish language, there are parts of Ireland where it is still spoken and they make at least efforts to keep it up everywhere. TBH, like Quebec, as much cultural value as the local language has, English is the language that is valuable in the global economy and if you overemphasize the local language to the point where the locals are not fluent in English you are crippling them for life in the 21st century just to prove some political point. It reminds me of the deaf people who refuse to get their kids treatment for their congenital deafness because it would separate them from "deaf culture".Replies: @Art Deco, @Rohirrimborn
Brexit was fine for Labour in 2017, they actually picked up votes and seats in 2017.
There was certainly an effort by the Conservatives to portray Labour as wanting to take us back into the EU but the current Labour line of accepting the referendum result seemed to keep almost all of the Red Wall safe while allowing Labour to take some hitherto safe Tory seats like Canterbury and Kensington on student and upper middle class votes.
In 2017 the Tories certainly picked up older voters who had voted Labour all their life – but it was Corbyn and particularly being pro IRA rather than Labour’s view on Brexit was the reason I heard.
In 2019 despite a much more left wing manifesto the only policy change that really seemed to land on the doorstep was Brexit and Labour’s change to a (sort of) second referendum. That was the difference between the surprisingly narrow defeat of 2017 and the landslide against them in 2019. The anti-IRA stuff was present in both elections.
The Scottish National Party is having a lot of troubles lately, but one We Can’t Notice is that it is headed by a Pakistani.
My only comfort is that these people probably aren't doing anything more productive with their lives.Replies: @Catdog
The rules are not really “arcane”. It’s just about power and numbers. If you try to change something, even when you know you have the rules on your side, they’ll shout you down with numbers (“consensus”) and then bring in a high-ranking editor friend to end discussion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lynn
https://infogalactic.com/info/Richard_LynnReplies: @res
Interesting. Thanks. Does anyone here do edits on Infogalactic?
BTW, is there really NO obituary of Richard Lynn in the mainstream press? Not even a local paper?
It may be a trend. I noticed a conspicuous lack of fussing when Sean Connery died. He was a thought criminal as well.Replies: @Steve Sailer
https://www.amren.com/commentary/2023/07/richard-lynn-a-wonderful-man-and-a-great-scientist/
I salute you Professor Lynn, Rest in Peace.Replies: @res
Thanks. Also see this from Emil Kirkegaard (AD, I know you already saw it, for others).
https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/2023/07/eulogy-for-richard-lynn-1930-2023/
https://www.unz.com/article/brave-and-kind-remembering-richard-lynn/
@ Steve Sailer
One of the reasons Lynn is widely considered a pseudoscientist is because (like Rushton) he used dubious/fabricated data to argue blacks have longer on average penis sizes. His data was proven to be questionable and fraudulent using self-reported data, outdated (19th century) and made up/spurious sources. Was Lynn gay with a black cock fetish?
https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/unique-everybody-else/201210/the-pseudoscience-race-differences-in-penis-size
https://getmegiddy.com/penis-size-stereotypes
Do you have a view on this?
BTW, is there really NO obituary of Richard Lynn in the mainstream press? Not even a local paper?Replies: @Anon, @Colin Wright
No there isn’t; its the same for Roger Pearson.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Pearson_(anthropologist)
Pearson apparently died several months back but Wikipedia still says he is alive.
Wikipedia only works by reputable sources like obituaries. Not sure Sailer understands how Wikipedia works – they aren’t going to accept Emil Kirkegaard’s blog as a source.
I suppose Sailer and Kirkegaard did not even mention Pearson’s death because he was an overt neo-Nazi.
So one might ask the question: “how long can fantasy be perpetuated in the face of truth and logic?”
Answer: a couple thousand years.
It’s Catch-22. According to Wikipedia policy, you can’t be declared dead (if you were born within the last 115 years) unless a “reliable source” declares you to be dead. However, racist publications are not reliable sources by Wikipedia standards and no “reliable” source will print his obituary. So Lynn must remain alive in Wikipedia land, even if he is dead everywhere else. No way around it.
Read the “Talk” page for some unintentional humor. The lack of self-awareness inside the Leftist bubble is stunning. Imagine the Wikipedians in charge of something more important than Wikipedia. Leftist countries always end up being bureaucratic hells for this reason.
It’s like something out of Kafka or Orwell or maybe Gogol’s Dead Souls. Or maybe Lynn is like Schrödinger’s cat – Lynn is both dead and alive depending on whether he is being observed by Wikipedia or by everyone else. Some great ironist could make hay out of this but the Left is only ironic when it comes to itself. Irony involves an element of pity or mercy. “Nazis” like Lynn and Trump deserve whatever befalls them so irony does not apply. Lots of literature and film has been made about the “blacklisted” Leftists but no one will ever make a movie about the “cancelled”.
Maybe a striking prosthetics artist from Hollywood can do two or three increasingly decrepit versions of you with makeup and you can record a few video interviews with cooperating u podcasters about reports of your death being exaggerated and put in the can for postmortem upload.Replies: @Matthew Kelly, @Known Fact
The Social Security folks might have a problem with this
The point is that governmental authorities in Ireland and all of Lynn’s friends know he’s dead, and nobody is covering it up. But the clear fact of his death does not exist to Wikipedia because their rules require that the death be announced in media that refuse to cover anything about him (except for that time when his emeritus-ship was cancelled) because he says blacks (and women) have lower IQ. Anything that the NYT et al. don’t cover literally cannot exist or happen from the point of view of Wikipedia.
This is why it’s so interesting and significant that Steve’s name has increasingly been mentioned in majorish media lately.
The old “distinctive” Irish were as poor as church mice while the new Eurotrash ones are fairly prosperous. If the price of being able to afford indoor plumbing and central heating and medical care is a loss of distinctiveness, that would be a price that I would be willing to pay.
If “distinctive” means speaking the Irish language, there are parts of Ireland where it is still spoken and they make at least efforts to keep it up everywhere. TBH, like Quebec, as much cultural value as the local language has, English is the language that is valuable in the global economy and if you overemphasize the local language to the point where the locals are not fluent in English you are crippling them for life in the 21st century just to prove some political point. It reminds me of the deaf people who refuse to get their kids treatment for their congenital deafness because it would separate them from “deaf culture”.
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They weren't. Between 1921 and 1990 the per capita product of Ireland varied between 28% and 50% of that of the United States. It was a high middle income country on the order of Latvia or Chile today.
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No clue why in your mind why abandonment of the Mass and widespread adultery, bastardy and homosexuality are generators of prosperity.
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The per capita product of Ireland in 1990 was higher than that in the United States in 1947. About 2/3 of the dwelling units in the United States in 1947 had indoor plumbing, so not sure why you fancy it was a novelty in Ireland. Rumor has it there were working doctors in the U.S. as well in the 1940s.Replies: @Jack D
If "distinctive" means speaking the Irish language, there are parts of Ireland where it is still spoken and they make at least efforts to keep it up everywhere. TBH, like Quebec, as much cultural value as the local language has, English is the language that is valuable in the global economy and if you overemphasize the local language to the point where the locals are not fluent in English you are crippling them for life in the 21st century just to prove some political point. It reminds me of the deaf people who refuse to get their kids treatment for their congenital deafness because it would separate them from "deaf culture".Replies: @Art Deco, @Rohirrimborn
The old “distinctive” Irish were as poor as church mice
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They weren’t. Between 1921 and 1990 the per capita product of Ireland varied between 28% and 50% of that of the United States. It was a high middle income country on the order of Latvia or Chile today.
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No clue why in your mind why abandonment of the Mass and widespread adultery, bastardy and homosexuality are generators of prosperity.
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The per capita product of Ireland in 1990 was higher than that in the United States in 1947. About 2/3 of the dwelling units in the United States in 1947 had indoor plumbing, so not sure why you fancy it was a novelty in Ireland. Rumor has it there were working doctors in the U.S. as well in the 1940s.
> My impression is that the recent absurdity of Wikipedia’s articles touching on race and IQ is due to a conspiracy among some volunteers to utterly censor whatever Wikipedia has to say on the subject.
This started circa 20 years ago in coverage of Global Warming* and continued for at least a decade, IIRC. Being a skeptic (or a non-alarmist, depending on definitions), anything Steve McIntyre claimed (e.g. at his Climate Audit blog) was by definition incorrect if not delusional.
On the other hand, the current version of McIntyre’s Wikipedia entry is far more neutral and non-judgemental than I would have anticipated.
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* Substitute preferred goodthink term here, if desired
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They weren't. Between 1921 and 1990 the per capita product of Ireland varied between 28% and 50% of that of the United States. It was a high middle income country on the order of Latvia or Chile today.
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No clue why in your mind why abandonment of the Mass and widespread adultery, bastardy and homosexuality are generators of prosperity.
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The per capita product of Ireland in 1990 was higher than that in the United States in 1947. About 2/3 of the dwelling units in the United States in 1947 had indoor plumbing, so not sure why you fancy it was a novelty in Ireland. Rumor has it there were working doctors in the U.S. as well in the 1940s.Replies: @Jack D
While living in the US in 1947 was not like living in Haiti today, it was still a much poorer country and not a standard of living most people would be willing to go back to. 1 in 3 people not having indoor plumbing is not an enviable standards. Not to mention that for the 2/3 that did, the norm was that you would have ONE bathroom no matter how many people you had in your household. 1 and a half baths was LUXURY.
It was the same with a lot of things that were taken for granted in the US in 1990 let alone today. If the family had a car at all, it was usually 1 car. Air conditioning – unheard of. Television – only a handful of people had them. As for central heat – a lot of people still used coal.
Yes, there were doctors in the US in 1947 but again there were many people who could not afford medical (or dental) care except for charity care. And of course many of the lifesaving medications and procedures that we have today did not exist. Anti-biotics were brand new. Just a few short years before, some minor infection that today would be cleared up with a bottle of pills might in those days kill you even if you could afford the best medical care.
“No clue why in your mind why abandonment of the Mass and widespread adultery, bastardy and homosexuality are generators of prosperity.”
Here is a hint – if you have 10 children like the Pope tells you to, then you have a lot fewer resources per child to devote to each one.
A test for “Sailer’s Law of Mass Shootings”
From today’s Minneapolis Star-Tribune:Replies: @Muggles
I dunno about Sailer’s Law on this one.
One dead out of seven shot, with TWO shooters. Borderline.
But you have to like the factual reporting style here:
Do patrons of County/Western bars “gather to share their love of music and for each other”?
Exactly what is going on in their bathrooms? How is “love shared”? Do we want to know?
Could be racial (Blacks! not liking public “sharing of love for each other”) or failed romance (ditto) or just someone not paying their debts on time.
I’m sure the Minneapolis PD has put their finest detectives on the case. Both of them…
I wouldn't say that Wikipedia is lost. I suspect that if they've joined the hivemind it's due to control from the Wikimedia Foundation, the part of the project that most resembles a traditional corporation (unelected, paid, not volunteers). But if those people job-hop as much as other people in the Bay Area do, especially since for-profit companies are likely to pay more, the character of the Wikimedia Foundation may change again and become more like it was in the beginning. That said, I'll end this comment the same way it began ... Wikipedia has been around long enough now that to the younger generation it has literally always been there ... having lost its novelty, people may not care so much about what positions it takes on controversial issues.Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Muggles, @Sleep
I recent read an article which noted that there is evidence that the CIA has been heavily editing certain entries and subjects there for many decades.
“Volunteers” are where you find them.
I suspect the Russians, Chinese, Brits, etc. are all doing this as well.
“Public sourced” is like public beaches, full of noise and crap.
Unlike, say, the iSteve comment section.
They also tout affordable family negation.Replies: @Cagey Beast
The Pope didn’t tell you to do that and even a country as fecund as Quebec did not have a tfr that exceeded 4.0.
Just as probable are those HbD fanatics and race realists who then attempt to edit the edits or gloss over the glaring contradictions. A handful of confirmation bias driven fools can assuredly gum up the works at Wikipedia. But why should we take that source seriously given how certain topics and issues are riddled with confirmation bias and cognitive dissonance?
IOW, ignore everything you say.
So Wikipedia is feminine, nicht wahr?
As is the CIA, as an “agency”. The FBI, a “bureau”, is neuter.
They won’t believe he is dead until they have the photo showing a stake driven through his heart.
As is the CIA, as an "agency". The FBI, a "bureau", is neuter.Replies: @The Alarmist
Bureau is masculine….
Corvinus has an amazing knack for saying things which make clear he knows nothing about the subject he is discussing. Seen any of those HBD fanatics and race realists win an edit war on Wikipedia lately? If they are influential why do these articles express uniformly opposite views?
I would say only 1% of the English are anti-Irish in any meaningful sense. Unfortunately, Irish identity is tied up with being anti-English more than anything positive. The Irish are ready to articulate their resentment about the English, but the English barely think of them.
I think the Irish are the only national group whose longevity decreases when coming to the UK. They tend to live in a fairly rural primitive way, almost semi-gypsy. Which works in Ireland. But when they replicate that in an industrialised nation, it can get grim.
On the other hand given that Granny Warren is our idiot Senator #1, the following tune could be the ticket:: https://youtu.be/0LByr0Qf4x8I’d argue that Easy Eddie Markey did more good for the people of the Bay State as an ice cream man than he ever did in Congress…Replies: @Reg Cæsar
“Dirty Water” was written by Ed Cobb, allegedly after being mugged in Boston. He’s the same guy who wrote “Tainted Love” for Gloria Jones. They and the Standells were all from LA.
Gloria had moved to the UK, where her version was a hit. She later got involved with Marc Bolan, and killed him when she banged a gong with their Mini. (He couldn’t drive.) Their son Rolan, Bowie’s godson, is almost 50. The mulatto child Linda Lewis offered to bear for Elton John would be even older, but was never to be. He couldn’t bring himself to do it, even with a Coke bottle. (Sorry, enough digressive rock trivia…)
“Anything Goes” discusses Plymouth Rock in the introductory verse, but Massachusetts would never accept an official song written by a Yalie. As for Richman, he’s the Norm Crosby of pop.
And what would Minnesota’s state song be? How about “Positively 4th Street”, 4th St SE being the main drag that runs through Dinkytown? https://youtu.be/9BSwbhZFBkAOr perhaps t he Hamm’s Beer Jingle?https://youtu.be/o83xxWCel8gReplies: @Reg Cæsar
"Volunteers" are where you find them.
I suspect the Russians, Chinese, Brits, etc. are all doing this as well.
"Public sourced" is like public beaches, full of noise and crap.
Unlike, say, the iSteve comment section.Replies: @Reg Cæsar
Oh, there is plenty of that here. It’s easy to see NGOs’ and just plain GOs’ fingerprints on comments. Just look for those nudging us toward strategies that are perennial failures, and away from the more effective ones that gave us a President Trump and spread concealed carry. Those scare the hell out of them.
They also tout affordable family negation.
If "distinctive" means speaking the Irish language, there are parts of Ireland where it is still spoken and they make at least efforts to keep it up everywhere. TBH, like Quebec, as much cultural value as the local language has, English is the language that is valuable in the global economy and if you overemphasize the local language to the point where the locals are not fluent in English you are crippling them for life in the 21st century just to prove some political point. It reminds me of the deaf people who refuse to get their kids treatment for their congenital deafness because it would separate them from "deaf culture".Replies: @Art Deco, @Rohirrimborn
My maternal Irish Grandparents were born in the west of Ireland in the 1880s in Irish speaking communities. They emigrated to the United States where my Grandfather established an Irish language school in Boston. It was at that school that he met my Grandmother. I knew my Grandmother as a child and I can tell you that she was not happy that the Irish language was dying. She was a great admirer of what the Jews had done in establishing a homeland and, incredibly, bringing Hebrew, a language even more dead than Irish, back to life as the first language of the new nation. I don’t think nations that don’t have English as a first language are necessarily at a disadvantage. Sometimes it helps to be forced to learn two languages and sometimes not being inundated with the current garbage media of the English speaking world can be a good thing.
OTOH, the people who did this were nucking futs ideologues and fanatics, mostly of the socialist sort. No one short of this could have accomplished it.
Also, switching to Hebrew meant discarding Yiddish, in itself a rich language with a wonderful literature. Think of the Irish having to discard Yeats and Joyce and Wilde just because they wrote in English. (Some) Irish have been speaking English since the 12th century. That's long enough to call it their own and Irish English is not a thing to be lightly discarded.
In the end, switching to Hebrew worked out well for Israel because the country turned out to be evenly divided between (former) Yiddish speakers and (former) Arabic speakers but after several generations of everyone speaking Hebrew, the distinctions have melted much more than they would have if each group had kept its own language.Replies: @Deogolwulf, @Reg Cæsar
This is the fourth indictment of Donald Trump!
Questions.
What are the odds that he'll be found guilt on at least one count by at least one jury?
If he's guilty, what are the odds that he'll go to jail?
If he's sentenced to a jail sentence, then what happens?
If he's elected president in 2024, how would that impact all of this?
If Trump is in jail during the presidential primary or general election, can he still run?
The USA is driving full speed at a wall.
How does this end?Replies: @Sleep
I honestly hope Donald Trump decides to do what’s best for the country instead of what’s best for him. In my opinion, the best thing can he do right now is convince the prosecutors to put him in jail, making him America’s most high-profile political prisoner, and in the minds of many, America’s only political prisoner. That will show people what a sham our electoral system has become. People might start reading up on the election meddling we’ve done in other countries and realize that they can happen here too.
They also tout affordable family negation.Replies: @Cagey Beast
I doubt it’s worth the man-hours for an NGO or state agency to assign staff to post here. Unlike Wikipedia, this place has too much of a niche readership.
One dead out of seven shot, with TWO shooters. Borderline.
But you have to like the factual reporting style here:Do patrons of County/Western bars "gather to share their love of music and for each other"?
Exactly what is going on in their bathrooms? How is "love shared"? Do we want to know?
Could be racial (Blacks! not liking public "sharing of love for each other") or failed romance (ditto) or just someone not paying their debts on time.
I'm sure the Minneapolis PD has put their finest detectives on the case. Both of them...Replies: @Reg Cæsar
Don’t know about other places, but the major gay venues in the Twin Cities have generally been very welcoming to straight visitors. I knew a group of lady editors who’d occasionally drop in to Gay ’90s on special nights. (Mickey Mantle and teammates would, too, in the 1960s, but it was a very different clientele then!)
This sort of “long game” paid off when the marriage amendment failed in 2010. They had made too many allies. “Soft power”.
The late victim was a straight (if not particularly manly) musician. His girlfriend’s friends are running GoFundMe campaigns for her. Andy Ngo says he is (or was) Antifa.
There was a windowless dance-oriented bar in the Midway area of St Paul which was decorated outside with little kicking cowboy boots surrounded by little pink triangles.
Intersectionality!
I wouldn't say that Wikipedia is lost. I suspect that if they've joined the hivemind it's due to control from the Wikimedia Foundation, the part of the project that most resembles a traditional corporation (unelected, paid, not volunteers). But if those people job-hop as much as other people in the Bay Area do, especially since for-profit companies are likely to pay more, the character of the Wikimedia Foundation may change again and become more like it was in the beginning. That said, I'll end this comment the same way it began ... Wikipedia has been around long enough now that to the younger generation it has literally always been there ... having lost its novelty, people may not care so much about what positions it takes on controversial issues.Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Muggles, @Sleep
My instinct is to keep defending Wikipedia for so long as the Race and Intelligence article continues to at least mention the so-called minority views. It’s a lot of talk and not much data, …. they seem to have emptied out all of the numbers that would be readily understandable to the average reader and replaced them with phrases like “1.1 standard deviations”, which is understandable to us, but someone new to the topic might not even notice that sentence since they’re most likely looking for IQ numbers like 100 and 83.
I’m disappointed that we’re no longer getting the free exchange of ideas I remember from Wikipedia’s early days, but I still think that they’re giving the topic much better treatment than Encyclopedia Britannica’s single dismissive sentence (if it’s even still there at all), and certainly much better than the white guilt sessions that are taught in high school and university courses, where the topic won’t even come up.
And they want to keep it that way!
It possesses all three genders, depending on the translation: das Büro, der Schreibtisch, die Kommode.
The FBI is more an office than a writing desk or a wardrobe, so the first of these would be appropriate. Bureau in the original French is masculine because that gender swallowed up the neuter one. Why did the Germans make it neuter? Perhaps they did some deep etymology.
Although if you think about it, the Hoover Building kind of looks like a kitchen table having sex with a coffee table:
https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/MAKING-ARCHITECTURE-GREAT-0x0-c-default.jpg
There is no deep etymology as to why Büro is neuter. In the end, the gender of genderless things is mostly arbitrary. Although people will offer rules of thumb, there are so many exceptions as to make the rules almost worthless. What is the deep etymology behind "der Löffel", "die Gabel" und "das Messer"? Sometimes even the German speakers can't agree. It is either der Risotto or in Austria das Risotto.Replies: @Reg Cæsar
I mean, is there anyone involved with the punk scene in the 21st century who isn’t?
This macarbre standoff isn’t that surprising when you consider that it’s led by David Gerard. There’s lots about him, but it seems he’s not entirely well
https://encyclopediadramatica.online/David_Gerard
(I think this is our of date as he’s back in Australia)
Also happening here
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Pearson_(anthropologist)
BTW, is there really NO obituary of Richard Lynn in the mainstream press? Not even a local paper?Replies: @Anon, @Colin Wright
! He’s been unpersoned. I mean, I’m vaguely aware of Richard Lynn — he was a fairly important figure.
It may be a trend. I noticed a conspicuous lack of fussing when Sean Connery died. He was a thought criminal as well.
I personally have mixed feelings about the revival of Hebrew in Israel. OTOH, it was an unprecedented and almost miraculous feat of will, as if the people of Britain had decide to revert to the Latin of Roman Britain as their primary language.
OTOH, the people who did this were nucking futs ideologues and fanatics, mostly of the socialist sort. No one short of this could have accomplished it.
Also, switching to Hebrew meant discarding Yiddish, in itself a rich language with a wonderful literature. Think of the Irish having to discard Yeats and Joyce and Wilde just because they wrote in English. (Some) Irish have been speaking English since the 12th century. That’s long enough to call it their own and Irish English is not a thing to be lightly discarded.
In the end, switching to Hebrew worked out well for Israel because the country turned out to be evenly divided between (former) Yiddish speakers and (former) Arabic speakers but after several generations of everyone speaking Hebrew, the distinctions have melted much more than they would have if each group had kept its own language.
Obviously the Bureau in FBI is Büro and not a piece of furniture. At some point, as government grew like a malignant tumor, you could not longer fit the business of a government department inside a piece of furniture but instead needed at first an office and then a giant building.
Although if you think about it, the Hoover Building kind of looks like a kitchen table having sex with a coffee table:
There is no deep etymology as to why Büro is neuter. In the end, the gender of genderless things is mostly arbitrary. Although people will offer rules of thumb, there are so many exceptions as to make the rules almost worthless. What is the deep etymology behind “der Löffel”, “die Gabel” und “das Messer”? Sometimes even the German speakers can’t agree. It is either der Risotto or in Austria das Risotto.
Gender is notoriously random in words native to German, but Germans are also notoriously fussy about things imported later, including words.
Bureau itself has an ambiguous etymology. It could derive from a shade of brown, a rough cloth, a donkey (cf. burro), and who knows what else.Replies: @The Alarmist, @Jack D
It may be a trend. I noticed a conspicuous lack of fussing when Sean Connery died. He was a thought criminal as well.Replies: @Steve Sailer
It took the New York Times about a month to gin up an obituary of Arthur Jensen.
https://getmegiddy.com/penis-size-stereotypesDo you have a view on this?Replies: @Dieter Kief
He said – I never read that anywhere else, that gays are brighter than the regular lot.
South Asians are less than 3% of the population of Scotland. That tells you something about the Scottish National Party.
they invite the questions, “Where’s your evidence?” and “Compared to whoReplies: @Gordo, @Corvinus
Identifying authors from a long time ago without specifying how and why their works represent “micro aggressions” constitutes evidence in your book? Wow, just wow.
Personally, I think I would agree, though I certainly can't claim to be all that familiar with the works of Austen, and I'm certainly not a Waugh scholar either.
What's your counter-argument?Replies: @Pendragon, @Corvinus
Although if you think about it, the Hoover Building kind of looks like a kitchen table having sex with a coffee table:
https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/MAKING-ARCHITECTURE-GREAT-0x0-c-default.jpg
There is no deep etymology as to why Büro is neuter. In the end, the gender of genderless things is mostly arbitrary. Although people will offer rules of thumb, there are so many exceptions as to make the rules almost worthless. What is the deep etymology behind "der Löffel", "die Gabel" und "das Messer"? Sometimes even the German speakers can't agree. It is either der Risotto or in Austria das Risotto.Replies: @Reg Cæsar
Despite its ending in -a, planeta is masculine in Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Galician, Catalan, and other Romance languages, because it was– and still is– masculine in the original Greek. That’s what I meant by “deep etymology”.
Gender is notoriously random in words native to German, but Germans are also notoriously fussy about things imported later, including words.
Bureau itself has an ambiguous etymology. It could derive from a shade of brown, a rough cloth, a donkey (cf. burro), and who knows what else.
Gloria had moved to the UK, where her version was a hit. She later got involved with Marc Bolan, and killed him when she banged a gong with their Mini. (He couldn't drive.) Their son Rolan, Bowie's godson, is almost 50. The mulatto child Linda Lewis offered to bear for Elton John would be even older, but was never to be. He couldn't bring himself to do it, even with a Coke bottle. (Sorry, enough digressive rock trivia...)
"Anything Goes" discusses Plymouth Rock in the introductory verse, but Massachusetts would never accept an official song written by a Yalie. As for Richman, he's the Norm Crosby of pop.Replies: @Ganderson
Would this be the same Gloria Jones who sang backup with the Jerry Garcia Band?
And what would Minnesota’s state song be? How about “Positively 4th Street”, 4th St SE being the main drag that runs through Dinkytown?
Or perhaps t he Hamm’s Beer Jingle?
St Paul has very few nominal streets-- almost everything in every direction is an "avenue". However, a "4th" is one of them:
‘Just for fun,’ St. Paul honors Bob Dylan with Positively 4th StreetReplies: @Ganderson, @Jack Armstrong
The Social Security folks might have a problem with this
The point is that governmental authorities in Ireland and all of Lynn’s friends know he’s dead, and nobody is covering it up. But the clear fact of his death does not exist to Wikipedia because their rules require that the death be announced in media that refuse to cover anything about him (except for that time when his emeritus-ship was cancelled) because he says blacks (and women) have lower IQ. Anything that the NYT et al. don’t cover literally cannot exist or happen from the point of view of Wikipedia.
This is why it’s so interesting and significant that Steve’s name has increasingly been mentioned in majorish media lately.
Anyone catch this doozy in the article: Lynn’s work was among the main sources cited in the book The Bell Curve, and he was one of 52 scientists who signed an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal entitled “Mainstream Science on Intelligence”
Nope. The main work cited in the Bell Curve was NLSY. Perhaps that was Lynn’s project, though?
I said it a few years ago, but considering that the owners of America bet the country’s (world’s?) future on TBC being not just babble, but 100% completely wrong, why are the Nazis at Google hiding all the magisterial takedowns that we are assured were very common. When people link to “fiskings” they are always just someone saying the Bell Curve gives her Teh Sadz, and she thinks she’s been all “how do you do, fellow white people!” all her life for nothing.
Speaking of, has reality comported with the anti-Bell Curve thesis? It came out, what, like thirty years ago? Well, I guess colleges don’t use affirmative action these days, so there is that.
I encourage you to reflect on the possibility that the mediocrity – and the delusion, too – is in your own heart; and I hope you remember you can have a fulfilling life, even if you are mediocre, if you struggle to always be conscientious and honest.
And what would Minnesota’s state song be? How about “Positively 4th Street”, 4th St SE being the main drag that runs through Dinkytown? https://youtu.be/9BSwbhZFBkAOr perhaps t he Hamm’s Beer Jingle?https://youtu.be/o83xxWCel8gReplies: @Reg Cæsar
All signs I’ve seen point to the song referring to Manhattan’s 4th, which is in the Village, I think. Dylan wasn’t in Minneapolis for very long, and hung out on the more Bohemian West Bank, across the river. (For the benefit of outsiders, the Mpls campus is so huge, it has spawned three separate college towns, the third being Stadium Village.) But, yes, he would have been aware of Dinkytown’s 4th, and may have enjoyed the juxtaposition. He could easily end the confusion but, like Carly’s vain subject, as long as it keeps people talking…
St Paul has very few nominal streets– almost everything in every direction is an “avenue”. However, a “4th” is one of them:
‘Just for fun,’ St. Paul honors Bob Dylan with Positively 4th Street
Publicly available vital records would certainly be reliable, but using them would constitute “original research”. Can’t ever have that.
Sitzfleisch, or “iron bottom”. PJ O’Rourke said that the most dangerous thing about government was that it was boring.
And it’s getting worse. An INS/CIE agent attended his DFL caucus one year, and said it went on and on and on, perhaps till midnight or later. He asked me about the GOP one. Mercifully, ours always ended promptly at nine. The more pious types went home, and the rest of us recongregated at the bar.
David Lebedoff says this is all about demanding consensus on every damned thing, and he first detected its rise in the 1960s DFL, even before the Humphrey-McCarthy split. All well-explained in his1981 The New Elite and 2004 update thereof, The Uncivil War.
He also wrote a joint biography of George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh:
The Same Man: George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh in Love and War
Why?
Why are there not more normal, competing, superior, accurate, truthful alternatives? Why don't we all just use those alternatives? (I realize my second question is purely imaginary, since there don't seem to be viable alternatives.)
Truly, if "we" are so capable and "superior," then why don't "we" build our own Wikipedias? What is really going on here? I mean, we can bellyache all day long -- and we do here! -- but how is it that we even care about such drivel?Replies: @HammerJack, @I. Racist, @anonymous, @Charles Erwin Wilson, @Moral Stone, @Donke, @4HONESTY.com, @Pendragon
Wikipedia was NORMAL, HONEST, when it was run by honest male computer nerds.
BUT that is over, due to the Leftists March through the institutions. Only an express right wing Wikipedia clone can maintain freedom and honesty
Any organization or enterprise that is not expressly right wing will become left wing over time [2nd of Robert Conquest’s Laws ] aka O’Sullivan’s Law
https://sincerity.net/left-wing-wins-osullivan/
And South Asians, I suppose.
Yes, you’re right.
Sorry, but I didn’t see it was posted anywhere at the Web that Lynn died. Not just Wikipedia.
If he died- why no notice at all? Puzzled ..
A correction- “Rational Wiki”: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Richard_Lynn
OTOH, the people who did this were nucking futs ideologues and fanatics, mostly of the socialist sort. No one short of this could have accomplished it.
Also, switching to Hebrew meant discarding Yiddish, in itself a rich language with a wonderful literature. Think of the Irish having to discard Yeats and Joyce and Wilde just because they wrote in English. (Some) Irish have been speaking English since the 12th century. That's long enough to call it their own and Irish English is not a thing to be lightly discarded.
In the end, switching to Hebrew worked out well for Israel because the country turned out to be evenly divided between (former) Yiddish speakers and (former) Arabic speakers but after several generations of everyone speaking Hebrew, the distinctions have melted much more than they would have if each group had kept its own language.Replies: @Deogolwulf, @Reg Cæsar
The peoples of Britain have never had Latin as their primary language. (The English and the Scots weren’t even in Britain when it was largely under Roman rule.) A better analogy with what the Jews did with Hebrew would be if the English reverted to speaking Old English.
St Paul has very few nominal streets-- almost everything in every direction is an "avenue". However, a "4th" is one of them:
‘Just for fun,’ St. Paul honors Bob Dylan with Positively 4th StreetReplies: @Ganderson, @Jack Armstrong
Not all- I grew up in the Saintly City on the corner of Moore Street and Merriam Lane.
Gender is notoriously random in words native to German, but Germans are also notoriously fussy about things imported later, including words.
Bureau itself has an ambiguous etymology. It could derive from a shade of brown, a rough cloth, a donkey (cf. burro), and who knows what else.Replies: @The Alarmist, @Jack D
I came into a copier room one fine morning, and one of the German secretaries said, in English, “He’s warming up.” I asked who was warming up, since we were alone, and she told me it was the copy machine warming up.
She was quite pretty, so I said, “He’s not alone.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Latin
Gender is notoriously random in words native to German, but Germans are also notoriously fussy about things imported later, including words.
Bureau itself has an ambiguous etymology. It could derive from a shade of brown, a rough cloth, a donkey (cf. burro), and who knows what else.Replies: @The Alarmist, @Jack D
One of the “rules of thumb” is that an imported word takes the gender it has in its native language, but like I said before, there are so many exceptions to the rules of thumb that they are more or less worthless. For example, die Etage, but “étage” is masculine in French.
Romans speaking Latin is news to no-one.
Why?
Why are there not more normal, competing, superior, accurate, truthful alternatives? Why don't we all just use those alternatives? (I realize my second question is purely imaginary, since there don't seem to be viable alternatives.)
Truly, if "we" are so capable and "superior," then why don't "we" build our own Wikipedias? What is really going on here? I mean, we can bellyache all day long -- and we do here! -- but how is it that we even care about such drivel?Replies: @HammerJack, @I. Racist, @anonymous, @Charles Erwin Wilson, @Moral Stone, @Donke, @4HONESTY.com, @Pendragon
There is an alternative : they are called books but Americans are morons who don’t read books and when they do they read at the 8th grade level.
The English ethnic group did not exist back then genius. There were Romanized ‘Celts’ back then but they were contained to Wales. The modern English are 1/3rd to 2/3rd ‘Celtic’ with the rest of the genes being Germanic depending on what area of England one is from. The east coast of England is extremely Germanic. Technically, there are no ‘celtic’ genes, though, since continental Hallstatt_Bylany does not cluster with the English Iron Age genetically. English people are West Germanic.
You could argue that Derek Chauvin is currently America’s highest profile political prisoner. His jailing definitely “Red Pilled” lots of Americans.
There’s no way that Donald Trump would ever make that type of sacrifice.
Do people really think that the average GOP voter will just shrug their shoulders and say, "Oh! I guess Trump really was a criminal after all! Oh well, it's no big deal, I'll just vote for my second choice candidate." My thinking has always been that the Democrats are clearly not that stupid, as they've been planning this since 2020 down to the finest detail, and that at the end we'll see Biden swoop in and pardon Trump and then go on about what a great guy he is for rescuing the now-damaged frontrunner from the long prison sentence he deserved.
But a lot of Democrats seem overcome with delight at the prospect of Trump going to prison, as they will finally have the America they've wanted for so long, a nation where it is a crime to oppose the party in power. That would make us no more a democracy than Russia, China, Angola, Kenya, and the other Big Man countries where the organs of democracy are in place but the people in power always hand-pick their successors.
At that point it will be clear that no legitimate presidential election can take place, and America will be in a situation we have not been in since 1861.Replies: @That Would Be Telling
Linguist Gaston Dorren says the conversation “She has nice legs.” “Yes, he does.” is legitimate in his tongue. The Dutch and the Flemish have different words for “table”, with different genders.
You think the publishing industry is less corrupt than cyberspace?
OTOH, the people who did this were nucking futs ideologues and fanatics, mostly of the socialist sort. No one short of this could have accomplished it.
Also, switching to Hebrew meant discarding Yiddish, in itself a rich language with a wonderful literature. Think of the Irish having to discard Yeats and Joyce and Wilde just because they wrote in English. (Some) Irish have been speaking English since the 12th century. That's long enough to call it their own and Irish English is not a thing to be lightly discarded.
In the end, switching to Hebrew worked out well for Israel because the country turned out to be evenly divided between (former) Yiddish speakers and (former) Arabic speakers but after several generations of everyone speaking Hebrew, the distinctions have melted much more than they would have if each group had kept its own language.Replies: @Deogolwulf, @Reg Cæsar
Seven out of ten Israelis today are Mizrahi, Sephardi, or some other variety who would never miss Yiddish. Indeed, Yiddish and Ashkenazi are complementary terms– one means “German” in Hebrew, and the other “Hebrew” in German. More or less.
Yiddish hangs on in Brooklyn (and its Sunbelt diaspora) the way Gaelic survives in Nova Scotia and Welsh in Patagonia.
Hey, genius, you can systematically peruse a book to separate the wheat from the chaff. Also, there are politically incorrect publishers how else do you explain Edward Dutton’s books and the various books published by Castle Hill etc.. ?
Americans don’t systematically separate the wheat from the chaff because they are morons who don’t know how to read.
Not sure why someone would have to explain this to you, but I think the implication is that an educated person would be familiar with the works of those artists and agree with Mr. Sailer’s observation. It is a message board after all, not a symposium. Brevity counts for something here.
Personally, I think I would agree, though I certainly can’t claim to be all that familiar with the works of Austen, and I’m certainly not a Waugh scholar either.
What’s your counter-argument?
--Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966), writing to Nancy Mitford, 22 May 1957, from The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh (1996), ed. Charlotte Mosley
'Of course, the Americans are cowards,'' Evelyn Waugh cheerfully told Graham Greene. ''They are almost all the descendants of wretches who deserted their legitimate monarchs for fear of military service. ''-- Evelyn Waugh
Brideshead Revisited is absolutely smashing, as well, except for the Catholic angle.
Perhaps SOME individuals here would agree with Mr. Sailer's assertion, but on what basis? What exactly is his line of thinking? It's one thing to take a stance. It's an entirely different matter to make a statement without evidence to back it up. Maybe you can fill in the blanks here.
"It is a message board after all, not a symposium. Brevity counts for something here."
Right, a place to exchange ideas and explain their position. Which Mr. Sailer neglected to do.
"What’s your counter-argument?"
Supply your argument first, so I know what I am responding to. Context matters.
It’s not quite as dominated by monopolies, and physical books can’t be changed in an instant by the Ministry of Truth.
Anyone can also self-publish their own ebooks , in the modern era, and one strip the DRM off ebooks so they can’t be modified.
Personally, I think I would agree, though I certainly can't claim to be all that familiar with the works of Austen, and I'm certainly not a Waugh scholar either.
What's your counter-argument?Replies: @Pendragon, @Corvinus
“Do you realize that the USA are entirely the creation of the accursed race, the French? They it was who sent a band of atheists and freemasons to subvert the loyal and pampered English colonists. They armed the rabble against our brave soldiers. They built the capitol at Washington, the Statue of Liberty in New York and the dreadful United Nations Headquarters. They introduced republican institutions, alcoholism, avarice, immodesty and all the dire features of that stricken land.”
–Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966), writing to Nancy Mitford, 22 May 1957, from The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh (1996), ed. Charlotte Mosley
‘Of course, the Americans are cowards,” Evelyn Waugh cheerfully told Graham Greene. ”They are almost all the descendants of wretches who deserted their legitimate monarchs for fear of military service. ”– Evelyn Waugh
Brideshead Revisited is absolutely smashing, as well, except for the Catholic angle.
Personally, I think I would agree, though I certainly can't claim to be all that familiar with the works of Austen, and I'm certainly not a Waugh scholar either.
What's your counter-argument?Replies: @Pendragon, @Corvinus
“Not sure why someone would have to explain this to you, but I think the implication is that an educated person would be familiar with the works of those artists and agree with Mr. Sailer’s observation.”
Perhaps SOME individuals here would agree with Mr. Sailer’s assertion, but on what basis? What exactly is his line of thinking? It’s one thing to take a stance. It’s an entirely different matter to make a statement without evidence to back it up. Maybe you can fill in the blanks here.
“It is a message board after all, not a symposium. Brevity counts for something here.”
Right, a place to exchange ideas and explain their position. Which Mr. Sailer neglected to do.
“What’s your counter-argument?”
Supply your argument first, so I know what I am responding to. Context matters.
St Paul has very few nominal streets-- almost everything in every direction is an "avenue". However, a "4th" is one of them:
‘Just for fun,’ St. Paul honors Bob Dylan with Positively 4th StreetReplies: @Ganderson, @Jack Armstrong
Bob lived above the now defunct Gray’s Pharmacy and Lunch Counter at 327 14th Ave SE, Minneapolis — at the corner of 14th Avenue and (((4th St.))). But who would write a song about Dinkytown? Dinkytown? If that were proven I’m certain the Nobel Committee would delaureate him with extreme prejudice.
Forgetting about Montreal?
Not really the best comparison. No child in Nova Scotia or Patagonia natively speaks these languages, whereas Jewish children in those small communities do speak Yiddish.
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=9810036401
Note that the third-generation for Canadian Yiddish has fallen to below four figures-- for the entire country.Replies: @Anonymous
Or a stela or a papyrus or a runestone– or a Web page.
Don’t forget rude.
That is cute a moronic American thinks books are obsolete or something. Not surprising since Americans are the dumbest people in the world.
"Don’t forget rude. "
While my genetics are English my genetics do overlap with the Northern Dutch - so blame it on the Dutch or blame it on the fact that Americans, the Chinese and the Russians are the most hated people in the world.Replies: @Reg Cæsar
“Or a stela or a papyrus or a runestone– or a Web page.”
That is cute a moronic American thinks books are obsolete or something. Not surprising since Americans are the dumbest people in the world.
“Don’t forget rude. ”
While my genetics are English my genetics do overlap with the Northern Dutch – so blame it on the Dutch or blame it on the fact that Americans, the Chinese and the Russians are the most hated people in the world.
Don’t argue with me. Go in there and fix the Wikipedia article.
LOL
IOW, ignore everything you say.
https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/2023/07/eulogy-for-richard-lynn-1930-2023/Replies: @res
Another piece (8/16) by his coauthor Edward Dutton.
https://www.unz.com/article/brave-and-kind-remembering-richard-lynn/
I suspect so as well, so I hope the prosecutors are so insanely power-mad that they put him in prison anyway and talk about how great it is that they caught the world’s most corrupt president on whichever of the 91 charges (and counting) they’ve brought against him so far.
Do people really think that the average GOP voter will just shrug their shoulders and say, “Oh! I guess Trump really was a criminal after all! Oh well, it’s no big deal, I’ll just vote for my second choice candidate.” My thinking has always been that the Democrats are clearly not that stupid, as they’ve been planning this since 2020 down to the finest detail, and that at the end we’ll see Biden swoop in and pardon Trump and then go on about what a great guy he is for rescuing the now-damaged frontrunner from the long prison sentence he deserved.
But a lot of Democrats seem overcome with delight at the prospect of Trump going to prison, as they will finally have the America they’ve wanted for so long, a nation where it is a crime to oppose the party in power. That would make us no more a democracy than Russia, China, Angola, Kenya, and the other Big Man countries where the organs of democracy are in place but the people in power always hand-pick their successors.
At that point it will be clear that no legitimate presidential election can take place, and America will be in a situation we have not been in since 1861.
Another problem is the last two sets of prosecutions criminalize core political speech; unless they're spiked, and SCOTUS could do it for both, a message ... well, it's already been sent with the 17-18 others who've been indicted by Fulton County, Georgia. But letting it go even further will do even more damage despite "White House Assures Americans We're Not A Banana Republic, We're A Democratic Banana Republic." But "Georgia Indicts Millions Of Voters For Conspiring To Elect Trump" is overall more accurate.
That is cute a moronic American thinks books are obsolete or something. Not surprising since Americans are the dumbest people in the world.
"Don’t forget rude. "
While my genetics are English my genetics do overlap with the Northern Dutch - so blame it on the Dutch or blame it on the fact that Americans, the Chinese and the Russians are the most hated people in the world.Replies: @Reg Cæsar
Buzz didn’t say that, nor did I.
Then it is quite strange that those Americans most determined to stay home and mind our own business, in the tradition of the Monroe Doctrine, from the Lindbergh family to Trump, are the most hated. Whereas our worst war criminals are honored with the names of avenues in the center of Paris, and all you bien pensants cheered when that clown puppet from Delaware “won” the 1960-2.0 election.
Americans are hated by globalists. Who object when we don’t get involved. Kind of like your Mr Churchill.
One Delawarean leading a national government just resigned. Unfortunately, that was not here, but in Latvia.
I rode Amtrak to Montreal decades ago– the Expos finished in second place that year and the game I saw that week was well-attended, to give you an idea how long ago. A large Hasidic clan rode in the same car, gabbing nonstop to one another in French. The kids are probably grandparents now. Still gabbing in French, or its joual variety.
How sure are you of this? If I’m not mistaken, Canada’s census lists mother tongue. All the Celtic languages are on a third-generation rebound:
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=9810036401
Note that the third-generation for Canadian Yiddish has fallen to below four figures– for the entire country.
Do people really think that the average GOP voter will just shrug their shoulders and say, "Oh! I guess Trump really was a criminal after all! Oh well, it's no big deal, I'll just vote for my second choice candidate." My thinking has always been that the Democrats are clearly not that stupid, as they've been planning this since 2020 down to the finest detail, and that at the end we'll see Biden swoop in and pardon Trump and then go on about what a great guy he is for rescuing the now-damaged frontrunner from the long prison sentence he deserved.
But a lot of Democrats seem overcome with delight at the prospect of Trump going to prison, as they will finally have the America they've wanted for so long, a nation where it is a crime to oppose the party in power. That would make us no more a democracy than Russia, China, Angola, Kenya, and the other Big Man countries where the organs of democracy are in place but the people in power always hand-pick their successors.
At that point it will be clear that no legitimate presidential election can take place, and America will be in a situation we have not been in since 1861.Replies: @That Would Be Telling
Because a President can only parson Federal crimes, this fails for the NYC case, and for the Georgia one unless it can be moved to the Federal courts as possible. NYC can’t/wasn’t because it pertains to claims of crimes having nothing to do with Trump as President.
Another problem is the last two sets of prosecutions criminalize core political speech; unless they’re spiked, and SCOTUS could do it for both, a message … well, it’s already been sent with the 17-18 others who’ve been indicted by Fulton County, Georgia. But letting it go even further will do even more damage despite “White House Assures Americans We’re Not A Banana Republic, We’re A Democratic Banana Republic.” But “Georgia Indicts Millions Of Voters For Conspiring To Elect Trump” is overall more accurate.
I left a comment in the talk page there quoting the “Are we the baddies?” line. It was deleted, even though the talk page is never supposed to be edited…except under rules only they know, I imagine.
The reason Lynn was a pseudoscientist is not because he studied group intelligence, it’s because he faked data and just made a lot of shit up.
African IQ:
https://racialreality.blogspot.com/2011/08/devastating-criticism-of-richard-lynn.html
Italian IQ:
https://italianthro.blogspot.com/search/label/IQ
Irish IQ:
https://eginotes.wordpress.com/2019/11/22/more-hbd-follies/
Other Groups:
https://www.nature.com/articles/6800418
https://www.nature.com/articles/6800427
And he also pulled this crap:
https://eginotes.wordpress.com/2023/07/21/unethical-and-completely-devoid-of-character/
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=9810036401
Note that the third-generation for Canadian Yiddish has fallen to below four figures-- for the entire country.Replies: @Anonymous
You probably won’t see this reply, but I’m very familiar with Nova Scotia and very sure. Children who can speak some Gaelic have learned it taking Gaelic classes in school. Mikmaq and French are not yet there, but they will be before too long. You can’t prevent that unless you live like the Hasidim.
Not sure what you mean by rebound. That just divides the remaining native speakers into three groups based on when they or ancestors arrived in Canada. All three groups of Gaelic speakers are elderly.
The differences in the numbers between the groups just show that most of the native speakers today are first generation immigrants, whereas by the time today’s elderly were born the second generation of Celtic immigrant families in Canada, the third generation, and beyond were already very assimilated and the number of native speakers among them very low.
And there are more speakers in the third generation or more category than the second generation one because, despite longer established families being more assimilated, with such old diasporas like the Scottish Canadians third generation or more simply applies to far more people to start with than second generation does (defined here as having at least one parent born outside Canada).
Weird. The second language of Montreal’s Hasidic community is English, though many are now able to get by in French. There are actually some French speaking North African Hasidim but more so in France.
The Montreal Hasidim’s weak French has at times annoyed the French speaking majority but these days Montreal is so English that the Hasidim are the last thing on their mind. The last few years people have mostly just been angry with them for all the usual Covid related reasons. Among themselves they don’t normally use English or French, so Yiddish should hopefully thrive for a long time to come.