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From a new book review of my anthology Noticing in Chronicles:
December 2024
By Auguste Meyrat
Noticing: An Essential Reader (1973-2023)
by Steve Sailer
Passage Publishing
458 pp., $29.95
When it comes to political and cultural commentary, Steve Sailer is one of the most influential writers whom most people have never heard of. But if they listen to any popular podcast, conservative or progressive, they will come to see that Sailer’s arguments and even his style of argument are ubiquitous. Exiled for harboring politically incorrect positions on various issues, he has nevertheless continued writing regularly for three decades, knowing that the right people are reading him.
Of course, some people still try to label Sailer a racist kook devoid of principle. The most recent example can be found in The Atlantic, which published an article attacking Sailer’s character without addressing any of his arguments (“The Far Right Is Becoming Obsessed With Race and IQ,” August 2024). Supposedly, Sailer and others who dare to examine data on race “are shrouding bigotry in a cloak of objectivity and pseudoscientific journalism.” How this is so is anyone’s guess, since the claims of the essay itself rely on prejudiced assumptions and baseless inferences rather than facts.
Fortunately, this kind of emotive reasoning has lost much of its power in the wake of Donald Trump’s presidency and the rise of conservative populism. Compared to most writers, both now and in the past, Sailer speaks to the moment and has a firm grasp on what is happening around the world. This is demonstrated in the recent release of Noticing: An Essential Reader, a collection of Sailer’s most notable essays over the course of his long career. Not only does it showcase Sailer’s reliably clear, witty, and refreshingly candid writing style, but it also demonstrates his uniquely inductive approach to every controversy.
Read the whole thing there.
Order my book from Passage for domestic delivery of paperbacks, while for Kindle and overseas delivery of paperbacks, try Amazon.
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The Hardback version is a very nice book.
It feels…substantial.
Less of a book, and more of a tome.
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’s Juke Box Saturday Night features the final volume (10th) of Glen Miller’s 1939 band, if anyone is interested.Availible on their two-week archive.
https://wdcb.org/archive
Some good news ce soir
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When will you get noticed in the NYT Book Review?
Sort of depressing. Western peoples and nations are still highly capable of doing all sorts technically impressive stuff–like this restoration. But they aren’t doing what is necessary to preserve themselves, their nations, their civilization.
On current trend, it should get the Hagia Sophia treatment around the turn of the century.
The should have left Notre Dame in ruins and gone all out to preserve the Frenchpeople.
OT — It looks like the Committee Against Humanity have succeeded in reproducing their spectacular Libyan disaster in Syria, which is now officially governed literally by the people who, according to the official story, attacked us on IX/XI.
But they’re verbally promising that diversity is their strength.
OT — Apparently mentally ill felon (released just before this Thanksgiving), who is claimed by some sources to be a pro-Palestine activist, lied his way into a Seventh Day Adventist elementary school in Oroville, California, and non-fatally shot two young boys, who are still in hospital. The asshole is dead. The authorities are still trying to figure out how he got a gun, why he shot the kids, and what could possibly have been wrong with releasing him.
Is Oroville ever in the news for a good reason?
https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/04/us/california-school-shooting/index.html
The Chronicles review said until Trump came along the Republican party preached libertarian economics, foreign policy interventionism and a lax immigration policy. The last Republican president before Trump was Bush. No libertarian would say Bush preached libertarian economics. He encouraged lenders to give house loans to unqualified Blacks and Hispanics and his Fed followed an inflationary policy that created a stock market bubble. When it all blew up in 2008, he stepped in and bailed out the big Wall Street banks. Actual libertarians, like Peter Schiff, foresaw how the economic interventionism of Bush would lead to this crisis.
The libertarian leaning Tea Party movement was a response to this and was highly critical of Bush and his big government conservatism. It had little actual effect, being successfully neutralized by Obama after its electoral success in the 2010 election. There was no Ron Paulian “end the Fed”. The Fed continues to create economic distortions with its inflationary policy and money printing. The money printing to counter the negative effects of the idiotic Covid lockdowns helped lead to the high inflation of 2021-2022 and that in turn helped lead to Trump’s recent win.
Thanks for the vid. It seems the overly bright cleaned stone people complained about is a function of the lighting. Shocking they can’t fill the seats for such an important event. The new modern altar and font look stupid, but they could have been worse. Mighty white choir, as is the audience.
I’m still surprised BO’s money printing and 0% interest didn’t lead to inflation, but confidence and activity must have been so flat, not enough people & corps. borrowed at the lowest rates, and the money just replaced the wealth lost in ’08. I feel certain the Great Recession would have ended sooner with someone other than BO or McCain at the helm, even Bill Clinton or Romney would have been better. So glad BO wasn’t idolized for decades like FDR was, while also making things worse.
Who cares about your fucking book. Syria is lost.
The Assad regime has collapsed. Bashar Al-Assad has fled the country.
Big win for the Jews.
My dudebro, you dare to say thus, when Steve is literally based out of the neoliberal paradise that is Libya.
It doesn’t take much thinking through. Christian Zionists believe that for Rapture to occur the Jews must be all powerful in Jerusalem. They are backing the genocide strongly.
Of course they also hope that come the rapture all Jews go to hell, but that doesn’t help Palestinian muslims or Christians in this world.
Who did you say was mentally ill?
The first step is to call out Jewish power for being responsible for mass immigration and indoctrinating whites to be afraid to preserve themselves as a people. People like Steve noticed this for most of his career. However, he didn’t want to end his career in obscurity so around 2018 he stopped noticing Jewish power and since then has become nearly mainstream.
Syria was just a Western construct. Lines on a map for colonial management . When the colonials left, the most ruthless and violent held the construct together to loot it for his tribe. Now it will return to its natural state: Endless tribal squabbles amongst Arab nomads. Boo hoo.
I’m going to wait patiently for the inevitable blog entry condemning this illegal invasion and overthrow of a legitimate sovereign state and how war is bad.
I’m sorry? What was that? Who/Whom?
Ohhhhhhhh….
No Christmas tree in Damascus this year.
When I click the link for “Read the whole thing there.” It just shows where to buy the book and is NOT the actual review.
You mean that Syria is now free from a dictator.
—Assad is gone,” Donald Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social. “He has fled his country. His protector, Russia, Russia, Russia, led by Vladimir Putin, was not interested in protecting him any longer. There was no reason for Russia to be there in the first place. They lost all interest in Syria because of Ukraine, where close to 600,000 Russian soldiers lay wounded or dead, in a war that should never have started, and could go on forever.”
Some observers think the reason for the COVID lockdowns was to provide cover for large-scale money printing. IOW, the arrow if causation runs the opposite direction. There was a BIG credit market dislocation late in 2019, IIRC. According to those observers, the COVID money creation was really to prevent a giant credit collapse in early 2020. I recall reading this on zerohedge at the time, but I am agnostic as to whether this viewpoint is correct. But it certainly wouldn’t surprise me.
Try the blue title of the article at the top of the post.
Do you prefer this guy to Assad?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Mohammad_al-Julani
Tell us, is there a reason for the US to be there? How about Turkey? Israel?
“Big win for the Jews.”
Big loss for someone else, too (and I don’t mean Iran, though they’re not thrilled either). But don’t worry, according to the back pages of unz-dot-com, there is one man who can still save the day:
See? So, don’t anyone worry. Assad has all the backing he could possibly need. Everything is under control. (I looked for a jpeg of Nuland with laser-eyes to insert here, but just use your imagination.)
“I’m still surprised BO’s money printing and 0% interest didn’t lead to inflation”
In the case of tradeable goods, like the type of thing you buy off the shelf at Walmart, consumers were able to substitute lower priced foreign goods for increasingly higher priced domestic goods. This harmed domestic manufacturers and led to job losses among factory workers here in this country.
In the case of non-tradeable goods, inflation did show up. Financial assets like stocks increased in price. The ten percent of the population that owns ninety percent of stocks were the main beneficiaries here. Real estate prices also increased. People who already owned homes were not harmed but young married couples wanting to buy their first house found it more difficult to afford it. There was also inflation in the service sector. For example, there was a rise in the cost of medical care and higher education.
For the Committee Against Humanity, Assad and Gaddafi would be friendly fire.
Yes, a linking error. Instead, click on “The Crime of Noticing” (written in blue) at the top of the essay.
There has definitely been a shift in the last few years and one that I think will continue when it comes to acknowledging that every social problem or gap is not because of fiendishly clever systems of white oppression. I have noticed it in conversations with lefties on the topics of crime and education that there is substantially less pushback – and not infrequently agreement – that differences are to some extent a reflection of the people themselves and that they cannot be eliminated by social interventions, as well as exhaustion with the ham-fisted DEI efforts.
I have also observed some rear-guard doubling down on this stuff recently but it doesn’t feel like it’s coming from a position of strength. Cultural momentum shifts take time but once they start it’s hard to stop, so I am hopeful we are at the front end of just such a shift that will give us quite a bit of space to operate in the years ahead in terms of culture and politics.
Yes, thanks. The fact of the matter is that it’s not a review, it’s more of a recommendation.
A book review is a “critical analysis of a book, typically including a summary of the plot and main themes, an evaluation of its strengths and weaknesses, and the reviewer’s overall interpretation and opinion on the book’s quality, style, and content, aiming to inform readers about the book’s value and whether it might be of interest to them.”
“Instead, he comes up with a definition that captures both the underlying genetic reality of race coupled with its communal dimension: “A racial group is an extended family that is inbred to some degree.” The significance of this definition is that it helps”.
This is begging the question. You would think the author, a high school English teacher, would know better.
Only if Europeans let them.
The whole “refugee” scam is stupid. For starters healthy nations do not need foreign peoples settling in them. But even if you wanted people “refugees” means either:
— people who made themselves unwelcome where they were
— people who created an inferior (to yours) nation where they were so want a piece of yours
Neither of these are recommendations for “Oh yeah, I want those folks!”
Nations that will survive are–math!–ones that make sure to maintain and reproduce themselves. Not ones that open themselves to “refugees”–rapefugee invaders.
And again, there has been a greater gap in all of human history between the capability of the target nation and invaders than between the West and its invaders today. It would cost the West literally nothing–almost no effort–to keep these invaders at bay. All that is lacking is will.
Feature, not bug, for those in charge of such things.
“Better that a hundred innocents suffer than one guilty be inconvenienced.”
Syria was quite a nice place, for a time.
Something here about hoping to rule in Hell rather than keeping the lights on in Heaven.
So the question of the hour …
… can we send the refugees back now?
Yeah, rebadging literal al Qaeda jihadis as diversity-friendly “moderate terrorists” has to be the most amusing aspect of this.
“John Rawls Islamism” FTW!
Agree; thanks.
It always seemed, to me, kind of a grand experiment birthed in the civil rights era; pace Malcolm X: “give us 25 years of central authority social intervention, and things will then be equal. Otherwise, it will take 100 years.”
We’re going on 60 years now; the efforts and rhetoric look like a big coping mechanism.
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OT — So, Assad in Moscow means that all those “refugees” can now go home, right?
That might have been a passable cocktail joke in the 1980s, but the history speaks for itself.
OT — Steve, did you ever look at that Greater Israel thing and think, yeah, no, that’s crazy?
One possible weak point in that analysis might be that Israeli as a matter of definition are crazy.
“No Christmas tree in Damascus this year.”
Guess the Jews will have to find something else to bomb.
“Tell us, is there a reason for the US to be there? How about Turkey? Israel?“
Their reasons are the same as Russia and Iran.
But at least your boy Trump doesn’t support Israel, right?
It’s the lesser of two evils, right? Perhaps Russia will assassinate him.
Attention neo commie Democrats and their media stooges:
What just happened in Syria (in a short few weeks) was an “insurrection.”
What happened at the US Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021, was a peaceful protest.
Please take note of the many differences.
Trump says Dreamers can stay:
“I will work with the Democrats on a plan. And if we can come up with a plan, but the Democrats have made it very, very difficult to do anything. Republicans are very open to the dreamers. The dreamers, we’re talking many years ago, they were brought into this country,” the president-elect told host Kristen Welker. “Many years ago. Some of them are no longer young people. And in many cases, they’ve become successful. They have great jobs. In some cases, they have small businesses. Some cases they might have large businesses. And we’re going to have to do something with them.”
Welker then asked, “You want them to be able to stay. That’s what you’re saying?”
Trump replied, “I do. I want to be able to work something out.”
OT – this is kind of fun. Led Zeppelin II if it were recorded in the 50’s.
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Um, the guy who was in and out of prison his whole life and who shot children.
To say nothing about all the new doctors and engineers who will have no choice but to flee to Europe.
OT — Israel has invaded, and is bombing Damascus as well as pretty much everything next to the Golan (an Israeli on 4chan asked, “wait, why are we bombing so much?!”). The “moderate” terrorists are allowing Israel to invade, and will certainly allow the creation of some sort of additional buffer zone, as was obviously the goal. Al-Qaeda terrorist Golani storms the northeastern Kurdish oilfields, a logical target, and part of the reason Assad couldn’t pay his army. Assad hasn’t been replaced by one government, Syria is now under seven different factions, none of whom like — sorry, with the Israeli invasion, that’s eight — and with the — no, Turkey is invading from the north. Nine. Nine different armies. But there’s a twist, which might be pure pragmatism:
Golani can’t take oilfields in the northeast and secure the West coast at the same time.
There’s a conspiracy theory:
Given that
Russia cares existentially about Donbas/NATO aggression
Israel cares existentially about Iranian supply lines
Trumps cares about Israel and nobody, not even its people, cares about the Ukraine
Turkey cares about looking clever and powerful
Assad can’t pay his army and Russia has its hands full
That this was all a big deal, this is the resolution. Israel and Turkey will control territories allowing them to interrupt Iranian supply lines and settle people, the terrorists who attacked us on IX/XI get an oil-rich rump state (which Iraq has already said they would deal with when they can), and the Biden self-enrichment plot with dead Ukrainians as an externality will grind to a halt, and forget about NATO membership even if there is a Galicia left.
Bashar al-Assad
A Jew-basher named Albert (Al) Flasher
met up with a Jew name of Asher
who bashed him instead,
and then laughed while he bled.
Asher thusly made Al a sad basher.
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Trump is not “my boy.” I am under no delusions–he will work for MIGA more than for “deplorables” like me. I voted for him as the lesser of evils. That’s how politics works, at least in these parts. I suppose I could have abstained, but I didn’t.
Not every book is a novel.
And looming near Oroville, which is commonly known as the Ontario, Oregon of California, is a dam that’s had its troubles. The high-concept Golden State is woeful when it comes to infrastructure and competent management as it labours under the machinations of both shades of the corporate-captured duopoly that “governs” in Sacramento. Too much beauty and money lured innovators and others with keen ideas to this once fertile ground. Now it’s mainly grifters, their descendants, and nutrient-depleted dirt.
The “insurrection” in Syria was composed of Jihadists. Elements of Al Qaeda and ISIS. It’s a victory for neocon Hillary Clinton and CIA stooge Obama. But I get your point about the J6ers who are essentially political prisoners.
Bashar is the son John Cleese never had!
OT- must see
And what happened in Romania was a “fortified election” in a “democracy”. (sorry to duplicate Buzz M).
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/romania-annulled-its-presidential-election-results-amid-alleged-russian-interference-what-happens-next/
Here’s something I just noticed: within an extended walk for Lambo lies Brighton Hall School, formerly San Fernando Valley Professional School. Their list of alumni includes several B-list siblings of A-list celebs: Janet Jackson, Jason Bateman, Noah Cyrus. I’m not sure if Patrick or Matthew Labyorteaux is the more famous, though. Both Jason and Blake Lively attended, but they’re half-siblings.
Is this school seen as a consolation prize of sorts?
D.A., ZeroHedge is 24/7 doomer, economics-wise, which is pretty much right in my wheelhouse. I’ve been off on the timeline, quite a lot, but “what can’t go on, won’t go on.” That said, I disagree with their idea that the PanicFest was implemented solely for the purpose of increasing liquidity, OK, spending a metric shit-tonne of money, to put it in English.
It’s not like we’ve heard ANY high-level politician so much as mention needing to cut the yearly deficits, hence eventually the (now $36.15 Trillion*) national debt, in, what, a decade or two maybe? You don’t go wrong politically these days by spending loads of the taxpayers’ and consumers’ (via inflation) money in giveaways. Nobody pushes back – Ron Paul has been out of office since ’12.
The PanicFest was a boon for the Lyin Press, probably the biggest, longest-running story since WWII, and a boon for those who wanted to test how far they could go with an Totalitarianism. (Experimental Results Summary: Pretty damned far.)
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* I had to go look at the Debt Clock to get the latest, YM – an hour later – MV.
[EDIT, 5 minutes later:] $36.20 Trillion.
And speaking of fortifying elections and democracy:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/11/29/samantha-power-team-usa-and-the-eu-fight-back-in-tbilisi-georgia/
BRUSSELS – […] In a session in Strasbourg, MEPs voted by a margin of 444-72 in favor of a motion to declare the parliamentary election results in the South Caucasus country invalid, arguing they “do not serve as a reliable representation of the will of the Georgian people.” It calls for the election to be re-run within a year under international supervision.
In a statement following passage of the motion, the Parliament said Georgia’s voting process had been “neither free nor fair,” after international election observers expressed concern over pressure on citizens and allegations of vote buying and ballot stuffing.
That photo and reading list are embarrassingly phony. Who believes this stuff?
I only wish the guy was photographed while reading Noticing.
“Malcolm X: “give us 25 years of central authority social intervention, and things will then be equal. Otherwise, it will take 100 years.””
The takeaway is these people, to include their leaders, have no sense of themselves. They have no idea what their true limitations are.
It’s hard to get more obscure or cryptic than a Burton Cummings lyric, but you managed it.
Cummings lost Cherry Vanilla to Bowie– Burt was the lucky one there– but I doubt this song was about that*, as some claim. The later “Glamour Boy” was definiely directed at him– “For $49,000, you can look like your sister tonight…” Today, that wouldn’t pay the state and city sales tax on the refreshments at Beyonce’s appearance for Kamala, but was a goodly sum in 1973, even in Canadian dollars.
Those of us who hear more actual music in any of Burt’s piano riffs or flute solos than in Bowie’s entire career are going to be biased on such matters.
* That other Canadian classic, “Sundown”, was equally definitely about the chick who years later killed John Belushi.
Since he doesn’t have to stand for a reelection, he has more flexibility now to deal with contentious issues like immigration. I am guessing he will go ‘pragmatic’ now.
That’s great. Have you ever heard the guy who does “What if the Beatles were Irish”? and he plays everything like it was the Chieftains. That’s a hoot too.
OT — A German anon observed:
Meh as to anything that Malcolm X said. The guy is totally overrated in history. He was a low-level criminal who got over promoted via the Nation of Islam. I’m not a Louis Farrakhan fan, but I think he summed him up fairly well here.
Of course Turkey, the US, the UK, Israel, and al Qaeda are the legitimate entities dictating the course of Syria.
Now Syria can have swell elections like Ukraine and Romania. And when the new government asks foreign occupiers to leave they totally will.
Russia claims that it has less than 100,000 dead, not 600,000.
Wait … what?
Stop, Google time!
Cathy “Silverbag” Smith
Good to know. Thanks, Reg!
OT — Quick, go to Amazon, Powell’s, Abe Books, (Daedalus isn’t accepting orders anyway) and Barnes & Nobles, and try to get a physical copy of Delay, Deny, Defend. It’s the same across the board.
I hope there’s a federal government department in the U.!S.!A.! devoted to consumer law and clearly liar claims about products brought to market.
Sailer’s “Noticing” would be a loss leader in the Aldi aisles of false marketing.
For over twenty essays we’ve got to endure not ever noticing anything whatsoever to do with the most powerful ethnic lobby group to have ever taken over the most powerful military to have ever dominated the earth.
Instead we’re subjected to half-humorous half bitter reattempts at striking back to those who called the author to account for his inability to deal with the facts, all set within a tedious recounting of anyone who ever told the author he’s not as fascinating as thinks he is.
For this terrible crime against humanity the author has formulated a series of autistic denunciations set down in a form of written screech.
This book, which would be best described as a serial output of harangues against the world thrust in a mind altering sentence format that’s derived to induce sleep in the reader, almost of a hypnotic quality except having unfortunately already put the reader to sleep has become a touchstone in the sleep apnea community which has now become prescribed reading and keystone of their forum.
This outing of the deep state fakes who have set about us in every aspect of our lives is, coincidentally, also available on Amazon.
Think about that.
This book that’s exposing media elites and those who enable them is available on Amazon.
(We just wish Sailer was as hot and sexy)
Jason is more famous than his older sister at this point
Another case where the Brighton Hall alumnus is the more famous sibling, so that’s two strikes for you; I will give you that Janet Jackson is not as famous as her brother.
As an aside, they are only brothers via adoption; they are not blood related
The thing that hurts is how you turned against us.
We will have our revenge.
You thought you could have your heel turn and their would be no revenge?
Think again.
No conspiracy is implicated here. It’s out of print like thousands of other books. The kindle edition is readily available.
That’s very wise of you to back down. Indeed, Trump is going to get all of what he can at your expense. And yes, you should’ve not voted for him at all. It’s a tacit endorsement of his policies that most likely end up hurting white people more where it counts—the pocketbook.
“Russia claims that it has less than 100,000 dead, not 600,000.”
I didn’t make this point.
It’s satire, but admittedly only barely.
I’m not sure why this is supposed to be a surprise, isn’t this what his ‘music’ is about? The parts that aren’t about drugs and murder, I mean.
John Rocker, Noticer, Baseball Division, and, like Steve, a Prophet only now receiving honor in his own land:
Best reply:
There was nothing for me to back down from. You confuse me for someone who blindly worships Trump. I supported Trump because I despise his enemies and because it is the only way I can show my middle finger to them. I anticipate he will be considerably better than the corpse of Joe Biden. But the reality is that the USA is a declining empire and it most likely is entering its terminal phase. Whether that unwinds quickly or in a slow burn I have no idea. But no one is going to prevent it. The financial and demographic damage the USA already has incurred is baked into the cake and will not be reversed or cured. But you go ahead and sing Kum-By-Yah all you want in the multicultural globohomo hell that is the near-term future here. Enjoy!
Essentially all of our insane race/DEI stuff that is happening today is a product of the failure of the central premise of the civil rights era: if we eliminated de jure discrimination and gave blacks preferences across a broad spectrum for awhile then they would naturally catch up to whites.
Obviously this didn’t happen despite tens of trillions in wealth transfers, explicitly pro-black discrimination, overhyping of black achievements and contributions, and turning a blind eye as their culture deteriorated into an appalling mess that everyone secretly is revolted by.
Much of the social policy pursued by the left (and some by the right) are based on the idea that man and society can be perfected through the application of enlightened political choices and programming. Additionally, the modern left looks at the upliftment of blacks as the single most important social endeavor of American history. The former cannot accomplish the latter and it’s driven them to increasingly bizarre and totalitarian efforts in pursuit of the impossible. As I mentioned, I think there is a minor but not insignificant share of the left that is beginning to realize this and most are hoping there is some kind of softer version of civil rights-oriented policy they could still push to satisfy their consciences and have a marginally positive effect.
Along with this, I think the more perceptive political strategists on the left recognize it’s now a political loser that will not claw back the working class defections to the GOP that have grown for three straight presidential elections. This is a difficult situation for them because they are dependent on 90+ support from blacks to win national elections and this group is accustomed to being catered to, but the rest of the country increasingly doesn’t care about.
Garbage out, garbage in. I am absolutely uninterested in what happens to Arabs of all stripes. What I wish for is a formation of a Kurdish nation state from parts of Syria, Iraq, Iran and Turkey. Arabs & Turks can go to hell.
That some elites actually believed such a ridiculous idea was brought home in Justice O’Connor’s opinion in, IIRC, Grutter v. Bollinger, from the early 2000s, where she opined that in 25 years or so, racial preferences would no longer be necessary. LOL.
“Now Syria can have swell elections like Ukraine and Romania. And when the new government asks foreign occupiers to leave they totally will.”
Why do I get the sense that when you say “swell elections”, you have no problem with the Ukrainian referenda Russia holds in its occupied territories, which assure as that 105% of the locals demand to remain under Russian control?
As for Syria, the Russian stooge (as if that’s not “foreign” enough) whose family was was running the main circus ring for half a century had no problem leaving (contrary to Russian psy-ops to the effect that his plane had been shot down). His family already owns a nice chunk of Moscow real estate, almost as if they anticipated that might come in handy some day. Same goes for the Russian troops now stuck in who-knows-where — they’re literally going to have to beg to be even allowed to leave, and my guess is they’ll have to leave some trinkets behind as a gesture of goodwill:
To that end, note the followup tweets: “Kurdish formations began to block individual objects of the Russian Armed Forces in the Euphrates region [of eastern Syria]”, and “Russian military ships have been withdrawn from the port of Tartus to a roadstead in order to reduce the threat from rogue gangs who have decided to fire on them.”
And with regard to the burst of copium about rebel promises to leave the (Russian-controlled) bases and other state institutions in place for 18 months (Russia knows all about how well those kinds of security assurances always work out flawlessly), I suspect that even if Russia is allowed to continue leasing the bases there, any blood diamonds and drugs that come in through Syria from their various African “clients” will henceforth need to be shared far more generously with the various Syrian middlemen demanding a cut.
I think a fair number of Whites are OK with a smaller pocketbook if they can have a slower pace of cultural change. Many people won’t mind 1950s standard of living if they can go back to 1950s society. There is a lot of nostalgia about 1950s America in art and culture.
This is amazingly great but the tradeoff is that AI’s blurring of reality is going to transform us in ways unimaginable. Most probably not so good. That said, I’d love to see AI do a 50’s bluegrass version of, say Never Mind the Bollocks, or in a Kpop style like a current fave Aespa. Marshall law under “Pretty Vacant”.
Trump should give Louis Farrakhan the Presidential Medal of Freedom just for the LOLs.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2024/dec/09/suspect-named-in-unitedhealthcare-ceos-shooting-taken-into-custody-video
Mangione? How apt that McDonalds was the location.
Steve, why wasn’t this posted here? You finally did the Men of Unz proud. 😀
Off topic, but timely.
The suspect who was wanted by authorities in the shooting of the United Health Insurance Co. executive was arrested in Pennsylvania and now publicly identified (many news stories have it now.)
In his mid 20s, no occupation yet mentioned. From Maryland. Traveled by bus.
Some MacDonald’s employee will now be eligible for the big tip reward.
Is said to have the gun/silencer likely used in the back shooting hit, on him.
This was bound to happen, with his big honker showing in that one photo. Also, it stuck out over his mask. Poor planning if he didn’t have a hidey-hole planned nearby stocked with food for a while.
He’ll have to get used to prison chow now. I hear the medical care there ain’t so great either…
Rhino Records had a mock band called Big Daddy. Their back story was that they were held behind the Iron Curtain since the Eisenhower Administration and only just released in Reagan’s. They were given sheet music of current hits to interpret their way.
This is their Everlyesque take on “Super Freak”:
So, is Luigi gay, or just Italian? I thought they were more into kidnapping and cutting ears off executives than outright murder.
The Russians have started using tethered drones (hexacopters) on the front lines.
That is drones controlled by a thin fiber-optic cable. Can’t see them, can’t jam them.
Terrible.
OT — Looks like Luigi Mangione, the suspect arrested for the UnitedHealthcare assassination is a throwback to turn-of-the-last-century anarchists. All that’s missing is a Screamin’ Sicilian frozen pizza novelty mustache.
She’s making a comeback, an in a most original way.
Justine Bateman Is Your Post-Election Tik Tok Critic Examples below.
They noticed her in Oz a few years ago:
Is Justine Bateman the most rebellious woman in Hollywood?
I’m old enough to remember when women in their 50s knew how women in their 50s are supposed to look, and look good to boot. Brigitte Bardot and Sophia Loren, both 90, are among the last who don’t pretend to look decades younger than they are. Petula Clark, too, at 92.
his Fed followed an inflationary policy that created a stock market bubble.
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It didn’t.
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While we’re at it, the stock market reached peak P/E ratios before Bush took office and its subsequent correction had little generalized fallout.
Paying interest on reserves reduced the money multiplier. The expansion of the monetary base was not matched by an expansion in M1.
Syria was just a Western construct. Lines on a map for colonial management .
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There was no colony. Different parts of the Fertile Crescent were dependencies of Britain and France for an interim period (1920-46).
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In the Fertile Crescent were different biomes, agricultural systems, ethnicities, confessions, and spectra of spoken dialects. That, and the political deals made with local grandees and between occidental governments made it prudent to establish several successor states. There were several different arrangements before borders were made final in 1939. France and Britain might have done a better job with the borders.
The root cause is European universalism, first as Christians, then as secular enlightened humanitarians. We all know that various peoples and empires fight, conquer & oppress, but they were not obsessed with making “others” the same as themselves in position or behavior. Being a humane overlord is enough. But no, whites & especially Anglos have become so historically blind & contrary to the common sense they cannot accept that human collectives differ in their capabilities, proclivities, ethics and preferences.
By the way- a good video on Russian mentality with a few good comments:
@bobthecpaontheloose4141
My wife is from mainland China and after many visits, I have had the opportunity to make observations of public behaviour… It’s been pretty deeply ingrained into the populace that politics and government intervention are low on their list of interests. Based upon the power structure of the country, these are areas where you have no choices so you remove yourself from concerning yourself about them… as long all other things in your life are OK. That’s how they take your power away – take away your choices.
@InterstellarMedium
This video confirms very much what some of my Russian friends have said about Russia since the 1980s: That Russians seem unable to get rid of their slave mentality.
Some of my friends were children of high ranking Soviet diplomats (Nomenklatura) who lived in Geneva and NYC before the Soviet Union was dissolved. I was always shocked at their pessimistic views on Russians and the future of Russia. Essentially they said (and still say) that the Russians cannot free themselves from their slave mentality because they were the last people in Europe that experienced large scale slavery until 1861. Serfdom affected at least 40% of the population and unlike traditional serfs who are attached to land, those poor peasants could be sold just like slaves.
To answer the question on the way out of living under authoritarianism or totalitarianism: I think that Russia should simply follow the way that Ukraine went. Ukraine was remarkably similar in social and political structure. Most Russians (just like Ukrainians in 2013) want their country to become a “normal” country (i.e. a functional democratic and free country). I think most Russian intellectuals know exactly why Putin started the war with Ukraine following the illegal annexation of Crimea and invasion of the eastern parts of Ukraine: What was happening in the Maidan, had started to spread to Russia, and Putin had to stop it to ensure his evil regime would continue to exist.
@markuseden2105
When the Soviet Union collapsed there WAS a short window where things could have changed. The “estates” collapsed but where then quickly bought up by a few oligarchs. Russia was in chaos. Putin in essence reined in this “chaos” by reintroducing the estates and with it the dependence on the state to survive. Having said that I live in Cyprus and experienced the tremendous influx of Russians to the island in the early 1990’s. One thing that struck me from the beginning was 1) the incredible cynicism and 2) the lack of empathy most Russians seemed to embody. Media – all lies / Politics – all lies – everyone is as bad as each other, no one does anything for free or out of conviction etc. A gay man got beat up on the street? Serves him right! Why’s he gay anyway? Cyprus is still full of Russians and not much has changed. The war in Ukraine? A tragedy but more a “natural disaster” than something anyone could have avoided. I’m afraid it is also the predominant attitude that shapes a country.
@jonsanborn6849
I lived in Russia for a few years and spent a decade studying Russian history and literature. For me, it has little to do with the geography and external factors which you list and far more to do with the Russian mindset. As many others have pointed out because the things you describe also occur in many other countries. There’s a Russian proverb that says leaders rule, not the law. This toxic idea is why a society keeps choosing leaders who are above the law. The second toxic idea is vranyo, which creates a society that has little truth to build upon and reinforces deception and bribery, in all levels of society. And the third is the idea of expendable human life for something greater. This pawn mentality works in chess but for humanity, it’s devastating. It’s the reason that thousands of soldiers can die in a week and no one cares. Many of my friends in the army, there told me about this to great detail. I still love Russia and my friends there though.
Donald Trump offers 63 tips for success.
I thought I recalled an Elevator Muzak version of “Pretty Vacant” from the 1970s, but this Chuck Mangione-style cover of “I’m a Lazy Sod” is the closest I can find.
I’m waiting for a public apology to Enoch Powell for his perspicacity in 1968. And more recently, to David Starkey, another learned Brit.
Yes, plus all the sub-continental Pajeets who came in via legal H1-B visas to take high tech jobs; Haitian pet gourmets granted refugee status; legal asylum award claimants; diversity lottery winners; border jumpers who are legal until their hearings in a year or two if they remember to show up; etc.
In a country dominated by lawyers, it’s probably inevitable that most citizens will believe in a simplistic dichotomy: legal immigrants good, illegal immigrants bad. And all arguments invoking any principles beyond economics ruled out.
Our once and future president holds the same view.
“Some of my friends were children of high ranking Soviet diplomats (Nomenklatura) who lived in Geneva and NYC before the Soviet Union was dissolved. I was always shocked at their pessimistic views on Russians and the future of Russia. Essentially they said (and still say) that the Russians cannot free themselves from their slave mentality because they were the last people in Europe that experienced large scale slavery until 1861. ”
lol The Soviet master’s view of their Soviet slaves.
“That Russians seem unable to get rid of their slave mentality. Some of my friends were children of high ranking Soviet diplomats …they said (and still say) that the Russians cannot free themselves from their slave mentality because they were the last people in Europe that experienced large scale slavery until 1861.”
Curiously enough, that “serf mentality” is something I myself observed, except the country I was visiting was Ukraine, whose experience with serfdom obviously mirrored Russia’s. But for all the corruption and backwardness that still exists there, the Ukrainians at least have a sense that something ought to be done about it.
So “serf mentality” cannot be an excuse — if the Ukrainians can get it, at least to some extent, then why can’t the Russians?
There’s that saying by by Brecht: “Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes”. That’s especially true if the only hero they’re able to come up with is Putin, so maybe that has something to do with it. Russia also feels obligated to wear the iron crown that comes with being (or still pretending to be) a “great nation”, which ironically becomes heavier and heavier the more hollow and flimsy that title becomes, what with each successive “tactical retreat” and far-fetched excuse to the effect that their man is never to blame. And if one’s most notable contribution to the ongoing conversation of how best to build a civilization is repeated threats to nuke those who get in your way, and end civilization as we know it, that is hollowness personified.
The true believers of Islam are similarly hobbled by their Quranic/hadithic obligation to explain away any societal breakdown as a departure from 7th century norms that must be reversed, which is inevitably a problem masquerading as a solution.
What was it that Voltaire said about October 7th? If we do have to help the Arabooshim, we would have to disable the AI-equipped automated machine gun nests and ignore the signals intelligence analysts? Something like that. I’m not a French specialist.
“such a ridiculous idea was brought home in Justice O’Connor’s opinion in, IIRC, Grutter v. Bollinger, from the early 2000s, where she opined that in 25 years or so, racial preferences would no longer be necessary.”
So in other words, she was a judge who was overtly, consciously making policy (and committing amateur sociology and physical anthropology from the bench without a PhD), not interpreting law.
We’re gonna have to start making that a hangin’ offense, akin to treason.
What’s the difference?
Prison don’t care, is he top or bottom? Nah, Prison don’t care about that either.
Agreed. What’s interesting is that she had no idea of the time scales involved in achieving mastery of technical practice on a society-wide scale. Martinique and Guadeloupe are affluent societies with satisfactory levels of public order. Haiti is a catastrophe which has few analogues in this world – some of the most miserable places in tropical Africa, perhaps. Eight generations of apprenticeship differentiate the two, not 25 years.
Good point. Like I’m always repeating like a broken record, the problem with Blacks! is not necessarily an HBD/IQ issue (although admitting reality, as at an AA meeting, is a critical first step).
The big problem is: 1) by and large, Blacks! have not yet adapted correctly to Modernity; and the central task of living in Modernity is knowing what it is, and how to navigate it. They don’t. They just… don’t.
They can either *not* live in Modernity (viz go home to Wakanda and live in mud-hut glory and leave the rest of us alone) or they can learn to deal with Modernity. Option C, one supposes, is to ignore everything and just keep on making themselves and the rest of us miserable, and hope that their eventual robot Chinese overlords don’t just give up and turn them into dog food — they’re not even any use as slabes anymore.
and 2) temperament and disposition, emotional framework, one’s “conceptual continuity”. Blacks have an absurdly unrealistic opinion of themselves, their importance to humanity, and their place in human history. It borders on a schizophrenic perception of the world. And they routinely believe stupid, idiotic, ridiculous things as a matter of course, and frame their actions accordingly.
A functional Black!-run society could maybe, possibly exist if they all agreed to cop to the fact that Modernity is indeed real and not an ebil oppressive racist plot, and the pavement-level apes agreed to obey the Talented Tenth HNICs, and the HNICs agreed to take direction from their (hidden) white or Chinese supervisors, and ignore whatever poison the Jews are peddling this week.
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@anonymous
Yes, plus all the sub-continental Pajeets who came in via legal H1-B visas to take high tech jobs; Haitian pet gourmets granted refugee status; legal asylum award claimants; diversity lottery winners; border jumpers who are legal until their hearings in a year or two if they remember to show up; etc.
In a country dominated by lawyers, it’s probably inevitable that most citizens will believe in a simplistic dichotomy: legal immigrants good, illegal immigrants bad. And all arguments invoking any principles beyond economics ruled out.
Our once and future president holds the same view.
I don’t know a great deal about Russian history but I do know that the Russian land mass has been invaded at least four times in the past 600 years starting with the Mongols, Sweden (under Charles XII), Napoleonic France and Germany under the Bohemian Corporal. People tend to remember these things so is it any wonder that the Russians seem to look to so-called “strongmen” (Tsar Peter the Great, Tsar Alexander II or “Koba” (Stalin) to bail them out?
The lesser of two evils? You’re crazy. This is the head-chopping kind of Muslim you’re not supposed to get along well as a liberal or Jew or ghey or whatever you are.
The European Union is just an updated version of the USSR.
Grutter v. Bollinger was decided in 2003 so we’ve got 3 more years until The Rapture.
Reagan was warned that Sandy O’Connor was a squish but it was a “woman’s” seat on SCOTUS. I would have picked Jeanned Kilpatrick.
Good morning, Achmed,
I too don’t think the PanicFest was implemented solely for the purpose of injecting liquidity into the failing repo market, per se. I do however firmly believe that the PanicFest was implemented largely for the purpose of running cover for the bailout of the imploding ponzi scheme economy, and for other purposes.
About a year or so before the PanicFest Mrs. Smith and I were watching some sort of economic analyst (I wish I had saved the video or even remember this guy’s name, but at the time didn’t realize how prescient this information was) who explained very succinctly that the U.S. economy was about to experience another 2008 style event. He shamelessly explained that millions of people would simply have to be laid off and that trillions (with a T) of dollar bucks would have to be borrowed into existence and used to bail out the banks and the economy.
Mrs. Smith and I looked at each other and wondered just how they would pull off such a monumental feat. We assumed (incorrectly) that the people would not stand for another series of banker bailouts reminiscent of 2008. (I mean, they still sell rope and we still have trees.) Fortunately for the masters of the universe, most Americans seem to have the attention span of a goldfish and collectively have no memory of the things inflicted upon them by “government” if these things happened more than a few months ago. And the Trump Buck$ (stimulus checks) were incredibly popular with many Americans.
The virus hoax and the PanicFest provided the cover they needed to accomplish a massive temporary bailout of the economic system. (Kick the can down the road a little further.) And of course it was also an opportunity to test out some truly totalitarian experimentation on the different populations around the globe and advance some of their globalist agenda.
Thanks to the Canadian truckers they backed off. For now. But some dangerous precedents have been set. As we’ve seen, a certain (large) percent of the population can be whipped into insanity by the idiot plate. But the PanicFest also aroused some people from their slumber. People who were otherwise oblivious before the event. It will be interesting to see how the next phase plays out when the next crisis happens.
Anyway…
I hope you have a great afternoon and all that. ☮
These are just more pathetically lame excuses. Have you never heard of Poland? They weren’t just invaded, they were completely dismembered, more than once. Or Vietnam. Or how about Ukraine? They’ve all spent centuries getting invaded by bigger meaner regimes. Are they walking around threatening to nuke the planet if they don’t get to take control of Kaliningrad or whatever? In other words, I’m guessing it’s not just Russian history you don’t know a great deal about, or you wouldn’t be under the illusion that a country like Russia — which has done more than its share of invading in order to get to its current size — has any right to complain about being invaded. Especially now.
Again, this is much the same thing as when some Muslim thug reads a pamphlet from the brotherhood claiming that “his people” invented flying, heliocentrism, and Don Quixote, but that a cabal of Jews, or freemasons or neocons conspired to trick the world into denying people like him the deference that is his due, and that is why his father is driving a cab and kaffirs are running the world. It’s the same lame “we wuz kangs” routine — the only difference is that when the Muslims or some other group play that game, people around here see it for what it is, and chortle appropriately, and they don’t let a bunch of cheap glitz paid for with nothing but petrodollars obscure their vision. Whereas they’re always willing to extend yet another cheap rationalization for why their so-called “strongman” in Moscow is always the slow kid in the classroom when it comes to learning how to deal with the rest of the world.
If Russia is, even now, largely a barren backwater (I mean apart from the portions of it that churn out petrodollars) whose people are so envious of flush toilet technology that they’re willing to rape and kill a neighboring state in order to haul it away, that isn’t because the Jesuits pulled the wool over everyone’s eyes about the glories of the Third Rome and Tchaikovsky and Lermontov. It has more to do with the fact that for the better part of a century, Russians embraced and evangelized a failed totalitarian ideology, and yet, despite that colossal error, they think they still get to dictate how the rest of the world is supposed to be arranged.
It turns out that the Russians are the real dindu nuffins — who would have guessed?
“The European Union is just an updated version of the USSR.”
Yeah, sure — those prison cells in the ICC where they lock up people posting mean Facebook memes about jihadis and praying outside abortion clinics are INDISTINGUISHABLE from Soviet gulags. DOWN TO LAST DETAIL.
And all those countries in the EU would immediately break free were it not for that big Berlin wall they’ve encircled with razor wire and watchtowers and guards with vicious German Shepherds to keep everybody in.
The one difference — and this is so trivial that you’ll wonder why I even bothered to mention it –is that when a country chooses to leave a modern European alliance (like, say NATO), it can do so and keep their land intact. They can even join up again if they so choose — France did both. Whereas even today, after all the so-called “updates”, when one leaves the USSR, or any Moscow-run alliance there’s apparently an inevitable “cancellation fee” amounting to some 20% or more of territory that must be surrendered, despite any written security assurances to the contrary. But like I said — a trivial difference. Forget I even mentioned it.
And yeah, apart from that, it’s just a more-or-less indistinguishable update. Sure.
“1950s standard of living”
In all the important things living standards were much higher 1950-1975 – a working man on an average wage could afford to buy a house and car, and raise a family solely on his earnings.
A man who can buy a house on his wage alone now, and support an at home wife and children, would have to be in the top 10% of earners.
My mother bought her first house using her brother’s savings – her brother having a job in a steelworks. A similar house now would cost maybe £180,000 – say $230k.
I can’t imagine a working man in the UK, in his late 30s, having £180k to lend out now.
Thoughts of prison rape delight Americans like no one else I know.
But maybe a country just has them, rather than needing them. Germany in Brecht’s time was stacked with heroes living and dead, from Max Immelmann and Oswald Boelcke to the crew of the Emden. Maybe he had a problem with that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellmuth_von_M%C3%BCcke#Return_to_Europe
thus the Caribbean Marxist CLR James, but he was writing in 1962. Now English kids are taught that their history is one of slavers and oppressors.
You totally missed my point. If you’re not smart enough to understand what I mean, forget it!
And no, there’s no leaving NATO ( just ask France)…or the EU ( Brexit isn’t permanent, mark my words).
In addition to those four big invasions, there were constant little raids by bandits and uprisings by unhappy parties. There was also massive centralization forced by the immense geography. Interestingly, an internet-connected Russia is newly capable of escaping this hypercentralization, but, for centuries before the internet, it was the only way.
“The lesser of two evils? You’re crazy.”
Nope. A dictator who was funded by Putin whose father brutalized his own people for decades. Sounds like you’re kind of man.
“This is the head-chopping kind of Muslim you’re not supposed to get along well as a liberal or Jew or ghey or whatever you are.”
Over the top wrong per usual.
“I think a fair number of Whites are OK with a smaller pocketbook if they can have a slower pace of cultural change.”
Perhaps in your circle of friends. But the fact of the matter is that those who voted for Trump want the bread on the table rather than the crap off the boob YouTube. For them, economic concerns—wages, healthcare, job security, and inflation—are top priorities, especially among men of color, who polls show are less focused on social issues.
“Many people won’t mind 1950s standard of living if they can go back to 1950s society. There is a lot of nostalgia about 1950s America in art and culture.”
Who exactly are these “many people”? Citations would be nice to lend support to your position. I would say it is extremely probable the U.S. is NOT going back to the social expectations of that decade–men being the primarily breadwinners, women staying at home and raising kids, darkies knowing their place in society, etc.
Besides, the 1950’s wasn’t as idyllic as people think.
https://medium.com/inside-of-elle-beau/why-are-the-1950s-looked-at-as-the-golden-age-when-clearly-they-weren-t-272010203a68
Our nostalgia is linked to what we learn in our youth. We store more memories during our youth than at any other time in our lives. And as we age, we discover early memories more vivid and positive, and filter out anything that can challenge or downplay those remembrances.
Seriously, you’re way better than this.
Just because I observe something doesn’t mean I like it or support it!
‘Tradwives’ promote a lifestyle that evokes the 1950s. But their nostalgia is not without controversy
https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/27/us/tradwife-1950s-nostalgia-tiktok-cec/index.html
Sweden’s ‘soft girl’ trend that celebrates women quitting work
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0j1wwypygxo
https://azmirror.com/2022/01/31/unable-to-cope-with-70-years-of-progress-republicans-want-to-return-arizona-to-the-1950s/
“There was nothing for me to back down from.”
Of course there was.
“You confuse me for someone who blindly worships Trump. I supported Trump because I despise his enemies and because it is the only way I can show my middle finger to them.”
That’s blind loyalty, Chief.
“But the reality is that the USA is a declining empire and it most likely is entering its terminal phase.”
Maybe. Then again, perhaps not.
“The financial and demographic damage the USA already has incurred”
Jews, right?
“We assumed (incorrectly) that the people would not stand for another series of banker bailouts reminiscent of 2008.”
PAINE: But, the people…!
LORD CHAMBERLAIN: The people? The people are like insane insects, forever rebuilding their destroyed houses. They’ll survive. Then forget.
— Paul Foster, “Tom Paine, a Play in Two Parts”
“In addition to those four big invasions, there were constant little raids by bandits and uprisings by unhappy parties.”
You’re forgetting about the centuries-long, non-stop Crimean Muslim Tatar slave raids (Ottoman-financed), the brutality and scope of which was beyond belief, and which makes the slavery of the American South look like that old staged “train robbery” routine at the Anaheim Disneyland.
As you do so frequently, you deliberately misrepresented what I said. It is futile to attempt a discussion with you.
ISIS has been killing and brutalizing Syrians and pretty much everybody in the area for over a decade. What makes you think Julani will stop beheading people? Because he’s our ally? Are you ready for a global khalifate? Are you a good dhimmi?
“But maybe a country just has them, rather than needing them.”
Of course it has them — IF it wants them. Same thing with kings. If you decide. you gotta have one, you go out and pick one. It doesn’t have to be that way, and even if you decide that’s what you want, it doesn’t mean there isn’t a downside. “Let fire come from the buckthorn and devour the cedars of Lebanon.” Seems a particularly timely lesson right about now.
“You totally missed my point. If you’re not smart enough to understand…”
Yeah, that must be it. The reason we don’t understand your stupidly embarrassing comparison about how the EU is just the USSR 2.0 is because we’re just not smart enough. What else are we not smart enough to understand? War is just Peace2.0, slavery is Freedom2.0, etc.? If you can’t see that, Winston, you need re-education.
“And no, there’s no leaving NATO ( just ask France)…”
They did just that. And here’s the point YOU keep missing. The EU didn’t demand a slice of the Riviera or Provencal as a surrender tax once they decided to leave. No one invaded them with tanks and started bombing their hospitals and stealing their flush toilets. As for the UK, if and when it decides it wants to get back in, THEY ARE FREE TO DO SO AT A TIME OF THEIR CHOOSING (assuming Orban doesn’t veto them out of spite, or something like that). How smart does one have to be to know the USSR wasn’t anything like that?
Talk about missing the point.
In all the important things living standards were much higher 1950-1975 –
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In your imagination only.
“Just because I observe something doesn’t mean I like it or support it!”
Fair enough, but it comes across as something that you believe should happen.
Regarding TradWomen/SoftGirl, yes, that is a niche phenomenon. As far as it gaining traction and becoming a more widespread cultural practice, my vague impression is probably not.
They should have set Max Max in the Middle East instead of Australia. Endless fighting by violent tribes and fossil fuels. Israel is highly protected Western compound in in a trackless sea of sand, insanity and consanguinity
Why no commentary on this apparent Hate Hoax? It’s right up your alley.
https://newrepublic.com/post/189258/nancy-mace-attack-transgender-activist-truth
In general, people are fooled by Russians’ white skin. If you look at the way that Russians behave, their crime rates, lack of democratic traditions and basically their entire worldview, they are not “white people” in the same way that Western Europeans are. They embrace some parts of the Western tradition but not others. Think say Venezuelans who OTOH have Dudamel but OTOH have Maduro.
Russians would be a lot easier for Americans to understand if they were say brownish like Venezuelans.
I’ve thought about whether life is better now or sixty years ago when I was a child. The big improvements are related to the continued advance of technology. People usually think about things like phones or the internet but for me personally I am happiest about the widespread adoption of air conditioning. Hot Indiana summers back then were pretty unpleasant living in a house built in 1918 with no air conditioning.
What was better in that earlier era was that people seemed to act more like responsible adults. They were more likely to avoid committing crimes, having children out of wedlock, letting themselves become obese or getting caught up in drug addiction.
This higher level of personal responsibility led to voters picking better people to run the country. If you compare the intellectual level of the 1960 Nixon-Kennedy debates with recent political debates, there is a definite decline. People then would have considered the federal government running two trillion dollar a year deficits an irresponsible act that would lead to eventual bad results. That supposed adults go along with that now almost guarantees life will be worse for future generations of Americans.
There is probably some truth in this, bearing in mind that the majority of Russians are descended from serfs.
Likewise even in Britain, probably the majority of the non-immigrant population are the descendants of servants within 3 or 4 generations.
Many Australians and a significant number of Americans are descended from criminals who were deported from the UK.
Even within the whitest of white populations, most of the intellectual heavy lifting since the end of the middle ages has probably been done by the top talented 5%.
It is interesting to note that countries like the UK and the US are still unable to produce a sufficient number of capable medical doctors from their own populations and have to import.
If you compare the intellectual level of the 1960 Nixon-Kennedy debates with recent political debates, there is a definite decline.
If you read Lincoln-Douglas debates from 1858 and compare them with “thought process” of Bush, Trump or Biden, it will make you cry. Our recent presidents don’t even appear to have the intellect of high school graduates of that era.
https://www.nps.gov/liho/learn/historyculture/debates.htm
“In general, people are fooled by Russians’ white skin. If you look at the way that Russians behave, their crime rates, lack of democratic traditions and basically their entire worldview, they are not “white people” in the same way that Western Europeans are. They embrace some parts of the Western tradition but not others. Think say Venezuelans who OTOH have Dudamel but OTOH have Maduro.”
LOL, get a load of who is saying this. Hey Jack…. who ELSE fools people with their white skin, concealing their [global] crimes, their anti-democratic traditions of scheming and manipulation, and “basically their entire (racist, hate-filled) worldview”. Who else are not “white people” the way that Europeans are?
“Russians would be a lot easier for Americans to understand if they were say brownish like Venezuelans.”
Do you think somebody would be easier for Americans to understand if they had horns and cloven hoofs?
They say the best way of not losing an argument is never to offer any evidence in its defence.
“It is interesting to note that countries like the UK and the US are still unable to produce a sufficient number of capable medical doctors from their own populations and have to import.”
In the case of the US, this just reflects the fact that the doctor’s cartel has been more successful at reducing the domestic supply of doctors than at preventing foreign doctors from immigrating.
Good point. When my youngest grandparent was born the Wright brothers had not yet got off the ground, automobiles were a great rarity, and people had chamber pots under the bed for night use.
By the time of her death she had been watching color TV for several years, and had obtained a driver’s license, but died a generation before the appearance of the smartphone.
As a young adult, she and her entire family had once dressed up in their Sunday best and gone down to the local photos studio where they posed in front of an arches and ivy studio background that looks vaguely ecclesiastical. Having your photo taken was a pretty serious business.
Her in-laws were quite well off because they had a good business carrying coal in horse-drawn carts from the local railroad depot to a local chemical factory.
When she was having children, there was still no such things as penicillin, epidurals, or IV drugs.
But perhaps the dominant factor in those days was that everyone knew your family, and maintaining “respectability” was a huge deal.
How could you hold your head up in church if you had overcharged someone for a horse rental and the whole town knew it?
She actually embraced new technology and became one of the first professional typists during World War I.
Anyway, she said she had a happy childhood.
What technology you don’t know you don’t miss.
But it is all faked!
In the era of TV (and now the internet and social media) presidents depend on winning the votes of the least educated voters, so they make a pitch that they hope will appeal to the uninformed.
Hence, as far as intellect is concerned, they are hiding their cards in public appearances and pronouncements.
They declare Wars on Terror, plan to put Social Security in a lockbox, or claim that they could shoot somebody on 5th Avenue in the broad daylight and get away with it.
(Recent events have shown that the last suggestion is not one that should be imitated.)
The current trend seems to be that since politicians need to look good on TV, then the best way to choose political leaders is to appoint TV professionals too high offices.
They’re not unable. The medical schools prefer the imports.
There weren’t many people who had a full complement of secondary schooling in 1858 and Lincoln was not among them.
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You’re mistaking endurance and verbal facility for intelligence.
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You’ve given no evidence you’re in a position to critique the ‘thought process’ of Bush or Trump.
presidents depend on winning the votes of the least educated voters,
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They don’t.
“What technology you don’t know you don’t miss.”
But everything in life has a price, including the presumed benefits of technology. Once we have the technology that we “didn’t miss” and from which we now derive a benefit previously unimagined, we cannot imagine going forward that we will have to pay a price for it. And the price may not be known for generations hence–if not decades. Or until the bill arrives.
“who ELSE fools people with their white skin, concealing their [global] crimes”
Again, if people around here want to get all laser-focused and eagle-eyed when it comes to certain global crimes, good for them. But if they then follow that up by playing the useful idiot for a thug like Putin, spare me the laughs. You’re not fooling anyone who doesn’t want to be fooled.
The same goes for any white chump who looks at something “white people” did and then gets a puffed shirt and a tear in his eye and says “yeah, see that? those were MY people”. I mean, who are you kidding? I can guarantee you, when the vast majority of the people who actually DID those things look at the vast majority of people who BRAG about these things, they don’t see “my people”. They see the people who drove their trucks and worked their mines and served them coffee and cleaned their chimneys.
I.e., it’s worth noting that plenty of white people have that serf mentality too. It’s just as comical when they play that we-wuz-kangs nonsense as when anyone else does, given that they’re sorely confused when it comes to what “we” actually means. Some of you seem to think the elites being out of touch with what white chumps are going through is some new thing because Jews came along, but give me a break. Elites have been out of touch with your cares and concerns for a long, long, long time. Again, if you just want to pretend things suddenly went awry because of the Israeli lobby or because there are too many Jews in the media or the banks, and are willing to ignore how messed up things were well before then, you’re not fooling anyone.
“ISIS has been killing and brutalizing Syrians and pretty much everybody in the area for over a decade.”
Agreed. And so did the Russian backed Syrian dictator for decades.
Why is this point lost on you? Can you just take off your Putin stooge hat off for once?
Jews are the whitest of “white people” (as are Asian-Americans) if you define white people by education, income, accomplishments, contribution to science, music and the arts, lack of violent criminality, etc. so you have this completely backwards.
The real question in America is why so many white people behave like wiggers? Being fat, bearing children out of wedlock, having drug issues, etc. used to be the domain of blacks. Why have they abandoned the Western tradition? If I look at a classical orchestra now, most of the younger musicians, esp. the string players, are Asian.
“As you do so frequently, you deliberately misrepresented what I said.”
Every accusation is a confession on your part, Mr. Irrational.
“It is futile to attempt a discussion with you.”
Perhaps it is time for you to take a step back and address your own cognitive dissonance. The echo chamber you live in is warping your mind.
The 100% overlap between White Trashionalist subculture and wigger subculture has been discussed many times. The two groups are identical, except that White Trashionalists are also mostly homosexuals, as evinced by the answers here to simple questions posed to them.
‘thought process’ of Bush or Trump.
Do we really need any more evidence that Bush and Trump are not deep thinkers? Even their greatest admirers admit they are very shallow thinkers and are not any kind of intellectual giants.
George W.Bush: When I first met with Putin “I looked into his eyes and I saw a soul.” I trusted him.
Jonathan Mason’s statement is inaccurate, but it is true that Trump voters were heavily from non-college graduate demographic. College graduates went to Harris by a good margin.
Why does everything have to be about Putin for you neocons? You need a shrink.
“Interestingly, an internet-connected Russia is newly capable of escaping this hypercentralization,…”
Internet connected? Obviously, JRoss’s Substack fortune-tellers have yet again — as with Kherson, as with Kursk, as with Syria — failed to put him in-the-know about what’s going on when it comes to Russia.
In Dagestan? Hey, why would Russia be eager to limit access to any of its Muslim-majority regions — could there perhaps be something in the headlines of the last few days that Moscow doesn’t want to get misinterpreted, with regard to how in-control Moscow truly is (and the same goes for the stooges it props up in order to hold sway over the areas of interest to them)?
Again, don’t look to any of J. Ross’s Substack gurus for any help. They’re as blind as he is.
And yet so many commenters still do. I don’t know why. Corvirus’ whole purpose here is to “nuh uh” and annoy. Steve once called him/her/it an “ankle biter”, which seemed accurate enough. Stop feeding him and maybe he’ll go away.
You’re right. Shame on me for not avoiding the temptation. Better always to ignore him.
“Steve once called him/her/it an “ankle biter”, which seemed accurate enough.”
Citation required.
“Stop feeding him and maybe he’ll go away.”
Nope. I’m here to stay.
“The real question in America is why so many white people behave like wiggers? ”
Hollywood, NBA/NFL, mass media, PR is controlled by who exactly? Does Islam have Imans who sell sex toys on the side?
“lack of violent criminality”
What Israel did to Gaza is violent criminality.
By your logic, on most composer GOAT lists there are usually two or three Russians
That’s more than there are for Jews, in fact, more than there are Englishmen.
Yes Asians, specifically CJK, dominate amongst modern day classical music performers, but not composers. In fact some perform in Venezuela
There had been many virtuoso (((Russian))) performers, but where did they receive their musical education?
“but it is true that Trump voters were heavily from non-college graduate demographic. College graduates went to Harris by a good margin.”
An American college degree is no longer a proxy or sort of passive index of (presumed) intelligence or ability. Probably in fact the contrary. Considering the absurd levels of indoctrination in utter nonsense, and the apparent lack of any sort of spirited resistance to it from the students, coupled with the ridiculous ease of admission for favored groups of piddling ability, and the sheer number of “college” institutions these days which function at the level of remedial middle school or day-care, and the type of people who staff them, an American college degree is essentially a net marker of intellectual inferiority and cowardice.
A person under 40, especially a white one, who manages to make any sort of decent living in this country *without* a college degree is probably in pure Darwinian terms a much more intelligent and clear-eyed subject.
“Why does everything have to be about Putin for you neocons?”
Wow, the fanboys sure seem salty these days. And is telling people not to think about Putin so much any more productive than telling people not to think about elephants?
What could be causing that? Any guesses?
I’m even starting to see a noticeable uptick in reminders that Putin had a Jewish mother, which on a site like unz-dot-com is never a good sign. Yeah, we’re talking REALLY salty.
If I remember correctly, you were a big proponent of the Covid lockdowns during the epidemic. What do you think of Jay Bhattacharya, an opponent of those lockdowns, being picked to head the NIH? What do you think of Marty Makary, an opponent of those lockdowns, being picked to head the FDA? What do you think of RFK Jr., an opponent of the lockdowns, being picked to head HHS? It’s almost as if the public now realizes those lockdowns were a mistake and voted for the person who would elevate the opponents of them into positions of power.
The public could have also voted for the candidate who wanted to stay the course in the Ukraine but instead picked the person talking about ending our support of the war and working towards an end to the war. It’s almost as if the voters decided the war was another mistake, like the lockdowns. What do you think about that, HA?
You fancy national income accounting is nonsense and whatever you pull out of your rear end is valid. This is your delusion, not anyone else’s.
Do we really need any more evidence that Bush and Trump are not deep thinkers?
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Pondering life’s bitter mysteries is not the only thing you do with your brain and literary education is not the only kind of education.
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I have news for you. Almost no one with whom you are acquainted is a deep thinker. Academicians may think deeply about their own disciplines, but have perfectly banal opinions about everything else. I have in my family a psychiatrist with 13 years of post-secondary schooling and five years of residencies and fellowships under his belt. His idea of a political sage is Jim Hightower.
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See Thos. Sowell, it’s a common error to confuse intelligence and articulateness. The Kennedys tend to benefit from this and the Bushes are injured by this.
Campaigns are built around cadging persuadable opponents, swing voters, and unmobilized voters. They aren’t the least intelligent people. They are more often than not the people least interested in public life. They’re also a much smaller slice of the electorate than was the case 35 years ago.
“An American college degree is no longer a proxy or sort of passive index of intelligence”
According to polling, between the beginning of 2020 and the middle of this year, public trust in doctors and hospitals dropped from 71% to 40%. The drop mainly occurred among people with no college degrees. The college educated appear to think doctors and hospitals did a really good job during the Covid epidemic with their ventilators and three thousand dollar Remdesivir.
As for doctors themselves, in the last election cycle they donated twice as much money to Democrats as they did to Republicans. Yes, most doctors think the country would be better off with Democrats running things. During the Covid epidemic, they supported the lockdowns until the Floyd death, at which point large numbers of them called for everyone to get together for mass protests.
https://time.com/5848212/doctors-supporting-protests/
“Why does everything have to be about Putin for you neocons? You need a shrink.”
JFC, pay closer attention. I’m not a neocon. I support the right of a (white) country to exist, free from what it is a threat to its liberties.
Yeah I wonder who it was that literally started the entire wigger phenomenon???
Ohhhhhhh…….
Neocon to me is an American warmonger, supporting the enforcement of the “rules based” liberal order by any means necessary, be it war, sanctions, coups or blackmail. Said order means protecting the dollar as a reserve currency to keep the Federal Reserve fiat money scam running and ensuring no nation is free from globalist (IMF, World Bank, UN, etc) meddling. It takes over a trillion dollars a year to fund all these operations, especially the war machine, which is a lucrative business.
So, essentially, all neocons are liberals in that sense. Does the NYTimes editorial line differ that much from the Washington Post? I don’t think so. You use the resources of America to plunder the world.
I read comments by everybody except Corvinus. Life’s too short.
The real question in America is why so many white people behave like wiggers?
Indeed. Have they perhaps been told or influenced to do that? If so, by who?
Now if you think the coup in Syria hurts Russia, think again. Short term, it’s only a moderate blow to Iran but ultimately it will backfire upon Israel and the USA big time. Just wait and see.
https://www.youtube.com/live/FJcRDVkpp80?si=cvS-fxKrJ_qIxX2L
“The public could have also voted for the candidate who wanted to stay the course in the Ukraine but instead picked the person talking about ending our support of the war…”
They picked the person who claimed he could end the war in 24 hours. They also picked the person who also appointed Gorka, who reminded us of something else that same person said:
Then again, the public also picked the person who told them that Mexico would pay for their big shiny border wall. As for me, I’m not that gullible, and I prefer, at this point, more of a wait-and-see attitude. You, on the other hand, as always, like to cherry-pick what suits your argument and conspicuously ignore the rest and then claim you somehow got it right. Don’t pretend you’re fooling anyone who isn’t the same kind of idiot. As for COVID, the most relevant (though certainly not the only) thing your pock-marked memory centers can’t seem to retain is that you talked tough about COVID, and then wound up in the hospital suffering from it because you didn’t have the sense to take basic safety precautions. I.e., like many other tough-talking trustin’-my-immune-system COVIDiot, you crumbled like a cowardly little girl and wound up in the ER (mainly because you were too much of a cowardly little girl when it came to needles). So if you think Bhattacharya or anyone else is on your side of the COVID debate — except perhaps for the guy who was a heroin addict for 15 years and claims a worm ate a portion of his brain — then think again. Maybe you too need to check if a parasite ate your brain away. If it hasn’t, then what could possibly convince you that you have any standing to dictate to anyone about how to deal with COVID, or Ukraine, or anything else at this point?
It was noontime GMT when you wrote that comment. Isn’t there a government job you’re supposed to be pretending you’re doing instead of taking time out to dispense lunacy on internet forums? The government jot the rest of us are paying for? Next time, spend a little more effort on that, instead of trying to twist history to suit your stupid Facebook health memes.
“Yeah I wonder who it was that literally started the entire wigger phenomenon???”
I’m pretty sure there were plenty of other people, long before 1986, who were willing to, in the words of noted music historian Marshall Mathers, “do Black music so selfishly, and use it to get [themselves] wealthy”. He specifically cites this guy:
Vaccines normally are tested five to ten years before being approved. It was not particularly irrational to avoid getting an inadequately tested vaccine using a novel technology never tried before with unknown potential long term negative effects.
For those who did not want to risk the vaccine, some doctors attempted to develop and implement early home treatments using expired patent drugs like HCQ or Ivermectin, nutritional supplements, and cheap patented steroid drugs that could be used if someone got sick. These home treatments never became widely available because the government threatened doctors trying to use them with the loss of their licenses. This was done to maximize profits for big pharma by leaving mass vaccinations and three thousand Remdesivir as the only way to deal with the disease.
I was let out of the hospital after a few days after a doctor said I did not look particularly sick. A couple weeks later my personal doctor said he was surprised my x-rays showed no lung damage, unusual for someone who had been hospitalized. It is quite likely I could have gotten well quickly with an early home treatment. No such treatment was ever made available.
I believe I have pointed out all this to you multiple times with it always going in one ear and out the other without it ever sinking into that little parrot brain of yours. Following your stupid and thuggish behavior during the epidemic of supporting yanking the licenses of doctors trying to provide an alternative to the vaccines and blaming the victims who became sick because they could not avail themselves of the treatments they wanted, you then went on to support an idiotic war pitting the Ukraine against a much bigger country it could not beat. Now that the Ukrainians are losing, I am laughing at you. You are a really funny guy, HA.
Assad Sr had an impressive forehead.
“Vaccines normally are tested five to ten years before being approved. It was not particularly irrational…”
It evidently was in your case, given that YOU WOUND UP IN THE HOSPITAL WITH COVID. Seriously, how much of an idiot are you to think that will escape the attention of anyone who isn’t in your moronic back-sclapping sections? When it comes to COVID, and knowing what should be done about it, YOU FAILED, you needle-phobic little crybaby. Take the L and shut up. You knew (or could have known, had you any diligence) what COVID would do to a worn-out pathetic schmuck like you, whereas by the time you refused to take it, plenty 90-year-olds had been vaccinated and were still pumping. So cry me a river about how it usually takes 5-10 years to go through all the bureaucratic hoops required to put a vaccine in place. The public just picked a guy who prides himself in having removed those obstacles. Didn’t you finish telling us about how that should tell us who won what?
See? The guy the country picked claims to have made that approval happen in record time, and now you want to complain about it? Take the L and shut up.
And Ivermectin (as worthless as it proved to be) was never made illegal. People came here claiming how you could buy it in large quantities. And they said you could get HCQ, too, which unlike Ivermectin, is not just mostly worthless, but can actually mess with your heart, which is why even the nurses and doctors who were at one point hoarding it (or so it was claimed) eventually stopped pretending it was worth anything.
Did you get either of them? No, of course not. That would require some self-motivation, and initiative and spine. Instead, you’re trying to blame your failure for taking charge of your own health — like you claim we should be allowed to do — and saying it’s the government’s job to do all that for you. Or some other convoluted and hypocritical mish-mash that I would expect only from someone so dumb that he pretends to be a prophet of the dangers of government waste WHILE AT THE SAME TIME GOOFING OFF ON A GOVERNMENT JOB. Again, you think anyone who isn’t a loon like you will somehow ignore this? Amazing.
“WHILE AT THE SAME TIME GOOFING OFF ON A GOVERNMENT JOB”
Uh, I’m 68 years old. If I wanted to goof off I could retire and have the government deposit my pension checks into my bank account while I sit at home on my couch all day. I work because I like to, not because I have to. If you are going to engage in insults, you really need to do better than that. The internet equivalent of yelling by putting your remarks in ALL CAPS is pretty funny. I burst out laughing when I saw it.
I get two work breaks, a lunch break and am off 16 hours every day. I have plenty of time to do my job and also post internet comments. It is especially easy to respond to you. You say the same thing over and over again so I can just respond the same way over and over again.
No, I should not have been forced to go searching for Ivermectin or anything else and getting a package in the mail where I had no idea what I was getting. I should have been able to place myself under the care of a local doctor who could examine me and provide me a home treatment protocol with all the proper doses and the correct order for me to take everything.
As for the effectiveness of Ivermectin, I suggest reading a book by Dr. Pierre Kory, The War on Ivermectin. On the back is a quote by RFK Jr., our new HHS head: “Dr. Pierre Kory is one of the heroic figures of our time; a courageous physician who sacrificed career, reputation, friendships, status, and livelihood for the health of his patients and humanity.”
“If I wanted to goof off I could retire and have the government deposit my pension checks into my bank account…”
So your alternative is to goof off during work hours? Thanks so much for your tender concern on how to spend our tax expenditures wisely. Your choices on that topic mirror your choices on how best to personally deal with COVID — i.e., you’re 0 for 2.
“No, I should not have been forced to go searching…”
So, a simple internet search to the nearest Ivermectin dealer is too difficult for you? That basically tells me everything I need to know about how willing and able you are to handle your own health care. It also goes a long way towards explaining how you wound up in a hospital in a state where not getting taken down by COVID should have been a walk in the park. So much hot air, with so little substance to back it with. You even whine like a cowardly little girl.
“On the back is a quote by RFK Jr.,…”
And you think that means it’s MORE trustworthy? This is the longterm heroin junkie whose brain (i.e. whatever the heroin didn’t fry) was munched on by a worm? You may think of highly of him, but rest assured, he’s not willing to return the favor.
Will you look at that — even a worm-eaten heroin junkie is able to see you for the belligerent idiot that you are. It’s THAT obvious.
Next time, try real research on how well Ivermectin does against COVID, which will show you that unless you too have parasitic worms sapping away your strength and your immune system (in which case, Ivermectin will indeed help) it does absolutely zilch. I.e., you still would have wound up in the hospital. What’s the score now? Oh yeah — 0 for 3. And that’s just the drivel about COVID.
“Neocon to me is an American warmonger,”
JFC, pay attention. I oppose Israel’s genocide of Gazans and Trump’s tacit support of it.
When it comes to Ukraine, the warmonger is Putin the oligarch and poisoner of dissenters. They are seeking to be free from his jackbooting. Ukraine has every liberty to chart their own course.
“supporting the enforcement of the “rules based” liberal order by any means necessary, be it war, sanctions, coups or blackmail.”
You have an active imagination.
“So, essentially, all neocons are liberals in that you use the resources of America to plunder the world.”
Well, I suppose the US. just carried on with Europe’s tradition of imperialism.
“Ukraine has every liberty to chart their own course.”
Fine, then why didn’t the West side with the “freedom fighters” from Donbass, ethnic Russians trying to break free from the Kiev illegal banderite regime, like they did with Albanians in Kosovo and Muslims in Bosnia? If you had any idea what you were talking about, you’d know that Kiev came down on hard on ethnic Russians, not only in the East but also in Odessa and Mariupol, and that when Russia intervened, there had been a civil war going on since 2014, the year the CIA and the State department coup’ed Janukovich with the help of their Ukrainian neo-nazi stooges.
“You have an active imagination.”
And you are totally detached from reality. So the second Irak war didn’t happen? Or the 2014 Euromaidan coup in Kiev? Doesn’t the Wold Bank and IMF blackmail countries into doing their bidding or else no international loans? Welcome to the real world!
“Well, I suppose the US. just carried on with Europe’s tradition of imperialism.”
In a way, yes. America turned into a puppet for the globalist Anglo-American Establishment ( vid. Carroll Quigley). A tool for global imperialism, sucking America and its ordinary citizens dry. Left unchecked, globalists ( or internationalists, like David Rockefeller Jr. prided himself to be called) will leave America as bankrupt as their prior victim, the UK. Now all that’s left of Britain is The City, that is banking, and the rest is turning fast into a sprawling ghetto prison where impoverished natives have to fight with third world hordes for scraps over the ruins of their former great country.
“Now if you think the coup in Syria hurts Russia, think again… ultimately it will backfire upon Israel and the USA big time.”
Yeah, them grapes sure were sour. Is that what you’re telling us? Losing easy access to the port that connected Russia to its African clients is no biggie? Seeing Erdogan take the lead is not going to give any of the many Turkics in Russia (at about 8% of the population, they’re the largest group after Slavs) any ideas? I’m starting to understand why Russia is testing how to completely cut off Muslim areas from the internet.
With regard to the bases in Syria that Russia has leased for decades, I’m likewise confident their loss doesn’t hurt in the least. Just water off a duck’s back, I say. But even there, I wouldn’t be surprised if the (former) rebels give Russia the chance to remain some control of those bases, though if that happens, I suspect they will charge the Russians many buckets of blood more than was the case when they were propping up the guy who ran Syria. All those blood diamonds and drugs that used to be channelled through those ports will now have to be shared that much more generously with the new Syrian bosses, and you can bet what goes on there will be reported that much more diligently to the Turks and the US. But even that reduced status could be portrayed as some semblance of a continued Russian presence, so I suspect Moscow would jump at it.
But yeah — it’ll all be a headache for the US, so good riddance. Hey, if leaving headaches behind is so important to Moscow, why don’t they just leave Ukraine, too?
“Fine, then why didn’t the West side with the “freedom fighters” from Donbass, ethnic Russians trying to break free from the Kiev illegal banderite regime,”
That group is in the pocket of Putin. Furthermore, the government of Kiev is legitimate. Again, they have every right to be free from his brutal dictatorship.
“like they did with Albanians in Kosovo and Muslims in Bosnia?”
There was an international coalition there.
“If you had any idea what you were talking about, you’d know that Kiev came down on hard on ethnic Russians,”
Who were aligned with Putin.
“the year the CIA and the State department coup’ed Janukovich with the help of their Ukrainian neo-nazi stooges.”
You mean when he went against the wishes of the people not to aloofness himself with Putin, and the people on their own accord Putin a new leader who represented their interests. Why must you insist otherwise? Are you on the Russian payroll? Furthermore, where did all of these Neo-Nazi Ukrainians go?
“Doesn’t the Wold Bank and IMF blackmail countries into doing their bidding or else no international loans?”
No.
America turned into a puppet for the globalist Anglo-American Establishment”
Who exactly is part of this “establishment”?
“A tool for global imperialism, sucking America and its ordinary citizens dry”
Seems to me that Putin is part of it as well.
“the rest is turning fast into a sprawling ghetto prison where impoverished natives have to fight with third world hordes for scraps over the ruins of their former great country.”
As I correctly stated, you have an active imagination.
Mr. Presley and his family were fairly ordinary people from West Tennessee who relied on others to be their guide in a world they neither knew nor understood. The others were Tom Parker and George Nichopolous, neither of whom were well-intentioned or capable. EP was a decent man, and to an astonishing degree given his line of work.
A fellow I correspond with offered on his blog an account of the sequence of events when COVID swept through his household of seven. He offered for contrast an account of his family’s dealings with doctors when he fell ill around Christmas in 1980. You fob your patients off on phone mail, it costs you in their esteem. He was already down on doctors after one of his adult children developed a hideous food allergy subsequent to getting a flu shot; the doctor kept insisting to him it must have been a coincidence.
“EP was a decent man…”
Alas, around here, I suspect there is going to be a more insidious explanation when it comes to all that musical race-mixin’ and pelvis-grindin’:
That sound you don’t hear is a hundred men of Unz nodding their heads in unison and whispering to themselves “See? I KNEW it!”
“That group is in the pocket of Putin. Furthermore, the government of Kiev is legitimate. Again, they have every right to be free from his brutal dictatorship.”
So you stage a coup, remove the legal government and that makes the new government legitimate. How? Only “manu militari”.
Also, talking about brutal dictatorship, your beloved Ukrainian brownshirts were brutalizing, killing and even burning alive ethnic Russians. And guess who banned opposition parties, free press, any non-controlled media? Zelensky did, NATO’s favorite boytoy.
“Furthermore, where did all of these Neo-Nazi Ukrainians go?”
They run the country, courtesy of the USA, with a Jew as their front man. Pathetic, isn’t it? Those right sektor guys, Azov Battalion, the top brass in the Ukrainian military.
“There was an international coalition there.”
So, that makes it ok? ISIS is also an international coalition, and so is ITS.
“You mean when he went against the wishes of the people not to aloofness himself with Putin, and the people on their own accord Putin a new leader who represented their interests.”
Janukovich wasn’t the West’s bitch, like Poroshenko and Zelensky. That was the cause. Only a very vocal, violent and banderite minority were against Janukovich, funded by the West.
“Why must you insist otherwise? Are you on the Russian payroll? ”
Because you’re either a fool or a liar, or both. No, I’m not a paid shill like yourself. Just a guy who doesn’t like NATO and the threat of WWIII instigated by lunatics like you, HA, Johnson and Fred the Friendly Fed.
“No.”
Again, you’re lying. Do you believe a country may receive billions of dollars in loans from the World Bank, no strings attached?
“Who exactly is part of this “establishment”?”
The name gives a clue: the banking elites from Great Britain and America and selected members of their associated foundations, institutions, endowments, think tanks and NGO’s. The latter provide the brains, or so the former believe, who fund them for the most part. Can you Google?
Again, you cannot provide a coherent answer to any of my points. Yeah, I have a very active imagination.
I can understand why Israeli Firsters like yourself are happy. With Assad gone, communication between Iran and its allies in Lebanon will become more difficult. You also got to steal a chunk of Syria too.
But if you believe turning an already unstable area into a chaos like Libya is an improvement over Assad, think again. Julani and his crazy band of head-choppers for hire will cause trouble beyond belief. What’s more, they’re already clashing with the Kurds, America’s proxies in Northern Syria. Also, you can never trust the Tutks. Erdogan already claims Aleppo and Damascus as part of Greater Anatolia. There’s a quagmire for NATO there in the making.
Russia simply cut loose Syria and Assad, who was getting too close to Saudi Arabia and the Arab League, and was in the process of getting shafted by his general. Ultimately, Arabs hate each other and cannot be trusted. Sunni Alawites and the Shiites don’t get along with fanatical Sunni wahhabites like the Saudis.
Al Julani may keep Damascus for the moment, Russia will take Kiev.
I predict Erdogan will be coup’d.
Finally, the biggest losers will be… American taxpayers, who are footing the bill.
Agreed
There was an “Old Right” that existed in this country from the end of WW I up until the beginning of the Vietnam War that believed in the traditional American policy of noninterventionism. It started with Harding cutting military spending by 50% and ended with Eisenhower warning the military-industrial complex would exaggerate foreign threats in order to drag this country into endless wars.
We did not listen to Ike. Now, though, after our failures in Vietnam, Afghanistan and our current proxy war in the Ukraine against Russia the Old Right is making a comeback in the Republican party. The foreign policy hawks who migrated over to the Republicans after the McGovernites took over the Democat party are now migrating back.
This is showing up first in the lack of interest among Republicans in propping up the corrupt Zelensky regime but could extend to staying out of all foreign wars. It will be influenced by the need to reduce spending, including military spending, and end the deficits. Milei in Argentina just ended the year with no deficit in his country for the first time in 123 years. It is possible for us to do the same.
Let’s hope so! But foreign policy is no longer dictated by presidents if it ever was. If you follow what the Rand Corporation publishes or what members of the CFR say, you get a better idea of who’s shaping foreign policy.
There’s no saving this system.
“So you stage a coup, remove the legal government and that makes the new government legitimate. How? Only “manu militari”.”
There wasn’t a coup. Stop being a disinformation merchant. Yanukovich was impeached after loyalists defected. This action was backed by 328 of the 447 deputies. They argued that he abused his powers and was a Putin dupe. Even the police has declared themselves behind the protesters. So stop f—- lying.
“Also, talking about brutal dictatorship, your beloved Ukrainian brownshirts were brutalizing, killing and even burning alive ethnic Russians.”
Beloved? No. It’s gruesome. But that’s what happens in a war. Do you have similar disgust for Putin and his meat grinder?
“And guess who banned opposition parties, free press, any non-controlled media? Zelensky did, NATO’s favorite boytoy.”
Not quite.
https://kyivindependent.com/explainer-how-ukraines-political-opposition-has-responded-to-more-than-2-years-of-full-scale-invasion-and-martial-law/
—More than two years after Russia’s full-scale invasion, Ukraine’s political opposition has diminished, but continues to affect Ukraine’s politics, experts say. Although President Volodymyr Zelensky and his party still control the parliament, parliamentary members outside of his party still exert some influence on public and international positions on Ukrainian issues.—
Regarding free press, yes, that is disturbing, but no different than what occurred during our civil war, when the Union and Confederacy put similar measures in place.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/18/world/europe/ukraine-press-freedom.html
—A Ukrainian reporter who revealed that a state news agency tried to bar interviews with opposition politicians said he received a draft notification the next day. Ukraine’s domestic spy agency spied on staff members of an investigative news outlet through peepholes in their hotel rooms.—
Of course, you conveniently leave out your best bud Putin’s notorious clamping down on dissent.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/04/world/europe/russia-censorship-media-crackdown.html
—Russia clamped down harder Friday on news and free speech than at any time in President Vladimir V. Putin’s 22 years in power, blocking access to Facebook and major foreign news outlets, and enacting a law to punish anyone spreading “false information” about its Ukraine invasion with up to 15 years in prison.—
“They run the country, courtesy of the USA, with a Jew as their front man. Pathetic, isn’t it? Those right sektor guys, Azov Battalion, the top brass in the Ukrainian military.”
More disinformation on your part.
https://amp.dw.com/en/the-azov-battalion-extremists-defending-mariupol/a-61151151
—”Normally, we consider right-wing extremism to be dangerous, something that can lead to war,” Umland said. But in Ukraine, it is the other way around, he argued. The war had led to the rise and transformation of marginal comradeships into a political movement. But their influence on society is overrated, he said. For most Ukrainians, they are combatants fighting an overbearing aggressor.”—
Besides, those “brown shirts” are in line with your own ideology—anti-immigration, anti-feminism, anti-homo, pro-white.
“Again, you’re lying. Do you believe a country may receive billions of dollars in loans from the World Bank, no strings attached?”
Now you changed the goalposts. You earlier stated that the World Bank “blackmailed countries into doing their bidding”. The fact is there is always conditions on such types of loans. Don’t take the loan. Simple advice, right? Live within your means, correct? Besides, since when are you concerned about blacks and brown people receiving financial help without conditions—you know, free stuff and gimmedats—from whites?
“Janukovich wasn’t the West’s bitch”
No, he was Putin’s.
“The name gives a clue: the banking elites from Great Britain and America and selected members of their associated foundations, institutions, endowments, think tanks and NGO’s. The latter provide the brains, or so the former believe, who fund them for the most part. Can you Google?”
You are being way too general here. Any specific names of individuals? Meeting places? Internal memos of their dastardly plans?
My vague impression is that you are a sucker for conspiracy theories, like there is this Jewish cabal scheming to genocide whites like yourself. Maybe JackD is their head honcho, and he is keeping tabs on all of us, especially you. I don’t know if it’s comical or tragic.
“Milei in Argentina just ended the year with no deficit in his country for the first time in 123 years. It is possible for us to do the same.”
If that ever happens, it won’t be because of wacky handwaving in which you try and convince people that you’re actually saving the taxpayers money EVEN AS YOU’RE GOOFING OFF AT YOUR GOVERNMENT JOB.
At this point, you’re like the ditzy housewife in the sit-com who tries to explain to her husband that the $1500 she just spent on shoes is actually saving him money because the sign in the store claimed they were 20% off. Or else, you’re the guy who mugs people and takes their cars, but allows them to keep a twenty so they can get a cab home. You can pretend that you’re the gentleman bandit, but you’re still just a thief and a low-life.
“But if you believe turning an already unstable area into a chaos like Libya is an improvement over Assad, think again.”
If Assad had been “stable”, he wouldn’t have fled the country with over a hundred billion of Syria’s lucre without even bothering to tell his family, and just hours after assuring his troops not to worry because the Russians will come and save him again. That may seem like 20/20 hindsight for anyone who isn’t a fanboy, but it was obvious from the get-go for most everyone else.
Likewise, bombing hospitals to smithereens in Ukraine is not a recipe for “stability”. The tinpot dictators that Putin props up, whose only criterion for leadership is absolute loyalty to him over and above the will of his people, will not bring anyone peace and stability. On the contrary, the fighting will go on until Putin knows he won’t get any more out of it, and until people stop listening to the stooges he’s paying off (not to mention dupes like you who rebroadcast his propaganda for free).
The fall of Assad’s rule in Syria, whatever horrific bloodshed it will unleash, will at the least help make it clear — even to many fanboys, judging from the comments in Russian troll forums — that Putin is in way over his head and is not in any way the invincible 5d chessmaster as once claimed. So maybe go spew your ’tis-but-a-scratch copium into some deeper portion of the echo chamber where people are extra slow. Elsewhere, there are just too many cracks in the facade.
A growing number of Republican voters might want nonintervention, but Trump’s selection of Rubio, Hegseth, Waltz, Stefanik, etc. for his foreign policy team shows more interventionism. The only hope for deficit reduction is if Elon’s desire for a 75% reduction of federal employees happens. I understand Elon gave $250 million to the Trump campaign, and Trump’s nominee for OMB wants to cause federal employee trauma, so maybe there is hope.
If I take my salary and subtract the pension I am not collecting, I make about fifty dollars a day. It is not even worth financially working a full time job for that. Even if I only worked half the day, which I don’t, it would not be worth it. No one is doing me any favors financially letting me work as a 68 year old. I work because I enjoy it.
It certainly does not take me 8 hours at work to type two or three comments. Not everyone is as slow witted as you are, HA. Does it even register in your tiny brain I am laughing at you? I would say sending 150 billion dollars over to the Ukraine is a bigger waste of money than giving someone with 40 years experience fifty dollars a day to come in and work. My bosses sure want me there.
You do not care if this country pours a hundred and fifty billion dollars down the Ukraine rathole. You would not care if American boys end up fighting and dying in that war. That is not going to happen. The Ukrainians fighting the Russians is just an eastern European version of a hillbilly feud. Americans are going to eventually focus on our problems in this country. An American empire does not benefit the average American.
“I make about fifty dollars a day….”
But honey, they were 20% off!!! Really, you’re SAVING money.
Working is just one of my hobbies now that I am past retirement age and do not need to work. Do you have any hobbies other than being a troll here in Steve’s comment section?
“Do you have any hobbies other than being a troll here in Steve’s comment section?”
If I were a troll, you’d have learned to ignore me long before now. But for some strange reason, you and all the other Putin stooges who fume at my comments when they could just click the “ignore commenter” button on me and be rid of me for good just can’t seem to quit me, so troll isn’t going to cut it.
So many back-slappers willing to rush in and type “agree” or “thanks” whenever you play the Putin stooge, but not a single person wants to defend you when I point out what a bloodsucking government parasite and hypocrite you are. We both know why that is. No wonder you’re so desperate to gain their affirmation and deflect from what they really think of you.
“Working is just one of my hobbies…”
See what I mean about bloodsucking government parasite? You get some points for owning up to it, I guess, but like that twenty the would-be gentleman mugger allows his victims to keep, it doesn’t change what you are.
“you’d have learned to ignore me”
Oh, I could put you on ignore but you are too much fun to laugh at. It is even funnier that your tiny little parrot brain can’t grasp I am laughing at you or that I care more about the opinion of my bosses at work, who are happy I am there, rather than a dimwitted troll like you.
I see Zelensky just fired one of his generals for failing to stop the Russian advance towards Pokrovsk and put in a replacement. It is “rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic” time there. The Russians are busy taking out the rest of the Ukrainian power grid and we may soon see several million Ukrainian refugees heading west. There is still time for you to head over there to fight, though, rather than trolling here.
Sheesh. No wonder Steve’s buggered on off to Substack. Who would stick around and listen to the likes of *you*?
“I see Zelensky just fired one of his generals for failing to stop the Russian advance towards Pokrovsk a…”
So much for not caring about what happens between two groups of hillbillies. As for Pokrovsk, or whatever other Ukrainian town it turns out you are indeed far more more invested in following than you care to admit, I’m reminded that back in the beginning of September, you told us that the invasion of Kursk was the Ukrainian equivalent of the Confederate campaign at Gettysburg even though that WAS only a 3-day campaign (by which time the Confederates were soundly defeated). Whereas (and unlike that other 3-day campaign that Putin tried to launch in 2022), the Ukrainians are still at it in Kursk, some two months after the October 1 deadline by which the Ukrainians were supposed to be gone. The last dismal failure that Putin demoted because of his protracted inability to defeat the Ukrainians within any deadline was sent to…wait for it…Syria.” Now THAT is something to laugh at.
Speaking of which, as to who’s the real laughingstock around here, I will again remind you of how paltry your defenders become when the matter of your flagrant hemorrhage of taxpayer money is pointed out. And let’s face it, they only slap “agree” and “thanks” on what you spew about Ukraine because they themselves know that anything they could come up with would be even lamer than your grasping at straws about Gettysburg. I.e., the drivel of a bloodsucking government parasite spews out while wasting the money they spend to keep him employed is pretty much the best the Russia-boosters can do. Talk about government waste! Again I say, to the extent that it isn’t tragic, THAT is some comedy gold — cue the the theme from Curb Your Enthusiasm.
“So much for not caring about two groups of hillbillies”
You really are dumb, aren’t you? I don’t care about them. I care about the 150 billion American taxpayer dollars we have wasted by sending them over there. It’s hilarious you are complaining about someone who is past retirement age not collecting his pension and almost working for free now instead as a waste of taxpayer money while not a peep is heard from you about that.
As for Kursk, the Ukrainians have lost forty percent of the territory they previously gained:
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-has-lost-over-40-russias-kursk-region-counter-attacks-senior-kyiv-2024-11-23/
This war is over since the Ukraine can’t win it. The politicians have big egos and are just reluctant to admit they made a mistake promoting it. Some of them are demanding Zelensky feed his 18 to 25 year olds into the meat grinder to extend it out a little longer rather than admit they made a mistake. It is going to soon be over, helped by Trump pushing for it to end.
“You really are dumb, aren’t you? I don’t care about them…”
Sure you don’t. And I totally buy your jeremiads against government waste.
“As for Kursk, the Ukrainians have lost forty percent of the territory they previously gained”
You mean they get to keep that remaining lion’s share, since two months after Putin’s deadline, Russia hasn’t even managed to reclaim half, and has therefore given the Ukrainians time to to lay those trenches and mines deep? Or if none of the Ukrainian gains matter simply because they had to retreat part-way (as is often the case in any lightning strike, so as to, again, give the offensive side more cover for digging in a section that it plans to hold longer), I will note that Russia did a lot of retreating too in the months after the war, what with that column of tanks around Kyiv that are no longer there. I guess that means that was a total nothingburger, too. And since they haven’t even managed to take over the 4 oblasts they claim as now being theirs, all the land they hold can be totally discounted.
“Some of them are demanding Zelensky feed his 18 to 25 year olds…”
You mean they haven’t even burned through their 18-25 year olds? Here I thought we were fighting to the last Ukrainian, just like you lot were telling us. It’s as if nothing you say ever pans out.
“It is going to soon be over, helped by Trump pushing for it to end….”
It will be over when Putin no longer sees any likelihood of grabbing more, or holding on to what he has. If Trump is too dimwitted to understand that, they will soon learn. Zelensky once thought the Russians could be reasoned with, too. But as with Syria, trusting Russia to any extent tends to backfire.
Have any stats on how many families managed to afford two kids, a detached house and a summer home on a single salary? I knew quite a few in 1970-75, and not from upscale neighborhoods either. You’re reflexively contentious.
“Here I thought we were fighting to the last Ukrainian”
No dummy, I asked you if you wanted to fight to the last Ukrainian. It was a question, not a statement. Is that what you want? The Ukraine can’t win this. Are you such a Russia hater that you want to extend the pointless slaughter of Ukrainians until there are so few left the Russians overwhelm the remaining defenses, just so a few more Russians get killed too?
We extended our Vietnam and Afghanistan wars just so we would not be forced to admit those wars were unwinnable. We just wasted more money and then left. Let us not do the same thing here. One of the reasons Trump was elected was to end the war. In addition to being a virulent Russia hater, you have shown yourself here to be a Trump hater and a hater of his appointees like RFK Jr. Your side lost the election, HA. We will be focusing on things like getting immigration, inflation and our large deficits under control.
This writer marshals some strong arguments against your view:
The Big Shining Lie: We’re Better Off Now–No, We’re Poorer, Much Poorer
Art Deco couldn’t be more out of touch if he were a ghost with no hands.
“We extended our Vietnam and Afghanistan wars just so we would not be forced to admit those wars were unwinnable.”
Yeah. Sometimes when large aggressive powers go against smaller countries, they eventually realize, even if they think they’ve completely won the battle and have taken them over, that it’s not worth it. Imagine that. And you think mentioning the failure of the Vietnam and Afghanistan “special military operations” helps your case?
Yeah, sometimes when a given general is doing badly, he gets replaced. If that WASN’T what Zelensky was doing, wouldn’t that be even more worrisome? And yet, you think mentioning that helps your case?
Wouldn’t the fact that the Ukrainians are NOT willing to send their young men to the frontlines indicate that they’re not as desperate as the fanboys would like? But you think pointing that out helps your case?
You keep knocking holes in your own arguments — there’s some higher level of Dunning-Kruger going on here. You’re not ridiculing me, you’re mostly ridiculing yourself and you’re just too thick to even realize it. Then again, what does one expect from an admitted government parasite who wants to convince us that his bloodsucking is actually saving us money?
I agree that those picks are cause for concern.
It that version before or after they edited out Beria?
“Who would stick around and listen to the likes of *you*?”
You evidently managed to do it, didn’t you? So did the idiots who not only keep slapping a “Troll” notice on my comments, but also an “Agree” and “Thanks” notice on the very same guy who keeps feeding this so-called troll. How do not get that they’re just poking holes in their own clams? It’s as if none of their narratives manage to add up.
“You evidently managed to do it, didn’t you?”
No, don’t be ridiculous. I just scroll straight past your buffoonery, and paused this once to grant you a passing kick in the teeth. Who on earth knows or cares what you’re screeching about lately, some twaddle about fanboys no doubt, but I’m sure you deserved three kicks; one will have to do. Who has the time?
“I just scroll straight past your buffoonery, and paused this once…”
Right…just this once (I mean, except for all the other times), you paused to try and make a dig at comments you claim you don’t even bother to read.
And you think I’m the one who looks bad in this scenario? Again, you people are just making fun of yourselves and are too dumb to notice.
I loved Elvis Presley when he first appeared.
You have the entire movie here (for connoisseurs of movies from hell):
Happy ending:
Check out Sherlock Holmes over here, doing Brilliant Forensic Internet Science earnestly sniffing out who *must* have read which of his drippy online droolings.
Just remember, the more sleep you lose over me, the less dream-time you get to spend with David Hasselhoff in that tight-fitting Zelensky army tee.
You do realize that dog-owners who have a puppy at home don’t keep an old baseball mitt handy so that they can play catch with the critter. Right?