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Few realize this, but the last few decades have witnessed an explosion in the numbers of realistic bronze statues. For example, here is Dr. Johnson refuting Bishop Berkeley’s philosophy of subjective immaterialism by violently kicking a stone: “I refute it thus!”
After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley’s ingenious sophistry to prove the non-existence of matter, and that every thing in the universe is merely ideal. I observed, that though we are satisfied his doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute it. I never shall forget the alacrity with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it, “I refute it thus.”
— James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson
I’m not sure that Dr. Johnson wound up quite like David Beckham taking a free kick, but you get the point.
This is in the Garden of Heroes and Villains in England, which is a private spot intermittently open to the public. It has about 50 life-size statues of people the owner thought were cool, like Roger Bannister and Chuck Berry.
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Thanks to the trend in realistic bronze statues, I have enjoyed the privilege of sitting next to some very interesting people:
Robert Frost, at my University of Colorado campus, Boulder:
(He sometimes wears sunglasses, at that altitude:
Mark Twain, on the main street of the Connecticut town where I lived previously:
A group of European intellectuals! In my wife’s home city in Transylvania:
I have photographs of myself sitting next to every one of these great people.
https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/lucille-ball.jpg
We really do live in a new Bronze Age.Replies: @Mike Tre, @AnotherDad, @Bardon Kaldian, @TWS
(Yes, he's related to Connecticut's Charles Ives, and bicentennial boy James Merritt Ives.)
Streator gives native son Clyde Tombaugh a planet-- okay, a dwarf planet:
https://www.hmdb.org/Photos5/597/Photo597859.jpg?7172021123000AMReplies: @The Germ Theory of Disease
Nice, didn’t know this existed, would like to visit someday.
Frogner Park is worth a visit in summer as well.
The Garden was the brainchild (and now legacy) of the late Felix Dennis, Oz trial defendant, magazine publisher and poet (attendees at his readings got to drink the wine from his cellars).
“Quite a character”.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/jun/02/nine-lives-of-felix-dennis
Let’s keep it that way, else they will all be toppled for one reason or another.
At the time the statuary madness started, I think I joked that this was a Pyongyangian focus for a society to have, suggesting basic failure: we can’t keep the lights on, but here’s a mass of concrete or stainless steel.
“I don’t worry about ‘the world,’ I worry about the US,” Foxman said of the future. “The US is Israel’s most important ally, whether it’s politically, economically, militarily — there is no one else. What worries me is that we’re losing it.”
https://www.timesofisrael.com/former-adl-head-abe-foxman-israel-has-become-the-jew-among-the-nations
https://memes.getyarn.io/yarn-clip/embed-test/c6d11d8c-6203-41fb-a6b2-02fb222fabe1
When I was a lad there was a stretch of moor’s edge near us where one of the local gentry had set up bronzes for everyone to visit and enjoy. Wunnerful: Rodin, Moore, and Epstein. Then one was stolen so he felt he had to remove most of the others to safe-keeping. Just another small victory for the criminal classes against civilisation. Criminals are like a tax on the rest of us.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenkiln_Sculpture_Park
Anyone know why? Here is a 2020 (BTW, I hate the trend of either not dating articles or leaving out the year) article talking about cost as an issue.
https://rotaxmetals.net/sculptures-made-of-bronze-tube-makes-a-comeback-in-modern-art/
In 2013 HuffPo was making the opposite observation.
High Copper Prices Force Sculptors Into Post-Bronze Age
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/high-copper-prices-force_b_2397214
This article looks at the long term price history of copper.
https://www.worldcoppersmith.com/articles/a-complete-history-of-the-price-of-copper/
2014/2006 look at the history of American bronze sculpture.
https://www.themagazineantiques.com/article/double-take-a-closer-look-at-american-bronze-sculpture/
3-D printing may help, even if it is against the spirit of the art.
Now a GenZ person can do a 3D scan of their latest muse. AI can impart a sculpted look and then print it. Voila, no more art!
English philosopher G.E. Moore proved the existence of the external world thusly:
A counter-argument would be: prove this. Occam's razor.
And counter-counter-argument would basically be: being "real" is so diffused a notion that it actually doesn't make much sense, so that the entire conversation is futile.
Funny statue – but as you say, not exactly how one pictures Dr. Johnson.
Johnson totally missed Berkeley & Hume’s point, of course – but in a good, healthy way.
https://davidhume.org/texts/empl1/ncReplies: @vinteuil
OT but very iSteve
The Republicans--and Trump--just don't seem to "get it".
America can afford an ordinary 1st world social welfare system--pensions and medical. What America can not afford is to provide welfare to the entire world.
SS/medicare is only modestly out of balance for high-income workers. But it is outright welfare for lower-skilled, lower-income workers. The "Biden Administration" just waved in 8 million more of those, who will be a huge drain on hard-working Americans--well actually right now for housing and welfare and medical and then in a few years for their kids schooling and medical care and then massively in a few decades from now when they retire. And with the automation revolution coming ... we won't be needing as many unskilled workers at all.
Trump should never have even opened his yap. "We'll insure it is there for every working American." I don't happen to need it, but most Americans--including hard working middle class people--depend upon it for retirement.
In contrast--the rest of the budget. If Trumps want's to talk "cuts", that there's the whole swamp to target. Take a buzz saw to it. It produces next to no value--many parts negative value--for working Americans. Seriously, if Putin dropped a nuke on Washington--and Wall Street--ordinary Americans would actually be *better* off. (Ok, assuming there wasn't a general nuclear exchange.) It's that bad. The Parasite Party people simply are not needed by Americans--at all.
https://twitter.com/EdwardConard/status/1725604837641879702
This Financial Times article is obviously related, but I don't see either of those graphics there?
https://www.ft.com/content/a7607626-5491-48bd-aa56-5a10cbeeb768
The first graphic there is close to what I want, but omits Asians as a group. Would also be nice to capture voting age population percentage as well. Unfortunately I don't think the way the FT names its images allows them to be embedded here.
OT — Another Boeing going boing.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68534703
https://rotaxmetals.net/sculptures-made-of-bronze-tube-makes-a-comeback-in-modern-art/
In 2013 HuffPo was making the opposite observation.
High Copper Prices Force Sculptors Into Post-Bronze Age
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/high-copper-prices-force_b_2397214
This article looks at the long term price history of copper.
https://www.worldcoppersmith.com/articles/a-complete-history-of-the-price-of-copper/
2014/2006 look at the history of American bronze sculpture.
https://www.themagazineantiques.com/article/double-take-a-closer-look-at-american-bronze-sculpture/Replies: @J.Ross, @anon
Same thing that brought down Rome, same reason everything sucks: hyperconcentration of wealth. Billionaires with bright ideas. The retards pulling the statues down are catspaws to the same class, but clearly not the same individuals, putting them up.
Johnson totally missed Berkeley & Hume's point, of course - but in a good, healthy way.Replies: @J.Ross, @tyrone, @Pixo
Hume’s irrefutably right, of course, but so is Conan, and that probe landing square on that comet suggests we can still get a lot done in the Matrix.
The above statue sort of resembles DeNiro.
Johnson totally missed Berkeley & Hume's point, of course - but in a good, healthy way.Replies: @J.Ross, @tyrone, @Pixo
.Kicking the stone …..not too healthy…..don’t get me started on the state of 18th century podiatry .
Johnson totally missed Berkeley & Hume's point, of course - but in a good, healthy way.Replies: @J.Ross, @tyrone, @Pixo
All iSteve readers must read Hume’s Of National Characters.
https://davidhume.org/texts/empl1/nc
In other statue news, Kobe Bryant’s recent statue (1st of 3) had a little misfire.
“ Instead of Jose Calderon’s name on the boxscore of Kobe’s faithful 81-point night against the Raptors, it says Jose Calderson. Instead of Von Wafer’s correctly spelled name, it reads Vom Wafer, and instead of ‘Coach’s Decision’ it reads ‘Coach’s Decicion’, even though it was spelled correctly directly above”
OT — “It doesn’t ‘go haywire,’ it just runs as programmed.”
https://www.businessinsider.com/saudi-male-humanoid-robot-inappropriately-touched-female-reporter-video-shows-2024-3
Muhammad is “fully autonomous” and did not deviate from his “expected behavior,” the makers said.
https://davidhume.org/texts/empl1/ncReplies: @vinteuil
David Hume was a man so great that lesser men should not even be allowed to praise him.
It seems to me Dr. Johnson over-egged the pudding.*
*Charming British expression, SafeNow. We should try to popularize it here! Can you start us off?
……Sure. President Biden’s demeanor at the State the Union suggests that his handlers over-egged the pudding.
Kinda like how whenever someone says "grist for the mill" or "take up the cudgel " I think, do you even know what grist is? And if I asked you to go out and get me a cudgel, could you do it?
OT — Sports —
https://www.axios.com/2024/03/11/deadspin-sold-by-go-media-editorial-staff-to-be-laid-off
There are probably also others like Jezebel (some crazy feminist outfit) last year also.
Seems like Bidenomics isn't fostering more Woke media snarkers.
While some of these purported to normal market oriented businesses dependent on advertisers and subscribers, most were heavily subsidized by lefty oligarchs of one kind or another.
Losing money and supporting hate filled "writers" and opinionaters etc. doesn't appear to be a fad any longer. None of them ever seemed interested in the BLM scammers either. "Not news"...
On the downside, Soro's kid and likely heir now says he wants to be "more political" with his inherited wealth when takes over the Soros death empire. We can only hope he runs afoul of Putin...Replies: @J.Ross
Is David Hume really all that and a bag of chips, or is that merely what you believe based on your sense impressions?
O/T. I was very pleased to see that Ludwig Goransson won the Oscar for best music (Oppenheimer). Christopher Nolan had suggested to him that the score might utilize violins, and Göransson took it from there, magnificently. The was a significant component of the film’s excellence, and critics too often ignored this. This style reminded me of older films, for example when Victor Young won the music Oscar for Around the World in 80 Days, relying heavily on violin music. But unfortunately Young was awarded tge Oscar posthumously; it was accepted by Elizabeth Taylor.
https://rotaxmetals.net/sculptures-made-of-bronze-tube-makes-a-comeback-in-modern-art/
In 2013 HuffPo was making the opposite observation.
High Copper Prices Force Sculptors Into Post-Bronze Age
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/high-copper-prices-force_b_2397214
This article looks at the long term price history of copper.
https://www.worldcoppersmith.com/articles/a-complete-history-of-the-price-of-copper/
2014/2006 look at the history of American bronze sculpture.
https://www.themagazineantiques.com/article/double-take-a-closer-look-at-american-bronze-sculpture/Replies: @J.Ross, @anon
I don’t see any explosion of realistic bronze sculptures. Steve should give a link to documentation.
So this gives us moral authority to recite the quote, while kicking Bruce Jenner in the nuts?
https://i.postimg.cc/nrj6ywhQ/1710165515006379.pngReplies: @J.Ross
Follow-up to this: the Boeing whistleblower has “committed suicide.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68534703
If anyone wants to see silly liar logical fallacies being refuted, look in my recent comments history (ctrl-f “Reg _” —underscore denotes a space) and see the serpent Reg Seizure being mashed (repeatedly—he’s persistent, lots of hissing!) by the garden rake of truth and logic.
FBI - four or more killed
GVA - four or more killed or wounded
The GVA definition greatly increases the number of "mass shootings" which provides ammunition for banning guns.
The bubble chart of killed vs. wounded here gives a good idea of just how big a difference this is. For example, 902 incidents with 4 wounded and none killed vs. 57 incidents with 4 killed and none wounded.
https://everytownresearch.org/mass-shootings-in-america/
BUT, given Sailer's Law the GVA definition is likely to have a (much?) higher proportion of black offenders.
Which politically expedient position will prevail?
Many more related links here.
https://www.unz.com/isteve/washington-post-counts-mass-shooters-by-race/#comment-6298547Replies: @J.Ross
I recognized the quote right off before I opened the link. ( I’m sure at least a few others on here did too). I’m a big SJ fan.
I didn’t know about this statue, though. They should make one showing Johnson eating the hot potato. Not philosophical–although maybe it is at that.
As a guest at a fancy dinner party, Johnson, whose table manners were famously bad, honed by years of living in shabby poverty, took a huge bite of a potato, that, unbeknownst to him, was still smoking hot.
With a loud cry, he spat the offending spud out of his mouth. It flew the length of the table.
Breaking the shocked silence, Johnson proclaimed, matter of factly, “A fool would have tried to swallow it”.
LOL.
BTW, there is a statue in London near “Dr, Johnson’s House” of Hodge, supposedly SJ’s favorite cat.
We have an almost identically well-behaved cat now, but quite an independent, feisty little thing (if I pulled her tail I'd get scratched) - when she wants feeding she'll jump on the table and bat you with her paws until you get up. I often describe her in Johnson's words.Replies: @AceDeuce
ot, vibrant new criminals
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13183249/Four-people-arrested-smothering-96-year-old-woman-death-sleeping-Montecito-mansion-murder-hire-plot-steal-pricey-home.html
Speaking of contemporary statues, it seems that these days a good — well, literate, at least — sculptor is hard to find:
New Kobe Bryant Statue Outside Lakers’ Arena Suffers from Humiliating Typos
At first, I thought may be the statue was made in China. But no, the sculptor is:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Rotblatt-Amrany
From living in Asia, I’ve come to dislike bronze statues. They are all over Japan and totally wrong aesthetically in that context. From disliking them in Asia, I started disliking them in general.
Steve, admit that Giulianization should be a word.
If a tree falls in the Garden of Heroes and Villains and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?
LOL
How does that work? You are chiseling names onto a piece of marble and you think “Meh, I’ll spellcheck it later.”
https://images.outkick.com/static.outkick.com/www.outkick.com/content/uploads/2024/03/668/376/GIZcmTNWIAE-mRB.jpg
Yes, exactly. The best one is shown in the photo below, where the word ‘decision’ is spelled correctly once, then misspelled in another instance immediately below the first. How stupid and careless can you get?
Yo, keepin’ it real dawg.
That statue is more appropriate, more symbolic, with the errors. They should remain. That would make it true art.
During the Japanese economic bubble of the 1980s and early 1990s there was a boom in companies that produced bronze statues for cash flush corporate customers of their founders and CEOs.
Many of these fabulously expensive statues ended up discarded, on auction sites, or in secondhand shops. There was a funny TV show where they would acquire these statues for a song and transport them back to their original owners and ask how they came to be discarded. Sometimes the company didn’t know, sometimes the original companies ended up on the wrong end of a merger/acquisition, sometimes “old bronzie” just fell victim to changing styles in HQ interior decoration, and sometimes the staff just got creeped out by the dusty old guy staring at them in a conference room
Monument Guys
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4493812/
This is related to the overall thread and kind of entertaining.
https://stuckeys.com/the-bronze-age-of-tv-celebrities/
Let's give "Bronze Fonz" a link.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze_Fonz
these days a good — well, literate, at least — sculptor is hard to find:
At first, I thought may be the statue was made in China. But no, the sculptor is:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Rotblatt-Amrany
Won’t take long to replace all the Jefferson and Washington statues being ruined by the commies.
Marital advice from our president.
OT: There is an interesting Substack on COVID origin. Apparently, its established that two researchers got funded by Fauci and DARPA to graft furin cleavage cites onto the spike proteins of bat viruses. Another researcher who worked at their lab in Montana is presumably the one who took the virus to Wuhan for testing (and eventual escape).
https://merylnass.substack.com/p/is-this-the-man-who-created-covid?r=o7iqo&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true
I thought the origin was likely nailed down by internet sleuths in the summer of 2020. That the virus/genome is pretty much the same one that killed a handful of Yunan guano miners, and then bat girl took to the WIV lab and did gain of function research paid for by Fauci (US taxpayers) and Peter Daszak (EcoHealth Alliance). Fauci, of course, initially vehemently denied the lab leak theory and used NIAID grant power to "bend" scientists who thought it was likely to modify their views.
Again, I don't have background to parse all the arguments. But I'd go with "closest genome" kind of analysis for most likely source.
wasis an engineered virus from the U.S."Hypnotoad666, 100% on board with this...hard to believe Fauci still has not been "strung up" on live tv/stream as a warning. Obama to his credit, signed at least 2 executive orders specifically banning fooling around with "gain of function" stuff, so Fauci complied, covertly sending the work offshore. To me, it's both mystifying and incomprehensible that the US has not been held to account by other nations. I've probably mentioned prior, but will repeat: when a lab worker in the US mishandles or drops a "beaker of the bad stuff", that individual will quickly get promoted to a position out of the lab, where dexterity's less of primary importance. When a similar incident occurs in a lab in China, that worker is finished, figuratively or literally! Plenty of incentive not to report: better a quick sweep of the "goop" down the nearest drain. Surely someone as innately devious as Fauci must be aware of this?https://nicholasstixuncensored.blogspot.com/2007/10/scientist-with-rhodesian-past-still.html
Well, I hope they at least spelled “rapist” correctly.
Robert Frost, at my University of Colorado campus, Boulder:
https://b128718.smushcdn.com/128718/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/8f629174-6b8c-4f06-9642-6b1a38d7d808.jpg?lossy=1&strip=1&webp=1
(He sometimes wears sunglasses, at that altitude:
https://www.colorado.edu/hr/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/article-thumbnail/robert_frost.jpeg?itok=Jh5s9EjE
Mark Twain, on the main street of the Connecticut town where I lived previously:
https://patch.com/img/cdn/users/2146/2010/05/raw/28eb3c3f53ac853f144034a547d59b0.jpg
A group of European intellectuals! In my wife's home city in Transylvania:
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/e9/f7/71/e9f771e79305b2a071688139207ca094.png
I have photographs of myself sitting next to every one of these great people.Replies: @Buzz Mohawk, @Reg Cæsar
Well that was a boring comment. To make amends, here is a photograph of the infamous Lucille Ball statue:
We really do live in a new Bronze Age.
http://ingridrichter.info/cheese/graphics/E/evilspeak/howard_clint1.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/4yn310m7/1710196376020417.pngReplies: @Joe S.Walker, @res, @Muggles
What splendid news.
All these statues seem to be life-size. If I was going to put up a statue I’d want to make it gigantic, 500 feet high at least.
Seek you out a collection of re-worked and recycled pieces from Tom Wolfe called “Hooking Up”, Mr Sailer. Read a piece called “The Invisible Artist”. If it has been a while, re-read his The Painted Word first ideally. That’ll tell you what you need to know…
https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1767198788689465639Replies: @Mark G., @Nicholas Stix, @Goddard, @AnotherDad, @res, @Peter Akuleyev
It is probably a specific class, which includes a lot of non-whites, that is trending Republican. It is turning into the top and the bottom against the middle.
The Democrats are a coalition of special interest groups. At the top you have wealthy elites who derive much of their income from government jobs or government policies. At the bottom you have a welfare dependent urban underclass.
Opposed to that you have normal middle class people who just want the government to mostly leave them alone. They want the government to mainly just focus on catching criminals and defending the borders.
Normal men.
White status-seeking men are much more afflicted by demasculanization.
Black and Hispanic upward strivers were told they could just check the race box and win, but are starting to grasp that the freakazoids want to castrate them.
Are we f*****?
https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1767198788689465639Replies: @Mark G., @Nicholas Stix, @Goddard, @AnotherDad, @res, @Peter Akuleyev
Sounds like rnc propaganda. They’ve been saying this for years. ‘It’s just around the corner!’
Wide right. Team Johnson loses.
https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/lucille-ball.jpg
We really do live in a new Bronze Age.Replies: @Mike Tre, @AnotherDad, @Bardon Kaldian, @TWS
It looks more like Ron Howard’s brother.
OT — HAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAHAHAAHA
https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/oakland-taco-bell-locations-shut-down-indoor-dining/
BTW, the only In-N-Out in Oakland is closing March 24th.
This article also mentions Denny's and Starbucks closings.
https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/multiple-oakland-taco-bell-locations-close-dining-rooms-due-to-safety-issues/
Many of these fabulously expensive statues ended up discarded, on auction sites, or in secondhand shops. There was a funny TV show where they would acquire these statues for a song and transport them back to their original owners and ask how they came to be discarded. Sometimes the company didn’t know, sometimes the original companies ended up on the wrong end of a merger/acquisition, sometimes “old bronzie” just fell victim to changing styles in HQ interior decoration, and sometimes the staff just got creeped out by the dusty old guy staring at them in a conference roomReplies: @J.Ross, @res
One of the wierdest parts of our national thing we had with OJ Simpson was OJ making a bronze statue of himself, having to sell it because he took it into his head to kill a Jew, and having the statue reappear in the arms of a standup comedian who thought he was framed.
https://www.essence.com/news/flavor-flav-actually-owns-real-oj-simpson-statue/
Thanks………The whole thing smelled from the very beginning ……..Fauci =Mengele. the only difference is Mengele was hunted from pillar to post while Fauci retires a rich man , plus I think he enjoyed the results of his crime, one of history’s most evil men.
Wait a second , don’t be to hasty, didn’t I see NYTs down in the fine print , they’re no friend of the RNC. Blacks are angry about the illegal invasion perpetrated by the democrats , they rightly see it as a replacement , It’s true that the old RINO republicans never got anywhere with black voters but Trump is making inroads……….dude , the graph is real.
Two questions: how many of these Blacks will actually go to the polls and vote GOP, and, is this just a Trump thing or will they continue to vote GOP after Trump is gone?
Certainly the GOP does not want to be, and will do everything it can, to avoid becoming the White Party. Because they represent the interests of their donors, not their voters.
"How Democracies Die" (Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt) argues, among other things, that it is necessary for there to be a strong center right party to block the potential growth of a fascist/NS/"extreme" right party (basically any populist mass movement that combines nationalism, social conservatism, and a social welfare state).
TPTB can't let the GOP become the party of Whites. Ergo, it has been trying very hard for the past thirty years to attract non-Whites into the GOP, with little success, but that is changing now. They really need to "diversify" the GOP which is why you see so many South Asians ("pajeets"), Blacks, gays, and even trannies not only in the GOP but promoted by Trump. Trump has never been a WN or pro-White, he just has learned to dog-whistle like one in order to win elections.
Given the above, the whole line of argument that "we have to stop immigration" in order to "save the GOP" or that immigration is a plot to make the Democrats the permanent ruling party, is wrong, or misses the point.
Lower level libtards, shitlibs, oven middle class system supporters, faux leftists who are invested in the Democratic Party may want to use non-White immigration as a means to build a permanent one-party ruling coalition, but TPTB prefer a two party system where the two parties take turns winning elections by 51% to 49%. Rule by a permanent majority one party system (i.e. the Democrats in this case) is precisely what TPTB do not want, because it destroys the illusion of "our democracy" and threatens to destabilize the entire system that the post-WWII oligarchs have established.
TPTB also don't want an El Salvador situation where one man, Nayib Bukele, can win with 84% of the vote (with no election rigging shenanigans) by actually doing things that the public want (fighting crime in the case of El Salvador). One party rule under oligarchy/TPTB (see California) doesn't ever deliver on the promises that the people voting for the Democratic Party actually want, either, and the longer this situation goes on, the more likely it is that someone like a Nayib Bukele will appear.
TPTB think "our democracy" is when one of two or three "mainstream" parties win 51% of the vote but never actually deliver on the promises they made to the public as to the policies that the public actually want - lower crime, lower immigration, no more foreign wars or foreign aid or meddling in other countries' affairs, no more outsourcing of jobs, no more deindustrialization, no more racial war against the majority founding population, no more open borders (these are generally but not exclusively "on the right") -- or on the left, also anti-war, socialized medicine/single payer, workers rights, unionization, reduction in the political power of corporations and monopolies/trusts (again, these aren't exclusively left-wing issues either).
"Our democracy" simply means rule by (((TPTB))) not actual democracy either as a parliamentary/republican representative system or democracy where ordinary people actually get what they want out of the political system.
As such the GOP is definitely going to become a multi-racial party, and TPTB are willing to have the GOP lose elections until that happens, provided the process doesn't actually kill off the GOP as a viable party. Hence the schizophrenic flip-flopping between dog-whistling White Nationalism to GOP voters at election time, while filling up GOP candidates and functionaries with non-Whites as quickly as possible and constant pandering to non-Whites in general and Blacks in particular.
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https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1767198788689465639Replies: @Mark G., @Nicholas Stix, @Goddard, @AnotherDad, @res, @Peter Akuleyev
Embrace the polarity. Do what Brimelow said. Rename Republicans the General American Party, the party of whites. Define the Democrats as the vibrant party, the party of Wakanda.
Pedant’s corner, but Hodge wasn’t his favourite cat:
We had one cat twenty years ago who was feline perfection – very affectionate, great mouse and rat killer, good mother to her kittens, very clean and tidy. Sadly disappeared one stormy day and despite putting up posters we never saw her again.
We have an almost identically well-behaved cat now, but quite an independent, feisty little thing (if I pulled her tail I’d get scratched) – when she wants feeding she’ll jump on the table and bat you with her paws until you get up. I often describe her in Johnson’s words.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hodge_(cat)
Although Hodge was not Johnson's only cat, it was Hodge whom he considered his favourite. Hodge was remembered in various forms, from biographical mentions during Johnson's life to poems written about the cat. On his death, Hodge's life was celebrated in An Elegy on The Death of Dr Johnson's Favourite Cat by Percival Stockdale (published 1778).Replies: @YetAnotherAnon
The statue of Hodge has “A Very Fine Cat, Sir” inscribed on the plinth. Dr Johnson’s house is worth a visit. It has walls that rotate on pegs so the rooms can be somewhat reconfigured.
Well among his other accomplishments at the very least, David Hume could out-consume Schopenhauer and Hegel.
Heidegger Heidegger was a boozy beggar, he could drink you under the table,
. . .
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine who was just as sloshed as Schlegel.Replies: @Muggles
OT, but what’s Persian IQ? The Guardian are reporting that
Now call me naive, but I’d always assumed Russia would be providing technology to Iran, rather than the other way round. Am I wrong? This shows Iran’s IQ at 83, which is Colombia level. Russian IQ is 96.
https://www.worlddata.info/iq-by-country.php
As for Iran, I suspect the IQ of ethnic Iranians (excluding the large numbers of ethnic minorities) is close to Europe’s. I’m just guessing based on Iranian being an IE language and thus the people are similar to Europeans. OTOH they’ve had an awful brain since 1979.Replies: @Colin Wright, @AnotherDad, @anonymous, @SafeNow, @YetAnotherAnon
Who is “the owner”?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenkiln_Sculpture_ParkReplies: @Bill Jones
I had a great example of what we all once had in a small town in northern MD yesterday. I needed a propane bottle refill. I go to the guy out back by the bottles and tanks. He refills me. I go pay the guy in the store for the amount of gas I tell him I had.
Checked the racial makeup of the place: 3% black.
It could be an urban legend, but I read/heard a while back that a bronze statue erected to Saint George the Druggie was stolen shortly after it was put on display. The idiots who paid for it didn’t grasp that the burg’s inhabitants had an accurate idea of what that considerable mass of copper and tin alloy would fetch at the local scrap yard.
I’m guessing stoned workers. I don’t think the presumably highly literate Ms. Amrany is actually on-site etching the text in. Or maybe she was. No idea.
Great evil, evil and stupidity, enabled with our tax dollars.
This reminds me. The statue of Tom Seaver outside of CitiField doesn’t look very much like him.
Gotta love it! I always thought he was trying to refute (David) Hume but…nevertheless.
https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/lucille-ball.jpg
We really do live in a new Bronze Age.Replies: @Mike Tre, @AnotherDad, @Bardon Kaldian, @TWS
Sort of a bad trannie Ronald Reagan.
Fauci lied about the origins of Covid and his role in funding the creation of it. If he lied about that, then it is also possible he lied about the effectiveness of lockdowns, mask wearing and vaccines.
Amen.
https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1767198788689465639Replies: @Mark G., @Nicholas Stix, @Goddard, @AnotherDad, @res, @Peter Akuleyev
Fortunately for the Democrats, they have Trump blundering incoherently on Social Security to give the Parasite Party an opening to once again make their–bogus–claim to be “for the middle class”. And a distraction from the “Biden Administration” border treason, which Trump should be making essentially the only election issue.
The Republicans–and Trump–just don’t seem to “get it”.
America can afford an ordinary 1st world social welfare system–pensions and medical. What America can not afford is to provide welfare to the entire world.
SS/medicare is only modestly out of balance for high-income workers. But it is outright welfare for lower-skilled, lower-income workers. The “Biden Administration” just waved in 8 million more of those, who will be a huge drain on hard-working Americans–well actually right now for housing and welfare and medical and then in a few years for their kids schooling and medical care and then massively in a few decades from now when they retire. And with the automation revolution coming … we won’t be needing as many unskilled workers at all.
Trump should never have even opened his yap. “We’ll insure it is there for every working American.” I don’t happen to need it, but most Americans–including hard working middle class people–depend upon it for retirement.
In contrast–the rest of the budget. If Trumps want’s to talk “cuts”, that there’s the whole swamp to target. Take a buzz saw to it. It produces next to no value–many parts negative value–for working Americans. Seriously, if Putin dropped a nuke on Washington–and Wall Street–ordinary Americans would actually be *better* off. (Ok, assuming there wasn’t a general nuclear exchange.) It’s that bad. The Parasite Party people simply are not needed by Americans–at all.
He could be proving that a collective hallucination superimposed on humans by some malign deity does all these tricks to convince us we are “real” in the ordinary sense of the word.
A counter-argument would be: prove this. Occam’s razor.
And counter-counter-argument would basically be: being “real” is so diffused a notion that it actually doesn’t make much sense, so that the entire conversation is futile.
https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/lucille-ball.jpg
We really do live in a new Bronze Age.Replies: @Mike Tre, @AnotherDad, @Bardon Kaldian, @TWS
Looks like Kunta Kinte in a slicker phase.
I’ll give it a read, but I don’t have the background for any judgments.
I thought the origin was likely nailed down by internet sleuths in the summer of 2020. That the virus/genome is pretty much the same one that killed a handful of Yunan guano miners, and then bat girl took to the WIV lab and did gain of function research paid for by Fauci (US taxpayers) and Peter Daszak (EcoHealth Alliance). Fauci, of course, initially vehemently denied the lab leak theory and used NIAID grant power to “bend” scientists who thought it was likely to modify their views.
Again, I don’t have background to parse all the arguments. But I’d go with “closest genome” kind of analysis for most likely source.
The existence of an objective external reality is like a postulate in mathematics. It is assumed to be true because the mind recognizes its intrinsic truth and mathematical reasoning is impossible without its acceptance. As a practical matter, everyone acts as though there is a real, external reality regardless of any philosophical notions to the contrary. Bishop Berkeley went too far: objects exist not because of an illusion created by God but because He has endowed them with real existence by His will and they continue to exist by His will, without which they would not exist.
Whenever anyone goes off on materialistic determinism I simply think, if everything is determined by the movement and collision of atoms (or whatever) including mental phenomena, then you have to believe and will what you believe and will and I have to believe and will what I believe and will and truth is a concept with no meaning.
If there is no truth, why can some people fly safely through the air at 500 mph while others cannot?
The good bishop would deny that God created an illusion (or, in plain language, was deceiving us!). The belief that the Sun went around the Earth wasn't a delusion implanted by God, but a result of our all-too-human failure of imagination.Similarly, God didn't tell us we had to believe in an external, objective world lying behind our perceptions. That belief is just an invaluable postulate for our practical affairs.
https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1767198788689465639Replies: @Mark G., @Nicholas Stix, @Goddard, @AnotherDad, @res, @Peter Akuleyev
Thanks. My initial reaction was: that would be even more interesting broken down further by specific races. Someone tweeted his version for blacks here.
This Financial Times article is obviously related, but I don’t see either of those graphics there?
https://www.ft.com/content/a7607626-5491-48bd-aa56-5a10cbeeb768
The first graphic there is close to what I want, but omits Asians as a group. Would also be nice to capture voting age population percentage as well. Unfortunately I don’t think the way the FT names its images allows them to be embedded here.
https://i.postimg.cc/4yn310m7/1710196376020417.pngReplies: @Joe S.Walker, @res, @Muggles
Interesting. Thanks.
https://www.axios.com/2024/03/11/deadspin-sold-by-go-media-editorial-staff-to-be-laid-off
I’m not usually one of the people giving Steve a hard time about his posts, but this total nothing of a post is difficult to take when the Missouri High School Chimp-Out that took place a few days ago goes without comment, despite it being the intersection of the prime iSteve topics.
Maybe he’s writing a brilliant post about it right now. One can only hope so.
https://twitter.com/gunpolicy/status/1767323970964000987
https://twitter.com/gunpolicy/status/1767285217658622208
https://twitter.com/gunpolicy/status/1767262810696720429Replies: @res, @Reg Cæsar
The controversy over FBI vs. GVA mass shooting definitions has an interesting fault line.
FBI – four or more killed
GVA – four or more killed or wounded
The GVA definition greatly increases the number of “mass shootings” which provides ammunition for banning guns.
The bubble chart of killed vs. wounded here gives a good idea of just how big a difference this is. For example, 902 incidents with 4 wounded and none killed vs. 57 incidents with 4 killed and none wounded.
https://everytownresearch.org/mass-shootings-in-america/
BUT, given Sailer’s Law the GVA definition is likely to have a (much?) higher proportion of black offenders.
Which politically expedient position will prevail?
Many more related links here.
https://www.unz.com/isteve/washington-post-counts-mass-shooters-by-race/#comment-6298547
How many mass shootings would have been prevented by the simple enforcement of existing law?
How many mass shootings would have been prevented by treating minorities like you treat whites?
How many school shootings happened during the 1950s, when every school had guns inside, and markmanship was a leading intramural sport?
Ask these questions to a pointyhead and watch the Cronenberg recerence.
On topic.
Ken Kesey bronze statue in Eugene, Oregon, him reading a story to children.
Go ahead and grouch about him, I don’t care. He was a patriot. When asked what he would give up for the Revolution, he answered, “Golf.”
https://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/0e/90/16/cd/another-view-of-ramona.jpg
Henry fed Ribsy horsemeat, so some might have an issue with these.And "anti-choice". He is featured in the 1985 book Pro-life feminism : different voices.
“…it
wasis an engineered virus from the U.S.”Hypnotoad666, 100% on board with this…hard to believe Fauci still has not been “strung up” on live tv/stream as a warning. Obama to his credit, signed at least 2 executive orders specifically banning fooling around with “gain of function” stuff, so Fauci complied, covertly sending the work offshore.
To me, it’s both mystifying and incomprehensible that the US has not been held to account by other nations.
I’ve probably mentioned prior, but will repeat: when a lab worker in the US mishandles or drops a “beaker of the bad stuff”, that individual will quickly get promoted to a position out of the lab, where dexterity’s less of primary importance.
When a similar incident occurs in a lab in China, that worker is finished, figuratively or literally! Plenty of incentive not to report: better a quick sweep of the “goop” down the nearest drain. Surely someone as innately devious as Fauci must be aware of this?
https://twitter.com/gunpolicy/status/1767323970964000987
https://twitter.com/gunpolicy/status/1767285217658622208
https://twitter.com/gunpolicy/status/1767262810696720429Replies: @res, @Reg Cæsar
Colonial bans on sales to Indians weren’t gun control, they were arms control. Those individuals were subjects of foreign potentates.
The argument that what we did vis-a-vis firearms and Indians has anything to do with the Second Amendment is incredibly ignorant. The Bill of Rights refers to what rights Americans have. I'm surprised anyone tried it on.Replies: @anonymous
On topic, again!
This vulgar statue, commissioned by its vulgar former President, crafted by vulgar North Koreans, looms over the capital of Senegal. The African Renaissance Monument. Mixed feelings in the population. Women ask, A man, carrying a child?
If you “want a statue in the classic bronze-giant-hailing-a-taxicab pose, then who you gonna call?” North Korea. Its biggest export? Bronze statues. https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35569277
Neglected monument to the murderous Derg communist regime in Ethiopia, again North Korean.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansudae_Overseas_Projects
I bet Trump could get a free statue of himself from Kim Jong Un, “the biggest, one of the biggest anyone has ever seen, people can’t get over it.”
Biggest bronze statue in the world, not vulgar.
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Worst bronze statue
Ugliest statue in each state. https://bestlifeonline.com/ugliest-statues/
Sailer! Work harder.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/resizer/v2/WRSGAOY5SVFVLG3UPCJMFMWNGA.JPG?auth=00c95252547fe5d3a9b34b3520814a89055bd9489955c8489f5a58f82174e902&width=1200&quality=80
Mercifully, he's only out at Christmastide.
Ken Kesey bronze statue in Eugene, Oregon, him reading a story to children.
https://petehelzer.com/Kesey/Storyteller%20copy.JPG
Go ahead and grouch about him, I don't care. He was a patriot. When asked what he would give up for the Revolution, he answered, "Golf."Replies: @Reg Cæsar
Portland has figures from Beverly Cleary’s books, set in the city:
Henry fed Ribsy horsemeat, so some might have an issue with these.
And “anti-choice”. He is featured in the 1985 book Pro-life feminism : different voices.
*Charming British expression, SafeNow. We should try to popularize it here! Can you start us off?
……Sure. President Biden’s demeanor at the State the Union suggests that his handlers over-egged the pudding.Replies: @njguy73
What American would understand why egg would be in pudding?
Kinda like how whenever someone says “grist for the mill” or “take up the cudgel ” I think, do you even know what grist is? And if I asked you to go out and get me a cudgel, could you do it?
FBI - four or more killed
GVA - four or more killed or wounded
The GVA definition greatly increases the number of "mass shootings" which provides ammunition for banning guns.
The bubble chart of killed vs. wounded here gives a good idea of just how big a difference this is. For example, 902 incidents with 4 wounded and none killed vs. 57 incidents with 4 killed and none wounded.
https://everytownresearch.org/mass-shootings-in-america/
BUT, given Sailer's Law the GVA definition is likely to have a (much?) higher proportion of black offenders.
Which politically expedient position will prevail?
Many more related links here.
https://www.unz.com/isteve/washington-post-counts-mass-shooters-by-race/#comment-6298547Replies: @J.Ross
How many mass shootings occur under the watch of government personnel who want mass shootings to happen so they can torch the Bill of Rights?
How many mass shootings would have been prevented by the simple enforcement of existing law?
How many mass shootings would have been prevented by treating minorities like you treat whites?
How many school shootings happened during the 1950s, when every school had guns inside, and markmanship was a leading intramural sport?
Ask these questions to a pointyhead and watch the Cronenberg recerence.
Many of these fabulously expensive statues ended up discarded, on auction sites, or in secondhand shops. There was a funny TV show where they would acquire these statues for a song and transport them back to their original owners and ask how they came to be discarded. Sometimes the company didn’t know, sometimes the original companies ended up on the wrong end of a merger/acquisition, sometimes “old bronzie” just fell victim to changing styles in HQ interior decoration, and sometimes the staff just got creeped out by the dusty old guy staring at them in a conference roomReplies: @J.Ross, @res
This?
Monument Guys
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4493812/
This is related to the overall thread and kind of entertaining.
https://stuckeys.com/the-bronze-age-of-tv-celebrities/
Let’s give “Bronze Fonz” a link.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze_Fonz
OT — A member of parliament in Marc Dutroux’s country is sent to prison because somebody else sent “racist” memes in a group chat. Read that again, it’s correct.
He’s right: you can’t be “racist” if “there’s only one race.”
Best bronze statue EVER — I will tolerate no argument — is in a park outside Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
It is the life-scale statue of Weary Dunlop: Australian doctor and World War II POW, best hero of the war.
Dunlop was captured by the Japanese and placed in one of their hellish POW camps. There, he actually blackmailed the Japanese command into providing necessary medical and survival supplies for the prisoners: he saved thousands of lives through sheer ballsiness.
The statue shows Dunlop later in life, dressed in a natty three-piece suit: he is holding out his hand for you to shake it. The hand has to be replaced every few years, because it gets worn down by so many people shaking Weary’s hand.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weary_Dunlop
https://www.awm.gov.au/3dtreasures/items/dunlop-statue/
OT — by way of Ellis Items, which check out; pretty much everything this Mary Walsh character publishes in Ellis Items is gold — you might not get the annuity you relied on for your retirement because insurance companies are idiots and they have a version of globalized outsourcing which is wierdly vulnerable to undisguised con artists, this Wander guy is a complete dumpster fire and he’s not even Indian. This guy has a criminal record specifically for mishandling money and he’s the guy they trusted with your retirement money.
https://archive.is/L0ZG7
And Kant, Kant would be the easiest to out-consume.
One of my favorites of the new ones: ”Edgar Allen Poe Returning to Boston,” by Stefanie Rocknak
Polymathically, Rocknak is also chair of philosophy and cognitive science at Hartwick College in Oneonta.
https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/lucille-ball.jpg
We really do live in a new Bronze Age.Replies: @Mike Tre, @AnotherDad, @Bardon Kaldian, @TWS
Gollum in drag?
https://images.csmonitor.com/csmarchives/2010/04/0412-DSTATUE.jpg
If you "want a statue in the classic bronze-giant-hailing-a-taxicab pose, then who you gonna call?" North Korea. Its biggest export? Bronze statues. https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35569277
Neglected monument to the murderous Derg communist regime in Ethiopia, again North Korean.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Exporting_Revolution_%28211109741%29.jpeg/1280px-Exporting_Revolution_%28211109741%29.jpeghttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansudae_Overseas_Projects
I bet Trump could get a free statue of himself from Kim Jong Un, "the biggest, one of the biggest anyone has ever seen, people can't get over it."Biggest bronze statue in the world, not vulgar.
https://img.freepik.com/premium-photo/nanzoin-temple-fukuoka-japan-january-24-2023-nanzoin-temple-is-shingon-buddhist-temple-fukuoka-landmark-is-bronze-statue-biggest-buddha_65103-2232.jpgWorst bronze statue
https://www.liveabout.com/thmb/BmNypBeQXsvmflh4G-fas8ViUXc=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/lucille-ball-statue-fail-58e528c03df78c5162b3568b.jpgUgliest statue in each state. https://bestlifeonline.com/ugliest-statues/Sailer! Work harder.Replies: @Reg Cæsar
Let’s not forget Woody, in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia:
Mercifully, he’s only out at Christmastide.
Maybe he's writing a brilliant post about it right now. One can only hope so.Replies: @Jenner Ickham Errican, @R.G. Camara
Eh, didn’t the Derb already definitively cover that topic years ago with his famous “The Talk: Nonblack Version”? The video is standard WorldStar fare—hang out with chimps, get crimped.
https://i.postimg.cc/hj35SZnc/1710213203397859.pngReplies: @res
Local news on that.
https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/oakland-taco-bell-locations-shut-down-indoor-dining/
BTW, the only In-N-Out in Oakland is closing March 24th.
This article also mentions Denny’s and Starbucks closings.
https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/multiple-oakland-taco-bell-locations-close-dining-rooms-due-to-safety-issues/
More on that.
https://www.essence.com/news/flavor-flav-actually-owns-real-oj-simpson-statue/
It is the life-scale statue of Weary Dunlop: Australian doctor and World War II POW, best hero of the war.
Dunlop was captured by the Japanese and placed in one of their hellish POW camps. There, he actually blackmailed the Japanese command into providing necessary medical and survival supplies for the prisoners: he saved thousands of lives through sheer ballsiness.
The statue shows Dunlop later in life, dressed in a natty three-piece suit: he is holding out his hand for you to shake it. The hand has to be replaced every few years, because it gets worn down by so many people shaking Weary's hand.Replies: @res
Thanks. Wikipedia page for him plus a 3-D view of the statue.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weary_Dunlop
https://www.awm.gov.au/3dtreasures/items/dunlop-statue/
Of all the things that have become so tiresome, one of the most tiring is warning people and then watching helpless as they attempt to prove you wrong. Steve’s definitely gotta be feeling something like that.
One more good one: Noel Coward in his favorite spot at Ian Fleming’s former Jamaica estate, Goldeneye:
https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-sculpture-of-noel-coward-at-firefly-the-jamaican-home-of-noel-coward-36396393.html
Bronze should lend itself to the sculptural depiction of the more melanin-inbued humans, but that is not what this commenter Notices.
No. Our present bronze age primarily brings us statues of great white sharks who populate this place in time. This is unfortunate from a practical or literal standpoint, because bronze statues would be perfect to depicting Black! or brown or perhaps even Asian™ subjects.
Remember: media such as bronze or marble or whatever exist not because their “colors” resemble any skins, but, rather, because their physical characteristics make them suited to whichever artistic and public display they are intended for.
Imagine a societal decision to use bronze only for scuptures of non-white subjects, and to use marble for whites. Hmm…
Here it says the Coward statue is at his own estate, Firefly. There may be two of them.
https://www.tripsavvy.com/adventure-activities-in-jamaica-1487574
Exactly, WTF is the matter with Russia? We discussed this briefly a couple of weeks ago and wondered if was connected to high rates of alcoholism in Russia.
As for Iran, I suspect the IQ of ethnic Iranians (excluding the large numbers of ethnic minorities) is close to Europe’s. I’m just guessing based on Iranian being an IE language and thus the people are similar to Europeans. OTOH they’ve had an awful brain since 1979.
Persians are definitely not Arabs, but they aren't Europeans either. Smarts wise ... somewhere in between.
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All that said, everyone should take those international IQ comparisons as very fuzzy, "directional" indicators only.
It is hard to do real one-to-one comparisons across languages, and with people--usually kids--in different educational systems. The only real cross-cultural tests are Raven's Matrices type tests and those unfortunately are very, very subject to exposure, hence educational system/economic development. This especially goes with trying to figure genetic IQ--IQ potential--as the level of economic development and education varies so widely.
Basically, the international tests give you a "big picture" view of what's going on, just don't hang your hat on the specific numbers and remember their are distinct ethnic groups in many nations.
In contrast, within nation tests in the same language with kids in the same education system--in many cases even the same communities and schools--I believe give reasonably accurate indications of differences of actual intelligence between individuals and groups. It's more from this--and its continual reproducibility--that we can say "the gap" is real and mostly genetic.Replies: @Frau Katze, @Colin Wright, @Colin Wright
Here's a six-minute video that explains why Russia has to do this:
Why Are the Russians Shopping for Missiles? || Peter Zeihan
https://youtu.be/f0C07AmMUuw?si=1MkXANAnth3_wHgF
Zeihan has several other short videos examining the situation in Russia that you may find of interest.
Emanual Kant was an old puissant, he was very rarely stable,
Heidegger Heidegger was a boozy beggar, he could drink you under the table,
. . .
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine who was just as sloshed as Schlegel.
Was Wittgenstein really a Hitler fan?Replies: @J.Ross
That is what I think.
Whenever anyone goes off on materialistic determinism I simply think, if everything is determined by the movement and collision of atoms (or whatever) including mental phenomena, then you have to believe and will what you believe and will and I have to believe and will what I believe and will and truth is a concept with no meaning.
If there is no truth, why can some people fly safely through the air at 500 mph while others cannot?
Patrician? So, what are noticers? The fancy Noticians?
Robert Frost, at my University of Colorado campus, Boulder:
https://b128718.smushcdn.com/128718/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/8f629174-6b8c-4f06-9642-6b1a38d7d808.jpg?lossy=1&strip=1&webp=1
(He sometimes wears sunglasses, at that altitude:
https://www.colorado.edu/hr/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/article-thumbnail/robert_frost.jpeg?itok=Jh5s9EjE
Mark Twain, on the main street of the Connecticut town where I lived previously:
https://patch.com/img/cdn/users/2146/2010/05/raw/28eb3c3f53ac853f144034a547d59b0.jpg
A group of European intellectuals! In my wife's home city in Transylvania:
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/e9/f7/71/e9f771e79305b2a071688139207ca094.png
I have photographs of myself sitting next to every one of these great people.Replies: @Buzz Mohawk, @Reg Cæsar
If you’re in downstate Illinois, there is Burl Ives:
(Yes, he’s related to Connecticut’s Charles Ives, and bicentennial boy James Merritt Ives.)
Streator gives native son Clyde Tombaugh a planet– okay, a dwarf planet:
Will bring love dreams,
We'll be cuddling soon...
By the silvery moon.
We have an almost identically well-behaved cat now, but quite an independent, feisty little thing (if I pulled her tail I'd get scratched) - when she wants feeding she'll jump on the table and bat you with her paws until you get up. I often describe her in Johnson's words.Replies: @AceDeuce
I refute it thus (LOL):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hodge_(cat)
Although Hodge was not Johnson’s only cat, it was Hodge whom he considered his favourite. Hodge was remembered in various forms, from biographical mentions during Johnson’s life to poems written about the cat. On his death, Hodge’s life was celebrated in An Elegy on The Death of Dr Johnson’s Favourite Cat by Percival Stockdale (published 1778).
(Yes, he's related to Connecticut's Charles Ives, and bicentennial boy James Merritt Ives.)
Streator gives native son Clyde Tombaugh a planet-- okay, a dwarf planet:
https://www.hmdb.org/Photos5/597/Photo597859.jpg?7172021123000AMReplies: @The Germ Theory of Disease
Not that it matters much, but Burl Ives was one of the Seven Real Singers whom my parents forced us to listen to as kids — not that it was a displeasure or a burden — in order to understand What Real Music Actually Sounds Like.
The others were Elvis, Sinatra, Johnny Cash, Johnny Mathis, Roy Orbison, and Nat King Cole. The Beatles and The Who, la Streisand, and the original cast of Camelot, we were allowed to do on our own time.
Your silvery beams
Will bring love dreams,
We’ll be cuddling soon…
By the silvery moon.
“Look at this graph!”
Two questions: how many of these Blacks will actually go to the polls and vote GOP, and, is this just a Trump thing or will they continue to vote GOP after Trump is gone?
Certainly the GOP does not want to be, and will do everything it can, to avoid becoming the White Party. Because they represent the interests of their donors, not their voters.
“How Democracies Die” (Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt) argues, among other things, that it is necessary for there to be a strong center right party to block the potential growth of a fascist/NS/”extreme” right party (basically any populist mass movement that combines nationalism, social conservatism, and a social welfare state).
TPTB can’t let the GOP become the party of Whites. Ergo, it has been trying very hard for the past thirty years to attract non-Whites into the GOP, with little success, but that is changing now. They really need to “diversify” the GOP which is why you see so many South Asians (“pajeets”), Blacks, gays, and even trannies not only in the GOP but promoted by Trump. Trump has never been a WN or pro-White, he just has learned to dog-whistle like one in order to win elections.
Given the above, the whole line of argument that “we have to stop immigration” in order to “save the GOP” or that immigration is a plot to make the Democrats the permanent ruling party, is wrong, or misses the point.
Lower level libtards, shitlibs, oven middle class system supporters, faux leftists who are invested in the Democratic Party may want to use non-White immigration as a means to build a permanent one-party ruling coalition, but TPTB prefer a two party system where the two parties take turns winning elections by 51% to 49%. Rule by a permanent majority one party system (i.e. the Democrats in this case) is precisely what TPTB do not want, because it destroys the illusion of “our democracy” and threatens to destabilize the entire system that the post-WWII oligarchs have established.
TPTB also don’t want an El Salvador situation where one man, Nayib Bukele, can win with 84% of the vote (with no election rigging shenanigans) by actually doing things that the public want (fighting crime in the case of El Salvador). One party rule under oligarchy/TPTB (see California) doesn’t ever deliver on the promises that the people voting for the Democratic Party actually want, either, and the longer this situation goes on, the more likely it is that someone like a Nayib Bukele will appear.
TPTB think “our democracy” is when one of two or three “mainstream” parties win 51% of the vote but never actually deliver on the promises they made to the public as to the policies that the public actually want – lower crime, lower immigration, no more foreign wars or foreign aid or meddling in other countries’ affairs, no more outsourcing of jobs, no more deindustrialization, no more racial war against the majority founding population, no more open borders (these are generally but not exclusively “on the right”) — or on the left, also anti-war, socialized medicine/single payer, workers rights, unionization, reduction in the political power of corporations and monopolies/trusts (again, these aren’t exclusively left-wing issues either).
“Our democracy” simply means rule by (((TPTB))) not actual democracy either as a parliamentary/republican representative system or democracy where ordinary people actually get what they want out of the political system.
As such the GOP is definitely going to become a multi-racial party, and TPTB are willing to have the GOP lose elections until that happens, provided the process doesn’t actually kill off the GOP as a viable party. Hence the schizophrenic flip-flopping between dog-whistling White Nationalism to GOP voters at election time, while filling up GOP candidates and functionaries with non-Whites as quickly as possible and constant pandering to non-Whites in general and Blacks in particular.
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“ Instead of Jose Calderon's name on the boxscore of Kobe's faithful 81-point night against the Raptors, it says Jose Calderson. Instead of Von Wafer's correctly spelled name, it reads Vom Wafer, and instead of 'Coach's Decision' it reads 'Coach's Decicion', even though it was spelled correctly directly above”Replies: @Colin Wright, @LG5
I take it blacks or mulattoes were involved. Shades of ‘Poverbs.’
'Jose Calderson' would seem to signal otherwise though.
As for Iran, I suspect the IQ of ethnic Iranians (excluding the large numbers of ethnic minorities) is close to Europe’s. I’m just guessing based on Iranian being an IE language and thus the people are similar to Europeans. OTOH they’ve had an awful brain since 1979.Replies: @Colin Wright, @AnotherDad, @anonymous, @SafeNow, @YetAnotherAnon
Meh. Israel still hasn’t maneuvered them into that war with the United States.
I’m not waiting for them to pull off a moon shot — but they seem pretty savvy otherwise. Anybody who can at least frustrate Big Jew for more than forty years can’t be all that dumb.
How is being a war criminal apologist going for you, Kissinger stooge?
As for Iran, I suspect the IQ of ethnic Iranians (excluding the large numbers of ethnic minorities) is close to Europe’s. I’m just guessing based on Iranian being an IE language and thus the people are similar to Europeans. OTOH they’ve had an awful brain since 1979.Replies: @Colin Wright, @AnotherDad, @anonymous, @SafeNow, @YetAnotherAnon
FK, it doesn’t work that way. Language is just language. North Indians speak an Indo-European language as well and–overall–are not particularly smart. Persian btw is in the Indo-Iranian sub-division of Indo-European, as opposed to being clumped in one of the various European language groups.
Persians are definitely not Arabs, but they aren’t Europeans either. Smarts wise … somewhere in between.
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All that said, everyone should take those international IQ comparisons as very fuzzy, “directional” indicators only.
It is hard to do real one-to-one comparisons across languages, and with people–usually kids–in different educational systems. The only real cross-cultural tests are Raven’s Matrices type tests and those unfortunately are very, very subject to exposure, hence educational system/economic development. This especially goes with trying to figure genetic IQ–IQ potential–as the level of economic development and education varies so widely.
Basically, the international tests give you a “big picture” view of what’s going on, just don’t hang your hat on the specific numbers and remember their are distinct ethnic groups in many nations.
In contrast, within nation tests in the same language with kids in the same education system–in many cases even the same communities and schools–I believe give reasonably accurate indications of differences of actual intelligence between individuals and groups. It’s more from this–and its continual reproducibility–that we can say “the gap” is real and mostly genetic.
More accurate would be to look at IQ by ethnicity within the US. I don’t know if it exists or not (apart from the main groupings white, black etc.)Replies: @epebble
It's foolish to take transient cultural and historical conditions as eternal verities. It may look as you imply now; I wouldn't find in that evidence of a permanent condition.
Name the greatest civilization in the world in 700 ad. Name the wealthiest state in 1700. Name the wealthiest nation in 1900.
China...Bengal...Argentina. These things pass. Blacks are always stupid -- but I'm disincline to subscribe to permanent racial hierarchies past that.
That veers dangerously close to subscribing to 'emotional intelligence' and other such tripe but at the same time -- is 'intelligence' simply one quality?
Take my son and my daughter. My son is much, much better than math than my daughter; she got through calculus, I believe, but it wasn't her idea of a good time. In other respects though, my daughter is a lot sharper.
Overall, I'd score her higher -- but not in all respects.Replies: @Econymous
Persians are definitely not Arabs, but they aren't Europeans either. Smarts wise ... somewhere in between.
~~
All that said, everyone should take those international IQ comparisons as very fuzzy, "directional" indicators only.
It is hard to do real one-to-one comparisons across languages, and with people--usually kids--in different educational systems. The only real cross-cultural tests are Raven's Matrices type tests and those unfortunately are very, very subject to exposure, hence educational system/economic development. This especially goes with trying to figure genetic IQ--IQ potential--as the level of economic development and education varies so widely.
Basically, the international tests give you a "big picture" view of what's going on, just don't hang your hat on the specific numbers and remember their are distinct ethnic groups in many nations.
In contrast, within nation tests in the same language with kids in the same education system--in many cases even the same communities and schools--I believe give reasonably accurate indications of differences of actual intelligence between individuals and groups. It's more from this--and its continual reproducibility--that we can say "the gap" is real and mostly genetic.Replies: @Frau Katze, @Colin Wright, @Colin Wright
Yes, I don’t trust those international IQ estimates either. I find it hard to believe that unbiased & no cheating testing is a possibility in either Iran or India.
More accurate would be to look at IQ by ethnicity within the US. I don’t know if it exists or not (apart from the main groupings white, black etc.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_the_United_States_by_household_incomeReplies: @Colin Wright
“Bishop Berkeley went too far: objects exist not because of an illusion created by God”
The good bishop would deny that God created an illusion (or, in plain language, was deceiving us!). The belief that the Sun went around the Earth wasn’t a delusion implanted by God, but a result of our all-too-human failure of imagination.
Similarly, God didn’t tell us we had to believe in an external, objective world lying behind our perceptions. That belief is just an invaluable postulate for our practical affairs.
Agree. Everything else is bullcrap.
The rural Maryland mention in the post reminded me of cuck boi “conservative” blowhard Charles Murray. Sure he’s done a few good things, but he’s just another out of touch egghead cuck:
Here’s Murray in 2006:
Kewl, Chuck! You’re so hip! “White-bread”? Zing! Get those hillbillies!
So where does this guy actually live?
Burkittsville, Maryland.
Wikipedia:
As for Iran, I suspect the IQ of ethnic Iranians (excluding the large numbers of ethnic minorities) is close to Europe’s. I’m just guessing based on Iranian being an IE language and thus the people are similar to Europeans. OTOH they’ve had an awful brain since 1979.Replies: @Colin Wright, @AnotherDad, @anonymous, @SafeNow, @YetAnotherAnon
Hello, Frau Katze,
Here’s a six-minute video that explains why Russia has to do this:
Why Are the Russians Shopping for Missiles? || Peter Zeihan
Zeihan has several other short videos examining the situation in Russia that you may find of interest.
OT — Anon said,
More accurate would be to look at IQ by ethnicity within the US. I don’t know if it exists or not (apart from the main groupings white, black etc.)Replies: @epebble
IQ is just an invented measure. If you want a much more practical measure that means a lot, household income is lot more consequential. This list below is national, covering all 331 million people and computed by Census bureau. You can’t get better quality data anywhere else in the universe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_the_United_States_by_household_income
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As for Iran, I suspect the IQ of ethnic Iranians (excluding the large numbers of ethnic minorities) is close to Europe’s. I’m just guessing based on Iranian being an IE language and thus the people are similar to Europeans. OTOH they’ve had an awful brain since 1979.Replies: @Colin Wright, @AnotherDad, @anonymous, @SafeNow, @YetAnotherAnon
I remember this apocryphal discussion between CIA agents back at the time when miniature nuclear bombs were first invented. The first guy says, this is really concerning!…the Russians don’t need bombers!…they could deliver a nuke to The US in an attaché case! The second CIA agent calmly replies: Don’t worry. The Russians will never be able to construct….an attaché case.
Incidentally the idea of a nuclear device in a case occurred, post-war, to Arthur "Bomber" Harris, who thought such things might even be the war of the future.Replies: @J.Ross
I wouldn’t trust Meryl Nass as far as I could throw her. She’s an old comrade of Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, whom I dubbed the Dr. Strangelove of the American Left back in 2002, when Rosenberg and Nass were trying to frame Dr. Stephen J. Hatfill for the anthrax murders.
https://nicholasstixuncensored.blogspot.com/2007/10/scientist-with-rhodesian-past-still.html
40 years? Why we talking about something so long ago? Man, that’s ancient history, nothing to see here or get mad about, move on, loser! (/sarcasm)
How is being a war criminal apologist going for you, Kissinger stooge?
Iran is like India, a lot of deviation from the mean. Some of the smartest people I have ever worked with were upper class Persians. There are more than enough brilliant Iranians to give the country a leg up on tech. Iran also has a reputation for producing excellent doctors, so maybe the 83 is just wrong? Given that Iran is a multi ethnic society I am sure there are significant differences in IQ between the various ethnicities as well (with the Arabs maybe at the bottom?)
A large standard deviation could definitely be part of the answer.
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This was already visible in 2020. Black and Hispanic men are generally even more socially conservative than white men. They despise homosexuality, „trans“, and anything catering to feminists. They also tend to be pro 2nd Amendment. Super „white guy“ Republicans like Romney or McCain leave blacks and Hispanics cold, but they like Trump. He speaks their language. Trump in many ways was the first Black President. He has no boundaries, no sense of propriety and no moral compass. He’s a narcissist and a man who clearly puts his physical appetites ahead of reason. Blacks respond to that.
https://www.npr.org/2024/01/06/1223287046/will-charlamagne-tha-gods-views-on-biden-impact-other-voters
https://www.npr.org/2024/02/02/1197954659/its-been-a-minute-draft-02-02-2024Replies: @Colin Wright
Speaking of refutation: A rare outbreak of sanity in the YUK.
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/england-bans-use-puberty-blockers-nations-gender-identity-clinics
You’ve got to love the idea of (even semi-)officially recognized “Backward Castes”
Maybe he's writing a brilliant post about it right now. One can only hope so.Replies: @Jenner Ickham Errican, @R.G. Camara
Steve’s on his book tour, so his postings this year will be below-normal quality and at a below-normal pace.
Also, Steve’s mad that: (1) Trump is the nominee, as he hates Trump for being loud; (2) Steve’s buddy Biden is exposed as a dementia-addled corrupt front man, an obvious truth which Steve vigorously denies because the corrupt old Biden once slapped Steve on the back once at a party.
“It is probably a specific class, which includes a lot of non-whites, that is trending Republican.”
Normal men.
White status-seeking men are much more afflicted by demasculanization.
Black and Hispanic upward strivers were told they could just check the race box and win, but are starting to grasp that the freakazoids want to castrate them.
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Although Hodge was not Johnson's only cat, it was Hodge whom he considered his favourite. Hodge was remembered in various forms, from biographical mentions during Johnson's life to poems written about the cat. On his death, Hodge's life was celebrated in An Elegy on The Death of Dr Johnson's Favourite Cat by Percival Stockdale (published 1778).Replies: @YetAnotherAnon
Who ya gonna believe, Wikipedia or Johnson’s lying amanuensis actually quoting his words?
I can believe the American arrogance, but the Soviets actually built and used some fairly sophisticated assassination devices. Unless Stepan Bandera really died of a heart attack.
Incidentally the idea of a nuclear device in a case occurred, post-war, to Arthur “Bomber” Harris, who thought such things might even be the war of the future.
“Officially Organized” is just another way of saying “Designated.”
As for Iran, I suspect the IQ of ethnic Iranians (excluding the large numbers of ethnic minorities) is close to Europe’s. I’m just guessing based on Iranian being an IE language and thus the people are similar to Europeans. OTOH they’ve had an awful brain since 1979.Replies: @Colin Wright, @AnotherDad, @anonymous, @SafeNow, @YetAnotherAnon
“WTF is the matter with Russia?”
Big subject, I can’t help thinking that serfdom existing until 1865 or so is relevant. As Marx complained, they didn’t have a bourgeois, capitalist revolution which was meant to be a precursor stage to communism. Instead they went from one form of feudal aristocracy to another one – Party rule.
Still, while I wouldn’t be comfortable in Russia, I’m not a Russian. As far as I’m concerned, they have every right to be as Russian as they like, and never again to be subjected to the disastrous looting of the 1990s, which in some ways returned the country to the poverty of Nicholas IIs day, with old ladies selling their goods in the streets and young ladies selling their bodies in the clubs.
In Solzhenitsyn’s words:
No question.
That is some blackhanded compliment you are throwing at Trump. Reality may be different: many Blacks interpret his desire for stricter voting process (like no early voting, discourage mail ballots) as code for disenfranchisation. Listen to:
https://www.npr.org/2024/01/06/1223287046/will-charlamagne-tha-gods-views-on-biden-impact-other-voters
https://www.npr.org/2024/02/02/1197954659/its-been-a-minute-draft-02-02-2024
“ Instead of Jose Calderon's name on the boxscore of Kobe's faithful 81-point night against the Raptors, it says Jose Calderson. Instead of Von Wafer's correctly spelled name, it reads Vom Wafer, and instead of 'Coach's Decision' it reads 'Coach's Decicion', even though it was spelled correctly directly above”Replies: @Colin Wright, @LG5
Crowds forming to demand proper spelling, throngs marching in the streets, placards with artful calligraphy next?
Re: Accuracy of IQ by country
A large standard deviation could definitely be part of the answer.
While I strongly approve, that shows the depth of the doo-doo that the Conservative Party are in. I imagine the idea will be to put the Labour Party on the spot, and ideally get Starmer depicted as the man who’ll cut off adolescent female breasts and male gonads – he’s already failed to define what a woman is.
If the Tories get desperate enough, maybe they’ll announce a total ban on immigration. Hell, a man can dream…
‘Coach’s Decicion’ would seem to signal Hispanic.
‘Jose Calderson’ would seem to signal otherwise though.
Persians are definitely not Arabs, but they aren't Europeans either. Smarts wise ... somewhere in between.
~~
All that said, everyone should take those international IQ comparisons as very fuzzy, "directional" indicators only.
It is hard to do real one-to-one comparisons across languages, and with people--usually kids--in different educational systems. The only real cross-cultural tests are Raven's Matrices type tests and those unfortunately are very, very subject to exposure, hence educational system/economic development. This especially goes with trying to figure genetic IQ--IQ potential--as the level of economic development and education varies so widely.
Basically, the international tests give you a "big picture" view of what's going on, just don't hang your hat on the specific numbers and remember their are distinct ethnic groups in many nations.
In contrast, within nation tests in the same language with kids in the same education system--in many cases even the same communities and schools--I believe give reasonably accurate indications of differences of actual intelligence between individuals and groups. It's more from this--and its continual reproducibility--that we can say "the gap" is real and mostly genetic.Replies: @Frau Katze, @Colin Wright, @Colin Wright
Not to make too much of it — but I can think of four hundred or so years there where that would mean that Persians weren’t as dumb as Europeans — but not as smart as Arabs.
It’s foolish to take transient cultural and historical conditions as eternal verities. It may look as you imply now; I wouldn’t find in that evidence of a permanent condition.
Name the greatest civilization in the world in 700 ad. Name the wealthiest state in 1700. Name the wealthiest nation in 1900.
China…Bengal…Argentina. These things pass. Blacks are always stupid — but I’m disincline to subscribe to permanent racial hierarchies past that.
Persians are definitely not Arabs, but they aren't Europeans either. Smarts wise ... somewhere in between.
~~
All that said, everyone should take those international IQ comparisons as very fuzzy, "directional" indicators only.
It is hard to do real one-to-one comparisons across languages, and with people--usually kids--in different educational systems. The only real cross-cultural tests are Raven's Matrices type tests and those unfortunately are very, very subject to exposure, hence educational system/economic development. This especially goes with trying to figure genetic IQ--IQ potential--as the level of economic development and education varies so widely.
Basically, the international tests give you a "big picture" view of what's going on, just don't hang your hat on the specific numbers and remember their are distinct ethnic groups in many nations.
In contrast, within nation tests in the same language with kids in the same education system--in many cases even the same communities and schools--I believe give reasonably accurate indications of differences of actual intelligence between individuals and groups. It's more from this--and its continual reproducibility--that we can say "the gap" is real and mostly genetic.Replies: @Frau Katze, @Colin Wright, @Colin Wright
I also think that it all hinges on the questionable assumption that there is one, monolithic quality called ‘intelligence.’
That veers dangerously close to subscribing to ’emotional intelligence’ and other such tripe but at the same time — is ‘intelligence’ simply one quality?
Take my son and my daughter. My son is much, much better than math than my daughter; she got through calculus, I believe, but it wasn’t her idea of a good time. In other respects though, my daughter is a lot sharper.
Overall, I’d score her higher — but not in all respects.
Indeed. The whole rationale for how we treated Indians was that they were citizens of foreign nations. A Cherokee wasn’t an American; he was a Cherokee.
The argument that what we did vis-a-vis firearms and Indians has anything to do with the Second Amendment is incredibly ignorant. The Bill of Rights refers to what rights Americans have. I’m surprised anyone tried it on.
The Indians also did not consider themselves Americans, the idea would have been absurd to them. They not only distinguished themselves from Americans but also from Texicans and Mexicans, considering both the Americans and Texicans dangerous foes and the Mexicans a group providing entertainment and plunder in raiding season.As far as arms control, the British were big suppliers of guns and ammunition to the Indians, as well as encouragement to fight, with promises of sanctuary in Canada should things not go well. An example of this is how the Indians came to be armed with Smith & Wesson 1873 Schofield hinged, double-action revolvers, the most advanced revolver in the world at the time.
The Russian Grand Duke Alexis came to the US to purchase revolvers for the Russian army. He decided the Smith was the best, better than the Colt that he had originally intended to buy. As a result the Russian government placed an order for 150,000 of these revolvers, a volume that essentially removed the weapon from American market availability for some time.
The purchase was financed by the British firm Baring and shipped on the British and North American Royal Mail Steam Packet Company.
Yet, somehow, Sioux, Nez Perce and Northern Cheyenne were equipped with these revolvers at the Battle of the Rosebud, the Little Big Horn, Slim Buttes, Powder River, Big Hole and other fights. The Crow, enemies of the Sioux and allied with the Americans, were not.
I have one of these revolvers that I found at the site of the Battle of Little Muddy Creek on the Northern Cheyenne reservation near Lame Deer. The butt is decorated with thumb tacks in the Indian fashion. When cleaned up the serial number was clearly visible and it matched the lot ostensibly sold to equip the Russian army.
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Along with Vice Media and most of Buzz feed.
There are probably also others like Jezebel (some crazy feminist outfit) last year also.
Seems like Bidenomics isn’t fostering more Woke media snarkers.
While some of these purported to normal market oriented businesses dependent on advertisers and subscribers, most were heavily subsidized by lefty oligarchs of one kind or another.
Losing money and supporting hate filled “writers” and opinionaters etc. doesn’t appear to be a fad any longer. None of them ever seemed interested in the BLM scammers either. “Not news”…
On the downside, Soro’s kid and likely heir now says he wants to be “more political” with his inherited wealth when takes over the Soros death empire. We can only hope he runs afoul of Putin…
Heidegger Heidegger was a boozy beggar, he could drink you under the table,
. . .
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine who was just as sloshed as Schlegel.Replies: @Muggles
So you were a frequent drinking companion with these gentlemen?
Was Wittgenstein really a Hitler fan?
There are probably also others like Jezebel (some crazy feminist outfit) last year also.
Seems like Bidenomics isn't fostering more Woke media snarkers.
While some of these purported to normal market oriented businesses dependent on advertisers and subscribers, most were heavily subsidized by lefty oligarchs of one kind or another.
Losing money and supporting hate filled "writers" and opinionaters etc. doesn't appear to be a fad any longer. None of them ever seemed interested in the BLM scammers either. "Not news"...
On the downside, Soro's kid and likely heir now says he wants to be "more political" with his inherited wealth when takes over the Soros death empire. We can only hope he runs afoul of Putin...Replies: @J.Ross
And now they will try that with Tiktok. The “Tiktok ban” doesn’t ban Tiktok, it gives the President a way to censor media companies, and they’re okay with Tiktok being Chinese just like they’re okay with Eric Swalwell remaining on the intelligence committee: what spurred them to pass this plainly unConstitutional bill was making the connection that Tiktok was a major factor in young people not Standing for Israel. So Tiktok will remain as Chinese as the owners of the land next to our military bases, but it’ll have to hire some new (((managers))); the feds Elon purged from Twitter have resorted to simple takeover, and while a foreign company like Tiktok would survive this, an American one so targeted would not.
From your lips to God's ears!
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/14/former-treasury-secretary-mnuchin-is-putting-together-an-investor-group-to-buy-tiktok.html
Is Chuck Berry a hero or a villain?
Two questions: how many of these Blacks will actually go to the polls and vote GOP, and, is this just a Trump thing or will they continue to vote GOP after Trump is gone?
Certainly the GOP does not want to be, and will do everything it can, to avoid becoming the White Party. Because they represent the interests of their donors, not their voters.
"How Democracies Die" (Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt) argues, among other things, that it is necessary for there to be a strong center right party to block the potential growth of a fascist/NS/"extreme" right party (basically any populist mass movement that combines nationalism, social conservatism, and a social welfare state).
TPTB can't let the GOP become the party of Whites. Ergo, it has been trying very hard for the past thirty years to attract non-Whites into the GOP, with little success, but that is changing now. They really need to "diversify" the GOP which is why you see so many South Asians ("pajeets"), Blacks, gays, and even trannies not only in the GOP but promoted by Trump. Trump has never been a WN or pro-White, he just has learned to dog-whistle like one in order to win elections.
Given the above, the whole line of argument that "we have to stop immigration" in order to "save the GOP" or that immigration is a plot to make the Democrats the permanent ruling party, is wrong, or misses the point.
Lower level libtards, shitlibs, oven middle class system supporters, faux leftists who are invested in the Democratic Party may want to use non-White immigration as a means to build a permanent one-party ruling coalition, but TPTB prefer a two party system where the two parties take turns winning elections by 51% to 49%. Rule by a permanent majority one party system (i.e. the Democrats in this case) is precisely what TPTB do not want, because it destroys the illusion of "our democracy" and threatens to destabilize the entire system that the post-WWII oligarchs have established.
TPTB also don't want an El Salvador situation where one man, Nayib Bukele, can win with 84% of the vote (with no election rigging shenanigans) by actually doing things that the public want (fighting crime in the case of El Salvador). One party rule under oligarchy/TPTB (see California) doesn't ever deliver on the promises that the people voting for the Democratic Party actually want, either, and the longer this situation goes on, the more likely it is that someone like a Nayib Bukele will appear.
TPTB think "our democracy" is when one of two or three "mainstream" parties win 51% of the vote but never actually deliver on the promises they made to the public as to the policies that the public actually want - lower crime, lower immigration, no more foreign wars or foreign aid or meddling in other countries' affairs, no more outsourcing of jobs, no more deindustrialization, no more racial war against the majority founding population, no more open borders (these are generally but not exclusively "on the right") -- or on the left, also anti-war, socialized medicine/single payer, workers rights, unionization, reduction in the political power of corporations and monopolies/trusts (again, these aren't exclusively left-wing issues either).
"Our democracy" simply means rule by (((TPTB))) not actual democracy either as a parliamentary/republican representative system or democracy where ordinary people actually get what they want out of the political system.
As such the GOP is definitely going to become a multi-racial party, and TPTB are willing to have the GOP lose elections until that happens, provided the process doesn't actually kill off the GOP as a viable party. Hence the schizophrenic flip-flopping between dog-whistling White Nationalism to GOP voters at election time, while filling up GOP candidates and functionaries with non-Whites as quickly as possible and constant pandering to non-Whites in general and Blacks in particular.
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That’s a wait and hope kinda thing
Trump is trying to make the GOP an America first working man’s (women too) party, if he is successful and rids the party of the “Bush-type ” republicans I think that will take care of the “after he’s gone” part.
I want a constitutional republic with strict original intent.If we have that the democracy part will take care of itself.
I hope you understand that a mainstream candidate has to sail only so close to the wind on that subject, right now I just want you and I to not end up in a reeducation camp……those are the stakes ,like it or not. Trudeau in Canada is talking about jailing people for life if they think they MAY commit an act of “terrorism”, many of our comments would be considered terrorism by these people. I expect multiple black swan events this year both at home and abroad and remember , civilizations as screwed up as ours are prone to sudden collapse . You need to get on the Trump train!
It became one, but then, so did Great Britain.
...but we're getting over it. Name another government that is as unresponsive to the will of the people. Some of the Mongol successor states?
A hero when you watch him and a villain when he watches you.
Was Wittgenstein really a Hitler fan?Replies: @J.Ross
Heidigger was the literal Nazi, Wittgenstein was Jewish. The real redpills though come from Schopenhauer.
Incidentally the idea of a nuclear device in a case occurred, post-war, to Arthur "Bomber" Harris, who thought such things might even be the war of the future.Replies: @J.Ross
Before Hitler small-a anschlussed the Sudentenland, he attempted to simply intimidate relevant diplomats, taking advantage of his totalitarian domestic spying apparatus and paying standard Hitlerian respect to diplomatic custom. The Czechs sent this really old, quite grey, éminence grise, who was still quite sharp despite his years. At the meeting he picked out details which the Germans could only have known were they tapping his hotel phone, which, of course, they were, so he retaliated in a manner which immediately gripped the German leadership in panic: he had a massive heart attack. The best medical help was commanded. You can imagine how Hitler would look if diplomats could not safely meet him.
The argument that what we did vis-a-vis firearms and Indians has anything to do with the Second Amendment is incredibly ignorant. The Bill of Rights refers to what rights Americans have. I'm surprised anyone tried it on.Replies: @anonymous
Hello, Colin,
The Indians also did not consider themselves Americans, the idea would have been absurd to them. They not only distinguished themselves from Americans but also from Texicans and Mexicans, considering both the Americans and Texicans dangerous foes and the Mexicans a group providing entertainment and plunder in raiding season.
As far as arms control, the British were big suppliers of guns and ammunition to the Indians, as well as encouragement to fight, with promises of sanctuary in Canada should things not go well. An example of this is how the Indians came to be armed with Smith & Wesson 1873 Schofield hinged, double-action revolvers, the most advanced revolver in the world at the time.
The Russian Grand Duke Alexis came to the US to purchase revolvers for the Russian army. He decided the Smith was the best, better than the Colt that he had originally intended to buy. As a result the Russian government placed an order for 150,000 of these revolvers, a volume that essentially removed the weapon from American market availability for some time.
The purchase was financed by the British firm Baring and shipped on the British and North American Royal Mail Steam Packet Company.
Yet, somehow, Sioux, Nez Perce and Northern Cheyenne were equipped with these revolvers at the Battle of the Rosebud, the Little Big Horn, Slim Buttes, Powder River, Big Hole and other fights. The Crow, enemies of the Sioux and allied with the Americans, were not.
I have one of these revolvers that I found at the site of the Battle of Little Muddy Creek on the Northern Cheyenne reservation near Lame Deer. The butt is decorated with thumb tacks in the Indian fashion. When cleaned up the serial number was clearly visible and it matched the lot ostensibly sold to equip the Russian army.
That veers dangerously close to subscribing to 'emotional intelligence' and other such tripe but at the same time -- is 'intelligence' simply one quality?
Take my son and my daughter. My son is much, much better than math than my daughter; she got through calculus, I believe, but it wasn't her idea of a good time. In other respects though, my daughter is a lot sharper.
Overall, I'd score her higher -- but not in all respects.Replies: @Econymous
Good thing they don’t read Unz otherwise the therapy bills will bankrupt you. /s
https://www.imd.org/research-knowledge/competitiveness/articles/what-drives-brain-drain-and-brain-gain/
It is interesting how most of the countries are close to a regression line with a slope of about -1.
I am having trouble finding the raw data. For example, here is their 132 page report.
https://www.imd.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/WCY_Booklet_2023-FINAL.pdf
We see this variable:
3.2.22 [S] Brain drain Brain drain (well-educated & skilled people) does not hinder competitiveness in your economy
but no raw data and no corresponding "brain gain" variable. I take that last bit back. Probably this.
3.2.23 [S] Foreign highly-skilled personnel Foreign highly-skilled personnel are attracted to your country’s business environment
This 2015 article links a table showing brain drain.
https://www.imd.org/research-knowledge/competitiveness/articles/com-january-2015/
It looks like they are using a variable measuring "(hinders/does not hinder) competitiveness in your economy." Not what I assumed looking at the figure.
Immanuel Kant produces the Critique of Pure Reason – a century later Moore holds up his hands and says “Yeah, well, man, that’s just your opinion.”
Original source here.
https://www.imd.org/research-knowledge/competitiveness/articles/what-drives-brain-drain-and-brain-gain/
It is interesting how most of the countries are close to a regression line with a slope of about -1.
I am having trouble finding the raw data. For example, here is their 132 page report.
https://www.imd.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/WCY_Booklet_2023-FINAL.pdf
We see this variable:
3.2.22 [S] Brain drain Brain drain (well-educated & skilled people) does not hinder competitiveness in your economy
but no raw data and no corresponding “brain gain” variable. I take that last bit back. Probably this.
3.2.23 [S] Foreign highly-skilled personnel Foreign highly-skilled personnel are attracted to your country’s business environment
This 2015 article links a table showing brain drain.
https://www.imd.org/research-knowledge/competitiveness/articles/com-january-2015/
It looks like they are using a variable measuring “(hinders/does not hinder) competitiveness in your economy.” Not what I assumed looking at the figure.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_the_United_States_by_household_incomeReplies: @Colin Wright
Yeah — but bear in mind, come der Tag, we’re going to stand all the rich against a wall and shoot them.
…and that’ll be that for your genetic superiority.
It’s a technicality, but note that this country was not founded as a democracy.
It became one, but then, so did Great Britain.
…but we’re getting over it. Name another government that is as unresponsive to the will of the people. Some of the Mongol successor states?
https://www.npr.org/2024/01/06/1223287046/will-charlamagne-tha-gods-views-on-biden-impact-other-voters
https://www.npr.org/2024/02/02/1197954659/its-been-a-minute-draft-02-02-2024Replies: @Colin Wright
Let’s put quotes around ‘many blacks interpret.’ After all, these people aren’t talking about what blacks ‘interpret’ in the first place. They’re talking about what their self-appointed spokescretins say to keep their sinecures.
Lenard Larry McKelvey “Charlamagne tha God ” is a comedian and a radio host. He seems to be apolitical and honest in representing black people’s voice to the best of his ability. He sounded quite intelligent and analytical in those NPR interviews (but I don’t listen to his radio programs).
From your lips to God’s ears!
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/14/former-treasury-secretary-mnuchin-is-putting-together-an-investor-group-to-buy-tiktok.html
Yes, there’s a lot of difficult history in Russia.
No question.
EPISTEMOLOGY
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Kick at the rock Sam Johnson, break your bones:
But cloudy, cloudy is the stuff of stones.
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We milk the cow of the world, and as we do
We whisper in her ear, ‘You are not true.’
–Richard Wilbur