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Not surprisingly, after the huge increase in murders and more general chaos during the George Floyd racial reckoning, various localities, such as San Francisco and Portland, are rolling back their soft on drugs and crime projects.
Also included in that list is the state of Louisiana, although it’s even crazier that Louisiana decided in 2017 to go soft on crime. Unlike San Francisco and Portland, Louisiana has a large number of blacks and a high crime rate. The great historian David Hackett Fischer wrote in 2022:
In 2016 [Louisiana] ranked first for murders among fifty American states, as it had done for twenty-eight years in a row. This tradition of corruption, crime, and violence has spanned three centuries in Louisiana, from its founding flibustiers in 1699 to its new-modeled freebooters in our time.
Not surprisingly, Louisiana is now throwing out its 2017 New Jim Crow nuttiness, much to the New York Times’ news section’s dismay:
With Sweeping New Laws, Louisiana Embraces Tough-on-Crime Approach
Gov. Jeff Landry is enacting stringent new measures that he says are crucial to address crime; critics say the laws resemble failed policies of the past.
As opposed to the failed policies of the present.
By Rick Rojas
Reporting from Baton Rouge, La.March 6, 2024
In 2017, Louisiana overhauled its criminal justice system with broad bipartisan support, all in an effort to lose the distinction of having the nation’s highest incarceration rate.
As opposed to the nation’s highest murder rate.
Sentences were reduced. Opportunities for parole were expanded. Alternatives to prison were introduced.
But seven years later, the state is sending a very different message: Those days are over.
Lawmakers, urged on by a new Republican governor, rushed through a special session last month to roll back the 2017 changes….
Mr. Landry, who took office in January, and his supporters argue that the new stringent measures are necessary to crack down on violence and crime, which soared in parts of the state during the pandemic. But critics contend that the new laws are variations of flawed past policies and would have the same consequences: punishing people of color disproportionately, obliterating hope and pathways to rehabilitation for prisoners, and foisting a staggering cost onto taxpayers.
“None of these bills are going to do anything to increase public safety or reduce crime in our communities,” said Sarah Omojola, the director of Vera Louisiana, a nonprofit group focused on reducing incarceration and preventing violence. “All these bills do is expand incarceration at a really high cost for Louisianans.” …
He was responding to anxiety over public safety amid a surge in violent crime and other offenses during the coronavirus pandemic, mirroring a national trend. The murder rate soared in New Orleans, reaching levels that had not been seen in decades and was the highest in the nation in 2022. Carjackings were also rampant. The city’s Police Department was depleted of officers and morale.
Over the past year, crime rates have steadied. In New Orleans, murders plummeted in 2023 by some 25 percent compared with the year before, outpacing a nationwide decline.
In other good news, combat deaths in Eastern Europe are down over 90% since the Battles of Stalingrad and Kursk-Orel in 1943.
… Mr. Edwards, the last Democratic governor in the Deep South, exasperated many in his own party with his conservative stances on abortion and gun rights. Still, he notched some victories that had been championed by progressives; the overhaul of the justice system — known as the Louisiana Justice Reinvestment Act — was one of them.
Many states were enacting similar changes. There was widespread agreement at the time that taking a less punitive approach to low-level offenders and treating the causes of crime, like drug addiction, could make the criminal justice system more effective and free up resources that could be directed at pursuing violent offenders.
In Louisiana — long regarded as the “world’s prison capital” — the legislation felt like a monumental achievement.
… Critics said that they had no doubt the new legislation would have deep repercussions, and that it would not address the root reasons behind crime; doing so, they believe, would make communities safer.
“It’s not about being ‘tough on crime,’” Ms. Omojola said. “It’s about getting serious about safety.”
Rick Rojas is a national correspondent covering the American South. He has been a staff reporter for The Times since 2014.
To put Louisiana in perspective:
So, homicide didn’t go up immediately after 2017’s soft-on-crime legislation, but did go up the next time the culture changed in the George Floyd era.
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Rojas snuck in verbiage like, “treating the root causes of crime, like drug addiction”.
Drug addiction is a supply-side phenomenon.
To take away the supply, one has to remove the suppliers, with arrests. Mankind will always be prone to opioid addiction, and fentanyl and the other new synthetics (which don’t respond to narcan), assure that street drugs will never again be safe.
We lost 112,000 last year that we have stats for to overdoses. We only lost 58,000 in the entire Vietnam War that Boomers harped on for twenty years. The desire for opioid lead to so much more fraud, theft, stealing from family members and friends, burglaries, and prostitution. They turn once ordinary-people into scumbags who lie and steal constantly. Meth has about the same effect. Remove the supply, by removing the suppliers.
Ray Nagin’s response to Hurricane Katrina really destroyed that place. They should have thrown away the key on that animal.
which, judging by the homicide rate, wasn’t nearly high enough.
There’s an ongoing case in the suburbs that illustrates New York’s ludicrously soft on crime policies. It started last week with the discovery of dismembered male and female bodies in a quiet Long Island park. The police believe the couple got knocked off due to some sort of love triangle, and have a pretty good idea who did it, though the person remains at large.
Meanwhile, four people – two men and two women, three of them white and one Hispanic – have been arrested and charged with concealing a corpse and evidence tampering. They are not suspected in the actual murders but clearly know the person who did it and all the circumstances. In any event, all four had to be released without bail, because under New York’s 2019 bail “reform” law the charges are both no-bail offenses, notwithstanding that both are felonies and the defendants are tied into a double homicide.
I’m sure all four are at least a thousand miles away by now.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/harvards-oddities-collector-gets-probation-after-unlawful-trafficking-human-body-parts
Life expectancy by state (2019.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/life_expectancy/life_expectancy.htm
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Mississippi 74.4
West Virginia 74.5
Alabama 75.2
Kentucky 75.5
Tennessee 75.6
Arkansas 75.7
Louisiana 75.7
Oklahoma 75.7
South Carolina 76.8
Missouri 76.9
New Mexico 76.9
Ohio 76.9
Indiana 77.0
Georgia 77.4
North Carolina 77.6
Alaska 77.7
Wyoming 77.7
Michigan 78.0
Nevada 78.0
Delaware 78.1
Kansas 78.2
Maine 78.3
Pennsylvania 78.3
Montana 78.4
South Dakota 78.4
Maryland 78.5
Texas 78.6
Arizona 78.8
North Dakota 78.8
Florida 79.0
Illinois 79.0
Iowa 79.0
Virginia 79.1
Nebraska 79.2
Wisconsin 79.3
New Hampshire 79.4
Idaho 79.5
Rhode Island 79.5
Oregon 79.6
Utah 79.7
Vermont 79.8
Colorado 80.0
Washington 80.0
New Jersey 80.1
Connecticut 80.3
Massachusetts 80.4
Minnesota 80.4
New York 80.7
California 80.9
Hawaii 80.9
Los Angeles County: 82.2
King County (Seattle): 81.6
Travis County (Austin): 82.0
San Francisco: 83.0
NYC: 82.6
Red America, especially in the Deep South, seems to have a life expectancy problem.
The coastal Blue States, Upper Midwest, and Mormon states do pretty well.
I visited Louisiana and New Orleans for the first and only time about 40 years ago. It all seemed very charming, including the voodoo museum and the paddle steamers.
Of course I was staying at the Marriott, which was not in the worst part of town, but at that time I wasn’t aware of New Orleans being a particularly high crime place.
Louisiana today actually seems to be the United States equivalent of Lebanon or Haiti as far as its politics and crime are concerned.
Interestingly the murder rate in Louisiana was extremely high even before the Civil War.
If you browse through Charles Dickens’s American Notes (1842), the author was quite surprised how quickly people were moved to violence back in those days, with legislators beating each other and teenagers fighting deadly duels.
Of course you have to take into account the weather in Louisiana. It tends to be really hot and humid, and there is no cold, dark.winter to keep people at home in front of the hearth for a few months of the year.
In New Orleans you also have to account for the “Katrina Effect.” There was mass chaos and disruption (with a mass murder spike), but then also a de-blackening as a lot of blacks moved out to Baton Rogue or Houston and never moved back. (Amid not-so-subtle attempts to avoid rebuilding their neighborhoods in order to gentrify the place a bit.)
If you want to get a fix on the ups and downs in the murder rate, you should hold black population constant. (E.g., by graphing just the black murder rate vs. the black population).
https://www.datacenterresearch.org/data-resources/who-lives-in-new-orleans-now/
My brother moved his family north to a very rural part of west Wisconsin, where his kids adapted to riding their bikes alone down country roads, fishing alone in wild areas, and generally being allowed to be curious, intelligent and outgoing white youths - as it should be. A couple of years ago, when my aging parents got too old to defend themselves any longer in my hometown of Youngstown, Ohio, we promptly moved them up to live near my brother. Unfortunately, to this day my father can't deescalate his learned behavior - after living for forty years on the ghettoized east side of Y-Town - to ever trust relaxing his guard around someone on the street again, even if they're white.
Sadly, I know that variations of this white flight story are legion. And that's my 'cool story, Bro.'
Meanwhile, four people - two men and two women, three of them white and one Hispanic - have been arrested and charged with concealing a corpse and evidence tampering. They are not suspected in the actual murders but clearly know the person who did it and all the circumstances. In any event, all four had to be released without bail, because under New York's 2019 bail "reform" law the charges are both no-bail offenses, notwithstanding that both are felonies and the defendants are tied into a double homicide.
I'm sure all four are at least a thousand miles away by now.Replies: @Mr. XYZ, @Erik L, @Bill Jones
The Left’s love of violent criminals might have something to do with this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_savage
In other words, it’s the modern equivalent of this.
Louisiana. Katrina. The stadium. The bridge. The government would surely never do something like pic related.
What makes me puzzled and despondent is the fact that we now have so much evidence that the approach towards crime outlined above does not work. Tried it in the 70s and it failed. Tried it again in the 2010s after the success of the Giuliani-era reforms achieved remarkable improvements in public safety.
But, I guarantee it’s just a matter of time before they are rolled out again. Just how thirsty are Progressives for the blood of young black men?
It's that their whole worldview relies on systems of oppression, and admitting the cops actually do some good flies in the face of that.
Young black men can only shoot other young black men? That would be legal -- but woe betide the killer of any non-black?
It could even be a sporting event. Pay per view. I betcha blacks would compete.
I want to stop but there’s just so much today. Anon said,
SHELDON JOHNSON, “prison reform activist” who went on Joe Rogan decrying racism, found with decapitated head at home.
– https://twitter.com/KeithWoodsYT/status/1765852047109214250
– https://open.spotify.com/episode/3nsOv2Bl6OVvTcjUrJ1GUa
– https://www.nydailynews.com/2024/03/07/bronx-headless-torso-leads-to-murder-rap-against-ex-con-turned-activist-sheldon-johnson-jr-exclusive/
The criminological theories that got purchase in the 1990s and after and which accompanied the year over year decrease in urban violent crime held that the same individuals (young, black, male) are likely to be both shooters and victims. They’re running in the same circles and are in effect the same types of people.
So my pet theory for the decrease in murders following the most recent peak is that the spasm of loose gunplay actually culled the most likely shooters/killers from an entire age cohort. In sum, there’d be more murders but for the fact that the would-be murderers have themselves already been murdered.
Naturally, this recent decrease in the murder rate is not cause for congratulations for the people who ran these polities.
Emil: Iron Age Italians were genotypically the smartest European group in a large ancient + modern sample.
Also, most mental disorders were selected against while autism increased.
From caveman to early farmers selection was against height, but gradually height was again selected for.
https://www.emilkirkegaard.com/p/what-do-ancient-genomes-show-about
https://www.emilkirkegaard.com/p/what-do-ancient-genomes-show-aboutBasically, the core story is what you already know or expect:
-- hunter gatherers are "dumb" in our modern sense
-- the neolithic revolution kicked off a strong upward trend in intelligence (what we moderns think of as intelligence--i.e. not necessarily being a good tracker)
-- and civilization--trade, written language, money, social complexity--continued to select for those traits
-- autism travels along with this IQ selection
-- civilization also selects against schizophrenia (for more rational mentality)https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F41da714f-8a7f-447c-ab29-4b231416e15b_2252x1492.png
Good stuff, but my takehome is the obvious biggie: Agriculture and civilization select for intelligence, rationality, mental stability ... or at least they used to!
But the little wiggles--this age, that age--aren't really very reliable. They have a decent amount of data sets overall (2k), but when it comes to some particular times--like Iron age or Imperial--the uncertainty about the sample outweighs any sort of assertions you'd want to make about small variations from earlier/later samples.https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc50cf834-987e-43db-b233-c4fc010c08cb_1522x1342.pngReplies: @res, @Bill Jones
But, I guarantee it’s just a matter of time before they are rolled out again. Just how thirsty are Progressives for the blood of young black men?Replies: @SFG, @Colin Wright, @Redneck Farmer
It’s not that, we both know that.
It’s that their whole worldview relies on systems of oppression, and admitting the cops actually do some good flies in the face of that.
OT — Every page redacted; nothing says safe and effective like that.
The CDC “released” a 148 page study on myocarditis after COVID-19 “vaccination”
Btw here’s a link to the study LMAO
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24463984-cdc-moving-foia
Yeah -- don't forget to compare it to the stuff the myocarditis the just-a-flu bros experienced by way of COVID itself. And more importantly, don't forget to credit the guy who speed-rushed that vaccine onto the world. He's not about to let that happen:
I’m calling BS. How could anyone know this?
Then we look at the frequency of such genes in ancient samples.
Iceland has the best data overall and it shows genetic intelligence dropping fast, mainly because high IQ women have been failing to reproduce for 100+ years.
These people–even more so her good-white analogs–are just a cancer upon civilization.
Really crime–like immigration, fertility/eugenics–is an issue that gives you a window into whether a person understands anything–seriously anything–about civilization.
I’ve got a simple solution: Louisiana can punish criminals and “expand incarceration” at low cost for Louisianans. Execute the murderers. No fancy pants stuff, a length of good rope will do it. And incarceration without all that fancy concrete and HVAC stuff. A nice prison camp out–a few rows of high barbed wire fences, with motion detectors and some mean old dogs, with the good old boys in guard towers with shoot to kill orders ought to do it. Those nice steamy Louisiana summers spent on the chain gang out picking up trash or clearing drainage ditches or helping with repaving ought to help improve behavior–if improvement is possible.
Our prisons need to be run like those in Japan. Keep inmates isolated from each other.
These two institutions are located on former slave plantations, but are now utilized as maximum-security prisons. In both places, fences are not needed for most of the inmate population. Being rurally located makes escape from custody difficult and futile.
Both institutions were created after slavery was abolished as criminal behavior by blacks skyrocketed after the slaves were given their freedom. (Sound familiar?)
These two institutions operate under the old "plantation system" to the point of using very little mechanized farm machinery. From cotton to soybeans to peas and corn, all are manually planted and harvested. The prison population is large enough in both institutions to make utilization of "human farm labor" feasible. Large farm equipment is unneeded.
Just maybe other states should follow in creating and implementing the "plantation system" for their prison populations. Keeping 'em busy and "down on the farm" might just be a feasible solution for our "obsolete farm implements".
Louisiana is DARK country, breh.
Cue: New Orleans Ladies by Louisiana’s Leroux
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Have you seen candid shots of her?
You can’t overincarcerate either.
There sure is a lot of “nonprofit groups” popping up. Me thinks there is a lot of profit, and money laundering, to be made there.
The profit just gets lost via executive salaries and charitable donations to a favored politician.
Perhaps the lawyers in the iSteve readership can tell us if Louisiana’s use of the Napoleonic Code has anything to do with this. The rest of the United States is based on English Common Law.
Note also that in many states having an Anglo-American common law heritage, there is no common law as such - it is all statutory.
Of course I was staying at the Marriott, which was not in the worst part of town, but at that time I wasn't aware of New Orleans being a particularly high crime place.
Louisiana today actually seems to be the United States equivalent of Lebanon or Haiti as far as its politics and crime are concerned.
Interestingly the murder rate in Louisiana was extremely high even before the Civil War.
If you browse through Charles Dickens's American Notes (1842), the author was quite surprised how quickly people were moved to violence back in those days, with legislators beating each other and teenagers fighting deadly duels.
Of course you have to take into account the weather in Louisiana. It tends to be really hot and humid, and there is no cold, dark.winter to keep people at home in front of the hearth for a few months of the year.Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease, @Jack D, @Jay Fink
So-called “modern” chess (some people say “hyper-modern” it’s kind of a taste thing) was created in 19th-century New Orleans by the crackpot boy genius Paul Morphy, who just sort of viewed the game in a vastly different conceptual framework than his predecessors. Morphy’s games, famous and notorious for their devastating lightning simplicity of conception, are still considered the gold standard. You can argue plausibly that Bobby Fischer, whose games are more eccentric and grandiose and complex, might be the better player, but Morphy is beloved because of his shocking quickness and directness. Fischer is a kind of large-scale Beethoven, Morphy is more like a punk-rock Mozart, depends on your palate.
Morphy was a weirdo who changed his meticulous three-piece suit sometimes three times in a single day, and often went to a barber and got a haircut twice in the same day. New Orleans high society must have been a really weird place to park yer car back then. I wonder if he ever crossed paths with General William Tecumseh Sherman, another brilliant neurasthenic and veteran of nervous breakdowns, who for a while ran the main military academy down there. The two of them would have had a lot to talk about, would make a great movie if they did.
It occurs to me. We don’t like to see blacks kill — here. On the other hand, we obviously do like to see Palestinians killed — there.
I’m confident blacks would like to kill wherever they are. We don’t we send them all to Gaza? Then they can kill — and we can enjoy it.
Thanks. Some interesting thoughts on the cold winters hypothesis there.
But, I guarantee it’s just a matter of time before they are rolled out again. Just how thirsty are Progressives for the blood of young black men?Replies: @SFG, @Colin Wright, @Redneck Farmer
If that was actually all they wanted I imagine a mutually satisfactory compromise would be within reach.
Young black men can only shoot other young black men? That would be legal — but woe betide the killer of any non-black?
It could even be a sporting event. Pay per view. I betcha blacks would compete.
Down in Louisiana
Where the alligators grow so mean…
Nah, wrong tune
Cue: New Orleans Ladies by Louisiana’s Leroux
This was a belly rubbing tune when New Orleans was worth a visit.
may surprise some readers to learn that some time ago military forces of the United States invaded and occupied Louisiana, and that since that time it has been run as a colony with its resources being exploited for the benefit of the victorious States
Know what we would be talking about regarding this state if not for the crime? Louisiana had a once-unique situation — maybe this is related to French law, considering that modern France has a color-blindness in official records — where one could pass, where mixing was all but tolerated. So even if in tackling this problem you go French you’re still going black.
A great observation as to the Napoleonic code in Louisiana, but that really has nothing to do with these absurd and stupid soft-on-crime measures taken in jurisdictions around the country. Just look at what San Francisco (once a major tourist destination) has become, in addition to the lunatic state of Oregon, which has decriminalized all drugs (I believe the voters are now having second thoughts). Simple and dimwitted voters in these places keep falling for the progressive’s therapeutic-sounding answers to all quality of life matters, but anarchy generally ensues. Sad.
My mother lived in New Orleans as a child in the nineteen forties. She never said anything to me about the crime there but she did say they had some great jazz radio stations there back then. Her father played clarinet and would sit next to the radio and play along with the band. Blacks have always caused problems but they helped to contribute to some great music in the past.
Speaking of Louisiana, I recall that the New York Times ran a fairly lengthy series regarding the states involved in the Civil War many years ago. When they came to Louisiana, they noted that the state’s college football team, the Louisiana State Tigers, we’re not named after the animal, but after the ferocity and fighting spirit of the men of Louisiana (“they fought like tigers!”) during the Civil War era. Apparently, the bumptious men of Louisiana fought often and hard against their fellow soldiers from other southern states before even encountering the Yankees.
Really crime--like immigration, fertility/eugenics--is an issue that gives you a window into whether a person understands anything--seriously anything--about civilization.
I've got a simple solution: Louisiana can punish criminals and "expand incarceration" at low cost for Louisianans. Execute the murderers. No fancy pants stuff, a length of good rope will do it. And incarceration without all that fancy concrete and HVAC stuff. A nice prison camp out--a few rows of high barbed wire fences, with motion detectors and some mean old dogs, with the good old boys in guard towers with shoot to kill orders ought to do it. Those nice steamy Louisiana summers spent on the chain gang out picking up trash or clearing drainage ditches or helping with repaving ought to help improve behavior--if improvement is possible.Replies: @PaceLaw, @Wade Hampton, @James N. Kennett, @Trinity, @anarchyst
It seems so easy and simplistic that even a child, or caveman, could understand it, but the best way to reduce the crime rate is to lock criminals up. It has worked throughout the world when people want to get serious and tough on crime. What we have experienced here in the United States is that the media takes note of the very different rates of those who are incarcerated. The media even created terms such as “mass incarceration” (just for blacks, mind you), to fool the simple minded and gullible into thinking that black people are incarcerated arbitrarily, or for no reason at all. Shockingly, far too many Americans have bought into this view, and now think that incarceration is bad because it arbitrarily involves too many black people. The media and an amazing number of good whites simply do not want to accept that black people do in fact commit a disproportionate amount of crime in this country and should be jailed for the safety of everyone.
During Hurricane Katrina, Coast Guard rescuers were sometimes punched in the face by their victims. Imagine if you can the mindset, the brain wiring, that it takes punch your rescuer in the face. This helps us, I think, grasp the craziness of the hostility.
My father was a poor kid in New Orleans in the 1930’s. When blacks started showing up at my school in NorCal, he said to me, “just remember, they’re as good as you are.” He wasn’t wrong about much, but …
But, I guarantee it’s just a matter of time before they are rolled out again. Just how thirsty are Progressives for the blood of young black men?Replies: @SFG, @Colin Wright, @Redneck Farmer
It’s not the blood of young black men they’re worried about. It’s their anal virginity when they go to prison for drugs. Like Mike Ness sings “I’ve been caught too many times”, so they’re worried about themselves going to prison.
Really crime--like immigration, fertility/eugenics--is an issue that gives you a window into whether a person understands anything--seriously anything--about civilization.
I've got a simple solution: Louisiana can punish criminals and "expand incarceration" at low cost for Louisianans. Execute the murderers. No fancy pants stuff, a length of good rope will do it. And incarceration without all that fancy concrete and HVAC stuff. A nice prison camp out--a few rows of high barbed wire fences, with motion detectors and some mean old dogs, with the good old boys in guard towers with shoot to kill orders ought to do it. Those nice steamy Louisiana summers spent on the chain gang out picking up trash or clearing drainage ditches or helping with repaving ought to help improve behavior--if improvement is possible.Replies: @PaceLaw, @Wade Hampton, @James N. Kennett, @Trinity, @anarchyst
This is what lefties call the “failed policies of the past”. Of course these policies only “failed” if your goal was to civilize them. Government policies are not able to overcome inherent racial tendencies. Race ultimately will out.
But if the goal of your law enforcement/penal system was to make criminal behavior extremely unpleasant to discourage it, then those “policies of the past” were mostly successful; and the only policies that have been proven to work.
The idea of incarcerating criminals (rather than executing them or pardoning them) was an innovation of Renaissance Florence. But what good ideas did Renaissance Florence ever come up with?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cydkTy6GmFA
Is the picture of the kid stacking cans supposed to be an illustration of autism or selection for height?
He’s been the official Wikipedia photo for autism for 17 years so is Internet-meme famous.
If the kid doesn't have a lot of toys or is creative, he may stack common household objects such as canned goods instead of blocks. Sometimes the best fun is from playing with improvised objects rather than something that is sold in a toy store.
In a still photo like this, it's impossible to distinguish between REPETITIVE stacking and completely normal child behavior. On its face there is nothing wrong with what that kid is doing. I wonder what the source of that photo was and whether the subject knows that he is now labeled as a world famous autist?Replies: @Frau Katze, @Reg Cæsar, @Pixo, @Alden
If you want to get a fix on the ups and downs in the murder rate, you should hold black population constant. (E.g., by graphing just the black murder rate vs. the black population).
https://www.datacenterresearch.org/data-resources/who-lives-in-new-orleans-now/Replies: @Almost Missouri, @Erik L, @Rob Lee
Thanks. I had forgotten about that. According to that link, New Orleans got rid of almost one third of its black population since Katrina (2005), which is a pretty epic at-one-swoop demographic change. (I couldn’t tell if that change was disproportionately male or female, young or old though.) It looks like the state as whole only lost about a percentage point of black population after Katrina, which isn’t much in a state that is one third black. This implies about half of New Orleans blacks are still in Louisiana.
Anyway, some observations:
• Ray Nagin’s plan to make New Orleans a chocolate city didn’t work.
• New Orleans 2005-2007 must be one of the rare instances where race and crime do not correlate.
• I’m going to guess that the apparent 2005 dip in crime was really just that a bunch of murders weren’t reported and the corpses got mixed in with the general Katrina casualties. The real homicide rate was probably 20% higher.
• Set against this background, the 2020+ crime increase really is unprecedented, which the NYT tries to elide over with their “during the pandemic” invocation.
One of the strange things about the modern US is that despite having 51 separate jurisdictions, how homogenizing the effect of Federal suzerainty has been. The Feds use their power to demand that every state has a certain kind of law and there are suddenly fifty different version of that law: anti-discrimination law, marital law, traffic law, the list goes on. Not all of it is purely Federal pressure. The national media have a role too. The recent spate of states passing similar—and similarly hysterical—laws to regulate “artificial intelligence” is an example of this.
In some ways it’s the worst of both worlds: instead of one national law, there are 51 versions of the same law, with just enough nuance to make your experience and attorney useless across state lines.
Gun laws are one of the few areas where some states have resisted Federal pressure, and if you’ve been following commenter Joe Stalin’s postings, you’ll know what a constant battle that is.
So yeah, Louisiana had the Napoleonic Code, but in Current Year practice that just means that you have the same law but written with “parishes” instead of “counties”.
P.S. I’m not a lawyer, just someone condemned to traffic with lots of lawyers.
Vera is focused on reducing incarceration for black and hispanic criminals via issuing them free crimes. It is also focused on maximizing violence. All members of the confederacy in support of colored criminals say they seek to prevent violence. A certain branch of said confederacy, living off of the taxpayers, call themselves “violence interruptors.”
Just about every word these mopes say are lies (e.g., that enforcing the law is wildly expensive). I’m tempted to add “non sequiturs,” but that’s not necessary, since the non sequiturs are all lies.
Lawyer-trafficking? Isn’t that a federal felony?
Really crime--like immigration, fertility/eugenics--is an issue that gives you a window into whether a person understands anything--seriously anything--about civilization.
I've got a simple solution: Louisiana can punish criminals and "expand incarceration" at low cost for Louisianans. Execute the murderers. No fancy pants stuff, a length of good rope will do it. And incarceration without all that fancy concrete and HVAC stuff. A nice prison camp out--a few rows of high barbed wire fences, with motion detectors and some mean old dogs, with the good old boys in guard towers with shoot to kill orders ought to do it. Those nice steamy Louisiana summers spent on the chain gang out picking up trash or clearing drainage ditches or helping with repaving ought to help improve behavior--if improvement is possible.Replies: @PaceLaw, @Wade Hampton, @James N. Kennett, @Trinity, @anarchyst
Comment Of The Month.
Renaissance Florence didn’t have the demographics of modern Louisiana, or of the United States, for that matter.
Laws governing real estate conveyance and laws of testate and intestate descent and distribution are still fairly state specific, although the federal estate tax has influenced the latter towards greater uniformity. In addition, some states have fairly high income taxes, while others dispense with them entirely.
“Louisiana Justice Reinvestment Act” – does that mean they make fertilizer
out of the miscreants?
OT: College Board has announced that they are going with a digital SAT. No more paper tests. They have shortened the reading passages and the overall length of the test (2 hrs. vs 3 for the old one). It uses an adaptive format similar to the board’s other digital tests – based on your score on the 1st half of each section of the test, part 2 will be either a harder or easier version.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/08/us/sat-online-digital-test-college.html
https://blog.collegeboard.org/what-digital-sat-adaptive-testing
And who would ever think the ability to do well on a three (vs. two) hour test would correlate with the ability to do well at college?Replies: @Jim Don Bob, @Jack D
OT — Good Corporal Roberto Svejkos And His Fortunes In The Gender War
A corporal in the Spanish Army has revealed how an administrative gender change under Spain’s new Trans Law has seen their pension increase, unlocked the child benefit since they are now recognized as a “mother,” and facilitated a move to a private room in the barracks with their own private bathroom.
“On the outside, I feel like a heterosexual man. But on the inside, I am a lesbian woman, which prevails. That’s why I made the legal change to being a woman,” said 35-year-old Roberto Perdigones in an interview with El Español online newspaper.
The soldier explains that they are a man, equipped with male genitalia and a beard. They have also fathered a son and remain attracted to women.
Roberto is one of dozens of officials stationed in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta to have used the far-left trans legislation to their advantage with reports this week suggesting that as many as 37 soldiers, police officers, and public officials have changed their gender in a purely administrative capacity in order to access extra perks as women.
Some are calling it fraud, but Roberto disagreed, citing that they have done everything required under the new legislation to make the change. In Spain, an individual can now legally change to the female sex through their own self-declaration with the Civil Registry of the gender they identify as without the need for medical reports or hormone treatment.
“As I can do it, I do it,” Roberto explained. “Before, I was screwed for complying with the law. Now, I continue to comply with the law but, after finding my gender situation, I have come out in favor. And if someone criticizes me, they may be committing a crime of transphobia.”
It took just two meetings with the relevant authorities in which Roberto insisted they identified as a woman for the gender change to be processed, unlocking several perks for the soldier.
“By changing my sex, as I have learned, my pension has increased. Because women earn more in their retirement pension to compensate for inequality. In addition, I earn 15 percent more when having a child,” they said.
“I even have a private room in the barracks, all to myself, with a private bathroom. Because I cannot be with men, as I am a woman, and I did not consider it appropriate to be with biological women out of respect for them. I have only made the room for myself since the sex change,” they added.
Roberto is also free to turn up to military drills with long hair and to wear earrings, unlike their legally male colleagues.
The sex change also has wider implications in relation to Roberto’s estranged 16-year-old son from a former relationship, with the new trans law making the soldier as much a mother of the boy as the biological mother, creating greater unintended legal complications in Spanish family law.
“As a father, I haven’t seen him since the child was three years old, but now I am no longer a father, now I am a non-pregnant mother. This means that I can fight on equal terms with my biological mother,” they explained.
“I am in the process of looking for a lawyer to recover what I have lost, always prioritizing the good of the minor.”
Roberto’s is not an isolated case, with dozens of officials following suit with the speedy administrative process unlocking ample perks and protections previously reserved for biological women.
“In Ceuta, it is possible that the phenomenon is so high because, as I have been told, there are competitive academies in which they even recommend changing to a woman and Ceuta is a city of civil servants, for the most part,” Roberto said.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/03/05/spanish-soldiers-change-gender-benefits-for-women/
Most of the U.S.’s “doom loop’ cities, such as Detroit, St. Louis and Cleveland, were already losing population in the 1950s due to economic shifts, and then exploding crime rates accelerated their declines and made them perpetual. But Baltimore and New Orleans are different.
Baltimore had a basically stable population from 1950 to 1960, and New Orleans’ population actually grew 10% in the low-crime 1950s.
Then the Warren Court crime wave hit and the city lost more than a fifth of its population in 40 years, before Katrina. Now, after Katrina and the recovery, it is down to about 60% of its 1960 population.
And no one can argue that slide is due to lost auto jobs or to people fleeing a cold climate up north.
Of course I was staying at the Marriott, which was not in the worst part of town, but at that time I wasn't aware of New Orleans being a particularly high crime place.
Louisiana today actually seems to be the United States equivalent of Lebanon or Haiti as far as its politics and crime are concerned.
Interestingly the murder rate in Louisiana was extremely high even before the Civil War.
If you browse through Charles Dickens's American Notes (1842), the author was quite surprised how quickly people were moved to violence back in those days, with legislators beating each other and teenagers fighting deadly duels.
Of course you have to take into account the weather in Louisiana. It tends to be really hot and humid, and there is no cold, dark.winter to keep people at home in front of the hearth for a few months of the year.Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease, @Jack D, @Jay Fink
I stayed at that Marriott once with my family. Yes, during the day Canal Street seemed reasonably safe but (1) as soon as the sun went down the denizens of the deep emerged and (2) you really didn’t have to hike that far to the north until you were in the deepest darkest ghetto – a couple of blocks in the wrong direction and there you were.
I was there with my family and my kids were fairly young. Philly has its own ghetto but they hadn’t been exposed to it that much. Walking back to the hotel at night from the French Quarter we passed a liquor store on Canal St. (BTW, if you looked closely at Canal St. all the traditional middle class downtown shopping such as department stores had been replaced by dubious enterprises – “smoke” shops, liquor stores, Popeye’s Fried Chicken, etc.) and the crowd outside were doing ghetto hip hop keepin’ it real type stuff – no gunshots luckily but shoutin’ and fightin’ and other traditional ghetto type pastimes and I remember my kid’s eyes bugging out because they had never seen anything like this in the flesh. It was like being transported to another planet – the real Wakanda.
>Popeye's
Not bonafied, Jack.Replies: @Jack D
Baltimore had a basically stable population from 1950 to 1960, and New Orleans’ population actually grew 10% in the low-crime 1950s.
Then the Warren Court crime wave hit and the city lost more than a fifth of its population in 40 years, before Katrina. Now, after Katrina and the recovery, it is down to about 60% of its 1960 population.
And no one can argue that slide is due to lost auto jobs or to people fleeing a cold climate up north.Replies: @g-guido, @deep anonymous
In New Orleans the real catalyst for population decline in the 60’s and 70’s was school desegregation. Lots of whites moved out to adjacent St. Bernard and Jefferson Parishes.
Napoleonic law has mostly bee retires and the civil and criminal justice systems are pretty much the same as the rest of the US. The only real difference I have found is in the laws of succession. In most (all?) of the country a where there is a surviving widow with no will she would inherit the husbands estate. In Louisiana, in the absence of a will, the eldest male child would inherit the estate.
>dubious enterprises
>Popeye’s
Not bonafied, Jack.
Actually, name a few. Not art or literature but actual ideas for organizing society or managing a sophisticated trade economy? Given how quickly Renaissance Florence was eclipsed, apparently not many. Venice was far more successful as an Italian city. England and France have much better track records.
Only if you carry one across state lines.
[Through drywall] Steve — Steeeeve — Good news, Steve! We’ve cured cancer. In fact it’s the Covid vax that cures cancer. My source for this is Dr Joe Biden, I think he’s at Mayo, or perhaps Jphns Hopkins …
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PEAK GLOBALISM:
Meanwhile, four people - two men and two women, three of them white and one Hispanic - have been arrested and charged with concealing a corpse and evidence tampering. They are not suspected in the actual murders but clearly know the person who did it and all the circumstances. In any event, all four had to be released without bail, because under New York's 2019 bail "reform" law the charges are both no-bail offenses, notwithstanding that both are felonies and the defendants are tied into a double homicide.
I'm sure all four are at least a thousand miles away by now.Replies: @Mr. XYZ, @Erik L, @Bill Jones
There are crimes that are “no bail” even if the suspects are obvious flight risks?
That’s their data, but I don’t think it’s anything meaningful that you’d want to hang your hat on.
I encourage folks here to read Emil’s post, I thought it was interesting:
https://www.emilkirkegaard.com/p/what-do-ancient-genomes-show-about
Basically, the core story is what you already know or expect:
— hunter gatherers are “dumb” in our modern sense
— the neolithic revolution kicked off a strong upward trend in intelligence (what we moderns think of as intelligence–i.e. not necessarily being a good tracker)
— and civilization–trade, written language, money, social complexity–continued to select for those traits
— autism travels along with this IQ selection
— civilization also selects against schizophrenia (for more rational mentality)
Good stuff, but my takehome is the obvious biggie: Agriculture and civilization select for intelligence, rationality, mental stability … or at least they used to!
But the little wiggles–this age, that age–aren’t really very reliable. They have a decent amount of data sets overall (2k), but when it comes to some particular times–like Iron age or Imperial–the uncertainty about the sample outweighs any sort of assertions you’d want to make about small variations from earlier/later samples.
Welcome to the deep south. Popeye’s is dubious? Al Copeland is rolling in his grave. He is also the eponymous founder of another chain of restaurants serving Cajun/Creole/NO style food. It’s pretty damn good. Too bad it hasn’t expanded beyond the South.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/08/us/sat-online-digital-test-college.html
https://blog.collegeboard.org/what-digital-sat-adaptive-testingReplies: @Erik L, @res
So now each section has potentially 2 different Gaussian distributions, 2 different means, 2 different standard deviations. I wonder how (or if they can) they merge those to have the standard SAT score reflect the overall distribution
If you want to get a fix on the ups and downs in the murder rate, you should hold black population constant. (E.g., by graphing just the black murder rate vs. the black population).
https://www.datacenterresearch.org/data-resources/who-lives-in-new-orleans-now/Replies: @Almost Missouri, @Erik L, @Rob Lee
I did a graph once, based on wikipedia numbers, of the NYC murder rate and black population percent over time starting around the great depression (feels like something Steve would have done at some point). The correlation was visually striking. There was even a time when both went down in lock step
Public policy in this country tends to proceed consquent to idiotic malice on the part of Democratic pols (especially pols in robes) and learned helplessness on the part of Republicans.
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Have multi-county police forces (a state of average population should have about 25 forces), expand the manpower of your police forces, deploy them optimally, encourage them to use best practices, stand by them during public controversies, make incarceration or corporal punishment mandatory for any offense defined in the penal code (making use of fines, restitution, forfeiture, and loss of franchises only as supplementary penalties); make use of labor services only when convicts welsh on their fines, restitution, and forfeitures; make use of probation only for convicts under 25 and only to partially replace time behind bars or lashes of the cane, limit judicial discretion over sentencing to the decision of whether or not to approve a plea bargain, strictly segregate different age groups from each other in prisons and jails; handle juvenile offenders in regular courts, not family courts, and have no compunction about jailing them; and be prepared to incapacitate a noticeable segment of your male population. About 5.5% of your black male population and about 0.75% of your non-black male population should be incarcerated at any one time. About 47,000 people should be in Louisiana’s prisons and jails at any one time. Also, use preventive detention for repeat offenders. You can indemnify them later if the case is not processed or if their time in detention exceeds their eventual penalty.
Machiavelli is one of the most influential political scientists of all time.
The Medicis practically invented modern banking. They made huge advances in accounting.
All Venetian ideas. Now you’re stepping into intra-Italian rivalry. Most Italians consider Florentines overrated artists with a gift for self-promotion.
Macchiavelli was a genius, agree, but his Republic failed and he was driven into exile.
A simpler question: “What’s right with Louisiana?”
BTW, I’d say most of the post-Katrina rebuilding was a mistake. Most of the city is below sea level–inherently a disaster waiting to happen. And with modern equipment, no large labor force is required to handle loading grain exports and assorted petro-chemical operations, most of which are somewhat upriver anyway.
The Feds should have simply bought out the below sea level flooded areas–where most blacks lived–demolish everything, make it (flood control) parkland and call it good. Whites attracted to the joint could rebuild, gentrify and the joint would be nicer. But America simply doesn’t need a big New Orleans and relative to other cities it is indeed getting smaller.
Alternatively, we could designate Louisiana and Mississippi–throw in SE Arkansas and Memphis as well–the Black American Homeland, do some population swaps and move ahead with life.
Mississippi to tell them they have to leave...(BTW, Memphis is a city).
Here’s a wild card: Louisiana finally enacted Constitutional Carry, no permit required to carry a gun, on the fifth when the governor signed the bill. Not as good as yesterday’s signing in South Carolina which takes effect immediately and includes non-residents, but come July fourth this will start changing things in a good way if the experiences in the previous twenty eight states are any guide.
(I repeat that pure self-defense against negros remains an on the ground right in the US.)
This consultant to the New Orleans police has murders going back to 1930
https://www.nolacrimenews.com/about/
https://www.nolacrimenews.com/statistics/historical-statistics/
Well, here in the USA, the Quakers are responsible for incarceration, especially when combined with “rehabilitation”. Before they started their reign of errors, stocks and/or flogging for minor crimes, execution for serious ones.
Renaissance Florence had exactly zero black people. Those Italians would have been utterly baffled at the absolute lack of future time orientation among blacks. Though they would have understood their hot-headed natures.
It’s really a poor illustration. The wiki caption indicates that REPETITIVE stacking or lining up of objects is indicative of autism but it’s quite common for normal children to stack blocks – the whole purpose of toy blocks is to give a kid something to stack or line up in various ways.
If the kid doesn’t have a lot of toys or is creative, he may stack common household objects such as canned goods instead of blocks. Sometimes the best fun is from playing with improvised objects rather than something that is sold in a toy store.
In a still photo like this, it’s impossible to distinguish between REPETITIVE stacking and completely normal child behavior. On its face there is nothing wrong with what that kid is doing. I wonder what the source of that photo was and whether the subject knows that he is now labeled as a world famous autist?
TETRIS APPEALS TO WOMENReplies: @Jack D, @Alden
https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Autism-quinn-with-bus.jpg#mw-jump-to-license
Autism is a complete lie and fraud. Just another woke faggot commie progressive fad. One good thing, an autism diagnosis gets a kid labeled an affirmative action oppressed disabled victim elegible for college admissions and other caste privileges that no other White is eligible for.Replies: @Hypnotoad666
BTW, I'd say most of the post-Katrina rebuilding was a mistake. Most of the city is below sea level--inherently a disaster waiting to happen. And with modern equipment, no large labor force is required to handle loading grain exports and assorted petro-chemical operations, most of which are somewhat upriver anyway.
The Feds should have simply bought out the below sea level flooded areas--where most blacks lived--demolish everything, make it (flood control) parkland and call it good. Whites attracted to the joint could rebuild, gentrify and the joint would be nicer. But America simply doesn't need a big New Orleans and relative to other cities it is indeed getting smaller.
Alternatively, we could designate Louisiana and Mississippi--throw in SE Arkansas and Memphis as well--the Black American Homeland, do some population swaps and move ahead with life.Replies: @The Anti-Gnostic, @Truth
Lots of US political subdivisions no longer make sense. The US federalist scheme itself is getting pretty incoherent. Now we have judicial districts that are lawfare/shakedown zones for conservatives and business entities.
It had a good run.
Sounds like one of the outer circles of Hell to me. Though I guess it depends on what kinds of interactions you have (in particular, adversarial vs. cooperative).
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/08/us/sat-online-digital-test-college.html
https://blog.collegeboard.org/what-digital-sat-adaptive-testingReplies: @Erik L, @res
It is interesting that they choose to use the (putative) increased efficiency of the digital adaptive test to reduce time rather than improve test resolution or accuracy.
And who would ever think the ability to do well on a three (vs. two) hour test would correlate with the ability to do well at college?
https://nypost.com/2024/03/07/opinion/the-college-board-is-dumbing-down-its-sat-again-test-doing-no-one-any-favors/Replies: @res
The acceptance of the test is already on thin ice for the usual DIEversity reasons and so they probably didn't think that this was a good time to change the scoring system and go for increased resolution or a higher ceiling. Raising the ceiling to 900 and getting a lot of Asians, a few whites and zero blacks in the 800-900 range on the math score is the LAST thing that they would want to do. If a school is interested in distinguishing between two people who are already at 800 based on academic criteria (they aren't) then they have other ways of doing so - Math Olympiad scores and so on. But for the most part they aren't because this is not going to get them the kind of diversity that they want. Now that the S.Ct. has outlawed affirmative action they want to know this kind of information even less - what you don't know can't hurt you.
Steve-O, Gentlemen, we have another important anniversary to discuss.
Fifty-three years ago today, the black sports = American Sports movement Began in America…
https://www.boxingscene.com/on-this-day-ali-frazier-dawn-boxings-greatest-rivalry--181990
Semi related, and related to the discussion about the true violent crime rate in NYC:
Reformed (sic) ex-prisoner(sic)* charged after severed head found in apartment block
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/reformed-ex-prisoner-charged-after-severed-head-found-in-apartment-block/ar-BB1jywJv
A few interesting things about this story:
The perp, Sheldon Johnson, was some kind of justice system reform grifter who had appeared on Joe Rogan’s show just a week prior to his arrest.
If you put Johnson’s full name into DDG, the first several hits begin their headline with “Joe Rogan’s guest” – as is Joe Rogan is somehow connected to the murder.
Johnson had already served 25 years for attempted murder and robbery.
His victim was (possibly) presumably reported missing and would not have actually been included in homicide statistics until his/her remains were discovered – supporting the point made here several times that there are a great number of murders occurring in NYC that never make it into the homicide stats simply because there is no body.
*And notice the wording of the headline: “Reformed” – clearly not, and “ex-prisoner” as opposed to “convicted felon” like he was a victim of injustice as opposed to a dangerous violent offender.
I listen to Rogan's podcasts from time to time if he has on a guest I like or a topic I find interesting (his recent interview with Riley Gaines about trans men in women's sports was pretty good). I didn't listen to the one this reformed prisoner was on because I knew it was going to be 2 hours of system bashing drivel. Now I will probably give the episode a listen, in light of these new charges.
Is that Buzz Aldrin? I think that rocket went to the moon.
https://www.emilkirkegaard.com/p/what-do-ancient-genomes-show-aboutBasically, the core story is what you already know or expect:
-- hunter gatherers are "dumb" in our modern sense
-- the neolithic revolution kicked off a strong upward trend in intelligence (what we moderns think of as intelligence--i.e. not necessarily being a good tracker)
-- and civilization--trade, written language, money, social complexity--continued to select for those traits
-- autism travels along with this IQ selection
-- civilization also selects against schizophrenia (for more rational mentality)https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F41da714f-8a7f-447c-ab29-4b231416e15b_2252x1492.png
Good stuff, but my takehome is the obvious biggie: Agriculture and civilization select for intelligence, rationality, mental stability ... or at least they used to!
But the little wiggles--this age, that age--aren't really very reliable. They have a decent amount of data sets overall (2k), but when it comes to some particular times--like Iron age or Imperial--the uncertainty about the sample outweighs any sort of assertions you'd want to make about small variations from earlier/later samples.https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc50cf834-987e-43db-b233-c4fc010c08cb_1522x1342.pngReplies: @res, @Bill Jones
Thanks. Another source of uncertainty is how selected the ancient remains (presumably burials?) were. If they are disproportionally looking at elites in different times that would affect the results.
Baltimore had a basically stable population from 1950 to 1960, and New Orleans’ population actually grew 10% in the low-crime 1950s.
Then the Warren Court crime wave hit and the city lost more than a fifth of its population in 40 years, before Katrina. Now, after Katrina and the recovery, it is down to about 60% of its 1960 population.
And no one can argue that slide is due to lost auto jobs or to people fleeing a cold climate up north.Replies: @g-guido, @deep anonymous
A big factor in the depopulation of Baltimore was the 1968 riots. I don’t Baltimore ever recovered. The de-industrialization hit hard as well. In the 1960s, the largest employers were Bethlehem Steel (Sparrows Point was, IIRC, the second-largest steel mill in the world) and General Motors (there was a large assembly plant on Broening Highway), and there also were lots of smaller manufacturers. Today the largest employers are government and health care, e.g., Johns Hopkins and U. of Maryland.
BTW, I'd say most of the post-Katrina rebuilding was a mistake. Most of the city is below sea level--inherently a disaster waiting to happen. And with modern equipment, no large labor force is required to handle loading grain exports and assorted petro-chemical operations, most of which are somewhat upriver anyway.
The Feds should have simply bought out the below sea level flooded areas--where most blacks lived--demolish everything, make it (flood control) parkland and call it good. Whites attracted to the joint could rebuild, gentrify and the joint would be nicer. But America simply doesn't need a big New Orleans and relative to other cities it is indeed getting smaller.
Alternatively, we could designate Louisiana and Mississippi--throw in SE Arkansas and Memphis as well--the Black American Homeland, do some population swaps and move ahead with life.Replies: @The Anti-Gnostic, @Truth
I think that’s a great idea, not nearly large enough for 13%of the country’s population, but I will agree with it one ONE condition:
You have to be the one knocking on white people’s doors in Cajun Country, and Northern
Mississippi to tell them they have to leave…
(BTW, Memphis is a city).
“ As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man
There are only four things certain since Social Progress began.
That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,
And the burnt Fool’s bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire…”
And who would ever think the ability to do well on a three (vs. two) hour test would correlate with the ability to do well at college?Replies: @Jim Don Bob, @Jack D
This article on the digital adaptation suggests that, for instance, if you answer some Hispanic questions correctly, the test will ask you more Hispanic questions instead of more difficult racist YT questions. IOW, the adaptation may make the test dumber, which is the way I would bet. The reduction from 3 to 2 hours certainly points in that direction.
https://nypost.com/2024/03/07/opinion/the-college-board-is-dumbing-down-its-sat-again-test-doing-no-one-any-favors/
Of course I was staying at the Marriott, which was not in the worst part of town, but at that time I wasn't aware of New Orleans being a particularly high crime place.
Louisiana today actually seems to be the United States equivalent of Lebanon or Haiti as far as its politics and crime are concerned.
Interestingly the murder rate in Louisiana was extremely high even before the Civil War.
If you browse through Charles Dickens's American Notes (1842), the author was quite surprised how quickly people were moved to violence back in those days, with legislators beating each other and teenagers fighting deadly duels.
Of course you have to take into account the weather in Louisiana. It tends to be really hot and humid, and there is no cold, dark.winter to keep people at home in front of the hearth for a few months of the year.Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease, @Jack D, @Jay Fink
I bought a World Almanac as a kid in 1977. They had a list of state murder rates and Louisiana ranked #1. The more things change the more they stay the same.
If you want to get a fix on the ups and downs in the murder rate, you should hold black population constant. (E.g., by graphing just the black murder rate vs. the black population).
https://www.datacenterresearch.org/data-resources/who-lives-in-new-orleans-now/Replies: @Almost Missouri, @Erik L, @Rob Lee
“The Katrina Effect” was felt far and wide outside of LA, like a shockwave. My brother, living in Houston, Texas over the course of the Katrina debacle, felt compelled to up and move his then-pregnant wife and existing child over concerns of the influx of criminality spilling over from New Orleans and the surrounding environs. It got quite bad very quickly.
My brother moved his family north to a very rural part of west Wisconsin, where his kids adapted to riding their bikes alone down country roads, fishing alone in wild areas, and generally being allowed to be curious, intelligent and outgoing white youths – as it should be. A couple of years ago, when my aging parents got too old to defend themselves any longer in my hometown of Youngstown, Ohio, we promptly moved them up to live near my brother. Unfortunately, to this day my father can’t deescalate his learned behavior – after living for forty years on the ghettoized east side of Y-Town – to ever trust relaxing his guard around someone on the street again, even if they’re white.
Sadly, I know that variations of this white flight story are legion. And that’s my ‘cool story, Bro.’
the africans are a big factor, but perhaps less explored – how much of it is due to it having been French for a long time? how French is LA today, and also how French is the culture moving forward 200 years from the France -> US transition?
the French are worse managers than Anglos. the Spanish worse than the French. France is in worse shape than Germanic europe. New Mexico is one of America’s worst states and is more like Mexico than America. and so on.
Spain didn’t do much with Florida. it was up to germanic and scotch-irish rednecks to create the Florida we have today. but what if it wasn’t? Florida today could be filled with millions of democrat voting, mediocre productivity Spaniards who don’t run it that well and take 3 hour siestas in the middle of the workday as a normal, accepted part of the culture.
it’s an accident or coincidence of history that we have the Florida now that we have and not some poorly run Latin America legacy state.
And who would ever think the ability to do well on a three (vs. two) hour test would correlate with the ability to do well at college?Replies: @Jim Don Bob, @Jack D
They are claiming that the scores are equivalent. CB has the resources to do things like give both versions of the test to the same people and see how well the scores correlate and they claim that they correlate strongly.
The acceptance of the test is already on thin ice for the usual DIEversity reasons and so they probably didn’t think that this was a good time to change the scoring system and go for increased resolution or a higher ceiling. Raising the ceiling to 900 and getting a lot of Asians, a few whites and zero blacks in the 800-900 range on the math score is the LAST thing that they would want to do. If a school is interested in distinguishing between two people who are already at 800 based on academic criteria (they aren’t) then they have other ways of doing so – Math Olympiad scores and so on. But for the most part they aren’t because this is not going to get them the kind of diversity that they want. Now that the S.Ct. has outlawed affirmative action they want to know this kind of information even less – what you don’t know can’t hurt you.
Who cares about Louisiana when you’ve got NYC?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GIKRDc0WoAAGqN7?format=jpg
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/associate-da-alvin-bragg-arrested-murder-after-severed-head-found-freezer
It was a system designed by and for Englishmen.
It had a good run.
https://www.emilkirkegaard.com/p/what-do-ancient-genomes-show-aboutBasically, the core story is what you already know or expect:
-- hunter gatherers are "dumb" in our modern sense
-- the neolithic revolution kicked off a strong upward trend in intelligence (what we moderns think of as intelligence--i.e. not necessarily being a good tracker)
-- and civilization--trade, written language, money, social complexity--continued to select for those traits
-- autism travels along with this IQ selection
-- civilization also selects against schizophrenia (for more rational mentality)https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F41da714f-8a7f-447c-ab29-4b231416e15b_2252x1492.png
Good stuff, but my takehome is the obvious biggie: Agriculture and civilization select for intelligence, rationality, mental stability ... or at least they used to!
But the little wiggles--this age, that age--aren't really very reliable. They have a decent amount of data sets overall (2k), but when it comes to some particular times--like Iron age or Imperial--the uncertainty about the sample outweighs any sort of assertions you'd want to make about small variations from earlier/later samples.https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc50cf834-987e-43db-b233-c4fc010c08cb_1522x1342.pngReplies: @res, @Bill Jones
I thought I was Young Emile’s sole subscriber…
If the kid doesn't have a lot of toys or is creative, he may stack common household objects such as canned goods instead of blocks. Sometimes the best fun is from playing with improvised objects rather than something that is sold in a toy store.
In a still photo like this, it's impossible to distinguish between REPETITIVE stacking and completely normal child behavior. On its face there is nothing wrong with what that kid is doing. I wonder what the source of that photo was and whether the subject knows that he is now labeled as a world famous autist?Replies: @Frau Katze, @Reg Cæsar, @Pixo, @Alden
I agree about that photo. It’s common for kids to stack things up like that.
The French civil code!
Only English and Scotsmen could found the USA; a French-founded or Spanish-founded USA would have a very different national character. This is why old commenter Baloo used to remark that everyone likes to talk about the American proposition but has to downplay that only one ethnic group in human history dreamed up the proposition and fought for it.
"Never again!," of course, as the African-American, Arby's-American and Ellis Island-American historians will boast.
Not the cuckoo clock. That was Austria’s.
If someone did that to me, I might be so startled as to drop the person that I was holding, possibly from a great height.
If the kid doesn't have a lot of toys or is creative, he may stack common household objects such as canned goods instead of blocks. Sometimes the best fun is from playing with improvised objects rather than something that is sold in a toy store.
In a still photo like this, it's impossible to distinguish between REPETITIVE stacking and completely normal child behavior. On its face there is nothing wrong with what that kid is doing. I wonder what the source of that photo was and whether the subject knows that he is now labeled as a world famous autist?Replies: @Frau Katze, @Reg Cæsar, @Pixo, @Alden
Just as the unusual attraction of females to Pac-Man was attributed to its engulfing nature, so the similar success of Tetris– e.g., Hillary and Chelsea were addicted– was to its focus on order and neatness.
TETRIS APPEALS TO WOMEN
OT — Would rising anti-Semitism be as bad were Jews not constantly talking as though they were malignant controllers with some sort of malignant grand scheme to unfold, horror by horror?
“During Hurricane Katrina, Coast Guard rescuers were sometimes punched in the face by their victims.”
Not just during Katrina, and not just in Louisiana:
But in Lousiana, too:
Really crime--like immigration, fertility/eugenics--is an issue that gives you a window into whether a person understands anything--seriously anything--about civilization.
I've got a simple solution: Louisiana can punish criminals and "expand incarceration" at low cost for Louisianans. Execute the murderers. No fancy pants stuff, a length of good rope will do it. And incarceration without all that fancy concrete and HVAC stuff. A nice prison camp out--a few rows of high barbed wire fences, with motion detectors and some mean old dogs, with the good old boys in guard towers with shoot to kill orders ought to do it. Those nice steamy Louisiana summers spent on the chain gang out picking up trash or clearing drainage ditches or helping with repaving ought to help improve behavior--if improvement is possible.Replies: @PaceLaw, @Wade Hampton, @James N. Kennett, @Trinity, @anarchyst
Have you ever been to a state prison? Especially in states like Louisiana, Alabama, Texas, Georgia, Florida, etc? Real prisons. Not club feds. These places are horrific for anyone but for a White inmate, it is a nightmare.
Our prisons need to be run like those in Japan. Keep inmates isolated from each other.
Vlogger shares a video of poor white communities in Louisiana.
Generally sleepy communities, even when peppered with black people, relatively low on crime.
Another blogger shares a video of a poor, predominantly black community in Louisiana.
Generally an ultraviolent decrepit hellhole reminiscent of their relatives culture in Haiti, or Uganda. That is, black people with their hands permanently wrapped around each other’s throats.
Welcome to Shreveport!
Really crime--like immigration, fertility/eugenics--is an issue that gives you a window into whether a person understands anything--seriously anything--about civilization.
I've got a simple solution: Louisiana can punish criminals and "expand incarceration" at low cost for Louisianans. Execute the murderers. No fancy pants stuff, a length of good rope will do it. And incarceration without all that fancy concrete and HVAC stuff. A nice prison camp out--a few rows of high barbed wire fences, with motion detectors and some mean old dogs, with the good old boys in guard towers with shoot to kill orders ought to do it. Those nice steamy Louisiana summers spent on the chain gang out picking up trash or clearing drainage ditches or helping with repaving ought to help improve behavior--if improvement is possible.Replies: @PaceLaw, @Wade Hampton, @James N. Kennett, @Trinity, @anarchyst
There are two relatively unknown “finishing schools”, (colleges of a sort) for blacks here in the USA. One being Angola, Louisiana (Louisiana State Penitentiary) and the other being Parchman Farm, Mississippi (Mississippi State Penitentiary).
These two institutions are located on former slave plantations, but are now utilized as maximum-security prisons. In both places, fences are not needed for most of the inmate population. Being rurally located makes escape from custody difficult and futile.
Both institutions were created after slavery was abolished as criminal behavior by blacks skyrocketed after the slaves were given their freedom. (Sound familiar?)
These two institutions operate under the old “plantation system” to the point of using very little mechanized farm machinery. From cotton to soybeans to peas and corn, all are manually planted and harvested. The prison population is large enough in both institutions to make utilization of “human farm labor” feasible. Large farm equipment is unneeded.
Just maybe other states should follow in creating and implementing the “plantation system” for their prison populations. Keeping ’em busy and “down on the farm” might just be a feasible solution for our “obsolete farm implements”.
If the kid doesn't have a lot of toys or is creative, he may stack common household objects such as canned goods instead of blocks. Sometimes the best fun is from playing with improvised objects rather than something that is sold in a toy store.
In a still photo like this, it's impossible to distinguish between REPETITIVE stacking and completely normal child behavior. On its face there is nothing wrong with what that kid is doing. I wonder what the source of that photo was and whether the subject knows that he is now labeled as a world famous autist?Replies: @Frau Katze, @Reg Cæsar, @Pixo, @Alden
I agree, but the boy’s mother who uploaded the photo and released her rights to it identifies him as autistic. Here he is a few years later and identified as “primarily non verbal.”
https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Autism-quinn-with-bus.jpg#mw-jump-to-license
Steve may have made the point before, but one of the reasons NYC blacks aren’t as criminal as others is that NYC is so spectacularly expensive. So an unusual number of NYC blacks are middle class professionals. If you controlled your crime rate graph to be only “poor blacks” it would probably be an almost perfect correlation.
RayNagin was the epitome of affirmative action. So was the entire city government.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/associate-da-alvin-bragg-arrested-murder-after-severed-head-found-freezerReplies: @Alden
Joe Rohan made a hero of Sheldon Johnson He has a son convicted of murder. Astonishing for a black man, he knows at least one of his kids.
Mr. Sailer spun my dross into gold. I laughed out loud when I read his response.
Of course, the peak of human accomplishment is double entry bookkeeping invented by a 16th century Florentine Franciscan friar named Fr. Luca di Pacioli.
No less a giant of the human imagination than Goethe said the following about Fra Luca’s invention.
Pacioli was friends with and shared living accommodations with some guy named Leonardo. Some guy I guess. Probably made good polenta.
https://twitter.com/gunpolicy/status/1765898150462599483
https://twitter.com/gunpolicy/status/1765849982744121769
https://twitter.com/gunpolicy/status/1765825501824713155
https://twitter.com/gunpolicy/status/1765836546089820431Replies: @Art Deco, @Curle
She wasn’t a diversity hire. She was a nepot. Her father works in motion picuture production. (I think he may handle firearms on sets as well).
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Have you seen candid shots of her?
If the kid doesn't have a lot of toys or is creative, he may stack common household objects such as canned goods instead of blocks. Sometimes the best fun is from playing with improvised objects rather than something that is sold in a toy store.
In a still photo like this, it's impossible to distinguish between REPETITIVE stacking and completely normal child behavior. On its face there is nothing wrong with what that kid is doing. I wonder what the source of that photo was and whether the subject knows that he is now labeled as a world famous autist?Replies: @Frau Katze, @Reg Cæsar, @Pixo, @Alden
Little kids are always arranging things. The baby books claim it’s a good thing develops the brain, eye hand coordination or something. Little kids also like to stack things up and knock them down. It’s a big big world out there and endless things to learn between about 8 months and 3 years.
Autism is a complete lie and fraud. Just another woke faggot commie progressive fad. One good thing, an autism diagnosis gets a kid labeled an affirmative action oppressed disabled victim elegible for college admissions and other caste privileges that no other White is eligible for.
The choices seem motivated primarily by insurance coverage and creating work for Flux-specialists.Replies: @Jack D
Wikipedia: The earliest extant accounting records that follow the modern double-entry system in Europe come from Amatino Manucci, a Florentine merchant at the end of the 13th century.
There are crimes that are “no bail” even if the suspects are obvious flight risks?
In post-2019 New York, yes. One of the four people charged is a skell and obviously has no “community ties” such as might mitigate a flight risk. Actually the other three body-choppers are now homeless as well, as the police tore up their apartment so much in executing a search warrant that it’s now uninhabitable. They’ve been ordered to wear electronic location monitors, which I’m sure means nothing.
There’s now a bit of a political firestorm, with Governor Hochul claiming that the county DA is responsible for their release because he didn’t charge the four with murder, which would allow the imposition of cash bail, while the DA has fired back by pointing out he is ethically prohibited from charging people for crimes they didn’t commit. While there is evidence that the four dismembered the bodies and tried to hide the parts they did not commit the murders themselves.
I doubt that the Roman law origins of Louisiana’s current criminal and civil codes have much to do with the crime and disorder prevalent there. The differences these days are mostly minor – e.g., in the division of the marital estate they observe community property rather than dower and curtesy (also true in Texas and California, due to Spanish influence), and there is no division between courts of common law and of equity (also the case in the Federal court system and now in most states).
Note also that in many states having an Anglo-American common law heritage, there is no common law as such – it is all statutory.
The CDC "released" a 148 page study on myocarditis after COVID-19 "vaccination"
https://twitter.com/HansMahncke/status/1765852724606726557
Btw here's a link to the study LMAO
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24463984-cdc-moving-foiaReplies: @HA
“OT — Every page redacted; nothing says safe and effective like that.”
Yeah — don’t forget to compare it to the stuff the myocarditis the just-a-flu bros experienced by way of COVID itself. And more importantly, don’t forget to credit the guy who speed-rushed that vaccine onto the world. He’s not about to let that happen:
I have family in New Orleans and they don’t like it when I damn it with faint praise and say that New Orleans is a great three day weekend town. Because it is, good food and music, etc., but unless you’re a tourist there for just a few days the crumbling infrastructure, general dysfunction and palpable sense there is danger lurking is hard to take.
Saw a car with a bumper sticker there “Louisiana, third world and proud of it”.
https://nypost.com/2024/03/07/opinion/the-college-board-is-dumbing-down-its-sat-again-test-doing-no-one-any-favors/Replies: @res
Thanks. This seems scary. Would love to see a list of questions and their DIF results.
Then there is this.
GWAS studies with huge modern population sample sizes identify IQ and educational attainment genes.
Then we look at the frequency of such genes in ancient samples.
Iceland has the best data overall and it shows genetic intelligence dropping fast, mainly because high IQ women have been failing to reproduce for 100+ years.
They made huge advances in accounting.
All Venetian ideas. Now you’re stepping into intra-Italian rivalry. Most Italians consider Florentines overrated artists with a gift for self-promotion.
Macchiavelli was a genius, agree, but his Republic failed and he was driven into exile.
Also Wikipedia: “ In the course of the 16th century, Venice produced the theoretical accounting science by the writings of Luca Pacioli, Domenico Manzoni, Bartolomeo Fontana, the accountant Alvise Casanova[4] and the erudite Giovanni Antonio Tagliente.”
Tired of hearing how the justice system disproportionally targets people of color. If they didn’t do the crime they wouldn’t be doing the time. They’re criminal scum, plain and simple.
Apple don’t fall far from the tree.
https://twitter.com/gunpolicy/status/1765898150462599483
https://twitter.com/gunpolicy/status/1765849982744121769
https://twitter.com/gunpolicy/status/1765825501824713155
https://twitter.com/gunpolicy/status/1765836546089820431Replies: @Art Deco, @Curle
So if one wants more info on the DSAC portal you have to search online thus justifying listing in the portal.
Somebody needs to tell these drooling Stasis that illegal immigrants vote Republican: the border will be secure overnight and a database will be in place and every Mara will have a non-removable RFID chip in their left femur.
Autism is a function of overly fast genetic change, the Neanderthal wild card and consequences of race mixing (Germans weren’t wrong). See articles below.
Researchers found that the highest absolute risk of autism among siblings was in mixed racial/ethnic groups.”
https://www.psychiatryadvisor.com/home/topics/autism-spectrum-disorders/autism-does-race-sex-affect-risk-of-younger-siblings-with-affected-older-siblings/
https://neurosciencenews.com/neuroscience-evolution-genetics-autism-4778/
“In the new study, researchers determined that this structure, located at a region on chromosome 16 designated 16p11.2, first appeared in our ancestral genome about 280,000 years ago, shortly before modern humans, Homo sapiens, emerged. This organization is not seen in any other primate – not chimps, gorillas, orangutans nor the genomes of our closest relatives, the Neanderthals and Denisovans. Yet today, despite the fact that the structure is a relatively new genetic change, it is found in genomes of humans the world over.”
“Most duplications in our genome are millions of years old, and the speed at which this structure transformed our genome is unprecedented,” said co-author Eichler, a professor of genome sciences and an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.”
“The wide and rapid distribution of these copy-number variants suggests the genes within the repetitive sections confer benefit that outweigh the disadvantages that come with the increased risk of autism in some offspring, should deletion occur.”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6708733/
“Population-based cohort study of 1998–2007 livebirths from California, Denmark, Finland, Israel, Sweden and Western Australia followed through 2011–2015. Subjects were monitored for an ASD diagnosis in their older siblings or cousins (exposure) and for their own ASD diagnosis (outcome). The relative recurrence risk was estimated for different sibling- and cousin-pairs, for each site separately and combined, and by sex.”
“Results:”
“During follow-up, 29,998 cases of ASD were observed among the 2,551,918 births used to estimate recurrence in ASD and 33,769 cases of childhood autism (CA) were observed among the 6,110,942 births used to estimate CA recurrence. Compared to the risk in unaffected families, we observed an 8.4-fold increase in the risk of ASD following an older sibling with ASD and an 17.4-fold increase in the risk of CA following an older sibling with CA. A 2-fold increase in the risk for cousin recurrence was observed for both disorders. We also found a significant difference in sibling ASD recurrence risk by sex.” if it sounds trite, according to my observations, so-called autism or autistic spectrum spread only with the vaccination campaigns. It began in Europe with the compulsory smallpox vaccination after the Second World War, with widespread massive complications and side effects (which were hushed up). It continued with the triple vaccination against measles, rubella and mumps, without which children were not allowed to attend nurseries or schools. As these vaccinations are given at a very early age, a before-and-after comparison is hardly possible and families can only conclude that such conditions did not exist in previous generations. Nowadays, almost every adult has been vaccinated as a child and there is no comparison with “the past”. However, European (Western) parents who come to Africa are amazed at how vital and healthy the children there are, who have been spared prophylactic immunisations for cost reasons. Remember: it is better to have many children, one or two of whom fall victim to a disease, than just one who was never really healthy.
Despite significant progress in the study of the epidemiology and genetics of autism, the etiology and patho-physiology of this condition is far from being elucidated and no curative treatment currently exists. Although solid scientific research continues, in an attempt to find explanations and solutions, a number of nonscientific and pure myths about autism have emerged. Myths that vaccines or mercury are associated with autism have been amplified by misguided scientists; frustrated, but effective parent groups; and politicians. Preventing the protection provided by vaccination or administration of mercury-chelating agents may cause real damage to autistic individuals and to innocent bystanders who as a result may be exposed to resurgent diseases that had already been “extinguished. ” That such myths flourish is a consequence of the authority of scientific evidence obtained by scientific methodology losing ground to alternative truths and alternative science. This article presents a narrative of the origin of the myths around autism.Replies: @Curle
Here’s the original vaccine theory comment I’m responding to negatively. Apologies to anyone who was confused.
“if it sounds trite, according to my observations, so-called autism or autistic spectrum spread only with the vaccination campaigns. It began in Europe with the compulsory smallpox vaccination after the Second World War, with widespread massive complications and side effects (which were hushed up). It continued with the triple vaccination against measles, rubella and mumps, without which children were not allowed to attend nurseries or schools. As these vaccinations are given at a very early age, a before-and-after comparison is hardly possible and families can only conclude that such conditions did not exist in previous generations. Nowadays, almost every adult has been vaccinated as a child and there is no comparison with “the past”. However, European (Western) parents who come to Africa are amazed at how vital and healthy the children there are, who have been spared prophylactic immunisations for cost reasons. Remember: it is better to have many children, one or two of whom fall victim to a disease, than just one who was never really healthy.”
Until fairly recent times, lengthy imprisonment could de facto mean death, as prisons were unhealthy places. “Gaol fever”, which seems to have been typhus, regularly killed off large numbers of prisoners in England, and sometimes killed officials when prisoners were brought to court.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5789217/
Despite significant progress in the study of the epidemiology and genetics of autism, the etiology and patho-physiology of this condition is far from being elucidated and no curative treatment currently exists. Although solid scientific research continues, in an attempt to find explanations and solutions, a number of nonscientific and pure myths about autism have emerged. Myths that vaccines or mercury are associated with autism have been amplified by misguided scientists; frustrated, but effective parent groups; and politicians. Preventing the protection provided by vaccination or administration of mercury-chelating agents may cause real damage to autistic individuals and to innocent bystanders who as a result may be exposed to resurgent diseases that had already been “extinguished. ” That such myths flourish is a consequence of the authority of scientific evidence obtained by scientific methodology losing ground to alternative truths and alternative science. This article presents a narrative of the origin of the myths around autism.
“Based on data from more than 13,000 individuals with autism and 210,000 undiagnosed individuals, we estimated the odds ratios for autism associated to rare loss-of-function (LoF) variants in 185 genes associated with autism, alongside 2,492 genes displaying intolerance to LoF variants.”Replies: @Curle, @Corvinus
Like school test scores, stuff like this is just a measure of where the general level of human capital is high – or not. In the former, you can afford to have fewer societal guardrails, in the latter they are critical or things get pretty bad very quickly.
>Popeye's
Not bonafied, Jack.Replies: @Jack D
Bonafried?
Living in a Joseph Heller novel.
Somebody needs to tell these drooling Stasis that illegal immigrants vote Republican: the border will be secure overnight and a database will be in place and every Mara will have a non-removable RFID chip in their left femur.
TETRIS APPEALS TO WOMENReplies: @Jack D, @Alden
AFAIK, playing with blocks appeals to both boys and girls. It would be interesting to see though whether there are differences in the type of structures that they build with them. Do boys build more towers? Are the structures built by girls lower but more symmetrical or neater?
They have always been able to (and still will be able to) force a normal distribution onto the scores by means of the conversion of the raw score to the scaled score. For example, even in the old test the conversion was different for each version of the test so if one version was slightly harder than another the scaled scores would still be comparable.
“This tradition of corruption, crime, and violence has spanned three centuries in Louisiana…”.
(David Hackett Fischer)
Hardly surprising and yet another example of how an excess of social diversity can breed social chaos. Though geographically considered a Southern state, culturally (if not linguistically) Louisiana has a tradition of being one of the most diverse states in America with little resemblance to the rest of the Scotch-Irish / Tidewater South.
He only knew about because he read about him in the paper.
https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/gwinnettdailypost.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/3/b2/3b22e43e-7cea-5e35-bc24-866cf7861057/56bd0f349da2c.image.jpgReplies: @The Anti-Gnostic
The notion that Law pre-exists the State and is found by judges who then apply it as precedent (the law “common” to the nation of England) is a global minority view. It follows naturally from this view that rights are inherent and not just privileges granted by the State.
Only English and Scotsmen could found the USA; a French-founded or Spanish-founded USA would have a very different national character. This is why old commenter Baloo used to remark that everyone likes to talk about the American proposition but has to downplay that only one ethnic group in human history dreamed up the proposition and fought for it.
“Never again!,” of course, as the African-American, Arby’s-American and Ellis Island-American historians will boast.
Prior to the Civil War, General Sherman was the superintendent of the Louisiana State Seminary of Learning and Military Academy, which eventually became Louisiana State University.
Despite significant progress in the study of the epidemiology and genetics of autism, the etiology and patho-physiology of this condition is far from being elucidated and no curative treatment currently exists. Although solid scientific research continues, in an attempt to find explanations and solutions, a number of nonscientific and pure myths about autism have emerged. Myths that vaccines or mercury are associated with autism have been amplified by misguided scientists; frustrated, but effective parent groups; and politicians. Preventing the protection provided by vaccination or administration of mercury-chelating agents may cause real damage to autistic individuals and to innocent bystanders who as a result may be exposed to resurgent diseases that had already been “extinguished. ” That such myths flourish is a consequence of the authority of scientific evidence obtained by scientific methodology losing ground to alternative truths and alternative science. This article presents a narrative of the origin of the myths around autism.Replies: @Curle
Here’s a 2024 article which makes the genetics case through its discussion of progressive gains narrowing the search for loss of function variants. Progress which could not have happened had research into genetic origins not already reached proof of concept stage which did not occur with vaccine theory. Once the problem is understood to be genetic it by necessity introduces the parental question.
“Based on data from more than 13,000 individuals with autism and 210,000 undiagnosed individuals, we estimated the odds ratios for autism associated to rare loss-of-function (LoF) variants in 185 genes associated with autism, alongside 2,492 genes displaying intolerance to LoF variants.”
I never questioned whether autism does NOT have a genetic component. Genetics, differences in brain anatomy, and toxic substances in the environment are thought to contribute to children developing autism.
What i am questioning the myth that vaccines play a definitive role in causing autism.
“Based on data from more than 13,000 individuals with autism and 210,000 undiagnosed individuals, we estimated the odds ratios for autism associated to rare loss-of-function (LoF) variants in 185 genes associated with autism, alongside 2,492 genes displaying intolerance to LoF variants.”Replies: @Curle, @Corvinus
https://idp.nature.com/authorize?response_type=cookie&client_id=grover&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nature.com%2Farticles%2Fs41591-023-02408-2
“Based on data from more than 13,000 individuals with autism and 210,000 undiagnosed individuals, we estimated the odds ratios for autism associated to rare loss-of-function (LoF) variants in 185 genes associated with autism, alongside 2,492 genes displaying intolerance to LoF variants.”Replies: @Curle, @Corvinus
The article is from 2023.
I never questioned whether autism does NOT have a genetic component. Genetics, differences in brain anatomy, and toxic substances in the environment are thought to contribute to children developing autism.
What i am questioning the myth that vaccines play a definitive role in causing autism.
The following statement included above along with my preceding comment disputing the vaccine theory was composed by another commenter on another UNZ post and it is the comment I’m responding to with the immediately preceding, and contradictory, text asserting authority for the genetic theory which I make clear in the introduction. The prior commenter’s pro vaccine comment was erroneously included with my comment as if it was an extension of my comment. The original exchange is on the Kevin Barrett page. I believe the vaccine theory is nonsense.
Here’s the original vaccine theory comment I’m responding to negatively. Apologies to anyone who was confused.
“if it sounds trite, according to my observations, so-called autism or autistic spectrum spread only with the vaccination campaigns. It began in Europe with the compulsory smallpox vaccination after the Second World War, with widespread massive complications and side effects (which were hushed up). It continued with the triple vaccination against measles, rubella and mumps, without which children were not allowed to attend nurseries or schools. As these vaccinations are given at a very early age, a before-and-after comparison is hardly possible and families can only conclude that such conditions did not exist in previous generations. Nowadays, almost every adult has been vaccinated as a child and there is no comparison with “the past”. However, European (Western) parents who come to Africa are amazed at how vital and healthy the children there are, who have been spared prophylactic immunisations for cost reasons. Remember: it is better to have many children, one or two of whom fall victim to a disease, than just one who was never really healthy.”
The present mayor got in some trouble for flying internationally first class (think multiple times) and charging it to the city and defending it by saying it’s not safe for a black woman to fly economy.
Autism is a complete lie and fraud. Just another woke faggot commie progressive fad. One good thing, an autism diagnosis gets a kid labeled an affirmative action oppressed disabled victim elegible for college admissions and other caste privileges that no other White is eligible for.Replies: @Hypnotoad666
Except in the extremely severe and obvious cases, I agree. When I look at modern psych all I see is an exercise in labeling hard-to-quantify groups of symptoms into arbitrary buckets with zero understanding of causation or mechanisms. It’s about as scientific as medieval doctors pronouncing you have “the Flux.”
The choices seem motivated primarily by insurance coverage and creating work for Flux-specialists.
Meanwhile, four people - two men and two women, three of them white and one Hispanic - have been arrested and charged with concealing a corpse and evidence tampering. They are not suspected in the actual murders but clearly know the person who did it and all the circumstances. In any event, all four had to be released without bail, because under New York's 2019 bail "reform" law the charges are both no-bail offenses, notwithstanding that both are felonies and the defendants are tied into a double homicide.
I'm sure all four are at least a thousand miles away by now.Replies: @Mr. XYZ, @Erik L, @Bill Jones
Why would they run away when sentences like this are handed out to things like this?
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/harvards-oddities-collector-gets-probation-after-unlawful-trafficking-human-body-parts
Since drug use is criminal behaviour, this explains nothing, it’s the petitio principii fallacy.
The choices seem motivated primarily by insurance coverage and creating work for Flux-specialists.Replies: @Jack D
Back in the days when Freudianism was in fashion, they used to tell mothers that the cause of autism was insufficient parental attachment or something, which made these poor women feel incredibly guilty.
TBH, we still know very little about the inner workings of the brain and whatever explanation is being used today is probably about as accurate as possession by evil spirits or insufficient parental attachment and is more of a reflection on current society than it is anything having to do with science.
Nowadays it is fashionable to say that autism is a spectrum disorder and so a very large range of children (and increasingly adults) can be labeled as “autistic” and maybe somebody can make money off of this labeling. And if everybody is a little bit autistic then the label becomes meaningless. But the classic autism (child presents as normal up until around age 2 and then heartbreaking regresses and loses his ability to speak and retreats from human interaction) is clearly some sort of brain disease or condition (whose causes remain unknown).
That was always a deficiency of detection. Kid doesn’t say anything for two years, oh well. Researchers are making huge strides in the field of genetic causation because the behaviors can and are being reliably associated with distinct genetic markers that fit comfortably within a broader body of genetic research work. If you’ve ever spent time with the more severely affected autistic adults and their families the traits become even apparent when a sibling displays minor manifestations of traits that are debilitating for the other child. And as genetic research is showing it runs in families. Further, once the interracial correspondence to increased prevalence is pointed out it can’t be ignored when in groups of parents with institutionalized kids. As a para-educator at local school district told me when asked about the percentage of her autistic children that were multiracial, the answer was “all of them”. Sometimes the Hispanic/white kids are hard to identify by looks alone, sometimes only a grandparent, but if you pry you will find out it is there.
Nowadays they say that only 1/3 of autistic kids exhibit regression but that's because they have defined autism to include a much larger group to begin with.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4949854/#:~:text=A%20little%20is%20known%20about,play%20skills%20are%20also%20affected.Replies: @Curle
I have never liked the fact Attempted Murder carried a lesser sentence than murder. It should be Intended Murder, because the suspect intended to kill their victim, but the victim survived due to luck or other reasons.
I listen to Rogan’s podcasts from time to time if he has on a guest I like or a topic I find interesting (his recent interview with Riley Gaines about trans men in women’s sports was pretty good). I didn’t listen to the one this reformed prisoner was on because I knew it was going to be 2 hours of system bashing drivel. Now I will probably give the episode a listen, in light of these new charges.
Look, peoples’ personal chefs drown all the time, drowning is a standard hazard in the kitchens of the Democrat elite.
That’s not the classic presentation of autism. The classic syndrome is that the kid is progressing normally, talking like a normal 2 year old and then he quite suddenly regresses and quits talking and loses other skills as well. It’s very heartbreaking to parents because they have a seemingly normal kid for 2 years and then one day it’s like he has been infected or poisoned or something and it all goes to hell.
Nowadays they say that only 1/3 of autistic kids exhibit regression but that’s because they have defined autism to include a much larger group to begin with.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4949854/#:~:text=A%20little%20is%20known%20about,play%20skills%20are%20also%20affected.
I’m not really sure autism comes in ‘classic’ and non-classic forms but I think the above puts the matter we seem to be debating into context.
Honestly for a black person to drown is not unusual. Once they fall into the water, they are negatively buoyant and sink like stones.
… what the hell … are you saying this has an Israeli angle, Counselor?
Plus most blacks don’t know how to swim at all.
Drug addiction is a supply-side phenomenon.
To take away the supply, one has to remove the suppliers, with arrests. Mankind will always be prone to opioid addiction, and fentanyl and the other new synthetics (which don't respond to narcan), assure that street drugs will never again be safe.
We lost 112,000 last year that we have stats for to overdoses. We only lost 58,000 in the entire Vietnam War that Boomers harped on for twenty years. The desire for opioid lead to so much more fraud, theft, stealing from family members and friends, burglaries, and prostitution. They turn once ordinary-people into scumbags who lie and steal constantly. Meth has about the same effect. Remove the supply, by removing the suppliers.Replies: @Chris Mallory
As long as you have demand, you will always have someone to supply it.
Nowadays they say that only 1/3 of autistic kids exhibit regression but that's because they have defined autism to include a much larger group to begin with.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4949854/#:~:text=A%20little%20is%20known%20about,play%20skills%20are%20also%20affected.Replies: @Curle
https://psychcentral.com/autism/autism-nonverbal
I’m not really sure autism comes in ‘classic’ and non-classic forms but I think the above puts the matter we seem to be debating into context.
I doubt the long-term viability of any state that sells 80 proof liquor in gas stations (next to the slot machines) as Louisiana does. That said, Cajuns are surprisingly competent, maybe they don’t have the regular Scotts-Irish vulnerability to ethanol.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/passengers-boycott-boeing-death-traps-use-kayak-plane-filter
I remember reading Charles Hugh Smith’s collapse model that describes above-type processes where a hollowing out of a system’s safety margins go unnoticed until the candy jar falls off the Seneca cliff.
I’m sure George Soros would be appalled at the reversal of his policies. But what are his ultimate ends?
I’ve put forth the theory that Soros may be a Galtonesque eugenicist in goodjew clothing. I’ve never received much of a rebuttal.
Consider that Soros as late as his 70s possessed obvious superlative intelligence. He made a fortune racking up 25% a year, earning him a spot as one of the most successful fund managers in history. He achieved this by correctly predicting, year after year, the vagaries of financial markets, among man’s most complex systems.
To believe that Soros is a foibling left-warped effete, you would have to posit that the man who understood what effect a war in Yugoslavia would have on the interest rates the Bundesbank set, to a tradable accuracy, somehow overlooked the effect that letting violent recidivists walk would have on the local murder rate.
Not hugely plausible.
More likely, a man of Soros’ intelligence understood that crime is heavily Pareto skewed — either you don’t do crime or crime’s all you do. And recognizing the black community as posing what Mencious Moldbug termed the “dire problem”, an insoluble mess that only increases in grotesquery with fertile time, he set out to implement what no one before him had even dared consider: breeding a new kind of black American through eugenics.
The only ones who might even countenance such an extreme goal would be perhaps Soros’ old Hungarian SS friends or The Order style right-wing blowhards whose only visible social accomplishments have been expanding the payroll at the FBI. So what is an aspiring final solutionist to do?
Being a Manhattan Jew, Soros realized that maybe the gravest enemies to The Cause could be rendered into the vehicle of its very delivery. What if through harebrained leftist policy initiatives inner-city crime rates could be nitrous injected to the point where black population growth stopped or reversed? The participants in gang-related mass shootings are largely other gangbangers, these representing maybe the top 10% most violent blacks. If he could get those hyper-violent superpredators killing each other at sufficiently high rates, you would see a drop off in their fertility — most of these perps are mid teens to 30 or so — as well as an eventual reduction in crime as the A-list criminals crossfire themselves into extinction.
Sustained for perhaps 50-100 years, this caldron of nationwide 100/100k ghetto murder rates would eventually cull the most violent and psychopathic elements from the black American genome, leaving a more docile if still problematic race. It would all be a simple matter of enacting the policies from which, sure as the sun rises, war-zone murder rates flow.
You’re overthinking this. He wants to see the world burn.
once again i note the historical ruler factor. Jamaica sucks, but it’s not Haiti. similar people, outcomes significantly different. who established and ran Jamaica? now, who for Haiti?
the entire planet is fortunate that Britain mostly prevailed in the 300 year global battle for control of the world. and not the other competitors.
the entire planet is fortunate that Britain mostly prevailed in the 300 year global battle for control of the world. and not the other competitors.Replies: @Art Deco
The highest quality of life in the Caribbean is found in Guadeloupe and Martinique.
A Mexican told me that that’ country’s rulers have successfully kept the people of (((ellipses))) from gaining control of the oil companies and the media. The last claim seems true on the surface as the state owned oil company seems to use its money to make Mexican politicians rich rather than internationalist swindlers, er excuses me, “the forces of capitalism.” And Mexican media seems free of woke. Anyway, has being a Spanish colony hurt them contrasted to where they would had they been British?
Read Sam Israel’s book Octopus where he claims that George Soros taught an entire generation of Jewish Wall Street traders insider trading. Criminals always look like geniuses if they’ve paid off the DA. Paying protection money in the form of ‘contributions’ to Lefties is just a business expense. For conservatives he can ignore them knowing they don’t understand leverage as demonstrated by their willingness to characterize his rackets as financial genius.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_culture_in_Mexico
TETRIS APPEALS TO WOMENReplies: @Jack D, @Alden
My sons were absolutely addicted to PAC Man. Girls never played it. Why don’t you start your own website IHateWhiteWomen .com