I never attack somebody for not taking a stand at something.
 

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After all, comparing the merits of poets writing in different languages is a completely objective enterprise. Follow the Science!

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We have a system of international property law that’s analogous to domestic property law. Sure, Ukraine is not much of a country, but it qualifies as a country, so expropriating part or all of it is a crime.

Incredible. Sailer managed to write two sentences where every word is LOL. He's really working on the ultimate weapon(Monty Python).

Could it be boomer envy? He was voted the top boomer, but Scott Adams out-boomered him with his Covid-rants.

But with this boomer-tier logic, he's close to topping Adams in boomer 'logic'.

On a more serious note, yes, it would be a crime by international law IF Russia decided to wake up one day and grab a chunk of it.
But within the context of what happened since 2014, the US is in no position to judge.

If my neighbor wakes up one day and takes a piece of my backyard, that's criminal.
But if for 8 yrs, I used a part of my backyard to toss garbage and shit on his property and threaten him day and night, he would be justified in taking that chunk of property.

Also, what international law? Where are sanctions against Israel for occupying West Bank after taking the core of Palestine?

Gimme a break about this 'law'.

It's like the guys in DELIVERANCE. Yes, they committed a crime by burying what they did. But given one of the guys was ass-raped by the thugs, they had to take the law into their hands.
US illegally occupies Syria and steals oil, but the EU never calls out on it. These are gangsters and weasels. And yet, to outdo Adam's Boomermania, Sailer is comparing Putin to Kendi X(ROTFL) and calling foul on some 'crime'.

The law? Antifa and BLM are allowed to burn down the country but 1/6 rioters rot in jail. And yet, Sailer tells us about the 'law'. Total boomer stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnHedUTJF9I&ab_channel=cadmanwells

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What a sparse list for a supposed great civilization.
 

Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @Sam Haysom

There is a US missile base in Poland opening later this year and it would be 300 seconds hypersonic flight time from Moscow
 

Replies: @ic1000, @Buzz Mohawk, @Dieter Kief, @Sean, @Sam Haysom

Oh shit I forgot you're a troll. Pardon me.

what's there when you need it most?
cope!
what beats hangng from a rope?
cope!
why get strung out on dope?
cope!
what outlasts even hope?
cope!

This fucking number writes itself. Can I get a choreographer?

Replies: @Sam Haysom

No. This just proves we're all mind-fucked. Any argument asserting a right can only be seen even by the least woke Westerners as an appeal to the sentiments behind "equity". Putin gets us alright--that's the problem with being the world's preening metropole of monoculture, there's no hiding--but that's more evident in his trolling us with the "de-Natizification" of Ukraine business--which demonstrates even further this rot in our ability to understand. In Russia invoking Nazis in this context is very different from ours now--it's frankly red meat demagogy harking back to the defense of the homeland still in living memory. And we respond with a thousand reaction videos about "woke Putin". I can just hear Paul Joseph friggin Watson now...

Starts with a C, ends with an E, sing it with me!

C-O-P-E!

Replies: @Sam Haysom

Perhaps Russia (not just Putin - but a lot of Russians) have gotten a little sick and tired of the villification they have come in for from western elites and western media, who casually dole out insults at Russia and Russians without even thinking.

John McCain - an influential American Senator and Presidential candidate - once said that Russia is a "gas station masquerading as a country". Gee,............Tchaikovsky, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, Borodin, Pushkin....................nah, that ain't Russia.

Russia is just a "gas station".

Or consider how Russia is portrayed in Western (especially American) media. Like in the recent movie Red Sparrow. Russians are inevitably portrayed as creeps, thugs, gangsters, perverts, etc. Russians were actually portrayed much more sympathetically during the Cold War than afterwards.

That might begin to make an impression after a few decades.

Replies: @Alden, @Sam Haysom, @Ben tillman

"it was a golden opportunity where the United States briefly enjoyed a semblance of unipolarity"

In which a horde of American and British bankers, corporations, speculators, dealers, and conmen flooded into the former Soviet Union to rob, rape, and pillage. Some of this activity was given a veneer of legality. And in the aftermath of the Soviet collapse crushing poverty hit like sludge hammer, leaving in its wake abandoned children and teens eagerly scooped up by Russian-Israeli gangsters to serve out whatever was left of their lives in sexual servitude. Yes, it was a golden time for America.

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The Nineties appears pitched at such a high intellectual level
 

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But if the Deep State or whomever was controlling all political leaders by threatening to reveal their sexual inclinations, why are they also working to make practically every fetish celebrated? The State Department and CIA, for instance, are big promoters of Gay Pride Month. The reason so many people theorize these days about pedophiles in power is that's the only type of sexual orientation we are still allowed to be disgusted by.

For example, I've been pointing out for almost two decades that the sexual fetish of autogynephilia is behind much of the transgender mania, but practically nobody notices. Everybody just thinks the autogynephiles are Brave.

Replies: @JimDandy, @James J O'Meara, @Sam Haysom, @TelfoedJohn, @J.Ross

A polemicist tells you what to think.

A persuader (Steve) lays out all the facts and lets you draw the inevitable conclusions. It's better that way.

Replies: @Citizen of a Silly Country, @Reg Cæsar, @Sam Haysom

But the old religion was a new religion once. Are you arguing that the early Christianity of James, Peter, and Paul nudged weak people into being liars, generated corruption, encouraged terrible public policies and eroded longstanding traditions the support society?

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Sailer's is the go-to place for civic nationalism and credentialist subservience.

Despite all the evidence in every country in the West almost no-one accepts that Pol Pot was right.

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It's between Sailer boy and his closet. Isn't he aiming for the Marc Steyn sweet-spot?

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hmm but there was a Cold War a conflict he later said was vital for the USA to win, and Cheney never volunteered or entered an ROTC program like PJB who was heading to be an infantry officer until his knee injury.

Cheney's non-service in any form during the Cold War which was running hot in some places such as Korea's DMZ and the Cuban missile crisis, undercuts this moral and leadership credibility.

What Cheney avoided in Korea in the 1960's
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hpFsKqaIuc

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My dentist pitched for Columbia, and he's a great dentist and my friend. Does that count? I would embarrass you in front of women at parties, and that's more important than sports.

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Given that love, and the attention played to football in this country, it would be highly unlikely that football coaches would be anything but the best at what they do.

Has to be one of the most highly competitive positions in the world, probably even more competitive than becoming a professional athlete.

Really good article by the way and very interesting.

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The truth is, most of 1960's youth rebellion was just 1950's youth rebellion, but 10 years later. I.e., you did things your parents didn't like mostly because your parents didn't like them, but by your late 20's or early 30's, the influence of your parents mostly won out, especially when you started raising children of your own. This is my remembrance. The most devastating cultural aspect of the 1960's was the divorce epidemic that began catching on with larger segments of non-revolutionary middle class America. That was the left's true ideological accomplishment of the decade, not the music. It was devastating because, again, children mostly follow in their parents' footsteps. A close second was the establishment of the drug culture.

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They also demand mass repeated, constant, eternal vaccination. And that everything be shut down. And that everyone wear the Mask of Obedience.

HBD pundits walk hand in hand with the dumb-dumb crazy leftists. It tapped into some weird similar neurosis. Although to be fair, the leftists knew they were just trying to get rid of Trump at the start.

Replies: @Sam Haysom, @Occasional lurker, @Mr. Anon

not a good was to parse Denzel: his problem, like John Wayne's, is he possesses a narrow range as an actor and simply does not have the chops to do the difficult roles--and Shakespeare is difficult!

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It wasn’t an argument.

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Uhm, personal experience. I am not going to demonize all women in toto, but yeah this is true. The stats on e.g. the voting patterns are also undeniable - women vote Democrat much more often. Why are you acting so surprised and personally offended ?

Replies: @Mr. Anon, @Gordo, @GoRedWings!, @Rosie, @Anon, @Sam Haysom

Every summer, here in Boston, one regularly sees reports of low income, i.e., non-White, kids, teenagers and young adults choosing to swim in situations that more experienced swimmers would probably avoid. A minimal ability to swim coupled with low intelligence, lack of impulse control, and a grandiose sense of self-confidence is a recipe for disaster.

Unfortunately, Steve's proposed targets for swimming lessons are likely to drop out after learning the basics and not regularly perform the practice and other drudgery, which are needed to enhance and maintain basic skills. However, these same individuals are also likely to have an inflated sense of their swimming ability. This is very likely to get them in trouble when choosing swimming spots and showing off with friends.

Replies: @vhrm, @Sam Haysom, @International Jew

It's a matter of saving face. I see people on the right doing it as well. Cops and prosecutors do this all the time, which is how innocent people end up being convicted. When you have established a position and then the facts turn out not to favor your position, it's a natural human thing not to just admit that you were wrong. You've psychologically invested in your position and to admit that you were wrong might make you seem foolish to other people.

So instead, you invent conspiracies, you insist that what happened was a false flag operation, etc. This is just how our brains work. If the facts don't fit our pre-conceived notions, then the facts must be wrong, not our notions. It takes a brutal amount of fact finding to dislodge those notions.

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In the old days, guys used to join Leftist movements just for the access to sex. Crazy chicks like this are wild in bed and they have no inhibitions about putting out for their fellow revolutionaries. Maybe I have been locked up for too long, but some of those female protesters looked pretty good - blonde and tanned and in shape and wearing body conscious exercise clothes, not the usual tattooed land whales with blue hair. Of course you should stay away from crazy chicks, but then again you should also stay away from lots of things - motorcycles, sky diving, jet-skis, etc.

Replies: @Sam Haysom, @Being locked up has its perks, @Abolish_public_education, @Charles Erwin Wilson

Eventually, just like in the 1990s, people will get sick enough of the crime to elect politicians who will enact a repeat of the policies that made NYC safe again. One hopes that DeBlasio is a repeat of mayor Dinkins, not mayor Lindsay, so the decline won’t last so long.
 

Replies: @Sam Haysom, @Reg Cæsar, @Buck Ransom, @Redman

Optimistic and cheerful my ass. A Jewish genius and a Magic Negro save the day. Talk about culture distortion.
 

Replies: @Bumpkin, @Sam Haysom

Remember Lee Smith, who pitched for the Cubs and several other teams? Here is his daughter Alanna, speaking out against Connecticut's permitting mentally ill, self-maimed boys to compete against girls in high school sports:

https://s.hdnux.com/photos/01/12/50/43/19564764/7/gallery_xlarge.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxZe2zYAjXk

For those who have problems with Miss Smith's mixed-race descent, listen to Selina Soule, who has a Mayflower surname:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btRSrk-fd5M

What we have here is two mentally ill black boys backed by an army of mentally ill white bureaucrats.

Replies: @Charon, @Sam Haysom, @jon, @Jack Armstrong

Costco will sell you a breathalyzer that plugs into your auto ignition so that you can't drunk drive your own car. Costco only carries a narrow range of popular items, which suggests that's a common thing.

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No they aren't. Sexually, homosexuals are women and they're just as turned on by violent Muslim youths, especially since those youths don't consider buggery sex and are very willing to do the honors in those wooded areas where you can't take your children.

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In one case a very elderly man, perhaps in his eighties, walking with the aid of a cane, appears to be waiting for a bus, obviously no threat to anyone, and two policemen push him over, and then they walk away, completely indifferent to his well being.

In the other case an elderly man falls over after being pushed by two young policemen - charitably one could argue that he tripped - but subsequently he bangs his head severely on the pavement and is knocked unconscious, bleeding from the ear, and clearly needs urgent medial treatment, but the crowd of police just walk past. One officer goes to help but is pulled away by another.

No-one in their right mind behaves like that.

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That video made me wonder.

Every time a policeman arrests a person, does that effectively put the policeman out of action, while he spends time taking the perp to detention and filling out paperwork so that appropriate charges can be filed? Is that the reason why cops arrest rioters only selectively, allowing many flagrantly disrespectful and out of control miscreants to run away scot-free?

Also, have police done away entirely with any hand-held weaponry? I know truncheons were done away with, because they were leaving too many people paralyzed and so on, but what about thing like canes, which hurt like hell but don't break anything. I remember seeing a video of some random third world cops enforcing crowd control with thin switch like sticks.

I know nothing about police work and riot control. How does all that work?

Replies: @Change that Matters, @Joe Stalin, @Sam Haysom

National Guard belonged where the action is not harassing ppl minding their own biz on their own property and using them for target practice! ... Now who's the idiot? Moron!

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. Does he deserve to have his life destroyed for a mistake?
 

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scrawny masked white
 

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Wordplay is never funny...

...the Anglo-Protestant establishment.
 

The quip and the dread: Why English is such a great language for puns

Ogden Nash. Ben Franklin. Lewis Carroll. Flanders & Swann. A. A. Milne. Mark Twain. Will Rogers. Monty Python. Cole Porter.

I take it you've never done a cryptic crossword, or have attempted and failed. Perhaps you prefer the certainties of math:

((12 + 144 + 20) + (3 × √4)) ÷ 7 + 5 × 11 = 9² + 0

… can be rendered as a limerick:

A dozen, a gross, and a score,
Plus 3 times the square root of 4,
Divided by 7,
Plus 5 times 11,
Is 9 squared, and not a bit more...

Integral z-squared dz,
From 1 to the cube root of 3,
Times the cosine,
Of 3 π over 9,
Equals log of the cube root of e.

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/504101/5-poems-amazing-wordplay
 

Word Play: Having Fun With the Sounds and Meanings of Words

Yesterday was Mothers' Day, so I'll finish with a bit of my own. Today is the ideal place for Gestational Surrogates' Day. A day late, and a dolly short.

Are you listening, Anderson?

https://mk0mercatornet3umiw5.kinstacdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/download-1_22.jpg

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The jokes were all 4th grade Word Games

Are you kidding?

Have you watched comedy lately? It's so much more advanced now

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A lot of the commentary by our society’s abundance of Nietzschean Supermen has been about how very few people have died who are, like them, wholly without physical flaws. But, it turns out, that having zero underlying conditions doesn’t add much to your life expectancy relative to having one.
 

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People in Manhattan walk a lot, they eat with care, and they’re among other slim people. Environment and expectations count for a lot. Who wants to be the one fattie at a book party or an art opening? You’d feel like a grotesque loser. Meanwhile a fattie in St. Louis has lots of company and can feel pretty normal.

Of course, I suppose it could also be the case that the kinds of people who are prone to live in Manhattan are people who are already prone to being slim.

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It's worth mentioning, as long as we're talking about schools, that schools turned around and began doing their best to educate in an entirely different way, and they did it with no notice. And despite horror stories, the bulk of schools are managing to educate (some doing too much, some doing too little, and some like baby bear doing it just right.)

Meanwhile, it apparently defeats farmers and processors to figure out how to get milk to people who need it.

I don't fucking want to hear a word about how wretched public schools are anymore.

Replies: @Sam Haysom, @Alice, @Old and Grumpy, @Old and Grumpy, @Kronos

I feel like the only sane American.

The Swedish dude said to his inquisitor, "uh, well, you know, the government doesn't have the legal power to tell all of the citizens to lock themselves up at home and to close up shop and not go to school, we just don't have that power and - besides - it really doesn't seem like there's any real desperate need for us to have that power with regard to this coronavirus, no?"

And then the interviewer repeats his now-irrelevant question over and over again about whether this "approach" "worked".

It has to do with human liberties vs government overreach and how unwarranted government overreach has been, not "did our nursing home staff fuck up more than the nursing home staff of France or Illinois". Which so happens to be the only relevang question about "approaches that worked or didn't work".

And then Steve, and all of the quarantine-doubters and quarantine-questioners, go on to worry about Muh Ecomony®.

This whole "Economy" talk is interesting but WAY down the field from the question of what right the government has to issue martial law against its own citizens over anything less than the most immediate and deadly of threats.

I can't stand reading about the two sides being: "You're killing people" vs. "Restart the economy!"

Not only are they both insanely hyperbolically wrong about the dangers they each choose to focus on but they're focusing on the absolutely wrong thing.

Liberty is the thing.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

I see no mention in this of rights endowed to The Ecomony®.

The way the Quarantine Skeptics phrase their arguments is as annoying as how they (generally "Republican" folk) phrase all their other arguments. Homosexual Marriage shouldn't be allowed because the vast majority of Americans voted against it, on account of them finding it intuitively unnatural and gross and something they didn'y want their kids considering to be normal. NOT because of "God don't gone make no Adam and Steve!" And Abortion shouldn't be available at your corner Planned Parenthood because it encourages promiscuity, breaks up the nuclear family, makes Uncle Sam buy all the cows while the free-milk drinkers make themselves obsolete, etc. NOT because "Life begins when a man's balls start to stir and every sperm is sacred".

Etc.

Republicans keep getting a raw deal because somehow they continually express themselves in the least convincing ways possible.

I'm not on either political team but I want to see a fair fight!

And when it comes to the current one it almost sounds like people demanding to be released from house arrest so they can get back to the coal mines where they belong in order to serve The Economy they adore and fear.

Why is no one talking about telling the government to F itself becuse l, like the Swede said:

"The Swedish laws on communicable diseases are mostly based on voluntary measures — on individual responsibility. It clearly states that the citizen has the responsibility not to spread a disease. This is the core we started from, because there is not much legal possibility to close down cities in Sweden using the present laws. Quarantine can be contemplated for people or small areas, such as a school or a hotel. But [legally] we cannot lock down a geographical area."

Aint it
just
that
Simple??

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"I know somebody from Colombia who watches Quality TV like “The Crown” (the series about the life of Queen Elizabeth II with John Lithgow as a very tall Winston Churchill) dubbed into Spanish. "

In almost all countries, everybody watches all foreign movies dubbed. Subtitled movies are popular only in Sweden and Holland, where most people speak good English anyway. Maybe because they are forced to watch subtitled movies from childhood.

Replies: @Paleo Liberal, @utu, @Sam Haysom

Right, Buzz. President Trump is mostly just a bullshitter. He may very well mean what he wrote, but that doesn't mean a damn thing. He'll tweet something different, maybe in complete contradiction to this, next week. Even if he does that, nothing will be done, because he doesn't follow through. They'll be complaints that "this judge blocked him" or "the Democrats!" when there are always ways. "Just do it" is not something he's ever practiced (at least since I've been following him, no, not on freakin' twitter!

In the meantime patriotic Americans that don't pay attention to much beyond occasional tweets like this will be satisfied with him for a long while ... till their country's gone.

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In my neck of the woods gay people love to grocery shop together.

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What do you think of my idea to selectively end the shutdown? People can stop isolating themselves so long as they agree to two conditions:

1. Agree that if they do get sick with corona or some disease that looks like it could be corona, they will renounce their right to all medical care more serious than CVS Health Day & Night Cold + Flu Plus Softgels, whether they have insurance or not, whether they have the ability to pay or not, and that if they try to renege on this they will be criminally prosecuted.

2. Agree to wear a special symbol on their clothing so that others can distinguish them from responsible people who go out once a month to buy needed supplies or work jobs which must be done, and agree that others have an absolute right to discriminate against them, such as by refusing to hire them, refusing to allow them to use their stores, segregating them within, etc., for the remainder of the pandemic. I suggest the symbol be a pinhead.

Replies: @Meretricious, @Sam Haysom, @JosephD

I'm only early middle age, but I'm soft on oldies. This is one of the few cultures with practically no respect for the elderly.

Hey, they're disproportionately white. ;)

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Unless either the Virginia or the Federal Government was willing to use the power of eminent domain, which didn't happen, Mr. Levy had every right to hold on to the property. It seems in this case it was the non-Jewish people who were involved in stereotypically Jewish behavior. Oh wait, they were "aristocrats." They were entitled.

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I agree, despite my extremely dim opinion of online dating (it makes everybody miserable, and for many men, it is like taking on a second job). But I think this is a little much. Nothing short of the bubonic plague reborn is going to prevent people from wanting to meet a potential mate. Most people-at least those my age, I'll let other people speak about older generations-already talked a fair bit before they meet in person before the pandemic, anyway.

It's kind of funny how young people have a popular image as being dissolutely promiscuous: judging from how older people who experienced the 60s and 70s talk, we're tamer in everything except for public casual acceptance of "non-standard" sexuality. Looks can be deceiving: a lot of girls have Tinder profiles that they don't actually use.

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Williamsburg, Va is just about to close up shop (even before Corona) despite making tremendous efforts to be ‘inclusive’ with a several dozen slavery exhibits. No one’s interested any more.
 

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There does seem to be an element on Unz (Striker/Joyce/Langdon/Unz/Dinh) who, after alighting on almost any topic at all, seem desperate to prostrate themselves in fear and hatred in front of an imagined Ashkenazi pantheon of terrifying all-powerful gods. That is a very ancient form of worship. Strangely, it is often part of ancestor worship.

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Oddly enough, for people supposedly driven by data, they seemed to favor a very non-nuanced view of what was happening.

Were they overcompensating for their image of dumb rednecks who just don't get it?

Replies: @Sam Haysom, @Henry's Cat, @Whitey Whiteman III, @Peter Akuleyev, @Bitfu, @AnotherDad

So. You're willing to completely destroy and impoverish all of society, for decades to come, by locking us all down under conditions that even Joseph Stalin could only dream of, in order to temporarily save the 0.4% of the population that is so sick they will probably die in a year or two in any event?

Next, why don't you reduce the speed limit to 10mph? You could save over 30,000 lives per year.

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So then I guess you're one of those wise ones who says "Let them die."

Somehow, young people seem to not quite have figured out that
A. Old people were once young, and
B. Young people will grow old.

Lack of experience, lack of years lived, is likely to exacerbate this serious mental failing.

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I wondered the same thing. I've been wearing the same paper mask for a few weeks, baking it in the oven after use, and it's still fine.

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"Check the graph for non-locked-down Sweden at the same source:"

Spain is much farther along the curve than Sweden at present. The next few weeks will say more, though you really also need Belarus and Brazil.

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December 1, 2019 to March 31, 2020
 

We want to know how CoronaApocalypse compares to normal peaks of flu activity, the kind that occasionally come and go. The kind that, when it comes and goes, triggers no shutdowns and no other extreme measures with negative follow-on effects of unclear magnitude. We expect, given the treatment of the matter in the media, that the 2020 wave absolutely towers over every other peak flu death spike of recent memory. I mean, it must, right? Look at the pictures! Look at the saturation-level media coverage!

To confirm or deny whether 2020 towers over all previous years, we need the context of many years of good and stable data, not four months of data.

Luckily, we do indeed have this kind of data cataloged in one place and easily accessible for reference. Here is the data through 2020 Week 13, reflecting deaths approximately through March 26 or 27, by my calculation (varying slightly by country):

Here is Spain and a few others for comparison, early 2016 to present:
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Here is the hardest hit in 2020, Italy:
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The most important thing to note here is that even in Spain and Italy's excess mortality in the 2020 flu event going on does not exceed the observed excess mortality of their own recent peak-flu periods in the 2010s.

While there is a flu-peak event going on, it is not even close to the magnitude that would call for mass shutdowns. Or, if it is, we made a big mistake by not doing mass shutdowns in winter 2016-17, winter 2017-18, and/or winter 2018-19.

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A second observation of relevance applies to the whole dataset, which is aggregated here:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EUm9JJRXsAIOQg9.png

As you can see, the 2019-20 flu season across Europe was mild compared to several of the 2010s. Statistical measures like this are sometimes subject to 'corrections,' as you sometimes hear said of the stock market when it goes "too high" or "too low" for whatever reason and 'corrects.' After a mild season in 2019-20, a late-season rise is not necessarily even surprising in the grand scheme, then. It happens. As the commenter prime noticer wrote on March 27:

in the past, this would come and go like other previous pathogens and you might not even hear about it, or you’d see a 1 minute segment on the evening news one time, and that would be it. you wouldn’t know anybody who died from it and would forget it happened a few years later. because that’s about the scope of this thing.
 

Spain in 2020 so far hadn't reached the 2018 and 2017 spikes (as of the point reflected in this data), but it well could soon. And even if it does, why would that justify the kind of self-inflicted damage most Western countries are intent on giving their people?

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The comprehensive data for most of Western and Central European countries is at the European Mortality Monitoring Project, https://www.euromomo.eu/outputs/zscore_country_total.html, a great resource.

(There is some slight reporting delay of varying magnitudes/length depending on reporting country, and the blue lines represent corrected data. According to the EuroMOMO methodology, the Italy reporting authority has a Death+3Days reporting rate of 100%, so their data is both quite current and quite comprehensive. Roughly speaking, the graph therereflects the situation of 6-7 days ago as of this writing.)

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BTW, aren’t there a lot of Central Asian immigrants in that region?
 

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I hate to tell you this, but the gatekeepers of academia are much more hostile to Asians than they are to white people. If the Harvard admissions officers get one more application from a nerdy Indian kid in NJ whose parents are doctors and whose hobby is programming, they are going to gag. Latisha from the ghetto with 600 SATs has a much better chance of getting in to Harvard than the International Math Olympiad winners in the picture. She does slam poetry dontcha know. Something about white people touching her hair.

The white kids (at least the more savvy ones) have padded their applications with summer internships digging wells in Zambia and volunteering at the AIDS clinic in the ghetto instead of wasting their time learning C++ and differential calculus.

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I've been struggling to understand why people who are prepared to throw the sick and old under the bus for the sake of the economy don't feel the same way about being replaced by cheaper or more productive foreigners for the same reason, the way the Kochites and their fellow travelers want. (At least, I would assume most readers and commenters on this particular blog are opposed to that latter proposal.) Not very "citizenist" of them. Just a case of not their ox getting gored (for now)?

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Fuck you please.

The silver lining is that young people die too.

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If people want to go out and ignore public health recommendations, shouldn't those risk tolerate also sign a do not treat/do not resuscitate order so that the brave do not become a burden to healthcare.

People seem willing to accept risk until they get sick and then they demand to be saved.

Everyone should ask themselves if they would fly on a commercial jet if a jet crashed once a day. Unless one is willing to accept that risk, one should just shut up about accepting a much higher level of risk.

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But the blame belongs on the US, you typical propagandized fool.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/947867908642430/permalink/2855048134591055/

This will be censored shortly. So read it quick.

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The sentence was overturned by the Sixth Circuit, who ruled it was "substantively unreasonable" and remanded the case back for re-sentencing. The prosecution had sought 21 months.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rand-paul-attacker-appeals-court-orders-resentencing-rene-boucher/

Also, Sen. Paul got a $583k judgment against the assailant, forcing him to sell his house to the Senator.

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I take pride in the fact that I identified Whiskey as a single commentator back when his comments on Steve’s blog were anonymous. I dubbed him “long winded neocon”
 

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"I’m a mayflower descendant..." and you are 100% WASP:

https://www.unz.com/pbuchanan/stand-up-for-indiana/#comment-913729
Nope 100 percent WASP. My ancestors almost certainly lamented the wave of migration that brought yours here.
 

https://www.unz.com/isteve/making-the-statue-of-liberty-cry/#comment-3393138
Until Stephen F Austin’s father was granted impresario rights “white” settlement was forbidden and all Anglo settlers were required to convert to Catholicism.

For some reason my German ancestors actually did rather than just fake it.
 

https://www.unz.com/isteve/pit-bulls/#comment-2451532
My family lived next to a big time diamond dealer in Waterloo who had three Rottweilers for protection.
 

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