"Arabs would sometimes go on raids".

http://ukcommentators.blogspot.com/2006/11/sudan-incident-1909.html

“I always did like the Dinkas. Happy, idle, contented people, with few wants and no cares, singing to their cattle in the sun. Stark naked and free by the river banks and singing to their cattle in the sun. All they wanted was to he left alone, just like everybody else.

Nobody had ever been to see what happened to the north of the Post, between the Post and the River, which ran in a wrongly dotted line on a ‘provisional’ map. We vaguely knew that great plains stretched for miles in all directions and that there the Dinkas roamed about over the new-burnt pastures when the rains were over, driving their great flocks and herds northwards across the Lol up to the Bahr el Arab River. They gave no trouble to speak of and paid a ‘token’ cattle tax yearly to the Government which had never found time to go up and count their cattle.

All very easy and everybody was quite happy. Then the Arabs started coming down from beyond the River to the north, and panic spread and grew with every raid over the plains, and the Dinkas fled before the Arab horsemen thundering over the hard burnt soil and took refuge on the fringe of the forest to the south. Poor, gentle, timid Dinkas, they just ran and ran till where the plains met the forest. The Arabs used to ride down like lightning from their country beyond the River, spearing anyone they met on their road who offered resistance, and recrossing the river with a mob of raided cattle driven before them and lithe naked Dinka girls strapped on to their great saddles behind them.

So it went on. Something had to be done.

So I was sent up to the Bahr el Arab, across the River Lol north of the Post. I and Shawish Kapsur, Almaz, Selim and Yambios – to meet Musa Madibo, the Sheikh of the Arabs. He lived in unadministered country and beyond reach of the law. Slatin arranged the meeting on the river.

So I went up to the River and the shadow that was over the plains lifted and the Dinkas came forth again out of the protecting forest and drove their great bellowing herds back to pasture over the plains; singing to them by the rivers and lying in the sun.

We stood and looked at the River. There was no sign of anybody on the banks.

I said, ‘He ought to he here by now. We’ve had much further to go than he has.’

Kapsur said: ‘You never can depend on Arabs.’ I said: ‘But the Pasha himself wrote to him and fixed the date.’

‘You can’t depend on Arabs.’

I said, ‘Well, we can’t waste all day looking at the river waiting.’

‘It’s always waste of time to make a date with Arabs.’ That was Shawish Kapsur. He was a black heathen from somewhere or other – I forgot where. Some of our police came from the other side of Africa – kidnapped as children by Fellata pilgrims up Sokotu way and set free by us (with luck) in the Bahr el Ghazal.

Shawish Kapsur was very brave. He once charged a charging elephant, shouting and waving his straw hat, and turned it. I watched him as I lay (exhausted) in the mud. All very long ago. But for Kapsur and his fantastic charge, I suppose I should still be under the mud, down Meshra way.

I gave my mule to Selim to hold and wandered up the bank. Aimaz and Yambios were fishing. Shawish Kapsur came along with me.

I was wondering how long I ought to stay, waiting for a man who might never come, who lived beyond reach of the law, whom nobody had ever seen, except perhaps Slatin in the old Mahdi days. And then there was a thunder of galloping hoofs and I was in the middle of a crowd of Arab horsemen who’d suddenly appeared from nowhere.

I said: ‘Peace be upon you.’ I thought this was Sheikh Musa arriving with the usual Arab bluster and fantasia.

But there was no reply. ‘And upon you the peace’ and nobody dismounted to greet the Governor’s representative on the river. All the Arabs carried the long dervish spear and a few of them had old Remington rifles. Then I noticed the leaf-shaped spear heads and some of them were red.

Again I said, ‘El Salaam aleikum’ and still there was no response.

I said, ‘I have come as arranged by the Pasha to make peace on the border. Where is Sheikh Musa?’

Pax Britannica and all that. How fantastic!

What should Arabs want with the peace when the finest sport in the world was to be had at the expense of the unbelieving dogs of Dinkas? Infidel and uncircumcised Dinkas, flaunting their shame before the pious Moslems. The ride through the night – the fording of the boundary river – the mad gallop over the plains – the chase of the slim, shrieking Dinka and the long spear piercing his shining naked back….

The slender naked black girls lifted from the cattle posts and strapped, struggling, to the great saddles.

The mob of cattle driven bellowing to the north…. The boasting of great deeds done that day, in the safety of the camp fires fifty miles away …

There it was. They looked on it all from a slightly different angle. “
 

Are illegals counted in unemployment statistics?

Yes, that is exactly what he is saying. It may not be true, but Powell is not saying immigrants take American jobs. He's saying America is not doing enough for the newcomers and we need to devalue our currency further to give these new people a chance.

General assumption is that labor is fungible.

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Strictly speaking, he didn’t say anything about immigrants taking anyone’s job. He’s saying that adding lots of people to the country increases the unemployment rate if they don’t all have jobs waiting for them. This can be the case if the native-born unemployment rate stays static while the foreign-born rate increases.
 

If it's still true, as it used to be, that unemployment stats only count people who reported that they wanted to work but couldn't (if you are happily sitting in your parents basement and not looking for a job, you aren't "unemployed"), then obviously they are just using immigrants as a ruse for obscuring unemployment, regardless of whether we read this as Alienmericans being unemployed or taking Realmericans' jobs.

Yes, this was a rare swing-and-a-miss on Steve's part

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He came as close to saying it as any fed chairman has ever come. Everybody knows what he means. Immigrants are taking jobs and depressing wages. Along those lines, water is wet and 2+2=4 .

examine the border between Louisiana & Texas to see the effects of Jim Crow ... a much larger fraction of Louisiana’s population was black
 

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a friend of mine grew up in the houston area. her entire family had been from louisiana, forever.

she said her dad (extremely successful self-made man) said anyone with ambition who wasn't already connected in that corrupt state would leave louisiana for texas.

Massive paragraphs such as you posted in your Dreamland review are very difficult to read.

Something Dreamland unfortunately didn’t discuss much is fentanyl

 

The idea that a certain amount of the population are degenerate PsOS and need to die is offensive, for some reason.

I can't find his said column, but this is a list of his columns in FT:

https://www.ft.com/ruchir-sharma

Why don’t you link to where Sharma originally wrote this?
 

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Links are in JohnnyWalker123's comment here.
https://www.unz.com/isteve/has-the-theory-of-racialized-running-performance-been-debunked/#comment-6465738

This tweet is the source of the quote.
https://twitter.com/ruchirsharma_1/status/1767849076760981869

I note that this district 61A includes or is included in or overlaps Hennepin County. Is it a coincidence that Will Stancil lives where George Floyd died, or did he move there on purpose? Is his running against the right wing something to do with this?

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It’s heresy alright, but not necessarily Nazi heresy. It’s an heretical version of the pomo academic ideas
 

Japan & Korea have very low fertility rates without immigration seeming to explain it.
 

Greg Cochran's 50,000 years before which AMHs didn't appear outside Africa is odd because it is generally accepted I believe that the girst out of Africa migrants probably arrived in Australia about 60,000 years ago.

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Andrew Gelman points out that Case & Deaton’s work has often been mischaracterized as showing an increased death rate for white men when it fact it decreased for them and only increased for white women:
https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2017/03/24/no-op-case-case-deaton/
 

For people who would like to see it in graphs at a glance:

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2017/03/23/mortality-rate-trends-age-ethnicity-sex-state/

Basically
-- White female longevity has stalled and reversed overall. Only trivial gains in a few of the better off states.
--White flyover women have increasing mortality.
-- The South--absolute disaster.

My guess: broken family structure, fewer children, childlessness, divorce ... then rocketed fueled by obesity.

Message to white women who don't want to die young:
Push back from the plate! Then--much easier now--find a good man, have kids with him, don't dump him. Not a magic elixir, but you'll likely live a long reasonably happy life and die with loving children and grandchildren seeing you off and missing you after you've gone.

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https://www.unz.com/isteve/slate-astrology-is-in/

https://twitter.com/Steve_Sailer/status/1039967794152919040

https://twitter.com/Steve_Sailer/status/1039976978122604544

https://twitter.com/Steve_Sailer/status/1039976056814333952

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Fascinating to see truly intelligent men discussing this topic

This supports what I have heard elsewhere that many of the most learned black intellectuals are rather upset with recent woke lightweights getting all the fame and fortune. Perhaps some envy mixed with disgust and outrage.

I remember when Adolph Reed, Jr., a brilliant black political scientist, said about the woke white adulation of Coates. He compared it to gushing over the maid’s son getting into college. Anyone who has read “A Man in Full” may recall “the Cap’m” paying the tuition for his maid’s son.

The point being — the top black intellectuals want to be judged as harshly as white intellectuals, because they believe themselves to be capable of withstanding such scrutiny, and believe their work will benefit. Just as Satchel Paige and Dizzy Dean made great efforts to pitch against each other

I was sure I could find a link from you ranking Bouie above TNC above Kendi, but I'm coming up short at the moment. In the meantime, John McWhorter & Glenn Loury (both professors of subjects they didn't make up themselves) have called out the emperor-has-no-clothes aspect of Kendi:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qanSigtOO4&t=1862s

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Kendi’s big market is Ed School grads who also got below 1000 on the SAT. They buy it, like it, and then force their students to buy it. Ed majors average around 940.

It’s just just a matter of dysgenics: as you yourself have pointed out, Kendi is obviously dumber than Ta-Nehisi Coates......................
 

My understanding is that school closures didn’t hurt the mental health of teens since nowadays they mostly make each other miserable in school.
 

Similar to how nobody quotes comic books and only a niche audience "re-lives" key moments from comic book storylines, protracted TV show storytelling also seems to have a lack of widely quoted dialogue and you don't see members of the general public vividly re-playing key scenes in their heads as they talk about a storyline. There was "who shot JR", but other than that, protracted visual media seems to be remarkably lacking in iconic storyline moments.

On the other hand, the greater impact of a feature film lends itself to lots of quotable dialogue and iconic moments. Even as a kid I heard about the twist in The Crying Game (1993). Everybody talked about the twist in the Sixth Sense. Reagan quoted Dirty Harry. Almost the entire script of The Big Lebowski is quotable. "You're gonna need a bigger boat". "I'll make him an offer he can't refuse". "I am your father". "Sweep the leg".

Is there literally any line of dialogue from long-form dramatic TV storytelling that has implanted itself into our consciousness? Sitcoms don't count. No soup for you.

Even comic book movies are a bust. So many come out within the same continuity* that they are just dull and obligatory. So nobody really invests in them and that's why nobody quotes them and the mass audience doesn't notice or talk about any iconic character or story moments within them.

*The first Batman from 1989 had some iconic moments and lines of dialogue. But the sequels felt disinterested in Batman and emphasized increasingly silly villains, so nobody really vividly remembers anything from them.

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He may have meant that broadcast and cable TV are obsolete or nearly so. As you say, streaming is pretty much eating their lunch now.

huh? streaming isn't television. this argument is making my case for me. streaming is internet media. that signal isn't coming in NTSC format. that's a TCP signal streaming from a server. it doesn't come from a studio with a bunch of guys with television cameras standing around shooting 3 people talking at a desk. anybody doing the proverbial Netflix and chill is just watching the internet on an OLED.

random youtubers get more views than CNN today and always will from now on.

television is dying. it loses viewers every year, like newspapers were 20 years ago. ESPN drops a million viewers annually. the 'big' networks are now small, and Joe Rogan reaches more viewers than them. cable cutting is real. when boomers die off, television will become like radio is today. a secondary medium that way fewer people pay attention to.

pretty crazy i'd have to spell this out on unz.com. even worse, these streaming service movies are garbage, but somehow cost more money than studio produced movies. how do you blow 700 million dollars making total crap that doesn't even have good effects?

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That women make better pilots is a theme in Heinlein's 1959 sci-fi novel "Starship Troopers."

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Relative was 6’5” and fighter pilot in Vietnam, so they weren’t barred then.

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I was 5’6”, 99th %ile SATs, and a fit athlete my senior year in HS, and the Navy gave me the hard sell to become an aviator. But when I failed the color vision test they stopped answering the phone.

It’s just as well because I’d never have passed that drill where they strap you into an ejection seat, drop you into a pool and you have to get yourself unstrapped and swim to safety.

You're right, of course; neither name sounds remotely suited to a character played by Dreyfus, so I always tend to forget what he was actually called in the movie.

Then he is qualified to say that HIS mother feared Christmas.

Jewish mothers fear Christmas because their kids wish they could celebrate it.
 

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Per his unauthorized (but tolerated) biographer
 

'I decided to investigate via Academy Awards whether cinematography was less Jewish than acting. Conclusion: as I expected.'

Jews are talented, energetic people, but their representation in the visual arts has always been markedly less disproportionate than it is in other fields.

There have been very few genuinely talented Jewish painters, and Jewish synagogues and the artwork therein don't bear comparison to churches and cathedrals. This isn't so surprising: Jews really are a very small proportion of the population. There's no reason there should be a lot of great Jewish painters (or cinematographers.)

Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Meretricious, @Hibernian

Thanks. I imagine that Spielberg could have been a terrific cinematographer or a decent screenwriter, but having both talents, he only focused on the top job and employed top talents to do the more specialized jobs for him.

She was good in Buster Scruggs. I guess she's at least part Cappadocian Greek via her grandfather.

I decided to investigate via Academy Awards whether cinematography was less Jewish than acting. Conclusion: as I expected.

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As I recall from hearing The Hannukah Song in the 90s, by now most of the people Sandler mentions would be extremely old or dead, several of them were half Jewish or less too, (Paul Newman, Harrison Ford and Goldie Hawn). Even in updated versions he has done, Sandler isn't exactly throwing out a ton of big names in Hollywood.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chanukah_Song

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Back in 2000 the Onion could mock the movie cliche by having a scrappy band of misfit campers contain:
 

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“ he has quixotically suggested prohibiting the national political parties at the local level”

That is quixotic plus it won’t work. My state already allows local governments to hold non-partisan elections. Everyone knows the affiliation of all of the candidates.

Even Asians know to go to Indian Territory when you're in trouble with the law.

Even Asians?
 

Depends on how many Hmong were settled in Oklahoma. I know the ones in Wisconsin are pretty bad, and the Clint Eastwood film Gran Torino took place in a decayed Detroit neighborhood which was overrun by Hmong, including a gang that terrorized everybody else. It seemed to be an accurate, if somewhat sanitized take on Hmong immigrants

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Why should African or any foreigners be admitted to any American college? Especially the state universities especially established by the taxpayers of the state for the benefit of the citizens and taxpayers???

The men of UNZ the men of UNZ. Not only do they hate White women and dance for joy when White women are murdered by non Whites.

But they accept that their own White children be denied admission to colleges so that Africans and other non White immigrants can get acceptance, degrees and high paid professional jobs White Americans are denied. Because of vicious racial discrimination against White Americans

Comments like the above are one of the reasons it’s very obvious the men of UNZ don’t have children.

Lower middle class American proles discussing admission standards of top 5 colleges reminds me of English proles discussing the royal family.

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Agree. Steve is ignoring the HBD, here.

ADOS have different ancestors than the Igbos do. They're as distinct as the Brahmins are from the subcontinental-descended Gypsies.

But my impression is that immigrant Africans (not including refugees like most Somalis here) are able to persistently have an advantage into the next generation without much regression to the mean, so they may indeed have more functional cultures.
 

The gap between immigrant and domestic blacks in IQ is most likely because immigrant blacks (like Indians, but unlike Mexicans), are highly self-selected for educational attainment and IQ as compared to the average for their native countries.

Each new generation doesn’t regress all the way to the mean of their population's average, but to approximately the average between their parent's IQs and the population average. Thus, you'd expect a higher IQ to persist at least into the second generation (before fading out through admixture with the local blacks).

So the difference is most easily explained with plain old IQ, rather than squishy culture explanations. Sometimes I think Steve goes out of his way to bark up the "culture" tree in trying to explain black scores.

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Also, isn't permitting more types of new construction the opposite of NIMBY? A rare lowlight from Steve :)

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Building apartments without parking spaces is the latest Green Idiot fad in California. If the building is less than a half mile from public transit. The Green Idiots fantasy is that every resident of those buildings will use public transit.

And never need a car to transport small children groceries and other errands such as shopping taking the 40 inch TV screen for repairs, bringing bulky items such as vacuum cleaners brooms and mops small rugs pillows and small furniture big toys Christmas trees home. Just walk your 2 toddlers to the light rail line and come home with the kids a weeks worth of groceries and a pile of pillows bedspreads or a new TV on public transit. There are no blizzards or heavy rain in Green Idiot fantasyland. No need for a car to bring home bulky items.

There’s a light rail line from the beach to downtown about 18 miles in Los Angeles. Big 40 unit apartment buildings are being built all along the line. The light rail uses the old trolley right of way. But the Green Idiots don’t know that no one from the West Side or Central City works down town any more. Or has any reason to go downtown . Because downtown is one big skid row now.

The Wire was ridiculously overrated. Stringer Bell trying to explain elastic versus inelastic demand to the hoppers was unintentionally hilarious. They looked at him like he was that Damon Wayans character from In Living Color who found a dictionary in jail.

See also the guy taking minutes of the Co-Op meeting. You told him to read Robert's Rules of Order, Stringer? What did you think would happen?

As far as crime statistics, it may depend on how “white” is defined.

Is someone in OKC who is 127/128 white but a member of an Indian tribe white?

Is a Hispanic “immigrant” white? Plenty of those in Baltimore, Boise and OKC

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https://www.twitter.com/Steve_Sailer/status/1583678935086137344

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I'd also like to know what percentage of carjacking victims are white? Are whites in Omaha just as likely to get carjacked as whites in Baltimore or Chicago? Also, I am retroactively changing my opinion about The Wire from "Great" to "Corny AF".

Thanks.

an area Sailer didn’t: polygamous cultures where dancing tends to be done by a large group of men doing basic movements in unison. The most basic such movement was re-invented by the punk subculture: the pogo.
 

That's an interesting video. He predicts that monogamous societies should have individual pair dancing and polygamous societies should have group male performance dancing. I wonder where that leaves individual performative dancing like Norwegian halling and the Scottish sword dance.

Most of your “woke conspiracy theories” are theories of bias, like the bias you give responsibility for researchers previously finding that conspiracy theories were more popular on the right.
 

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Reverse Bel Ami?

As for wines, Steve did not provide “endless evidence” that anyone can distinguish them in a taste test.
 

The first Europeans in Japan were a few Portuguese sailers on a Chinese ship who reached a minor outlying island. They had a couple functioning guns and shot a duck as a demonstration. The local lord bought them and had thousands of copies made. Japanese warfare was quickly transformed with domestically produced firearms. Nobody else responded to western contact this way.

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The Japanese were also rather isolationist & reactionary until Commodore Perry made it clear they couldn’t keep the rest of the world out.

Think about this for a minute. A flotilla arrives from across the vast sea and the Commodore demands that you submit to the dictates of this frightening, distant power, and if you don't snap to it the Commodore will begin to level your capital...

Much like how the EEU has been treating, say, Hungary lately: admit one million Muslim men as migrants and let Globo-homo run rampant through your institutions or we will show you what real power is. Well, due to the Ukrainian war Hungary has found a respite, but be assured, Globo-homo will return, ferociously.

So, you can understand why many of us are rooting for Putin. He's the only power standing athwart Globo-homo demanding halt.

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I wouldn't call the unfathomable suffering inflicted by the Japanese empire in the 1930s and '40s a "great change for the better." But Japan today does seem to be markedly more pleasant than it was 170 years ago.

"Can't keep the rest of the world out" is quite a way to put "let us make money of your country or we destroy your coastal cities with our guns". There was nothing benevolent about it. This American tendency of fucking with everybody under a slimy layer of pretend-morals is one of its most disgusting aspects.

"The Japanese were also rather isolationist & reactionary until Commodore Perry made it clear they couldn’t keep the rest of the world out. What’s astonishing is how they were able to change in response."

I have no doubt that you are more knowledgeable than I am. But I always understood the Japanese to be a very adaptable people all across the board, far more so than other East Asians and indeed than many other peoples. So I don't find their ability to "change to meet a change" astonishing at all. What am I missing here?

No more so than China, whose leadership wore their isolationism like a badge of honor.

I don't disagree with most of this. But context matters. We're talking about 5000 pages of fiction, more if you count Fire and Blood, and easily over 100 characters that GRRM spends time developing to some degree. Every one of your examples is 1) a minor character, 2) who's orientation is mostly the product of hearsay that's discussed among the POV characters, and 3) has no bearing on any of the plot lines, at least that I recall. Renly is made much gayer in the show. Loras basically walks around in a cloud a fairy dust and his character is given much more prominence in the show, which is pretty much so the writers can throw even more homosexual sex scenes in. Both characters are much more masculine in the books. They take a similar line with Oberyn. In the books Oberyn's bisexuality is also of no consequence; he's a very dangerous man who has spent almost two decades plotting his revenge, but the show reduces him to a lackadaisical drunken man slut. (You have to admit, even up to the end of the books, the writers so completely fucked up the entire Dorne plot line to the point where it makes absolutely no sense , that they may as well not have even put it in the show. But I have theories on why they kept it but excluded the Young Grif and Quentyn Martell plot lines.)

As for the rest of your examples, the only only who gets a POV chapter IIRC is Jon Connington (who I didn't remember being homosexual [or Umber] but not that it matters) and he gets 2-3. He's another very serious character who has spent almost 2 decades plotting and is singularly minded in purpose; the show would have had him running around in chains and leather with his nipples pierced and talking in falsetto.

Part of Martin's genius is using subtlety to add depth to his characters, and that is as far as the homosexual stuff is supposed to go. It's not meant to be a distraction or even proselytizing. Some are good men, some are bad. In the show, all negroes and all homos are good, simply because they are negroes and homos. The homo promotion is obscene. such as this scene that is not in the book which is basically just the writers of the show attempting to pass of homosexual exploration among young boys as normal and natural. it's pure homo propaganda disguised as storytelling.

https://youtu.be/mrkZQQ_5ywU

“ancient Europeans” meaning the Viking-era or some other prehistoric people group? A huge distinction. It is very difficult for me to believe that the Vikings that we think of in modern history were other than (mostly) blonde-haired and blue-eyed, white northern Scandinavians.

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“The Last Duel, which is out this weekend and stars Matt Damon, Adam Driver, and Jodie Comer, offers a gorgeous, vibrant, and devastatingly dark rendering”

Hey, it’s dark and vibrant! Must be good.

I read the book before the movie and while the film isn’t perfect, I enjoyed it.

He denies it publicly and to his rival, but to his lord he admits he had sex with Margeurite and she made “the usual protestations”, and they agree that their sophisticated sexual morality will not fly in public so he should deny it happened.
 

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#StopHaitianDeportations
 

Seems like her psychotherapist is the one she ought to be suing.

This is why I advise people to never talk to a mental health professional. Between the mandatory reporting requirements and the general lack of professionalism any expectation of privacy is a fantasy.

"Everywhere there's /freaks and faggots/ dukes and fairies /tell me where there's sanity". Try playing those lyrics nowadays. A classic rock station was bleeping them out.

Everywhere is / Freaks and hairies / Dykes and fairies / Tell me, where is sanity?
 

Hard to imagine a world in which a leftist song would include the words "dykes and fairies."

like other examples cited by iSteve, Lee's anthem (except for the overt "stop the war!" shout at the end) has more to do with "meh" than charging the gates. "... but I don't know what to do"
Fantastic guitar solo, though.

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But not at all a leftist song, and proof most people just pay attention to the refrain.

It opens:

Everywhere is freaks and hairies, dykes and fairies
Tell me where is sanity?
Tax the rich, feed the poor, 'til there are no rich no more [until we're all poor, that is]
I'd love to change the world - but I don't know what to do
So I'll leave it up to you [political quietism, anathema to leftism]

Of course it's really just a politically unsophisticated author just throwing out phrases he's heard, but that makes it kind of a better historical document than the more contrived work of artists who know just enough to be dishonest.

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is currently married to an ex-man
 

There's also Sadie Doyle (now goes by"Jude"), another former popular Internet feminist now freshly turned FtM. Easy to confuse her with Ortberg, as both are insipid bores always lashing out at Herzog and Singal and whoever else has not quite gone totally insane yet. Simplest way to differentiate between them is to remember that Doyle's husband is not an ex-man. Yet.

A couple of years ago she was just a boring, aging, "problematic" Elizabeth Warren fan. Derided as a Karen and the embodiment of "white feminism", rapidly fading in popularity and left in the dust by all the diverse new queer kids. Now he's stunning and brave and rebelliously living his truth in transphobic Amerikkka, all the while shaking down Substack.

She gave birth just months before "transitioning" and now writes about her and her husband's "gay relationship" and the challenges of gay fatherhood. At least Lavery and Ortberg don't have kids to abuse.

Mallory Ortberg is the daughter of California megachurch pastor John Ortberg. One of her projects has been humiliating and injuring her father.

Another of his children is John Ortberg III. His son does not have it in for him, but is an embarrassment as his paedophilia is public knowledge (do not believe anyone has ever accused John Ortberg III of molesting anyone).

His third child is Laura Ortberg Turner, who is a columnist for Christianity Today and Religion News Service (which is to say the Vichy wing of American evangelicalism). I think he got some grandchildren out of her, however.

Trump did not lose white male votes. He lost white female votes.

Steve’s a perceptive, sometimes funny also exceedingly decent man but he craves validation from high status Jews- this is especially true if you follow him on Twitter (where he is also far funnier than he is here probably because he isn’t trying so hard). Steve’s hope was for a nation wide Mayor Dinkins/ Crown Heights moment that would split Jews from the left. Ironically the educational polarization you’ve highlighted actually split the Ivy League Jews and their less intelligent Villanova Jew cousins from the Hasids and Orthodox-the only Jews with any kind of day to day interaction with blacks. Rather than grapple with this new reality Steve has retreated into a kind of “oh BLM did it this time surely chuck Schumer’s had enough” type wishcasting. It’s why Steve is such a close follower of that fat Iberian via Mexico Jew Matt yglesisas however it’s spelled. He’s the one prominent Jewish leftist who genuinely despises blacks and barely hides it.

Baloney.

Black, Hispanic and Asian voting patterns barely budged in 2020.

In the virginia governor race, Youngkin got a whopping 13% of the black vote, 32% of the Hispanic vote (Trump got 36%) and 33% of the Asian vote, again less than Trump.

So, yes, in fact, the Dems did lose because core Americans started to get pissed off. Youngkin got 62% of the white vote compared to Trumps 53%.

As always, it's about race and tribe. Colorblind CivNats may not like that fact, but nature doesn't care what you like.

I think Sailer is too invested in his “Sailer strategy” conceived in the Bush era to take note of recent developments. In the Trump era, polarization by race & income have gone down, while polarization by education has gone up. So the Dems aren’t losing because of a backlash by “core” Americans, but instead of a broader swath of Americans who just aren’t onboard with the “woke” graduate degree holders.
 

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'So the Dems aren’t losing because of a backlash by “core” Americans, but instead of a broader swath of Americans who just aren’t onboard with the “woke” graduate degree holders.

I think that's at least partially wishful thinking. I'm reminded of the claim that blacks jumped ship in Virginia. No, they didn't: in spite of a black for lieutenant governor, 89% toed the line.

Now, a third of Hispanics and Asians deserted the flag, and that's good, and care should be taken to make them feel welcome -- but the backlash is above all from white America, and to pretend otherwise is just to pursue the failed strategies of the past.

while polarization by education has gone up.
 

Ret-conning ancient history, an ambitious move by Graeber. Some might even say risky.

Turchin, Henrich and Khan are more likely to appeal to the realist audience.

The motivated reader can learn a lot about retail drug markets and the management of retail drug gangs from reading _Dreamland_. Quinones repeatedly comments on the Jalisco Boys new business model and the market niche it thrived in.

I couldn't tell if the other half of the book (about the science of opiates) was accurate and a contribution to knowledge.


The Jalisco boys liked staying under the radar in the US. If they didn't commit a serious offense, in a worst case scenario after being arrested they would simply be deported back to Mexico. Most of them intended to return to Mexico after a few years, anyway. The last thing they wanted to do was get in dangerous and potentially deadly shootouts with people who thought gunplay and 10 to 20 years in the state prison was a normal life history.

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Good questions. I'd like to know too. It's the kind of thing that may be covered someday on the Russians with Attitude podcast, though they haven't covered it yet that I'm aware of. If you subscribe and ask, maybe they would. I don't think their audience is too big not to pay attention to individual requests.

The only kinda sorta "Ostern" (good coinage) movie I know of is Prisoner of the Mountains, which is transmogrified from a 19th century Tolstoy story into a 20th century white-other encounter movie. So maybe it's more of "Southern" than an "Ostern".

Bonus: the star of Prisoner of the Mountains was Sergei Bodrov Jr., who was also the star of the 1990s Russian bleak-ist classic Brat. He was killed in 2002 by an avalanche while filming another movie.

Verne's Michael Strogoff is a book in this vein (a Western in Russia) and has been filmed several times.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Strogoff

One of Peter Turchin's books starts with an exciting chapter of history on the Russian frontier and it struck me that I was over 50 years old before I'd ever really even thought about the Russian drive east. I have some picture in my head of Russians in Alaska and Northern California, but not of Czarist Russians subduing Siberia.

Long ago, I bought Tolstoy's short novel about a Caucasian warlord but didn't read it.

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Very good. Few people (none really) pick up on the Cossack element in the Fremen make up.

-White sun of the desert- is an Ostern. I've only seen it in Russian but I think it is available with subtitles. A lone Russian soldiers saves a sheikh's wives from Central Asian brigands somewhere on the shores of the Caspian Sea. An oil storage tank is involved.

Villenueve is more art director than anything else.

He knows how to stain the glass but doesn't build his own universe like Cameron has done, for good or ill.

More decorator than architect but, at his best, one of the best in the business.

You guys joke but actually sports is one of the few remaining subjects for discussion that remains. Anything remotely political--and trannies competing in women's sports is political but really who really cares--is dead for talking about. But we can talk about sports. We can even talk about black quarterbacks and white cornerbacks. To me one of the most interesting questions right now in the entire world that can be discussed in public without concern about getting your name on a list (or worse): who gets their season-ending-injury first, David Carr or Teddy Bridgewater?

I bet Bridgewater but no way Carr makes it past week 10.

When my sister was a hostess a few years ago she had to carefully dole out the black customers equally across the wait staff. The blacks tipped less, some times a great deal less and were more demanding.

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The waiters hated when the host assigned them tables of black customers because they tipped less
 

Your brother sounds like a nice guy.

I disagree with Andrew. Holmes didn't start out to be a fraudster. If that was her plan, she would have just funneled all the money to a Cayman Islands bank account, but instead she spent most of it on attempts to build a working product. Her plan was "fake it 'till you make it".

So Gates is sympathetic because that was his plan too - when IBM called him up and ask him if he had an operating system for a PC, he lied and told them "sure" and then he went out real quick and bought one from someone. But his plan succeeded and hers failed and that's the tragic part.

But trying and failing is not a crime. It's the Watergate story - the real crime is the coverup. When her machine didn't work, she didn't own up to failure, she just starting lying and faking results. And not lying about how soon your taxi was coming but about things that affected people's health.

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I'm curious whether she identifies as a woman "of color" or did the Jewish presstitute writing about this story label her as such? In any case, it's clear she didn't want children "of color." Equating her with a Chinese girl is absurd. I hate to DR3, but labelling people like Annissa Essaibi George as "of color" is literally white supremacist. If the tribe were smarter they would be trying to broaden the definition of white in order to pacify the "white people" they are currently demonizing at breakneck speed. But they just can't help themselves.