But no one who comes into contact with managers will fail to have noticed a very considerable assurance in their whole bearing. They know they are indispensable in modern society. Whether or not they have thought it out, they grasp the fact that they have nothing to fear from the immense social changes speeding forward over the whole world.
 

James Burnham demonstrated that he was a fool by failing to recognize that sociopaths, who sensu lato comprise at least 5% of the human population, are strongly attracted to power. They actively aspire to having control over others, particularly if they can enjoy their power from a comfortable position that is free from criticism or retribution. Thus, sociopaths gravitate to management at whichever level their mental capacity and political skill allows them to attain.

AI Overview

"Are bureaucrats more likely to be sociopaths than are non-bureaucrats?"

While a definitive statement cannot be made, there is some evidence suggesting that certain professions, including bureaucracy, might attract individuals with traits associated with sociopathy or psychopathy.

Several research papers indicate that the incidence of psychopathic traits among corporate and bureaucratic leaders could be significantly higher than in the general population. One study even suggests that the percentage of sociopaths in the corporate world is 3.5 times higher than in the general population, and this percentage increases with hierarchical level. This is because the traits associated with sociopathy and psychopathy, such as a lack of empathy and a desire for power and control, can be advantageous in certain leadership roles.
 

Another J. B., John Burnheim, has laid out the modern version of governance that should displace the managerial society model. He terms it "Demarchy." The alternative name is "sortition" meaning governance by individuals selected randomly from a pool that has been screened to exclude knaves, fools, and sociopaths.

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

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

If any form of benign governance replaces the current system, it will be Demarchy. Given the intellectual sloth of modern Americans, the replacement will probably not be benign; it will be a dictator. All the TUR commenters who believe that the ballot box can stop our free fall into the abyss should put in a little time to understand the various versions of the Demarchy proposal.

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“captured and raped”

Typical Arab behavior. This is why there won’t ever be peace in Gaza unless the Palestinians are pushed into the sea or dispersed amongst their fellow Arab savages.

P.S. Not a Jew.

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So even if CO2 has gone up 30%, which even if true is not necessarily manmade, that just means that overall greenhouse gasses have gone up by a measly 0.8%, basically a rounding error, or by 0.008% of the total atmosphere, even less than a rounding error.

Water vapor is 95% of greenhouse gas.
 

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William Kirk discusses the push to require Washington residents to get a permission slip before they can exercise a right.
 

President Biden awarded the presidential medal of freedom to 19 people over the weekend.
 

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I should point out that Caribbean islands such as the US possessions of Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands are not industrialized and therefore do not require as much electrical power per capita as the US.

Also individual homes do not need nearly as much power as domestic air conditioning is much less common, and clothes are usually dried by sun and wind. Electric fans may provide localized cooling in kitchens and bedrooms, and indoor heating is hardly ever required. Most people cook food with gas rather than electricity.

Large black plastic tubs on the roof in sunny climates may provide perfectly adequate hot water heating for a home without using external power. Alternatively hot water may be provided by gas heaters that only burn gas when the hot faucet is opened.

Many people have their own home generating systems which may consist of gasoline powered generators, which are basically like motor mowers minus the blades, or else arrays of rechargeable batteries, some of which may use solar panels for recharging.

Bigger installations like shopping malls, hotels, and airports have their own generators, though I have seen them economizing by having the upwards escalators running, but the downwards escalators turned off. Small businesses also have small (noisy) generators or share them with neighbors.

I myself have a collection of sealed lead and lithium rechargeable batteries that can run a TV, fiber optic router, and a few lights for a few hours. Plus a have a few rechargeable light bulbs and rechargeable phones. I use a solar panel for some charging duties.

What this system will not do is run an electric heater, microwave, washing machine, or air-fryer. But in a power cut I still have hot water, light, internet, and TV. (A fridge will keep food frozen for at least 12 hours if the power is off and the door is not opened.

In poorer countries like Haiti, people may go to a business with a generator and pay a few cents to get a cell phone recharged.

Anyway, the point is that people in the Caribbean are used to living off the grid if necessary, although continuous mains power is certainly nice to have. In hurricane zones like the Caribbean, utilities have been burying power cables underground for many years. Bermuda has had all its transmission network buried since 1987 with 55% of the distribution network underground too, and the US Virgin Islands have made some progress in that direction.

However the problem with burying cables underground is that it is more expensive, and faults are harder to trace.

In the UK a lot of tranmission lines are carried cross country on pylons, but in urban areas power cables are mostly underground, so it is doable.

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'...To be sure, there are fashions in cultural elite circles that favor or disfavor certain artists and thinkers in the here-and-now, but there’s genuine worth, it is rediscovered in time once those fashions blow away, while those without genuine value fall by the wayside.'
 

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The promising solutions for solar problem seem to be:

1. Large east west grids that balance time zones
2. Pumped storage hydropower
3. Nuclear, hydro and wind for off time generation
4. Still in infancy: large battery storage systems
5. Legacy fossil fuel-based generation till they depreciate fully.

https://www.iea.org/energy-system/electricity/grid-scale-storage

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battery_energy_storage_system#Largest_grid_batteries

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Says the Putin stooge

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I see you have posted a lot of comments here on Trump's immigration policy. I don't remember you showing this level of interest in immigration when Biden was letting millions of illegal immigrants stream across the borders. Biden also supported H-1B visas too:

https://www.deccanherald.com/business/companies/biden-admin-makes-it-easier-for-us-companies-to-hire-foreign-workers-with-h-1b-visas-3322094

These attacks on Trump and lack of previous attacks on Biden would not have anything to do with Biden eagerly supporting our proxy war with Russia in the Ukraine while Trump has shown somewhat less enthusiasm for that? After all, you have spent much of the last three years here promoting that war after the public demand for the Covid lockdowns and vaccines started to subside and you realized that you continuing to promote them was a waste of time.

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"Now, however, Europeans have been weaned off Russian gas..."

Having lots of other issues to confront, Moldova has apparently done an especially poor job of weaning itself off Russian gas, and Slovakia and Hungary (run by pro-Moscow stooges) have more or less simply refused to prepare, relying on Moscow to bail them out somehow, and knowing they can blame any problems on the evil war-mongering NATO, or whatever. I don't know what Ukraine plans to do about Moldova (since for all their continued reliance on Moscow's gas, they're also feeling pressure there and recently withsthood Moscow efforts to outright buy their voters), but they don't much care at this point if Orban's and Fico's reliance on Putin causes them problems.

[Moldovan] Prosecutors say $39 million was paid to more than 130,000 recipients through an internationally sanctioned Russian bank to voters between September and October.
 

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You know, that activity where you start with a strong demand– which your type calls “arrogance”– then sit back to listen to what the other side has to offer– which your type calls “sucking up to foreign dictators”.
 

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"That’s why Jews love pajeets: they are not just cheaper but they are subservient and compliant to power. They aren’t going to complain about what Israel is doing in Palestine and they are going to push for more immigration and more neoliberalism —" (eternal, run-on sentence, when you should have put a period in after neo-liberalism.)
 

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"Ramaswamy talked a good game...Now do Israel."

Why, did you have "high hopes" for Israel, too? If not, then why were you taken in by Ramyswamy of all people? I keep getting told around here that Israel is full of slick hucksters who talk a good game, and yet, I'm guessing you weren't taken in by any of that.

So the remaining and really pressing question is why were you such a blithering idiot when it came to Vivek? Is being a fellow Putin stooge all that's needed to play someone like you for a chump? And do you really think boasting about how you're able to see through Israel will somehow make all that stupidity excusable, as opposed to making it that much more obvious and egregious?

Then again, you answered my question. so thanks anyway. I was looking for a reason why you were taken in, given that it seemed like something that could only happen to a moron, and...well, let's just say you've managed to explain the matter pretty clearly, in spite of yourself.

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Apparently in your world there are never any mistakes, especially not by people you hate.

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Yes or no, did the US bomb the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade? Did the US shoot down Iran Air Flight 655 and kill 290 innocent civilians? In the Iraq War, did the US Marines kill 10 US Marines in a friendly fire incident?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2004/03/29/iraq-friendly-fire-blamed-on-marine/faf63995-b5d2-461f-b537-60bc08b2e62b/

Obviously these things all happened but that is only the beginning of the inquiry, not the end. Were these tragic accidents or deliberate? It seems like the answer depends on whether you are pre-disposed to believe the worst about the US or Israel. Most people who are objective regard all of these incidents as tragic accidents that happened in the fog of war. If Americans sometimes make mistakes and fire on our own troops, how is it not possible that Israel also made a mistake that day? All human enterprises are infected with error and war more than most.

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You're half right - I'm seething at Owens who is just another race hustler but laughing at you guys for your choice of champion. Politics makes strange bedfellows.

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Jews are the whitest of "white people" (as are Asian-Americans) if you define white people by education, income, accomplishments, contribution to science, music and the arts, lack of violent criminality, etc. so you have this completely backwards.

The real question in America is why so many white people behave like wiggers? Being fat, bearing children out of wedlock, having drug issues, etc. used to be the domain of blacks. Why have they abandoned the Western tradition? If I look at a classical orchestra now, most of the younger musicians, esp. the string players, are Asian.

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I could happily live with a government run “AmeriMed”–in a cohesive, “we’re all in this together” nation.
 

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The root cause is European universalism, first as Christians, then as secular enlightened humanitarians. We all know that various peoples and empires fight, conquer & oppress, but they were not obsessed with making "others" the same as themselves in position or behavior. Being a humane overlord is enough. But no, whites & especially Anglos have become so historically blind & contrary to the common sense they cannot accept that human collectives differ in their capabilities, proclivities, ethics and preferences.

By the way- a good video on Russian mentality with a few good comments:

@bobthecpaontheloose4141

My wife is from mainland China and after many visits, I have had the opportunity to make observations of public behaviour... It's been pretty deeply ingrained into the populace that politics and government intervention are low on their list of interests. Based upon the power structure of the country, these are areas where you have no choices so you remove yourself from concerning yourself about them... as long all other things in your life are OK. That's how they take your power away - take away your choices.

@InterstellarMedium

This video confirms very much what some of my Russian friends have said about Russia since the 1980s: That Russians seem unable to get rid of their slave mentality.
Some of my friends were children of high ranking Soviet diplomats (Nomenklatura) who lived in Geneva and NYC before the Soviet Union was dissolved. I was always shocked at their pessimistic views on Russians and the future of Russia. Essentially they said (and still say) that the Russians cannot free themselves from their slave mentality because they were the last people in Europe that experienced large scale slavery until 1861. Serfdom affected at least 40% of the population and unlike traditional serfs who are attached to land, those poor peasants could be sold just like slaves.
To answer the question on the way out of living under authoritarianism or totalitarianism: I think that Russia should simply follow the way that Ukraine went. Ukraine was remarkably similar in social and political structure. Most Russians (just like Ukrainians in 2013) want their country to become a "normal" country (i.e. a functional democratic and free country). I think most Russian intellectuals know exactly why Putin started the war with Ukraine following the illegal annexation of Crimea and invasion of the eastern parts of Ukraine: What was happening in the Maidan, had started to spread to Russia, and Putin had to stop it to ensure his evil regime would continue to exist.

@markuseden2105

When the Soviet Union collapsed there WAS a short window where things could have changed. The "estates" collapsed but where then quickly bought up by a few oligarchs. Russia was in chaos. Putin in essence reined in this "chaos" by reintroducing the estates and with it the dependence on the state to survive. Having said that I live in Cyprus and experienced the tremendous influx of Russians to the island in the early 1990's. One thing that struck me from the beginning was 1) the incredible cynicism and 2) the lack of empathy most Russians seemed to embody. Media - all lies / Politics - all lies - everyone is as bad as each other, no one does anything for free or out of conviction etc. A gay man got beat up on the street? Serves him right! Why's he gay anyway? Cyprus is still full of Russians and not much has changed. The war in Ukraine? A tragedy but more a "natural disaster" than something anyone could have avoided. I'm afraid it is also the predominant attitude that shapes a country.

@jonsanborn6849

I lived in Russia for a few years and spent a decade studying Russian history and literature. For me, it has little to do with the geography and external factors which you list and far more to do with the Russian mindset. As many others have pointed out because the things you describe also occur in many other countries. There’s a Russian proverb that says leaders rule, not the law. This toxic idea is why a society keeps choosing leaders who are above the law. The second toxic idea is vranyo, which creates a society that has little truth to build upon and reinforces deception and bribery, in all levels of society. And the third is the idea of expendable human life for something greater. This pawn mentality works in chess but for humanity, it’s devastating. It’s the reason that thousands of soldiers can die in a week and no one cares. Many of my friends in the army, there told me about this to great detail. I still love Russia and my friends there though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2uhWaerTRA

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And then there is this:

According to the CDC, more than 60 million people in the United States are infected with parasites. Parasites can be spread through: contaminated water, improperly handled food, pets, wilderness activities, and travel.
Some common parasites in the United States include:

Toxoplasma gondii
A protozoan that infects about 60 million people in the United States. Infections in pregnant women can lead to birth defects.
Trypanosoma cruzi
The parasite that causes Chagas disease, which infects more than 300,000 people in the United States.
Trichomoniasis
A sexually transmitted infection that affects 3.7 million people in the United States. It can cause pregnancy problems and increase the risk of other sexually transmitted infections.
Toxocara
A parasite that causes toxocariasis, which affects at least 14% of the U.S. population. Eye disease caused by toxocariasis can blind at least 70 people each year, mostly children.

Parasites can be a common health threat in the U.S. They can cause a variety of symptoms, including: Fatigue, GI issues, and Brain fog.
Risk of infection increases in the summer because intestinal parasites thrive in warm weather. Women over 50 are also at higher risk because stomach acid production decreases with age

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That's ridiculous. The blacks who are into the Hotep/We Wuz Kangs stuff are also the blacks who are the most anti-Semitic and the ones who are most detached from mainstream and academic media sources.

Getting rid of Joos is not the all purpose solution to all of America's ills that the Men of Unz seem to think it is. You will still have your blacks (which BTW YOU and not the Jews brought here) and they will be just as troublesome as they have been for the last 400 years.

If blacks are less troublesome in other countries it is because WASPs were always wooly headed and had a soft spot in their bleeding hearts for them and for every other type of loser. Was there ever any equivalent of the New England abolitionist movement in Brazil?

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That some gays are wantonly promiscuous has nothing to do with whether gay marriage is or is not a good thing. Like I said before, if I had to guess, gay marriage probably acts as a brake on promiscuity. I don't see a mechanism by which it makes it worse.

Some gays are going to be promiscuous with or without marriage so that gays are promiscuous is neither here nor there in relation to the question of gay marriage. Maybe the existence of gayness itself is bad but it doesn't seem possible to get rid of it. It has always existed - it was just kept in the closet more in the past.

Gays may add to health costs but they tend not to have children so having them in your city you save on school taxes. When blacks move into an area, real estate values plunge but gays raise the property value.

There are some women (and men) who have made the rounds before getting married too (some even after) and it doesn't add or take away from the institution of marriage.

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This map has been kicking around for decades:

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fa92mek3brwq71.jpg

It's not a perfect fit for the 2024 electoral map but as you say, had MI and PA swung a couple of points they could have have been on the other side.

I think separation is a totally dumb idea. It was tried once and did not work. It's the last thing that we need in a world where we are competing with China. Since you are not a dumb person, it is my hope that you use it only as a rhetorical device and have no serious desire for it to come about. It's like the dog chasing the car - it's fun to bark at it but what do you do if you actually catch it? Most studies of divorce show that after the divorce BOTH parties are less well off than before. This is why Quebec, Puerto Rico, Scotland, etc. always talk about separation and never actually do it. This gives you the best of both worlds - you get to kvetch about the other party but you also get to save on rent. Brexit shows what happens when the dog actually catches the car and it's not good.

Mayorkas was not the border czar and the policy came from the White House. Kamala was the border czar. Biden was also the one that unleashed inflation by overheating the economy with insane levels of deficit spending. Without the Fed raising interest rates it would have been even worse. I don't know why you are giving Biden and Harris a break on these issues. They don't deserve one and didn't get one from the majority of the voting public.

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I don't know how much Buffett thinks along those lines, but I think he is a pure capitalist. For example, he was an early investor in BYD because he liked their cause (electric cars to cut down pollution) and found its founder Wang Chuanfu to be a charismatic leader and visionary like Henry Ford. Now, BYD is a giant conglomerate that controls everything from minerals, battery and vehicles and will likely eventually make gas burning cars obsolete.

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https://twitter.com/Steve_Sailer/status/1854460199353872507

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"They say that the wind drives 'em crazy. You know it's a vibration because you have those things that 50-story building."
 

Wind power's issues are obvious--not base load, kills birds, makes noise. I've got an uncle who owns a farm out north of Iowa Falls and there's a few wind turbines in the section across the road (closest maybe 600 yards or so away) and yeah, you can hear it. (Guess what you can smell the hog units too if the wind conditions are right. It's Iowa--someone's got to grow that bacon.)

But so what?

We spent a couple weeks on the road earlier this month making the trek from the PNW back to Florida and there were some windy days--pushing the minivan around pretty well--where I was thinking "they need to have some turbines here; we're wasting free power".

Wind power makes sense. Just because some lefties obsess over it doesn't mean it isn't worth doing. Same with solar. Bring it on. Everything should be in the mix:
-- nukes
-- solar
-- wind
-- ethanol
-- methanol
-- oil and gas
-- geothermal
... whatever else inventive man can come up with that pencils out ...
let's do it.

Trump seems to want to talk about anything and everything rather than hammering on the one thing that actually matters--the destruction of American Dream for young Americans, the destruction of our nation.

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Old Yiddish joke: A fellow asks his acquaintance who is a tailor from Bialyistok how he managed to have such a successful marriage, no fighting, peace and harmony etc. The tailor responds

" Ven mir hubben chasuna gehat hubben mir baschlossen az m'vet zakh nisht kreigen, nor m'vet eynteylen autoritet. Oyf di groyse zakhn geyt men nokh meyn meynung, oyf di kleyne zakhn folgt men ihr meynung. Vus zeynen di kleyne zakhn? Vus m'vet essen, avu m'vet voynen, avu m'zol arbeten, vekhu; in di zakhn geyt men nokh ihr de'ah. Di groyse zakhen, l'moshl tzu Amerike zol milchomeh halten mit Russland; In dehm folgt men meyn meynung." =

"When we wed we agreed that we would avoid strife by dividing authority in the following manner. On questions of great import we will follow my opinion, on small matters we will follow her guidance. What are small matters? What will we eat, where we will live, what occupation we will be employed in? These are the small matters that she decides. The great matters, for example whether America should wage war on Russia? In these matters my opinion is dispositive."

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Bullshit. An anecdote is not data. Show us the data . You can't because it doesn't support your lie.

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Murder already comes under state law.

...it should be left up to the states to decide what the laws pertaining to abortions should be.
 

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In fact I think the new left hampers its own progress by rejecting both White and Jewish men in high level positions.
 

And having them on your side is a really good way to advance it - see the Manhattan Project, see Silicon Valley, etc. I've mentioned many times to the Men of Unz that they would be better off trying to recruit Jews to the anti-immigration side (there are many good arguments as to why Jews should not be over there, basically because browns see Jews as just one more type of rich white person OR WORSE) but of course they don't want to hear it because spewing Jew hatred makes them feel GOOD. But as you say, some people actually PREFER mediocrity because the competent are a threat to the mediocre.

America in the past (before the Ellis Island era America didn't really have any Jews to speak of and Catholics were the favorite target of nativists) was not free of ideologically strife but it was broken down on class and race lines. Marx was wrong about a lot of shit but not about class conflict which really is basically a zero sum game - if Jeff Bezos pays each of his zillion employees another X%, he is not a billionaire anymore so it is majorly in his interest to keep wages down. The same was true of Carnegie 100+ years ago. Whether the magnates (or big faceless corporations) are Jewish or not is irrelevant. This is what was meant when people said that antisemitism is the socialism of fools. Now socialism is really the socialism of fools but at least they had a cogent analysis of the disease if not the cure. Getting rid of Jews is rarely the cure.

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They're criminals, so should not be released.

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What I really want is for Palestinians to stop killing Jews. Is that too much to ask?

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Jewish Family and Community Services in Pittsburgh is responsible for the Haitian migration in a small Midwest town.
 

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Non responsive.

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Like Israel with Hamas and Hezbollah (except on a much smaller scale) if these idiots would shut up about how Jews are all Bolsheviks who want to extinct white people, blah, blah, blah, I wouldn't say a word. But I am not going to let them shoot verbal rockets at Jewish people and let that go unchallenged. You have to nip that disease in the bud before it infects the entire society.

Just shut up about how Jews are the most eeebil people ever and how they run the entire world and you wouldn't hear a peep from me. Is that really too much to ask?

As I have mentioned before, before WWII, there was such a thing as casual or polite antisemitism and it was even accepted or tolerated by American Jews. You don't want to have Jews in your golf club or hospital or law firm - fine, we will have our own. Catholics did this too. But after the Holocaust the risks of this kind of casual antisemitism became intolerable. The internet has made things worse again because the cave dwellers think they have anonymity.

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Because he is an idiot. "Kapos" were bad because they betrayed the Jewish people for personal advantage (an extra piece of bread maybe) and served the interest of the enemy. The antisemitic rap on Garland is that he has NOT betrayed the Jewish people so he is anything but a kapo.

My father knew a fellow who was a kapo and he did not have a high opinion of the man, to put it mildly. Unfortunately his daughter ended up marrying a cousin of mine (on my maternal side so this cousin was no blood relation to my father). In his later years, this man suffered a major stroke and spent many years mute and wheelchair bound before he died. My father felt that this was perhaps a form of divine punishment for his deeds.

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Supply one dram of evidence that the Iraq invasion was for the benefit of Israel. Like Vietnam, it was a good idea with terrible execution. You might recall the day some people did something in New York, Washington, and Shanksville. You’re not in-American. You’re just an idiot.

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They don’t exist here yet. Israel sponsored Hamas in Palestine. Her invasion in 1982 created Hezbollah in Lebanon.
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Iran manufactured Hezbollah and no, Israel did not manufacture Hamas. And there is no such place as Palestine.

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What makes Jewish power "inordinate"? It's fair to say that Jews wield power in America as does every other group in a democracy, both by virtue of their numbers and their donations to political causes, etc. but "inordinate" power is in the eye of the beholder.

Would you say that whites in the Jim Crow South wielded inordinate power? Have you ever denounced them for doing so? Do Catholics wield inordinate power? There are six Catholic Supreme Court Justices? Would you say that is "inordinate"? All of the Presidents of the United States (except for 1/2 of 1) have been white male Christians. Would you say that the power of white male Christians is "inordinate"?

And if you make a false and racist claim, such as claiming that "Jews wield inordinate power in America", yes bad things might happen to your job, your business, your college application, etc. This is America - your pager won't explode, but Americans don't like racists.

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Resentment of Jews is somehow understandable among Europeans & Americans, and yet- it is both simple and complicated. Simple- Jews are an individualized ethnic community, a minority rooted in the Middle East, aliens if you wish. Complicated- in developed countries like Germany, Austria, France... Jews were so thoroughly assimilated from the mid 19th C that anti-judaists were mostly cranks like Wilhelm Marr, or Wagner in his most lunatic moments. Perhaps the best example is Karl Marx- never mind his ancestry- who intensely disliked Jews & not as "capitalists" as superficial historians assume. The reason is deeper- if one carefully reads his writings, one sees it as a natural antipathy of a European toward a Levantine.

On the other hand, in the Russian Empire Jews were a numerous population living in villages, speaking their own language, possessing their own culture-  a visible national minority, which was not the case in Germany, France...where they were Germans...of "Mosaic faith". True, they were sometimes irritating, but not anything spectacular.

In the US, assimilationist Jews were not resented, or, if they were, it was barely visible. But, somewhere in the 1960s, many recovered their ethnic pride & have been de-assimilating themselves ever since, provoking distancing, even antipathy in formerly well- intentioned other whites. The problem is that there is no unified American identity- unlike French, Italian, English,..- but if we analyze the situation, we see two different trends: there are many Jews who are alienated from the core American identity & are not as assimilated as people of French, Polish, Italian...ancestry; on the other hand, a big portion of Jews are losing their identity, but replace it with some kind of nebulous progressivism- in practice the New Left ideology, which is anti-white in its essence (some call it cultural Marxism).

Personally, I am critical of Jewish tribalism, but when I hear John Mearsheimer blathering, in the same breath, on "evil" Ukrainian warfare against Russians with "Zionist" help, I suddenly lose any interest in dissection of Jewish mischievousness.

The same goes with Hamas & Hezbollah. Israel is not an innocent, perfect democracy. But, when you see Iran, Arabs, Chinese, Russians, South Africa...and their words & deeds- you recognize that these brutal, lawless & almost cannibalistic societies understand only the language of force. Israelis do, from time to time, some unpleasant things. But Iran, Russia, China...are unpleasantness incarnated. 

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A class action suit by Whites for decades of restraint of trade against the “Ivy League”
 

Why? Because reasons, of course. It's just where we are in our history and no, the future does not look bright. A miracle would help.

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The anti-AA lawsuit that lead to the Supreme Court overturning AA was headed by Edward Blum, who is Jewish. Of course the Men of Unz only talk about Bad Jews and never mention that.

The truth is though, at this point getting rid of AA mostly helps Asians. If Harvard actually starts following the S. Ct. decision it will just result in Asians taking the place of blacks and Latinos with little shift in the white share. See what happened at Hopkins. This is perhaps why white people are not all that excited by this.

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https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1834398206056100156

Oct 7 showed Jews that they need to be armed and ready. The always-entertaining Ben Gvir is handing out 20,000 automatic rifles in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank).

https://twitter.com/Lorlordylor/status/1834324924376531042

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Moon landing: all you have to do is explain why the USSR didn't blow the whistle.

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Phoebe Gates and Phoebe Cates are different women.

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Ron, if it turns out that Candace is correct on this issue of Brigette Macron’s gender, how does that influence your perspective?
 

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Musk makes a vast majority of his money selling electric cars.

One of the main threats to his business is right wingers seeing electric vehicles as left-coded. He’s afraid that Republicans will go out of their way to destroy his industry “to own the libs”, so he wants Republicans to consider him part of their team, so they support him, rather than waging war against him.

He’s right to fear Republicans. Republicans have passed a number of anti-EV laws in several states.

https://www.newsweek.com/can-republicans-ban-electric-cars-1774767

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Aww, that's adorable. The little puppets are expressing LOL puzzlement and astonishment -- and I daresay denial -- over how obvious their strings are to everyone but themselves. It's not exactly self-awareness, per se (as opposed to their usual stubborn refusal to acknowledge the obvious), but I suppose it will have to do.

But for all of you out there who haven't noticed, do observe that for the last week or more, the fanboys and their tag-along useful idiots and fellow travelers have all of a sudden had no interest whatsoever in derailing a single of Steve's threads with their incessant updates about matters related to Russia. Sure, there were a few of the usual grumblings about how it's the American's who choose NOT to cave in to Putin who are the real traitors to this nation, but apart from link-free drivel like that, disconnected from any actual events, or reality in general, it has been crickets, as I myself noted over a week ago.

And if you look at Unz's masthead, he currently doesn't have a single "article" on this website about Russia (i.e. Moscow propaganda puff piece) since Shamir's "Why do Brits Hate Russians", and that was published over a month ago.

Escobar finally broke the silence two days ago by daring to confront the recent, um, "happenings", and I suppose he'll make it onto the masthead before long, but what an odd dry spell it has been -- a long time for the Moscow trolls to sit in the corner like the naughty little boys they are and to contemplate how badly they misjudged things. And let's face it, without Moscow-financed paid propaganda to subsidize the hacks on his back-bench of writers, Ron would have a much harder time finding "content" for this site -- Hitler apologias can only do so much to spiff up the atmosphere, after all, and Ron sucked that sour lemon dry a while back. And even Escobar himself, fanboy though he is, and insistent that Moscow will "eventually" crawl out of this latest hole, is beyond admitting that all is well in the Motherland given what has just happened. Not even he is able to be that naïve, and so he instead chooses to be a lying scumbag about other matters: "Heads will have to...roll...this is just the beginning." Right. Dark mutterings indeed.

In any case, so much for Simplicius or Berletic -- or whoever else you fanboy idiots slurp up and then try to pretend you're not even more ignorant after the video finished than before it started -- and whatever else fuels your efforts to dispense the fanboy gnosis to the iSteve audience. Yet again, reality has left you gobsmacked. Solovyev, the king of Russian state-TV talking heads, swore back during the Kherson "heroic retreat to the rear" that as far as debacles go, that would have to be the last time. No more such failures would be tolerated, he angrily warned someone (as if he has any power that extends beyond Putin's allowances). But anyway, he seems to have forgotten about that now, just like the fanboys forgot about their latest "it's all but over" predictions.

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I don't get the joke (if it is a joke). Somebody please explain the remark "I saw the future at 52nd St in the Bronx and it ain’t coming back!" What did he see? Why is it not coming back?

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I agree. A lot of people can't get past his uncouthness and he'd pick up more votes if he'd shut his big yap.

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Shapiro on his membership in the IDF
 

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“Why are you always trying to bait people into declaring an intention to commit a clearly illegal act?”

I’m not baiting anyone. Poland apparently has a wise policy. So how is it illegal about protecting one’s national border from scores of violent men and women with physical force? American whites are being genocided out of existence, right? Don’t we have the liberty to defend ourselves? Aren’t you a patriot?

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