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On Twitter, a corporate insider explains how how DEI promotions work, and how they hilariously went wrong in the Year of All Fevers, 2020:

Rule3O3
@Rule3O3

🧵 What it’s really like to serve as a tool in the DEI🧵

As I’ve admitted before, despite being a confirmed thought criminal with ties to Big Frog, I’ve many times conspired to violate the 1964 Civil Right Act Title VII by intentionally discriminating *in favor of blacks*

I’ve done this with a clear conscience, for two reasons:

It’s inevitable anyway, & whether I’ve taken a paycheck or sworn an oath, the duty of serving an organization includes the obligation to proactively protect it against ruinous charges like “institutional racism”

Reconciling morals is the easy part. What’s hard is rigging the system hard enough to withstand the enormous statistical headwind of black census share & underperformance…

…but subtle enough not to be so screamingly obvious even a white guy can land a knockout EEO suit.

Now the best way to do that is by increasing the # of elements & complexity in a selection process. What you want is something that’d make a rural change of venue jury fall asleep.

“We use Schmendrick-VanDeMerwe, a 17 point management competency assessment” Stuff like that.

What this does is allow you to sneak subjective ratings into something that sounds overall objective.

Because, key point: raters will know what to do WITHOUT BEING TOLD. No explicit conversation is required. Everyone in white collar management today knows who to overrate…

Bearing all that in mind, in 2019 I was asked to help un-stall a DEI program
that on first pass had failed to deliver desired results.

Catch was we couldn’t totally discard the existing process, but only modify existing features. No problem since I knew just what to do.

Legacy system used a mix of test scores, superior ratings, peer ratings & simulated performance.

The way to go was: reduce weight on the tests (too g loaded) & peer ratings (too honest) & put that balance into a modified set of simulations.

Fun fact: blacks like role play.

They do well at it. Less likely than whites & far less likely than Asians to recoil at the artifice or flunk due to shyness. That plus the role play is scored by senior staff aware of “the big picture” (i.e. quota needs).

Need more black finalists? Add a role play exercise.

So far, so good, I’m an unlikely hero of diversity, equity, & inclusion, right?

WRONG. Because what comes after 2019 is 2020, the Year of All Fevers.

And here enters into the story a newly prominent black activist, who knows exactly what (& who) the real problem must be.

Spoiler: it’s people like me, cleverly increasing the subjective elements of the process because that is where our implicit biases can reign free.

And it follows: the way to thwart our white (and light) supremacy is by INCREASING the weight of test scores and peer ratings.

For, after all, these are the objective & egalitarian parts of the process. These are the elements that can’t be gamed by white men with systemic privilege.

So written, so done. The g-loaded test is upped to 35% of total points (the most it’d ever been before was 25%) &

The peer ratings are upped to 25%.

So now 60% of a candidate’s score is based on how good they are at getting right answers & solving real problems, with only 40% input from manager class people who actually spend their day asking “Are there enough blacks in that picture?”

Naturally I try with every power of persuasion I can summon (which is, take my word for it, rather a lot IRL), but to no avail.

The activist – not wrongly, given what you all know – senses me an enemy on sight & feels even more sure in her course knowing that I oppose it.

To be fair, I can’t SAY the things I need to say, to be truly convincing.

I can’t explain why an objective test is the last thing you’d want. Or why letting conscientious white & Asian grinders anonymously assess your Black hopefuls is almost as bad.

I lose the argument.

The reform goes through according to her requirements.

The result, born like a deformed babe 9 months later, is the most racially disparate list of promotion eligibles in the history of organizational records.

No black candidate broke the top 25, & only 2 made the top 50.

This becomes known to a smaller group of insiders before it must be published.

There follows a furious two weeks
of meetings. The lawyers insist the list be let stand & point to what would happen in discovery.

C-suite is for throwing it out & paying whatever that takes.

PR & HR are surprisingly without strong opinions, perhaps because they’re busy updating their resumes.

The activist goes from giving me dirty looks to never looking at me at all. In cramped conference rooms & late night Zoom she manages to avoid any acknowledgment I exist.

Which is fine since at this point in the disaster, I have no solutions. Really it’s not clear why I’m still involved. Though of course I did add my voice to the admit failure & settle camp.

Lost that one too. Lawyers carried the day arguing “better to be sued by 5 than 50”

I point out whites & Asians don’t sue, & especially that they don’t get press conferences, also to no avail.

Here’s what happens next: the list goes out as is, top sheeted with an apology & promise to do better signed by more people than the Declaration of Independence.

But NOT the black activist lady, who puts out a statement of her own that mentions how tired & overworked she is at least 3 times.

But interestingly & to her credit, she does not try to fob off blame for her specific mistakes. But of course she doesn’t *own them* either.

The organization, no doubt acting on a portion of its lawyers advice most of us weren’t allowed to hear, then went a record breaking 18 months without making any executive promotions.

This despite unusually high turnover at all levels, & some very conspicuous vacancies.

But they did roll out a new “paid as if”hand picked temporary apprentice system (justified as part of the covid emergency) with picturesque levels of diversity.

Pretty smart actually, & they got away with it. Though only for the reason I stated earlier: whites don’t sue.

At the end of the cooling off period, they announced their new process:

Test = 15% (5 points < my original rec)
Peer ratings = 25% and no longer anonymous
Superior ratings = 25%
Simulation aka role play = 35%

Works like a charm. Frankly they should be sending residuals.

But while I wait for those to roll in, I treasure this lesson as the only thing of value I took from the experience:

Black people correctly sense that whites are rigging the game when they’re not looking.

They just can’t imagine the truth: that we’re rigging it for them.

 
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  1. Hilarious. I can’t be the only person who thought of Jack role-playing Tracey’s dead father in counseling in 30Rock.

  2. Anonymous[287] • Disclaimer says:

    No black candidate broke the top 25, & only 2 made the top 50.

    That will not do. It would put at risk the twin engines of White genocide: miscegenation and mass immigration.

    How?

    Integrating Blacks into the higher echelons of the workforce raises their status/appeal in the eyes of potential mates, serves as evidence that counters claims of Black inferiority in cognition and conscientiousness, and puts Blacks into greater physical proximity of Whites of reproductive age.

    The relationship to immigration policy is more subtle. Racial preferences or quotas for Blacks, in schools and the job market, insulate the more talented Blacks (the leadership class and individuals with relative influence and talent) from the fierce foreign competition that immigration brings in. The quotas in effect placate the portion of the Black population that would be most able to perceive the deleterious effects of immigration on the Black population and to take political action to oppose it, even by allying with Whites.

    • Thanks: AndrewR
    • Replies: @WhitePwrAntiBlackie
    @Anonymous

    The fact that Blacks need racial quotas proves their inferiority.

  3. And then one day, for no reason whatsoever, Eurasians didn’t care about Africans.

  4. > Black people correctly sense that whites are rigging the game when they’re not looking.

    They just can’t imagine the truth: that we’re rigging it for them.

    Finally. Amen…finally.

    • Replies: @Efhhfdddff
    @ATate

    There’s nothing final about it. The Woke will find ever new ways to agitate. The progress in Progressivism is unending

  5. They just can’t imagine the truth: that we’re rigging it for them.

    Rigger, please. That’s some prime cope-a-dope faux bless oblige. Blacks know they’re being coddled, they like the results when it’s in their favor, and they are daring you to say it their face. Here is some perhaps unrealistic simulation role play:

    • Thanks: 36 ulster
    • Replies: @Intelligent Dasein
    @Jenner Ickham Errican


    Rigger, please. That’s some prime cope-a-dope faux bless oblige.
     
    I have to take my hat off. That's some top notch punning there.
    , @Twinkie
    @Jenner Ickham Errican


    Blacks know they’re being coddled, they like the results when it’s in their favor, and they are daring you to say it their face.
     
    I did once - in a semi-public (audience by invitation only) debate. The funny thing was the black activist seemed stunned, but was silent afterwards (like he was speechless that someone finally called out his bullshit in front of others), but all the GoodWhites in the audience gasped and then got very angry at me.

    Replies: @Jenner Ickham Errican, @Bill Jones, @Anonymous

  6. They just can’t imagine the truth: that we’re rigging it for them.

    Rigger, please. That’s some prime cope-a-dope faux bless oblige: Blacks know they’re being coddled, they like the results when it’s in their favor, and they are daring you to say it their face. This simulated role play is perhaps unrealistic:

    • Agree: Efhhfdddff
    • Thanks: TWS
    • LOL: Kylie
    • Replies: @ic1000
    @Jenner Ickham Errican

    > They just can’t imagine the truth: that we’re rigging it for them.

    A close family member recently had elective surgery at Close-In-Suburb Hospital. We chose the surgeon on reputation and track record; just before the procedure, a complex anesthesia question arose. I was alarmed to meet the doc making the decision... wanted cum laude or better for this one. Seemed competent and informed, so went with Proceed rather than Cancel. Things worked out.

    The post-St.-Floyd leap in rigging of med school, residency, and fellowship admits hasn't yet worked its way through the system. In a few years, informed patients are going to be pressing the Cancel button much more frequently, in situations like these.

    White/Asian supremacist patients, that is.

    Replies: @SFG, @Isabel Archer

    , @Mr. Anon
    @Jenner Ickham Errican

    That was actually funny and politically subversive in a way. And that was only, what, 10 years ago or so?

    I don't think you'd ever see it on TV today.

    , @Erik L
    @Jenner Ickham Errican

    I love the Tracy Morgan line about buffoon being a word for black pirate- completely made up per quick web search

    , @Kylie
    @Jenner Ickham Errican

    This comment of yours settles it.

    We need a "Bravo" button.

    Replies: @Jenner Ickham Errican

  7. she does not try to fob off blame for her specific mistakes

    Mistakes? Wasn’t she deliberately setting up some black applicants to profit from lucrative lawsuits?

    • Agree: Yancey Ward
    • Replies: @Unladen Swallow
    @Ralph L

    Her mistake was thinking de facto intelligence tests and peer reviews making up 60% of the grade would benefit blacks. He knew it would benefit whites and Asians the most and benefit blacks the least.

  8. This is intrawhite class warfare and it should stop.
    A truce should be called for a few years, better yet for at least a generation.

    • Replies: @fish
    @but an humble craftsman

    Never going to happen....

    Replies: @Charles Erwin Wilson, @Prester John

  9. Because, key point: raters will know what to do WITHOUT BEING TOLD. No explicit conversation is required. Everyone in white collar management today knows who to overrate…

    Guess what? We also knew this back in elementary school, decades ago. Not a single one of my classmates failed to respond “correctly” when the visiting consultant tried to trick the class into revealing ‘hidden bias’.

    And she was clever, too! But we were just as clever and she ended up visibly frustrated.

    • Replies: @pyrrhus
    @HammerJack

    I know a guy who was in the army 50 years ago, and says he was promoted to Captain because he promoted blacks, regardless of merit....This isn't new...

  10. Great thread

    Ironically, the black lady did do something good…those two blacks who made it to the top 50 ARE the good guys and should get some serious job promotion

    One may even be a Clarence Thomas

    • Replies: @Citizen of a Silly Country
    @Thoughts

    I've seen one week old puppies with more understanding about how the world works than you.

    The colorblind CivNat gene can't die out soon enough. It's stunning that nature allowed it to last as long as it has.

    Thankfully, it - and ridiculously naive statements like your - will be a thing of the past soon enough. Future peoples will marvel at its suicidal stupidity.

    Replies: @Corvinus, @silviosilver

    , @anonymous
    @Thoughts

    Or not!

    , @Legba
    @Thoughts

    Yes but the smart money says he'll be a Saint, like George Floyd

  11. Had some recent conversations with guys from deep in the bowels of large corporations who, unprompted, relayed the soul sucking experience of passing over better qualified candidates/contractors to service the DIE overlords.

    Part of the riff is that a large chunk of corporate life is dealing with failure: shipping losses; theft; delays; breakdowns; missed deadlines; much of R&D is a dead end; etc. DIE gets slotted in there like another extreme weather event that the capable people have to work around. The loss from what the more capable people could have brought is nebulous enough that it doesn’t particularly register in day to day corporate life.

    • Agree: HammerJack
    • Replies: @Prester John
    @bomag

    The good news is that this too shall pass ("No man ever steps in the same river twice"-Heraclitus).

    The bad news is that, on the corporate level and elsewhere, it may arrive too late to save the current generation from the consequences resulting from decisions made by people who, one would think, should have known better.

    Replies: @bomag, @Almost Missouri, @Blodgie

  12. This called to mind what Chief Justice Marshall wrote in his opinion in the Harvard discrimination case. Marshall wrote that Harvard should not think it can get away with “simply” substituting an essay for a quota. I did not see any pundit-types commenting upon the inclusion of the word “simply,” but it really caught my eye. The inclusion was not happenstance. Marshall was sending a deliberate message; the same concept as the DEI guru in the essay understood. Make it complicated and subjective, so that would-be attackers would probably take a pass, due to the complexity. (Any challenge “would be like trying to put socks on an octopus” …if anyone still uses that expression.)

    • Replies: @ic1000
    @SafeNow

    > This called to mind what Chief Justice Marshall Roberts wrote in his opinion in the Harvard discrimination case [about "simply" substituting an essay for a quota].

    I recall a number of informed commenters making this point when the ruling came out. None worthy of being featured by Lester Holt on his newscast, if that's what you mean.

    Replies: @Stan Adams

    , @AndrewR
    @SafeNow

    Chief Justice Marshall died about 30 years before the end of slavery, so I'm kinda confused about what case you're talking about.

    But back to the original post: these corporate people are truly soulless. Capitalism really is demonic.

    Replies: @Herbert R. Tarlek, Jr., @Carol, @SafeNow

    , @Hypnotoad666
    @SafeNow


    Make it complicated and subjective, so that would-be attackers would probably take a pass, due to the complexity.
     
    It was Powell's concurrence in the original Bakke decision that struck down the numerical ranking + racial quota system of the Davis Medical School. His ground was that this made it too obvious which individual whites were being screwed and how much less qualified their individual black replacements were. Instead, Powell wrote that institutions should get the same result by using race as just "one factor" in a "holistic assessment." He specifically endorsed Harvard's "holistic" assessment as the proper model to follow.

    This deeply cynical "hide the racism in a muddled process" strategy has been the blueprint for institutionalized anti-white racism ever since.

    I was going to say it's "ironic" that the identical "holistic" Harvard system was what triggered the definitive legal rejection of legalized anti-white racism in admissions. But, on second thought, it was kind of inevitable that the Court undid its original sin by coming back, full-circle to Harvard's deliberately rigged "holistic" scam after 46 years of hypocrisy, lies and racism.
  13. enormous statistical headwind of black census share & underperformance…

    Why not sponsor visas for talented Nigerians?

    • Replies: @fish
    @anonymous

    How bout no!

    , @bomag
    @anonymous

    Because of regression to the mean, and cultural differences that created more heat than light.

    Why not Nigeria instituting mass immigration from European type countries?

    Replies: @anonymous

  14. What this does is allow you to sneak subjective ratings into something that sounds overall objective.

    Hey, that sounds like… Harvard!

    The way to go was: reduce weight on the tests (too g loaded) [SAT – 1600!] & peer ratings (too honest) [Alumni interview – superb young man!] & put that balance into a modified set of simulations. [Admissions office personality rating – Did you say you were Asian? No personality!]

    Very Harvard, no?

    conscientious white & Asian grinders

    Hardworking white = conscientious, but hardworking Asian = grinder?

    Hey, hey, this is library!

    • Replies: @Reg Cæsar
    @Twinkie


    Very Harvard, no?
     
    Harvard was just ranked dead last on free speech among universities examined. The best was a state school on the UP-- I can't remember which. Nobody pays any attention to Yoopers.

    Until now... "Gotta get 'em for that!"

    Replies: @Jenner Ickham Errican, @res, @AndrewR

    , @anonymous
    @Twinkie

    The author seems like he has a racial chip on his shoulder in the same way as the black lady consultant.

    , @kaganovitch
    @Twinkie


    Hardworking white = conscientious, but hardworking Asian = grinder?
     
    If that was his intent he would have written "conscientious whites & Asian grinders" (I note in passing even an aspiring badthinker like our hero cannot bring himself to capitalize 'White'.) As written, I think 'conscientious ' is meant to modify "white & Asian grinders". Of course this could have been made clearer with better punctuation/comma use, but that's just not 'current year'.

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @Anonymous

    , @dux.ie
    @Twinkie

    https://twitter.com/dux_ie/status/1676765511609380864
    From Becker's IQ dataset the national B5 Personality Score Rel to USA at 50%, EAS are less conscientiousness (slacker instead of grinder, may be in adult job situation higher IQ reduces time to do equiv job and so can be slackers), less agreeableness, Extraversion and Openness but higher in Neuroticism.
    This https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2630227/table/T3/?report=objectonly confirms the IQdb B5 trends

    , @Reg Cæsar
    @Twinkie

    It says white, not whites. "Conscientious" and "grinders" thus refer to both groups. (Or, rather, groups of groups-- neither race is particularly united.) We're in this together, man!

    , @nebulafox
    @Twinkie

    Virgin conscientious verbalizers vs chad library grinders.

    , @Ceph
    @Twinkie

    "Hardworking white = conscientious, but hardworking Asian = grinder?"

    I read it as "hardworking grinders, white or Asian"

  15. I treasure this lesson as the only thing of value I took from the experience

    And the black activist lady genuinely believed that blacks were performing well on the objective tests. Perhaps she was young and had a lot to learn. Or perhaps she was incapable of crunching the math.

    • Replies: @Steve Sailer
    @James N. Kennett

    She sounds like a better person than most black activists.

    Replies: @Corvinus, @Citizen of a Silly Country, @Jim Don Bob

    , @Alec Leamas (working from home)
    @James N. Kennett



    I treasure this lesson as the only thing of value I took from the experience
     
    And the black activist lady genuinely believed that blacks were performing well on the objective tests. Perhaps she was young and had a lot to learn. Or perhaps she was incapable of crunching the math.

     

    It's possible but it's also likely that the black promotion candidates in a Fortune 500 were the Obamaesque "talented tenf" with impressive resumes full of names like Harvard and Princeton and dozens of "plaques for blacks" awards so she might have thought that these were the blacks with real cerebral horsepower who were being artificially held back from positions of true power and authority by the connivances of our own Le Corporate Pepe. Once an affirmative action admit from Chicago submitted a thesis about being black at Princeton and then graduated from Princeton with a piece of papers saying so, the whole Universe resets and she is a "Princeton graduate" rather than an embarrassment to the institution that granted her a degree. The recipient received the magic scroll of knowledge from the old Wizard on the stage, and that's what counts.

    They really think that, for example, Obama was Washington and Lincoln and JFK and Reagan all rolled into one Onyx Edition - he was the best President, but he was hampered by having any political opposition whatsoever (unlike the others) so you must grade him on a curve and declare him the best and then put your fingers in your ears and hum "nananana" if your interlocutor retorts.

    One procedural peculiarity of the whole affair is that in the minds of the DIE people and most blacks, the weight of the entire DIE regime cumulatively working in their favor at every point of evaluation and decision can be undone by just one well-placed white supremacist with his racism voodoo - not unlike the "wreckers" of Communist revolutions (just a coincidence, you see).
  16. This is why people pay attention to “sportsball”. Games are less likely to be gamed.

    On Twitter, a corporate insider explains

    Black people correctly sense that whites are rigging the game when they’re not looking.

    They just can’t imagine the truth: that we’re rigging it for them.

    This just squeaks in under Twitter’s original character limit.

    How the DEI Cake Is Baked

    And it follows: the way to thwart our white (and light) supremacy is by INCREASING the weight of test scores and peer ratings.

    Someone left the cake out in the rain…

    where our implicit biases can reign free.

    Is that supposed to be reign free? Or rein free? Or rain free?

    https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/usage-free-rein-vs-free-reign

    Actually, it’s run free, isn’t it?

    • Replies: @Almost Missouri
    @Reg Cæsar


    Is that supposed to be reign free? Or rein free? Or rain free?

    https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/usage-free-rein-vs-free-reign

    Actually, it’s run free, isn’t it?
     
    Yeah, barely anyone has personal experience with horses or royalty—or even weather or running—anymore, so it's all just random phonemes to 'em.
    , @Carol
    @Reg Cæsar

    No. For once, the usage is correct.

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar

    , @slumber_j
    @Reg Cæsar

    Reign free ≠ free reign [sic]

    Not sure there's actually a problem in the original, although one might be a weird (and maybe wrong?) stickler/pedant and say it should read "reign freely." Anyway, the fact that "reign free" reminds one of "free rein" doesn't necessarily mean its writer isn't right to have written it as written.

    , @Bill Jones
    @Reg Cæsar

    Both can be correct. You can be given a free rein and be allowed to run free.

  17. With all that detail has anyone on Twitter been speculating on the company and the black consultant? Or asked an AI chatbot (how recent are their training texts?)?

  18. @Twinkie

    What this does is allow you to sneak subjective ratings into something that sounds overall objective.
     
    Hey, that sounds like... Harvard!

    The way to go was: reduce weight on the tests (too g loaded) [SAT - 1600!] & peer ratings (too honest) [Alumni interview - superb young man!] & put that balance into a modified set of simulations. [Admissions office personality rating - Did you say you were Asian? No personality!]
     
    Very Harvard, no?

    conscientious white & Asian grinders
     
    Hardworking white = conscientious, but hardworking Asian = grinder?

    Hey, hey, this is library!

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @anonymous, @kaganovitch, @dux.ie, @Reg Cæsar, @nebulafox, @Ceph

    Very Harvard, no?

    Harvard was just ranked dead last on free speech among universities examined. The best was a state school on the UP– I can’t remember which. Nobody pays any attention to Yoopers.

    Until now… “Gotta get ’em for that!”

    • Replies: @Jenner Ickham Errican
    @Reg Cæsar


    Nobody pays any attention to Yoopers.
     
    https://www.unz.com/isteve/nbc-andrew-yangs-self-deprecating-sense-of-humor-is-not-funny-according-to-comedy-grievance-experts/#comment-3575673 (#15)

    Replies: @bomag

    , @res
    @Reg Cæsar


    Harvard was just ranked dead last on free speech among universities examined.
     
    Thanks. That requires more detail ; )
    https://www.thefire.org/news/harvard-gets-worst-score-ever-fires-college-free-speech-rankings

    Simply put, Harvard has never performed well in FIRE’s College Free Speech Rankings, finishing below 75% of the schools surveyed in each of the past four years.

    In 2020, Harvard ranked 46 out of 55 schools. In 2021, it ranked 130 out of 154 schools. Last year, it ranked 170 out of 203 schools. And this year, Harvard completed its downward spiral in dramatic fashion, coming in dead last with the worst score ever: 0.00 out of a possible 100.00. This earns it the notorious distinction of being the only school ranked this year with an “Abysmal” speech climate.

    What’s more, granting Harvard a score of 0.00 is generous. Its actual score is -10.69, more than six standard deviations below the average and more than two standard deviations below the second-to-last school in the rankings, its Ivy League counterpart, the University of Pennsylvania. (Penn obtained an overall score of 11.13.)
     
    Some student quotes here.
    https://rankings.thefire.org/rank/school/harvard-university

    The best performing school was Michigan Technological University with a score of 78.01.

    An interesting pair is
    Oregon State at #4 scoring 71.56
    University of Oregon at #143 scoring 44.01 (just above Caltech and 7 below MIT BTW)

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar

    , @AndrewR
    @Reg Cæsar

    Michigan Tech is in the UP but I imagine that >97% of the students are from outside the UP.

  19. @Reg Cæsar
    @Twinkie


    Very Harvard, no?
     
    Harvard was just ranked dead last on free speech among universities examined. The best was a state school on the UP-- I can't remember which. Nobody pays any attention to Yoopers.

    Until now... "Gotta get 'em for that!"

    Replies: @Jenner Ickham Errican, @res, @AndrewR

    • Replies: @bomag
    @Jenner Ickham Errican

    I liked the link for reminding me of a kind of hero:


    sociologist Anthony Ocampo, who focuses on race, immigration and LGBTQ issues
     
    I imagine he reads every word of iSteve.
  20. @SafeNow
    This called to mind what Chief Justice Marshall wrote in his opinion in the Harvard discrimination case. Marshall wrote that Harvard should not think it can get away with “simply” substituting an essay for a quota. I did not see any pundit-types commenting upon the inclusion of the word “simply,” but it really caught my eye. The inclusion was not happenstance. Marshall was sending a deliberate message; the same concept as the DEI guru in the essay understood. Make it complicated and subjective, so that would-be attackers would probably take a pass, due to the complexity. (Any challenge “would be like trying to put socks on an octopus” …if anyone still uses that expression.)

    Replies: @ic1000, @AndrewR, @Hypnotoad666

    > This called to mind what Chief Justice Marshall Roberts wrote in his opinion in the Harvard discrimination case [about “simply” substituting an essay for a quota].

    I recall a number of informed commenters making this point when the ruling came out. None worthy of being featured by Lester Holt on his newscast, if that’s what you mean.

    • Replies: @Stan Adams
    @ic1000

    Lester Holt is a Double Stuf Oreo. He's married to a white woman.

    https://i.ibb.co/NjkzP7B/314-C51-DB00000578-3449684-Family-shot-Lester-Holt-with-his-wife-Carol-Hagen-Holt-and-heir-m-66-1455.jpg

    It would be fascinating to know whether his sons have benefitted from affirmative action.

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


    Early life and education
    Holt was born on March 8, 1959, on Hamilton Air Force Base, Marin County, California, the youngest child of four of June (DeRozario) and Lester Don Holt Sr. His maternal grandparents were born in Jamaica. His maternal grandfather Canute DeRozario was a Jamaican Anglo-Indian from Spanish Town, and was one of 14 children of an Indo-Jamaican father from Calcutta, India, and a White English Jamaican mother from England. His maternal grandmother, May, was an Afro-Jamaican born in Manchester Parish, Jamaica but raised in Harlem, New York, where his mother was born. His father was African American from Michigan, with roots in Tennessee.

    His father was stationed at Elmendorf Air Force Base in Alaska for four years during the Vietnam War. Holt was introduced to broadcasting by his older brother, a disc jockey at a local radio station in Anchorage, Alaska....

    Holt resides in Manhattan with his wife, Carol Hagen; they have two sons, Stefan and Cameron.
     
    Holt attended Sac State but did not graduate.

    https://www.closerweekly.com/posts/lester-holts-kids-meet-sons-stefan-cameron-with-wife-carol/

    Stefan studied Broadcast Journalism and Political Science at Pepperdine University, where he graduated in 2009.

    Following graduation, Stefan landed a job as a reporter and fill-in anchor for Hearst Magazine in West Palm Beach, Florida. He eventually left the company after two years to start working as a news anchor for NBC. Since May 2011, he’s been reporting the news for NBC 5 Chicago.
     
    Well, he's certainly benefitted from nepotism.

    [Cameron] graduated from Stanford University with a degree in Mathematical and Computational Science in 2012, which means he was most likely born in 1989 or 1990. Cameron also earned a Master’s Degree in Management Science and Engineering at Stanford in 2013.

    It appears Cameron tried his hand in television, as he worked “on the production team for two CNBC shows, Squawk on the Street and CNBC Reports” as an intern in 2009. Since 2013, he’s worked as the Vice President of the Institutional Equity Division at Morgan Stanley.
     
    Not a bad gig if you can get it.

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar

  21. @Jenner Ickham Errican

    They just can’t imagine the truth: that we’re rigging it for them.
     
    Rigger, please. That’s some prime cope-a-dope faux bless oblige: Blacks know they’re being coddled, they like the results when it’s in their favor, and they are daring you to say it their face. This simulated role play is perhaps unrealistic:

    https://youtu.be/fKCpPhJidug?si=GkdEClDTxi2mGhJF&t=66

    Replies: @ic1000, @Mr. Anon, @Erik L, @Kylie

    > They just can’t imagine the truth: that we’re rigging it for them.

    A close family member recently had elective surgery at Close-In-Suburb Hospital. We chose the surgeon on reputation and track record; just before the procedure, a complex anesthesia question arose. I was alarmed to meet the doc making the decision… wanted cum laude or better for this one. Seemed competent and informed, so went with Proceed rather than Cancel. Things worked out.

    The post-St.-Floyd leap in rigging of med school, residency, and fellowship admits hasn’t yet worked its way through the system. In a few years, informed patients are going to be pressing the Cancel button much more frequently, in situations like these.

    White/Asian supremacist patients, that is.

    • Replies: @SFG
    @ic1000

    You’ll get more racial discrimination by patients…if you know there’s massive AA, better wait a few weeks to see Dr. Chang.

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @Achmed E. Newman, @Ben Kurtz

    , @Isabel Archer
    @ic1000

    Just before my abdominal surgery I met the anesthesiologist, and was dismayed to see he was black. In answer to my question, he assured me (in a slightly annoyed manner) that he was board certified. After the surgery I discovered that I could no longer sing or shout loudly: this because my vocal cords had been permanently bowed from the use of a too-large breathing tube during the operation. I guess I’m lucky that he did no other damage.

    Replies: @Anonymous, @FPD72, @Adolf Smith

  22. @James N. Kennett

    I treasure this lesson as the only thing of value I took from the experience
     
    And the black activist lady genuinely believed that blacks were performing well on the objective tests. Perhaps she was young and had a lot to learn. Or perhaps she was incapable of crunching the math.

    Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Alec Leamas (working from home)

    She sounds like a better person than most black activists.

    • Agree: Bumpkin
    • Replies: @Corvinus
    @Steve Sailer

    “On Twitter, a corporate insider explains how how DEI promotions work”

    For all we know, he could be your mailman.

    Replies: @Almost Missouri, @Ancient Mason

    , @Citizen of a Silly Country
    @Steve Sailer

    My goodness.

    Replies: @Mike Tre

    , @Jim Don Bob
    @Steve Sailer


    She sounds like a better person than most black activists.
     
    True, but still not too smart.

    Hilarious story, though no wonder we are going down the drain when all this time, money and brain power are spent on this crap.

  23. @but an humble craftsman
    This is intrawhite class warfare and it should stop.
    A truce should be called for a few years, better yet for at least a generation.

    Replies: @fish

    Never going to happen….

    • Replies: @Charles Erwin Wilson
    @fish

    Agree.

    One side wins and the other side loses. And when the surgeries go awry, the bridges fall down, and the planes hit the ground at terminal velocity, it will focus the minds of the wicked (and even the idiotic self-loathing wicked, such as Corvinus).

    Then we need to record the stupidity in an immutable medium so that our descendants do not destroy their patrimony. Sheep must be able to read, to be sure, but they need the facts of the leftist mind virus to innoculate them from another epidemic.

    , @Prester John
    @fish

    Ye gods! If it did, half of the MSM would be out of jobs.

  24. @anonymous

    enormous statistical headwind of black census share & underperformance…
     
    Why not sponsor visas for talented Nigerians?

    Replies: @fish, @bomag

    How bout no!

  25. Similar situation at my old employer.

    ‘We need more female engineers, we only get about 20% through the recruitment process, it should be 50%’.

    Make applications anonymous, remove all clues to sex of applicant.
    Result: 0% females successful.
    Turns out that women get rated higher than equivalent men.

    • Replies: @Anonymous
    @Anonymous

    There was a similar issue with music schools and blind auditions. Angry blacks were complaining that their people were being turned away by racist auditioners. They demanded blind auditions so nobody would know the race of the candidate. Black enrolment dropped like a stone.

  26. Somewhat on-topic: Yesterday, Boston University Theology prof David Decosimo tweeted his 2020 letter to BU President Robert Brown, predicting where the establishment of the Center for Antiracist Research and the institutional endorsement of I.X. Kendi Thought would lead.

    Based on the letter’s contents, Decosimo could have made some money betting on Manifold. But ‘correctly forecasting’ elides the question of Bug or Feature.

    Below the fold are .png images of his letter. It doesn’t seem to have been published anywhere other than on Twitter.

  27. Sometimes I regret youthful planning mistakes, but not really (I’d freely admit they were stupid but I can’t fix them now so I’m not worried), but frequently I am glad I never got into academia (like I once thought I wanted) or white collar. In midcentury, a man rejecting a white collar position must’ve been making a major mistake. Now the men who voluntarily work white collar (unless they have a four of clubs [“big frog”] in their pocket like this guy, that is, a plan) are probably unhappy and doomed, but got sucked into that brainless pop cultural thing in the 2000s where office work was seen as inevitable and necessary. That is, they think that a white collar position, no matter how low-paying, tedious, tenuous, and intrusive, is the same thing as being middle class, and that working some other way would be voluntarily slumming.

    • Replies: @Achmed E. Newman
    @J.Ross

    Good comment, Mr. Ross. However, I still don't know what "big frog" is about. That guy's writing style is just plain weird. He must have been raised by a couple of tweeters, or perhaps, woofers.

    Replies: @Almost Missouri

    , @Anonymous
    @J.Ross


    Now the men who voluntarily work white collar (unless they have a four of clubs [“big frog”] in their pocket like this guy, that is, a plan)
     
    What is “Big Frog”?

    Replies: @J.Ross

    , @Paul Jolliffe
    @J.Ross

    Well said!

    , @Pop Warner
    @J.Ross


    unless they have a four of clubs [“big frog”] in their pocket like this guy, that is, a plan
     
    Shhhhh let's not give it away now....
  28. Fascinating thread, will send it on to those in the middle and see what they say.

  29. I dig the original tweeter’s handle.

    • Replies: @Mr. Anon
    @slumber_j

    Breaker Morant - a great movie.

    Replies: @Gandydancer

    , @Hypnotoad666
    @slumber_j

    Great movie. Coincidentally, I rewatched it a couple weeks ago when I treated myself to a mini-Australia film fest of Breaker Morant, Picnic at Hanging Rock, and Gallipoli. Aussie cinema had a real moment circa 1980 for some reason.

    Replies: @slumber_j, @Sollipsist

  30. ICYMI, explanation of “Rule 303”:

    https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=rule%20303

    Sort of like “Rule Britannia” meets “Tommy Gun”.

    Of course the irony is no British have .303s anymore, so the power that grows from the barrel of a gun will now only be used against them, not by them.

    • Replies: @slumber_j
    @Almost Missouri

    Right. In the Breaker Morant clip I posted, the closeup on the trigger finger shows ".303" stamped on the rifle.

    Love "Tommy Gun" by the way. The label brought in heavyweight producer Sandy Pearlman for Give 'Em Enough Rope, who supposedly boosted the drums to cover Joe Strummer's voice, which he disliked. Whatever one thinks of that, it sure does work for the song.

    Replies: @Almost Missouri

  31. I’ve many times conspired to violate the 1964 Civil Right Act Title VII by intentionally discriminating *in favor of blacks*.

    Hey, calling it your job ol’ hoss, sure don’t make it right …

    I’ve done this with a clear conscience…

    … but if you want me to, I’ll say a prayer for your soul tonight.

    – H/T Johnny Cougar

  32. @Reg Cæsar
    This is why people pay attention to "sportsball". Games are less likely to be gamed.

    On Twitter, a corporate insider explains

    Black people correctly sense that whites are rigging the game when they’re not looking.

    They just can’t imagine the truth: that we’re rigging it for them.
     


     
    This just squeaks in under Twitter's original character limit.


    How the DEI Cake Is Baked

     

    And it follows: the way to thwart our white (and light) supremacy is by INCREASING the weight of test scores and peer ratings.
     
    Someone left the cake out in the rain...

    where our implicit biases can reign free.
     
    Is that supposed to be reign free? Or rein free? Or rain free?

    https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/usage-free-rein-vs-free-reign


    Actually, it's run free, isn't it?

    Replies: @Almost Missouri, @Carol, @slumber_j, @Bill Jones

    Is that supposed to be reign free? Or rein free? Or rain free?

    https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/usage-free-rein-vs-free-reign

    Actually, it’s run free, isn’t it?

    Yeah, barely anyone has personal experience with horses or royalty—or even weather or running—anymore, so it’s all just random phonemes to ’em.

    • Agree: bomag
  33. I hope the whole damn company goes under. There’s not a single decent person in this whole screwed-up story, including the black lady.

    Sure, she thinks that black people are really in danger of being discriminated against, but she’s a black activist for a living, so she’s not doing anything productive for this company, same as every other sorry soul in this story.

    • Agree: Kylie, AndrewR
    • Replies: @Kylie
    @Achmed E. Newman

    "I hope the whole damn company goes under. There’s not a single decent person in this whole screwed-up story, including the black lady."

    I'd like to see Lance try to put a positive spin on this sordid situation.

    "Aww...come on, Jim! Everybody deserves a chance to make good. It's the American way!"

    "Cheating is the American way?"

    "Don't call it cheating. That sounds so mean. Think of it as a head start."

    "Head Start? Right, Lance, we all know how well that worked out!"

    "Jim, I always say no cynic can ever be truly happy. Are you truly happy, Jim? Are you?"

    Replies: @Achmed E. Newman

  34. “…we’re rigging it for them.”

    And with good reason ( Harlem ’64, Watts ’65, Newark ’66 et seq, Detroit ’67 et seq, LA ’91 etc., etc. etc… .)

    Culminating with The Summer of George!!

    It’s called “We’ll give you anything, just…, oh PLEASE! Don’t burn my house down!”

    • Replies: @Pixo
    @Prester John

    “ It’s called “We’ll give you anything, just…, oh PLEASE! Don’t burn my house down!””

    More like there’s a lot of ruin in a nation as big and rich as the USA.

    The actual thought process was “bribes, abandoning inner cities, and wishful thinking will be easier and more pleasant for us than state violence to keep the public order.”

    The whites weren’t willing “give anything.” They partly ran out of generosity and patience starting with Nixon and then Reagan with big welfare cuts and prison construction.

    Replies: @Gandydancer, @Gandydancer

  35. @Reg Cæsar
    This is why people pay attention to "sportsball". Games are less likely to be gamed.

    On Twitter, a corporate insider explains

    Black people correctly sense that whites are rigging the game when they’re not looking.

    They just can’t imagine the truth: that we’re rigging it for them.
     


     
    This just squeaks in under Twitter's original character limit.


    How the DEI Cake Is Baked

     

    And it follows: the way to thwart our white (and light) supremacy is by INCREASING the weight of test scores and peer ratings.
     
    Someone left the cake out in the rain...

    where our implicit biases can reign free.
     
    Is that supposed to be reign free? Or rein free? Or rain free?

    https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/usage-free-rein-vs-free-reign


    Actually, it's run free, isn't it?

    Replies: @Almost Missouri, @Carol, @slumber_j, @Bill Jones

    No. For once, the usage is correct.

    • Replies: @Reg Cæsar
    @Carol

    It appears to be original to him. At least according to Ngrams. There is a film and video studio with that name in Fort Collins, and an act, likely long-defunct, on Bandcamp.


    Perhaps he has dealt with this woman?

    Reign Free: About Me

    Alameda County Women's Hall of Fame: Reign Free



    https://oaklandside.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Reign-Free-Picture-2021.jpg




    However, she is not the woman in the Tweet. This Reign appears to have marketable skills!

  36. @Almost Missouri
    ICYMI, explanation of "Rule 303":

    https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=rule%20303

    Sort of like "Rule Britannia" meets "Tommy Gun".

    Of course the irony is no British have .303s anymore, so the power that grows from the barrel of a gun will now only be used against them, not by them.

    Replies: @slumber_j

    Right. In the Breaker Morant clip I posted, the closeup on the trigger finger shows “.303” stamped on the rifle.

    Love “Tommy Gun” by the way. The label brought in heavyweight producer Sandy Pearlman for Give ‘Em Enough Rope, who supposedly boosted the drums to cover Joe Strummer’s voice, which he disliked. Whatever one thinks of that, it sure does work for the song.

    • Replies: @Almost Missouri
    @slumber_j

    Yeah, thanks for that.

    I didn't see your video until after I had posted my comment.


    the closeup on the trigger finger shows “.303” stamped on the rifle.
     
    I don't have an Enfield myself, so I wonder if British Enfields really had a brass ".303" stamped on the stock or whether that was just to make the wordplay clearer for the movie audience. One expects the ammo to be stamped, though.
  37. @bomag
    Had some recent conversations with guys from deep in the bowels of large corporations who, unprompted, relayed the soul sucking experience of passing over better qualified candidates/contractors to service the DIE overlords.

    Part of the riff is that a large chunk of corporate life is dealing with failure: shipping losses; theft; delays; breakdowns; missed deadlines; much of R&D is a dead end; etc. DIE gets slotted in there like another extreme weather event that the capable people have to work around. The loss from what the more capable people could have brought is nebulous enough that it doesn't particularly register in day to day corporate life.

    Replies: @Prester John

    The good news is that this too shall pass (“No man ever steps in the same river twice”-Heraclitus).

    The bad news is that, on the corporate level and elsewhere, it may arrive too late to save the current generation from the consequences resulting from decisions made by people who, one would think, should have known better.

    • Replies: @bomag
    @Prester John

    Agree.

    "Corporate hiring can stay dysfunctional longer than the window of opportunity for improvement can stay open."

    Also something here about people believing diversity et al will really prevail in the end. Hope springs eternal. (I've started into the book Red Plenty, paean to Russian communism working.)

    , @Almost Missouri
    @Prester John


    The good news is that this too shall pass
     
    The previous Dark Ages passed too ...


    ... after a thousand years or so.

    , @Blodgie
    @Prester John

    “This too shall pass.”

    What does that even mean?

    I call this the Cycle Cope: the myth that everything is cyclical and there is some inherent natural law that will cause events to turn back to the way they were.

    Tradcon horseshit.

    This will never change—what trends suggest it would?

    Replies: @SFG

  38. This will continue until Asians and Hispanics are the predominant demographic blocks controlling the course of company and culture. On that day, ‘white riggers’ like this one will be shown the door. On that day, blacks will no longer have guilty whites to rig the system in their favor. Whites themselves will be figuring out how they can slot their way into any job, much less the top tier.

    As has been said before, when Asians are running the show, blacks will look back fondly on the days when whites were in charge. Whether consciously or not, I do believe most blacks currently understand this, which is why the charge to cement their incompetent sinecures is accelerating.

    • Replies: @Anonymous
    @Rob Lee


    On that day, blacks will no longer have guilty whites to rig the system in their favor.
     
    Whites are not guilty of anything though, except the Civil War.

    Replies: @Blodgie

  39. @Reg Cæsar
    This is why people pay attention to "sportsball". Games are less likely to be gamed.

    On Twitter, a corporate insider explains

    Black people correctly sense that whites are rigging the game when they’re not looking.

    They just can’t imagine the truth: that we’re rigging it for them.
     


     
    This just squeaks in under Twitter's original character limit.


    How the DEI Cake Is Baked

     

    And it follows: the way to thwart our white (and light) supremacy is by INCREASING the weight of test scores and peer ratings.
     
    Someone left the cake out in the rain...

    where our implicit biases can reign free.
     
    Is that supposed to be reign free? Or rein free? Or rain free?

    https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/usage-free-rein-vs-free-reign


    Actually, it's run free, isn't it?

    Replies: @Almost Missouri, @Carol, @slumber_j, @Bill Jones

    Reign free ≠ free reign [sic]

    Not sure there’s actually a problem in the original, although one might be a weird (and maybe wrong?) stickler/pedant and say it should read “reign freely.” Anyway, the fact that “reign free” reminds one of “free rein” doesn’t necessarily mean its writer isn’t right to have written it as written.

  40. @Steve Sailer
    @James N. Kennett

    She sounds like a better person than most black activists.

    Replies: @Corvinus, @Citizen of a Silly Country, @Jim Don Bob

    “On Twitter, a corporate insider explains how how DEI promotions work”

    For all we know, he could be your mailman.

    • Agree: Gandydancer
    • Replies: @Almost Missouri
    @Corvinus

    The Post Office is a corporation.

    , @Ancient Mason
    @Corvinus

    Correct. But it sure is a great story. Perhaps falls into "not factual, but true."

  41. @ic1000
    @Jenner Ickham Errican

    > They just can’t imagine the truth: that we’re rigging it for them.

    A close family member recently had elective surgery at Close-In-Suburb Hospital. We chose the surgeon on reputation and track record; just before the procedure, a complex anesthesia question arose. I was alarmed to meet the doc making the decision... wanted cum laude or better for this one. Seemed competent and informed, so went with Proceed rather than Cancel. Things worked out.

    The post-St.-Floyd leap in rigging of med school, residency, and fellowship admits hasn't yet worked its way through the system. In a few years, informed patients are going to be pressing the Cancel button much more frequently, in situations like these.

    White/Asian supremacist patients, that is.

    Replies: @SFG, @Isabel Archer

    You’ll get more racial discrimination by patients…if you know there’s massive AA, better wait a few weeks to see Dr. Chang.

    • Replies: @Reg Cæsar
    @SFG

    Has any black man IRL said "I do not want a job I did not earn" since Thomas Sowell turned down several offers to take one at UCLA in 1970? And presumably he did earn the others, but was offended by the way those offers were expressed.

    , @Achmed E. Newman
    @SFG


    ...better wait a few weeks to see Dr. Chang.
     
    Errrr, you never know for sure, SFG.

    Comedy gold, but missing the funniest part at the end with George Castanza's mother. One comedy line you can't do 3 decades later: "If I like their race, how can that be racist?"

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

    , @Ben Kurtz
    @SFG

    Don't think there's too much AA in large animal veterinary programs.

    Just sayin'.

    Replies: @Redneck Farmer, @EdwardM, @Corn

  42. Anon[347] • Disclaimer says:

    There was plenty of behavior there that would justify lawsuits by whites and Asians. Solution: a strategy by well funded anti reverse racism civil rights law firms to seek out plaintiffs and sue.

    The media won’t cover it? Use that as a weapon! Don’t publicize it, let the media only hear of lawsuits from the defendants, don’t respond to media inquiries beyond “Read our filings.” Plaintiffs will be less likely to be harassed, and it projects a sense of menace. “These guys are not doing this for publicity; they plan to take it to the wall, use discovery aggressively, and push us off a cliff.”

    And I wonder if the black consultant ladies could be added as defendants, and video deposed, and have their communications pawed through, and be nailed for evidence spoliation when they delete messages and documents?

    • Agree: Almost Missouri
    • Thanks: Achmed E. Newman
  43. This reminds me of what managers had to do in the later Soviet era. Elaborate kludges have to be put in place in order to play along with a 60 year-old social megaproject that’s clearly failing. Cynics and true believers play elaborate games with one another as things keep getting worse around them.

    • Agree: Peter Akuleyev
  44. And then everyone clapped.

    • Agree: Sollipsist
    • Replies: @Muggles
    @Batman


    And then everyone clapped.
     

    "Hey, we need to find out who stopped clapping first!"
  45. Anyone who believes this aggrieved white guy fanfic is a bigger moron than the people who believe “white women are constantly asking to touch my hair” black woman fanfic.

    • Disagree: Gandydancer
    • Replies: @Reg Cæsar
    @Batman


    Anyone who believes this aggrieved white guy fanfic...
     
    If this is satire, it is brilliant, up there with A Modest Proposal. This individual writes too well-- better even than executives of 60-70 years ago, when an English major still meant something, and corporations still hired and trained them in-house.


    I just finished an acrostic of a quote by Mencken:

    Swift regarded Homo sapiens and saw no god with a few lamentable defects, but a poor worm with... only a crushing burden of follies, weaknesses, and imbecilities. He saw a coward, an idiot, a fraud and a scoundrel.

    [It appears to have been slightly edited for the puzzle, or for JSTOR.org, I don't know which.]

    Replies: @Ben Kurtz, @Batman

  46. No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up. – Lillie Tomlin

  47. US Navy made a big show out of pulling photos and other identifying information out of promotion and board packets after St. George Fentanyl Floyd died of a drug overdose. Wanted to root out implicit bias.

    A year later they added it all back because promotion and selection rates for white men increased while decreasing for women and minorities.

    NAVSEC mumbled something about systemic racism and sexism being a more difficult problem than they realized. Seriously.

    • Thanks: Old Prude
    • Replies: @res
    @anon556

    Thanks. The Navy Times on that.
    https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2021/08/03/cnp-removing-photos-from-promotion-boards-has-hurt-diversity/

    , @fish
    @anon556

    A largely (for now) white Navy hierarchy will contort themselves in ways not thought humanly possible to accommodate the racial dreams of those congressional soft heads writing the appropriations checks. Vox Day has stated that the next major engagement the Navy is involved in will end badly for them and given his overall track record I think this is a pretty good bet.

    The important question though is should I give a shit?!

    , @Bill Jones
    @anon556


    NAVSEC mumbled something about systemic racism and sexism being a more difficult problem than they realized.
     
    He was right, of course. It's going to be tough to get this God character to start creating all Men equal.
    And after that he can start on the real biggie: Women.
  48. @SFG
    @ic1000

    You’ll get more racial discrimination by patients…if you know there’s massive AA, better wait a few weeks to see Dr. Chang.

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @Achmed E. Newman, @Ben Kurtz

    Has any black man IRL said “I do not want a job I did not earn” since Thomas Sowell turned down several offers to take one at UCLA in 1970? And presumably he did earn the others, but was offended by the way those offers were expressed.

  49. The whole thread is what Harvard and Duke were sued over. Asians over-performed on all objective measures of achievement and were rated lower than other races on subjective measures.

    It’s more difficult to sue if organizations use a more complex process, but systematically under-rating Asians and whites on subjective measures is still a huge legal liability.

    No idea why the Supremes explicitly excluded the military academies from their decision. Intellectual incoherence on a grand scale. Racism and sexism in the military is good? Bizarre.

    • Replies: @Old Prude
    @anon556

    I did not know the service academies were exempted. As a grad, I find this most disturbing. West Point, it seems to me is being undermined and crapped up by homos and blacks: Desecrating the chapel, and flouting the honor system…

    One of my old room-mates seems to be gaming the system by presenting himself as a fag to land contracts at the academy. I figure to he’ll declare him a tranny in the next few years to keep the scam going. If he was able to present himself as black he’d be retired by now.

  50. @J.Ross
    Sometimes I regret youthful planning mistakes, but not really (I'd freely admit they were stupid but I can't fix them now so I'm not worried), but frequently I am glad I never got into academia (like I once thought I wanted) or white collar. In midcentury, a man rejecting a white collar position must've been making a major mistake. Now the men who voluntarily work white collar (unless they have a four of clubs ["big frog"] in their pocket like this guy, that is, a plan) are probably unhappy and doomed, but got sucked into that brainless pop cultural thing in the 2000s where office work was seen as inevitable and necessary. That is, they think that a white collar position, no matter how low-paying, tedious, tenuous, and intrusive, is the same thing as being middle class, and that working some other way would be voluntarily slumming.

    Replies: @Achmed E. Newman, @Anonymous, @Paul Jolliffe, @Pop Warner

    Good comment, Mr. Ross. However, I still don’t know what “big frog” is about. That guy’s writing style is just plain weird. He must have been raised by a couple of tweeters, or perhaps, woofers.

    • Replies: @Almost Missouri
    @Achmed E. Newman


    I still don’t know what “big frog” is about.
     
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frogtwitter
  51. @Twinkie

    What this does is allow you to sneak subjective ratings into something that sounds overall objective.
     
    Hey, that sounds like... Harvard!

    The way to go was: reduce weight on the tests (too g loaded) [SAT - 1600!] & peer ratings (too honest) [Alumni interview - superb young man!] & put that balance into a modified set of simulations. [Admissions office personality rating - Did you say you were Asian? No personality!]
     
    Very Harvard, no?

    conscientious white & Asian grinders
     
    Hardworking white = conscientious, but hardworking Asian = grinder?

    Hey, hey, this is library!

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @anonymous, @kaganovitch, @dux.ie, @Reg Cæsar, @nebulafox, @Ceph

    The author seems like he has a racial chip on his shoulder in the same way as the black lady consultant.

  52. “whites don’t sue”
    Maybe that’s what should change. En masse.

    • Agree: Hypnotoad666
    • Replies: @Gandydancer
    @He's Spartacus

    How? James Damore tried and the EEOC said, in effect, that it was OK to discriminate against him.

  53. @Carol
    @Reg Cæsar

    No. For once, the usage is correct.

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar

    It appears to be original to him. At least according to Ngrams. There is a film and video studio with that name in Fort Collins, and an act, likely long-defunct, on Bandcamp.

    Perhaps he has dealt with this woman?

    Reign Free: About Me

    Alameda County Women’s Hall of Fame: Reign Free

    However, she is not the woman in the Tweet. This Reign appears to have marketable skills!

  54. @SFG
    @ic1000

    You’ll get more racial discrimination by patients…if you know there’s massive AA, better wait a few weeks to see Dr. Chang.

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @Achmed E. Newman, @Ben Kurtz

    …better wait a few weeks to see Dr. Chang.

    Errrr, you never know for sure, SFG.

    Comedy gold, but missing the funniest part at the end with George Castanza’s mother. One comedy line you can’t do 3 decades later: “If I like their race, how can that be racist?”

  55. @J.Ross
    Sometimes I regret youthful planning mistakes, but not really (I'd freely admit they were stupid but I can't fix them now so I'm not worried), but frequently I am glad I never got into academia (like I once thought I wanted) or white collar. In midcentury, a man rejecting a white collar position must've been making a major mistake. Now the men who voluntarily work white collar (unless they have a four of clubs ["big frog"] in their pocket like this guy, that is, a plan) are probably unhappy and doomed, but got sucked into that brainless pop cultural thing in the 2000s where office work was seen as inevitable and necessary. That is, they think that a white collar position, no matter how low-paying, tedious, tenuous, and intrusive, is the same thing as being middle class, and that working some other way would be voluntarily slumming.

    Replies: @Achmed E. Newman, @Anonymous, @Paul Jolliffe, @Pop Warner

    Now the men who voluntarily work white collar (unless they have a four of clubs [“big frog”] in their pocket like this guy, that is, a plan)

    What is “Big Frog”?

    • Replies: @J.Ross
    @Anonymous

    I will withhold the images of smug shoujou for now. Unless he lobbies for the Republic of France, where else have you heard about a frog in connection to unspeakable politics?

  56. @Rob Lee
    This will continue until Asians and Hispanics are the predominant demographic blocks controlling the course of company and culture. On that day, 'white riggers' like this one will be shown the door. On that day, blacks will no longer have guilty whites to rig the system in their favor. Whites themselves will be figuring out how they can slot their way into any job, much less the top tier.

    As has been said before, when Asians are running the show, blacks will look back fondly on the days when whites were in charge. Whether consciously or not, I do believe most blacks currently understand this, which is why the charge to cement their incompetent sinecures is accelerating.

    Replies: @Anonymous

    On that day, blacks will no longer have guilty whites to rig the system in their favor.

    Whites are not guilty of anything though, except the Civil War.

    • Replies: @Blodgie
    @Anonymous

    Whites are guilty of a lot.

    White men specifically excel at acquiescence.

    There’s no power they won’t bow to: religion, their parents, the government, women (especially their wives.)

    White men love giving in to authority.

    They love sacrificing themselves.

    Because that’s how Jesus done it!

  57. Killer last line. Widespread discrimination *in favor* of blacks for multiple generations has badly skewed their ability to accurately assess reality in terms of where they stand in relation to others in the workplace. Most don’t realize that their current levels of representation in desirable positions, which are deemed inadequate, is part of a decades long and Sisyphean effort on the part of most sectors of society, upper management, HR, and politicians.

    Even with that, there is only so much that can be done. More than once I have relayed the story of a decent sized law firm that I am familiar with rigging every incoming class of associates to demonstrate their commitment to diversity…yet when decisions about who is elevated to partner are made, that goes right out the window because they simply cannot afford to have 2nd or 3rd rate lawyers handling business that generates the income and reputation on which they rely.

    Similarly, another fairly large (non-public) company I work with was under a lot of pressure to demonstrate its commitment to diversity. They created a new chief diversity officer position for a guy who is well-known throughout the company for being a pleasant person that is next to useless in the role he was previously supposed to fulfill. I don’t think he at all aware of what his reputation is with his coworkers or that his new title is a powerless CYA gesture.

    There is a lot of this throughout society and it is largely discussed in private conversations or mostly anonymous forums like social media or iSteve. But it will not remain that way forever, and sooner rather than later it will come out into the open and although blacks will probably retain some level of preferential treatment it will be substantially less than they want and they will never again have the current amount of socio-political leverage to nudge it upwards. This is going to be very hard for blacks who want white collar jobs to deal with as well as their white benefactors.

    • Replies: @Bill Jones
    @Arclight

    You are right, of course but the biggest shocks are likely to come with the Hispanic takeover of government.

    Replies: @Arclight

    , @anonymous
    @Arclight

    If Jewish power remains in charge then I don't see why it ever needs to come to light because the system won't change. Unless of course America becomes 33% white, 40% Hispanic, and remainder blacks, other racial groups, and mixed. At that point Jewish power might ease on preferences for blacks. However we are at least 40 years away from America becoming 33% white.

    , @Alec Leamas (working from home)
    @Arclight


    Killer last line. Widespread discrimination *in favor* of blacks for multiple generations has badly skewed their ability to accurately assess reality in terms of where they stand in relation to others in the workplace. Most don’t realize that their current levels of representation in desirable positions, which are deemed inadequate, is part of a decades long and Sisyphean effort on the part of most sectors of society, upper management, HR, and politicians.
     
    There are two factors at work here.

    One is that blacks consistently overestimate their share of the U.S. population. They hover around 12-13% in reality, but frequently estimate that the U.S. is 40% black. I imagine that the entertainment media has something to do with this. Therefore, blacks grossly overestimate the disparity between their representation in elite positions of power and their share of the population. To be clear, they're underrepresented in elite positions of power relative to their share of the population, but the difference is much less than they believe due to their overestimation of their share of the population.

    The other factor seems to be that blacks have very durable high self esteem. They don't seem to be brought down by events or even reality itself - it really does seem like the black mentality is that he is the center of the universe and it must be bent to form around him. This position, while insane and intolerable in a functioning society, does really seem to work out for them in whatever this society is that we now inhabit. Affirmative action bending admissions requirements by between one and two deviations is but one example of this. The other and more recent is the decriminalization of, well, crime itself - blacks commit more crimes, so the crimes code must be bent and massaged so that these things stop being crimes (at least for blacks, that is).

    Therefore, if blacks are underrepresented as Indian Chiefs and there is an Indian Chief test which one must score highly on to be an Indian Chief, the test is the problem to be remedied - not the blacks' scores on the Indian Chief test. Just remove the test and everything will function as it should (distributing things of value to blacks). Imagine how much ink is spilled, pixels scrambled, etc. to provide an unconvincing figleaf for the regime to occlude the average American from seeing the vulgar abuse of raw power for a favored constituent group.
  58. @Prester John
    @bomag

    The good news is that this too shall pass ("No man ever steps in the same river twice"-Heraclitus).

    The bad news is that, on the corporate level and elsewhere, it may arrive too late to save the current generation from the consequences resulting from decisions made by people who, one would think, should have known better.

    Replies: @bomag, @Almost Missouri, @Blodgie

    Agree.

    “Corporate hiring can stay dysfunctional longer than the window of opportunity for improvement can stay open.”

    Also something here about people believing diversity et al will really prevail in the end. Hope springs eternal. (I’ve started into the book Red Plenty, paean to Russian communism working.)

    • LOL: Achmed E. Newman
  59. @anonymous

    enormous statistical headwind of black census share & underperformance…
     
    Why not sponsor visas for talented Nigerians?

    Replies: @fish, @bomag

    Because of regression to the mean, and cultural differences that created more heat than light.

    Why not Nigeria instituting mass immigration from European type countries?

    • Replies: @anonymous
    @bomag

    the author doesn't care about that stuff, he wants to autistically get his job done. talented nigerians can serve as good managers. their kids will be society's problem.

  60. @Jenner Ickham Errican
    @Reg Cæsar


    Nobody pays any attention to Yoopers.
     
    https://www.unz.com/isteve/nbc-andrew-yangs-self-deprecating-sense-of-humor-is-not-funny-according-to-comedy-grievance-experts/#comment-3575673 (#15)

    Replies: @bomag

    I liked the link for reminding me of a kind of hero:

    sociologist Anthony Ocampo, who focuses on race, immigration and LGBTQ issues

    I imagine he reads every word of iSteve.

  61. @Thoughts
    Great thread

    Ironically, the black lady did do something good...those two blacks who made it to the top 50 ARE the good guys and should get some serious job promotion

    One may even be a Clarence Thomas

    Replies: @Citizen of a Silly Country, @anonymous, @Legba

    I’ve seen one week old puppies with more understanding about how the world works than you.

    The colorblind CivNat gene can’t die out soon enough. It’s stunning that nature allowed it to last as long as it has.

    Thankfully, it – and ridiculously naive statements like your – will be a thing of the past soon enough. Future peoples will marvel at its suicidal stupidity.

    • Replies: @Corvinus
    @Citizen of a Silly Country

    You’re a dinosaur. The future belongs to Gen Z. I get why you are repeatedly virtue signaling here. It’s cognitive dissonance on your part.

    Replies: @Alec Leamas (working from home), @Reg Cæsar, @Corpse Tooth, @Anonymous, @Prester John

    , @silviosilver
    @Citizen of a Silly Country

    "Thoughts" is a she and she's apparently shown good sense in the past.

    Eg from one of her earliest posts (re Andy Ngo)


    Asian and Gay?

    How is he…Our Own?

    White people…oh dear….just so stupid.
     
  62. @Steve Sailer
    @James N. Kennett

    She sounds like a better person than most black activists.

    Replies: @Corvinus, @Citizen of a Silly Country, @Jim Don Bob

    My goodness.

    • Replies: @Mike Tre
    @Citizen of a Silly Country

    Certain people might be reading.

  63. @ic1000
    @Jenner Ickham Errican

    > They just can’t imagine the truth: that we’re rigging it for them.

    A close family member recently had elective surgery at Close-In-Suburb Hospital. We chose the surgeon on reputation and track record; just before the procedure, a complex anesthesia question arose. I was alarmed to meet the doc making the decision... wanted cum laude or better for this one. Seemed competent and informed, so went with Proceed rather than Cancel. Things worked out.

    The post-St.-Floyd leap in rigging of med school, residency, and fellowship admits hasn't yet worked its way through the system. In a few years, informed patients are going to be pressing the Cancel button much more frequently, in situations like these.

    White/Asian supremacist patients, that is.

    Replies: @SFG, @Isabel Archer

    Just before my abdominal surgery I met the anesthesiologist, and was dismayed to see he was black. In answer to my question, he assured me (in a slightly annoyed manner) that he was board certified. After the surgery I discovered that I could no longer sing or shout loudly: this because my vocal cords had been permanently bowed from the use of a too-large breathing tube during the operation. I guess I’m lucky that he did no other damage.

    • Thanks: Old Prude
    • Replies: @Anonymous
    @Isabel Archer


    Just before my abdominal surgery I met the anesthesiologist, and was dismayed to see he was black. In answer to my question, he assured me (in a slightly annoyed manner) that he was board certified. After the surgery I discovered that I could no longer sing or shout loudly: this because my vocal cords had been permanently bowed from the use of a too-large breathing tube during the operation.
     
    Did you sue?

    Replies: @Isabel Archer

    , @FPD72
    @Isabel Archer

    My wive had a similar experience. Before eye surgery she met her anesthesiologist, who turned out to be a black guy from Trinidad (island, not SE Colorado city). Alarms went off in her skull, but what could she do? Sure enough, he botched his job and she woke up DURING THE PROCEDURE, in excruciating pain. The surgeon hurried to finish and didn’t properly close the wound. Result? Four more surgeries to try to save her eye, leaving her with no lens, a pupil sprung wide open, and a deformed retina.

    My experience with a black surgeon from Trinidad did not go well. He performed a banding procedure for hemorrhoids that during the procedure made me feel I was being raped and in the end (pun not intended) did nothing about the problem.

    Now that we’re on Medicare we are much more careful about what medical providers we’ll see. We pay a lot more to stay out of Advantage plans or any type of PPO but it’s worth it.

    Replies: @Anonymous, @Flip

    , @Adolf Smith
    @Isabel Archer

    He might've felt you up while you were knocked out!

    Or worse,what if you delivered a black baby nine months hence?😮

  64. And on the topic of Diversity, where else could you find a better expert on Third World Corruption than the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee?
    No word yet on which of his Foreign Relations were involved, but one would expect they’re in Latin America.

    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/democrat-sen-bob-menendez-indicted-over-gold-bar-bribery-scheme

    What’s sad is that this corruption was well documented well before he was shoe-horned into the Senate in 2006.

    • Replies: @J.Ross
    @Bill Jones

    I think everybody understood he was guilty for years (he had previously gotten off because of a "hung jury" [wink wink]). The best reactions on talk radio lately have been by Charlie Kirk, who (a) spotted House Speaker Andrew McCarthy's too-impotent too-late impeachment "inquiry" as a weak distraction from McCarthy ignoring the promises his office was predicated on (and their deadline), and in this case Kirk pointed out that
    (1) DoJ pretty much keeps dormant investigations going in the background so that when expedient they can activate one and ostentatiously nab a guy,
    (2) Menendez is stupid and low hanging fruit -- apparently all the loot was directly received by him and stored in his official residence (cf the Hunter Biden System of Indirect Personal Enrichment); the first thing he did upon returning from his Memphitic gold run was to Google "how much is a kilogram bar of gold worth in dollars?"
    (3) What this is really about is (a). This is the feds sending a message to the merely elected. Gaetz and company might actually dent the scam in which the congressional obligation of budget and discussion (and therefore, the removal of bad programs) are abdicated, in favor of "continuing resolutions," which require that bad programs be not only undiscussed but (what with the emergency and all) grandfathered in, guaranteed for another season of bakshiysh. This is what's really happening. So the Vindmans and Comeys and McCabes are saying, watch it, congresscritter: touch our budget and we'll look into yours.
    The government hasn't been the government in memory. It hasn't met any of its most basic obligations or followed its most basic procedures. Worse, it has become addicted to doing things the wrong way, and lashes out like an addict at the threat of getting clean. It wants the fake threat of "government shutdowns" and the bad solution of continuing resolutions because that way there really is no Congress, legislation is by regulation, and all power is Applebyzed.
    I remember Hugh Hewitt saying with perfect confidence that Gaetz couldn't make it through a sympathetic interview and would not only never be elected but might end up in prison and oh and now we are here. Let's see what else Gaetz can do by October.

  65. @SafeNow
    This called to mind what Chief Justice Marshall wrote in his opinion in the Harvard discrimination case. Marshall wrote that Harvard should not think it can get away with “simply” substituting an essay for a quota. I did not see any pundit-types commenting upon the inclusion of the word “simply,” but it really caught my eye. The inclusion was not happenstance. Marshall was sending a deliberate message; the same concept as the DEI guru in the essay understood. Make it complicated and subjective, so that would-be attackers would probably take a pass, due to the complexity. (Any challenge “would be like trying to put socks on an octopus” …if anyone still uses that expression.)

    Replies: @ic1000, @AndrewR, @Hypnotoad666

    Chief Justice Marshall died about 30 years before the end of slavery, so I’m kinda confused about what case you’re talking about.

    But back to the original post: these corporate people are truly soulless. Capitalism really is demonic.

    • Replies: @Herbert R. Tarlek, Jr.
    @AndrewR

    But back to the original post: these corporate people are truly soulless. Capitalism really is demonic.

    Many would argue, plausibly, that the corporate limited liability which provides cover for so many psychopaths in our society is a perversion of true capitalism.

    Replies: @Anonymous, @Bill Jones, @scrivener3

    , @Carol
    @AndrewR

    I think he means Thurgood Marshall.

    Though I'm not sure that's correct either.

    , @SafeNow
    @AndrewR

    Oops. Wrong name. Thank you.

  66. @Batman
    And then everyone clapped.

    Replies: @Muggles

    And then everyone clapped.


    “Hey, we need to find out who stopped clapping first!”

  67. “Year of All Fevers” That’s funny. Is that a reference from something else or is it original?

    • Replies: @J.Ross
    @eded

    I thought so too but found nothing.

  68. Fun read with the only surprise being the black lady would push for more “objective” measures. The push across all sectors of society has been to de-emphasize objective measures, move the goalposts closer or cover up the embarrassing results. Or hell, just lie

    Sports analytics is one rare area where measures are being devised to probe deeper into objective reality. Maybe financial trading as well. But in general society is covering its eyes to inconvenient facts, with disastrous results.

    “Physical reality is consistent with universal laws,” Mr Spock famously remarked. “Where the laws do not operate, there is no reality.”

  69. You just leave this one hanging over the plate and where’s TD? Truly acting like an AA hire, out to lunch when it’s time to get it done.

    • LOL: Achmed E. Newman
  70. However the cake is baked, make sure the cops head for the donuts.

    As the cities go under, the cake will be left out in the rain.

    They got the DEI cake. This is how you make a GAY Bagel.

    • Replies: @Art Deco
    @Anonymous

    Do we have memorials to people who died of emphysema? The AIDS memorials have been a seriously creepy exercise.

    , @Reg Cæsar
    @Anonymous

    The entire piece:

    https://kesq.com/news/2023/09/15/aids-memorial-sculpture-sparks-debate-in-palm-springs/

    Replies: @fish

  71. @Arclight
    Killer last line. Widespread discrimination *in favor* of blacks for multiple generations has badly skewed their ability to accurately assess reality in terms of where they stand in relation to others in the workplace. Most don't realize that their current levels of representation in desirable positions, which are deemed inadequate, is part of a decades long and Sisyphean effort on the part of most sectors of society, upper management, HR, and politicians.

    Even with that, there is only so much that can be done. More than once I have relayed the story of a decent sized law firm that I am familiar with rigging every incoming class of associates to demonstrate their commitment to diversity...yet when decisions about who is elevated to partner are made, that goes right out the window because they simply cannot afford to have 2nd or 3rd rate lawyers handling business that generates the income and reputation on which they rely.

    Similarly, another fairly large (non-public) company I work with was under a lot of pressure to demonstrate its commitment to diversity. They created a new chief diversity officer position for a guy who is well-known throughout the company for being a pleasant person that is next to useless in the role he was previously supposed to fulfill. I don't think he at all aware of what his reputation is with his coworkers or that his new title is a powerless CYA gesture.

    There is a lot of this throughout society and it is largely discussed in private conversations or mostly anonymous forums like social media or iSteve. But it will not remain that way forever, and sooner rather than later it will come out into the open and although blacks will probably retain some level of preferential treatment it will be substantially less than they want and they will never again have the current amount of socio-political leverage to nudge it upwards. This is going to be very hard for blacks who want white collar jobs to deal with as well as their white benefactors.

    Replies: @Bill Jones, @anonymous, @Alec Leamas (working from home)

    You are right, of course but the biggest shocks are likely to come with the Hispanic takeover of government.

    • Replies: @Arclight
    @Bill Jones

    That's an open question - Latinos as a group appear to be a lot less interested in politics than basically anyone else, and obviously are less monolithic than blacks in their political interests. I think blacks will retain an outsized presence as government employees as well, as it's a low barrier job with relatively good benefits.

    Replies: @covid vaccine, @Bill Jones, @Hypnotoad666

  72. anonymous[115] • Disclaimer says:
    @Arclight
    Killer last line. Widespread discrimination *in favor* of blacks for multiple generations has badly skewed their ability to accurately assess reality in terms of where they stand in relation to others in the workplace. Most don't realize that their current levels of representation in desirable positions, which are deemed inadequate, is part of a decades long and Sisyphean effort on the part of most sectors of society, upper management, HR, and politicians.

    Even with that, there is only so much that can be done. More than once I have relayed the story of a decent sized law firm that I am familiar with rigging every incoming class of associates to demonstrate their commitment to diversity...yet when decisions about who is elevated to partner are made, that goes right out the window because they simply cannot afford to have 2nd or 3rd rate lawyers handling business that generates the income and reputation on which they rely.

    Similarly, another fairly large (non-public) company I work with was under a lot of pressure to demonstrate its commitment to diversity. They created a new chief diversity officer position for a guy who is well-known throughout the company for being a pleasant person that is next to useless in the role he was previously supposed to fulfill. I don't think he at all aware of what his reputation is with his coworkers or that his new title is a powerless CYA gesture.

    There is a lot of this throughout society and it is largely discussed in private conversations or mostly anonymous forums like social media or iSteve. But it will not remain that way forever, and sooner rather than later it will come out into the open and although blacks will probably retain some level of preferential treatment it will be substantially less than they want and they will never again have the current amount of socio-political leverage to nudge it upwards. This is going to be very hard for blacks who want white collar jobs to deal with as well as their white benefactors.

    Replies: @Bill Jones, @anonymous, @Alec Leamas (working from home)

    If Jewish power remains in charge then I don’t see why it ever needs to come to light because the system won’t change. Unless of course America becomes 33% white, 40% Hispanic, and remainder blacks, other racial groups, and mixed. At that point Jewish power might ease on preferences for blacks. However we are at least 40 years away from America becoming 33% white.

  73. Anon[297] • Disclaimer says:

    2/50 seems just about right given the black percentage of the population (12%-14%) and what we know about black test scores. But my experience is that the real percentage of blacks in cognitively challenging jobs is closer to 1%. They might be tweaking the tests, too.

    But yes, blacks that actually make it through when competing with whites and Asians on a level playing field are usually very good.

    • Replies: @Anonymous
    @Anon


    But yes, blacks that actually make it through when competing with whites and Asians on a level playing field are usually very good.
     
    In what circumstances do blacks ever compete with Whites and asians on a level playing field?
  74. @Jenner Ickham Errican

    They just can’t imagine the truth: that we’re rigging it for them.
     
    Rigger, please. That’s some prime cope-a-dope faux bless oblige: Blacks know they’re being coddled, they like the results when it’s in their favor, and they are daring you to say it their face. This simulated role play is perhaps unrealistic:

    https://youtu.be/fKCpPhJidug?si=GkdEClDTxi2mGhJF&t=66

    Replies: @ic1000, @Mr. Anon, @Erik L, @Kylie

    That was actually funny and politically subversive in a way. And that was only, what, 10 years ago or so?

    I don’t think you’d ever see it on TV today.

    • Agree: Twinkie
  75. @slumber_j
    I dig the original tweeter's handle.

    https://youtu.be/FbMWX73XNDk?t=67

    Replies: @Mr. Anon, @Hypnotoad666

    Breaker Morant – a great movie.

    • Replies: @Gandydancer
    @Mr. Anon

    But bad history. Notable among its omissions is the murder of Roelf van Staden and his teenage sons Roelf and Christiaan. Because it would he hard to square that with the picture it paints of Morant doing merely what was ordered and arguably militarily justified (unless you include in the latter, as with the shooting of the Rev. Hesse and his omitted native driver, perhaps as spies rather than witnesses, the extermination of the entire Boer race to advance the British gold grab).

    Morant was in fact a fraud, a criminal, and a nasty bit of work, even if his trial was an exercise in CYA.

  76. @Steve Sailer
    @James N. Kennett

    She sounds like a better person than most black activists.

    Replies: @Corvinus, @Citizen of a Silly Country, @Jim Don Bob

    She sounds like a better person than most black activists.

    True, but still not too smart.

    Hilarious story, though no wonder we are going down the drain when all this time, money and brain power are spent on this crap.

  77. “Black people correctly sense that whites are rigging the game when they’re not looking. They just can’t imagine the truth: that we’re rigging it for them.”

    this is the case even in sports. i’m talking about on the field. not all the visible and obvious rigging that is done to get more coaches and management positions. i’m flat out saying, even the number of african players in sports is rigged to be artificially high.

    no, it’s not the extremely efficient system or total meritocracy even academic experts imagine it must be. it’s fairly efficient even without the rigging, but the general trends of sports ability are used as cover to ruthlessly rig things in most sports. it is one of the few places where africans can excel. and as the DEI writer correctly observes, other people getting stiffed almost never sue. so the people in charge can significantly over-rig things without have to worry much about any pushback.

    in the US anyway. seems to be evident that this has come to soccer in europe to some degree.

    • Replies: @anonymous
    @prime noticer

    "even the number of african players in sports is rigged to be artificially high."

    How racially resentful do you have to be to make up stuff like this?

    Replies: @prime noticer

    , @Gandydancer
    @prime noticer

    Do you think the number of blacks in the 100m finals is the result of rigging, too?

  78. @Prester John
    "...we’re rigging it for them."

    And with good reason ( Harlem '64, Watts '65, Newark '66 et seq, Detroit '67 et seq, LA '91 etc., etc. etc... .)

    Culminating with The Summer of George!!

    It's called "We'll give you anything, just..., oh PLEASE! Don't burn my house down!"

    Replies: @Pixo

    “ It’s called “We’ll give you anything, just…, oh PLEASE! Don’t burn my house down!””

    More like there’s a lot of ruin in a nation as big and rich as the USA.

    The actual thought process was “bribes, abandoning inner cities, and wishful thinking will be easier and more pleasant for us than state violence to keep the public order.”

    The whites weren’t willing “give anything.” They partly ran out of generosity and patience starting with Nixon and then Reagan with big welfare cuts and prison construction.

    • Replies: @Gandydancer
    @Pixo

    There were big welfare cuts with Nixon and then Reagan?

    A quick duckduckgo turns up this: "At the onset of the War on Poverty in 1965, Census issued its first report devoted specifically to poverty....in the late 1960s through the 1970s, the federal government added an array of new transfer programs: Medicaid, food stamps, WIC, and cash grants through the EITC. The school lunch and subsidized housing programs were greatly expanded. By 1980, inflation-adjusted welfare spending had tripled relative to the beginning of the War on Poverty, reaching $391.9 billion in constant 2019 dollars." https://www.heritage.org/welfare/report/largest-welfare-increase-us-history-will-boost-government-support-76400-poor-family

    Nixon was president , 1969 to 1974, so the tripling was not prevented on his watch. Then Reagan was president 1981 to 1989. Another duckduckgo turns up this: (consult Table 1): https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v54n11/v54n11p28.pdf#:~:text=During%20fiscal%20year%201989%2C%20Federal%2C%20State%2C%20and%20local,rose%20from%201988%20to%201989%2C%20reaching%2053.0%20percent.

    Not seeing any semblance of big, or any, welfare cuts in that table. But I haven't examined it closely, so make your case.

    , @Gandydancer
    @Pixo

    ...whites ... partly ran out of generosity and patience starting with Nixon and then Reagan with big welfare cuts and prison construction."

    That happened? Show me.

    Consult Table 1, perhaps?: https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v54n11/v54n11p28.pdf

  79. @Thoughts
    Great thread

    Ironically, the black lady did do something good...those two blacks who made it to the top 50 ARE the good guys and should get some serious job promotion

    One may even be a Clarence Thomas

    Replies: @Citizen of a Silly Country, @anonymous, @Legba

    Or not!

  80. @James N. Kennett

    I treasure this lesson as the only thing of value I took from the experience
     
    And the black activist lady genuinely believed that blacks were performing well on the objective tests. Perhaps she was young and had a lot to learn. Or perhaps she was incapable of crunching the math.

    Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Alec Leamas (working from home)

    I treasure this lesson as the only thing of value I took from the experience

    And the black activist lady genuinely believed that blacks were performing well on the objective tests. Perhaps she was young and had a lot to learn. Or perhaps she was incapable of crunching the math.

    It’s possible but it’s also likely that the black promotion candidates in a Fortune 500 were the Obamaesque “talented tenf” with impressive resumes full of names like Harvard and Princeton and dozens of “plaques for blacks” awards so she might have thought that these were the blacks with real cerebral horsepower who were being artificially held back from positions of true power and authority by the connivances of our own Le Corporate Pepe. Once an affirmative action admit from Chicago submitted a thesis about being black at Princeton and then graduated from Princeton with a piece of papers saying so, the whole Universe resets and she is a “Princeton graduate” rather than an embarrassment to the institution that granted her a degree. The recipient received the magic scroll of knowledge from the old Wizard on the stage, and that’s what counts.

    They really think that, for example, Obama was Washington and Lincoln and JFK and Reagan all rolled into one Onyx Edition – he was the best President, but he was hampered by having any political opposition whatsoever (unlike the others) so you must grade him on a curve and declare him the best and then put your fingers in your ears and hum “nananana” if your interlocutor retorts.

    One procedural peculiarity of the whole affair is that in the minds of the DIE people and most blacks, the weight of the entire DIE regime cumulatively working in their favor at every point of evaluation and decision can be undone by just one well-placed white supremacist with his racism voodoo – not unlike the “wreckers” of Communist revolutions (just a coincidence, you see).

  81. @Citizen of a Silly Country
    @Thoughts

    I've seen one week old puppies with more understanding about how the world works than you.

    The colorblind CivNat gene can't die out soon enough. It's stunning that nature allowed it to last as long as it has.

    Thankfully, it - and ridiculously naive statements like your - will be a thing of the past soon enough. Future peoples will marvel at its suicidal stupidity.

    Replies: @Corvinus, @silviosilver

    You’re a dinosaur. The future belongs to Gen Z. I get why you are repeatedly virtue signaling here. It’s cognitive dissonance on your part.

    • Replies: @Alec Leamas (working from home)
    @Corvinus


    You’re a dinosaur. The future belongs to Gen Z. I get why you are repeatedly virtue signaling here. It’s cognitive dissonance on your part.
     
    The future belongs to Monday! After all, today is Saturday, and tomorrow is Sunday. And Monday comes after Sunday.
    , @Reg Cæsar
    @Corvinus

    CoaSC never tells us what we're supposed to replace equal treatment under the law with, or what steps to take to repeal the Fourteenth Amendment-- and the First, the Second, etc., by implication.

    This is why I'm convinced he and a couple of others here are ADL/SPLC/FBIden/etc. plants on a psy-ops mission. If they know of workable solutions, they clearly don't want us going anywhere near those.

    As annoying as you are, at least you're straightforward. These moles are something else.

    Replies: @Corvinus

    , @Corpse Tooth
    @Corvinus

    "The future belongs to Gen Z."

    Yes, the most indoctrinated, narcotized, and gender-confused generation will sort out the future.

    Replies: @John Milton's Ghost

    , @Anonymous
    @Corvinus

    You know nothing about Gen Z. So comical.

    Replies: @nebulafox, @Corvinus

    , @Prester John
    @Corvinus

    "The future belongs to Gen Z."

    Good luck. They're going to need it.

  82. @J.Ross
    Sometimes I regret youthful planning mistakes, but not really (I'd freely admit they were stupid but I can't fix them now so I'm not worried), but frequently I am glad I never got into academia (like I once thought I wanted) or white collar. In midcentury, a man rejecting a white collar position must've been making a major mistake. Now the men who voluntarily work white collar (unless they have a four of clubs ["big frog"] in their pocket like this guy, that is, a plan) are probably unhappy and doomed, but got sucked into that brainless pop cultural thing in the 2000s where office work was seen as inevitable and necessary. That is, they think that a white collar position, no matter how low-paying, tedious, tenuous, and intrusive, is the same thing as being middle class, and that working some other way would be voluntarily slumming.

    Replies: @Achmed E. Newman, @Anonymous, @Paul Jolliffe, @Pop Warner

    Well said!

  83. @Jenner Ickham Errican

    They just can’t imagine the truth: that we’re rigging it for them.
     
    Rigger, please. That’s some prime cope-a-dope faux bless oblige: Blacks know they’re being coddled, they like the results when it’s in their favor, and they are daring you to say it their face. This simulated role play is perhaps unrealistic:

    https://youtu.be/fKCpPhJidug?si=GkdEClDTxi2mGhJF&t=66

    Replies: @ic1000, @Mr. Anon, @Erik L, @Kylie

    I love the Tracy Morgan line about buffoon being a word for black pirate- completely made up per quick web search

  84. @Arclight
    Killer last line. Widespread discrimination *in favor* of blacks for multiple generations has badly skewed their ability to accurately assess reality in terms of where they stand in relation to others in the workplace. Most don't realize that their current levels of representation in desirable positions, which are deemed inadequate, is part of a decades long and Sisyphean effort on the part of most sectors of society, upper management, HR, and politicians.

    Even with that, there is only so much that can be done. More than once I have relayed the story of a decent sized law firm that I am familiar with rigging every incoming class of associates to demonstrate their commitment to diversity...yet when decisions about who is elevated to partner are made, that goes right out the window because they simply cannot afford to have 2nd or 3rd rate lawyers handling business that generates the income and reputation on which they rely.

    Similarly, another fairly large (non-public) company I work with was under a lot of pressure to demonstrate its commitment to diversity. They created a new chief diversity officer position for a guy who is well-known throughout the company for being a pleasant person that is next to useless in the role he was previously supposed to fulfill. I don't think he at all aware of what his reputation is with his coworkers or that his new title is a powerless CYA gesture.

    There is a lot of this throughout society and it is largely discussed in private conversations or mostly anonymous forums like social media or iSteve. But it will not remain that way forever, and sooner rather than later it will come out into the open and although blacks will probably retain some level of preferential treatment it will be substantially less than they want and they will never again have the current amount of socio-political leverage to nudge it upwards. This is going to be very hard for blacks who want white collar jobs to deal with as well as their white benefactors.

    Replies: @Bill Jones, @anonymous, @Alec Leamas (working from home)

    Killer last line. Widespread discrimination *in favor* of blacks for multiple generations has badly skewed their ability to accurately assess reality in terms of where they stand in relation to others in the workplace. Most don’t realize that their current levels of representation in desirable positions, which are deemed inadequate, is part of a decades long and Sisyphean effort on the part of most sectors of society, upper management, HR, and politicians.

    There are two factors at work here.

    One is that blacks consistently overestimate their share of the U.S. population. They hover around 12-13% in reality, but frequently estimate that the U.S. is 40% black. I imagine that the entertainment media has something to do with this. Therefore, blacks grossly overestimate the disparity between their representation in elite positions of power and their share of the population. To be clear, they’re underrepresented in elite positions of power relative to their share of the population, but the difference is much less than they believe due to their overestimation of their share of the population.

    The other factor seems to be that blacks have very durable high self esteem. They don’t seem to be brought down by events or even reality itself – it really does seem like the black mentality is that he is the center of the universe and it must be bent to form around him. This position, while insane and intolerable in a functioning society, does really seem to work out for them in whatever this society is that we now inhabit. Affirmative action bending admissions requirements by between one and two deviations is but one example of this. The other and more recent is the decriminalization of, well, crime itself – blacks commit more crimes, so the crimes code must be bent and massaged so that these things stop being crimes (at least for blacks, that is).

    Therefore, if blacks are underrepresented as Indian Chiefs and there is an Indian Chief test which one must score highly on to be an Indian Chief, the test is the problem to be remedied – not the blacks’ scores on the Indian Chief test. Just remove the test and everything will function as it should (distributing things of value to blacks). Imagine how much ink is spilled, pixels scrambled, etc. to provide an unconvincing figleaf for the regime to occlude the average American from seeing the vulgar abuse of raw power for a favored constituent group.

  85. @Corvinus
    @Citizen of a Silly Country

    You’re a dinosaur. The future belongs to Gen Z. I get why you are repeatedly virtue signaling here. It’s cognitive dissonance on your part.

    Replies: @Alec Leamas (working from home), @Reg Cæsar, @Corpse Tooth, @Anonymous, @Prester John

    You’re a dinosaur. The future belongs to Gen Z. I get why you are repeatedly virtue signaling here. It’s cognitive dissonance on your part.

    The future belongs to Monday! After all, today is Saturday, and tomorrow is Sunday. And Monday comes after Sunday.

  86. Alternative take on affirmative action- given the number of bullshit jobs and the number of people I have met in corporate america who were obviously net costs to their employers- shouldn’t black people, given their long history in the US, feel/be entitled to fill some of those positions?

    In the absence of legal pressure almost all those jobs go to people who make the hiring manager feel comfy. That will almost always be someone who looks and talks like him.

  87. @Anonymous
    @J.Ross


    Now the men who voluntarily work white collar (unless they have a four of clubs [“big frog”] in their pocket like this guy, that is, a plan)
     
    What is “Big Frog”?

    Replies: @J.Ross

    I will withhold the images of smug shoujou for now. Unless he lobbies for the Republic of France, where else have you heard about a frog in connection to unspeakable politics?

  88. @eded
    "Year of All Fevers" That's funny. Is that a reference from something else or is it original?

    Replies: @J.Ross

    I thought so too but found nothing.

  89. @Batman
    Anyone who believes this aggrieved white guy fanfic is a bigger moron than the people who believe "white women are constantly asking to touch my hair" black woman fanfic.

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar

    Anyone who believes this aggrieved white guy fanfic…

    If this is satire, it is brilliant, up there with A Modest Proposal. This individual writes too well– better even than executives of 60-70 years ago, when an English major still meant something, and corporations still hired and trained them in-house.

    I just finished an acrostic of a quote by Mencken:

    Swift regarded Homo sapiens and saw no god with a few lamentable defects, but a poor worm with… only a crushing burden of follies, weaknesses, and imbecilities. He saw a coward, an idiot, a fraud and a scoundrel.

    [It appears to have been slightly edited for the puzzle, or for JSTOR.org, I don’t know which.]

    • Replies: @Ben Kurtz
    @Reg Cæsar


    This individual writes too well– better even than executives of 60-70 years ago, when an English major still meant something, and corporations still hired and trained them in-house.
     
    The writer is clearly Jewish. Jews often punch above their intellectual / educational weight classes in the language arts.

    Replies: @SFG

    , @Batman
    @Reg Cæsar


    But NOT the black activist lady, who puts out a statement of her own that mentions how tired & overworked she is at least 3 times.
     
    Normies and leftists don't know the "we tired" meme, and even if they did they wouldn't employ it. It's fanfic.
  90. Anonymous[278] • Disclaimer says:
    @Isabel Archer
    @ic1000

    Just before my abdominal surgery I met the anesthesiologist, and was dismayed to see he was black. In answer to my question, he assured me (in a slightly annoyed manner) that he was board certified. After the surgery I discovered that I could no longer sing or shout loudly: this because my vocal cords had been permanently bowed from the use of a too-large breathing tube during the operation. I guess I’m lucky that he did no other damage.

    Replies: @Anonymous, @FPD72, @Adolf Smith

    Just before my abdominal surgery I met the anesthesiologist, and was dismayed to see he was black. In answer to my question, he assured me (in a slightly annoyed manner) that he was board certified. After the surgery I discovered that I could no longer sing or shout loudly: this because my vocal cords had been permanently bowed from the use of a too-large breathing tube during the operation.

    Did you sue?

    • Replies: @Isabel Archer
    @Anonymous

    No. Suing for medical malpractice is an iffy business, it wasn’t that big an issue, and I needed to get on with my life.

  91. @Anon
    2/50 seems just about right given the black percentage of the population (12%-14%) and what we know about black test scores. But my experience is that the real percentage of blacks in cognitively challenging jobs is closer to 1%. They might be tweaking the tests, too.

    But yes, blacks that actually make it through when competing with whites and Asians on a level playing field are usually very good.

    Replies: @Anonymous

    But yes, blacks that actually make it through when competing with whites and Asians on a level playing field are usually very good.

    In what circumstances do blacks ever compete with Whites and asians on a level playing field?

  92. @bomag
    @anonymous

    Because of regression to the mean, and cultural differences that created more heat than light.

    Why not Nigeria instituting mass immigration from European type countries?

    Replies: @anonymous

    the author doesn’t care about that stuff, he wants to autistically get his job done. talented nigerians can serve as good managers. their kids will be society’s problem.

  93. @Bill Jones
    And on the topic of Diversity, where else could you find a better expert on Third World Corruption than the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee?
    No word yet on which of his Foreign Relations were involved, but one would expect they're in Latin America.

    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/democrat-sen-bob-menendez-indicted-over-gold-bar-bribery-scheme

    What's sad is that this corruption was well documented well before he was shoe-horned into the Senate in 2006.

    Replies: @J.Ross

    I think everybody understood he was guilty for years (he had previously gotten off because of a “hung jury” [wink wink]). The best reactions on talk radio lately have been by Charlie Kirk, who (a) spotted House Speaker Andrew McCarthy’s too-impotent too-late impeachment “inquiry” as a weak distraction from McCarthy ignoring the promises his office was predicated on (and their deadline), and in this case Kirk pointed out that
    (1) DoJ pretty much keeps dormant investigations going in the background so that when expedient they can activate one and ostentatiously nab a guy,
    (2) Menendez is stupid and low hanging fruit — apparently all the loot was directly received by him and stored in his official residence (cf the Hunter Biden System of Indirect Personal Enrichment); the first thing he did upon returning from his Memphitic gold run was to Google “how much is a kilogram bar of gold worth in dollars?”
    (3) What this is really about is (a). This is the feds sending a message to the merely elected. Gaetz and company might actually dent the scam in which the congressional obligation of budget and discussion (and therefore, the removal of bad programs) are abdicated, in favor of “continuing resolutions,” which require that bad programs be not only undiscussed but (what with the emergency and all) grandfathered in, guaranteed for another season of bakshiysh. This is what’s really happening. So the Vindmans and Comeys and McCabes are saying, watch it, congresscritter: touch our budget and we’ll look into yours.
    The government hasn’t been the government in memory. It hasn’t met any of its most basic obligations or followed its most basic procedures. Worse, it has become addicted to doing things the wrong way, and lashes out like an addict at the threat of getting clean. It wants the fake threat of “government shutdowns” and the bad solution of continuing resolutions because that way there really is no Congress, legislation is by regulation, and all power is Applebyzed.
    I remember Hugh Hewitt saying with perfect confidence that Gaetz couldn’t make it through a sympathetic interview and would not only never be elected but might end up in prison and oh and now we are here. Let’s see what else Gaetz can do by October.

    • Thanks: Bill Jones
  94. I’ve worked in accounting for the military for forty years. Most of the older workers seem pretty good but you can tell they use more subjective methods of hiring in the case of younger workers. Many of them are blacks who aren’t good at math, something that is needed in an accounting job. Some of the new employees aren’t native to this country and have trouble reading and writing emails since they don’t understand English very well. Many of the newer employees also seem to have behavior problems. My boss told me recently I was one of the few people working under her who never causes her any problems.

    The only really good minority worker in my office is an Asian lady who has a good work ethic. Unfortunately, she is retiring in October. I’m 67, two years past my retirement date, and have little reason to stay except I like working with computers. It’s going to be increasingly difficult for the United States to fight wars in the future with an affirmative action military. Our recent bungled withdrawal from Afghanistan and our failure in our proxy war with Russia involving the Ukrainians are signs of this. It would be best if we transitioned to an isolationist foreign policy and just use the military in the future for its proper function of defending the country instead of trying to play policeman for the world.

    • Replies: @Bill Jones
    @Mark G.


    trying to play policeman for the world.
     
    How deranged are you?

    I don't know where you live but around here the cops don't kill people while breaking into my house, steal anything of value and destroy the rest.

    Replies: @Old Prude, @Twinkie

    , @J.Ross
    @Mark G.

    It’s going to be increasingly difficult for the United States to fight wars in the future with an affirmative action military.

    Reminder of the recent /pol/ warning: ["]They see that they've overreached, and cannot accomplish anything with mystery meat welfare, and so in the coming seasons will start to try to make nice with whites with meaningless little gestures.
    They do so only so that you can die in Ukraine killing your own kind.
    Don't fall for it.["]
    Continue to hate the antichrist.

  95. @Corvinus
    @Citizen of a Silly Country

    You’re a dinosaur. The future belongs to Gen Z. I get why you are repeatedly virtue signaling here. It’s cognitive dissonance on your part.

    Replies: @Alec Leamas (working from home), @Reg Cæsar, @Corpse Tooth, @Anonymous, @Prester John

    CoaSC never tells us what we’re supposed to replace equal treatment under the law with, or what steps to take to repeal the Fourteenth Amendment– and the First, the Second, etc., by implication.

    This is why I’m convinced he and a couple of others here are ADL/SPLC/FBIden/etc. plants on a psy-ops mission. If they know of workable solutions, they clearly don’t want us going anywhere near those.

    As annoying as you are, at least you’re straightforward. These moles are something else.

    • Replies: @Corvinus
    @Reg Cæsar

    “This is why I’m convinced he and a couple of others here are ADL/SPLC/FBIden/etc. plants on a psy-ops mission.”

    You have a very active imagination. Does paranoia run in the family?

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @Reg Cæsar, @Twinkie

  96. How the DEI Cake Is Baked

    I say:

    Diversity is the strength of the plutocrat oligarch ruling class.

    Equity is Joe Biden and Mark Zuckerberg illegally, unlawfully and unconstitutionally giving illegal alien invaders your citizenship equity.

    Inclusion is the ruling class deploying TOTALITARIAN INCLUSIVITY to use mass immigration as a demographic weapon to attack and destroy the USA.

    Guy who can’t remember Peter Brimelow calls for OPERATION WETBACK II:

    Former President Trump, in a speech in Dubuque, Iowa, has pledged that he will carry out the largest domestic deportation operation in American history, if elected. Now, Mr. Trump cites the Eisenhower model. What was that? In 1954, something called ‘Operation Wetback’ was put into place. There was a mass deportation of up to 1.3 million undocumented Mexicans illegally in California, Arizona, and Texas.

    It had the tacit approval of the Mexican government, labor groups, and Mexican-Americans who were worried that uncontrolled immigration made the lives of legal immigrants more difficult. Attorney General Herbert Brownell declared that illegal migrants were, and I quote, “displacing domestic workers, affecting work conditions, spreading disease, and contributing to crime rates.” Sound familiar? Seems like the only difference between then and now is the size of the catastrophe.

    Something’s got to be done here. It’s gonna a major election-year issue, as well as something that affects the economy, depressing wages, and damaging native-born workers. Sensible people like myself are all for immigration and we understand its historic contribution to the success of this great country, but it must be legal immigration. That is the truth of the matter.

    https://vdare.com/letters/a-reader-is-surprised-to-see-larry-kudlow-of-all-people-saying-we-need-a-modern-operation-wetback

    • Replies: @Erronius
    @Charles Pewitt

    Operation Wetback was put into place due to the efforts of legal Mexican-American labor leader Cesar Chavez.

    His history has been 'ret-conned' into the precise opposite of what he worked for. If you ask any recent high-school graduate what Cesar Chavez worked for, they will tell you civil rights for illegal alien Mexican laborers. That is not true. He wanted them repelled and deported.

    Erronius

    Replies: @Steve Sailer, @AndrewR

    , @Nicholas Stix
    @Charles Pewitt

    First of all, you know the President is out of office, because he’s talking about immigration enforcement, something he forgets about, the moment he’s ensconced in the White House.

    Second, legal immigration is a non-starter. If he isn’t even campaigning on an immigration moratorium, he’s not at all serious—even rhetorically—about immigration reform.

    And third, it doesn’t matter who the republican candidate is, because President Trump had every opportunity to stop The Big Steal by rolling back voting rights violations prior to the 2020 election, but did nothing. Thus, 2024 will see Big Steal II.

    “Trump: The Presidency that Never was”

    https://nicholasstixuncensored.blogspot.com/2021/01/trump-presidency-that-never-was.html

    Replies: @Curle, @Art Deco

  97. @Bill Jones
    @Arclight

    You are right, of course but the biggest shocks are likely to come with the Hispanic takeover of government.

    Replies: @Arclight

    That’s an open question – Latinos as a group appear to be a lot less interested in politics than basically anyone else, and obviously are less monolithic than blacks in their political interests. I think blacks will retain an outsized presence as government employees as well, as it’s a low barrier job with relatively good benefits.

    • Replies: @covid vaccine
    @Arclight

    That's because a large fraction of Latinos aren't American citizens and thus can't vote in elections.

    Replies: @Jim Don Bob

    , @Bill Jones
    @Arclight


    Latinos as a group appear to be a lot less interested in politics than basically anyone else
     
    Yet Latin America never seemed to me to be under-governed.
    But it's 20 years since I was regularly trotting around there, perhaps they're now the Libertarian paradise those touting retirement homes in Panama portray.
    , @Hypnotoad666
    @Arclight


    That’s an open question – Latinos as a group appear to be a lot less interested in politics than basically anyone else
     
    That's definitely true in California. Elite white liberals and block-voting blacks control the political machine. Hispanics have the numbers to run the state but they are a passive mass that either doesn't vote at all, or just rubber-stamps the machine's agenda.
  98. @Reg Cæsar
    This is why people pay attention to "sportsball". Games are less likely to be gamed.

    On Twitter, a corporate insider explains

    Black people correctly sense that whites are rigging the game when they’re not looking.

    They just can’t imagine the truth: that we’re rigging it for them.
     


     
    This just squeaks in under Twitter's original character limit.


    How the DEI Cake Is Baked

     

    And it follows: the way to thwart our white (and light) supremacy is by INCREASING the weight of test scores and peer ratings.
     
    Someone left the cake out in the rain...

    where our implicit biases can reign free.
     
    Is that supposed to be reign free? Or rein free? Or rain free?

    https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/usage-free-rein-vs-free-reign


    Actually, it's run free, isn't it?

    Replies: @Almost Missouri, @Carol, @slumber_j, @Bill Jones

    Both can be correct. You can be given a free rein and be allowed to run free.

  99. I’m okay with them hitting off the ladies’ tees, but they don’t get to place their ball in the fairway.

  100. @Reg Cæsar
    @Twinkie


    Very Harvard, no?
     
    Harvard was just ranked dead last on free speech among universities examined. The best was a state school on the UP-- I can't remember which. Nobody pays any attention to Yoopers.

    Until now... "Gotta get 'em for that!"

    Replies: @Jenner Ickham Errican, @res, @AndrewR

    Harvard was just ranked dead last on free speech among universities examined.

    Thanks. That requires more detail ; )
    https://www.thefire.org/news/harvard-gets-worst-score-ever-fires-college-free-speech-rankings

    Simply put, Harvard has never performed well in FIRE’s College Free Speech Rankings, finishing below 75% of the schools surveyed in each of the past four years.

    In 2020, Harvard ranked 46 out of 55 schools. In 2021, it ranked 130 out of 154 schools. Last year, it ranked 170 out of 203 schools. And this year, Harvard completed its downward spiral in dramatic fashion, coming in dead last with the worst score ever: 0.00 out of a possible 100.00. This earns it the notorious distinction of being the only school ranked this year with an “Abysmal” speech climate.

    What’s more, granting Harvard a score of 0.00 is generous. Its actual score is -10.69, more than six standard deviations below the average and more than two standard deviations below the second-to-last school in the rankings, its Ivy League counterpart, the University of Pennsylvania. (Penn obtained an overall score of 11.13.)

    Some student quotes here.
    https://rankings.thefire.org/rank/school/harvard-university

    The best performing school was Michigan Technological University with a score of 78.01.

    An interesting pair is
    Oregon State at #4 scoring 71.56
    University of Oregon at #143 scoring 44.01 (just above Caltech and 7 below MIT BTW)

    • Thanks: Twinkie
    • Replies: @Reg Cæsar
    @res


    Some student quotes here.
     
    Some of the quotes are contradictory. It seems that the "Student Voices" section of this page is drawn from a variety of schools, not just Harvard. They should clear this up.
  101. @anon556
    US Navy made a big show out of pulling photos and other identifying information out of promotion and board packets after St. George Fentanyl Floyd died of a drug overdose. Wanted to root out implicit bias.

    A year later they added it all back because promotion and selection rates for white men increased while decreasing for women and minorities.

    NAVSEC mumbled something about systemic racism and sexism being a more difficult problem than they realized. Seriously.

    Replies: @res, @fish, @Bill Jones

    • Thanks: Hypnotoad666
  102. @Mark G.
    I’ve worked in accounting for the military for forty years. Most of the older workers seem pretty good but you can tell they use more subjective methods of hiring in the case of younger workers. Many of them are blacks who aren’t good at math, something that is needed in an accounting job. Some of the new employees aren’t native to this country and have trouble reading and writing emails since they don’t understand English very well. Many of the newer employees also seem to have behavior problems. My boss told me recently I was one of the few people working under her who never causes her any problems.

    The only really good minority worker in my office is an Asian lady who has a good work ethic. Unfortunately, she is retiring in October. I’m 67, two years past my retirement date, and have little reason to stay except I like working with computers. It’s going to be increasingly difficult for the United States to fight wars in the future with an affirmative action military. Our recent bungled withdrawal from Afghanistan and our failure in our proxy war with Russia involving the Ukrainians are signs of this. It would be best if we transitioned to an isolationist foreign policy and just use the military in the future for its proper function of defending the country instead of trying to play policeman for the world.

    Replies: @Bill Jones, @J.Ross

    trying to play policeman for the world.

    How deranged are you?

    I don’t know where you live but around here the cops don’t kill people while breaking into my house, steal anything of value and destroy the rest.

    • Replies: @Old Prude
    @Bill Jones

    There should be an “Ouch!” button.

    , @Twinkie
    @Bill Jones


    How deranged are you?

    I don’t know where you live but around here the cops don’t kill people while breaking into my house, steal anything of value and destroy the rest.
     
    LOL (ran out of the button)!
  103. @Reg Cæsar
    @Corvinus

    CoaSC never tells us what we're supposed to replace equal treatment under the law with, or what steps to take to repeal the Fourteenth Amendment-- and the First, the Second, etc., by implication.

    This is why I'm convinced he and a couple of others here are ADL/SPLC/FBIden/etc. plants on a psy-ops mission. If they know of workable solutions, they clearly don't want us going anywhere near those.

    As annoying as you are, at least you're straightforward. These moles are something else.

    Replies: @Corvinus

    “This is why I’m convinced he and a couple of others here are ADL/SPLC/FBIden/etc. plants on a psy-ops mission.”

    You have a very active imagination. Does paranoia run in the family?

    • Replies: @Reg Cæsar
    @Corvinus

    Don't you think it odd that Klan rallies were never shot up? It would have been so easy.

    Replies: @Jenner Ickham Errican, @Corvinus, @Joe Stalin

    , @Reg Cæsar
    @Corvinus

    Riot crews on stand-by need something to keep them busy while waiting or the next Floyd or Blake to get shot.

    Come to think of it, you're not all that far from Kenosha, are you?

    , @Twinkie
    @Corvinus


    “This is why I’m convinced he and a couple of others here are ADL/SPLC/FBIden/etc. plants on a psy-ops mission.”

    You have a very active imagination. Does paranoia run in the family?
     

    First of all, it's trivial for USG to scan the text for "domestic terrorist" keywords like the NSA does with SIGINT.

    Second, even if USG is not actively monitoring the site, there are people who are unfriendly to the site who monitor it and report to FBI or other LE agencies.

    I know leftist activists were monitoring many of the social media chatter of the Jan. 6 protesters (including their own family members!*) and forwarded anything that tickled their fancy to the FBI.

    *How commie is that, turning over your own family member to the FBI?

    It's not unreasonable to surmise that USG is always listening. Practice OPSEC accordingly - or, as the saying from WWII goes, loose lips sink ships! ;)

    Replies: @Bill Jones, @Corvinus, @Reg Cæsar

  104. @Arclight
    @Bill Jones

    That's an open question - Latinos as a group appear to be a lot less interested in politics than basically anyone else, and obviously are less monolithic than blacks in their political interests. I think blacks will retain an outsized presence as government employees as well, as it's a low barrier job with relatively good benefits.

    Replies: @covid vaccine, @Bill Jones, @Hypnotoad666

    That’s because a large fraction of Latinos aren’t American citizens and thus can’t vote in elections.

    • Replies: @Jim Don Bob
    @covid vaccine


    That’s because a large fraction of Latinos aren’t American citizens and thus can’t vote in elections.
     
    Come now. Every illegal in this country has a driver's license, and you are automatically registered to vote when you get a DL, no pesky proof of citizenship required. And since having to show an id to vote is RAAAAACIST, all you have to do is say your name and cast your vote for the Ds. And if you had too much tequila the night before, some friendly person will be by to harvest your vote.

    That's the whole point of the southern invasion: clients for the welfare state, votes for the Ds, and low wages and more customers for big business.

    Replies: @Corn, @HammerJack

  105. @Corvinus
    @Citizen of a Silly Country

    You’re a dinosaur. The future belongs to Gen Z. I get why you are repeatedly virtue signaling here. It’s cognitive dissonance on your part.

    Replies: @Alec Leamas (working from home), @Reg Cæsar, @Corpse Tooth, @Anonymous, @Prester John

    “The future belongs to Gen Z.”

    Yes, the most indoctrinated, narcotized, and gender-confused generation will sort out the future.

    • Replies: @John Milton's Ghost
    @Corpse Tooth

    Corvinus is _maybe_ trying to offer a funny tautology. The future always belongs to the next generation. Ultimately the future will belong to the Idiocracy.

    Replies: @Gandydancer

  106. @Corvinus
    @Reg Cæsar

    “This is why I’m convinced he and a couple of others here are ADL/SPLC/FBIden/etc. plants on a psy-ops mission.”

    You have a very active imagination. Does paranoia run in the family?

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @Reg Cæsar, @Twinkie

    Don’t you think it odd that Klan rallies were never shot up? It would have been so easy.

    • Replies: @Jenner Ickham Errican
    @Reg Cæsar


    Don’t you think it odd that Klan rallies were never shot up? It would have been so easy.
     
    Presumably, Klan rallies were heavily-armed affairs. Would you have volunteered to ‘shoot them up’ ?

    “There goes loopy Louie, shootin’ up again”

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar

    , @Corvinus
    @Reg Cæsar

    "Don’t you think it odd that Klan rallies were never shot up? It would have been so easy."

    Easy by who, the FBI? J.E. Hoover was running that operation. So, no, it's not odd that G-men didn't put a cap in your relatives who were important cogs in that pro-white organization.

    "Riot crews on stand-by need something to keep them busy while waiting or the next Floyd or Blake to get shot."

    Right, the Feds are conducting surveillance on this fine opinion webzine, and are especially targeting you and Mr. Sailer /sarcasm. As I correctly stated earlier, you are paranoid.

    "Come to think of it, you’re not all that far from Kenosha, are you?"

    I was right in the thick of it. Saw Rittenhouse, too. I'm Mossad, you know. They sent me there to observe and report.

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar

    , @Joe Stalin
    @Reg Cæsar

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfdJWw4mKbg

  107. @anon556
    The whole thread is what Harvard and Duke were sued over. Asians over-performed on all objective measures of achievement and were rated lower than other races on subjective measures.

    It's more difficult to sue if organizations use a more complex process, but systematically under-rating Asians and whites on subjective measures is still a huge legal liability.

    No idea why the Supremes explicitly excluded the military academies from their decision. Intellectual incoherence on a grand scale. Racism and sexism in the military is good? Bizarre.

    Replies: @Old Prude

    I did not know the service academies were exempted. As a grad, I find this most disturbing. West Point, it seems to me is being undermined and crapped up by homos and blacks: Desecrating the chapel, and flouting the honor system…

    One of my old room-mates seems to be gaming the system by presenting himself as a fag to land contracts at the academy. I figure to he’ll declare him a tranny in the next few years to keep the scam going. If he was able to present himself as black he’d be retired by now.

  108. OT — What you already knew.

    A new study of 17 countries found a “definite causal link” between peaks in all-cause mortality and the rapid rollouts of the COVID-19 vaccines and boosters.

    Researchers with Canada-based Correlation Research in the Public Interest found more than half of the countries analyzed had no detectable rise in all-cause mortality after the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic on March 11, 2020 — until after the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccines and boosters.

    They also found that all 17 countries, which make up 10.3% of the global population, had an unprecedented rise in all-cause mortality that corresponded directly to vaccine and booster rollouts.

    Through a statistical analysis of mortality data, the authors calculated the fatal toxicity risk-per-injection increased significantly with age, but averaged 1 death per 800 injections across all ages and countries.

    By that calculation, with 13.5 billion injections given up to Sept. 2, 2023, the researchers estimated there were 17 million COVID-19 vaccination deaths (± 500,000) globally following the vaccine roll-out.

    “This would correspond to a mass iatrogenic event that killed 0.213 (± 0.006) % of the world population and did not measurably prevent any deaths,” the authors wrote.

    This number, they noted, is 1,000 times higher than previously reported in data from clinical trials, adverse event monitoring and cause-of-death statistics gleaned from death certificates.

    In other words, “The COVID-19 vaccines did not save lives and appear to be lethal toxic agents,” they wrote.

    https://correlation-canada.org/covid-19-vaccine-associated-mortality-in-the-southern-hemisphere/

    • Thanks: Adam Smith
    • Replies: @Hypnotoad666
    @J.Ross


    “This would correspond to a mass iatrogenic event that killed 0.213 (± 0.006) % of the world population and did not measurably prevent any deaths,” the authors wrote.
     
    Nobody cares. The combination of cognitive dissonance, active suppression, and CYA is just too powerful. It's frankly shameful that the journalist/pundits (I won't name names), who were giant data nerds in favor of the establishment narrative now just slink away quietly when the real data becomes available.

    Replies: @J.Ross

    , @Hypnotoad666
    @J.Ross

    https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0507d374-f3af-476c-a32d-2918e32111b6_1006x896.jpeg

    , @Je Suis Omar Mateen
    @J.Ross

    Large waves of death followed every 'covid' mass-vaxx campaign. These waves were dubbed 'variants'. New vaxxes were promised for each new 'variant'. A self-licking ice cream cone if there ever was one. Sadly for Pfizer $teve and IQ214, vaxx hesitancy increased exponentially after the second strokepoke and now only knuckleheads roll the sleeve anymore. Literally nobody knows anyone that died of 'covid' (because it is fictional) but literally EVERYONE knows somebody harmed by good ol' Safe And Effective.

  109. @Mark G.
    I’ve worked in accounting for the military for forty years. Most of the older workers seem pretty good but you can tell they use more subjective methods of hiring in the case of younger workers. Many of them are blacks who aren’t good at math, something that is needed in an accounting job. Some of the new employees aren’t native to this country and have trouble reading and writing emails since they don’t understand English very well. Many of the newer employees also seem to have behavior problems. My boss told me recently I was one of the few people working under her who never causes her any problems.

    The only really good minority worker in my office is an Asian lady who has a good work ethic. Unfortunately, she is retiring in October. I’m 67, two years past my retirement date, and have little reason to stay except I like working with computers. It’s going to be increasingly difficult for the United States to fight wars in the future with an affirmative action military. Our recent bungled withdrawal from Afghanistan and our failure in our proxy war with Russia involving the Ukrainians are signs of this. It would be best if we transitioned to an isolationist foreign policy and just use the military in the future for its proper function of defending the country instead of trying to play policeman for the world.

    Replies: @Bill Jones, @J.Ross

    It’s going to be increasingly difficult for the United States to fight wars in the future with an affirmative action military.

    Reminder of the recent /pol/ warning: [“]They see that they’ve overreached, and cannot accomplish anything with mystery meat welfare, and so in the coming seasons will start to try to make nice with whites with meaningless little gestures.
    They do so only so that you can die in Ukraine killing your own kind.
    Don’t fall for it.[“]
    Continue to hate the antichrist.

  110. “Schmendrick” as a humorous nonsense filler word is a very Jewish tell.

    • Replies: @Anonymous
    @Ben Kurtz


    “Schmendrick” as a humorous nonsense filler word is a very Jewish tell.
     
    The overall writing quality is itself a Jewish tell. Could any Gentile write so well?
  111. @Anonymous
    However the cake is baked, make sure the cops head for the donuts.

    As the cities go under, the cake will be left out in the rain.

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

    They got the DEI cake. This is how you make a GAY Bagel.

    https://twitter.com/LaurenWitzkeDE/status/1705592071585730581

    Replies: @Art Deco, @Reg Cæsar

    Do we have memorials to people who died of emphysema? The AIDS memorials have been a seriously creepy exercise.

    • Agree: Achmed E. Newman
  112. @Corvinus
    @Reg Cæsar

    “This is why I’m convinced he and a couple of others here are ADL/SPLC/FBIden/etc. plants on a psy-ops mission.”

    You have a very active imagination. Does paranoia run in the family?

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @Reg Cæsar, @Twinkie

    Riot crews on stand-by need something to keep them busy while waiting or the next Floyd or Blake to get shot.

    Come to think of it, you’re not all that far from Kenosha, are you?

  113. @Anonymous
    However the cake is baked, make sure the cops head for the donuts.

    As the cities go under, the cake will be left out in the rain.

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

    They got the DEI cake. This is how you make a GAY Bagel.

    https://twitter.com/LaurenWitzkeDE/status/1705592071585730581

    Replies: @Art Deco, @Reg Cæsar

    • Replies: @fish
    @Reg Cæsar

    Meh....one side looks like a seashell, the other like the cover on my Calculus text from eons ago....personally not picking up anything proctological in the work.

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar

  114. @J.Ross
    Sometimes I regret youthful planning mistakes, but not really (I'd freely admit they were stupid but I can't fix them now so I'm not worried), but frequently I am glad I never got into academia (like I once thought I wanted) or white collar. In midcentury, a man rejecting a white collar position must've been making a major mistake. Now the men who voluntarily work white collar (unless they have a four of clubs ["big frog"] in their pocket like this guy, that is, a plan) are probably unhappy and doomed, but got sucked into that brainless pop cultural thing in the 2000s where office work was seen as inevitable and necessary. That is, they think that a white collar position, no matter how low-paying, tedious, tenuous, and intrusive, is the same thing as being middle class, and that working some other way would be voluntarily slumming.

    Replies: @Achmed E. Newman, @Anonymous, @Paul Jolliffe, @Pop Warner

    unless they have a four of clubs [“big frog”] in their pocket like this guy, that is, a plan

    Shhhhh let’s not give it away now….

  115. @SafeNow
    This called to mind what Chief Justice Marshall wrote in his opinion in the Harvard discrimination case. Marshall wrote that Harvard should not think it can get away with “simply” substituting an essay for a quota. I did not see any pundit-types commenting upon the inclusion of the word “simply,” but it really caught my eye. The inclusion was not happenstance. Marshall was sending a deliberate message; the same concept as the DEI guru in the essay understood. Make it complicated and subjective, so that would-be attackers would probably take a pass, due to the complexity. (Any challenge “would be like trying to put socks on an octopus” …if anyone still uses that expression.)

    Replies: @ic1000, @AndrewR, @Hypnotoad666

    Make it complicated and subjective, so that would-be attackers would probably take a pass, due to the complexity.

    It was Powell’s concurrence in the original Bakke decision that struck down the numerical ranking + racial quota system of the Davis Medical School. His ground was that this made it too obvious which individual whites were being screwed and how much less qualified their individual black replacements were. Instead, Powell wrote that institutions should get the same result by using race as just “one factor” in a “holistic assessment.” He specifically endorsed Harvard’s “holistic” assessment as the proper model to follow.

    This deeply cynical “hide the racism in a muddled process” strategy has been the blueprint for institutionalized anti-white racism ever since.

    I was going to say it’s “ironic” that the identical “holistic” Harvard system was what triggered the definitive legal rejection of legalized anti-white racism in admissions. But, on second thought, it was kind of inevitable that the Court undid its original sin by coming back, full-circle to Harvard’s deliberately rigged “holistic” scam after 46 years of hypocrisy, lies and racism.

  116. @AndrewR
    @SafeNow

    Chief Justice Marshall died about 30 years before the end of slavery, so I'm kinda confused about what case you're talking about.

    But back to the original post: these corporate people are truly soulless. Capitalism really is demonic.

    Replies: @Herbert R. Tarlek, Jr., @Carol, @SafeNow

    But back to the original post: these corporate people are truly soulless. Capitalism really is demonic.

    Many would argue, plausibly, that the corporate limited liability which provides cover for so many psychopaths in our society is a perversion of true capitalism.

    • Replies: @Anonymous
    @Herbert R. Tarlek, Jr.


    Many would argue, plausibly, that the corporate limited liability which provides cover for so many psychopaths in our society is a perversion of true capitalism.
     
    Because true capitalism has never been tried....amarite???????
    , @Bill Jones
    @Herbert R. Tarlek, Jr.

    The limitation of liability is only financial limitation in case of failure. It does not extend to criminal or tort liability for acts which by definition can only be committed by individuals. Corporations cannot act.
    This simple fact has been lost.
    This could be fixed by one good DoJ head in one 4 year term.

    Replies: @scrivener3

    , @scrivener3
    @Herbert R. Tarlek, Jr.


    Many would argue, plausibly, that the corporate limited liability which provides cover for so many psychopaths in our society is a perversion of true capitalism.
     
    I don't think the word means what you believe it means. The limited liability of corporations is for shareholders. The average person is much better off being wronged by a deep pocket corporation than by a neighbor or common criminal. The corporation will have assets, liability insurance, business records that are discoverable. A limited liability public corporation is what we lawyers refer to as "a deep pocket defendant".

    Would you invest a dollar of your 401K retirement in an enterprise if you were liable for the eventual debts of the enterprise and damages if the management were ever negligent? Would you stand to loose not only your entire investment but all of your other assets whenever earned, just to be a passive investor in an enterprise that you do not control?

    For about $30 you can file as a limited liability company in just about every state. You will have the exact freedom from liability as an owner as Microsoft shareholders have. But if you make a sale with fraud you will be liable as a manger and actor, not as an owner.
  117. @slumber_j
    I dig the original tweeter's handle.

    https://youtu.be/FbMWX73XNDk?t=67

    Replies: @Mr. Anon, @Hypnotoad666

    Great movie. Coincidentally, I rewatched it a couple weeks ago when I treated myself to a mini-Australia film fest of Breaker Morant, Picnic at Hanging Rock, and Gallipoli. Aussie cinema had a real moment circa 1980 for some reason.

    • Replies: @slumber_j
    @Hypnotoad666

    They did indeed. Dunno why, but some great directors emerged I guess. And actors. The original Mad Max comes to mind as well.

    , @Sollipsist
    @Hypnotoad666

    "Yahoo Serious Film Festival"

  118. @slumber_j
    @Almost Missouri

    Right. In the Breaker Morant clip I posted, the closeup on the trigger finger shows ".303" stamped on the rifle.

    Love "Tommy Gun" by the way. The label brought in heavyweight producer Sandy Pearlman for Give 'Em Enough Rope, who supposedly boosted the drums to cover Joe Strummer's voice, which he disliked. Whatever one thinks of that, it sure does work for the song.

    Replies: @Almost Missouri

    Yeah, thanks for that.

    I didn’t see your video until after I had posted my comment.

    the closeup on the trigger finger shows “.303” stamped on the rifle.

    I don’t have an Enfield myself, so I wonder if British Enfields really had a brass “.303” stamped on the stock or whether that was just to make the wordplay clearer for the movie audience. One expects the ammo to be stamped, though.

  119. @Prester John
    @bomag

    The good news is that this too shall pass ("No man ever steps in the same river twice"-Heraclitus).

    The bad news is that, on the corporate level and elsewhere, it may arrive too late to save the current generation from the consequences resulting from decisions made by people who, one would think, should have known better.

    Replies: @bomag, @Almost Missouri, @Blodgie

    The good news is that this too shall pass

    The previous Dark Ages passed too …

    … after a thousand years or so.

  120. @Corvinus
    @Steve Sailer

    “On Twitter, a corporate insider explains how how DEI promotions work”

    For all we know, he could be your mailman.

    Replies: @Almost Missouri, @Ancient Mason

    The Post Office is a corporation.

  121. @anon556
    US Navy made a big show out of pulling photos and other identifying information out of promotion and board packets after St. George Fentanyl Floyd died of a drug overdose. Wanted to root out implicit bias.

    A year later they added it all back because promotion and selection rates for white men increased while decreasing for women and minorities.

    NAVSEC mumbled something about systemic racism and sexism being a more difficult problem than they realized. Seriously.

    Replies: @res, @fish, @Bill Jones

    A largely (for now) white Navy hierarchy will contort themselves in ways not thought humanly possible to accommodate the racial dreams of those congressional soft heads writing the appropriations checks. Vox Day has stated that the next major engagement the Navy is involved in will end badly for them and given his overall track record I think this is a pretty good bet.

    The important question though is should I give a shit?!

  122. @Reg Cæsar
    @Anonymous

    The entire piece:

    https://kesq.com/news/2023/09/15/aids-memorial-sculpture-sparks-debate-in-palm-springs/

    Replies: @fish

    Meh….one side looks like a seashell, the other like the cover on my Calculus text from eons ago….personally not picking up anything proctological in the work.

    • Replies: @Reg Cæsar
    @fish

    Either way, it sphincts to high heaven.

  123. @Reg Cæsar
    @Corvinus

    Don't you think it odd that Klan rallies were never shot up? It would have been so easy.

    Replies: @Jenner Ickham Errican, @Corvinus, @Joe Stalin

    Don’t you think it odd that Klan rallies were never shot up? It would have been so easy.

    Presumably, Klan rallies were heavily-armed affairs. Would you have volunteered to ‘shoot them up’ ?

    “There goes loopy Louie, shootin’ up again”

    • Replies: @Reg Cæsar
    @Jenner Ickham Errican


    Would you have volunteered to ‘shoot them up’ ?
     
    No. But I'm not Lee Harvey Oswald, Charles Whitman, or Gamil Rodrigue Liass "Marc Lépine" Gharbi. Some people know they're not coming back, or don't care.

    The point is that any such attack would have hit infiltrators along with everyone else.

    Replies: @Jenner Ickham Errican

  124. @Arclight
    @Bill Jones

    That's an open question - Latinos as a group appear to be a lot less interested in politics than basically anyone else, and obviously are less monolithic than blacks in their political interests. I think blacks will retain an outsized presence as government employees as well, as it's a low barrier job with relatively good benefits.

    Replies: @covid vaccine, @Bill Jones, @Hypnotoad666

    Latinos as a group appear to be a lot less interested in politics than basically anyone else

    Yet Latin America never seemed to me to be under-governed.
    But it’s 20 years since I was regularly trotting around there, perhaps they’re now the Libertarian paradise those touting retirement homes in Panama portray.

  125. @Arclight
    @Bill Jones

    That's an open question - Latinos as a group appear to be a lot less interested in politics than basically anyone else, and obviously are less monolithic than blacks in their political interests. I think blacks will retain an outsized presence as government employees as well, as it's a low barrier job with relatively good benefits.

    Replies: @covid vaccine, @Bill Jones, @Hypnotoad666

    That’s an open question – Latinos as a group appear to be a lot less interested in politics than basically anyone else

    That’s definitely true in California. Elite white liberals and block-voting blacks control the political machine. Hispanics have the numbers to run the state but they are a passive mass that either doesn’t vote at all, or just rubber-stamps the machine’s agenda.

  126. @Jenner Ickham Errican
    @Reg Cæsar


    Don’t you think it odd that Klan rallies were never shot up? It would have been so easy.
     
    Presumably, Klan rallies were heavily-armed affairs. Would you have volunteered to ‘shoot them up’ ?

    “There goes loopy Louie, shootin’ up again”

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar

    Would you have volunteered to ‘shoot them up’ ?

    No. But I’m not Lee Harvey Oswald, Charles Whitman, or Gamil Rodrigue Liass “Marc Lépine” Gharbi. Some people know they’re not coming back, or don’t care.

    The point is that any such attack would have hit infiltrators along with everyone else.

    • Replies: @Jenner Ickham Errican
    @Reg Cæsar


    Don’t you think it odd that Klan rallies were never shot up?
     
    To answer your question, then, no it’s not odd that Klan rallies were never shot up, for various reasons.

    It would have been so easy.
     
    It wouldn’t have been “easy” for anyone. Your short list of shooters are not exactly everyday criminals. Also, the latter two chose 'soft targets' not akin to an armed Klan rally likely to respond with immediate deadly force.
  127. @J.Ross
    OT -- What you already knew.

    A new study of 17 countries found a “definite causal link” between peaks in all-cause mortality and the rapid rollouts of the COVID-19 vaccines and boosters.

    Researchers with Canada-based Correlation Research in the Public Interest found more than half of the countries analyzed had no detectable rise in all-cause mortality after the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic on March 11, 2020 — until after the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccines and boosters.

    They also found that all 17 countries, which make up 10.3% of the global population, had an unprecedented rise in all-cause mortality that corresponded directly to vaccine and booster rollouts.

    Through a statistical analysis of mortality data, the authors calculated the fatal toxicity risk-per-injection increased significantly with age, but averaged 1 death per 800 injections across all ages and countries.

    By that calculation, with 13.5 billion injections given up to Sept. 2, 2023, the researchers estimated there were 17 million COVID-19 vaccination deaths (± 500,000) globally following the vaccine roll-out.

    “This would correspond to a mass iatrogenic event that killed 0.213 (± 0.006) % of the world population and did not measurably prevent any deaths,” the authors wrote.

    This number, they noted, is 1,000 times higher than previously reported in data from clinical trials, adverse event monitoring and cause-of-death statistics gleaned from death certificates.

    In other words, “The COVID-19 vaccines did not save lives and appear to be lethal toxic agents,” they wrote.

    https://correlation-canada.org/covid-19-vaccine-associated-mortality-in-the-southern-hemisphere/

    Replies: @Hypnotoad666, @Hypnotoad666, @Je Suis Omar Mateen

    “This would correspond to a mass iatrogenic event that killed 0.213 (± 0.006) % of the world population and did not measurably prevent any deaths,” the authors wrote.

    Nobody cares. The combination of cognitive dissonance, active suppression, and CYA is just too powerful. It’s frankly shameful that the journalist/pundits (I won’t name names), who were giant data nerds in favor of the establishment narrative now just slink away quietly when the real data becomes available.

    • Agree: Travis
    • Replies: @J.Ross
    @Hypnotoad666

    Progress is made, both in the destruction of the reputations of the malignant, and in converted normies like Covid Grandpa (John Campbell, retired general practitioner, conventionally accredited, fluent with research papers, and thoroughly grounded and honest. He started out parroting the Fauchoods, but looked things up, and gradually began to hate).

  128. @Reg Cæsar
    @Corvinus

    Don't you think it odd that Klan rallies were never shot up? It would have been so easy.

    Replies: @Jenner Ickham Errican, @Corvinus, @Joe Stalin

    “Don’t you think it odd that Klan rallies were never shot up? It would have been so easy.”

    Easy by who, the FBI? J.E. Hoover was running that operation. So, no, it’s not odd that G-men didn’t put a cap in your relatives who were important cogs in that pro-white organization.

    “Riot crews on stand-by need something to keep them busy while waiting or the next Floyd or Blake to get shot.”

    Right, the Feds are conducting surveillance on this fine opinion webzine, and are especially targeting you and Mr. Sailer /sarcasm. As I correctly stated earlier, you are paranoid.

    “Come to think of it, you’re not all that far from Kenosha, are you?”

    I was right in the thick of it. Saw Rittenhouse, too. I’m Mossad, you know. They sent me there to observe and report.

    • Replies: @Reg Cæsar
    @Corvinus


    Right, the Feds are conducting surveillance...
     
    They don't have to "conduct" it, just inspire others to. The DA who let Darrell Brooks loose didn't take a dime from George Soros. He was already on the same team. Minneapolis and Kenosha were torched by volunteers. (BTW, East Lake Street in Mpls. has the same qualities you've bragged about in your own neighborhood.)

    A lot of Antifa nobodies would happily spend their copious free time polluting any site that disagrees with them, if it shows promise. 100,000 followers on X sure would like promise that needs to be stopped.

    Why are you here? To moralize. These others come to demoralize.

    Replies: @Corvinus

  129. OT: Apparently Newsom has vetoed AB 957 in California. Will the legislature override his veto?

  130. LaraCraft339 [AKA "laraCraft333"] says:

    I know for me as a white woman, if I tell you I don’t know you, and act like it, it’s because I don’t know you. I don’t live in a drug induced euphoria where I see someone in a dream. While I dream, I could be anyone anywhere. That’s why I see tv shows like “medium” and wonder how that is possible? I see things in dreams but who knows where they are or who they are? Sometimes I see people I know but more times than likely they are people I don’t know. I was in Afghanistan buying a cup of coffee then I was a military guy who was asking who he was. He was told he was just her.
    The only time that people spoke the same language was when they were babies. Babies speak the same language until they grow up. Most anyway. No different than being in the garden of eden, where you speak God’s language I suppose.
    What intrigues me most of people, is that they can call upon the devil so easily yet they can’t seem to call upon God or Jesus or anyone with quite the same frequency or ease.

    • LOL: silviosilver
  131. @Corvinus
    @Reg Cæsar

    "Don’t you think it odd that Klan rallies were never shot up? It would have been so easy."

    Easy by who, the FBI? J.E. Hoover was running that operation. So, no, it's not odd that G-men didn't put a cap in your relatives who were important cogs in that pro-white organization.

    "Riot crews on stand-by need something to keep them busy while waiting or the next Floyd or Blake to get shot."

    Right, the Feds are conducting surveillance on this fine opinion webzine, and are especially targeting you and Mr. Sailer /sarcasm. As I correctly stated earlier, you are paranoid.

    "Come to think of it, you’re not all that far from Kenosha, are you?"

    I was right in the thick of it. Saw Rittenhouse, too. I'm Mossad, you know. They sent me there to observe and report.

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar

    Right, the Feds are conducting surveillance…

    They don’t have to “conduct” it, just inspire others to. The DA who let Darrell Brooks loose didn’t take a dime from George Soros. He was already on the same team. Minneapolis and Kenosha were torched by volunteers. (BTW, East Lake Street in Mpls. has the same qualities you’ve bragged about in your own neighborhood.)

    A lot of Antifa nobodies would happily spend their copious free time polluting any site that disagrees with them, if it shows promise. 100,000 followers on X sure would like promise that needs to be stopped.

    Why are you here? To moralize. These others come to demoralize.

    • Replies: @Corvinus
    @Reg Cæsar

    "They don’t have to “conduct” it, just inspire others to."

    Which is conspiratorial on your part. Perhaps YOU are the controlled opposition here. So who pays you in Bit Coin? A lot of Alt-Right and MAGA-heads would happily spend their copious free time polluting any site that disagrees with them, if it shows promise. 100,000 followers on X sure would like promise that needs to be stopped.

  132. @Herbert R. Tarlek, Jr.
    @AndrewR

    But back to the original post: these corporate people are truly soulless. Capitalism really is demonic.

    Many would argue, plausibly, that the corporate limited liability which provides cover for so many psychopaths in our society is a perversion of true capitalism.

    Replies: @Anonymous, @Bill Jones, @scrivener3

    Many would argue, plausibly, that the corporate limited liability which provides cover for so many psychopaths in our society is a perversion of true capitalism.

    Because true capitalism has never been tried….amarite???????

  133. @Achmed E. Newman
    I hope the whole damn company goes under. There's not a single decent person in this whole screwed-up story, including the black lady.

    Sure, she thinks that black people are really in danger of being discriminated against, but she's a black activist for a living, so she's not doing anything productive for this company, same as every other sorry soul in this story.

    Replies: @Kylie

    “I hope the whole damn company goes under. There’s not a single decent person in this whole screwed-up story, including the black lady.”

    I’d like to see Lance try to put a positive spin on this sordid situation.

    “Aww…come on, Jim! Everybody deserves a chance to make good. It’s the American way!”

    “Cheating is the American way?”

    “Don’t call it cheating. That sounds so mean. Think of it as a head start.”

    “Head Start? Right, Lance, we all know how well that worked out!”

    “Jim, I always say no cynic can ever be truly happy. Are you truly happy, Jim? Are you?”

    • Replies: @Achmed E. Newman
    @Kylie

    Haha, Kylie, you've got Lance White down pretty good, and Jim Rockford too! Now do Evelyn, aka, Angel Martin

    Replies: @Mr. Anon

  134. @Reg Cæsar
    @Jenner Ickham Errican


    Would you have volunteered to ‘shoot them up’ ?
     
    No. But I'm not Lee Harvey Oswald, Charles Whitman, or Gamil Rodrigue Liass "Marc Lépine" Gharbi. Some people know they're not coming back, or don't care.

    The point is that any such attack would have hit infiltrators along with everyone else.

    Replies: @Jenner Ickham Errican

    Don’t you think it odd that Klan rallies were never shot up?

    To answer your question, then, no it’s not odd that Klan rallies were never shot up, for various reasons.

    It would have been so easy.

    It wouldn’t have been “easy” for anyone. Your short list of shooters are not exactly everyday criminals. Also, the latter two chose ‘soft targets’ not akin to an armed Klan rally likely to respond with immediate deadly force.

  135. @fish
    @Reg Cæsar

    Meh....one side looks like a seashell, the other like the cover on my Calculus text from eons ago....personally not picking up anything proctological in the work.

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar

    Either way, it sphincts to high heaven.

  136. @Reg Cæsar
    @Corvinus

    Don't you think it odd that Klan rallies were never shot up? It would have been so easy.

    Replies: @Jenner Ickham Errican, @Corvinus, @Joe Stalin

  137. @Twinkie

    What this does is allow you to sneak subjective ratings into something that sounds overall objective.
     
    Hey, that sounds like... Harvard!

    The way to go was: reduce weight on the tests (too g loaded) [SAT - 1600!] & peer ratings (too honest) [Alumni interview - superb young man!] & put that balance into a modified set of simulations. [Admissions office personality rating - Did you say you were Asian? No personality!]
     
    Very Harvard, no?

    conscientious white & Asian grinders
     
    Hardworking white = conscientious, but hardworking Asian = grinder?

    Hey, hey, this is library!

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @anonymous, @kaganovitch, @dux.ie, @Reg Cæsar, @nebulafox, @Ceph

    Hardworking white = conscientious, but hardworking Asian = grinder?

    If that was his intent he would have written “conscientious whites & Asian grinders” (I note in passing even an aspiring badthinker like our hero cannot bring himself to capitalize ‘White’.) As written, I think ‘conscientious ‘ is meant to modify “white & Asian grinders”. Of course this could have been made clearer with better punctuation/comma use, but that’s just not ‘current year’.

    • Agree: Twinkie
    • Replies: @Reg Cæsar
    @kaganovitch


    I note in passing even an aspiring badthinker like our hero cannot bring himself to capitalize ‘White’.
     
    In other words, just like Theodore Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Madison Grant, Lothrop Stoddard... Wimps, unworthy of filling the ink bottles of the giants of Unz.com.

    Replies: @Cagey Beast

    , @Anonymous
    @kaganovitch


    (I note in passing even an aspiring badthinker like our hero cannot bring himself to capitalize ‘White’.)
     
    When did our host start referring to DIE as DEI?

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar

  138. Well, hopefully with enough public exposure, the DEI’s goose finally will be cooked.

  139. OT – with illegal aliens from Ecuador now showing up in the US, we should get to know exaclty what kind of cultural enrichment we are in for:

    https://nypost.com/2023/09/19/ecuadorian-cartel-boss-buried-with-hundreds-of-guns/

    Murdered cartel boss ‘El Fatal’ buried with hundreds of guns to protect him ‘in the afterlife’

    Muy Vibrante!!

    • Replies: @AndrewR
    @Mr. Anon

    These people can't be that hard to rule over if their insane fantasies about the afterlife override the obvious reality that those guns would be far more useful outside of a coffin.

  140. @Kylie
    @Achmed E. Newman

    "I hope the whole damn company goes under. There’s not a single decent person in this whole screwed-up story, including the black lady."

    I'd like to see Lance try to put a positive spin on this sordid situation.

    "Aww...come on, Jim! Everybody deserves a chance to make good. It's the American way!"

    "Cheating is the American way?"

    "Don't call it cheating. That sounds so mean. Think of it as a head start."

    "Head Start? Right, Lance, we all know how well that worked out!"

    "Jim, I always say no cynic can ever be truly happy. Are you truly happy, Jim? Are you?"

    Replies: @Achmed E. Newman

    Haha, Kylie, you’ve got Lance White down pretty good, and Jim Rockford too! Now do Evelyn, aka, Angel Martin

    • Thanks: Kylie
    • Replies: @Mr. Anon
    @Achmed E. Newman


    Haha, Kylie, you’ve got Lance White down pretty good, and Jim Rockford too! Now do Evelyn, aka, Angel Martin
     
    Lance White? Was that the character that Tom Selleck played?
  141. @Reg Cæsar
    @Corvinus


    Right, the Feds are conducting surveillance...
     
    They don't have to "conduct" it, just inspire others to. The DA who let Darrell Brooks loose didn't take a dime from George Soros. He was already on the same team. Minneapolis and Kenosha were torched by volunteers. (BTW, East Lake Street in Mpls. has the same qualities you've bragged about in your own neighborhood.)

    A lot of Antifa nobodies would happily spend their copious free time polluting any site that disagrees with them, if it shows promise. 100,000 followers on X sure would like promise that needs to be stopped.

    Why are you here? To moralize. These others come to demoralize.

    Replies: @Corvinus

    “They don’t have to “conduct” it, just inspire others to.”

    Which is conspiratorial on your part. Perhaps YOU are the controlled opposition here. So who pays you in Bit Coin? A lot of Alt-Right and MAGA-heads would happily spend their copious free time polluting any site that disagrees with them, if it shows promise. 100,000 followers on X sure would like promise that needs to be stopped.

  142. @Achmed E. Newman
    @J.Ross

    Good comment, Mr. Ross. However, I still don't know what "big frog" is about. That guy's writing style is just plain weird. He must have been raised by a couple of tweeters, or perhaps, woofers.

    Replies: @Almost Missouri

    I still don’t know what “big frog” is about.

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

  143. @J.Ross
    OT -- What you already knew.

    A new study of 17 countries found a “definite causal link” between peaks in all-cause mortality and the rapid rollouts of the COVID-19 vaccines and boosters.

    Researchers with Canada-based Correlation Research in the Public Interest found more than half of the countries analyzed had no detectable rise in all-cause mortality after the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic on March 11, 2020 — until after the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccines and boosters.

    They also found that all 17 countries, which make up 10.3% of the global population, had an unprecedented rise in all-cause mortality that corresponded directly to vaccine and booster rollouts.

    Through a statistical analysis of mortality data, the authors calculated the fatal toxicity risk-per-injection increased significantly with age, but averaged 1 death per 800 injections across all ages and countries.

    By that calculation, with 13.5 billion injections given up to Sept. 2, 2023, the researchers estimated there were 17 million COVID-19 vaccination deaths (± 500,000) globally following the vaccine roll-out.

    “This would correspond to a mass iatrogenic event that killed 0.213 (± 0.006) % of the world population and did not measurably prevent any deaths,” the authors wrote.

    This number, they noted, is 1,000 times higher than previously reported in data from clinical trials, adverse event monitoring and cause-of-death statistics gleaned from death certificates.

    In other words, “The COVID-19 vaccines did not save lives and appear to be lethal toxic agents,” they wrote.

    https://correlation-canada.org/covid-19-vaccine-associated-mortality-in-the-southern-hemisphere/

    Replies: @Hypnotoad666, @Hypnotoad666, @Je Suis Omar Mateen

    • Agree: Travis
    • Thanks: Achmed E. Newman
    • LOL: J.Ross
  144. @Twinkie

    What this does is allow you to sneak subjective ratings into something that sounds overall objective.
     
    Hey, that sounds like... Harvard!

    The way to go was: reduce weight on the tests (too g loaded) [SAT - 1600!] & peer ratings (too honest) [Alumni interview - superb young man!] & put that balance into a modified set of simulations. [Admissions office personality rating - Did you say you were Asian? No personality!]
     
    Very Harvard, no?

    conscientious white & Asian grinders
     
    Hardworking white = conscientious, but hardworking Asian = grinder?

    Hey, hey, this is library!

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @anonymous, @kaganovitch, @dux.ie, @Reg Cæsar, @nebulafox, @Ceph


    From Becker’s IQ dataset the national B5 Personality Score Rel to USA at 50%, EAS are less conscientiousness (slacker instead of grinder, may be in adult job situation higher IQ reduces time to do equiv job and so can be slackers), less agreeableness, Extraversion and Openness but higher in Neuroticism.
    This https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2630227/table/T3/?report=objectonly confirms the IQdb B5 trends

  145. @Jenner Ickham Errican

    They just can’t imagine the truth: that we’re rigging it for them.
     
    Rigger, please. That’s some prime cope-a-dope faux bless oblige. Blacks know they’re being coddled, they like the results when it’s in their favor, and they are daring you to say it their face. Here is some perhaps unrealistic simulation role play:

    https://youtu.be/fKCpPhJidug?si=GkdEClDTxi2mGhJF&t=66

    Replies: @Intelligent Dasein, @Twinkie

    Rigger, please. That’s some prime cope-a-dope faux bless oblige.

    I have to take my hat off. That’s some top notch punning there.

    • Agree: fish
    • Thanks: Jenner Ickham Errican
  146. @Corvinus
    @Citizen of a Silly Country

    You’re a dinosaur. The future belongs to Gen Z. I get why you are repeatedly virtue signaling here. It’s cognitive dissonance on your part.

    Replies: @Alec Leamas (working from home), @Reg Cæsar, @Corpse Tooth, @Anonymous, @Prester John

    You know nothing about Gen Z. So comical.

    • Replies: @nebulafox
    @Anonymous

    Him being an educrat would explain a lot.

    , @Corvinus
    @Anonymous

    “You know nothing about Gen Z. So comical”

    We just love when anonys here project.

    Replies: @Charles Erwin Wilson

  147. @Hypnotoad666
    @slumber_j

    Great movie. Coincidentally, I rewatched it a couple weeks ago when I treated myself to a mini-Australia film fest of Breaker Morant, Picnic at Hanging Rock, and Gallipoli. Aussie cinema had a real moment circa 1980 for some reason.

    Replies: @slumber_j, @Sollipsist

    They did indeed. Dunno why, but some great directors emerged I guess. And actors. The original Mad Max comes to mind as well.

  148. @Corvinus
    @Steve Sailer

    “On Twitter, a corporate insider explains how how DEI promotions work”

    For all we know, he could be your mailman.

    Replies: @Almost Missouri, @Ancient Mason

    Correct. But it sure is a great story. Perhaps falls into “not factual, but true.”

  149. @fish
    @but an humble craftsman

    Never going to happen....

    Replies: @Charles Erwin Wilson, @Prester John

    Agree.

    One side wins and the other side loses. And when the surgeries go awry, the bridges fall down, and the planes hit the ground at terminal velocity, it will focus the minds of the wicked (and even the idiotic self-loathing wicked, such as Corvinus).

    Then we need to record the stupidity in an immutable medium so that our descendants do not destroy their patrimony. Sheep must be able to read, to be sure, but they need the facts of the leftist mind virus to innoculate them from another epidemic.

  150. @kaganovitch
    @Twinkie


    Hardworking white = conscientious, but hardworking Asian = grinder?
     
    If that was his intent he would have written "conscientious whites & Asian grinders" (I note in passing even an aspiring badthinker like our hero cannot bring himself to capitalize 'White'.) As written, I think 'conscientious ' is meant to modify "white & Asian grinders". Of course this could have been made clearer with better punctuation/comma use, but that's just not 'current year'.

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @Anonymous

    I note in passing even an aspiring badthinker like our hero cannot bring himself to capitalize ‘White’.

    In other words, just like Theodore Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Madison Grant, Lothrop Stoddard… Wimps, unworthy of filling the ink bottles of the giants of Unz.com.

    • Replies: @Cagey Beast
    @Reg Cæsar

    Those men wrote and lived in a time before we White people allowed ourselves to become just one of many teams in this game. Capitalizing the "W" in "White" simply updates the unwritten style guide to reflect this harsh truth.

    As you know the official style guides of the prestige media recently updated "black" to "Black" but kept it "white" for us Whites. So, in a backhanded way they too want Whites to be the only ones without a team jersey in this game and want us to pretend the world hasn't changed around us forever.

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar

  151. The activist goes from giving me dirty looks to never looking at me at all. In cramped conference rooms & late night Zoom she manages to avoid any acknowledgment I exist.

    “It is impossible to talk anything resembling discretion or judgment into a colored woman. They are all essentially child-like, and even hard experience does not teach them anything.”

    –H.L. Mencken, diary entry for exactly eighty years ago today

    The H. L. Mencken Show

  152. And here enters into the story a newly prominent black activist, who knows exactly what (& who) the real problem must be.

    Spoiler: it’s people like me, cleverly increasing the subjective elements of the process because that is where our implicit biases can reign free.

    And it follows: the way to thwart our white (and light) supremacy is by INCREASING the weight of test scores and peer ratings.

    As Brer Rabbit said-
    “Please don’t throw me in dat briar patch!”

  153. @Twinkie

    What this does is allow you to sneak subjective ratings into something that sounds overall objective.
     
    Hey, that sounds like... Harvard!

    The way to go was: reduce weight on the tests (too g loaded) [SAT - 1600!] & peer ratings (too honest) [Alumni interview - superb young man!] & put that balance into a modified set of simulations. [Admissions office personality rating - Did you say you were Asian? No personality!]
     
    Very Harvard, no?

    conscientious white & Asian grinders
     
    Hardworking white = conscientious, but hardworking Asian = grinder?

    Hey, hey, this is library!

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @anonymous, @kaganovitch, @dux.ie, @Reg Cæsar, @nebulafox, @Ceph

    It says white, not whites. “Conscientious” and “grinders” thus refer to both groups. (Or, rather, groups of groups– neither race is particularly united.) We’re in this together, man!

    • Agree: Twinkie
  154. @Twinkie

    What this does is allow you to sneak subjective ratings into something that sounds overall objective.
     
    Hey, that sounds like... Harvard!

    The way to go was: reduce weight on the tests (too g loaded) [SAT - 1600!] & peer ratings (too honest) [Alumni interview - superb young man!] & put that balance into a modified set of simulations. [Admissions office personality rating - Did you say you were Asian? No personality!]
     
    Very Harvard, no?

    conscientious white & Asian grinders
     
    Hardworking white = conscientious, but hardworking Asian = grinder?

    Hey, hey, this is library!

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @anonymous, @kaganovitch, @dux.ie, @Reg Cæsar, @nebulafox, @Ceph

    Virgin conscientious verbalizers vs chad library grinders.

    • LOL: Twinkie
  155. Notre Dame’s DEI coach had only 10 players on the field for their goal line stand’s last two plays.
    Can you imagine Rockne doing this?

  156. @Anonymous
    @Corvinus

    You know nothing about Gen Z. So comical.

    Replies: @nebulafox, @Corvinus

    Him being an educrat would explain a lot.

  157. @res
    @Reg Cæsar


    Harvard was just ranked dead last on free speech among universities examined.
     
    Thanks. That requires more detail ; )
    https://www.thefire.org/news/harvard-gets-worst-score-ever-fires-college-free-speech-rankings

    Simply put, Harvard has never performed well in FIRE’s College Free Speech Rankings, finishing below 75% of the schools surveyed in each of the past four years.

    In 2020, Harvard ranked 46 out of 55 schools. In 2021, it ranked 130 out of 154 schools. Last year, it ranked 170 out of 203 schools. And this year, Harvard completed its downward spiral in dramatic fashion, coming in dead last with the worst score ever: 0.00 out of a possible 100.00. This earns it the notorious distinction of being the only school ranked this year with an “Abysmal” speech climate.

    What’s more, granting Harvard a score of 0.00 is generous. Its actual score is -10.69, more than six standard deviations below the average and more than two standard deviations below the second-to-last school in the rankings, its Ivy League counterpart, the University of Pennsylvania. (Penn obtained an overall score of 11.13.)
     
    Some student quotes here.
    https://rankings.thefire.org/rank/school/harvard-university

    The best performing school was Michigan Technological University with a score of 78.01.

    An interesting pair is
    Oregon State at #4 scoring 71.56
    University of Oregon at #143 scoring 44.01 (just above Caltech and 7 below MIT BTW)

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar

    Some student quotes here.

    Some of the quotes are contradictory. It seems that the “Student Voices” section of this page is drawn from a variety of schools, not just Harvard. They should clear this up.

  158. @Bill Jones
    @Mark G.


    trying to play policeman for the world.
     
    How deranged are you?

    I don't know where you live but around here the cops don't kill people while breaking into my house, steal anything of value and destroy the rest.

    Replies: @Old Prude, @Twinkie

    There should be an “Ouch!” button.

  159. @Anonymous
    Similar situation at my old employer.

    'We need more female engineers, we only get about 20% through the recruitment process, it should be 50%'.

    Make applications anonymous, remove all clues to sex of applicant.
    Result: 0% females successful.
    Turns out that women get rated higher than equivalent men.

    Replies: @Anonymous

    There was a similar issue with music schools and blind auditions. Angry blacks were complaining that their people were being turned away by racist auditioners. They demanded blind auditions so nobody would know the race of the candidate. Black enrolment dropped like a stone.

  160. @Reg Cæsar
    @kaganovitch


    I note in passing even an aspiring badthinker like our hero cannot bring himself to capitalize ‘White’.
     
    In other words, just like Theodore Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Madison Grant, Lothrop Stoddard... Wimps, unworthy of filling the ink bottles of the giants of Unz.com.

    Replies: @Cagey Beast

    Those men wrote and lived in a time before we White people allowed ourselves to become just one of many teams in this game. Capitalizing the “W” in “White” simply updates the unwritten style guide to reflect this harsh truth.

    As you know the official style guides of the prestige media recently updated “black” to “Black” but kept it “white” for us Whites. So, in a backhanded way they too want Whites to be the only ones without a team jersey in this game and want us to pretend the world hasn’t changed around us forever.

    • Agree: kaganovitch
    • Replies: @Reg Cæsar
    @Cagey Beast

    It's still faggoty.

    Replies: @Cagey Beast, @Buzz Mohawk, @Jenner Ickham Errican

  161. @Ben Kurtz
    "Schmendrick" as a humorous nonsense filler word is a very Jewish tell.

    Replies: @Anonymous

    “Schmendrick” as a humorous nonsense filler word is a very Jewish tell.

    The overall writing quality is itself a Jewish tell. Could any Gentile write so well?

  162. @Jenner Ickham Errican

    They just can’t imagine the truth: that we’re rigging it for them.
     
    Rigger, please. That’s some prime cope-a-dope faux bless oblige. Blacks know they’re being coddled, they like the results when it’s in their favor, and they are daring you to say it their face. Here is some perhaps unrealistic simulation role play:

    https://youtu.be/fKCpPhJidug?si=GkdEClDTxi2mGhJF&t=66

    Replies: @Intelligent Dasein, @Twinkie

    Blacks know they’re being coddled, they like the results when it’s in their favor, and they are daring you to say it their face.

    I did once – in a semi-public (audience by invitation only) debate. The funny thing was the black activist seemed stunned, but was silent afterwards (like he was speechless that someone finally called out his bullshit in front of others), but all the GoodWhites in the audience gasped and then got very angry at me.

    • Replies: @Jenner Ickham Errican
    @Twinkie

    Intriguing intro, we await the details… :)

    Replies: @Twinkie

    , @Bill Jones
    @Twinkie


    The funny thing was the black activist seemed stunned, but was silent afterwards ... but all the GoodWhites in the audience gasped and then got very angry at me.
     
    Was it Mark Twain who said "It's easier to fool people than to convince them they've been fooled"?

    The black guy was merely ignorant, the GoodWhites were suckers.
    , @Anonymous
    @Twinkie

    Yes, white liberals aren't doing blacks any favors by coddling them. It just makes the inevitable reality check even more shocking when it finally arrives.

    (As an aside, look up the controversy 5 years ago about The Verge's Youtube guide to building your own computer. It was presented by a black guy who was obviously clueless about what he was doing and made a bunch of stupid statements and mistakes. It was obvious he lived in a white liberal bubble where nobody had ever dared criticise anything he did. He was mercilessly ripped apart by the internet, and rightly so, since some of his advice could have damaged or destroyed expensive equipment. Of course, he just went into denial and blamed racism. The white 'friends' of this guy should be ashamed for setting him up for public ridicule like this.)

    Replies: @Lurker

  163. @Bill Jones
    @Mark G.


    trying to play policeman for the world.
     
    How deranged are you?

    I don't know where you live but around here the cops don't kill people while breaking into my house, steal anything of value and destroy the rest.

    Replies: @Old Prude, @Twinkie

    How deranged are you?

    I don’t know where you live but around here the cops don’t kill people while breaking into my house, steal anything of value and destroy the rest.

    LOL (ran out of the button)!

  164. @Corvinus
    @Reg Cæsar

    “This is why I’m convinced he and a couple of others here are ADL/SPLC/FBIden/etc. plants on a psy-ops mission.”

    You have a very active imagination. Does paranoia run in the family?

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @Reg Cæsar, @Twinkie

    “This is why I’m convinced he and a couple of others here are ADL/SPLC/FBIden/etc. plants on a psy-ops mission.”

    You have a very active imagination. Does paranoia run in the family?

    First of all, it’s trivial for USG to scan the text for “domestic terrorist” keywords like the NSA does with SIGINT.

    Second, even if USG is not actively monitoring the site, there are people who are unfriendly to the site who monitor it and report to FBI or other LE agencies.

    I know leftist activists were monitoring many of the social media chatter of the Jan. 6 protesters (including their own family members!*) and forwarded anything that tickled their fancy to the FBI.

    *How commie is that, turning over your own family member to the FBI?

    It’s not unreasonable to surmise that USG is always listening. Practice OPSEC accordingly – or, as the saying from WWII goes, loose lips sink ships! 😉

    • Replies: @Bill Jones
    @Twinkie


    *How commie is that, turning over your own family member to the FBI?
     
    Don't recall the number (2 million people comes to my lazy mind) but I remember being appalled by the percentage of East Germans who were dropping a dime on their nearest and dearest to the Stasi.

    Replies: @Jim Don Bob

    , @Corvinus
    @Twinkie

    You’re really trying too hard here to fit in. I guess the paranoia runs deep with you as well, but that doesn’t stop you and others from commenting here.

    Speculate all you want about NSA monitoring this site or of “plants” who are reporting about what is being said by you and others on this fine opinion webzine. But evidence on your part is required to show that what you claim is happening.

    Perhaps that white truck down the block is not the cable company, but the FBI who is conducting surveillance on Mr. Sailer. You need to warn him immediately.

    “I know leftist activists were monitoring many of the social media chatter of the Jan. 6 protesters (including their own family members!*) and forwarded anything that tickled their fancy to the FBI.”

    Know from personal experience or what you read from social media accounts? Anyways, no doubt this occurred, similar to those on the right during the Floyd protests. Are you just as concerned about supposed FBI malfeasance in all instances, or are just selective?

    *How commie is that, turning over your own family member to the FBI?”

    Again, you’re really trying too hard here. If the family member is wanted for questioning because of their violent actions, or if there was video footage of their illegal activities, or if evidence was found by other family members of their wrongdoing, then there is a duty to bring in law enforcement. That’s not “commie”, that’s law and order and the rule of law.

    “It’s not unreasonable to surmise that USG is always listening. “

    It’s not unreasonable to surmise that you and others here are being paranoid, and that you’re not being monitored by the USH as you believe.

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @kaganovitch, @The Alarmist

    , @Reg Cæsar
    @Twinkie

    I should have said ADL/SPLC/FBIden-friendly plants. It's not a conspiracy, it's a movement. Lots of people read Alinsky 55 years ago and followed his advice on their own. "Hey, here are a few tricks that may work..." A number of cities went up in flames with the tacit approval of their own mayors, and it's "paranoia" to question why?

    The two or three commenters who keep coming here to whine ("CivNat") and insult ("can't take one's own side in a fight") and never offer suggestions of their own other than a vague "identity politics" (which hasn't shown any sign of working in 60 years) are far more likely to be playing games with our minds than to be bona-fide allies.

    None of them have ever mentioned having families of their own, as many commenters do, the most important aspect of "taking one's own side". For all we know, they could be homos in basements, and this is their cosplay. Even if they're real, it is still girly of them.

  165. @kaganovitch
    @Twinkie


    Hardworking white = conscientious, but hardworking Asian = grinder?
     
    If that was his intent he would have written "conscientious whites & Asian grinders" (I note in passing even an aspiring badthinker like our hero cannot bring himself to capitalize 'White'.) As written, I think 'conscientious ' is meant to modify "white & Asian grinders". Of course this could have been made clearer with better punctuation/comma use, but that's just not 'current year'.

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @Anonymous

    (I note in passing even an aspiring badthinker like our hero cannot bring himself to capitalize ‘White’.)

    When did our host start referring to DIE as DEI?

    • Replies: @Reg Cæsar
    @Anonymous

    Puns get old and tired. Check out your local hair salon.

    Replies: @silviosilver

  166. @Twinkie
    @Jenner Ickham Errican


    Blacks know they’re being coddled, they like the results when it’s in their favor, and they are daring you to say it their face.
     
    I did once - in a semi-public (audience by invitation only) debate. The funny thing was the black activist seemed stunned, but was silent afterwards (like he was speechless that someone finally called out his bullshit in front of others), but all the GoodWhites in the audience gasped and then got very angry at me.

    Replies: @Jenner Ickham Errican, @Bill Jones, @Anonymous

    Intriguing intro, we await the details… 🙂

    • Replies: @Twinkie
    @Jenner Ickham Errican


    Intriguing intro, we await the details… 🙂
     
    You know I am not going to doxx myself.

    Just know that the event had a black activist and me as opposing speakers. He argued that blacks were still owed by society and I argued that the debt had been paid in full by blood and more.

    Replies: @Jenner Ickham Errican, @Corvinus

  167. @Reg Cæsar
    @Twinkie


    Very Harvard, no?
     
    Harvard was just ranked dead last on free speech among universities examined. The best was a state school on the UP-- I can't remember which. Nobody pays any attention to Yoopers.

    Until now... "Gotta get 'em for that!"

    Replies: @Jenner Ickham Errican, @res, @AndrewR

    Michigan Tech is in the UP but I imagine that >97% of the students are from outside the UP.

  168. @Charles Pewitt
    How the DEI Cake Is Baked

    I say:

    Diversity is the strength of the plutocrat oligarch ruling class.

    Equity is Joe Biden and Mark Zuckerberg illegally, unlawfully and unconstitutionally giving illegal alien invaders your citizenship equity.

    Inclusion is the ruling class deploying TOTALITARIAN INCLUSIVITY to use mass immigration as a demographic weapon to attack and destroy the USA.

    Guy who can't remember Peter Brimelow calls for OPERATION WETBACK II:

    Former President Trump, in a speech in Dubuque, Iowa, has pledged that he will carry out the largest domestic deportation operation in American history, if elected. Now, Mr. Trump cites the Eisenhower model. What was that? In 1954, something called 'Operation Wetback' was put into place. There was a mass deportation of up to 1.3 million undocumented Mexicans illegally in California, Arizona, and Texas.

     


    It had the tacit approval of the Mexican government, labor groups, and Mexican-Americans who were worried that uncontrolled immigration made the lives of legal immigrants more difficult. Attorney General Herbert Brownell declared that illegal migrants were, and I quote, "displacing domestic workers, affecting work conditions, spreading disease, and contributing to crime rates." Sound familiar? Seems like the only difference between then and now is the size of the catastrophe.

     


    Something’s got to be done here. It's gonna a major election-year issue, as well as something that affects the economy, depressing wages, and damaging native-born workers. Sensible people like myself are all for immigration and we understand its historic contribution to the success of this great country, but it must be legal immigration. That is the truth of the matter.

     

    https://vdare.com/letters/a-reader-is-surprised-to-see-larry-kudlow-of-all-people-saying-we-need-a-modern-operation-wetback

    Replies: @Erronius, @Nicholas Stix

    Operation Wetback was put into place due to the efforts of legal Mexican-American labor leader Cesar Chavez.

    His history has been ‘ret-conned’ into the precise opposite of what he worked for. If you ask any recent high-school graduate what Cesar Chavez worked for, they will tell you civil rights for illegal alien Mexican laborers. That is not true. He wanted them repelled and deported.

    Erronius

    • Replies: @Steve Sailer
    @Erronius

    You are often by about a dozen years.

    Replies: @kaganovitch

    , @AndrewR
    @Erronius

    I'd say most of them wouldn't know who he was at all. But yes, probably 90% of the rest would think he was pro illegal

  169. @Erronius
    @Charles Pewitt

    Operation Wetback was put into place due to the efforts of legal Mexican-American labor leader Cesar Chavez.

    His history has been 'ret-conned' into the precise opposite of what he worked for. If you ask any recent high-school graduate what Cesar Chavez worked for, they will tell you civil rights for illegal alien Mexican laborers. That is not true. He wanted them repelled and deported.

    Erronius

    Replies: @Steve Sailer, @AndrewR

    You are often by about a dozen years.

    • Replies: @kaganovitch
    @Steve Sailer

    Cool typo, Bro!

  170. @Mr. Anon
    OT - with illegal aliens from Ecuador now showing up in the US, we should get to know exaclty what kind of cultural enrichment we are in for:

    https://nypost.com/2023/09/19/ecuadorian-cartel-boss-buried-with-hundreds-of-guns/

    Murdered cartel boss ‘El Fatal’ buried with hundreds of guns to protect him ‘in the afterlife’
     

    Muy Vibrante!!

    Replies: @AndrewR

    These people can’t be that hard to rule over if their insane fantasies about the afterlife override the obvious reality that those guns would be far more useful outside of a coffin.

  171. @Erronius
    @Charles Pewitt

    Operation Wetback was put into place due to the efforts of legal Mexican-American labor leader Cesar Chavez.

    His history has been 'ret-conned' into the precise opposite of what he worked for. If you ask any recent high-school graduate what Cesar Chavez worked for, they will tell you civil rights for illegal alien Mexican laborers. That is not true. He wanted them repelled and deported.

    Erronius

    Replies: @Steve Sailer, @AndrewR

    I’d say most of them wouldn’t know who he was at all. But yes, probably 90% of the rest would think he was pro illegal

    • Agree: Richard B
  172. And in other diversity efforts, one Maryland County Police Department is going to be scouring Puerto Rico for its Finest because they just can’t find any-one to be a cop just north of Nations Capital.

    Who Could Have Seen This Coming? All Over America, Blue Cities Are Facing A Severe Shortage Of Police Officers

    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/who-could-have-seen-coming-all-over-america-blue-cities-are-facing-severe-shortage-police

  173. @Jenner Ickham Errican
    @Twinkie

    Intriguing intro, we await the details… :)

    Replies: @Twinkie

    Intriguing intro, we await the details… 🙂

    You know I am not going to doxx myself.

    Just know that the event had a black activist and me as opposing speakers. He argued that blacks were still owed by society and I argued that the debt had been paid in full by blood and more.

    • Replies: @Jenner Ickham Errican
    @Twinkie


    You know I am not going to doxx myself.
     
    PhysicistDave paid me $100 in Dogecoin to try. Sorry Dave, no refunds.
    , @Corvinus
    @Twinkie

    Pics or it never happened—Steve Sailer

    Replies: @Twinkie

  174. @Twinkie
    @Corvinus


    “This is why I’m convinced he and a couple of others here are ADL/SPLC/FBIden/etc. plants on a psy-ops mission.”

    You have a very active imagination. Does paranoia run in the family?
     

    First of all, it's trivial for USG to scan the text for "domestic terrorist" keywords like the NSA does with SIGINT.

    Second, even if USG is not actively monitoring the site, there are people who are unfriendly to the site who monitor it and report to FBI or other LE agencies.

    I know leftist activists were monitoring many of the social media chatter of the Jan. 6 protesters (including their own family members!*) and forwarded anything that tickled their fancy to the FBI.

    *How commie is that, turning over your own family member to the FBI?

    It's not unreasonable to surmise that USG is always listening. Practice OPSEC accordingly - or, as the saying from WWII goes, loose lips sink ships! ;)

    Replies: @Bill Jones, @Corvinus, @Reg Cæsar

    *How commie is that, turning over your own family member to the FBI?

    Don’t recall the number (2 million people comes to my lazy mind) but I remember being appalled by the percentage of East Germans who were dropping a dime on their nearest and dearest to the Stasi.

    • Replies: @Jim Don Bob
    @Bill Jones

    Some estimates were that 10% of the population of East Germany were working for the Stasi in one way or another. Just like here!

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

  175. @SFG
    @ic1000

    You’ll get more racial discrimination by patients…if you know there’s massive AA, better wait a few weeks to see Dr. Chang.

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @Achmed E. Newman, @Ben Kurtz

    Don’t think there’s too much AA in large animal veterinary programs.

    Just sayin’.

    • Replies: @Redneck Farmer
    @Ben Kurtz

    Akshually, there is. The universities are putting their thumbs on the scales for guys. Women usually drop out of large animal practice and concentrate on small animals.

    Replies: @That Would Be Telling, @Ralph L, @Curle

    , @EdwardM
    @Ben Kurtz

    Maybe blacks see curricula called “animal husbandry” and are put off. Husbandry isn’t their forte.

    , @Corn
    @Ben Kurtz

    You’d be surprised. I am acquainted with a lady whose sister wanted to go to veterinary school. Sister applied to 4 or 5 veterinary schools in the US and each wanted to know what actions she had taken to promote diversity in her community. This girl was raised in a rather non diverse farming or ranching town in the Dakotas.

    She then applied to a veterinary school at a Canadian university. Canadian veterinary school wanted to know two things: her grades and why she wanted to be a veterinarian. She is now going to veterinary school in Canada.

    Replies: @Ben Kurtz

  176. @Reg Cæsar
    @Batman


    Anyone who believes this aggrieved white guy fanfic...
     
    If this is satire, it is brilliant, up there with A Modest Proposal. This individual writes too well-- better even than executives of 60-70 years ago, when an English major still meant something, and corporations still hired and trained them in-house.


    I just finished an acrostic of a quote by Mencken:

    Swift regarded Homo sapiens and saw no god with a few lamentable defects, but a poor worm with... only a crushing burden of follies, weaknesses, and imbecilities. He saw a coward, an idiot, a fraud and a scoundrel.

    [It appears to have been slightly edited for the puzzle, or for JSTOR.org, I don't know which.]

    Replies: @Ben Kurtz, @Batman

    This individual writes too well– better even than executives of 60-70 years ago, when an English major still meant something, and corporations still hired and trained them in-house.

    The writer is clearly Jewish. Jews often punch above their intellectual / educational weight classes in the language arts.

    • Replies: @SFG
    @Ben Kurtz

    The second doesn’t directly imply the first-it is more than 2 percent likely, sure, but nowhere near 50, particularly given his views.

    Replies: @Ben Kurtz

  177. @anon556
    US Navy made a big show out of pulling photos and other identifying information out of promotion and board packets after St. George Fentanyl Floyd died of a drug overdose. Wanted to root out implicit bias.

    A year later they added it all back because promotion and selection rates for white men increased while decreasing for women and minorities.

    NAVSEC mumbled something about systemic racism and sexism being a more difficult problem than they realized. Seriously.

    Replies: @res, @fish, @Bill Jones

    NAVSEC mumbled something about systemic racism and sexism being a more difficult problem than they realized.

    He was right, of course. It’s going to be tough to get this God character to start creating all Men equal.
    And after that he can start on the real biggie: Women.

  178. @Citizen of a Silly Country
    @Steve Sailer

    My goodness.

    Replies: @Mike Tre

    Certain people might be reading.

  179. @Twinkie
    @Jenner Ickham Errican


    Intriguing intro, we await the details… 🙂
     
    You know I am not going to doxx myself.

    Just know that the event had a black activist and me as opposing speakers. He argued that blacks were still owed by society and I argued that the debt had been paid in full by blood and more.

    Replies: @Jenner Ickham Errican, @Corvinus

    You know I am not going to doxx myself.

    PhysicistDave paid me $100 in Dogecoin to try. Sorry Dave, no refunds.

    • LOL: Twinkie
  180. It all started with sympathy for blacks. The poor put-upon shuffling aw shucks negroes. It was easy. It cost Whites nothing – “back in the day.” But then the “feelings” began to be codified. The law says we must now DO SOMETHING good and blessed for blacks. And so it began. It went from vague feelings of sympathy to a race annihilating vicious and tyrannical monster that can be no more stopped than the proverbial run-away-locomotive. Things, very BAD things
    start innocuously…like “it’s just a buck” (the dollar, not the negro – actually both). And it ends up with you (us) hanging from a rope. Sort of like a tragic flaw in humanity generally…and WHITE humanity specifically.

  181. @Ben Kurtz
    @Reg Cæsar


    This individual writes too well– better even than executives of 60-70 years ago, when an English major still meant something, and corporations still hired and trained them in-house.
     
    The writer is clearly Jewish. Jews often punch above their intellectual / educational weight classes in the language arts.

    Replies: @SFG

    The second doesn’t directly imply the first-it is more than 2 percent likely, sure, but nowhere near 50, particularly given his views.

    • Replies: @Ben Kurtz
    @SFG

    See my earlier comment:

    His use of "Schmendrick” as a humorous nonsense filler word is a very Jewish tell.

    That, plus his overall literary merit, makes him Jewish by a preponderance of the evidence.

    And don't kid yourself: more and more Jews, especially the more intelligent and/or observant, have become incredibly based and red-pilled.

    Replies: @Mr. Anon

  182. @covid vaccine
    @Arclight

    That's because a large fraction of Latinos aren't American citizens and thus can't vote in elections.

    Replies: @Jim Don Bob

    That’s because a large fraction of Latinos aren’t American citizens and thus can’t vote in elections.

    Come now. Every illegal in this country has a driver’s license, and you are automatically registered to vote when you get a DL, no pesky proof of citizenship required. And since having to show an id to vote is RAAAAACIST, all you have to do is say your name and cast your vote for the Ds. And if you had too much tequila the night before, some friendly person will be by to harvest your vote.

    That’s the whole point of the southern invasion: clients for the welfare state, votes for the Ds, and low wages and more customers for big business.

    • Agree: Almost Missouri
    • Replies: @Corn
    @Jim Don Bob

    It’s almost funny watching Democrats say with a straight face that automatic voter registration coupled with no photo ID (or mail in ballots!) will in no way lead to hinkier elections.

    Almost as funny as them claiming photo ID requirements suppress the vote. In 43 years I’ve met people who forgot their wallet at home, but never met anyone who didn’t have ID

    , @HammerJack
    @Jim Don Bob


    That’s the whole point of the southern invasion: clients for the welfare state, votes for the Ds, and low wages and more customers for big business.
     
    To which I would only add: that Race Replacement thing.
  183. France is enjoying its diversity:

    Last year, 69 percent of violent robberies and other violent crimes, including sexual assaults, on public transport in the greater Paris region of Île-de-France were perpetrated by foreign nationals, according to the annual figures of the SSMSI, the statistics bureau of the French Ministry of Interior.

    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/france-foreigners-commit-69-robberies-violent-crimes-sexual-assaults-public-transport

  184. The activist – not wrongly, given what you all know – senses me an enemy on sight & feels even more sure in her course knowing that I oppose it.

    The author is clearly a libtard deprived of the teachings of Uncle Remus. All that was needed was to beg the black activist to not toss the plan into the Briar Patch of role play.

  185. @Twinkie

    What this does is allow you to sneak subjective ratings into something that sounds overall objective.
     
    Hey, that sounds like... Harvard!

    The way to go was: reduce weight on the tests (too g loaded) [SAT - 1600!] & peer ratings (too honest) [Alumni interview - superb young man!] & put that balance into a modified set of simulations. [Admissions office personality rating - Did you say you were Asian? No personality!]
     
    Very Harvard, no?

    conscientious white & Asian grinders
     
    Hardworking white = conscientious, but hardworking Asian = grinder?

    Hey, hey, this is library!

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @anonymous, @kaganovitch, @dux.ie, @Reg Cæsar, @nebulafox, @Ceph

    “Hardworking white = conscientious, but hardworking Asian = grinder?”

    I read it as “hardworking grinders, white or Asian”

  186. @Reg Cæsar
    @Batman


    Anyone who believes this aggrieved white guy fanfic...
     
    If this is satire, it is brilliant, up there with A Modest Proposal. This individual writes too well-- better even than executives of 60-70 years ago, when an English major still meant something, and corporations still hired and trained them in-house.


    I just finished an acrostic of a quote by Mencken:

    Swift regarded Homo sapiens and saw no god with a few lamentable defects, but a poor worm with... only a crushing burden of follies, weaknesses, and imbecilities. He saw a coward, an idiot, a fraud and a scoundrel.

    [It appears to have been slightly edited for the puzzle, or for JSTOR.org, I don't know which.]

    Replies: @Ben Kurtz, @Batman

    But NOT the black activist lady, who puts out a statement of her own that mentions how tired & overworked she is at least 3 times.

    Normies and leftists don’t know the “we tired” meme, and even if they did they wouldn’t employ it. It’s fanfic.

  187. @Twinkie
    @Jenner Ickham Errican


    Blacks know they’re being coddled, they like the results when it’s in their favor, and they are daring you to say it their face.
     
    I did once - in a semi-public (audience by invitation only) debate. The funny thing was the black activist seemed stunned, but was silent afterwards (like he was speechless that someone finally called out his bullshit in front of others), but all the GoodWhites in the audience gasped and then got very angry at me.

    Replies: @Jenner Ickham Errican, @Bill Jones, @Anonymous

    The funny thing was the black activist seemed stunned, but was silent afterwards … but all the GoodWhites in the audience gasped and then got very angry at me.

    Was it Mark Twain who said “It’s easier to fool people than to convince them they’ve been fooled”?

    The black guy was merely ignorant, the GoodWhites were suckers.

  188. @Hypnotoad666
    @J.Ross


    “This would correspond to a mass iatrogenic event that killed 0.213 (± 0.006) % of the world population and did not measurably prevent any deaths,” the authors wrote.
     
    Nobody cares. The combination of cognitive dissonance, active suppression, and CYA is just too powerful. It's frankly shameful that the journalist/pundits (I won't name names), who were giant data nerds in favor of the establishment narrative now just slink away quietly when the real data becomes available.

    Replies: @J.Ross

    Progress is made, both in the destruction of the reputations of the malignant, and in converted normies like Covid Grandpa (John Campbell, retired general practitioner, conventionally accredited, fluent with research papers, and thoroughly grounded and honest. He started out parroting the Fauchoods, but looked things up, and gradually began to hate).

  189. @Twinkie
    @Corvinus


    “This is why I’m convinced he and a couple of others here are ADL/SPLC/FBIden/etc. plants on a psy-ops mission.”

    You have a very active imagination. Does paranoia run in the family?
     

    First of all, it's trivial for USG to scan the text for "domestic terrorist" keywords like the NSA does with SIGINT.

    Second, even if USG is not actively monitoring the site, there are people who are unfriendly to the site who monitor it and report to FBI or other LE agencies.

    I know leftist activists were monitoring many of the social media chatter of the Jan. 6 protesters (including their own family members!*) and forwarded anything that tickled their fancy to the FBI.

    *How commie is that, turning over your own family member to the FBI?

    It's not unreasonable to surmise that USG is always listening. Practice OPSEC accordingly - or, as the saying from WWII goes, loose lips sink ships! ;)

    Replies: @Bill Jones, @Corvinus, @Reg Cæsar

    You’re really trying too hard here to fit in. I guess the paranoia runs deep with you as well, but that doesn’t stop you and others from commenting here.

    Speculate all you want about NSA monitoring this site or of “plants” who are reporting about what is being said by you and others on this fine opinion webzine. But evidence on your part is required to show that what you claim is happening.

    Perhaps that white truck down the block is not the cable company, but the FBI who is conducting surveillance on Mr. Sailer. You need to warn him immediately.

    “I know leftist activists were monitoring many of the social media chatter of the Jan. 6 protesters (including their own family members!*) and forwarded anything that tickled their fancy to the FBI.”

    Know from personal experience or what you read from social media accounts? Anyways, no doubt this occurred, similar to those on the right during the Floyd protests. Are you just as concerned about supposed FBI malfeasance in all instances, or are just selective?

    *How commie is that, turning over your own family member to the FBI?”

    Again, you’re really trying too hard here. If the family member is wanted for questioning because of their violent actions, or if there was video footage of their illegal activities, or if evidence was found by other family members of their wrongdoing, then there is a duty to bring in law enforcement. That’s not “commie”, that’s law and order and the rule of law.

    “It’s not unreasonable to surmise that USG is always listening. “

    It’s not unreasonable to surmise that you and others here are being paranoid, and that you’re not being monitored by the USH as you believe.

    • Replies: @Reg Cæsar
    @Corvinus


    Speculate all you want about NSA monitoring this site or of “plants” who are reporting about what is being said by you
     
    Don't change the subject. It's not about reporting, but massaging. Misdirection, demoralization, that sort of thing. "Concern trolling" was common until it was detected and called out. This is Concern Trolling 2.0.

    Replies: @Corvinus, @Je Suis Omar Mateen

    , @kaganovitch
    @Corvinus

    Scratch a Corvinus and you'll find Pavlik Morozov. No great surprise, I suppose.

    , @The Alarmist
    @Corvinus


    Speculate all you want about NSA monitoring this site or of “plants” who are reporting about what is being said by you and others on this fine opinion webzine. But evidence on your part is required to show that what you claim is happening.
     
    The treatment of the Jan 6th “Insurrectionistas” suggest they really only need to make shit up and loosely place you physically in the neighbourhood, so they really don’t need to spend much time reading the boring comments here when they can get more entertainment value at Buzz Feed.
  190. @Twinkie
    @Jenner Ickham Errican


    Intriguing intro, we await the details… 🙂
     
    You know I am not going to doxx myself.

    Just know that the event had a black activist and me as opposing speakers. He argued that blacks were still owed by society and I argued that the debt had been paid in full by blood and more.

    Replies: @Jenner Ickham Errican, @Corvinus

    Pics or it never happened—Steve Sailer

    • Replies: @Twinkie
    @Corvinus


    Pics or it never happened—Steve Sailer
     
    Heh, I have a video of it! I might have to dig it out and watch it again.
  191. @Anonymous
    @Corvinus

    You know nothing about Gen Z. So comical.

    Replies: @nebulafox, @Corvinus

    “You know nothing about Gen Z. So comical”

    We just love when anonys here project.

    • Replies: @Charles Erwin Wilson
    @Corvinus


    We just love when anonys here project.
     
    So says the prince of projection, in his dutiful service to the Prince of Darkness.

    Replies: @Prester John

  192. OT: Biden finally decided to bring it all out in the open and make it official. The Century Initiative, as it’s called in Canada, is now on for America. One billion people in the continental United States by 2100, achieved through mass immigration of people who can’t speak English, have no useful skills, have not experience with democratic government, who desperately need free handouts, whom we will support with money stolen by taxes and inflation.

    “We’ve put in policies to process people in a fair and fast way. We’re significantly expanding legal pathways so businesses can get the workers they need. So families don’t need to wait for a decade to be together. I’ve also directed by team to make historic increases in the number of refugees admitted from Latin America… Supporting states and cities that have seen a surge of immigrants… Temporary protections for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans.

    • Replies: @Richard B
    @Anon7

    Great post! Thanks!

    “We’ve put in policies to process people in a fair and fast way. We’re significantly expanding legal pathways so businesses can get the workers they need. So families don’t need to wait for a decade to be together. I’ve also directed by team to make historic increases in the number of refugees admitted from Latin America… Supporting states and cities that have seen a surge of immigrants… Temporary protections for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans."

    A better example getting in someone's face while talking past them would be hard to imagine.

    In fact, from here on out, that's exactly how each and every politician, in the West in general and the USA in particular, will be talking to its host population.

    Also, that quote confirms, for me at least, what I've felt for some time (and I doubt I'm alone in this). That mass immigration is really about population reduction. How so?

    Well, to borrow to use Steve's language, if you wanted to reduce the population while appearing humane before the deed, you wouldn't Invade, you'd Invite.

    Once here they'd all be ever so gently placed inside of so many Smart Cities scattered across the country and Viola! Instant Population Reduction!

    Of course, this may or may not be the idea. But would anyone put it past such a ruthless hostile elite? Especially since they have gone out of their way to prove to the world that they will do anything to stay in power.

  193. On a somewhat related note, Big Gov USA, Inc. has finally noticed your $1B dollar bill lying on the sidewalk and is trying to pick it up by subsidizing small, rural areas with local HBCUs and underserved minority populations to generate tech industry Wakandas out of nothing by giving them lots of money to hire unskilled, unqualified locals for high-skilled jobs.

  194. I generally find Twitter pretty inane, but have just spent 30 minutes obsessively reading this rule3O3 guy. Worth it.

  195. @prime noticer
    "Black people correctly sense that whites are rigging the game when they’re not looking. They just can’t imagine the truth: that we’re rigging it for them."

    this is the case even in sports. i'm talking about on the field. not all the visible and obvious rigging that is done to get more coaches and management positions. i'm flat out saying, even the number of african players in sports is rigged to be artificially high.

    no, it's not the extremely efficient system or total meritocracy even academic experts imagine it must be. it's fairly efficient even without the rigging, but the general trends of sports ability are used as cover to ruthlessly rig things in most sports. it is one of the few places where africans can excel. and as the DEI writer correctly observes, other people getting stiffed almost never sue. so the people in charge can significantly over-rig things without have to worry much about any pushback.

    in the US anyway. seems to be evident that this has come to soccer in europe to some degree.

    Replies: @anonymous, @Gandydancer

    “even the number of african players in sports is rigged to be artificially high.”

    How racially resentful do you have to be to make up stuff like this?

    • Replies: @prime noticer
    @anonymous

    another person who believes 'the best players play'.

    official narratives are powerful. that's why the people in charge of them expend a lot of effort to maintain them.

    Wall Street Journal: Dolphins raced to 70 points with a team of former track stars

    a long blathering article about how track & field ability is the new, secret weapon for NFL teams. we've heard it for 50 years. it applies ONLY to africans. back in reality, if you're not melanin enhanced, NFL has very little interest in how good you are at track & field.

    Cole Beck is faster than any NFL player who ever played. Virginia Tech won't even allow him to play FBS level football. not melanin enchanced. not talented, no ability here. please get off the team.

  196. @ATate
    > Black people correctly sense that whites are rigging the game when they’re not looking.

    They just can’t imagine the truth: that we’re rigging it for them.

    Finally. Amen…finally.

    Replies: @Efhhfdddff

    There’s nothing final about it. The Woke will find ever new ways to agitate. The progress in Progressivism is unending

  197. @Isabel Archer
    @ic1000

    Just before my abdominal surgery I met the anesthesiologist, and was dismayed to see he was black. In answer to my question, he assured me (in a slightly annoyed manner) that he was board certified. After the surgery I discovered that I could no longer sing or shout loudly: this because my vocal cords had been permanently bowed from the use of a too-large breathing tube during the operation. I guess I’m lucky that he did no other damage.

    Replies: @Anonymous, @FPD72, @Adolf Smith

    My wive had a similar experience. Before eye surgery she met her anesthesiologist, who turned out to be a black guy from Trinidad (island, not SE Colorado city). Alarms went off in her skull, but what could she do? Sure enough, he botched his job and she woke up DURING THE PROCEDURE, in excruciating pain. The surgeon hurried to finish and didn’t properly close the wound. Result? Four more surgeries to try to save her eye, leaving her with no lens, a pupil sprung wide open, and a deformed retina.

    My experience with a black surgeon from Trinidad did not go well. He performed a banding procedure for hemorrhoids that during the procedure made me feel I was being raped and in the end (pun not intended) did nothing about the problem.

    Now that we’re on Medicare we are much more careful about what medical providers we’ll see. We pay a lot more to stay out of Advantage plans or any type of PPO but it’s worth it.

    • Replies: @Anonymous
    @FPD72


    My experience with a black surgeon from Trinidad did not go well. He performed a banding procedure for hemorrhoids that during the procedure made me feel I was being raped
     
    Hmm, could you see both of his hands while he was doing that?
    , @Flip
    @FPD72

    Ask Michael Jackson about his doctor. Oh wait, you can’t.

  198. @Ben Kurtz
    @SFG

    Don't think there's too much AA in large animal veterinary programs.

    Just sayin'.

    Replies: @Redneck Farmer, @EdwardM, @Corn

    Akshually, there is. The universities are putting their thumbs on the scales for guys. Women usually drop out of large animal practice and concentrate on small animals.

    • Replies: @That Would Be Telling
    @Redneck Farmer


    The universities are putting their thumbs on the scales for guys [for large animal veterinary programs]. Women usually drop out of large animal practice and concentrate on small animals.
     
    Or as we heard in comments to one of our host's postings, a university like Michigan State if I remember correctly just end the large animal part of their department by putting a woman in charge of it.

    Have anecdotally been hearing quite a shortage is developing. In the context of another attack in the US ending farmer's ability to buy and administer antibiotics to his animals, well they're quite serious about forcing us to eat bugs. Or nothing, much of their agenda will simply reduce the Earth's carrying capacity or directly kill off a lot of people by ending 24x7 electrical service.
    , @Ralph L
    @Redneck Farmer

    If you were a cow, wouldn't you want someone with long arms and short nails to help deliver your calf?

    , @Curle
    @Redneck Farmer

    I recall hearing something to that effect years ago about law school. That too many women were perceived as taking up law school space just to end up dropping out early in their careers to take care of babies. This was a time when public colleges subsidized law schools.

  199. @Twinkie
    @Corvinus


    “This is why I’m convinced he and a couple of others here are ADL/SPLC/FBIden/etc. plants on a psy-ops mission.”

    You have a very active imagination. Does paranoia run in the family?
     

    First of all, it's trivial for USG to scan the text for "domestic terrorist" keywords like the NSA does with SIGINT.

    Second, even if USG is not actively monitoring the site, there are people who are unfriendly to the site who monitor it and report to FBI or other LE agencies.

    I know leftist activists were monitoring many of the social media chatter of the Jan. 6 protesters (including their own family members!*) and forwarded anything that tickled their fancy to the FBI.

    *How commie is that, turning over your own family member to the FBI?

    It's not unreasonable to surmise that USG is always listening. Practice OPSEC accordingly - or, as the saying from WWII goes, loose lips sink ships! ;)

    Replies: @Bill Jones, @Corvinus, @Reg Cæsar

    I should have said ADL/SPLC/FBIden-friendly plants. It’s not a conspiracy, it’s a movement. Lots of people read Alinsky 55 years ago and followed his advice on their own. “Hey, here are a few tricks that may work…” A number of cities went up in flames with the tacit approval of their own mayors, and it’s “paranoia” to question why?

    The two or three commenters who keep coming here to whine (“CivNat”) and insult (“can’t take one’s own side in a fight”) and never offer suggestions of their own other than a vague “identity politics” (which hasn’t shown any sign of working in 60 years) are far more likely to be playing games with our minds than to be bona-fide allies.

    None of them have ever mentioned having families of their own, as many commenters do, the most important aspect of “taking one’s own side”. For all we know, they could be homos in basements, and this is their cosplay. Even if they’re real, it is still girly of them.

  200. @Anonymous
    @kaganovitch


    (I note in passing even an aspiring badthinker like our hero cannot bring himself to capitalize ‘White’.)
     
    When did our host start referring to DIE as DEI?

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar

    Puns get old and tired. Check out your local hair salon.

    • Replies: @silviosilver
    @Reg Cæsar


    Puns get old and tired.
     
    But anagrams never die.
  201. And here enters into the story a newly prominent black activist, who knows exactly what (& who) the real problem must be.

    Spoiler: it’s people like me, cleverly increasing the subjective elements of the process because that is where our implicit biases can reign free.

    And it follows: the way to thwart our white (and light) supremacy is by INCREASING the weight of test scores and peer ratings.

    For, after all, these are the objective & egalitarian parts of the process. These are the elements that can’t be gamed by white men with systemic privilege.

    So written, so done. The g-loaded test is upped to 35% of total points (the most it’d ever been before was 25%) &

    Don’t doubt Rule303’s story and really appreciate his unpacking the sausage–or maybe “dogfood”–making of modern American racialist corporate HR.

    But gotta say this black gal would seem to be pretty atypically clueless.

    That the white man’s “objective” tests are racist is one of the most well-oiled tropes in the entire minoritarian racialist edifice. As soon as the initial “Civil Rights” effort did not seem to be bringing about the diversitopia we were hearing about “oarsman:regatta”.

    I would have expected any DIE black lady to be bringing a whole package of thumb-on-the-scale, “fair”, “full context” evaluation measures that took “structural racism” into account. Pushing objective measures for “fairness” is something straight out of a–not super-clued in–good thinker in 1963.

  202. @Prester John
    @bomag

    The good news is that this too shall pass ("No man ever steps in the same river twice"-Heraclitus).

    The bad news is that, on the corporate level and elsewhere, it may arrive too late to save the current generation from the consequences resulting from decisions made by people who, one would think, should have known better.

    Replies: @bomag, @Almost Missouri, @Blodgie

    “This too shall pass.”

    What does that even mean?

    I call this the Cycle Cope: the myth that everything is cyclical and there is some inherent natural law that will cause events to turn back to the way they were.

    Tradcon horseshit.

    This will never change—what trends suggest it would?

    • Agree: HammerJack
    • Replies: @SFG
    @Blodgie

    I mean, Europe did get advanced civilization back after the fall of Rome.

    Took 1000 years or so…

    Replies: @HammerJack

  203. @Corvinus
    @Twinkie

    You’re really trying too hard here to fit in. I guess the paranoia runs deep with you as well, but that doesn’t stop you and others from commenting here.

    Speculate all you want about NSA monitoring this site or of “plants” who are reporting about what is being said by you and others on this fine opinion webzine. But evidence on your part is required to show that what you claim is happening.

    Perhaps that white truck down the block is not the cable company, but the FBI who is conducting surveillance on Mr. Sailer. You need to warn him immediately.

    “I know leftist activists were monitoring many of the social media chatter of the Jan. 6 protesters (including their own family members!*) and forwarded anything that tickled their fancy to the FBI.”

    Know from personal experience or what you read from social media accounts? Anyways, no doubt this occurred, similar to those on the right during the Floyd protests. Are you just as concerned about supposed FBI malfeasance in all instances, or are just selective?

    *How commie is that, turning over your own family member to the FBI?”

    Again, you’re really trying too hard here. If the family member is wanted for questioning because of their violent actions, or if there was video footage of their illegal activities, or if evidence was found by other family members of their wrongdoing, then there is a duty to bring in law enforcement. That’s not “commie”, that’s law and order and the rule of law.

    “It’s not unreasonable to surmise that USG is always listening. “

    It’s not unreasonable to surmise that you and others here are being paranoid, and that you’re not being monitored by the USH as you believe.

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @kaganovitch, @The Alarmist

    Speculate all you want about NSA monitoring this site or of “plants” who are reporting about what is being said by you

    Don’t change the subject. It’s not about reporting, but massaging. Misdirection, demoralization, that sort of thing. “Concern trolling” was common until it was detected and called out. This is Concern Trolling 2.0.

    • Replies: @Corvinus
    @Reg Cæsar

    I haven’t changed any subject. Try paying attention. Remember, YOU made this comment— “This is why I’m convinced he and a couple of others here are ADL/SPLC/FBIden/etc. plants on a psy-ops mission.” You remain paranoid that the gummint is watching and reporting about you and others on this site.

    “It’s not about reporting, but massaging. Misdirection, demoralization, that sort of thing.”

    Project much?

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar

    , @Je Suis Omar Mateen
    @Reg Cæsar

    'Concern trolling was common until it was detected and called out. This is Concern Trolling 2.0.'

    About 40% of Pfizer $teve $ailer's posts are concern trolling - Late Obama-Age Collapse, Racial Wreckening, Summer of Floyd, Deaths of Exuberance, etc etc, are all thinly veiled gleeful endzone dances.

  204. A real country that keeps the scum out!

    • Replies: @Joe Stalin
    @Joe Stalin

    Apparently the Polish MOD put out an Oct 2021 video, as they have an actual fence currently.

    https://twitter.com/fxnkls/status/1705955132435763251

  205. @Jenner Ickham Errican

    They just can’t imagine the truth: that we’re rigging it for them.
     
    Rigger, please. That’s some prime cope-a-dope faux bless oblige: Blacks know they’re being coddled, they like the results when it’s in their favor, and they are daring you to say it their face. This simulated role play is perhaps unrealistic:

    https://youtu.be/fKCpPhJidug?si=GkdEClDTxi2mGhJF&t=66

    Replies: @ic1000, @Mr. Anon, @Erik L, @Kylie

    This comment of yours settles it.

    We need a “Bravo” button.

    • Thanks: Jenner Ickham Errican
    • Replies: @Jenner Ickham Errican
    @Kylie

    I appreciate that, Kylie. :)

    I concede two style points for the double post and omission typo… such is the risk of hitting “publish” when it’s an early comment (no others visible) and for some reason the edit window isn’t available after sending—Ron, you’ve got to fix that!

  206. @Steve Sailer
    @Erronius

    You are often by about a dozen years.

    Replies: @kaganovitch

    Cool typo, Bro!

  207. @Anonymous
    @Rob Lee


    On that day, blacks will no longer have guilty whites to rig the system in their favor.
     
    Whites are not guilty of anything though, except the Civil War.

    Replies: @Blodgie

    Whites are guilty of a lot.

    White men specifically excel at acquiescence.

    There’s no power they won’t bow to: religion, their parents, the government, women (especially their wives.)

    White men love giving in to authority.

    They love sacrificing themselves.

    Because that’s how Jesus done it!

  208. @Corvinus
    @Twinkie

    You’re really trying too hard here to fit in. I guess the paranoia runs deep with you as well, but that doesn’t stop you and others from commenting here.

    Speculate all you want about NSA monitoring this site or of “plants” who are reporting about what is being said by you and others on this fine opinion webzine. But evidence on your part is required to show that what you claim is happening.

    Perhaps that white truck down the block is not the cable company, but the FBI who is conducting surveillance on Mr. Sailer. You need to warn him immediately.

    “I know leftist activists were monitoring many of the social media chatter of the Jan. 6 protesters (including their own family members!*) and forwarded anything that tickled their fancy to the FBI.”

    Know from personal experience or what you read from social media accounts? Anyways, no doubt this occurred, similar to those on the right during the Floyd protests. Are you just as concerned about supposed FBI malfeasance in all instances, or are just selective?

    *How commie is that, turning over your own family member to the FBI?”

    Again, you’re really trying too hard here. If the family member is wanted for questioning because of their violent actions, or if there was video footage of their illegal activities, or if evidence was found by other family members of their wrongdoing, then there is a duty to bring in law enforcement. That’s not “commie”, that’s law and order and the rule of law.

    “It’s not unreasonable to surmise that USG is always listening. “

    It’s not unreasonable to surmise that you and others here are being paranoid, and that you’re not being monitored by the USH as you believe.

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @kaganovitch, @The Alarmist

    Scratch a Corvinus and you’ll find Pavlik Morozov. No great surprise, I suppose.

    • Agree: Mr. Anon, Twinkie
  209. @Joe Stalin

    A real country that keeps the scum out!
     
    https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1705951498872525120

    Replies: @Joe Stalin

    Apparently the Polish MOD put out an Oct 2021 video, as they have an actual fence currently.

  210. @Citizen of a Silly Country
    @Thoughts

    I've seen one week old puppies with more understanding about how the world works than you.

    The colorblind CivNat gene can't die out soon enough. It's stunning that nature allowed it to last as long as it has.

    Thankfully, it - and ridiculously naive statements like your - will be a thing of the past soon enough. Future peoples will marvel at its suicidal stupidity.

    Replies: @Corvinus, @silviosilver

    “Thoughts” is a she and she’s apparently shown good sense in the past.

    Eg from one of her earliest posts (re Andy Ngo)

    Asian and Gay?

    How is he…Our Own?

    White people…oh dear….just so stupid.

  211. @SFG
    @Ben Kurtz

    The second doesn’t directly imply the first-it is more than 2 percent likely, sure, but nowhere near 50, particularly given his views.

    Replies: @Ben Kurtz

    See my earlier comment:

    His use of “Schmendrick” as a humorous nonsense filler word is a very Jewish tell.

    That, plus his overall literary merit, makes him Jewish by a preponderance of the evidence.

    And don’t kid yourself: more and more Jews, especially the more intelligent and/or observant, have become incredibly based and red-pilled.

    • Replies: @Mr. Anon
    @Ben Kurtz


    His use of “Schmendrick” as a humorous nonsense filler word is a very Jewish tell.
     
    People who aren't Jewish sometimes use words like schmendrick, putz, schmuck, schlemiel, etc. Jews have developed a rich vocabulary of derisive language - it would be a shame not to use it.

    Replies: @Ben Kurtz

  212. @Reg Cæsar
    @Anonymous

    Puns get old and tired. Check out your local hair salon.

    Replies: @silviosilver

    Puns get old and tired.

    But anagrams never die.

  213. @Reg Cæsar
    @Corvinus


    Speculate all you want about NSA monitoring this site or of “plants” who are reporting about what is being said by you
     
    Don't change the subject. It's not about reporting, but massaging. Misdirection, demoralization, that sort of thing. "Concern trolling" was common until it was detected and called out. This is Concern Trolling 2.0.

    Replies: @Corvinus, @Je Suis Omar Mateen

    I haven’t changed any subject. Try paying attention. Remember, YOU made this comment— “This is why I’m convinced he and a couple of others here are ADL/SPLC/FBIden/etc. plants on a psy-ops mission.” You remain paranoid that the gummint is watching and reporting about you and others on this site.

    “It’s not about reporting, but massaging. Misdirection, demoralization, that sort of thing.”

    Project much?

    • Replies: @Reg Cæsar
    @Corvinus

    Try paying attention. A "psy-ops mission", whether organized, informal, or spontaneous, is not "reporting". It's manipulation.

    There is nothing to "report". Anyone can come here and read.

    Replies: @Corvinus

  214. @Corvinus
    @Reg Cæsar

    I haven’t changed any subject. Try paying attention. Remember, YOU made this comment— “This is why I’m convinced he and a couple of others here are ADL/SPLC/FBIden/etc. plants on a psy-ops mission.” You remain paranoid that the gummint is watching and reporting about you and others on this site.

    “It’s not about reporting, but massaging. Misdirection, demoralization, that sort of thing.”

    Project much?

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar

    Try paying attention. A “psy-ops mission”, whether organized, informal, or spontaneous, is not “reporting”. It’s manipulation.

    There is nothing to “report”. Anyone can come here and read.

    • LOL: Corvinus
    • Replies: @Corvinus
    @Reg Cæsar

    “A “psy-ops mission”, whether organized, informal, or spontaneous, is not “reporting”. It’s manipulation.”

    That’s a strawman. Never made that point
    nor inferred it. Twinkie was the one who talked about “reporting”.

    Are you channeling your inner Buffalo Springsteen?

  215. All kidding aside (the 30 Rock video clips), what is “role play” or simulation in today’s corporate world? The quoted author did not offer examples. I’ve been out of it for a while now.

    I can imagine a mock trial – moot court practice run at a law firm (or a corporation with a big legal department) before the real court trial, but that still requires intelligence. The other example could be during “diversity training” one day a year where black employees act out what it feels like being a black at the workplace. But that has nothing to do with the bottom line of a firm’s profits.

    And is role playing limited to promotions of existing hires or also for hiring prospective employees? Again, not clear in the article.

  216. @Cagey Beast
    @Reg Cæsar

    Those men wrote and lived in a time before we White people allowed ourselves to become just one of many teams in this game. Capitalizing the "W" in "White" simply updates the unwritten style guide to reflect this harsh truth.

    As you know the official style guides of the prestige media recently updated "black" to "Black" but kept it "white" for us Whites. So, in a backhanded way they too want Whites to be the only ones without a team jersey in this game and want us to pretend the world hasn't changed around us forever.

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar

    It’s still faggoty.

    • Replies: @Cagey Beast
    @Reg Cæsar

    Yes taking your own side in a fight and recognising the world has changed are the hallmarks of faggotry. I used to think faggotry was all about giving and receiving fellatio and engaging in anal intercourse with other men but you've changed my mind with just a few words.

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar

    , @Buzz Mohawk
    @Reg Cæsar

    Since White serves as a synonym for European, there is no reason not to capitalize it when it is used as such. This is the case with Black for (sub-Saharan) African, not to mention other capitalized names for continental groups of people, Asian and Latin American.

    Don't even bother to get down in the weeds about where we draw the line around White parts of the world or where Europe begins and ends. It doesn't matter, especially with regard to messy linguistic subjects.

    White is White as Black is Black.

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

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar

    , @Jenner Ickham Errican
    @Reg Cæsar

    Reg, you’re outnumbered on this one, for good reason: Your fussy sigh-op anti-WN, ‘Minnesota nice’ passive-aggressive church lady persona is, in this instance, oddly at odds with your usual ana(l)grammar/syntax-Nazi compulsions.

    On this, you should go with the latter: Buzz Mohawk is right about both White and Black appropriately being capitalized when referring to the racial groups. Stylistically and conceptually, doing so brings copy concern congruence with other broad but separate racial/cultural/geographic-origin categories like Asian and Hispanic.

    Your ‘distaste’ at capitalizing White, usually excused by you falsely implying you’re doing it for Anglo-Saxon superiority reasons (do you worship Woden?), is as “faggoty” as anything I’ve seen here. (I won’t even mention your past regular “Tom of Finland” posts.)

    Reg, it’s okay (and grammatically best) to capitalize White. Join the Maxfield parish.

    https://youtu.be/DIIU2JvoMX4?si=b3MLhQUb1rApNnRP&t=12

    Don’t be cynical like these guys, whose lack of faith I find disturbing:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2sW3atcSq4

  217. @Ben Kurtz
    @SFG

    Don't think there's too much AA in large animal veterinary programs.

    Just sayin'.

    Replies: @Redneck Farmer, @EdwardM, @Corn

    Maybe blacks see curricula called “animal husbandry” and are put off. Husbandry isn’t their forte.

  218. @Reg Cæsar
    @Cagey Beast

    It's still faggoty.

    Replies: @Cagey Beast, @Buzz Mohawk, @Jenner Ickham Errican

    Yes taking your own side in a fight and recognising the world has changed are the hallmarks of faggotry. I used to think faggotry was all about giving and receiving fellatio and engaging in anal intercourse with other men but you’ve changed my mind with just a few words.

    • Replies: @Reg Cæsar
    @Cagey Beast


    Yes taking your own side in a fight
     
    That is a familiar phrase, favored by the Antifa concern trolls lurking about this site. You aren't one of them, are you? That would be most cagey of you.

    I used to think faggotry was all about giving and receiving fellatio and engaging in anal intercourse with other men
     
    Most of the world's races still do. But one race in particular has "grown beyond" such "bigotry" and "advanced". They now call it marriage. That's not my side in any fight, but if it's yours, so be it. (Just remember to lubricate.)

    Good news- the white PM of Canada and the white Mayor of/Maire d'Ottawa have your back. (Just remember to lubricate.)


    recognising
     
    You even spell like they do!
  219. @AndrewR
    @SafeNow

    Chief Justice Marshall died about 30 years before the end of slavery, so I'm kinda confused about what case you're talking about.

    But back to the original post: these corporate people are truly soulless. Capitalism really is demonic.

    Replies: @Herbert R. Tarlek, Jr., @Carol, @SafeNow

    I think he means Thurgood Marshall.

    Though I’m not sure that’s correct either.

  220. OT – Put this in the “We have always been at war with East Asia” file:

    This happened two days ago. Zelenskyy, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and the entire Canadian Parliament gave a standing ovation to a Ukrainian veteran of the 14th Waffen-SS grenadier division:

    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/zelenskyy-trudeau-honor-actual-3rd-reich-nazi-standing-ovation

    Members of this unit took part in a massacre of Poles during WWII.

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

    It’s hard to keep up anymore. Now correct me if I’m wrong, but I thought it was universally agreed upon that the SS were the bad guys. Has that changed? Are we supposed to be rooting for the double-lightning bolt team now? I’m confused.

    I guess the answer is: you root for whomever they tell you to root for.

    • Replies: @Peter Akuleyev
    @Mr. Anon

    I thought it was universally agreed upon that the SS were the bad guys. Has that changed?

    For people who aren't leftists that changed in 1945 when the USSR became our enemy and we decided that not everyone who fought Communism to defend their homelands was necessarily evil. You may remember how Ronald Reagan went to Bitburg in 1985 to honor even German SS veterans.

    It is darkly ironic how people who claim to be "conservative" swallow left-wing narratives whole in order to justify their parroting of pro-Russian propaganda.

    Replies: @HammerJack, @keypusher, @Mr. Anon, @Art Deco

  221. @Reg Cæsar
    @Cagey Beast

    It's still faggoty.

    Replies: @Cagey Beast, @Buzz Mohawk, @Jenner Ickham Errican

    Since White serves as a synonym for European, there is no reason not to capitalize it when it is used as such. This is the case with Black for (sub-Saharan) African, not to mention other capitalized names for continental groups of people, Asian and Latin American.

    Don’t even bother to get down in the weeds about where we draw the line around White parts of the world or where Europe begins and ends. It doesn’t matter, especially with regard to messy linguistic subjects.

    White is White as Black is Black.

    • Replies: @Reg Cæsar
    @Buzz Mohawk


    Since White serves as a synonym for European
     
    What's this "European" [fill in the blank]? You live in New England, not "New Europe". Assimilate, already!

    Capitalized Black has the same flaw as uncapitalized black, and African-American and all its cognates: does it apply to BH Obama and all the other non-ADOS representing an increasing portion of the darkest Americans? Who are they talking about? Who gets which benefits? Who owes whom?

    They can keep their orthographic idiocy. The Eminem strategy isn't going to do us any good.

    Replies: @Anonymous

  222. @Reg Cæsar
    @Corvinus

    Try paying attention. A "psy-ops mission", whether organized, informal, or spontaneous, is not "reporting". It's manipulation.

    There is nothing to "report". Anyone can come here and read.

    Replies: @Corvinus

    “A “psy-ops mission”, whether organized, informal, or spontaneous, is not “reporting”. It’s manipulation.”

    That’s a strawman. Never made that point
    nor inferred it. Twinkie was the one who talked about “reporting”.

    Are you channeling your inner Buffalo Springsteen?

  223. @Ben Kurtz
    @SFG

    See my earlier comment:

    His use of "Schmendrick” as a humorous nonsense filler word is a very Jewish tell.

    That, plus his overall literary merit, makes him Jewish by a preponderance of the evidence.

    And don't kid yourself: more and more Jews, especially the more intelligent and/or observant, have become incredibly based and red-pilled.

    Replies: @Mr. Anon

    His use of “Schmendrick” as a humorous nonsense filler word is a very Jewish tell.

    People who aren’t Jewish sometimes use words like schmendrick, putz, schmuck, schlemiel, etc. Jews have developed a rich vocabulary of derisive language – it would be a shame not to use it.

    • Replies: @Ben Kurtz
    @Mr. Anon

    "Schmendrick" is a somewhat obscure yiddishism, well behind schmuck and putz and schmaltz and such. And its casual use as a humorous nonsense filler word - as opposed to a term of derision purposely addressed to someone who deserves it - is a little too on-the-nose.

    Is this airtight proof beyond a reasonable doubt? No. But, to me, it rises to that 51% more-likely-than-not preponderance level of evidence that the writer is Jewish.

    Replies: @Mr. Anon, @Art Deco

  224. @ic1000
    @SafeNow

    > This called to mind what Chief Justice Marshall Roberts wrote in his opinion in the Harvard discrimination case [about "simply" substituting an essay for a quota].

    I recall a number of informed commenters making this point when the ruling came out. None worthy of being featured by Lester Holt on his newscast, if that's what you mean.

    Replies: @Stan Adams

    Lester Holt is a Double Stuf Oreo. He’s married to a white woman.

    It would be fascinating to know whether his sons have benefitted from affirmative action.

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

    Early life and education
    Holt was born on March 8, 1959, on Hamilton Air Force Base, Marin County, California, the youngest child of four of June (DeRozario) and Lester Don Holt Sr. His maternal grandparents were born in Jamaica. His maternal grandfather Canute DeRozario was a Jamaican Anglo-Indian from Spanish Town, and was one of 14 children of an Indo-Jamaican father from Calcutta, India, and a White English Jamaican mother from England. His maternal grandmother, May, was an Afro-Jamaican born in Manchester Parish, Jamaica but raised in Harlem, New York, where his mother was born. His father was African American from Michigan, with roots in Tennessee.

    His father was stationed at Elmendorf Air Force Base in Alaska for four years during the Vietnam War. Holt was introduced to broadcasting by his older brother, a disc jockey at a local radio station in Anchorage, Alaska….

    Holt resides in Manhattan with his wife, Carol Hagen; they have two sons, Stefan and Cameron.

    Holt attended Sac State but did not graduate.

    https://www.closerweekly.com/posts/lester-holts-kids-meet-sons-stefan-cameron-with-wife-carol/

    Stefan studied Broadcast Journalism and Political Science at Pepperdine University, where he graduated in 2009.

    Following graduation, Stefan landed a job as a reporter and fill-in anchor for Hearst Magazine in West Palm Beach, Florida. He eventually left the company after two years to start working as a news anchor for NBC. Since May 2011, he’s been reporting the news for NBC 5 Chicago.

    Well, he’s certainly benefitted from nepotism.

    [Cameron] graduated from Stanford University with a degree in Mathematical and Computational Science in 2012, which means he was most likely born in 1989 or 1990. Cameron also earned a Master’s Degree in Management Science and Engineering at Stanford in 2013.

    It appears Cameron tried his hand in television, as he worked “on the production team for two CNBC shows, Squawk on the Street and CNBC Reports” as an intern in 2009. Since 2013, he’s worked as the Vice President of the Institutional Equity Division at Morgan Stanley.

    Not a bad gig if you can get it.

    • Replies: @Reg Cæsar
    @Stan Adams


    His maternal grandfather Canute DeRozario was a Jamaican Anglo-Indian from Spanish Town
     
    The surname DeRozario is likely of Portuguese origin and is found primarily on the Malayan peninsula and in Singapore. So this clause of a dozen words features at least six nationalities, and maybe eight. For more ethnic confusion, Spanish Town's current mayor is named Norman Scott.

    It's a bit of a walk to the beach, but we can imagine Grandpa Canute taking his family down to it and telling the waves to stop.

    "Spanish Town railway station opened in 1845 and closed in 1992 when all passenger services in Jamaica abruptly ceased." Evidently they weren't really useful engines! In happier news, pirate Calico Jack was hanged there in 1710.


    http://www.thewayofthepirates.com/images/thewayofthepirates/picture-of-john-rackham.gif

  225. Anonymous[359] • Disclaimer says:
    @Twinkie
    @Jenner Ickham Errican


    Blacks know they’re being coddled, they like the results when it’s in their favor, and they are daring you to say it their face.
     
    I did once - in a semi-public (audience by invitation only) debate. The funny thing was the black activist seemed stunned, but was silent afterwards (like he was speechless that someone finally called out his bullshit in front of others), but all the GoodWhites in the audience gasped and then got very angry at me.

    Replies: @Jenner Ickham Errican, @Bill Jones, @Anonymous

    Yes, white liberals aren’t doing blacks any favors by coddling them. It just makes the inevitable reality check even more shocking when it finally arrives.

    (As an aside, look up the controversy 5 years ago about The Verge’s Youtube guide to building your own computer. It was presented by a black guy who was obviously clueless about what he was doing and made a bunch of stupid statements and mistakes. It was obvious he lived in a white liberal bubble where nobody had ever dared criticise anything he did. He was mercilessly ripped apart by the internet, and rightly so, since some of his advice could have damaged or destroyed expensive equipment. Of course, he just went into denial and blamed racism. The white ‘friends’ of this guy should be ashamed for setting him up for public ridicule like this.)

    • Replies: @Lurker
    @Anonymous

    The real point is to smash YT and sequester his resources. Any benefits to blacks are incidental and likely short lived.

    Any white libs who really think they are helping blacks are clearly Outer Party dupes.

    Replies: @anonymous

  226. OT – Will somebody please think of the poor federal employees!

    Pay for millions of federal workers is at risk with a looming government shutdown

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/government-shutdown-federal-workers-lose-pay-military-rcna116891

    • Replies: @newrouter
    @Mr. Anon

    "Pay for millions of federal workers is at risk with a looming government shutdown"

    Should be:

    Paid vacation for millions of federal workers with a looming government shutdown

    Replies: @Art Deco

  227. @Kylie
    @Jenner Ickham Errican

    This comment of yours settles it.

    We need a "Bravo" button.

    Replies: @Jenner Ickham Errican

    I appreciate that, Kylie. 🙂

    I concede two style points for the double post and omission typo… such is the risk of hitting “publish” when it’s an early comment (no others visible) and for some reason the edit window isn’t available after sending—Ron, you’ve got to fix that!

  228. Off-topic:

    https://www.dailywire.com/news/inside-colony-ridge-the-fastest-growing-development-in-the-u-s-is-a-magnet-for-illegal-immigrants

  229. @Herbert R. Tarlek, Jr.
    @AndrewR

    But back to the original post: these corporate people are truly soulless. Capitalism really is demonic.

    Many would argue, plausibly, that the corporate limited liability which provides cover for so many psychopaths in our society is a perversion of true capitalism.

    Replies: @Anonymous, @Bill Jones, @scrivener3

    The limitation of liability is only financial limitation in case of failure. It does not extend to criminal or tort liability for acts which by definition can only be committed by individuals. Corporations cannot act.
    This simple fact has been lost.
    This could be fixed by one good DoJ head in one 4 year term.

    • Replies: @scrivener3
    @Bill Jones


    The limitation of liability is only financial limitation in case of failure. It does not extend to criminal or tort liability for acts which by definition can only be committed by individuals. Corporations cannot act.
     
    No. If Apple is found to be negligent in designing their iphone 11 and it gives every customer brain cancer there will be no liability for Apple shareholders. Apple is a limited liability corporation. That is: Apple may have tort liability, some officers and employees might additionally be found personally liable for the wrong and the damage done but no stockholder will be liable as a stockholder. And that is as it should be in my opinion.

    Limited liability corporation does not mean the corporation is free from liability in any respect - it means liability is cut off at the shareholder level. Shareholders are not liable for what the corporation does.

  230. @HammerJack

    Because, key point: raters will know what to do WITHOUT BEING TOLD. No explicit conversation is required. Everyone in white collar management today knows who to overrate…
     
    Guess what? We also knew this back in elementary school, decades ago. Not a single one of my classmates failed to respond "correctly" when the visiting consultant tried to trick the class into revealing 'hidden bias'.

    And she was clever, too! But we were just as clever and she ended up visibly frustrated.

    Replies: @pyrrhus

    I know a guy who was in the army 50 years ago, and says he was promoted to Captain because he promoted blacks, regardless of merit….This isn’t new…

    • Agree: HammerJack
  231. @Herbert R. Tarlek, Jr.
    @AndrewR

    But back to the original post: these corporate people are truly soulless. Capitalism really is demonic.

    Many would argue, plausibly, that the corporate limited liability which provides cover for so many psychopaths in our society is a perversion of true capitalism.

    Replies: @Anonymous, @Bill Jones, @scrivener3

    Many would argue, plausibly, that the corporate limited liability which provides cover for so many psychopaths in our society is a perversion of true capitalism.

    I don’t think the word means what you believe it means. The limited liability of corporations is for shareholders. The average person is much better off being wronged by a deep pocket corporation than by a neighbor or common criminal. The corporation will have assets, liability insurance, business records that are discoverable. A limited liability public corporation is what we lawyers refer to as “a deep pocket defendant”.

    Would you invest a dollar of your 401K retirement in an enterprise if you were liable for the eventual debts of the enterprise and damages if the management were ever negligent? Would you stand to loose not only your entire investment but all of your other assets whenever earned, just to be a passive investor in an enterprise that you do not control?

    For about $30 you can file as a limited liability company in just about every state. You will have the exact freedom from liability as an owner as Microsoft shareholders have. But if you make a sale with fraud you will be liable as a manger and actor, not as an owner.

  232. @Corvinus
    @Twinkie

    You’re really trying too hard here to fit in. I guess the paranoia runs deep with you as well, but that doesn’t stop you and others from commenting here.

    Speculate all you want about NSA monitoring this site or of “plants” who are reporting about what is being said by you and others on this fine opinion webzine. But evidence on your part is required to show that what you claim is happening.

    Perhaps that white truck down the block is not the cable company, but the FBI who is conducting surveillance on Mr. Sailer. You need to warn him immediately.

    “I know leftist activists were monitoring many of the social media chatter of the Jan. 6 protesters (including their own family members!*) and forwarded anything that tickled their fancy to the FBI.”

    Know from personal experience or what you read from social media accounts? Anyways, no doubt this occurred, similar to those on the right during the Floyd protests. Are you just as concerned about supposed FBI malfeasance in all instances, or are just selective?

    *How commie is that, turning over your own family member to the FBI?”

    Again, you’re really trying too hard here. If the family member is wanted for questioning because of their violent actions, or if there was video footage of their illegal activities, or if evidence was found by other family members of their wrongdoing, then there is a duty to bring in law enforcement. That’s not “commie”, that’s law and order and the rule of law.

    “It’s not unreasonable to surmise that USG is always listening. “

    It’s not unreasonable to surmise that you and others here are being paranoid, and that you’re not being monitored by the USH as you believe.

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @kaganovitch, @The Alarmist

    Speculate all you want about NSA monitoring this site or of “plants” who are reporting about what is being said by you and others on this fine opinion webzine. But evidence on your part is required to show that what you claim is happening.

    The treatment of the Jan 6th “Insurrectionistas” suggest they really only need to make shit up and loosely place you physically in the neighbourhood, so they really don’t need to spend much time reading the boring comments here when they can get more entertainment value at Buzz Feed.

    • Agree: Adam Smith
  233. @Buzz Mohawk
    @Reg Cæsar

    Since White serves as a synonym for European, there is no reason not to capitalize it when it is used as such. This is the case with Black for (sub-Saharan) African, not to mention other capitalized names for continental groups of people, Asian and Latin American.

    Don't even bother to get down in the weeds about where we draw the line around White parts of the world or where Europe begins and ends. It doesn't matter, especially with regard to messy linguistic subjects.

    White is White as Black is Black.

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

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar

    Since White serves as a synonym for European

    What’s this “European” [fill in the blank]? You live in New England, not “New Europe”. Assimilate, already!

    Capitalized Black has the same flaw as uncapitalized black, and African-American and all its cognates: does it apply to BH Obama and all the other non-ADOS representing an increasing portion of the darkest Americans? Who are they talking about? Who gets which benefits? Who owes whom?

    They can keep their orthographic idiocy. The Eminem strategy isn’t going to do us any good.

    • Replies: @Anonymous
    @Reg Cæsar


    Capitalized Black has the same flaw as uncapitalized black, and African-American and all its cognates: does it apply to BH Obama and all the other non-ADOS representing an increasing portion of the darkest Americans? Who are they talking about? Who gets which benefits? Who owes whom?
     
    And you’ve perpetuated the error. The correct name and acronym is Descendants of American Slaves (DOAS). It is not African Descendants of Slaves (ADOS) or Africans Descended from Slaves (ADOS) or American Descendants of Slaves (ADOS) or Americans Descended from Slaves (ADOS).

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @The Germ Theory of Disease, @Reg Cæsar

  234. @Corvinus
    @Citizen of a Silly Country

    You’re a dinosaur. The future belongs to Gen Z. I get why you are repeatedly virtue signaling here. It’s cognitive dissonance on your part.

    Replies: @Alec Leamas (working from home), @Reg Cæsar, @Corpse Tooth, @Anonymous, @Prester John

    “The future belongs to Gen Z.”

    Good luck. They’re going to need it.

  235. @fish
    @but an humble craftsman

    Never going to happen....

    Replies: @Charles Erwin Wilson, @Prester John

    Ye gods! If it did, half of the MSM would be out of jobs.

  236. @Corvinus
    @Twinkie

    Pics or it never happened—Steve Sailer

    Replies: @Twinkie

    Pics or it never happened—Steve Sailer

    Heh, I have a video of it! I might have to dig it out and watch it again.

  237. @Thoughts
    Great thread

    Ironically, the black lady did do something good...those two blacks who made it to the top 50 ARE the good guys and should get some serious job promotion

    One may even be a Clarence Thomas

    Replies: @Citizen of a Silly Country, @anonymous, @Legba

    Yes but the smart money says he’ll be a Saint, like George Floyd

  238. @FPD72
    @Isabel Archer

    My wive had a similar experience. Before eye surgery she met her anesthesiologist, who turned out to be a black guy from Trinidad (island, not SE Colorado city). Alarms went off in her skull, but what could she do? Sure enough, he botched his job and she woke up DURING THE PROCEDURE, in excruciating pain. The surgeon hurried to finish and didn’t properly close the wound. Result? Four more surgeries to try to save her eye, leaving her with no lens, a pupil sprung wide open, and a deformed retina.

    My experience with a black surgeon from Trinidad did not go well. He performed a banding procedure for hemorrhoids that during the procedure made me feel I was being raped and in the end (pun not intended) did nothing about the problem.

    Now that we’re on Medicare we are much more careful about what medical providers we’ll see. We pay a lot more to stay out of Advantage plans or any type of PPO but it’s worth it.

    Replies: @Anonymous, @Flip

    My experience with a black surgeon from Trinidad did not go well. He performed a banding procedure for hemorrhoids that during the procedure made me feel I was being raped

    Hmm, could you see both of his hands while he was doing that?

  239. @Reg Cæsar
    @Cagey Beast

    It's still faggoty.

    Replies: @Cagey Beast, @Buzz Mohawk, @Jenner Ickham Errican

    Reg, you’re outnumbered on this one, for good reason: Your fussy sigh-op anti-WN, ‘Minnesota nice’ passive-aggressive church lady persona is, in this instance, oddly at odds with your usual ana(l)grammar/syntax-Nazi compulsions.

    On this, you should go with the latter: Buzz Mohawk is right about both White and Black appropriately being capitalized when referring to the racial groups. Stylistically and conceptually, doing so brings copy concern congruence with other broad but separate racial/cultural/geographic-origin categories like Asian and Hispanic.

    Your ‘distaste’ at capitalizing White, usually excused by you falsely implying you’re doing it for Anglo-Saxon superiority reasons (do you worship Woden?), is as “faggoty” as anything I’ve seen here. (I won’t even mention your past regular “Tom of Finland” posts.)

    Reg, it’s okay (and grammatically best) to capitalize White. Join the Maxfield parish.

    Don’t be cynical like these guys, whose lack of faith I find disturbing:

    • LOL: Kylie
  240. @Isabel Archer
    @ic1000

    Just before my abdominal surgery I met the anesthesiologist, and was dismayed to see he was black. In answer to my question, he assured me (in a slightly annoyed manner) that he was board certified. After the surgery I discovered that I could no longer sing or shout loudly: this because my vocal cords had been permanently bowed from the use of a too-large breathing tube during the operation. I guess I’m lucky that he did no other damage.

    Replies: @Anonymous, @FPD72, @Adolf Smith

    He might’ve felt you up while you were knocked out!

    Or worse,what if you delivered a black baby nine months hence?😮

  241. @Bill Jones
    @Twinkie


    *How commie is that, turning over your own family member to the FBI?
     
    Don't recall the number (2 million people comes to my lazy mind) but I remember being appalled by the percentage of East Germans who were dropping a dime on their nearest and dearest to the Stasi.

    Replies: @Jim Don Bob

    Some estimates were that 10% of the population of East Germany were working for the Stasi in one way or another. Just like here!

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

  242. @Cagey Beast
    @Reg Cæsar

    Yes taking your own side in a fight and recognising the world has changed are the hallmarks of faggotry. I used to think faggotry was all about giving and receiving fellatio and engaging in anal intercourse with other men but you've changed my mind with just a few words.

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar

    Yes taking your own side in a fight

    That is a familiar phrase, favored by the Antifa concern trolls lurking about this site. You aren’t one of them, are you? That would be most cagey of you.

    I used to think faggotry was all about giving and receiving fellatio and engaging in anal intercourse with other men

    Most of the world’s races still do. But one race in particular has “grown beyond” such “bigotry” and “advanced”. They now call it marriage. That’s not my side in any fight, but if it’s yours, so be it. (Just remember to lubricate.)

    Good news- the white PM of Canada and the white Mayor of/Maire d’Ottawa have your back. (Just remember to lubricate.)

    recognising

    You even spell like they do!

  243. @FPD72
    @Isabel Archer

    My wive had a similar experience. Before eye surgery she met her anesthesiologist, who turned out to be a black guy from Trinidad (island, not SE Colorado city). Alarms went off in her skull, but what could she do? Sure enough, he botched his job and she woke up DURING THE PROCEDURE, in excruciating pain. The surgeon hurried to finish and didn’t properly close the wound. Result? Four more surgeries to try to save her eye, leaving her with no lens, a pupil sprung wide open, and a deformed retina.

    My experience with a black surgeon from Trinidad did not go well. He performed a banding procedure for hemorrhoids that during the procedure made me feel I was being raped and in the end (pun not intended) did nothing about the problem.

    Now that we’re on Medicare we are much more careful about what medical providers we’ll see. We pay a lot more to stay out of Advantage plans or any type of PPO but it’s worth it.

    Replies: @Anonymous, @Flip

    Ask Michael Jackson about his doctor. Oh wait, you can’t.

  244. @Blodgie
    @Prester John

    “This too shall pass.”

    What does that even mean?

    I call this the Cycle Cope: the myth that everything is cyclical and there is some inherent natural law that will cause events to turn back to the way they were.

    Tradcon horseshit.

    This will never change—what trends suggest it would?

    Replies: @SFG

    I mean, Europe did get advanced civilization back after the fall of Rome.

    Took 1000 years or so…

    • Replies: @HammerJack
    @SFG

    A thousand years, and they hadn't been replaced by Africans and Subcontinent Asians.

  245. @Redneck Farmer
    @Ben Kurtz

    Akshually, there is. The universities are putting their thumbs on the scales for guys. Women usually drop out of large animal practice and concentrate on small animals.

    Replies: @That Would Be Telling, @Ralph L, @Curle

    The universities are putting their thumbs on the scales for guys [for large animal veterinary programs]. Women usually drop out of large animal practice and concentrate on small animals.

    Or as we heard in comments to one of our host’s postings, a university like Michigan State if I remember correctly just end the large animal part of their department by putting a woman in charge of it.

    Have anecdotally been hearing quite a shortage is developing. In the context of another attack in the US ending farmer’s ability to buy and administer antibiotics to his animals, well they’re quite serious about forcing us to eat bugs. Or nothing, much of their agenda will simply reduce the Earth’s carrying capacity or directly kill off a lot of people by ending 24×7 electrical service.

  246. @Achmed E. Newman
    @Kylie

    Haha, Kylie, you've got Lance White down pretty good, and Jim Rockford too! Now do Evelyn, aka, Angel Martin

    Replies: @Mr. Anon

    Haha, Kylie, you’ve got Lance White down pretty good, and Jim Rockford too! Now do Evelyn, aka, Angel Martin

    Lance White? Was that the character that Tom Selleck played?

    • Agree: Achmed E. Newman
  247. @Mr. Anon
    OT - Will somebody please think of the poor federal employees!

    Pay for millions of federal workers is at risk with a looming government shutdown

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/government-shutdown-federal-workers-lose-pay-military-rcna116891
     

    Replies: @newrouter

    “Pay for millions of federal workers is at risk with a looming government shutdown”

    Should be:

    Paid vacation for millions of federal workers with a looming government shutdown

    • Agree: Jim Don Bob, HammerJack
    • Replies: @Art Deco
    @newrouter

    I correspond with a federal employee in the Detroit suburbs. In the past, his paycheck stopped during shutdowns. He has six children.

    Replies: @Jim Don Bob, @newrouter, @newrouter, @Mr. Anon, @Mike Tre

  248. @Charles Pewitt
    How the DEI Cake Is Baked

    I say:

    Diversity is the strength of the plutocrat oligarch ruling class.

    Equity is Joe Biden and Mark Zuckerberg illegally, unlawfully and unconstitutionally giving illegal alien invaders your citizenship equity.

    Inclusion is the ruling class deploying TOTALITARIAN INCLUSIVITY to use mass immigration as a demographic weapon to attack and destroy the USA.

    Guy who can't remember Peter Brimelow calls for OPERATION WETBACK II:

    Former President Trump, in a speech in Dubuque, Iowa, has pledged that he will carry out the largest domestic deportation operation in American history, if elected. Now, Mr. Trump cites the Eisenhower model. What was that? In 1954, something called 'Operation Wetback' was put into place. There was a mass deportation of up to 1.3 million undocumented Mexicans illegally in California, Arizona, and Texas.

     


    It had the tacit approval of the Mexican government, labor groups, and Mexican-Americans who were worried that uncontrolled immigration made the lives of legal immigrants more difficult. Attorney General Herbert Brownell declared that illegal migrants were, and I quote, "displacing domestic workers, affecting work conditions, spreading disease, and contributing to crime rates." Sound familiar? Seems like the only difference between then and now is the size of the catastrophe.

     


    Something’s got to be done here. It's gonna a major election-year issue, as well as something that affects the economy, depressing wages, and damaging native-born workers. Sensible people like myself are all for immigration and we understand its historic contribution to the success of this great country, but it must be legal immigration. That is the truth of the matter.

     

    https://vdare.com/letters/a-reader-is-surprised-to-see-larry-kudlow-of-all-people-saying-we-need-a-modern-operation-wetback

    Replies: @Erronius, @Nicholas Stix

    First of all, you know the President is out of office, because he’s talking about immigration enforcement, something he forgets about, the moment he’s ensconced in the White House.

    Second, legal immigration is a non-starter. If he isn’t even campaigning on an immigration moratorium, he’s not at all serious—even rhetorically—about immigration reform.

    And third, it doesn’t matter who the republican candidate is, because President Trump had every opportunity to stop The Big Steal by rolling back voting rights violations prior to the 2020 election, but did nothing. Thus, 2024 will see Big Steal II.

    “Trump: The Presidency that Never was”

    https://nicholasstixuncensored.blogspot.com/2021/01/trump-presidency-that-never-was.html

    • Replies: @Curle
    @Nicholas Stix

    “President Trump had every opportunity to stop The Big Steal by rolling back voting rights violations prior to the 2020 election”

    How was he to do such a thing? Voting is managed by the states. Further, what do you mean by the phrase “voting rights violations”? What federal enforcement body has the capacity to take on this STATE function all across the country and all at once?

    Replies: @Gandydancer

    , @Art Deco
    @Nicholas Stix

    Trump was arguably flat-footed, but the primary responsibility for guerilla warfare contra Democrats' efforts to ruin ballot security are with the party apparatus. That's state chairmen primarily, assisted by the RNC. The Republican National Chairman the last six years has been....Mitt Romney's niece.

    Replies: @Gandydancer

  249. @AndrewR
    @SafeNow

    Chief Justice Marshall died about 30 years before the end of slavery, so I'm kinda confused about what case you're talking about.

    But back to the original post: these corporate people are truly soulless. Capitalism really is demonic.

    Replies: @Herbert R. Tarlek, Jr., @Carol, @SafeNow

    Oops. Wrong name. Thank you.

  250. @Jim Don Bob
    @covid vaccine


    That’s because a large fraction of Latinos aren’t American citizens and thus can’t vote in elections.
     
    Come now. Every illegal in this country has a driver's license, and you are automatically registered to vote when you get a DL, no pesky proof of citizenship required. And since having to show an id to vote is RAAAAACIST, all you have to do is say your name and cast your vote for the Ds. And if you had too much tequila the night before, some friendly person will be by to harvest your vote.

    That's the whole point of the southern invasion: clients for the welfare state, votes for the Ds, and low wages and more customers for big business.

    Replies: @Corn, @HammerJack

    It’s almost funny watching Democrats say with a straight face that automatic voter registration coupled with no photo ID (or mail in ballots!) will in no way lead to hinkier elections.

    Almost as funny as them claiming photo ID requirements suppress the vote. In 43 years I’ve met people who forgot their wallet at home, but never met anyone who didn’t have ID

  251. @Ben Kurtz
    @SFG

    Don't think there's too much AA in large animal veterinary programs.

    Just sayin'.

    Replies: @Redneck Farmer, @EdwardM, @Corn

    You’d be surprised. I am acquainted with a lady whose sister wanted to go to veterinary school. Sister applied to 4 or 5 veterinary schools in the US and each wanted to know what actions she had taken to promote diversity in her community. This girl was raised in a rather non diverse farming or ranching town in the Dakotas.

    She then applied to a veterinary school at a Canadian university. Canadian veterinary school wanted to know two things: her grades and why she wanted to be a veterinarian. She is now going to veterinary school in Canada.

    • Replies: @Ben Kurtz
    @Corn

    That is incredibly dispiriting.

  252. @Stan Adams
    @ic1000

    Lester Holt is a Double Stuf Oreo. He's married to a white woman.

    https://i.ibb.co/NjkzP7B/314-C51-DB00000578-3449684-Family-shot-Lester-Holt-with-his-wife-Carol-Hagen-Holt-and-heir-m-66-1455.jpg

    It would be fascinating to know whether his sons have benefitted from affirmative action.

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


    Early life and education
    Holt was born on March 8, 1959, on Hamilton Air Force Base, Marin County, California, the youngest child of four of June (DeRozario) and Lester Don Holt Sr. His maternal grandparents were born in Jamaica. His maternal grandfather Canute DeRozario was a Jamaican Anglo-Indian from Spanish Town, and was one of 14 children of an Indo-Jamaican father from Calcutta, India, and a White English Jamaican mother from England. His maternal grandmother, May, was an Afro-Jamaican born in Manchester Parish, Jamaica but raised in Harlem, New York, where his mother was born. His father was African American from Michigan, with roots in Tennessee.

    His father was stationed at Elmendorf Air Force Base in Alaska for four years during the Vietnam War. Holt was introduced to broadcasting by his older brother, a disc jockey at a local radio station in Anchorage, Alaska....

    Holt resides in Manhattan with his wife, Carol Hagen; they have two sons, Stefan and Cameron.
     
    Holt attended Sac State but did not graduate.

    https://www.closerweekly.com/posts/lester-holts-kids-meet-sons-stefan-cameron-with-wife-carol/

    Stefan studied Broadcast Journalism and Political Science at Pepperdine University, where he graduated in 2009.

    Following graduation, Stefan landed a job as a reporter and fill-in anchor for Hearst Magazine in West Palm Beach, Florida. He eventually left the company after two years to start working as a news anchor for NBC. Since May 2011, he’s been reporting the news for NBC 5 Chicago.
     
    Well, he's certainly benefitted from nepotism.

    [Cameron] graduated from Stanford University with a degree in Mathematical and Computational Science in 2012, which means he was most likely born in 1989 or 1990. Cameron also earned a Master’s Degree in Management Science and Engineering at Stanford in 2013.

    It appears Cameron tried his hand in television, as he worked “on the production team for two CNBC shows, Squawk on the Street and CNBC Reports” as an intern in 2009. Since 2013, he’s worked as the Vice President of the Institutional Equity Division at Morgan Stanley.
     
    Not a bad gig if you can get it.

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar

    His maternal grandfather Canute DeRozario was a Jamaican Anglo-Indian from Spanish Town

    The surname DeRozario is likely of Portuguese origin and is found primarily on the Malayan peninsula and in Singapore. So this clause of a dozen words features at least six nationalities, and maybe eight. For more ethnic confusion, Spanish Town’s current mayor is named Norman Scott.

    It’s a bit of a walk to the beach, but we can imagine Grandpa Canute taking his family down to it and telling the waves to stop.

    “Spanish Town railway station opened in 1845 and closed in 1992 when all passenger services in Jamaica abruptly ceased.” Evidently they weren’t really useful engines! In happier news, pirate Calico Jack was hanged there in 1710.

    http://www.thewayofthepirates.com/images/thewayofthepirates/picture-of-john-rackham.gif

  253. @Corvinus
    @Anonymous

    “You know nothing about Gen Z. So comical”

    We just love when anonys here project.

    Replies: @Charles Erwin Wilson

    We just love when anonys here project.

    So says the prince of projection, in his dutiful service to the Prince of Darkness.

    • Replies: @Prester John
    @Charles Erwin Wilson

    Shhh! You're inflating his already-inflated ego even more.

  254. Anonymous[387] • Disclaimer says:
    @Reg Cæsar
    @Buzz Mohawk


    Since White serves as a synonym for European
     
    What's this "European" [fill in the blank]? You live in New England, not "New Europe". Assimilate, already!

    Capitalized Black has the same flaw as uncapitalized black, and African-American and all its cognates: does it apply to BH Obama and all the other non-ADOS representing an increasing portion of the darkest Americans? Who are they talking about? Who gets which benefits? Who owes whom?

    They can keep their orthographic idiocy. The Eminem strategy isn't going to do us any good.

    Replies: @Anonymous

    Capitalized Black has the same flaw as uncapitalized black, and African-American and all its cognates: does it apply to BH Obama and all the other non-ADOS representing an increasing portion of the darkest Americans? Who are they talking about? Who gets which benefits? Who owes whom?

    And you’ve perpetuated the error. The correct name and acronym is Descendants of American Slaves (DOAS). It is not African Descendants of Slaves (ADOS) or Africans Descended from Slaves (ADOS) or American Descendants of Slaves (ADOS) or Americans Descended from Slaves (ADOS).

    • Replies: @Reg Cæsar
    @Anonymous


    The correct name and acronym is
     
    According to AP? MLA? Fowler's? Chicago? OED?

    Replies: @Jenner Ickham Errican

    , @The Germ Theory of Disease
    @Anonymous

    I vote that we call them American Descendants Inter-alia Of Slaves (ADIOS).

    , @Reg Cæsar
    @Anonymous

    Arguing about ADOS vs DOAS is, well, much ADO about nothing. Like with LGBT vs the GLBT it replaced. I preferred the latter, as it could stand for "that Gross Lenny Bruce Term".

  255. @Redneck Farmer
    @Ben Kurtz

    Akshually, there is. The universities are putting their thumbs on the scales for guys. Women usually drop out of large animal practice and concentrate on small animals.

    Replies: @That Would Be Telling, @Ralph L, @Curle

    If you were a cow, wouldn’t you want someone with long arms and short nails to help deliver your calf?

  256. @Anonymous
    @Twinkie

    Yes, white liberals aren't doing blacks any favors by coddling them. It just makes the inevitable reality check even more shocking when it finally arrives.

    (As an aside, look up the controversy 5 years ago about The Verge's Youtube guide to building your own computer. It was presented by a black guy who was obviously clueless about what he was doing and made a bunch of stupid statements and mistakes. It was obvious he lived in a white liberal bubble where nobody had ever dared criticise anything he did. He was mercilessly ripped apart by the internet, and rightly so, since some of his advice could have damaged or destroyed expensive equipment. Of course, he just went into denial and blamed racism. The white 'friends' of this guy should be ashamed for setting him up for public ridicule like this.)

    Replies: @Lurker

    The real point is to smash YT and sequester his resources. Any benefits to blacks are incidental and likely short lived.

    Any white libs who really think they are helping blacks are clearly Outer Party dupes.

    • Replies: @anonymous
    @Lurker

    Inner Party members do sometimes fool their own children like the Chairman of Time Warner during the time of "Cop Killer". He talked to his son so much about social justice that his son taught at an inner city school and was murdered by a student. Jewish power doesn't give perfect information to its own members because of its decentralized nature.

    Replies: @Art Deco, @Lurker

  257. anonymous[188] • Disclaimer says:
    @Lurker
    @Anonymous

    The real point is to smash YT and sequester his resources. Any benefits to blacks are incidental and likely short lived.

    Any white libs who really think they are helping blacks are clearly Outer Party dupes.

    Replies: @anonymous

    Inner Party members do sometimes fool their own children like the Chairman of Time Warner during the time of “Cop Killer”. He talked to his son so much about social justice that his son taught at an inner city school and was murdered by a student. Jewish power doesn’t give perfect information to its own members because of its decentralized nature.

    • Replies: @Art Deco
    @anonymous

    Inner Party members do sometimes fool their own children like the Chairman of Time Warner during the time of “Cop Killer”. He talked to his son so much about social justice that his son taught at an inner city school and was murdered by a student.
    ==
    Gerald Levin and his wife divorced when his son was a toddler. Jonathan Levin was raised primarily by his mother.

    , @Lurker
    @anonymous

    Indeed - collateral damage. Omelette, eggs.

  258. @Mr. Anon
    OT - Put this in the "We have always been at war with East Asia" file:

    This happened two days ago. Zelenskyy, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and the entire Canadian Parliament gave a standing ovation to a Ukrainian veteran of the 14th Waffen-SS grenadier division:

    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/zelenskyy-trudeau-honor-actual-3rd-reich-nazi-standing-ovation

    Members of this unit took part in a massacre of Poles during WWII.

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

    It's hard to keep up anymore. Now correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought it was universally agreed upon that the SS were the bad guys. Has that changed? Are we supposed to be rooting for the double-lightning bolt team now? I'm confused.

    I guess the answer is: you root for whomever they tell you to root for.

    Replies: @Peter Akuleyev

    I thought it was universally agreed upon that the SS were the bad guys. Has that changed?

    For people who aren’t leftists that changed in 1945 when the USSR became our enemy and we decided that not everyone who fought Communism to defend their homelands was necessarily evil. You may remember how Ronald Reagan went to Bitburg in 1985 to honor even German SS veterans.

    It is darkly ironic how people who claim to be “conservative” swallow left-wing narratives whole in order to justify their parroting of pro-Russian propaganda.

    • Replies: @HammerJack
    @Peter Akuleyev


    For people who aren’t leftists that changed in 1945 when the USSR became our enemy and we decided that not everyone who fought Communism to defend their homelands was necessarily evil. You may remember how Ronald Reagan went to Bitburg in 1985 to honor even German SS veterans.
     
    That was then, this is now. Communism is one thing, Nazis are another. (Along with Confederates.) Normie social media are full of rants claiming that anyone who fought for Germany or the Confederacy is forever without honor of any kind. And they are still blaming Reagan for anything and everything.

    Speaking of Russia, they're also claiming that Russia and the GOP are secretly planning a coup to take over the United States. This belief is surprisingly widespread.

    , @keypusher
    @Peter Akuleyev


    You may remember how Ronald Reagan went to Bitburg in 1985 to honor even German SS veterans.
     
    No, I don't remember that, because it didn't happen.

    Reagan planned to go to a cemetery to lay a wreath where thousands of German soldiers were buried. And then someone discovered that there were something like 80 Waffen-SS soldiers buried in the cemetery, and it became such a huge controversy that he almost canceled. He finally went through with it, though, because Helmut Kohl begged him to. In no way, shape, or form did Reagan go to Bitburg to honor SS-men.

    Communists are bad, Nazis are worse. It's not complicated.

    Replies: @Gandydancer

    , @Mr. Anon
    @Peter Akuleyev


    For people who aren’t leftists that changed in 1945 when the USSR became our enemy and we decided that not everyone who fought Communism to defend their homelands was necessarily evil. You may remember how Ronald Reagan went to Bitburg in 1985 to honor even German SS veterans.
     
    And he was pilloried for it too. No President would ever make that mistake again.

    It is darkly ironic how people who claim to be “conservative” swallow left-wing narratives whole in order to justify their parroting of pro-Russian propaganda.
     
    I'm not swallowing anything. Nor am I "parroting pro-Russian propaganda". I recognize that past events, even WWII (perhaps especially WWII) were more complicated than our present cartoon-like popular history allows for. I understand that Ukrainians, who had good reason to hate the Soviet Union, might have seen sense in making common cause with Germany. None-the-less, I don't think the SS and the NS regime were benign or beneficial (even to Germany, let alone Europe).

    And, as commenter HammerJack pointed out, in the current year, the Nazis, especially including the SS, are the ne-plus-ultra of evil. To ever even once be associated with them is to place yourself outside the bounds of decent society. These are the standards of the globalist neo-liberal order itself; this is the regime that they impose. And here, that same order is applauding an actual SS soldier. They are attempting to gaslight us into forgetting that those Ukrainian nationalists fought on the "wrong side" of the Great Crusade of 1939-1945.

    It isn't parroting Russian propaganda to notice this. It is pointing out the hypocrisy of their bulls**t narrative.

    , @Art Deco
    @Peter Akuleyev

    You may remember how Ronald Reagan went to Bitburg in 1985 to honor even German SS veterans.
    ==
    No, German war dead generally. There were about 2,000 graves in the Bitburg cemetery. There were 49 graves of SS-waffen veterans buried there. The Chancellor of Germany noted that about 1/2 of them were under the age of 20 at the time of their death so excused from prosecution as war criminals per Allied postwar practice. There were also conscripts in SS-waffen in its late stages. SS-waffen was declared a criminal organization as a corporate body, but that does not mean every person enrolled in it was engaged in atrocities. SS-waffen was a military force; it did not run concentration camps &c.

  259. Imagine being too dumb to recognize when the deck is being stacked in your favor.

  260. @Charles Erwin Wilson
    @Corvinus


    We just love when anonys here project.
     
    So says the prince of projection, in his dutiful service to the Prince of Darkness.

    Replies: @Prester John

    Shhh! You’re inflating his already-inflated ego even more.

  261. @anonymous
    @prime noticer

    "even the number of african players in sports is rigged to be artificially high."

    How racially resentful do you have to be to make up stuff like this?

    Replies: @prime noticer

    another person who believes ‘the best players play’.

    official narratives are powerful. that’s why the people in charge of them expend a lot of effort to maintain them.

    Wall Street Journal: Dolphins raced to 70 points with a team of former track stars

    a long blathering article about how track & field ability is the new, secret weapon for NFL teams. we’ve heard it for 50 years. it applies ONLY to africans. back in reality, if you’re not melanin enhanced, NFL has very little interest in how good you are at track & field.

    Cole Beck is faster than any NFL player who ever played. Virginia Tech won’t even allow him to play FBS level football. not melanin enchanced. not talented, no ability here. please get off the team.

  262. @Jim Don Bob
    @covid vaccine


    That’s because a large fraction of Latinos aren’t American citizens and thus can’t vote in elections.
     
    Come now. Every illegal in this country has a driver's license, and you are automatically registered to vote when you get a DL, no pesky proof of citizenship required. And since having to show an id to vote is RAAAAACIST, all you have to do is say your name and cast your vote for the Ds. And if you had too much tequila the night before, some friendly person will be by to harvest your vote.

    That's the whole point of the southern invasion: clients for the welfare state, votes for the Ds, and low wages and more customers for big business.

    Replies: @Corn, @HammerJack

    That’s the whole point of the southern invasion: clients for the welfare state, votes for the Ds, and low wages and more customers for big business.

    To which I would only add: that Race Replacement thing.

  263. @SFG
    @Blodgie

    I mean, Europe did get advanced civilization back after the fall of Rome.

    Took 1000 years or so…

    Replies: @HammerJack

    A thousand years, and they hadn’t been replaced by Africans and Subcontinent Asians.

  264. @Peter Akuleyev
    @Mr. Anon

    I thought it was universally agreed upon that the SS were the bad guys. Has that changed?

    For people who aren't leftists that changed in 1945 when the USSR became our enemy and we decided that not everyone who fought Communism to defend their homelands was necessarily evil. You may remember how Ronald Reagan went to Bitburg in 1985 to honor even German SS veterans.

    It is darkly ironic how people who claim to be "conservative" swallow left-wing narratives whole in order to justify their parroting of pro-Russian propaganda.

    Replies: @HammerJack, @keypusher, @Mr. Anon, @Art Deco

    For people who aren’t leftists that changed in 1945 when the USSR became our enemy and we decided that not everyone who fought Communism to defend their homelands was necessarily evil. You may remember how Ronald Reagan went to Bitburg in 1985 to honor even German SS veterans.

    That was then, this is now. Communism is one thing, Nazis are another. (Along with Confederates.) Normie social media are full of rants claiming that anyone who fought for Germany or the Confederacy is forever without honor of any kind. And they are still blaming Reagan for anything and everything.

    Speaking of Russia, they’re also claiming that Russia and the GOP are secretly planning a coup to take over the United States. This belief is surprisingly widespread.

  265. @Redneck Farmer
    @Ben Kurtz

    Akshually, there is. The universities are putting their thumbs on the scales for guys. Women usually drop out of large animal practice and concentrate on small animals.

    Replies: @That Would Be Telling, @Ralph L, @Curle

    I recall hearing something to that effect years ago about law school. That too many women were perceived as taking up law school space just to end up dropping out early in their careers to take care of babies. This was a time when public colleges subsidized law schools.

  266. @Nicholas Stix
    @Charles Pewitt

    First of all, you know the President is out of office, because he’s talking about immigration enforcement, something he forgets about, the moment he’s ensconced in the White House.

    Second, legal immigration is a non-starter. If he isn’t even campaigning on an immigration moratorium, he’s not at all serious—even rhetorically—about immigration reform.

    And third, it doesn’t matter who the republican candidate is, because President Trump had every opportunity to stop The Big Steal by rolling back voting rights violations prior to the 2020 election, but did nothing. Thus, 2024 will see Big Steal II.

    “Trump: The Presidency that Never was”

    https://nicholasstixuncensored.blogspot.com/2021/01/trump-presidency-that-never-was.html

    Replies: @Curle, @Art Deco

    “President Trump had every opportunity to stop The Big Steal by rolling back voting rights violations prior to the 2020 election”

    How was he to do such a thing? Voting is managed by the states. Further, what do you mean by the phrase “voting rights violations”? What federal enforcement body has the capacity to take on this STATE function all across the country and all at once?

    • Replies: @Gandydancer
    @Curle

    It being a "STATE function" didn't prevent passage and enforcement of the Voting Rights Act, did it?

    Presidential elections are subject to oversight by the Federal government. And, e.g., if Trump had a clue he would have fought back against runaway COVID-justified absentee ballot inflation, often contrary to legislature-promulgated rules (contrary to the US Constitution, btw) BEFORE the Steal. But he was asleep at the wheel, just as Stix notes.

  267. What federal enforcement body has the capacity to take on this STATE function all across the country and all at once?

    None, but the democrats signaled early and often their intent to use any and all means to rig the election. Note how many times you read/heard “by any means necessary”.

    Marc Elias et al filed numerous lawsuits seeking to gum up the works in Republican areas and to remove accountability in Dem areas. In the four years running up to the election Trump should have had teams of Repub lawyers fighting fire with fire. Instead he just sat on his ass tweeting.

    Also, as I’ve said before, Trump’s single biggest failure was to sign an EO eliminating birthright citizenship for illegals. It would have ended up at the SCOTUS where it would have had a good shot at going away. Trump even tweeted (naturally) that he was going to do so, then didn’t. Now the spawn of Biden’s immivaders will become “Americans” and we’re stuck with them.

    • Agree: Jim Don Bob, Gandydancer
    • Replies: @keypusher
    @William Badwhite


    Also, as I’ve said before, Trump’s single biggest failure was to sign an EO eliminating birthright citizenship for illegals. It would have ended up at the SCOTUS where it would have had a good shot at going away.
     
    I wouldn't say non-lawyers should never post about legal topics, but you've got a good chance of making a fall-on-your-face fool of yourself when you do.

    Replies: @Gandydancer

  268. @J.Ross
    OT -- What you already knew.

    A new study of 17 countries found a “definite causal link” between peaks in all-cause mortality and the rapid rollouts of the COVID-19 vaccines and boosters.

    Researchers with Canada-based Correlation Research in the Public Interest found more than half of the countries analyzed had no detectable rise in all-cause mortality after the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic on March 11, 2020 — until after the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccines and boosters.

    They also found that all 17 countries, which make up 10.3% of the global population, had an unprecedented rise in all-cause mortality that corresponded directly to vaccine and booster rollouts.

    Through a statistical analysis of mortality data, the authors calculated the fatal toxicity risk-per-injection increased significantly with age, but averaged 1 death per 800 injections across all ages and countries.

    By that calculation, with 13.5 billion injections given up to Sept. 2, 2023, the researchers estimated there were 17 million COVID-19 vaccination deaths (± 500,000) globally following the vaccine roll-out.

    “This would correspond to a mass iatrogenic event that killed 0.213 (± 0.006) % of the world population and did not measurably prevent any deaths,” the authors wrote.

    This number, they noted, is 1,000 times higher than previously reported in data from clinical trials, adverse event monitoring and cause-of-death statistics gleaned from death certificates.

    In other words, “The COVID-19 vaccines did not save lives and appear to be lethal toxic agents,” they wrote.

    https://correlation-canada.org/covid-19-vaccine-associated-mortality-in-the-southern-hemisphere/

    Replies: @Hypnotoad666, @Hypnotoad666, @Je Suis Omar Mateen

    Large waves of death followed every ‘covid’ mass-vaxx campaign. These waves were dubbed ‘variants’. New vaxxes were promised for each new ‘variant’. A self-licking ice cream cone if there ever was one. Sadly for Pfizer $teve and IQ214, vaxx hesitancy increased exponentially after the second strokepoke and now only knuckleheads roll the sleeve anymore. Literally nobody knows anyone that died of ‘covid’ (because it is fictional) but literally EVERYONE knows somebody harmed by good ol’ Safe And Effective.

    • Agree: Adam Smith
  269. @Anonymous

    No black candidate broke the top 25, & only 2 made the top 50.
     
    That will not do. It would put at risk the twin engines of White genocide: miscegenation and mass immigration.

    How?

    Integrating Blacks into the higher echelons of the workforce raises their status/appeal in the eyes of potential mates, serves as evidence that counters claims of Black inferiority in cognition and conscientiousness, and puts Blacks into greater physical proximity of Whites of reproductive age.

    The relationship to immigration policy is more subtle. Racial preferences or quotas for Blacks, in schools and the job market, insulate the more talented Blacks (the leadership class and individuals with relative influence and talent) from the fierce foreign competition that immigration brings in. The quotas in effect placate the portion of the Black population that would be most able to perceive the deleterious effects of immigration on the Black population and to take political action to oppose it, even by allying with Whites.

    Replies: @WhitePwrAntiBlackie

    The fact that Blacks need racial quotas proves their inferiority.

  270. @Reg Cæsar
    @Corvinus


    Speculate all you want about NSA monitoring this site or of “plants” who are reporting about what is being said by you
     
    Don't change the subject. It's not about reporting, but massaging. Misdirection, demoralization, that sort of thing. "Concern trolling" was common until it was detected and called out. This is Concern Trolling 2.0.

    Replies: @Corvinus, @Je Suis Omar Mateen

    ‘Concern trolling was common until it was detected and called out. This is Concern Trolling 2.0.’

    About 40% of Pfizer $teve $ailer’s posts are concern trolling – Late Obama-Age Collapse, Racial Wreckening, Summer of Floyd, Deaths of Exuberance, etc etc, are all thinly veiled gleeful endzone dances.

  271. It’s going to be some top shelf, first rate, delicious schadenfreude, when all these companies achieve their “ideals” of over ample under-qualified blacks as a major part of their workforce… and the subpar performance really starts to bite into their bottom line!

    Because no functional company can survive, be effective, and be profitable if too many of the employees are overpaid/underqualified do-nothings. It just can’t work. You can’t conceal it, you can’t make so much money that you can afford, and you can’t undo it… So guess what happens instead!?

    You go under!

    And then, they’re ALL going to get laid off, and re-enter the job market!

    Yep, good times ahead boys and girls!

    Enjoy drinking that tall glass of employment hemlock; I hope it tastes nice and sweet!

    If you think it was bitter going down, wait and see what it tastes like when it’s coming back up!

    • LOL: HammerJack
    • Replies: @EdwardM
    @Dr. Rock


    Because no functional company can survive, be effective, and be profitable if too many of the employees are overpaid/underqualified do-nothings. It just can’t work. You can’t conceal it, you can’t make so much money that you can afford, and you can’t undo it…
     
    Not necessarily. What if pretty much every company fits this description and large swaths of the economy are served by essentially shared monopolies? This is basically where we are and getting worse all the time.

    Service at airlines/hotels/car rental companies, cable companies, banks, large retailers, etc., to name a few industries, has gone to crap. This is due to a combination of unqualified employees and deliberate corporate policies, but those effects are intermingled.

    Every large company is pretty much a state-owned enterprise, due to stifling laws, regulations, and lawfare combined with cultural pollution. Yet they are still extracting nominal profits. (You could call this 21st-century fascism.) The losers, hidden in plain sight, are customers -- who go through life with one frustrating microaggression after another -- and society as a whole. All of life is like a trip to the DMV.

    As the saying goes, there is a lot of ruin in a nation.

    Replies: @Achmed E. Newman, @Dr. Rock

  272. @Corpse Tooth
    @Corvinus

    "The future belongs to Gen Z."

    Yes, the most indoctrinated, narcotized, and gender-confused generation will sort out the future.

    Replies: @John Milton's Ghost

    Corvinus is _maybe_ trying to offer a funny tautology. The future always belongs to the next generation. Ultimately the future will belong to the Idiocracy.

    • Replies: @Gandydancer
    @John Milton's Ghost


    Ultimately the future will belong to the Idiocracy.
     
    That's not the future, that's now.
  273. @newrouter
    @Mr. Anon

    "Pay for millions of federal workers is at risk with a looming government shutdown"

    Should be:

    Paid vacation for millions of federal workers with a looming government shutdown

    Replies: @Art Deco

    I correspond with a federal employee in the Detroit suburbs. In the past, his paycheck stopped during shutdowns. He has six children.

    • Replies: @Jim Don Bob
    @Art Deco

    True, but the Feds get all their back pay when the shutdown ends, so it is a vacation. And any Fed who does not have a rainy day fund is a financial moron. It's not like shutdowns haven't happened in recent memory.

    https://apotential.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/worlds-smallest-violin.jpg

    , @newrouter
    @Art Deco

    Did he eventually get the money?

    , @newrouter
    @Art Deco

    Yes they get "their" money to play their part in this kabuki theater:

    "Unemployment: Federal employees who are furloughed are eligible for unemployment compensation in some states. But in many cases, they must return the money once they receive back pay."

    https://www.govexec.com/pay-benefits/2023/09/your-guide-pay-and-benefits-during-shutdown/390423/

    , @Mr. Anon
    @Art Deco


    I correspond with a federal employee in the Detroit suburbs. In the past, his paycheck stopped during shutdowns. He has six children.
     
    Yes, but he got paid for that time he was furloughed after the shutdown ends - and for time during which he did not work. At leas that happened for the last three government shutdowns (2018, 2013, and 1995).

    It can be a short-term inconvenience for some federal employees, depending on their circumstances. But in the end, it does amount to paid time off.
    , @Mike Tre
    @Art Deco

    Perhaps your federally employed friend show move to U:

    US To Keep Paying Salaries For Tens Of Thousands Of Ukrainians During Government Shutdown

    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-keep-paying-salaries-tens-thousands-ukrainians-during-government-shutdown

  274. @anonymous
    @Lurker

    Inner Party members do sometimes fool their own children like the Chairman of Time Warner during the time of "Cop Killer". He talked to his son so much about social justice that his son taught at an inner city school and was murdered by a student. Jewish power doesn't give perfect information to its own members because of its decentralized nature.

    Replies: @Art Deco, @Lurker

    Inner Party members do sometimes fool their own children like the Chairman of Time Warner during the time of “Cop Killer”. He talked to his son so much about social justice that his son taught at an inner city school and was murdered by a student.
    ==
    Gerald Levin and his wife divorced when his son was a toddler. Jonathan Levin was raised primarily by his mother.

  275. @Nicholas Stix
    @Charles Pewitt

    First of all, you know the President is out of office, because he’s talking about immigration enforcement, something he forgets about, the moment he’s ensconced in the White House.

    Second, legal immigration is a non-starter. If he isn’t even campaigning on an immigration moratorium, he’s not at all serious—even rhetorically—about immigration reform.

    And third, it doesn’t matter who the republican candidate is, because President Trump had every opportunity to stop The Big Steal by rolling back voting rights violations prior to the 2020 election, but did nothing. Thus, 2024 will see Big Steal II.

    “Trump: The Presidency that Never was”

    https://nicholasstixuncensored.blogspot.com/2021/01/trump-presidency-that-never-was.html

    Replies: @Curle, @Art Deco

    Trump was arguably flat-footed, but the primary responsibility for guerilla warfare contra Democrats’ efforts to ruin ballot security are with the party apparatus. That’s state chairmen primarily, assisted by the RNC. The Republican National Chairman the last six years has been….Mitt Romney’s niece.

    • Replies: @Gandydancer
    @Art Deco

    Bullshit. That Romney's niece is still chairman of the RNC is just another example of Trump being a gormless putz, not evidence against it.

  276. @Peter Akuleyev
    @Mr. Anon

    I thought it was universally agreed upon that the SS were the bad guys. Has that changed?

    For people who aren't leftists that changed in 1945 when the USSR became our enemy and we decided that not everyone who fought Communism to defend their homelands was necessarily evil. You may remember how Ronald Reagan went to Bitburg in 1985 to honor even German SS veterans.

    It is darkly ironic how people who claim to be "conservative" swallow left-wing narratives whole in order to justify their parroting of pro-Russian propaganda.

    Replies: @HammerJack, @keypusher, @Mr. Anon, @Art Deco

    You may remember how Ronald Reagan went to Bitburg in 1985 to honor even German SS veterans.

    No, I don’t remember that, because it didn’t happen.

    Reagan planned to go to a cemetery to lay a wreath where thousands of German soldiers were buried. And then someone discovered that there were something like 80 Waffen-SS soldiers buried in the cemetery, and it became such a huge controversy that he almost canceled. He finally went through with it, though, because Helmut Kohl begged him to. In no way, shape, or form did Reagan go to Bitburg to honor SS-men.

    Communists are bad, Nazis are worse. It’s not complicated.

    • Agree: Jim Don Bob
    • Replies: @Gandydancer
    @keypusher

    Of course it's complicated, quite apart from the fact that Commies are at least as bad as Nazis.

    Irrespective of that question there was no reason not to honor the Waffen SS dead along with the Wehrmacht dead at Bitburg... or neither. The Clean Wehrmacht myth is a myth, and, anyway, by 1943 recruits were drafted into the Waffen SS just like they were drafted into the Wehrmacht. Except Himmler had first call on such resources, except when Goering did. Ideological or racial requirements were long gone. Indeed there were a couple RUSSIAN P.O.W. SS divisions, with some Russo-German volk but also untermensch.

    I specify '43 since that's when this Ukrainian/Canadian joined the Galician SS division. He was 18, iirc (a volunteer rather than a draftee) and he says, I understand, that his motivations were nationalistic rather than National Socialist. Maybe he was a Nazi, but that's not remotely established, or even all that probable.

  277. @William Badwhite

    What federal enforcement body has the capacity to take on this STATE function all across the country and all at once?
     
    None, but the democrats signaled early and often their intent to use any and all means to rig the election. Note how many times you read/heard "by any means necessary".

    Marc Elias et al filed numerous lawsuits seeking to gum up the works in Republican areas and to remove accountability in Dem areas. In the four years running up to the election Trump should have had teams of Repub lawyers fighting fire with fire. Instead he just sat on his ass tweeting.

    Also, as I've said before, Trump's single biggest failure was to sign an EO eliminating birthright citizenship for illegals. It would have ended up at the SCOTUS where it would have had a good shot at going away. Trump even tweeted (naturally) that he was going to do so, then didn't. Now the spawn of Biden's immivaders will become "Americans" and we're stuck with them.

    Replies: @keypusher

    Also, as I’ve said before, Trump’s single biggest failure was to sign an EO eliminating birthright citizenship for illegals. It would have ended up at the SCOTUS where it would have had a good shot at going away.

    I wouldn’t say non-lawyers should never post about legal topics, but you’ve got a good chance of making a fall-on-your-face fool of yourself when you do.

    • Replies: @Gandydancer
    @keypusher

    So, you're a lawyer, then?

    If you think the 14A guarantees birthright citizenship than your legal instruction left you ignorant of actual US Constitutional history.

    Read the debate on inserting the citizenship clause into the 14A, then get back to me.

  278. @Art Deco
    @newrouter

    I correspond with a federal employee in the Detroit suburbs. In the past, his paycheck stopped during shutdowns. He has six children.

    Replies: @Jim Don Bob, @newrouter, @newrouter, @Mr. Anon, @Mike Tre

    True, but the Feds get all their back pay when the shutdown ends, so it is a vacation. And any Fed who does not have a rainy day fund is a financial moron. It’s not like shutdowns haven’t happened in recent memory.

  279. OT on the Ferguson Effect.

    Ferguson was still one of the nicer suburbs in St. Louis for blacks to live in, and not a few whites who held on clinging to their spacious, architecturally beautiful manses. But no more … since Mr. Brown.

    But it’s teetering on the brink of full-fledged gettho-hood now.

    https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/ferguson-apartment-building-conditions-deteriorate-ownership-falls-into-receivership/article_4352c1ec-58c8-11ee-bfc1-5b7dc1847384.html

  280. @Anonymous
    @Reg Cæsar


    Capitalized Black has the same flaw as uncapitalized black, and African-American and all its cognates: does it apply to BH Obama and all the other non-ADOS representing an increasing portion of the darkest Americans? Who are they talking about? Who gets which benefits? Who owes whom?
     
    And you’ve perpetuated the error. The correct name and acronym is Descendants of American Slaves (DOAS). It is not African Descendants of Slaves (ADOS) or Africans Descended from Slaves (ADOS) or American Descendants of Slaves (ADOS) or Americans Descended from Slaves (ADOS).

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @The Germ Theory of Disease, @Reg Cæsar

    The correct name and acronym is

    According to AP? MLA? Fowler’s? Chicago? OED?

    • Replies: @Jenner Ickham Errican
    @Reg Cæsar



    The correct name and acronym is
     
    According to AP? MLA? Fowler’s? Chicago? OED?
     
    According to Ann Coulter and our host, Steve Sailer (and probably others):

    https://www.unz.com/?s=doas&authors=steve-sailer&ptype=isteve&sortby=earliest&Action=Search

    “ADOS” was coined by Black activists, which could be a reason for the conceptual flub, and which you ironically and unwittingly repeated in your comment. Orthographic idiocy, indeed.

    Wikipedia:

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

    American Descendants of Slavery (ADOS) is a term referring to descendants of enslaved Africans in the area that would become the United States (from its colonial period onward), and to the political movement of the same name. Both the concept and the movement grew out of the hashtag #ADOS created by Yvette Carnell and Antonio Moore.
     

    A distinguishing feature of the ADOS movement is its explicit emphasis on black Americans who descended from slavery and its disagreements with black immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean.
     
    Apparently the coiners didn’t formulate their term to exclusively name "descendants of enslaved Africans in the area that would become the United States (from its colonial period onward)". So stupid.

    DOAS at Harvard prefer “GAA”:

    https://www.unz.com/isteve/at-harvard-descendants-of-american-slaves-are-outnumbered-by-descendants-of-slave-sellers/

    Replies: @Nicholas Stix

  281. @Bill Jones
    @Herbert R. Tarlek, Jr.

    The limitation of liability is only financial limitation in case of failure. It does not extend to criminal or tort liability for acts which by definition can only be committed by individuals. Corporations cannot act.
    This simple fact has been lost.
    This could be fixed by one good DoJ head in one 4 year term.

    Replies: @scrivener3

    The limitation of liability is only financial limitation in case of failure. It does not extend to criminal or tort liability for acts which by definition can only be committed by individuals. Corporations cannot act.

    No. If Apple is found to be negligent in designing their iphone 11 and it gives every customer brain cancer there will be no liability for Apple shareholders. Apple is a limited liability corporation. That is: Apple may have tort liability, some officers and employees might additionally be found personally liable for the wrong and the damage done but no stockholder will be liable as a stockholder. And that is as it should be in my opinion.

    Limited liability corporation does not mean the corporation is free from liability in any respect – it means liability is cut off at the shareholder level. Shareholders are not liable for what the corporation does.

  282. @Anonymous
    @Reg Cæsar


    Capitalized Black has the same flaw as uncapitalized black, and African-American and all its cognates: does it apply to BH Obama and all the other non-ADOS representing an increasing portion of the darkest Americans? Who are they talking about? Who gets which benefits? Who owes whom?
     
    And you’ve perpetuated the error. The correct name and acronym is Descendants of American Slaves (DOAS). It is not African Descendants of Slaves (ADOS) or Africans Descended from Slaves (ADOS) or American Descendants of Slaves (ADOS) or Americans Descended from Slaves (ADOS).

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @The Germ Theory of Disease, @Reg Cæsar

    I vote that we call them American Descendants Inter-alia Of Slaves (ADIOS).

    • LOL: silviosilver
  283. @Reg Cæsar
    @Anonymous


    The correct name and acronym is
     
    According to AP? MLA? Fowler's? Chicago? OED?

    Replies: @Jenner Ickham Errican

    The correct name and acronym is

    According to AP? MLA? Fowler’s? Chicago? OED?

    According to Ann Coulter and our host, Steve Sailer (and probably others):

    https://www.unz.com/?s=doas&authors=steve-sailer&ptype=isteve&sortby=earliest&Action=Search

    “ADOS” was coined by Black activists, which could be a reason for the conceptual flub, and which you ironically and unwittingly repeated in your comment. Orthographic idiocy, indeed.

    Wikipedia:

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

    American Descendants of Slavery (ADOS) is a term referring to descendants of enslaved Africans in the area that would become the United States (from its colonial period onward), and to the political movement of the same name. Both the concept and the movement grew out of the hashtag #ADOS created by Yvette Carnell and Antonio Moore.

    A distinguishing feature of the ADOS movement is its explicit emphasis on black Americans who descended from slavery and its disagreements with black immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean.

    Apparently the coiners didn’t formulate their term to exclusively name “descendants of enslaved Africans in the area that would become the United States (from its colonial period onward)”. So stupid.

    DOAS at Harvard prefer “GAA”:

    https://www.unz.com/isteve/at-harvard-descendants-of-american-slaves-are-outnumbered-by-descendants-of-slave-sellers/

    • Replies: @Nicholas Stix
    @Jenner Ickham Errican

    Well, I’m an “American Descendant of Slavery (ADOS),” even though I’m White. My people were slaves in Egypt, and maybe other places, too. And according to black supremacist scholars, all of the Egyptians were black, which means that my people were the slaves of blacks.

    So, where are my reparations?!

  284. LOL.

  285. • Replies: @Achmed E. Newman
    @Kylie

    Thanks, Kylie.

    That's 3/4 million bucks for ONE HOUR, for those who didn't want to read about the ex-First-Wookie.


    The 59-year-old picked up the eye-watering check for speaking to a start-up event held on the sidelines of the annual Oktoberfest beer festival, two sources close to the conference organizers said.

    According to the event's webpage, the ex-attorney was set to speak to some 5,000 attendees on how to 'push past self-doubt while discussing the importance of inclusivity and diversity.'

     
    Were I the German hosts, I would expect, nay, I would DEMAND, some sort of payback. (I suppose that's the idea...)

    BTW, the Euro's gone up a bit compared to the $. Summer before last it was only a penny off of 1:1. This has it at ~ 1:1.06.
  286. @anonymous
    @Lurker

    Inner Party members do sometimes fool their own children like the Chairman of Time Warner during the time of "Cop Killer". He talked to his son so much about social justice that his son taught at an inner city school and was murdered by a student. Jewish power doesn't give perfect information to its own members because of its decentralized nature.

    Replies: @Art Deco, @Lurker

    Indeed – collateral damage. Omelette, eggs.

  287. @Art Deco
    @newrouter

    I correspond with a federal employee in the Detroit suburbs. In the past, his paycheck stopped during shutdowns. He has six children.

    Replies: @Jim Don Bob, @newrouter, @newrouter, @Mr. Anon, @Mike Tre

    Did he eventually get the money?

  288. @Art Deco
    @newrouter

    I correspond with a federal employee in the Detroit suburbs. In the past, his paycheck stopped during shutdowns. He has six children.

    Replies: @Jim Don Bob, @newrouter, @newrouter, @Mr. Anon, @Mike Tre

    Yes they get “their” money to play their part in this kabuki theater:

    “Unemployment: Federal employees who are furloughed are eligible for unemployment compensation in some states. But in many cases, they must return the money once they receive back pay.”

    https://www.govexec.com/pay-benefits/2023/09/your-guide-pay-and-benefits-during-shutdown/390423/

  289. @Anonymous
    @Reg Cæsar


    Capitalized Black has the same flaw as uncapitalized black, and African-American and all its cognates: does it apply to BH Obama and all the other non-ADOS representing an increasing portion of the darkest Americans? Who are they talking about? Who gets which benefits? Who owes whom?
     
    And you’ve perpetuated the error. The correct name and acronym is Descendants of American Slaves (DOAS). It is not African Descendants of Slaves (ADOS) or Africans Descended from Slaves (ADOS) or American Descendants of Slaves (ADOS) or Americans Descended from Slaves (ADOS).

    Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @The Germ Theory of Disease, @Reg Cæsar

    Arguing about ADOS vs DOAS is, well, much ADO about nothing. Like with LGBT vs the GLBT it replaced. I preferred the latter, as it could stand for “that Gross Lenny Bruce Term“.

  290. @Jenner Ickham Errican
    @Reg Cæsar



    The correct name and acronym is
     
    According to AP? MLA? Fowler’s? Chicago? OED?
     
    According to Ann Coulter and our host, Steve Sailer (and probably others):

    https://www.unz.com/?s=doas&authors=steve-sailer&ptype=isteve&sortby=earliest&Action=Search

    “ADOS” was coined by Black activists, which could be a reason for the conceptual flub, and which you ironically and unwittingly repeated in your comment. Orthographic idiocy, indeed.

    Wikipedia:

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

    American Descendants of Slavery (ADOS) is a term referring to descendants of enslaved Africans in the area that would become the United States (from its colonial period onward), and to the political movement of the same name. Both the concept and the movement grew out of the hashtag #ADOS created by Yvette Carnell and Antonio Moore.
     

    A distinguishing feature of the ADOS movement is its explicit emphasis on black Americans who descended from slavery and its disagreements with black immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean.
     
    Apparently the coiners didn’t formulate their term to exclusively name "descendants of enslaved Africans in the area that would become the United States (from its colonial period onward)". So stupid.

    DOAS at Harvard prefer “GAA”:

    https://www.unz.com/isteve/at-harvard-descendants-of-american-slaves-are-outnumbered-by-descendants-of-slave-sellers/

    Replies: @Nicholas Stix

    Well, I’m an “American Descendant of Slavery (ADOS),” even though I’m White. My people were slaves in Egypt, and maybe other places, too. And according to black supremacist scholars, all of the Egyptians were black, which means that my people were the slaves of blacks.

    So, where are my reparations?!

  291. @Art Deco
    @newrouter

    I correspond with a federal employee in the Detroit suburbs. In the past, his paycheck stopped during shutdowns. He has six children.

    Replies: @Jim Don Bob, @newrouter, @newrouter, @Mr. Anon, @Mike Tre

    I correspond with a federal employee in the Detroit suburbs. In the past, his paycheck stopped during shutdowns. He has six children.

    Yes, but he got paid for that time he was furloughed after the shutdown ends – and for time during which he did not work. At leas that happened for the last three government shutdowns (2018, 2013, and 1995).

    It can be a short-term inconvenience for some federal employees, depending on their circumstances. But in the end, it does amount to paid time off.

  292. @Peter Akuleyev
    @Mr. Anon

    I thought it was universally agreed upon that the SS were the bad guys. Has that changed?

    For people who aren't leftists that changed in 1945 when the USSR became our enemy and we decided that not everyone who fought Communism to defend their homelands was necessarily evil. You may remember how Ronald Reagan went to Bitburg in 1985 to honor even German SS veterans.

    It is darkly ironic how people who claim to be "conservative" swallow left-wing narratives whole in order to justify their parroting of pro-Russian propaganda.

    Replies: @HammerJack, @keypusher, @Mr. Anon, @Art Deco

    For people who aren’t leftists that changed in 1945 when the USSR became our enemy and we decided that not everyone who fought Communism to defend their homelands was necessarily evil. You may remember how Ronald Reagan went to Bitburg in 1985 to honor even German SS veterans.

    And he was pilloried for it too. No President would ever make that mistake again.

    It is darkly ironic how people who claim to be “conservative” swallow left-wing narratives whole in order to justify their parroting of pro-Russian propaganda.

    I’m not swallowing anything. Nor am I “parroting pro-Russian propaganda”. I recognize that past events, even WWII (perhaps especially WWII) were more complicated than our present cartoon-like popular history allows for. I understand that Ukrainians, who had good reason to hate the Soviet Union, might have seen sense in making common cause with Germany. None-the-less, I don’t think the SS and the NS regime were benign or beneficial (even to Germany, let alone Europe).

    And, as commenter HammerJack pointed out, in the current year, the Nazis, especially including the SS, are the ne-plus-ultra of evil. To ever even once be associated with them is to place yourself outside the bounds of decent society. These are the standards of the globalist neo-liberal order itself; this is the regime that they impose. And here, that same order is applauding an actual SS soldier. They are attempting to gaslight us into forgetting that those Ukrainian nationalists fought on the “wrong side” of the Great Crusade of 1939-1945.

    It isn’t parroting Russian propaganda to notice this. It is pointing out the hypocrisy of their bulls**t narrative.

    • Agree: Cagey Beast, Gandydancer
  293. @Dr. Rock
    It's going to be some top shelf, first rate, delicious schadenfreude, when all these companies achieve their "ideals" of over ample under-qualified blacks as a major part of their workforce... and the subpar performance really starts to bite into their bottom line!

    Because no functional company can survive, be effective, and be profitable if too many of the employees are overpaid/underqualified do-nothings. It just can't work. You can't conceal it, you can't make so much money that you can afford, and you can't undo it... So guess what happens instead!?

    You go under!

    And then, they're ALL going to get laid off, and re-enter the job market!

    Yep, good times ahead boys and girls!

    Enjoy drinking that tall glass of employment hemlock; I hope it tastes nice and sweet!

    If you think it was bitter going down, wait and see what it tastes like when it's coming back up!

    Replies: @EdwardM

    Because no functional company can survive, be effective, and be profitable if too many of the employees are overpaid/underqualified do-nothings. It just can’t work. You can’t conceal it, you can’t make so much money that you can afford, and you can’t undo it…

    Not necessarily. What if pretty much every company fits this description and large swaths of the economy are served by essentially shared monopolies? This is basically where we are and getting worse all the time.

    Service at airlines/hotels/car rental companies, cable companies, banks, large retailers, etc., to name a few industries, has gone to crap. This is due to a combination of unqualified employees and deliberate corporate policies, but those effects are intermingled.

    Every large company is pretty much a state-owned enterprise, due to stifling laws, regulations, and lawfare combined with cultural pollution. Yet they are still extracting nominal profits. (You could call this 21st-century fascism.) The losers, hidden in plain sight, are customers — who go through life with one frustrating microaggression after another — and society as a whole. All of life is like a trip to the DMV.

    As the saying goes, there is a lot of ruin in a nation.

    • Replies: @Achmed E. Newman
    @EdwardM

    Very good points, Edward. I was going to write back to Dr. Rock with pretty much the same, but I would have also used the term "bail-out". Notice during the PanicFest how much money was doled out, lots of "CARES Act" money going to big business (airlines, for example).

    Even if they take some losses from operating stupidity, inefficiently, and with the attitudes of the DMV, the Feral Gov't will keep them in business. They are "essential", see?

    Who's doing the bailing? That'd be the small businesses that will go under due to taxes and regulation and the taxpaying customers too. This is getting pretty close to USSR or Mao China territory, I would have to say.

    , @Dr. Rock
    @EdwardM

    Well, nothing you say is wrong, but I still contend that for most actual companies, you can only afford to have "so many" ignorant, incapable, late everyday, suing for discrimination all the time, mouthy, arrogant, disruptive, lazy... idiots, at any one time, or else your business is going to cease to function. You can't hide them all in HR either.

    There are still some immutable laws of business, and having too many non-firing pistons, is one of them.

    I guess we shall see soon enough...

  294. @Peter Akuleyev
    @Mr. Anon

    I thought it was universally agreed upon that the SS were the bad guys. Has that changed?

    For people who aren't leftists that changed in 1945 when the USSR became our enemy and we decided that not everyone who fought Communism to defend their homelands was necessarily evil. You may remember how Ronald Reagan went to Bitburg in 1985 to honor even German SS veterans.

    It is darkly ironic how people who claim to be "conservative" swallow left-wing narratives whole in order to justify their parroting of pro-Russian propaganda.

    Replies: @HammerJack, @keypusher, @Mr. Anon, @Art Deco

    You may remember how Ronald Reagan went to Bitburg in 1985 to honor even German SS veterans.
    ==
    No, German war dead generally. There were about 2,000 graves in the Bitburg cemetery. There were 49 graves of SS-waffen veterans buried there. The Chancellor of Germany noted that about 1/2 of them were under the age of 20 at the time of their death so excused from prosecution as war criminals per Allied postwar practice. There were also conscripts in SS-waffen in its late stages. SS-waffen was declared a criminal organization as a corporate body, but that does not mean every person enrolled in it was engaged in atrocities. SS-waffen was a military force; it did not run concentration camps &c.

  295. @Art Deco
    @newrouter

    I correspond with a federal employee in the Detroit suburbs. In the past, his paycheck stopped during shutdowns. He has six children.

    Replies: @Jim Don Bob, @newrouter, @newrouter, @Mr. Anon, @Mike Tre

    Perhaps your federally employed friend show move to U:

    US To Keep Paying Salaries For Tens Of Thousands Of Ukrainians During Government Shutdown

    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-keep-paying-salaries-tens-thousands-ukrainians-during-government-shutdown

  296. @Mr. Anon
    @Ben Kurtz


    His use of “Schmendrick” as a humorous nonsense filler word is a very Jewish tell.
     
    People who aren't Jewish sometimes use words like schmendrick, putz, schmuck, schlemiel, etc. Jews have developed a rich vocabulary of derisive language - it would be a shame not to use it.

    Replies: @Ben Kurtz

    “Schmendrick” is a somewhat obscure yiddishism, well behind schmuck and putz and schmaltz and such. And its casual use as a humorous nonsense filler word – as opposed to a term of derision purposely addressed to someone who deserves it – is a little too on-the-nose.

    Is this airtight proof beyond a reasonable doubt? No. But, to me, it rises to that 51% more-likely-than-not preponderance level of evidence that the writer is Jewish.

    • Replies: @Mr. Anon
    @Ben Kurtz


    “Schmendrick” is a somewhat obscure yiddishism, well behind schmuck and putz and schmaltz and such. And its casual use as a humorous nonsense filler word – as opposed to a term of derision purposely addressed to someone who deserves it – is a little too on-the-nose.
     
    I've only ever seen it used as a term of derision. It is certainly not nearly as common as the more popular "schmuck" and "putz". The first place I saw it used was in James Elroy's novel L.A. Confidential.
    , @Art Deco
    @Ben Kurtz

    The only person I've ever heard use it in meatspace is a lapsed professor whose blood is deep blue. His father I met once. The man's accent was difficult to place. It was explained to me that his was the old patrician accent of Charleston, SC, now extinct.

  297. @EdwardM
    @Dr. Rock


    Because no functional company can survive, be effective, and be profitable if too many of the employees are overpaid/underqualified do-nothings. It just can’t work. You can’t conceal it, you can’t make so much money that you can afford, and you can’t undo it…
     
    Not necessarily. What if pretty much every company fits this description and large swaths of the economy are served by essentially shared monopolies? This is basically where we are and getting worse all the time.

    Service at airlines/hotels/car rental companies, cable companies, banks, large retailers, etc., to name a few industries, has gone to crap. This is due to a combination of unqualified employees and deliberate corporate policies, but those effects are intermingled.

    Every large company is pretty much a state-owned enterprise, due to stifling laws, regulations, and lawfare combined with cultural pollution. Yet they are still extracting nominal profits. (You could call this 21st-century fascism.) The losers, hidden in plain sight, are customers -- who go through life with one frustrating microaggression after another -- and society as a whole. All of life is like a trip to the DMV.

    As the saying goes, there is a lot of ruin in a nation.

    Replies: @Achmed E. Newman, @Dr. Rock

    Very good points, Edward. I was going to write back to Dr. Rock with pretty much the same, but I would have also used the term “bail-out”. Notice during the PanicFest how much money was doled out, lots of “CARES Act” money going to big business (airlines, for example).

    Even if they take some losses from operating stupidity, inefficiently, and with the attitudes of the DMV, the Feral Gov’t will keep them in business. They are “essential”, see?

    Who’s doing the bailing? That’d be the small businesses that will go under due to taxes and regulation and the taxpaying customers too. This is getting pretty close to USSR or Mao China territory, I would have to say.

  298. @Kylie
    Nice "work" if you can get it.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12559675/michelle-obama-pay-munich-conference-speech.html?ito=native_share_article-top

    Replies: @Achmed E. Newman

    Thanks, Kylie.

    That’s 3/4 million bucks for ONE HOUR, for those who didn’t want to read about the ex-First-Wookie.

    The 59-year-old picked up the eye-watering check for speaking to a start-up event held on the sidelines of the annual Oktoberfest beer festival, two sources close to the conference organizers said.

    According to the event’s webpage, the ex-attorney was set to speak to some 5,000 attendees on how to ‘push past self-doubt while discussing the importance of inclusivity and diversity.’

    Were I the German hosts, I would expect, nay, I would DEMAND, some sort of payback. (I suppose that’s the idea…)

    BTW, the Euro’s gone up a bit compared to the $. Summer before last it was only a penny off of 1:1. This has it at ~ 1:1.06.

  299. @Corn
    @Ben Kurtz

    You’d be surprised. I am acquainted with a lady whose sister wanted to go to veterinary school. Sister applied to 4 or 5 veterinary schools in the US and each wanted to know what actions she had taken to promote diversity in her community. This girl was raised in a rather non diverse farming or ranching town in the Dakotas.

    She then applied to a veterinary school at a Canadian university. Canadian veterinary school wanted to know two things: her grades and why she wanted to be a veterinarian. She is now going to veterinary school in Canada.

    Replies: @Ben Kurtz

    That is incredibly dispiriting.

    • Agree: Corn
  300. @Ben Kurtz
    @Mr. Anon

    "Schmendrick" is a somewhat obscure yiddishism, well behind schmuck and putz and schmaltz and such. And its casual use as a humorous nonsense filler word - as opposed to a term of derision purposely addressed to someone who deserves it - is a little too on-the-nose.

    Is this airtight proof beyond a reasonable doubt? No. But, to me, it rises to that 51% more-likely-than-not preponderance level of evidence that the writer is Jewish.

    Replies: @Mr. Anon, @Art Deco

    “Schmendrick” is a somewhat obscure yiddishism, well behind schmuck and putz and schmaltz and such. And its casual use as a humorous nonsense filler word – as opposed to a term of derision purposely addressed to someone who deserves it – is a little too on-the-nose.

    I’ve only ever seen it used as a term of derision. It is certainly not nearly as common as the more popular “schmuck” and “putz”. The first place I saw it used was in James Elroy’s novel L.A. Confidential.

  301. @Ben Kurtz
    @Mr. Anon

    "Schmendrick" is a somewhat obscure yiddishism, well behind schmuck and putz and schmaltz and such. And its casual use as a humorous nonsense filler word - as opposed to a term of derision purposely addressed to someone who deserves it - is a little too on-the-nose.

    Is this airtight proof beyond a reasonable doubt? No. But, to me, it rises to that 51% more-likely-than-not preponderance level of evidence that the writer is Jewish.

    Replies: @Mr. Anon, @Art Deco

    The only person I’ve ever heard use it in meatspace is a lapsed professor whose blood is deep blue. His father I met once. The man’s accent was difficult to place. It was explained to me that his was the old patrician accent of Charleston, SC, now extinct.

  302. @EdwardM
    @Dr. Rock


    Because no functional company can survive, be effective, and be profitable if too many of the employees are overpaid/underqualified do-nothings. It just can’t work. You can’t conceal it, you can’t make so much money that you can afford, and you can’t undo it…
     
    Not necessarily. What if pretty much every company fits this description and large swaths of the economy are served by essentially shared monopolies? This is basically where we are and getting worse all the time.

    Service at airlines/hotels/car rental companies, cable companies, banks, large retailers, etc., to name a few industries, has gone to crap. This is due to a combination of unqualified employees and deliberate corporate policies, but those effects are intermingled.

    Every large company is pretty much a state-owned enterprise, due to stifling laws, regulations, and lawfare combined with cultural pollution. Yet they are still extracting nominal profits. (You could call this 21st-century fascism.) The losers, hidden in plain sight, are customers -- who go through life with one frustrating microaggression after another -- and society as a whole. All of life is like a trip to the DMV.

    As the saying goes, there is a lot of ruin in a nation.

    Replies: @Achmed E. Newman, @Dr. Rock

    Well, nothing you say is wrong, but I still contend that for most actual companies, you can only afford to have “so many” ignorant, incapable, late everyday, suing for discrimination all the time, mouthy, arrogant, disruptive, lazy… idiots, at any one time, or else your business is going to cease to function. You can’t hide them all in HR either.

    There are still some immutable laws of business, and having too many non-firing pistons, is one of them.

    I guess we shall see soon enough…

  303. @Anonymous
    @Isabel Archer


    Just before my abdominal surgery I met the anesthesiologist, and was dismayed to see he was black. In answer to my question, he assured me (in a slightly annoyed manner) that he was board certified. After the surgery I discovered that I could no longer sing or shout loudly: this because my vocal cords had been permanently bowed from the use of a too-large breathing tube during the operation.
     
    Did you sue?

    Replies: @Isabel Archer

    No. Suing for medical malpractice is an iffy business, it wasn’t that big an issue, and I needed to get on with my life.

  304. @Anon7
    OT: Biden finally decided to bring it all out in the open and make it official. The Century Initiative, as it's called in Canada, is now on for America. One billion people in the continental United States by 2100, achieved through mass immigration of people who can't speak English, have no useful skills, have not experience with democratic government, who desperately need free handouts, whom we will support with money stolen by taxes and inflation.

    "We've put in policies to process people in a fair and fast way. We're significantly expanding legal pathways so businesses can get the workers they need. So families don't need to wait for a decade to be together. I've also directed by team to make historic increases in the number of refugees admitted from Latin America... Supporting states and cities that have seen a surge of immigrants... Temporary protections for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans.

    https://twitter.com/atensnut/status/1705582523609129097?s=20

    Replies: @Richard B

    Great post! Thanks!

    “We’ve put in policies to process people in a fair and fast way. We’re significantly expanding legal pathways so businesses can get the workers they need. So families don’t need to wait for a decade to be together. I’ve also directed by team to make historic increases in the number of refugees admitted from Latin America… Supporting states and cities that have seen a surge of immigrants… Temporary protections for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans.”

    A better example getting in someone’s face while talking past them would be hard to imagine.

    In fact, from here on out, that’s exactly how each and every politician, in the West in general and the USA in particular, will be talking to its host population.

    Also, that quote confirms, for me at least, what I’ve felt for some time (and I doubt I’m alone in this). That mass immigration is really about population reduction. How so?

    Well, to borrow to use Steve’s language, if you wanted to reduce the population while appearing humane before the deed, you wouldn’t Invade, you’d Invite.

    Once here they’d all be ever so gently placed inside of so many Smart Cities scattered across the country and Viola! Instant Population Reduction!

    Of course, this may or may not be the idea. But would anyone put it past such a ruthless hostile elite? Especially since they have gone out of their way to prove to the world that they will do anything to stay in power.

  305. @Ralph L
    she does not try to fob off blame for her specific mistakes

    Mistakes? Wasn't she deliberately setting up some black applicants to profit from lucrative lawsuits?

    Replies: @Unladen Swallow

    Her mistake was thinking de facto intelligence tests and peer reviews making up 60% of the grade would benefit blacks. He knew it would benefit whites and Asians the most and benefit blacks the least.

  306. @Hypnotoad666
    @slumber_j

    Great movie. Coincidentally, I rewatched it a couple weeks ago when I treated myself to a mini-Australia film fest of Breaker Morant, Picnic at Hanging Rock, and Gallipoli. Aussie cinema had a real moment circa 1980 for some reason.

    Replies: @slumber_j, @Sollipsist

    “Yahoo Serious Film Festival”

  307. @He's Spartacus
    "whites don't sue"
    Maybe that's what should change. En masse.

    Replies: @Gandydancer

    How? James Damore tried and the EEOC said, in effect, that it was OK to discriminate against him.

  308. @Mr. Anon
    @slumber_j

    Breaker Morant - a great movie.

    Replies: @Gandydancer

    But bad history. Notable among its omissions is the murder of Roelf van Staden and his teenage sons Roelf and Christiaan. Because it would he hard to square that with the picture it paints of Morant doing merely what was ordered and arguably militarily justified (unless you include in the latter, as with the shooting of the Rev. Hesse and his omitted native driver, perhaps as spies rather than witnesses, the extermination of the entire Boer race to advance the British gold grab).

    Morant was in fact a fraud, a criminal, and a nasty bit of work, even if his trial was an exercise in CYA.

  309. @prime noticer
    "Black people correctly sense that whites are rigging the game when they’re not looking. They just can’t imagine the truth: that we’re rigging it for them."

    this is the case even in sports. i'm talking about on the field. not all the visible and obvious rigging that is done to get more coaches and management positions. i'm flat out saying, even the number of african players in sports is rigged to be artificially high.

    no, it's not the extremely efficient system or total meritocracy even academic experts imagine it must be. it's fairly efficient even without the rigging, but the general trends of sports ability are used as cover to ruthlessly rig things in most sports. it is one of the few places where africans can excel. and as the DEI writer correctly observes, other people getting stiffed almost never sue. so the people in charge can significantly over-rig things without have to worry much about any pushback.

    in the US anyway. seems to be evident that this has come to soccer in europe to some degree.

    Replies: @anonymous, @Gandydancer

    Do you think the number of blacks in the 100m finals is the result of rigging, too?

  310. @Pixo
    @Prester John

    “ It’s called “We’ll give you anything, just…, oh PLEASE! Don’t burn my house down!””

    More like there’s a lot of ruin in a nation as big and rich as the USA.

    The actual thought process was “bribes, abandoning inner cities, and wishful thinking will be easier and more pleasant for us than state violence to keep the public order.”

    The whites weren’t willing “give anything.” They partly ran out of generosity and patience starting with Nixon and then Reagan with big welfare cuts and prison construction.

    Replies: @Gandydancer, @Gandydancer

    There were big welfare cuts with Nixon and then Reagan?

    A quick duckduckgo turns up this: “At the onset of the War on Poverty in 1965, Census issued its first report devoted specifically to poverty….in the late 1960s through the 1970s, the federal government added an array of new transfer programs: Medicaid, food stamps, WIC, and cash grants through the EITC. The school lunch and subsidized housing programs were greatly expanded. By 1980, inflation-adjusted welfare spending had tripled relative to the beginning of the War on Poverty, reaching $391.9 billion in constant 2019 dollars.” https://www.heritage.org/welfare/report/largest-welfare-increase-us-history-will-boost-government-support-76400-poor-family

    Nixon was president , 1969 to 1974, so the tripling was not prevented on his watch. Then Reagan was president 1981 to 1989. Another duckduckgo turns up this: (consult Table 1): https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v54n11/v54n11p28.pdf#:~:text=During%20fiscal%20year%201989%2C%20Federal%2C%20State%2C%20and%20local,rose%20from%201988%20to%201989%2C%20reaching%2053.0%20percent.

    Not seeing any semblance of big, or any, welfare cuts in that table. But I haven’t examined it closely, so make your case.

  311. @Pixo
    @Prester John

    “ It’s called “We’ll give you anything, just…, oh PLEASE! Don’t burn my house down!””

    More like there’s a lot of ruin in a nation as big and rich as the USA.

    The actual thought process was “bribes, abandoning inner cities, and wishful thinking will be easier and more pleasant for us than state violence to keep the public order.”

    The whites weren’t willing “give anything.” They partly ran out of generosity and patience starting with Nixon and then Reagan with big welfare cuts and prison construction.

    Replies: @Gandydancer, @Gandydancer

    …whites … partly ran out of generosity and patience starting with Nixon and then Reagan with big welfare cuts and prison construction.”

    That happened? Show me.

    Consult Table 1, perhaps?: https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v54n11/v54n11p28.pdf

  312. @Curle
    @Nicholas Stix

    “President Trump had every opportunity to stop The Big Steal by rolling back voting rights violations prior to the 2020 election”

    How was he to do such a thing? Voting is managed by the states. Further, what do you mean by the phrase “voting rights violations”? What federal enforcement body has the capacity to take on this STATE function all across the country and all at once?

    Replies: @Gandydancer

    It being a “STATE function” didn’t prevent passage and enforcement of the Voting Rights Act, did it?

    Presidential elections are subject to oversight by the Federal government. And, e.g., if Trump had a clue he would have fought back against runaway COVID-justified absentee ballot inflation, often contrary to legislature-promulgated rules (contrary to the US Constitution, btw) BEFORE the Steal. But he was asleep at the wheel, just as Stix notes.

  313. @John Milton's Ghost
    @Corpse Tooth

    Corvinus is _maybe_ trying to offer a funny tautology. The future always belongs to the next generation. Ultimately the future will belong to the Idiocracy.

    Replies: @Gandydancer

    Ultimately the future will belong to the Idiocracy.

    That’s not the future, that’s now.

  314. @Art Deco
    @Nicholas Stix

    Trump was arguably flat-footed, but the primary responsibility for guerilla warfare contra Democrats' efforts to ruin ballot security are with the party apparatus. That's state chairmen primarily, assisted by the RNC. The Republican National Chairman the last six years has been....Mitt Romney's niece.

    Replies: @Gandydancer

    Bullshit. That Romney’s niece is still chairman of the RNC is just another example of Trump being a gormless putz, not evidence against it.

  315. @keypusher
    @Peter Akuleyev


    You may remember how Ronald Reagan went to Bitburg in 1985 to honor even German SS veterans.
     
    No, I don't remember that, because it didn't happen.

    Reagan planned to go to a cemetery to lay a wreath where thousands of German soldiers were buried. And then someone discovered that there were something like 80 Waffen-SS soldiers buried in the cemetery, and it became such a huge controversy that he almost canceled. He finally went through with it, though, because Helmut Kohl begged him to. In no way, shape, or form did Reagan go to Bitburg to honor SS-men.

    Communists are bad, Nazis are worse. It's not complicated.

    Replies: @Gandydancer

    Of course it’s complicated, quite apart from the fact that Commies are at least as bad as Nazis.

    Irrespective of that question there was no reason not to honor the Waffen SS dead along with the Wehrmacht dead at Bitburg… or neither. The Clean Wehrmacht myth is a myth, and, anyway, by 1943 recruits were drafted into the Waffen SS just like they were drafted into the Wehrmacht. Except Himmler had first call on such resources, except when Goering did. Ideological or racial requirements were long gone. Indeed there were a couple RUSSIAN P.O.W. SS divisions, with some Russo-German volk but also untermensch.

    I specify ’43 since that’s when this Ukrainian/Canadian joined the Galician SS division. He was 18, iirc (a volunteer rather than a draftee) and he says, I understand, that his motivations were nationalistic rather than National Socialist. Maybe he was a Nazi, but that’s not remotely established, or even all that probable.

  316. @keypusher
    @William Badwhite


    Also, as I’ve said before, Trump’s single biggest failure was to sign an EO eliminating birthright citizenship for illegals. It would have ended up at the SCOTUS where it would have had a good shot at going away.
     
    I wouldn't say non-lawyers should never post about legal topics, but you've got a good chance of making a fall-on-your-face fool of yourself when you do.

    Replies: @Gandydancer

    So, you’re a lawyer, then?

    If you think the 14A guarantees birthright citizenship than your legal instruction left you ignorant of actual US Constitutional history.

    Read the debate on inserting the citizenship clause into the 14A, then get back to me.

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