From Politico.EU:
Europe’s migrants are here to stay
It’s time to start crafting our policies accordingly.
By Dimitris AvramopoulosDimitris Avramopoulos is European commissioner for migration, home affairs and citizenship:
Migration is an emotional, sensitive and political issue. It has helped determine elections across Europe and the world. But we can no longer talk only about crisis management: Migration is our new reality. The time has come to start thinking, talking and acting about migration in a more comprehensive and long-term way, putting in place policies aimed at promoting integration and inclusion.
… Unfortunately, the recent discourse on migration — influenced by rising nationalism, populism and xenophobia — has limited our opportunities to put in place smart, forward-looking migration policies, at both the national and European levels.
It is foolish to think that migration will disappear if one adopts harsh language. It is naïve to think that our societies will remain homogenous and migration-free if one erects fences. It is unwise to think that migration will remain on the other side of the Mediterranean, if one only shows solidarity in financial terms.
We must start to be honest with those citizens who are concerned about how we will manage migration. We may not be able to stop migration. But we can be better, smarter and more proactive at managing this phenomenon. However, we cannot achieve this if we don’t accept a change in attitude and a change in our narrative.
The EU has granted protection to more than 700,000 people last year. They have found safety in Europe, but we also need to make sure they find a home. This is not only a moral imperative. It is also an economic and social imperative for our aging continent — and one of the biggest challenges for the near future.
There has been some debate about diversity and inclusion recently — including through discussions initiated by POLITICO — but not nearly enough to prompt the changes that our societies need to be ready for the realities of the 21st century.
… But leaving these long-term considerations out of the conversation would be a mistake — one that we’ve made in the past and for which we are still paying the social and economic costs today.
At the end of the day, we all need to be ready to accept migration, mobility and diversity as the new norm and tailor our policies accordingly. The only way to make our asylum and migration policies future-proof, is to collectively change our way of thinking first.
Just lie back, close your eyes, and think of Jean-Claude Juncker.
Look, is that enough conversation for you or what? You didn’t think “a conversation” means you get a say in what is going to happen to you?
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Naked globalism.
(((Avramopoulos)))
Every single time
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That’s just a repeat of the worn out old nonsense: nothing can be done about it and besides, it’s good for the aging population. It could be stopped tomorrow with the display of will to stop it; just ratchet up the response until it stops. Insofar as the invaders being needed that’s a bad joke, they’re all on welfare. There’s no end to the supply of sellouts who’ll push the propaganda line for a paycheck as this Greek traitor demonstrates.
Everything they do is self-parodic. The wierd, cool, anything but sexual color choices. The random not-quite-floral squiggle on only one side. The sterile, white, sans-serif font in allcaps. The Orwellian or Maoist shoehorned logic in a painted slogan. THIS IS THE WAY IT IS. SOURCE, CREDIBILITY AND REASONING ARE IMPLIED; DISAGREEMENT IS PROVEN NON-EXISTENT BY THE SAME MEANS. The novel impression that sex ought to be scented with something, like a handkerchief or a shoe (as opposed to, y’know, itself). And as always, “and it’s beautiful.”
I feel confronted by space aliens with wildly different digestive systems, who for some reason really want me to eat a cookie, so they won’t shut up about how shiny and heavy it is.
Now that places like Syria are stabilized and at least made as safe as they were before the crisis, can the refugees be made to return home?
The answer is a jasmine-scented no.
Migrant activists: “Never fear! Africa will never be stabilized enough to be a safe haven for those fleeing its chaos.”
Time to review Mr. Sailer’s “The World’s Most Important Graph” and think happy vibrant-Brown Viagra-fueled thoughts… These guys probably don’t NEED anything like Viagra as the enervated impotent Europeans do. Nevertheless because they enjoy the equal benefits and privileges of the socialized health programs, that European taxpayers generously finance, they have a right to every advantage that modern science and medicine offer.
Why call them ‘migrants’?
Why not call them invaders and usurpers?
And get a load of this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Fade
A dirty Turk makes a movie about a German woman married to a Kurd being bombed by Neo-Nazis. Right, because all the terror in Europe right now are done by Neo-Nazis.
Let these shameless leeches in and they shi* all over you.
Take over white womb and then blame whites of terrorism that is mostly done by Muslims.
At least if whites let non-whites in and keep the pride, they will have the moral high-ground over the newcomers. Whites can say, “we were nice enough to let you in, so you be grateful and act nice and respect us.”
But whites not only let these leeches in but apologize and act cucky.
Whites can only feel good about being white when working to undermine whiteness. So, the message that these simple-minded leeches get is “You owe us more and more and more.”
Whites not only cede territory but authority. The invasive leeches who come to take the land are taken to the moral high ground.
Ideas matter. When bad ideas become the Template, it shapes all the debate.
The moment the West committed to Diversity as the Template, invaders and collaborators of globalism were given the moral high ground while patriots were demeaned as evil.
By rules of the Template, the invaders and cuck-collaboraters get to morally accuse while patriots must defend and explain themselves.
The Template must change. Diversity is Colonization. Inclusion is Invasion. These are not migrants but hordes and invaders.
He falls in love with a sexy blonde Australian girl (Who has no morals and does an impromptu striptease for our dashing protagonist for no particular reason than she is a gori whore.) for whom he spurns the nice Indian girl who is an activist against racist Australians (He decides their protest is silly before realising the error of his ways and becoming an ethnic activist in a country he's been in for a week.) before he realises he should have been with the good Indian girl all along. (But only after sleeping with the blonde girl.) The blonde girls brother is the Aryan-looking ordinary mechanic whose alter ego is masked man who breaks into Indian immigrants homes at night and executes them with a gun!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6d6YTo5RPEReplies: @BB753
So good of him to spell this out for all Europeans. Your EU overloads have unilaterally decided to change Europe in a quasi Muslim-African region! European kindergarten classes already reflect this onslaught.
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Essentially this is just another one of those opinions that can be chalked up to the theory of inevitability. Gaslight your opponents into thinking it’s over and resistance is futile. That way you can win the battle without even fighting.
Just remember it took the Spanish almost 700 years, but they did get their country back. Nothing is inevitable if people are willing to contest it.
Let them gaslight. One day, someone will light a fire and then BOOM.
Written by a Greek. Lowlife weasels. No wonder Greeks lost to the Ottomans. Such two-faced no-good punks.
I wonder.. what was the point of Greeks regaining independence if Greece and Europe are to be flooded by Africans and Muslims?
Disgusting. Eek, it's a Greek.Replies: @Darth Dharmakīrti, @silviosilver
That sign is crazy than anything Orwellian.
Big Brotha be Humping Yo’ Ho’.
I guess they could exit all the Nato wars … nah! That won’t help.
Essentially this is just another one of those opinions that can be chalked up to the theory of inevitability. Gaslight your opponents into thinking it's over and resistance is futile. That way you can win the battle without even fighting.
Just remember it took the Spanish almost 700 years, but they did get their country back. Nothing is inevitable if people are willing to contest it.Replies: @Anon
Gaslight your opponents into thinking it’s over and resistance is futile.
Let them gaslight. One day, someone will light a fire and then BOOM.
Written by a Greek. Lowlife weasels. No wonder Greeks lost to the Ottomans. Such two-faced no-good punks.
I wonder.. what was the point of Greeks regaining independence if Greece and Europe are to be flooded by Africans and Muslims?
Disgusting. Eek, it’s a Greek.
Alas...
Look again at that big, bold and shameless sign. It is naked Feminism that is the root cause, globalism is a symptom
[meta note, sorry about redundant posting {cf comments 2 & 4} but there appear to have been site issues. For a while there I couldn’t load either iSteve or Unz dot com. Loaded various other sites without a problem.]
Also “TruePundit” is saying that Roy Moore is going ahead with the investigation into districts that voted for Doug Jones by orders of magnitude more than for Hillary.
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Like Hungary.
Like Italy could, if the European Court of Human Rights didn’t fine it for sending them back to Libya.
“Mobility” used to be about introducing bikes, buses, and electric cars driven by non-nuclear windmills definitely not burning coal so that one can to one’s white-collar job in the morning at 09:00 without being in a smoky highway traffic jam from 06:00 to 08:55?
Now it has a new meaning!
Better jasmine scented than rape scented, but what’s the story behind that photograph? Something other than social workers’ jungle fever?
Let them gaslight. One day, someone will light a fire and then BOOM.
Written by a Greek. Lowlife weasels. No wonder Greeks lost to the Ottomans. Such two-faced no-good punks.
I wonder.. what was the point of Greeks regaining independence if Greece and Europe are to be flooded by Africans and Muslims?
Disgusting. Eek, it's a Greek.Replies: @Darth Dharmakīrti, @silviosilver
He’s not a Greek, not a real one anyway–he’s Jewish
That wierdly Maoist style has been the favorite feminine touch in decor for the past two decades at least. Women love buying and hanging post-New Age commands about how to live an ideal life. “Eat Pray Love” or “Laugh” or “Every day pick flowers” and so on. It’s so in-your-face, bizarre, and nakedly totalitarian that it was only tolerated because men never pay attention to women. It’s right out of The Village: “Questions: a pain to oneself, a burden to others.”
Mark my words, this “sex with a refugee” meme is going places. It’s extra offensive to white men, it’s phrased in a hip quirky way and it allows women to talk about sex without sounding like a slut (it’s a political statement you know)
> We must start to be honest with those citizens who are concerned about how we will manage migration.
Pretty funny, in its Alice in Wonderland way. This sentence pretends that there are people who meet the “citizen” criteria, and exercise the rights and responsibilities of “citizenship.” So who are those “citizens” and how might they be distinguished from other people?
Every single timeReplies: @syonredux
Is he Jewish? His WIKIPEDIA bio doesn’t mention it, and WIKIPEDIA is usually pretty relentless about mentioning Jewish ancestry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimitris_Avramopoulos
1) -poulos is a patronymic, in this case derived from Avram, which is the Hellenized form of "Abraham." Τhis by itself frequently denotes Jewish descent.
2) He made a speech to the AJC, erected a monument to the Jews while he was Mayor of Athens, and in general has played up his ultra-Zionism at every opportunity. It's true that in the aforementioned speech he referred to himself as "an old and good friend of the Jewish people" rather than as a Jew per se, but this is also not in and of itself dispositive of his not being Jewish or at least having (say) a Jewish father as opposed to a Jewish mother, and would furthermore be exactly the kind of "Schrödinger's Jew" shapeshifting that they apparently can't help but engage in.
3) Multiple (admittedly unconfirmed) reports of his being Jewish on Greek-language internet forums.
If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck and demands the eradication of European ethnic homogeneity through forced miscegenation like a duck...Replies: @AnotherDad
9.9 million Greek citizens
0.9 million foreign citizens
[10.8 million Total Population]
- (est.) 6,000 to 8,000 Jews in Greece: <0.1% Jewish
Avramopoulos is neither Jewish, nor are any of his parents converts to Orthodox Christianity. His family is from a part of Greece which never had any significant Jewish presence, and there are less than 10,000 Jews living in Greece today (the Nazis saw to that during the German occupation), none of whom have a prominent role in Greek politics.
Avramopoulos himself started off his career as a diplomat and quickly entered politics at age 40 as one of the rising stars in the Greek Conservative party. After serving as Mayor of Athens during the time when Athens won the nomination for the 2004 Olympics, he formed his own political party, which had the overwhelming support of most major media outlets in Greece, but no support from the voters, so after just 1 year (and despite getting up to 20% in... uh... polls) he closed shop and returned to the Conservative party. Later, having failed to win the Party Presidency, he took ministerial positions in successive Greek governments, until he settled on his current role.
Avramopoulos was once regarded as a serious contender for the role of Prime Minister in Greece, but he repeatedly failed to gain popular support. He's in his 60s now, and with his dream washed away, what's better for him than getting a nice, cozy place in the European Commission?
The takeaway here is that someone who failed to get the people's vote in his own country now gets to have a say and dictate policy on all those European nations' future. And no, he doesn't have to be Jewish, just self-serving and power-hungry.
The thing I wonder about is whether or not white European migration to US might start to increase, and whether that’s a good thing.
What about European-Americans migrating back to Europe? If they need more people (which actually they don't) why wouldn't they want us? Too white? Are they that racist? Sadly, I know--many of them are.
But still--we could migrate to Europe and they could send their third-world people to America on a one-for-one basis. Same with South Africa. Only thing is, the (ones) responsible for the wreckage wouldn't be able to come along. And they've a track record of parasitism and nation-wrecking. They'd most definitely want to come along.Replies: @Stan Adams
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimitris_AvramopoulosReplies: @J.Ross, @Anonym, @Darth Dharmakīrti, @AnotherGuessModel, @Hail, @Anonymous
My reply to Mr Brooks appears to have gotten eaten in the earlier chaos, but I observed the same thing. Avram (Abraham) is a gentile name in Orthodox Eastern Europe. His wiki page shows solid globalist credentials though — Club of Rome, UNESCO, World Bank, “global policy” and national development courses at almost every university in the West.
I think about the creators of this sort of garbage, and reflect.
Then a completely unrelated idea comes to me again. Suicidal white men are such a wasted resource. Just think of what they can do with some motivation.
A great film btw, directed and rewritten by Milius. The (((studio))) switched Dreyfuss for Danny Glover, lest white people get the idea that they can build and staff the economies and militaries to enable this sort of capability by themselves.
May I draw attention to the use, twice, of the codeword “smart”? In British English, which I imagine is the form Mr Avramopoulos learned, it is never a compliment to call someone smart. A star student is “brainy”, the class clown “thinks he is smart”. Insiders explain the”smart move” to outsiders and tell them what the “smart money” is doing. More recently a specialised usage has appeared.
The public is to be “nudged” to accept “smart meters” (electricity meters which report your consumption back to Big Data). Similarly, journeys are paid for with “smartcards” tracking your travel. David Cameron’s science minister (who party spin doctors gave the nickname Two Brains), writing about the Chinese space programme, opined that “if they are smart” they will put a woman in space. “Smart” in this sense is code for “if you know what’s good for you”. Keep your eyes open for it, it never means any good.
It's not something generally commented on in the books and I wonder how much of a consideration that really was.Replies: @David Davenport, @Meimou
We have to wreck the Continent in order to save it.
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Not sure. The Avram = Abram is an indicator, and the AJC et al fete him a lot.
Let them gaslight. One day, someone will light a fire and then BOOM.
Written by a Greek. Lowlife weasels. No wonder Greeks lost to the Ottomans. Such two-faced no-good punks.
I wonder.. what was the point of Greeks regaining independence if Greece and Europe are to be flooded by Africans and Muslims?
Disgusting. Eek, it's a Greek.Replies: @Darth Dharmakīrti, @silviosilver
Yeah, if only Greeks were staunch restrictionists like the British, Germans and French.
Alas…
That good for an aging population thing is pretty rich. I doubt whether many old people even like to drive through their old neighborhoods, let alone walk.
The rhetoric in the West now is as shockingly bizarre as any loyalty test or slogan ever uttered in the Iranian Revolution or Mao’s China. I’m beginning to think 90% of these people are just amoral social climbers. In any single party state, they would all be members of the party. In any puppet state, they’d all be puppets.
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I’m going to go with the balance of evidence:
1) -poulos is a patronymic, in this case derived from Avram, which is the Hellenized form of “Abraham.” Τhis by itself frequently denotes Jewish descent.
2) He made a speech to the AJC, erected a monument to the Jews while he was Mayor of Athens, and in general has played up his ultra-Zionism at every opportunity. It’s true that in the aforementioned speech he referred to himself as “an old and good friend of the Jewish people” rather than as a Jew per se, but this is also not in and of itself dispositive of his not being Jewish or at least having (say) a Jewish father as opposed to a Jewish mother, and would furthermore be exactly the kind of “Schrödinger’s Jew” shapeshifting that they apparently can’t help but engage in.
3) Multiple (admittedly unconfirmed) reports of his being Jewish on Greek-language internet forums.
If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck and demands the eradication of European ethnic homogeneity through forced miscegenation like a duck…
First off after the Nazis\holocaust there are only the most trivial numbers of Greek Jews. (And I think most of the ones who survived left for Israel or more lucrative opportunities in the US.)
Secondly--and more my point--sadly, spouting this you-must-lie-back-and-accommodate-the-invaders, globo-mush is now so thoroughly part of the ideology of the liberal elites, and especially EU bureaucrats that it's become a weak signal for ethnicity. I think in the US the over-the-top, want-to-drown-you-in-brown and you-don't-deserve-a-nation stuff still has a bit more of an ethnic signal. Even the fellow travelers don't sound so loony. But EU bureaucrats?--they really have drunk the kool-aid.
While calling out Jewish minoritarianism and anti-nationalism where they exist is fine. But we must all admit this cancer has now spread well beyond the Jews. Just saying "the Jews" doesn't cut it. This ideology, these lies have to be confronted directly--firmly, clearly, logically, aggressively--as the open call to white genocide that they are--pure evil. And people who spew them need to be confronted, debunked, embarrassed, harassed, mocked and ridiculed--Jew and gentile alike.Replies: @laura r
Imagine a European commissioner for migration, home affairs and citizenship replacing the word ‘only’ with ‘even’ in that sentence.
The US is further gone than Europe. We’re already past the tipping point. Even if the invasion were to stop tomorrow, demographics would ensure our demise.
What about European-Americans migrating back to Europe? If they need more people (which actually they don’t) why wouldn’t they want us? Too white? Are they that racist? Sadly, I know–many of them are.
But still–we could migrate to Europe and they could send their third-world people to America on a one-for-one basis. Same with South Africa. Only thing is, the (ones) responsible for the wreckage wouldn’t be able to come along. And they’ve a track record of parasitism and nation-wrecking. They’d most definitely want to come along.
If your ethnic background is, say, one-quarter English, one-quarter French, one-quarter Irish, and one-quarter German, where is your ancestral homeland? When you "go back," where do you go?
To give but one example, Vox Day has said that anyone whose ethnic background is not at least 50% English should be expelled from America.
By his standard, I am not American, and neither are my parents or any of my grandparents. (Neither is Steve, as far as I know.) My maternal grandfather, the most British of the lot, emphasized his *Scottish* roots.
When my mother lived in London for a year in the '70s, she found employment in the office of an eccentric Scotsman. He noted with approval that her Scottish ancestry was evident. (He coached her to pass as a Canadian.) Presumably, he should have been expelled from England.
Both of my paternal grandparents were from Minnesota and came from Nordic stock.
(Like Day, I have a non-trivial, verified degree of American Indian ancestry, through my maternal grandmother.)
Day would have, say, Irish-Americans expelled and repatriated to Ireland. But many if not most self-identified Irish-Americans are mixed in with other groups. What do we do with the mutts?
(And then there are guys like a kid I knew in high school. He was three-quarters Irish and one-quarter Italian, but he affected a full-blown wannabe-guido persona. It was hilarious.)
The idea of turning Europe into a "pan-white homeland" for American refugees is ludicrous. The "pan-white" concept, in practice, leads to something like the European Union. And we all know how well the EU has turned out.Replies: @Anonymous
“Avram” isn’t sufficient to establish him as Jewish, that much is true, but it’s far from a “gentile name.” Given all the other evidence I’m betting he has a Jewish father or grandfather but was raised Orthodox because of a Christian mother or grandmother.
Oh, well.
Next thing you can expect is for the membership rules to change at the local club:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hurlingham_Club
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Members must be proposed and seconded by two current full members of the club. There is currently a thirty-year waiting list for membership, but children of current members are given preference when vacancies do arise.”
Because we’re all so welcoming…
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/sex-refugees-mural-backfires-shoreditch-artist-robert-montgomery-1651949
I believe the misinterpretation he’s referring to is the non-cuckold reading, which is offensive in view of the sexual exploitation of female migrants.
Scenario:
Some text he gets hold of says "Sex with refugess is degrading and ugly". Hmmm.... let's write "Sex with refugees is jasmine-scented and beautiful" instead.
That's how artistry works, right?
Dammit Steve, you are firing up the masses with some explosive cocktail here. It's fun, and leads to lots of raging pepe commentary, but still...Now, here is the appropriate image, Donald Duck euthanizing himself:
http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/710680-reaction-images
(How do I into inlining images?)Replies: @Anon
“The US is further gone than Europe. We’re already past the tipping point. Even if the invasion were to stop tomorrow, demographics would ensure our demise.”
See, this is why I still read Steve, but don’t comment much.
https://www.rt.com/news/413514-french-city-mayors-migrants-emergency/
Also "TruePundit" is saying that Roy Moore is going ahead with the investigation into districts that voted for Doug Jones by orders of magnitude more than for Hillary.Replies: @Elsewhere
My though is that this, by itself, isn’t a strong indicator of anything unusual. Trump was obviously going to win Alabama, so there is less reason for Democratic voters to get to the polls, unlike for the very closewww.unz.comlection with a lot more advertising and ground game.
Immigration is a force of nature unlike climate which is entirely controlled by humans
His grandfather nothing. It’s a gentile name — divorced from any Jewish connection apart from the Bible, like a Christian named Hezekiah in nineteenth century America. He’s a major up-and-coming politician, seriously discussed as the next head of state, the Greek Macron, and if he were Jewish that would surely have come up. Our enemy is not The Jews. Our enemy is The Globalists, who have a significant Jewish component but plenty of important non-Jewish membership. Don’t be distracted.
I have the opposite impression: would any Alabama election survive a thorough examination? And how long will we tolerate Democrats pulling off these last-minute two point victories?
What about European-Americans migrating back to Europe? If they need more people (which actually they don't) why wouldn't they want us? Too white? Are they that racist? Sadly, I know--many of them are.
But still--we could migrate to Europe and they could send their third-world people to America on a one-for-one basis. Same with South Africa. Only thing is, the (ones) responsible for the wreckage wouldn't be able to come along. And they've a track record of parasitism and nation-wrecking. They'd most definitely want to come along.Replies: @Stan Adams
“European-American” is a nebulous concept.
If your ethnic background is, say, one-quarter English, one-quarter French, one-quarter Irish, and one-quarter German, where is your ancestral homeland? When you “go back,” where do you go?
To give but one example, Vox Day has said that anyone whose ethnic background is not at least 50% English should be expelled from America.
By his standard, I am not American, and neither are my parents or any of my grandparents. (Neither is Steve, as far as I know.) My maternal grandfather, the most British of the lot, emphasized his *Scottish* roots.
When my mother lived in London for a year in the ’70s, she found employment in the office of an eccentric Scotsman. He noted with approval that her Scottish ancestry was evident. (He coached her to pass as a Canadian.) Presumably, he should have been expelled from England.
Both of my paternal grandparents were from Minnesota and came from Nordic stock.
(Like Day, I have a non-trivial, verified degree of American Indian ancestry, through my maternal grandmother.)
Day would have, say, Irish-Americans expelled and repatriated to Ireland. But many if not most self-identified Irish-Americans are mixed in with other groups. What do we do with the mutts?
(And then there are guys like a kid I knew in high school. He was three-quarters Irish and one-quarter Italian, but he affected a full-blown wannabe-guido persona. It was hilarious.)
The idea of turning Europe into a “pan-white homeland” for American refugees is ludicrous. The “pan-white” concept, in practice, leads to something like the European Union. And we all know how well the EU has turned out.
The public is to be "nudged" to accept "smart meters" (electricity meters which report your consumption back to Big Data). Similarly, journeys are paid for with "smartcards" tracking your travel. David Cameron's science minister (who party spin doctors gave the nickname Two Brains), writing about the Chinese space programme, opined that "if they are smart" they will put a woman in space. "Smart" in this sense is code for "if you know what's good for you". Keep your eyes open for it, it never means any good.Replies: @Anonymous
On a tangent, I had a conversation with a FAA medical examiner who was an ob/gyn by residency (he was long since retired from obstetrics and gyno but still did flight physicals). He said that the real reason-or at least one significant reason- NASA never considered women astronauts in the pre-Space Shuttle days was because they knew what every stewardess knew: the female reproductive system doesn’t really like atmospheric pressure changes of a great magnitude and doesn’t tolerate very well the 5 psi pure oxygen environment of the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo spacecraft (and Skylab IIRC). The Space Shuttle was designed as a 14 psi standard atmosphere craft for this reason and because that was what the Russians had on their spacecraft.
It’s not something generally commented on in the books and I wonder how much of a consideration that really was.
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Reference:
Apollo 1: The Fatal Fire
The Apollo 1 crew, from left to right, Roger Chaffee, Ed White and Gus Grissom.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
The Apollo program changed forever on Jan. 27, 1967, when a flash fire swept through the Apollo 1 command module during a launch rehearsal test. The three men inside perished despite the best efforts of the ground crew. It would take more than 18 months, and extensive redesigns, before NASA sent more men into space....Several changes were made to the design of the Apollo spacecraft to improve crew safety. The flammable oxygen environment for ground tests was replaced with a nitrogen-oxygen mix. Flammable items were removed. A new respect developed between the astronauts and the contractors concerning design changes, which were implemented more effectively. Most notably, the door was completely redesigned so that it would open in mere seconds when the crew needed to get out in a hurry. [Photos: The Apollo 1 Fire]Replies: @Anonymous
He’s right. There is no rush to end any of the wars, and no rush to rebuild the devastated countries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimitris_AvramopoulosReplies: @J.Ross, @Anonym, @Darth Dharmakīrti, @AnotherGuessModel, @Hail, @Anonymous
I don’t know what his religion is, though a good rule of thumb is to assume Greeks are Christian Orthodox (98% of the population) unless they state otherwise. But Avram is an old-fashioned but normal name in Greece, and afaik Greek Jews have more distinctive surnames that the very common poulos ending.
In what part of the World is there a good future for people who aren’t CPC Princelings?
This will only reinforce the notion that a multitude of jasmine covereth a dearth of soap and water. Nothing could be further from the truth. Perfume added to insufficient bathing actually makes everything worse.
This article was written by a true cultural Marxist egalitarian. Bend over Europe and take it up the ass! Its the camp of the saints.
A European court that undermines the interest of Europeans. Only in the crazy white race does this shit happen.
Is this guy unaware that brown people are not the only people capable of having children? If Europeans were to start having more children, Europe would no longer be aging – and without the help of migrants.
When America had just 250 million people, we put men on the moon, How many people does a country really need?
Having made a mess out of their own countries in Africa and Asia, black and brown people are now going to make a mess out of Europe.
It's not something generally commented on in the books and I wonder how much of a consideration that really was.Replies: @David Davenport, @Meimou
The Space Shuttle was designed as a 14 psi standard atmosphere craft for this reason and because that was what the Russians had on their spacecraft.
Your informant was wrong about the women consideration.
The main reason for switching to an oxygen-nitrogen mixture instead of pure O2 is that air is less of a fire hazard than oxygen. The Russian spacecraft never used pure O2.
You’ve been breathing 71 % nitrogen all your life. It hasn’t killed you yet.
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Reference:
Apollo 1: The Fatal Fire
The Apollo 1 crew, from left to right, Roger Chaffee, Ed White and Gus Grissom.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
The Apollo program changed forever on Jan. 27, 1967, when a flash fire swept through the Apollo 1 command module during a launch rehearsal test. The three men inside perished despite the best efforts of the ground crew. It would take more than 18 months, and extensive redesigns, before NASA sent more men into space.
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Several changes were made to the design of the Apollo spacecraft to improve crew safety. The flammable oxygen environment for ground tests was replaced with a nitrogen-oxygen mix. Flammable items were removed. A new respect developed between the astronauts and the contractors concerning design changes, which were implemented more effectively. Most notably, the door was completely redesigned so that it would open in mere seconds when the crew needed to get out in a hurry. [Photos: The Apollo 1 Fire]
Apollo 1 was filled with pure oxygen at ambient sea level pressure -14 psi- and that was why the astronauts were quickly killed. It was one of those obvious inevitable disasters in retrospect.
5 psi pure 02 was used because the spacecraft could be lighter and have much less stress on its hull from the differential pressure. Also, the space suits used for EVAs are 5 psi and if a 14 psi cabin was used the astronaut would have to prebreathe oxygen, like the U-2 pilots, for an hour or so before depressurizing the craft.
Apparently, women have more issues adapting to a 5 psi oxygen environment-the uterus and cervix have air in them and it expands . Stews in the late recip and early jet eras apparently had a higher rate of "female troubles". There is some anectodal evidence that WASP crews flying unpressurized WWII aircraft on oxygen did too, but they were loath to discuss it even with medical personnel.
What I don’t quite understand about this is how they imagine this sort of message – never ending inward flows of migration – can be acceptable to any white European paying attention.
This Is Your Captain Speaking: the ship has sprung a leak so we will have to keep taking in water. There is nothing to be done about this as it is the new normal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimitris_AvramopoulosReplies: @J.Ross, @Anonym, @Darth Dharmakīrti, @AnotherGuessModel, @Hail, @Anonymous
Greek Census, 2011
9.9 million Greek citizens
0.9 million foreign citizens
[10.8 million Total Population]
– (est.) 6,000 to 8,000 Jews in Greece: <0.1% Jewish
I’m not going to believe that resistance is futile from a group of blackpilled boomers who think that the highest allowable form of dissent is to post Tldr essays on a niche blog.
Or Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
They’ve already had the conversation, and in the case of Sweden, the conversation was in Arabic.
You see, based on immigration patterns and birth rates, Swedes will be a minority in their own country by 2050.
This prediction made me realize why so few Muslim immigrants bother to learn German in Germany, or Norwegian in Norway, or Swedish in Sweden. When your children will be the majority culture, why bother to learn some dead language?
And who says a population needs to increase, or even stay the same? It could decline, as it has in Japan, resulting in bigger living spaces for everyone.
When America had just 250 million people, we put men on the moon, How many people does a country really need?
The AJC, et al, fête this Avram a lot, too, and he was fond of quoting the Old Testament quite a bit.
Honest Abe was a bullshitter for sure, but he would have struggled at the margin in a “free market” environment. He benefitted from a temporary moratorium on civil behavior. He found his niche.
Anyone can be given a first name, but Abram-whatever is frequently Jewish. I’m not saying he is, but the surname plus the anti-whitism – worth a google.
Space.comSpaceflight
Reference:
Apollo 1: The Fatal Fire
The Apollo 1 crew, from left to right, Roger Chaffee, Ed White and Gus Grissom.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
The Apollo program changed forever on Jan. 27, 1967, when a flash fire swept through the Apollo 1 command module during a launch rehearsal test. The three men inside perished despite the best efforts of the ground crew. It would take more than 18 months, and extensive redesigns, before NASA sent more men into space....Several changes were made to the design of the Apollo spacecraft to improve crew safety. The flammable oxygen environment for ground tests was replaced with a nitrogen-oxygen mix. Flammable items were removed. A new respect developed between the astronauts and the contractors concerning design changes, which were implemented more effectively. Most notably, the door was completely redesigned so that it would open in mere seconds when the crew needed to get out in a hurry. [Photos: The Apollo 1 Fire]Replies: @Anonymous
A 5 psi oxygen environment has about the same partial pressure of oxygen as a 14 psi air environment does, which is why it was used. The capsule spacecraft, after the Apollo 1 disaster, launched with ambient pressure air and the capsule vented through the launch until it got to 5 psi-roughly 40,000 feet-and the capsule purged with oxygen during the bleedoff. The cabin was filled with pure oxygen but at 5 psi and the fire danger was about the same as in air at 14 psi.
Apollo 1 was filled with pure oxygen at ambient sea level pressure -14 psi- and that was why the astronauts were quickly killed. It was one of those obvious inevitable disasters in retrospect.
5 psi pure 02 was used because the spacecraft could be lighter and have much less stress on its hull from the differential pressure. Also, the space suits used for EVAs are 5 psi and if a 14 psi cabin was used the astronaut would have to prebreathe oxygen, like the U-2 pilots, for an hour or so before depressurizing the craft.
Apparently, women have more issues adapting to a 5 psi oxygen environment-the uterus and cervix have air in them and it expands . Stews in the late recip and early jet eras apparently had a higher rate of “female troubles”. There is some anectodal evidence that WASP crews flying unpressurized WWII aircraft on oxygen did too, but they were loath to discuss it even with medical personnel.
Sounds like you’re trying to distract us.
Thank God for Brexit!
If your ethnic background is, say, one-quarter English, one-quarter French, one-quarter Irish, and one-quarter German, where is your ancestral homeland? When you "go back," where do you go?
To give but one example, Vox Day has said that anyone whose ethnic background is not at least 50% English should be expelled from America.
By his standard, I am not American, and neither are my parents or any of my grandparents. (Neither is Steve, as far as I know.) My maternal grandfather, the most British of the lot, emphasized his *Scottish* roots.
When my mother lived in London for a year in the '70s, she found employment in the office of an eccentric Scotsman. He noted with approval that her Scottish ancestry was evident. (He coached her to pass as a Canadian.) Presumably, he should have been expelled from England.
Both of my paternal grandparents were from Minnesota and came from Nordic stock.
(Like Day, I have a non-trivial, verified degree of American Indian ancestry, through my maternal grandmother.)
Day would have, say, Irish-Americans expelled and repatriated to Ireland. But many if not most self-identified Irish-Americans are mixed in with other groups. What do we do with the mutts?
(And then there are guys like a kid I knew in high school. He was three-quarters Irish and one-quarter Italian, but he affected a full-blown wannabe-guido persona. It was hilarious.)
The idea of turning Europe into a "pan-white homeland" for American refugees is ludicrous. The "pan-white" concept, in practice, leads to something like the European Union. And we all know how well the EU has turned out.Replies: @Anonymous
Spoken like someone who is happy to watch people of European descent vanish from the planet.
My point is that there is a split between those who want a "white" America and those who want an "Anglo" America. "Anglo" is not synonymous with "white." And "white" is somewhat vague - are Italians white?
I cannot, in good faith, argue that American citizenship should be restricted to those whose ethnic background is predominantly Anglo. I'm not about to advocate for my own expulsion. But that doesn't mean that I want to swamp the country with the dregs of the Third World.
I see America as a white country whose non-whites are problematic at best. I think we would be better off without them, especially the blacks.
But I cannot, in good faith, argue for the expulsion or the extermination of the Native American population. I cannot be objective about this, as I have a non-trivial degree of Native American ancestry.
My maternal grandmother grew up on an Indian reservation in the West and went to an Indian boarding school. My grandfather met her while serving in the Navy during the Korean War.
Theirs was a traditional marriage: "He wears the pants." He worked; she stayed home. He decided; she complied. He commanded; she obeyed. Her input on any matter was neither required nor desired.
My grandfather was not well-educated, but he had a keen natural intellect and a strong work ethic and died with several million in the bank. (His father was a furniture salesman.) My grandmother was neither well-educated nor especially intelligent. (She is not dead, but Alzheimer's has ravaged her mind to the point that there is little left of the person I knew.) But she was smart enough to know that she had found a keeper.
Some time ago, I learned that they lied about the year of their marriage. They were married four months before my mother was born, while my grandfather was still in the service. (My mother was born three months premature. She barely survived.) Clearly, their relationship began in sin. But they stayed married for 45 years, and she was absolutely devastated by his death, at 66, of lung cancer. Her period of intense mourning lasted the better part of a decade.
Given the fact that my grandmother got knocked up by a man who ended up giving her a very comfortable lifestyle and a hefty nest egg, while most of her siblings ended up as shiftless drunks stuck on the reservation, I am tempted to say that she lucked out, big-time. She won the lottery. She had no way of knowing that the handsome young sailor, from a modest background, was going to end up making so much money.
Also, given the fact that two of her three kids ended up as drunks and addicts - one reformed, one hopeless - and that none of her children are now on speaking terms with one another, I am tempted to say that she was simply not a very good mother. (My uncle has already announced his intention to boycott her funeral.) But that wouldn't be fair, would it? I wasn't there.
My own mother, a lifelong teetotaler (but a psychological basket case nonetheless), has little nice to say about either of her parents. She has a fierce burning hatred for both of her siblings. Not having been present during her upbringing, I can't vouch for any of her horror stories.
Also a lifelong teetotaler, I find that, as time goes along, I am more inclined to forgive my mother for her ... excesses. (Think Mommie Dearest starring Kathy Bates.) But it's taken me a long time to get to this point.
Not having known my father - a brilliant man crippled by schizophrenia - I can only say that my grandfather was wonderful to me. His death was the most traumatic event of my childhood.
My grandmother was wonderful, as well. I can see her faults very clearly, but I love her deeply.
My mother inherited her intelligence from her father. I inherit mine from both my mother and my father.
My father is very fair and, physically, I take after him. Phenotypically, I'm white.
I identify as a white American Protestant of European extraction - a WAPE, if you will. I don't have a "homeland," per se, other than the one in which I live. I have no family. (My mother is my only relative with whom I am on speaking terms.) I have no close friends - or enemies, for that matter. I live alone, I sleep alone, and I exist alone. My mind is my sanctuary.
Almost all of my acquaintances are white. Most of them are Jewish. Some of them are Hispanic. Few of them are Protestant.
I think Europeans are crazy for allowing black Muslims to swarm into their lands, and I think we're crazy for allowing Mexicans (and Muslims, for that matter) to swarm into ours. I believe we should institute a total ban on all immigration (including the H1B1 scam) and build the wall.
Whether or not I'm on "your side," I can't say.Replies: @laura r, @BB753
The other day I saw a TV news report about a ‘traditional’ 100,000 singer Christmas choral rendition of Beethoven’s 5th symphony in a huge well appointed indoor arena in Japan.
It looked impressive.
I’m French, and God knows how I HATE overpaid, irresponsible, traitorous eurocrats like Avramopoulos.
He and his ilk in Brussels said, years ago, trust us, we’ve created an agency, named Frontex, which will protect Europe from unwanted migrations. Frontex is an EU initiative, they said, member states alone can’t protect the borders, etc. The outcome was that Frontex basically acts as a taxi service for migrants. Frontex boats ‘rescue’ the migrants just outside the Libyan territorial waters and take them to Italy. Our tax euros pay for our invasion and eventual replacement.
I’ve been worried about African and Muslim immigration since the 70’s, and now I see that it’s hopeless, the tipping point has been passed a long time ago, and it’s getting worse everyday. Many people still live in denial, saying things like ‘immigrants will never settle where I live’, or ‘I don’t want to believe that Third-World immigrants commit more crimes than native whites’.
European optimists say that Brazil is our future. The pessimists say that Detroit is our future. Both groups agree that white Europe has no future.
There are signs that we’re all losing faith. Germany has 6 submarines, and not a single one of them is in working condition. Sweden is considering a return to the draft, because it can’t find enough volunteers for its armed forces. Who wants to fight the Russians, when his home town is swamped by African and Muslim immigrants? Only the European variety of the neocons want young white men to fight the Russians, and they wouldn’t bother to do it themselves.
Rather than hopelessness--which i admit i'm prone to as well--i think its a time for preparation, ideological and physical. Preach, spread the word. Teach your children to be patriots of your nation, civilization and race. Prepare yourself and your sons both psychologically and physically to be ready to fight to protect their lives and save their nation.
Jesus wept.
EU leaders pondering the refugee crisis, photo
How will we ever know if we won’t try?
Really the lowest tier of long-discredited shyster propaganda. The globalists are not sending their best.
In the near future it will be a criminal offence for a white European female to refuse jasmine-scented sex with an African refugee and all the health and cultural benefits that encounter would bring. Furthermore, families who are not ethnically-diverse will soon be heavily taxed. To pay for the never-ending flux of refugees. The future is brown, baby and you had better accept your cute little mulatto grandchildren. After all it be rayciss to want them to look anything like you.
The Greek and Italian establishments are keen on joint efforts at spreading the migrant burden — meaning allowing African and Middle Eastern migrants in their countries to move north. So they get to have their cake and eat it too — they get to sound all warm-hearted and welcoming when their real agenda is get the migrants already in their countries “welcomed” somewhere else — somewhere to the north with better-funded social welfare packages.
Interesting.
So it was a publicity stunt in bad taste, probably by “United Colors of Benetton”, innit? They are renowned for Bad Diversity Taste.
In fairness he was probably not thinking that far but just doing uh .. “associative reversals”.
Scenario:
Some text he gets hold of says “Sex with refugess is degrading and ugly”. Hmmm…. let’s write “Sex with refugees is jasmine-scented and beautiful” instead.
That’s how artistry works, right?
Dammit Steve, you are firing up the masses with some explosive cocktail here. It’s fun, and leads to lots of raging pepe commentary, but still…
Now, here is the appropriate image, Donald Duck euthanizing himself:
http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/710680-reaction-images
(How do I into inlining images?)
It sparked an outraged Guardian piece objecting to its portrayal of women of colour as “exotic and alluring”, when Robert Montgomery obviously intended it to upset Straight White Males with visions of their daughters (or forty-something ex wives) enjoying the jasmine.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/dec/22/graffiti-sex-refugees-stunned-political-art-shoreditch-london
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimitris_AvramopoulosReplies: @J.Ross, @Anonym, @Darth Dharmakīrti, @AnotherGuessModel, @Hail, @Anonymous
People here should be more prudent before spewing uninformed nonsense after some quick online searching. Google is your friend, but it isn’t a comprehensive library of facts.
Avramopoulos is neither Jewish, nor are any of his parents converts to Orthodox Christianity. His family is from a part of Greece which never had any significant Jewish presence, and there are less than 10,000 Jews living in Greece today (the Nazis saw to that during the German occupation), none of whom have a prominent role in Greek politics.
Avramopoulos himself started off his career as a diplomat and quickly entered politics at age 40 as one of the rising stars in the Greek Conservative party. After serving as Mayor of Athens during the time when Athens won the nomination for the 2004 Olympics, he formed his own political party, which had the overwhelming support of most major media outlets in Greece, but no support from the voters, so after just 1 year (and despite getting up to 20% in… uh… polls) he closed shop and returned to the Conservative party. Later, having failed to win the Party Presidency, he took ministerial positions in successive Greek governments, until he settled on his current role.
Avramopoulos was once regarded as a serious contender for the role of Prime Minister in Greece, but he repeatedly failed to gain popular support. He’s in his 60s now, and with his dream washed away, what’s better for him than getting a nice, cozy place in the European Commission?
The takeaway here is that someone who failed to get the people’s vote in his own country now gets to have a say and dictate policy on all those European nations’ future. And no, he doesn’t have to be Jewish, just self-serving and power-hungry.
The rodent from the European Union says there is no way to stop the nation-wrecking invasion of Europe by sub-Saharan African Negroids and other non-Europeans. This EU rat says there is no alternative.
Angela Merkel said there was no alternative to her plan to destroy Germany as a home for the German people. A bunch of academics got together — I have no way of knowing if delicious German beer was served during their meetings — and decided that there most certainly was an alternative to all the crappy policies pushed by Merkel. They gave a name to their new political party: ALTERNATIVE for DEUTSCHLAND — or AfD.
I am more convinced than ever that when the next global financial implosion breaks out, there will be blood extracted by the young people from all the scum in Europe and the United States who are pushing globalization and mass immigration.
It's not something generally commented on in the books and I wonder how much of a consideration that really was.Replies: @David Davenport, @Meimou
Get a username for God’s sakes.
1) -poulos is a patronymic, in this case derived from Avram, which is the Hellenized form of "Abraham." Τhis by itself frequently denotes Jewish descent.
2) He made a speech to the AJC, erected a monument to the Jews while he was Mayor of Athens, and in general has played up his ultra-Zionism at every opportunity. It's true that in the aforementioned speech he referred to himself as "an old and good friend of the Jewish people" rather than as a Jew per se, but this is also not in and of itself dispositive of his not being Jewish or at least having (say) a Jewish father as opposed to a Jewish mother, and would furthermore be exactly the kind of "Schrödinger's Jew" shapeshifting that they apparently can't help but engage in.
3) Multiple (admittedly unconfirmed) reports of his being Jewish on Greek-language internet forums.
If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck and demands the eradication of European ethnic homogeneity through forced miscegenation like a duck...Replies: @AnotherDad
Darth–i’m not Greek, but none of this seems terribly convincing.
First off after the Nazis\holocaust there are only the most trivial numbers of Greek Jews. (And I think most of the ones who survived left for Israel or more lucrative opportunities in the US.)
Secondly–and more my point–sadly, spouting this you-must-lie-back-and-accommodate-the-invaders, globo-mush is now so thoroughly part of the ideology of the liberal elites, and especially EU bureaucrats that it’s become a weak signal for ethnicity. I think in the US the over-the-top, want-to-drown-you-in-brown and you-don’t-deserve-a-nation stuff still has a bit more of an ethnic signal. Even the fellow travelers don’t sound so loony. But EU bureaucrats?–they really have drunk the kool-aid.
While calling out Jewish minoritarianism and anti-nationalism where they exist is fine. But we must all admit this cancer has now spread well beyond the Jews. Just saying “the Jews” doesn’t cut it. This ideology, these lies have to be confronted directly–firmly, clearly, logically, aggressively–as the open call to white genocide that they are–pure evil. And people who spew them need to be confronted, debunked, embarrassed, harassed, mocked and ridiculed–Jew and gentile alike.
http://www.ereticamente.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/barcone-politici-707771.jpgReplies: @AnotherDad
That’s a raft i’d definitely like to machine gun and sink.
He and his ilk in Brussels said, years ago, trust us, we've created an agency, named Frontex, which will protect Europe from unwanted migrations. Frontex is an EU initiative, they said, member states alone can't protect the borders, etc. The outcome was that Frontex basically acts as a taxi service for migrants. Frontex boats 'rescue' the migrants just outside the Libyan territorial waters and take them to Italy. Our tax euros pay for our invasion and eventual replacement.
I've been worried about African and Muslim immigration since the 70's, and now I see that it's hopeless, the tipping point has been passed a long time ago, and it's getting worse everyday. Many people still live in denial, saying things like 'immigrants will never settle where I live', or 'I don't want to believe that Third-World immigrants commit more crimes than native whites'.
European optimists say that Brazil is our future. The pessimists say that Detroit is our future. Both groups agree that white Europe has no future.
There are signs that we're all losing faith. Germany has 6 submarines, and not a single one of them is in working condition. Sweden is considering a return to the draft, because it can't find enough volunteers for its armed forces. Who wants to fight the Russians, when his home town is swamped by African and Muslim immigrants? Only the European variety of the neocons want young white men to fight the Russians, and they wouldn't bother to do it themselves.Replies: @AnotherDad, @anonymous, @J.Ross
I do not believe the tipping point has past. However, it does seem that point has past when there can be a resolution–a Western civilization saving resolution–without partition and probably violence.
Rather than hopelessness–which i admit i’m prone to as well–i think its a time for preparation, ideological and physical. Preach, spread the word. Teach your children to be patriots of your nation, civilization and race. Prepare yourself and your sons both psychologically and physically to be ready to fight to protect their lives and save their nation.
He and his ilk in Brussels said, years ago, trust us, we've created an agency, named Frontex, which will protect Europe from unwanted migrations. Frontex is an EU initiative, they said, member states alone can't protect the borders, etc. The outcome was that Frontex basically acts as a taxi service for migrants. Frontex boats 'rescue' the migrants just outside the Libyan territorial waters and take them to Italy. Our tax euros pay for our invasion and eventual replacement.
I've been worried about African and Muslim immigration since the 70's, and now I see that it's hopeless, the tipping point has been passed a long time ago, and it's getting worse everyday. Many people still live in denial, saying things like 'immigrants will never settle where I live', or 'I don't want to believe that Third-World immigrants commit more crimes than native whites'.
European optimists say that Brazil is our future. The pessimists say that Detroit is our future. Both groups agree that white Europe has no future.
There are signs that we're all losing faith. Germany has 6 submarines, and not a single one of them is in working condition. Sweden is considering a return to the draft, because it can't find enough volunteers for its armed forces. Who wants to fight the Russians, when his home town is swamped by African and Muslim immigrants? Only the European variety of the neocons want young white men to fight the Russians, and they wouldn't bother to do it themselves.Replies: @AnotherDad, @anonymous, @J.Ross
One thing I don’t completely understand is what the endgame of these eurocrats really is. What’s their vision of Europe’s future? They’re blinding people with paid sermons but at heart they’re actually not sentimental people. What are they really trying to do?
Where are all the female refugees that we supposed to have sex with?
The invaders I see are overwhelmingly male.
https://www.thelocal.it/20171223/refugees-directly-flown-from-libya-to-italy-in-historic-first
Didn’t Steve have an article on how Minniti was an old school spook who could get stuff done? Apparently, he has decided to stuff the Italians!
Scenario:
Some text he gets hold of says "Sex with refugess is degrading and ugly". Hmmm.... let's write "Sex with refugees is jasmine-scented and beautiful" instead.
That's how artistry works, right?
Dammit Steve, you are firing up the masses with some explosive cocktail here. It's fun, and leads to lots of raging pepe commentary, but still...Now, here is the appropriate image, Donald Duck euthanizing himself:
http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/710680-reaction-images
(How do I into inlining images?)Replies: @Anon
Click on the picture and copy the URL in your address bar, which should end with “.jpg”.
OT: Good news – https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/22/climate/epa-buyouts-pruitt.html?_r=0
Why not call them invaders and usurpers?
And get a load of this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Fade
A dirty Turk makes a movie about a German woman married to a Kurd being bombed by Neo-Nazis. Right, because all the terror in Europe right now are done by Neo-Nazis.
Let these shameless leeches in and they shi* all over you.
Take over white womb and then blame whites of terrorism that is mostly done by Muslims.
At least if whites let non-whites in and keep the pride, they will have the moral high-ground over the newcomers. Whites can say, "we were nice enough to let you in, so you be grateful and act nice and respect us."
But whites not only let these leeches in but apologize and act cucky.
Whites can only feel good about being white when working to undermine whiteness. So, the message that these simple-minded leeches get is "You owe us more and more and more."
Whites not only cede territory but authority. The invasive leeches who come to take the land are taken to the moral high ground.
Ideas matter. When bad ideas become the Template, it shapes all the debate.
The moment the West committed to Diversity as the Template, invaders and collaborators of globalism were given the moral high ground while patriots were demeaned as evil.
By rules of the Template, the invaders and cuck-collaboraters get to morally accuse while patriots must defend and explain themselves.
The Template must change. Diversity is Colonization. Inclusion is Invasion. These are not migrants but hordes and invaders.Replies: @Altai
There’s a good Bollywood version where a nice Indian boy goes to Australia for college in the midst of the massive attacks on Indian students by racist white people! (In actuality it was robberies by Lebanese and Pacific Islanders done disproportionately on Indians due to their habit of carrying cash and being not very physically imposing, it became a ‘thing’ because of a huge influx of Indian students and hyped up by the Indian media)
He falls in love with a sexy blonde Australian girl (Who has no morals and does an impromptu striptease for our dashing protagonist for no particular reason than she is a gori whore.) for whom he spurns the nice Indian girl who is an activist against racist Australians (He decides their protest is silly before realising the error of his ways and becoming an ethnic activist in a country he’s been in for a week.) before he realises he should have been with the good Indian girl all along. (But only after sleeping with the blonde girl.) The blonde girls brother is the Aryan-looking ordinary mechanic whose alter ego is masked man who breaks into Indian immigrants homes at night and executes them with a gun!
Being a Bollywood scriptwriter must be a great gig!
No, not at all.
My point is that there is a split between those who want a “white” America and those who want an “Anglo” America. “Anglo” is not synonymous with “white.” And “white” is somewhat vague – are Italians white?
I cannot, in good faith, argue that American citizenship should be restricted to those whose ethnic background is predominantly Anglo. I’m not about to advocate for my own expulsion. But that doesn’t mean that I want to swamp the country with the dregs of the Third World.
I see America as a white country whose non-whites are problematic at best. I think we would be better off without them, especially the blacks.
But I cannot, in good faith, argue for the expulsion or the extermination of the Native American population. I cannot be objective about this, as I have a non-trivial degree of Native American ancestry.
My maternal grandmother grew up on an Indian reservation in the West and went to an Indian boarding school. My grandfather met her while serving in the Navy during the Korean War.
Theirs was a traditional marriage: “He wears the pants.” He worked; she stayed home. He decided; she complied. He commanded; she obeyed. Her input on any matter was neither required nor desired.
My grandfather was not well-educated, but he had a keen natural intellect and a strong work ethic and died with several million in the bank. (His father was a furniture salesman.) My grandmother was neither well-educated nor especially intelligent. (She is not dead, but Alzheimer’s has ravaged her mind to the point that there is little left of the person I knew.) But she was smart enough to know that she had found a keeper.
Some time ago, I learned that they lied about the year of their marriage. They were married four months before my mother was born, while my grandfather was still in the service. (My mother was born three months premature. She barely survived.) Clearly, their relationship began in sin. But they stayed married for 45 years, and she was absolutely devastated by his death, at 66, of lung cancer. Her period of intense mourning lasted the better part of a decade.
Given the fact that my grandmother got knocked up by a man who ended up giving her a very comfortable lifestyle and a hefty nest egg, while most of her siblings ended up as shiftless drunks stuck on the reservation, I am tempted to say that she lucked out, big-time. She won the lottery. She had no way of knowing that the handsome young sailor, from a modest background, was going to end up making so much money.
Also, given the fact that two of her three kids ended up as drunks and addicts – one reformed, one hopeless – and that none of her children are now on speaking terms with one another, I am tempted to say that she was simply not a very good mother. (My uncle has already announced his intention to boycott her funeral.) But that wouldn’t be fair, would it? I wasn’t there.
My own mother, a lifelong teetotaler (but a psychological basket case nonetheless), has little nice to say about either of her parents. She has a fierce burning hatred for both of her siblings. Not having been present during her upbringing, I can’t vouch for any of her horror stories.
Also a lifelong teetotaler, I find that, as time goes along, I am more inclined to forgive my mother for her … excesses. (Think Mommie Dearest starring Kathy Bates.) But it’s taken me a long time to get to this point.
Not having known my father – a brilliant man crippled by schizophrenia – I can only say that my grandfather was wonderful to me. His death was the most traumatic event of my childhood.
My grandmother was wonderful, as well. I can see her faults very clearly, but I love her deeply.
My mother inherited her intelligence from her father. I inherit mine from both my mother and my father.
My father is very fair and, physically, I take after him. Phenotypically, I’m white.
I identify as a white American Protestant of European extraction – a WAPE, if you will. I don’t have a “homeland,” per se, other than the one in which I live. I have no family. (My mother is my only relative with whom I am on speaking terms.) I have no close friends – or enemies, for that matter. I live alone, I sleep alone, and I exist alone. My mind is my sanctuary.
Almost all of my acquaintances are white. Most of them are Jewish. Some of them are Hispanic. Few of them are Protestant.
I think Europeans are crazy for allowing black Muslims to swarm into their lands, and I think we’re crazy for allowing Mexicans (and Muslims, for that matter) to swarm into ours. I believe we should institute a total ban on all immigration (including the H1B1 scam) and build the wall.
Whether or not I’m on “your side,” I can’t say.
Let's hope Whites don't end up like Indians a couple of centuries from now, with no identity, no future, addicted to opioids and firewater, in our own reservations.
Merry Christmas!Replies: @Stan Adams
What’s required is harsh policies not harsh language.
they are not invaders, they were invited. they know white people generally dont fight back. interesting to note: in the US, they never seem to put them in hispanic barrios.
First off after the Nazis\holocaust there are only the most trivial numbers of Greek Jews. (And I think most of the ones who survived left for Israel or more lucrative opportunities in the US.)
Secondly--and more my point--sadly, spouting this you-must-lie-back-and-accommodate-the-invaders, globo-mush is now so thoroughly part of the ideology of the liberal elites, and especially EU bureaucrats that it's become a weak signal for ethnicity. I think in the US the over-the-top, want-to-drown-you-in-brown and you-don't-deserve-a-nation stuff still has a bit more of an ethnic signal. Even the fellow travelers don't sound so loony. But EU bureaucrats?--they really have drunk the kool-aid.
While calling out Jewish minoritarianism and anti-nationalism where they exist is fine. But we must all admit this cancer has now spread well beyond the Jews. Just saying "the Jews" doesn't cut it. This ideology, these lies have to be confronted directly--firmly, clearly, logically, aggressively--as the open call to white genocide that they are--pure evil. And people who spew them need to be confronted, debunked, embarrassed, harassed, mocked and ridiculed--Jew and gentile alike.Replies: @laura r
i have been saying this for years. its a transnational global plan, way bigger than most people know. almost all christian churches are involved as well as most jewish temples. media, academia, hollywood thats a given. ofcause these people do not live where they can even see a somolian. they are the same people whose families did whiteflight in the north east. the jews who are against 3d world migrations, are usually orthodox. (trump supporters). few secular jews are nationalists. im not popular & voices like mine are not in the forefront. sorry to stray from the topic.
My point is that there is a split between those who want a "white" America and those who want an "Anglo" America. "Anglo" is not synonymous with "white." And "white" is somewhat vague - are Italians white?
I cannot, in good faith, argue that American citizenship should be restricted to those whose ethnic background is predominantly Anglo. I'm not about to advocate for my own expulsion. But that doesn't mean that I want to swamp the country with the dregs of the Third World.
I see America as a white country whose non-whites are problematic at best. I think we would be better off without them, especially the blacks.
But I cannot, in good faith, argue for the expulsion or the extermination of the Native American population. I cannot be objective about this, as I have a non-trivial degree of Native American ancestry.
My maternal grandmother grew up on an Indian reservation in the West and went to an Indian boarding school. My grandfather met her while serving in the Navy during the Korean War.
Theirs was a traditional marriage: "He wears the pants." He worked; she stayed home. He decided; she complied. He commanded; she obeyed. Her input on any matter was neither required nor desired.
My grandfather was not well-educated, but he had a keen natural intellect and a strong work ethic and died with several million in the bank. (His father was a furniture salesman.) My grandmother was neither well-educated nor especially intelligent. (She is not dead, but Alzheimer's has ravaged her mind to the point that there is little left of the person I knew.) But she was smart enough to know that she had found a keeper.
Some time ago, I learned that they lied about the year of their marriage. They were married four months before my mother was born, while my grandfather was still in the service. (My mother was born three months premature. She barely survived.) Clearly, their relationship began in sin. But they stayed married for 45 years, and she was absolutely devastated by his death, at 66, of lung cancer. Her period of intense mourning lasted the better part of a decade.
Given the fact that my grandmother got knocked up by a man who ended up giving her a very comfortable lifestyle and a hefty nest egg, while most of her siblings ended up as shiftless drunks stuck on the reservation, I am tempted to say that she lucked out, big-time. She won the lottery. She had no way of knowing that the handsome young sailor, from a modest background, was going to end up making so much money.
Also, given the fact that two of her three kids ended up as drunks and addicts - one reformed, one hopeless - and that none of her children are now on speaking terms with one another, I am tempted to say that she was simply not a very good mother. (My uncle has already announced his intention to boycott her funeral.) But that wouldn't be fair, would it? I wasn't there.
My own mother, a lifelong teetotaler (but a psychological basket case nonetheless), has little nice to say about either of her parents. She has a fierce burning hatred for both of her siblings. Not having been present during her upbringing, I can't vouch for any of her horror stories.
Also a lifelong teetotaler, I find that, as time goes along, I am more inclined to forgive my mother for her ... excesses. (Think Mommie Dearest starring Kathy Bates.) But it's taken me a long time to get to this point.
Not having known my father - a brilliant man crippled by schizophrenia - I can only say that my grandfather was wonderful to me. His death was the most traumatic event of my childhood.
My grandmother was wonderful, as well. I can see her faults very clearly, but I love her deeply.
My mother inherited her intelligence from her father. I inherit mine from both my mother and my father.
My father is very fair and, physically, I take after him. Phenotypically, I'm white.
I identify as a white American Protestant of European extraction - a WAPE, if you will. I don't have a "homeland," per se, other than the one in which I live. I have no family. (My mother is my only relative with whom I am on speaking terms.) I have no close friends - or enemies, for that matter. I live alone, I sleep alone, and I exist alone. My mind is my sanctuary.
Almost all of my acquaintances are white. Most of them are Jewish. Some of them are Hispanic. Few of them are Protestant.
I think Europeans are crazy for allowing black Muslims to swarm into their lands, and I think we're crazy for allowing Mexicans (and Muslims, for that matter) to swarm into ours. I believe we should institute a total ban on all immigration (including the H1B1 scam) and build the wall.
Whether or not I'm on "your side," I can't say.Replies: @laura r, @BB753
european immigration works best. the asians turned out ok, i have no problem w/that. we are stuck w/the american ghetto blacks. we should have picked our own cotton.
steve, i follow you on twitter. thankyou for retweeting & liking my tweets. (prior to when i made the acct private).
He and his ilk in Brussels said, years ago, trust us, we've created an agency, named Frontex, which will protect Europe from unwanted migrations. Frontex is an EU initiative, they said, member states alone can't protect the borders, etc. The outcome was that Frontex basically acts as a taxi service for migrants. Frontex boats 'rescue' the migrants just outside the Libyan territorial waters and take them to Italy. Our tax euros pay for our invasion and eventual replacement.
I've been worried about African and Muslim immigration since the 70's, and now I see that it's hopeless, the tipping point has been passed a long time ago, and it's getting worse everyday. Many people still live in denial, saying things like 'immigrants will never settle where I live', or 'I don't want to believe that Third-World immigrants commit more crimes than native whites'.
European optimists say that Brazil is our future. The pessimists say that Detroit is our future. Both groups agree that white Europe has no future.
There are signs that we're all losing faith. Germany has 6 submarines, and not a single one of them is in working condition. Sweden is considering a return to the draft, because it can't find enough volunteers for its armed forces. Who wants to fight the Russians, when his home town is swamped by African and Muslim immigrants? Only the European variety of the neocons want young white men to fight the Russians, and they wouldn't bother to do it themselves.Replies: @AnotherDad, @anonymous, @J.Ross
>The optimists say that Brazil is our future.
Jesus wept.
He falls in love with a sexy blonde Australian girl (Who has no morals and does an impromptu striptease for our dashing protagonist for no particular reason than she is a gori whore.) for whom he spurns the nice Indian girl who is an activist against racist Australians (He decides their protest is silly before realising the error of his ways and becoming an ethnic activist in a country he's been in for a week.) before he realises he should have been with the good Indian girl all along. (But only after sleeping with the blonde girl.) The blonde girls brother is the Aryan-looking ordinary mechanic whose alter ego is masked man who breaks into Indian immigrants homes at night and executes them with a gun!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6d6YTo5RPEReplies: @BB753
Sad, but in a way I find Bollywood films refreshing compared to our standard fare. It’s over the top but I suppose entertaining and harmless for the Indians audiences those films cater to, while Hollywood makes it a point to crap all over our culture and history film after film. Jerking off into our potted plants, as it were.
Being a Bollywood scriptwriter must be a great gig!
My point is that there is a split between those who want a "white" America and those who want an "Anglo" America. "Anglo" is not synonymous with "white." And "white" is somewhat vague - are Italians white?
I cannot, in good faith, argue that American citizenship should be restricted to those whose ethnic background is predominantly Anglo. I'm not about to advocate for my own expulsion. But that doesn't mean that I want to swamp the country with the dregs of the Third World.
I see America as a white country whose non-whites are problematic at best. I think we would be better off without them, especially the blacks.
But I cannot, in good faith, argue for the expulsion or the extermination of the Native American population. I cannot be objective about this, as I have a non-trivial degree of Native American ancestry.
My maternal grandmother grew up on an Indian reservation in the West and went to an Indian boarding school. My grandfather met her while serving in the Navy during the Korean War.
Theirs was a traditional marriage: "He wears the pants." He worked; she stayed home. He decided; she complied. He commanded; she obeyed. Her input on any matter was neither required nor desired.
My grandfather was not well-educated, but he had a keen natural intellect and a strong work ethic and died with several million in the bank. (His father was a furniture salesman.) My grandmother was neither well-educated nor especially intelligent. (She is not dead, but Alzheimer's has ravaged her mind to the point that there is little left of the person I knew.) But she was smart enough to know that she had found a keeper.
Some time ago, I learned that they lied about the year of their marriage. They were married four months before my mother was born, while my grandfather was still in the service. (My mother was born three months premature. She barely survived.) Clearly, their relationship began in sin. But they stayed married for 45 years, and she was absolutely devastated by his death, at 66, of lung cancer. Her period of intense mourning lasted the better part of a decade.
Given the fact that my grandmother got knocked up by a man who ended up giving her a very comfortable lifestyle and a hefty nest egg, while most of her siblings ended up as shiftless drunks stuck on the reservation, I am tempted to say that she lucked out, big-time. She won the lottery. She had no way of knowing that the handsome young sailor, from a modest background, was going to end up making so much money.
Also, given the fact that two of her three kids ended up as drunks and addicts - one reformed, one hopeless - and that none of her children are now on speaking terms with one another, I am tempted to say that she was simply not a very good mother. (My uncle has already announced his intention to boycott her funeral.) But that wouldn't be fair, would it? I wasn't there.
My own mother, a lifelong teetotaler (but a psychological basket case nonetheless), has little nice to say about either of her parents. She has a fierce burning hatred for both of her siblings. Not having been present during her upbringing, I can't vouch for any of her horror stories.
Also a lifelong teetotaler, I find that, as time goes along, I am more inclined to forgive my mother for her ... excesses. (Think Mommie Dearest starring Kathy Bates.) But it's taken me a long time to get to this point.
Not having known my father - a brilliant man crippled by schizophrenia - I can only say that my grandfather was wonderful to me. His death was the most traumatic event of my childhood.
My grandmother was wonderful, as well. I can see her faults very clearly, but I love her deeply.
My mother inherited her intelligence from her father. I inherit mine from both my mother and my father.
My father is very fair and, physically, I take after him. Phenotypically, I'm white.
I identify as a white American Protestant of European extraction - a WAPE, if you will. I don't have a "homeland," per se, other than the one in which I live. I have no family. (My mother is my only relative with whom I am on speaking terms.) I have no close friends - or enemies, for that matter. I live alone, I sleep alone, and I exist alone. My mind is my sanctuary.
Almost all of my acquaintances are white. Most of them are Jewish. Some of them are Hispanic. Few of them are Protestant.
I think Europeans are crazy for allowing black Muslims to swarm into their lands, and I think we're crazy for allowing Mexicans (and Muslims, for that matter) to swarm into ours. I believe we should institute a total ban on all immigration (including the H1B1 scam) and build the wall.
Whether or not I'm on "your side," I can't say.Replies: @laura r, @BB753
Your Christmas dinners must be a blast. Similar to mine, for different reasons.
Let’s hope Whites don’t end up like Indians a couple of centuries from now, with no identity, no future, addicted to opioids and firewater, in our own reservations.
Merry Christmas!
I am referring to my mother's siblings; I've never met any of my father's relatives.
My father was already estranged from his family when he married my mother. His biological father - my paternal grandfather, in other words - died shortly after his birth, and his mother remarried shortly thereafter, so the man he called "Father" was his stepfather. His mother subsequently had several children with her second husband, leaving my father as the oddball half-sibling. He never felt fully accepted.
His mother died of cancer when he was in his early twenties. She told him the truth of his paternity on her deathbed. These two key events - losing his mother, and learning the truth of his parentage - were a huge shock to his system.
(Interestingly, my maternal grandmother had a similarly unhappy childhood. Her own father died when she was very young, and her mother's new husband wanted nothing to do with her. Her own mother pretty much rejected her - she was largely raised by her own grandparents. My grandmother was estranged from her mother for many years. They reconciled, to a degree, before the latter's death.)
The third life-altering shock, the one that pushed my father over the edge, came shortly after he married my mother. His sister, the one relative he truly cared about, called him one day to say that she was taking her three children and leaving her abusive husband. (Her husband was in the Army, so they lived on the base.) She asked if she could come stay with my parents; they agreed. She indicated that, immediately after hanging up, she would start packing the car for the long ride.
A few hours later, my father was informed, by phone, that his sister apparently had blown her head off with a high-powered rifle.
My father never accepted that it was a suicide. He believed that she was murdered by her husband. (My mother, who spoke to her in that last conversation, tends to agree.) His mental condition deteriorated steadily, and the marriage was all but over by the time I was born.
Going back to my mother's side: One year, my aunt - my mother's sister - and my cousin had a nasty phone argument with one of their in-laws - my uncle's brother (my mother's sister's husband's brother). After hanging up, both immediately turned to the bottle to cope. They got smashed.
(My uncle - my mother's sister's husband - was still alive, but by that time cancer had reduced him to a bedridden shell of his former self. The last time I saw him, so much of his jaw had been removed that he no longer looked human.)
Unfortunately, the argument took place early on Christmas morning. My grandmother, my mother, and I were already at my grandmother's house, waiting for them to arrive. We sat and waited for hours; our phone calls went unanswered. We were about to go over to their house when my aunt called, in tears, complaining that her brother-in-law had insulted her and my cousin in the most savage of terms, and that she was too distraught to drive. (Keep in mind that they lived about fifteen minutes away.) My mother spoke to her briefly and told me that she was obviously full of liquor.
My grandmother, who never accepted that my aunt was a hopeless alcoholic, immediately grabbed her little black book of phone numbers, found the brother-in-law's number, and dialed him up. She said, simply, "Thank you for ruining my Christmas," and hung up the phone. She then launched into a tirade against the brother-in-law. Not once did she criticize my aunt (or my cousin, for that matter) for her drunkenness. My grandmother was on the verge of tears. We tried, in vain, to cheer her up.
That evening, my mother and I ended up taking my grandmother to a movie. (I believe it was Valkyrie with Tom Cruise.) So that was our holiday - moping around the house and watching a movie.
Many such family occasions were ruined by these types of shenanigans, but that lost Christmas is the one that sticks in my mind.
The last few years that we had family dinners, my aunt insisted that no one give her any presents. She didn't want to bother with shopping, and she didn't want anyone to try to show her up
My mother, who always gives gifts to everyone with whom she is on a first-name basis, always made sure to give my aunt a small present. Predictably, my aunt would blow up at her, accusing her of trying to make her look bad. My mother would then yell that my aunt was a control freak who was always trying to tell everyone else to do.
The Indian reservation is in a state where gambling is legal, so the casino option is null and void. (When I visited the area as a child, I was amazed to see slot machines at the gates at the airport.) The natural landscape is very pretty, though.Replies: @Jim Don Bob, @BB753
You see, based on immigration patterns and birth rates, Swedes will be a minority in their own country by 2050.
This prediction made me realize why so few Muslim immigrants bother to learn German in Germany, or Norwegian in Norway, or Swedish in Sweden. When your children will be the majority culture, why bother to learn some dead language?Replies: @Joe Schmoe
So maybe Sweden will be the first entire country to earn a Darwin Award.
Exactly.
The invaders I see are overwhelmingly male.
Let's hope Whites don't end up like Indians a couple of centuries from now, with no identity, no future, addicted to opioids and firewater, in our own reservations.
Merry Christmas!Replies: @Stan Adams
We stopped bothering with the family Christmas dinners a long time ago. My uncle was the first to bail, then my aunt.
I am referring to my mother’s siblings; I’ve never met any of my father’s relatives.
My father was already estranged from his family when he married my mother. His biological father – my paternal grandfather, in other words – died shortly after his birth, and his mother remarried shortly thereafter, so the man he called “Father” was his stepfather. His mother subsequently had several children with her second husband, leaving my father as the oddball half-sibling. He never felt fully accepted.
His mother died of cancer when he was in his early twenties. She told him the truth of his paternity on her deathbed. These two key events – losing his mother, and learning the truth of his parentage – were a huge shock to his system.
(Interestingly, my maternal grandmother had a similarly unhappy childhood. Her own father died when she was very young, and her mother’s new husband wanted nothing to do with her. Her own mother pretty much rejected her – she was largely raised by her own grandparents. My grandmother was estranged from her mother for many years. They reconciled, to a degree, before the latter’s death.)
The third life-altering shock, the one that pushed my father over the edge, came shortly after he married my mother. His sister, the one relative he truly cared about, called him one day to say that she was taking her three children and leaving her abusive husband. (Her husband was in the Army, so they lived on the base.) She asked if she could come stay with my parents; they agreed. She indicated that, immediately after hanging up, she would start packing the car for the long ride.
A few hours later, my father was informed, by phone, that his sister apparently had blown her head off with a high-powered rifle.
My father never accepted that it was a suicide. He believed that she was murdered by her husband. (My mother, who spoke to her in that last conversation, tends to agree.) His mental condition deteriorated steadily, and the marriage was all but over by the time I was born.
Going back to my mother’s side: One year, my aunt – my mother’s sister – and my cousin had a nasty phone argument with one of their in-laws – my uncle’s brother (my mother’s sister’s husband’s brother). After hanging up, both immediately turned to the bottle to cope. They got smashed.
(My uncle – my mother’s sister’s husband – was still alive, but by that time cancer had reduced him to a bedridden shell of his former self. The last time I saw him, so much of his jaw had been removed that he no longer looked human.)
Unfortunately, the argument took place early on Christmas morning. My grandmother, my mother, and I were already at my grandmother’s house, waiting for them to arrive. We sat and waited for hours; our phone calls went unanswered. We were about to go over to their house when my aunt called, in tears, complaining that her brother-in-law had insulted her and my cousin in the most savage of terms, and that she was too distraught to drive. (Keep in mind that they lived about fifteen minutes away.) My mother spoke to her briefly and told me that she was obviously full of liquor.
My grandmother, who never accepted that my aunt was a hopeless alcoholic, immediately grabbed her little black book of phone numbers, found the brother-in-law’s number, and dialed him up. She said, simply, “Thank you for ruining my Christmas,” and hung up the phone. She then launched into a tirade against the brother-in-law. Not once did she criticize my aunt (or my cousin, for that matter) for her drunkenness. My grandmother was on the verge of tears. We tried, in vain, to cheer her up.
That evening, my mother and I ended up taking my grandmother to a movie. (I believe it was Valkyrie with Tom Cruise.) So that was our holiday – moping around the house and watching a movie.
Many such family occasions were ruined by these types of shenanigans, but that lost Christmas is the one that sticks in my mind.
The last few years that we had family dinners, my aunt insisted that no one give her any presents. She didn’t want to bother with shopping, and she didn’t want anyone to try to show her up
My mother, who always gives gifts to everyone with whom she is on a first-name basis, always made sure to give my aunt a small present. Predictably, my aunt would blow up at her, accusing her of trying to make her look bad. My mother would then yell that my aunt was a control freak who was always trying to tell everyone else to do.
The Indian reservation is in a state where gambling is legal, so the casino option is null and void. (When I visited the area as a child, I was amazed to see slot machines at the gates at the airport.) The natural landscape is very pretty, though.
Family are the people you both love and hate.
I am referring to my mother's siblings; I've never met any of my father's relatives.
My father was already estranged from his family when he married my mother. His biological father - my paternal grandfather, in other words - died shortly after his birth, and his mother remarried shortly thereafter, so the man he called "Father" was his stepfather. His mother subsequently had several children with her second husband, leaving my father as the oddball half-sibling. He never felt fully accepted.
His mother died of cancer when he was in his early twenties. She told him the truth of his paternity on her deathbed. These two key events - losing his mother, and learning the truth of his parentage - were a huge shock to his system.
(Interestingly, my maternal grandmother had a similarly unhappy childhood. Her own father died when she was very young, and her mother's new husband wanted nothing to do with her. Her own mother pretty much rejected her - she was largely raised by her own grandparents. My grandmother was estranged from her mother for many years. They reconciled, to a degree, before the latter's death.)
The third life-altering shock, the one that pushed my father over the edge, came shortly after he married my mother. His sister, the one relative he truly cared about, called him one day to say that she was taking her three children and leaving her abusive husband. (Her husband was in the Army, so they lived on the base.) She asked if she could come stay with my parents; they agreed. She indicated that, immediately after hanging up, she would start packing the car for the long ride.
A few hours later, my father was informed, by phone, that his sister apparently had blown her head off with a high-powered rifle.
My father never accepted that it was a suicide. He believed that she was murdered by her husband. (My mother, who spoke to her in that last conversation, tends to agree.) His mental condition deteriorated steadily, and the marriage was all but over by the time I was born.
Going back to my mother's side: One year, my aunt - my mother's sister - and my cousin had a nasty phone argument with one of their in-laws - my uncle's brother (my mother's sister's husband's brother). After hanging up, both immediately turned to the bottle to cope. They got smashed.
(My uncle - my mother's sister's husband - was still alive, but by that time cancer had reduced him to a bedridden shell of his former self. The last time I saw him, so much of his jaw had been removed that he no longer looked human.)
Unfortunately, the argument took place early on Christmas morning. My grandmother, my mother, and I were already at my grandmother's house, waiting for them to arrive. We sat and waited for hours; our phone calls went unanswered. We were about to go over to their house when my aunt called, in tears, complaining that her brother-in-law had insulted her and my cousin in the most savage of terms, and that she was too distraught to drive. (Keep in mind that they lived about fifteen minutes away.) My mother spoke to her briefly and told me that she was obviously full of liquor.
My grandmother, who never accepted that my aunt was a hopeless alcoholic, immediately grabbed her little black book of phone numbers, found the brother-in-law's number, and dialed him up. She said, simply, "Thank you for ruining my Christmas," and hung up the phone. She then launched into a tirade against the brother-in-law. Not once did she criticize my aunt (or my cousin, for that matter) for her drunkenness. My grandmother was on the verge of tears. We tried, in vain, to cheer her up.
That evening, my mother and I ended up taking my grandmother to a movie. (I believe it was Valkyrie with Tom Cruise.) So that was our holiday - moping around the house and watching a movie.
Many such family occasions were ruined by these types of shenanigans, but that lost Christmas is the one that sticks in my mind.
The last few years that we had family dinners, my aunt insisted that no one give her any presents. She didn't want to bother with shopping, and she didn't want anyone to try to show her up
My mother, who always gives gifts to everyone with whom she is on a first-name basis, always made sure to give my aunt a small present. Predictably, my aunt would blow up at her, accusing her of trying to make her look bad. My mother would then yell that my aunt was a control freak who was always trying to tell everyone else to do.
The Indian reservation is in a state where gambling is legal, so the casino option is null and void. (When I visited the area as a child, I was amazed to see slot machines at the gates at the airport.) The natural landscape is very pretty, though.Replies: @Jim Don Bob, @BB753
My grandfather was fond of saying at family gatherings, “Thank God you can pick your friends!”
I am referring to my mother's siblings; I've never met any of my father's relatives.
My father was already estranged from his family when he married my mother. His biological father - my paternal grandfather, in other words - died shortly after his birth, and his mother remarried shortly thereafter, so the man he called "Father" was his stepfather. His mother subsequently had several children with her second husband, leaving my father as the oddball half-sibling. He never felt fully accepted.
His mother died of cancer when he was in his early twenties. She told him the truth of his paternity on her deathbed. These two key events - losing his mother, and learning the truth of his parentage - were a huge shock to his system.
(Interestingly, my maternal grandmother had a similarly unhappy childhood. Her own father died when she was very young, and her mother's new husband wanted nothing to do with her. Her own mother pretty much rejected her - she was largely raised by her own grandparents. My grandmother was estranged from her mother for many years. They reconciled, to a degree, before the latter's death.)
The third life-altering shock, the one that pushed my father over the edge, came shortly after he married my mother. His sister, the one relative he truly cared about, called him one day to say that she was taking her three children and leaving her abusive husband. (Her husband was in the Army, so they lived on the base.) She asked if she could come stay with my parents; they agreed. She indicated that, immediately after hanging up, she would start packing the car for the long ride.
A few hours later, my father was informed, by phone, that his sister apparently had blown her head off with a high-powered rifle.
My father never accepted that it was a suicide. He believed that she was murdered by her husband. (My mother, who spoke to her in that last conversation, tends to agree.) His mental condition deteriorated steadily, and the marriage was all but over by the time I was born.
Going back to my mother's side: One year, my aunt - my mother's sister - and my cousin had a nasty phone argument with one of their in-laws - my uncle's brother (my mother's sister's husband's brother). After hanging up, both immediately turned to the bottle to cope. They got smashed.
(My uncle - my mother's sister's husband - was still alive, but by that time cancer had reduced him to a bedridden shell of his former self. The last time I saw him, so much of his jaw had been removed that he no longer looked human.)
Unfortunately, the argument took place early on Christmas morning. My grandmother, my mother, and I were already at my grandmother's house, waiting for them to arrive. We sat and waited for hours; our phone calls went unanswered. We were about to go over to their house when my aunt called, in tears, complaining that her brother-in-law had insulted her and my cousin in the most savage of terms, and that she was too distraught to drive. (Keep in mind that they lived about fifteen minutes away.) My mother spoke to her briefly and told me that she was obviously full of liquor.
My grandmother, who never accepted that my aunt was a hopeless alcoholic, immediately grabbed her little black book of phone numbers, found the brother-in-law's number, and dialed him up. She said, simply, "Thank you for ruining my Christmas," and hung up the phone. She then launched into a tirade against the brother-in-law. Not once did she criticize my aunt (or my cousin, for that matter) for her drunkenness. My grandmother was on the verge of tears. We tried, in vain, to cheer her up.
That evening, my mother and I ended up taking my grandmother to a movie. (I believe it was Valkyrie with Tom Cruise.) So that was our holiday - moping around the house and watching a movie.
Many such family occasions were ruined by these types of shenanigans, but that lost Christmas is the one that sticks in my mind.
The last few years that we had family dinners, my aunt insisted that no one give her any presents. She didn't want to bother with shopping, and she didn't want anyone to try to show her up
My mother, who always gives gifts to everyone with whom she is on a first-name basis, always made sure to give my aunt a small present. Predictably, my aunt would blow up at her, accusing her of trying to make her look bad. My mother would then yell that my aunt was a control freak who was always trying to tell everyone else to do.
The Indian reservation is in a state where gambling is legal, so the casino option is null and void. (When I visited the area as a child, I was amazed to see slot machines at the gates at the airport.) The natural landscape is very pretty, though.Replies: @Jim Don Bob, @BB753
Thanks for sharing! I won’t bore you with the details of my depressing family dinners, but politics, old grudges and long distances have soured the few occasions for family reunions these past 20 years.
Family are the people you both love and hate.
I know what you mean.