With raids on civilians and hostage-taking back in the news, I looked up the Comanches’ Great Raid of 1840 that destroyed forever the Texas port city of Linnville, about halfway between Houston and Corpus Christi.
As with many ethnic conflicts, who were the bad guys and who were the good guys tend to flip-flop depending upon how far back in the chain of retaliatory counter-atrocities you go to start the narrative. Do you start your tale with X -> Y, or previously with Y -> X -> Y, or even further back with X -> Y -> X -> Y, etc.
The immediate predecessor event to the Comanches’ Great Raid was the Council House Fight in San Antonio. The Texians demanded a parley to arrange for getting back 16 white hostages from the Indians. But the Comanches only showed up with one, a young girl.
The Texians didn’t grasp that the fearsome Comanches were not a unified nation but more like a dozen or more motorcycle gangs on the make, with just a few represented at the council to see what the going price for a hostage was. The Texians then announced that, turn about being fair play, they were taking the Comanche chiefs at the parley hostage. This shocked the Comanches’ sense of morality. They tried to fight their way out of of captivity and two or three dozen were killed in the fight.
In response, the Comanches then tortured to death 13 white hostages. A chief named Buffalo Hump, who hadn’t attended, announced he would lead a great raid on the white man’s cities as vengeance. He assembled 500 or more braves in north central Texas and led them south toward the Gulf of Mexico hundreds of miles away. In the Indian wars, the Native Americans tended to be far more politically fractured, so it took an impressive leader to assemble that large of a force in one place.
They first attacked the inland town of Victoria about 125 miles southwest of Houston, killing a dozen locals. But the heavily armed Texian civilians fired out from inside their buildings and eventually the Comanche rode on to the busy port of Linnville, killing maybe another dozen civilians. The remainder, realizing Plains Indians had no familiarity with open water, piled into boats and escaped into the ocean, where they bobbed up and down watching their town be sacked.
After a day of drunken revels, the Comanche, wearing top hats and other loot onto pack mules, headed home with their 3,000 stolen horses, burning Linnville to the ground. Normally, the Texas Rangers could never catch the hard riding Comanches, but this time their pack mules slowed them down. The Rangers managed to kill a few dozen Comanche, but when some of the Indians jettisoned their stolen gold bullion to make a faster escape, the Rangers stopped pursuing in order to divvy up the gold amongst themselves.
Linnville was never rebuilt.
Although the death toll from the Great Raid was not immense, the Comanches wars went on for another 35 years. During the Civil War, many veteran Confederate and Union troops remained at their posts in the west guarding against the Comanches and other Plains Indians, missing out on the glory. But that suggests how much Americans, north and south, feared the potential of the mounted warriors of the plains.
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Steve, have you ever read Blood Meridian?
Always nice to see some real history.
IF ONLY “our” future could be so tame.
Manifest destiny is progress ?
Isn’t it rich ? Almost prophet able…
Don’t take the “world serious” said Abner.
These god$ sure do have a sense of humor.
Slightly O.T.
BLM – which, of course, was part founded by a Palestinian, has come out in full support of Hamas.
Expect to see BLM quietly, but surely, wither away and slowly disappear from all public exposure, discourse and notice in the near future. Quite simply, the gatekeepers of the media will drop them like a hot potato and completely ignore them as if they do not exist.
Remember, the only power BLM ever had was saturation coverage from a media agreeable with its agenda. Now its agenda is disagreeable, its oxygen will be swiftly cut off.
Or more or less so, by condemning Israel. Two of those three are Somali Muslim imports, one of whom fake married her brother to get him in here.
So the Comrades are being split by this recent event. Despite many of them being Jewish. Of course the Jews won't endorse Hamas outright, though some publicly back "Palestinians" in this.
This recent Hamas raid is like a prison break writ large. Gaza is largely an Israeli prison for uncooperative Palestinians. Funded by Iran, Syria (a bit) and some Gulf Arab states and funders.
To the degree the Comrades appear divided or perplexed here, this will weaken their ideological hold.
Due to heavy Jewish influence/ownership/control over US news media, being pro Hamas won't fly. Also it seems to be a major political blunder and temporary Pyrrhic "victory" for them.
Now Israel will starve them out and pound them with artillery and missiles. Perhaps raids to capture suspected leaders.
Like most prison breaks, this will end badly for them.
Israel pays a heavy price for running this prison. This is about land, not religion. Both Jews and Arabs are famous for being insane bargainers and crazy stubborn.
Outsiders fund both sides and pay to watch. Innocents pay the price.Replies: @Anonymous
But actually...
The Jewish-controlled media has been going absolutely beserk about Hamas' attack -- and in that context, it's striking how little coverage the position of Black Lives Matter has received.
Maybe they want to keep their black tool. I prefer to avoid explanations that imply a conscious decision -- but this is noticeable.
No.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii_7QnXPQxA
Real fans also know the sequence when the Kid finds the mummy is the heart of the book. I still ponder the meaning of it, which is made no clearer even when you realize who or what the mummy is.
Why are conservative Americans like this?
I don't consider Lindsey Graham a conservative.Replies: @HammerJack, @John Henry, @Bard of Bumperstickers, @Wilkey, @Anonymous, @Legba
I remember in college reading Hayek's essay, "Why I Am Not A Conservative" and thinking my eyes had been opened, but unfortunately, today I also would have to explain why I am not a libertarian. If White people are going to survive, we need to develop a racial consciousness. Otherwise we will be killed off, it's that simple. That does not mean we have to hate other groups, just that we love our own extended family.Replies: @Catdog
That said, the lines between civilization and barbarism in the conflict with Israel are pretty clear. It may be cliche to say that if the Muslims in the area disarmed and called for peace, a year later there would be fixed lines, a Palestinian state, and peace. If the Israelis disarmed and called for peace, a year later all the Jews still in the area would be dead. That it is cliche makes it no less true. The Israelis are not angels; however, their opponents are barbarians.Replies: @HammerJack
These people care more about Israel than they care about their own people.
Israeli official calls for 'Doomsday' missile that 'shakes the Middle East' to be used in response to Hamas attacks - despite the nation never openly admitting to having nuclear weapons
That's why hysterical pre-menopausal women should be better kept away in the time of crisis....Replies: @Anonymous
Much of human history was a story of conflict between pastoralists and agriculturalists, with the former usually beating the latter and assuming the elite stratum among the latter, only for the pattern to repeat later with yet other pastoralists. This went on for centuries until the inventions (e.g. gunpowder) and the organizations (levee en masse) of the agriculturalists finally overtook the fighting prowess and the mobility of the pastoralists and decisively settled the score once and for all.
https://www.unz.com/isteve/has-mit-finally-figured-out-why-roman-concrete-was-so-great/#comment-57582641. In set-piece mêlée, European heavy cavalry and infantry can make mincemeat of Mongol light cavalry. But light cavalry can run-and-shoot and escape from set-piece battles, and re-seize the strategic initiative2. East Asian agriculturalist armies don't utilize heavy armor, but in set-piece battles can also defeat Mongol-Manchu light cavalry using combination of fortification, pikemen and archers, as you wrote. In addition, East Asians began using crossbows before anyone else.3. But, Chinese can only thoroughly defeat Mongols with its own light cavalry, which is expensive and can only be led by the most vigorous emperors, Wudi, Taizong, Hongwu, Yongle.Ming Chinese razed the ancient Mongol palace, but only by horse archer light calvary led by Hongwu,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KarakorumThe future I think is still light calvary, in the form of AI-driven tanks or AI-driven Fallschirmjäger.
Appears they spooled up enough political cohesion to kill and raid. Seems they could have spooled up enough cohesion to parley en bloc.
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Recently read a small amount about the early days of the mountain men of the west; Jim Bridger et al.; the fur trapping era. Seemed to have gotten along quite well with the Natives. The Indian Wars in those areas came later, when the number of economic migrants became greater. Should be lesson there today.
https://twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/1711928827318866331?t=-9syu4rm4zpRhoWMOFHxkw&s=19Replies: @Kylie, @Anon, @deep anonymous, @JosephD, @Director95, @anonymouseperson, @James Braxton, @Dr. X
“Why are conservative Americans like this?”
I don’t consider Lindsey Graham a conservative.
NewsGuard Adviser Michael Hayden Calls for Sen. Tommy Tuberville to Be ‘Removed’ from the Human Race
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/10/10/former-cia-nsa-director-gen-michael-hayden-calls-for-sen-tuberville-to-be-removed-from-human-race/Be pro-Israel, or be unpersoned."Entangling alliances with none."
https://mises.org/wire/get-us-out-middle-eastReplies: @Ben tillman
I have nothing against Israel or its survival. I just don’t understand why so many non-Jewish Americans are so damn obsessed with it, even as they embrace the overrunning of every other Western country by Third World invaders.
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians will probably end up leaving Gaza, and guess where they’ll want to go? Thousands of them will be coming to a neighborhood near you.Replies: @Achmed E. Newman, @Anon, @Jack Armstrong
Graham's ravings are not some bizarre aberration.
BLM - which, of course, was part founded by a Palestinian, has come out in full support of Hamas.
Expect to see BLM quietly, but surely, wither away and slowly disappear from all public exposure, discourse and notice in the near future. Quite simply, the gatekeepers of the media will drop them like a hot potato and completely ignore them as if they do not exist.
Remember, the only power BLM ever had was saturation coverage from a media agreeable with its agenda. Now its agenda is disagreeable, its oxygen will be swiftly cut off.Replies: @AndrewR, @Danindc, @Prester John, @res, @Muggles, @Colin Wright
Burn Loot Murder is not a unified organization. God’s chosen people will drop the more radical ones, and support the more kosher ones
https://twitter.com/hemantmehta/status/1711134058971840809?t=-OPJOqD_HLydsGkySK6ylA&s=19Replies: @AndrewR, @Barnard, @Bardon Kaldian, @Corpse Tooth
White Americans can be as genocidal as they want as long as the targets are Palestinians or fellow white Americans (at least the “racist” ones)
https://www.unz.com/jfreud/two-kinds-of-justice-in-the-world-jewish-justice-and-palestinian-justice-how-jewish-power-divided-the-world-into-jews-meta-jews-versus-palestinians-meta-palestinians-jews-regard-whites/
https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/we-are-all-palestinians-2/
I don't consider Lindsey Graham a conservative.Replies: @HammerJack, @John Henry, @Bard of Bumperstickers, @Wilkey, @Anonymous, @Legba
I don’t consider him an American.
One that has struck me is just how neocon the Biden admin is. I heard his speech and it really sounds to me like Tony Blinken is actually the president of the United States now. The US isn’t urging restraint, it is giving the green light to Israel to go savage in Gaza. How far will Netanyahu go? Will he try and expel the Gazans into Egypt? (And onward into Europe) When they cross into Gaza it will trigger a wider war with Hezbollah and depending on how that goes it could suck in Syria and Iran. It’s worth noting that the idea of taking and ethnically cleansing Gaza and the West Bank is pretty mainstream at this stage in Israeli politics and is the long-term goal of basically everyone in Netanyahu’s coalition.
You’d think given how badly Ukraine has turned out they’d be trying to talk sense into the Israelis to try and contain this but when you’ve got Blinken in your state department and a man who has lost his mental faculties as president and probably relies on the people around him to tell him what to think, you get a runaway disaster.
One thing to note which is very important and I don’t see talked about is, since the US has lost his hegemon status in the idiotic overreach in Ukraine out of the neocon tantrum about the Russian intervention in Syria, every day the US military golem becomes a depreciating asset for Israel. Will this fact, that every day it will become harder for the US military to act for Israel (Along with this admin being ridiculously slavish to Israel) motivate Netanyahu to use this opportunity to push for this to go into a regional war? But can the US win it for Israel?
Blinken is fascinating because nobody brings up him being a creature of deep state nepotism, his father and uncle both being US ambassadors. His intense neocon views also seem to obscured by his low-key nature and ambiguous name.
The other interesting thing about Blinken is he is the archetypal invade-the-world, invite-the-world guy having previously served as UN ambassador with Obama during the million man march during the height of the Israel/State Department funded Syrian civil war. During that time he made a video with Grover the muppet propagandising to children about the necessity of Europe to take all these men, forever.
Here he is at AIPAC in late 2015.
Invade the world. (On behalf of the Sabras)
Here he is with Grover in 2016 talking about the million man march.
Invite the world. (On behalf of the diaspora)
A perfect twofer.
You'd think given how badly Ukraine has turned out they'd be trying to talk sense into the Israelis to try and contain this but when you've got Blinken in your state department and a man who has lost his mental faculties as president and probably relies on the people around him to tell him what to think, you get a runaway disaster.
One thing to note which is very important and I don't see talked about is, since the US has lost his hegemon status in the idiotic overreach in Ukraine out of the neocon tantrum about the Russian intervention in Syria, every day the US military golem becomes a depreciating asset for Israel. Will this fact, that every day it will become harder for the US military to act for Israel (Along with this admin being ridiculously slavish to Israel) motivate Netanyahu to use this opportunity to push for this to go into a regional war? But can the US win it for Israel?
Blinken is fascinating because nobody brings up him being a creature of deep state nepotism, his father and uncle both being US ambassadors. His intense neocon views also seem to obscured by his low-key nature and ambiguous name.
The other interesting thing about Blinken is he is the archetypal invade-the-world, invite-the-world guy having previously served as UN ambassador with Obama during the million man march during the height of the Israel/State Department funded Syrian civil war. During that time he made a video with Grover the muppet propagandising to children about the necessity of Europe to take all these men, forever.
Here he is at AIPAC in late 2015.
Invade the world. (On behalf of the Sabras)
https://twitter.com/WalkerBragman/status/1331159077397929985
Here he is with Grover in 2016 talking about the million man march.
Invite the world. (On behalf of the diaspora)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUxKsG5YrPE
A perfect twofer.Replies: @YetAnotherAnon, @Anonymous, @Hypnotoad666, @Wilkey, @HammerJack, @TWS
OTOH he plays a reasonable guitar for a politician. Sorry!
That’s some fascinating history. I guess this sort of thing wouldn’t get taught to the children, probably 50 years running now, as we can’t have anyone going against the narrative of “White Man bad / Red man good”. Things were indeed a lot more nuanced, a lot more complicated and not a matter of simply US v Indians.
I’ve linked to them before, but here are the 3 Parts of the Peak Stupidity review of the great Sam Gwynne book Empire of the Summer Moon: Part 1 – – Part 2 – –Part 3.
The HBD or more anti-HBD story behind the Comanches, as Mr. Gwynne discusses at the beginning of his book, is that before they had horses (coming from the Spanish via Mexico), “The People”* were a pathetic bunch, “indigenous” at that point, to the Wind River Range in Wyoming. Within a century or less they became the best horseman anyone had ever seen.
That gets to this story of their looting of Linnville. Killing and torturing other peoples and stealing horses was not just war, but it was LIFE itself to the Comanche men. The women were beasts of burden with benefits basically.
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* What “Comanche” meant in Comanche. No peace and perfect harmony among nations with this crowd…
….. his mother may have been a typical sausage eater from the old country…
The modern way: Achmed LIKED "History is awesome."
The Sioux, another famous plains tribe, originally came from the eastern woodlands. One branch of that tribe, the Santee, lived in the woods of Minnesota as late as the 1860's, when they were deported to a reservation in Nebraska for something or other. They were going to hang a shitload of them, but the Great Emancipator commuted most of their sentences.
Prior to the introduction of the firearm and, especially, the horse, hardly any Indians lived in the high plains. They were too dry for farming and, while there were vast herds of bison, that resource could not be well exploited by unmounted braves with only arrows and lances.
The horse and the gun changed all that: there was a "gold rush" of large numbers of mounted, armed Indians from the outskirts of the plains to pluck the low-hanging fruit of the then easily killed bison.
The heyday of plains Indian culture lasted well less than a century.Replies: @duncsbaby
Now, there’s a Western crying, nay, shrieking out to be made.
I don't consider Lindsey Graham a conservative.Replies: @HammerJack, @John Henry, @Bard of Bumperstickers, @Wilkey, @Anonymous, @Legba
Agree. He is a blood thirsty neo-con. Ready to send other people to fight his endless wars.
I've linked to them before, but here are the 3 Parts of the Peak Stupidity review of the great Sam Gwynne book Empire of the Summer Moon: Part 1 - - Part 2 - -Part 3.
The HBD or more anti-HBD story behind the Comanches, as Mr. Gwynne discusses at the beginning of his book, is that before they had horses (coming from the Spanish via Mexico), "The People"* were a pathetic bunch, "indigenous" at that point, to the Wind River Range in Wyoming. Within a century or less they became the best horseman anyone had ever seen.
That gets to this story of their looting of Linnville. Killing and torturing other peoples and stealing horses was not just war, but it was LIFE itself to the Comanche men. The women were beasts of burden with benefits basically.
.
* What "Comanche" meant in Comanche. No peace and perfect harmony among nations with this crowd...Replies: @John Henry, @OsMagyar, @Buroaker, @Achmed E. Newman, @Hypnotoad666, @Herbert R. Tarlek, Jr.
“The People” is typically what every tribes’ language meant in the name they used for their self-description. “We are the People.” You are the other. But I suspect you know this.
History is awesome.
“Empire of the Summer Moon” is also really good.
You'd think given how badly Ukraine has turned out they'd be trying to talk sense into the Israelis to try and contain this but when you've got Blinken in your state department and a man who has lost his mental faculties as president and probably relies on the people around him to tell him what to think, you get a runaway disaster.
One thing to note which is very important and I don't see talked about is, since the US has lost his hegemon status in the idiotic overreach in Ukraine out of the neocon tantrum about the Russian intervention in Syria, every day the US military golem becomes a depreciating asset for Israel. Will this fact, that every day it will become harder for the US military to act for Israel (Along with this admin being ridiculously slavish to Israel) motivate Netanyahu to use this opportunity to push for this to go into a regional war? But can the US win it for Israel?
Blinken is fascinating because nobody brings up him being a creature of deep state nepotism, his father and uncle both being US ambassadors. His intense neocon views also seem to obscured by his low-key nature and ambiguous name.
The other interesting thing about Blinken is he is the archetypal invade-the-world, invite-the-world guy having previously served as UN ambassador with Obama during the million man march during the height of the Israel/State Department funded Syrian civil war. During that time he made a video with Grover the muppet propagandising to children about the necessity of Europe to take all these men, forever.
Here he is at AIPAC in late 2015.
Invade the world. (On behalf of the Sabras)
https://twitter.com/WalkerBragman/status/1331159077397929985
Here he is with Grover in 2016 talking about the million man march.
Invite the world. (On behalf of the diaspora)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUxKsG5YrPE
A perfect twofer.Replies: @YetAnotherAnon, @Anonymous, @Hypnotoad666, @Wilkey, @HammerJack, @TWS
Grover is the one of the pair to actually have a brain in his head.
PS I’m only brave enough to name Grover as I’m pretty sure he can’t sue.
I fall asleep nightly listening to Comanche horror stories, they were brutes for sure, but definitely not whiners.
I read “The First Frontier” last year after another commenter recommended it, which discusses the initial settlement of the East Coast and associated conflict with native tribes. Brutality on both sides and of course totally alien cultures and values that made it all worse. I honestly don’t know how people had the guts to set up homesteads on the frontier and miles away from any help.
At any rate, one thing to note about the conflicts between Americans settlers/Army and the natives is obviously there is and was respect for their martial prowess. After all, a number of weapons systems have been named after Indian tribes or implements.
Dakota
Comanche
Saratoga
Seminole
Seneca
Aztec
NavajoI'm sure I left a few out.Replies: @Hypnotoad666, @J.Ross, @Arclight
I've linked to them before, but here are the 3 Parts of the Peak Stupidity review of the great Sam Gwynne book Empire of the Summer Moon: Part 1 - - Part 2 - -Part 3.
The HBD or more anti-HBD story behind the Comanches, as Mr. Gwynne discusses at the beginning of his book, is that before they had horses (coming from the Spanish via Mexico), "The People"* were a pathetic bunch, "indigenous" at that point, to the Wind River Range in Wyoming. Within a century or less they became the best horseman anyone had ever seen.
That gets to this story of their looting of Linnville. Killing and torturing other peoples and stealing horses was not just war, but it was LIFE itself to the Comanche men. The women were beasts of burden with benefits basically.
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* What "Comanche" meant in Comanche. No peace and perfect harmony among nations with this crowd...Replies: @John Henry, @OsMagyar, @Buroaker, @Achmed E. Newman, @Hypnotoad666, @Herbert R. Tarlek, Jr.
I, for one, enjoyed Gwynne’s comparison of the Comanche with the ancient Magyar.
Great minds, Mr iSteve. In the comments thread on another American blog I compared the Hamas raid to the Comanches. I then pointed out that the Comanches lost.
What Hamas’s barbaric young men are up to is obvious, but what are their bosses up to? Dunno. It’s a mystery.
Still, the question will presumably be ignored amongst all the hysteria. Is a feminised society more prone to hysteria? Could be.
I don't consider Lindsey Graham a conservative.Replies: @HammerJack, @John Henry, @Bard of Bumperstickers, @Wilkey, @Anonymous, @Legba
Agreed about Graham.
For many conservative Christians, though, Israel can do no wrong.
NewsGuard Adviser Michael Hayden Calls for Sen. Tommy Tuberville to Be ‘Removed’ from the Human Race
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/10/10/former-cia-nsa-director-gen-michael-hayden-calls-for-sen-tuberville-to-be-removed-from-human-race/
Be pro-Israel, or be unpersoned.
“Entangling alliances with none.”
https://mises.org/wire/get-us-out-middle-east
Back in 1975 I spent a week at Big Bend National Park in Texas along the Rio Grande. There was a caldera type geologic structure that was called “the last stronghold of the Comanches”. It was a verdant bowl set in the middle of an arid moonscape. Ideal as a refuge and place to make a last ditch stand.
At the museum in the park there were exhibitions depicting the history of the region and of the wars between the settlers and Indios. Of course, the Texas Rangers figured prominently in this. There were enlarged photos of Texas Rangers out in the countryside, standing before buckboard wagons, cradling what looked like buffalo guns in their arms. They were handle-barred mustached, sun bronzed, leather skinned, lean and hard; the toughest looking hombres I’ve ever laid eyes on. They made Hells Angels look like plump fops, Nancy boys.
There was no give and take in their attitudes. It was all, “I’m gonna hound you to the Gates of Hell and back and you’re gonna die”.
When I went back in 2000 the photos of the tough-sinewed law men had all disappeared, replaced by what Steve would call the soft-focused fairy tale that is so beloved of the “gradual assimilation” school of social relations.
https://twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/1711928827318866331?t=-9syu4rm4zpRhoWMOFHxkw&s=19Replies: @Kylie, @Anon, @deep anonymous, @JosephD, @Director95, @anonymouseperson, @James Braxton, @Dr. X
Religion makes you do stupid things.
What the hell, since I have no inkling of the purpose of the Hamas raid why not just guess?
(i) It’s part of a power struggle between factions in Hamas. (ii) Or, Hamas is scared of losing power in Gaza and therefore planned to unite the population behind them by provoking a genocidal Israeli attack. (iii) It’s all about drawing in other parties. (iv) Your guess may be as good as mine.
“During the Civil War, many veteran Confederate and Union troops remained at their posts in the west guarding against the Comanches and other Plains Indians, missing out on the glory. But that suggests how much Americans, north and south, feared the potential of the mounted warriors of the plains.”
Eg the two protagonists of *Lonesome Dove.*
(v) Hamas is on the Israeli payroll. Mr Netenyahu ordered the raid to strengthen his position in the political strife within Israel.
It’s a complicated place, the Middle East. Can even this wild conjecture be ruled out?
https://twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/1711928827318866331?t=-9syu4rm4zpRhoWMOFHxkw&s=19Replies: @Kylie, @Anon, @deep anonymous, @JosephD, @Director95, @anonymouseperson, @James Braxton, @Dr. X
In my lifetime (I’m mid 60s) the popular meanings of “liberal” and “conservative” have, shall we say, evolved. I think it safe to say that today’s conservatives are worse than useless because they conserve the power base of the Left. I’m reminded of (I think) Dabney’s comment that conservatives move within the shadow cast by the progressive Left. It’s always the “conservative case for [fill in the latest abomination].”
I remember in college reading Hayek’s essay, “Why I Am Not A Conservative” and thinking my eyes had been opened, but unfortunately, today I also would have to explain why I am not a libertarian. If White people are going to survive, we need to develop a racial consciousness. Otherwise we will be killed off, it’s that simple. That does not mean we have to hate other groups, just that we love our own extended family.
https://twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/1711928827318866331?t=-9syu4rm4zpRhoWMOFHxkw&s=19Replies: @Kylie, @Anon, @deep anonymous, @JosephD, @Director95, @anonymouseperson, @James Braxton, @Dr. X
I do not like the values most Jewish politicians propose for the US. I do not like the hypocrisy of espousing policies for the US they would never support for Israel. Actually, “I do not like” is far too mild of language.
That said, the lines between civilization and barbarism in the conflict with Israel are pretty clear. It may be cliche to say that if the Muslims in the area disarmed and called for peace, a year later there would be fixed lines, a Palestinian state, and peace. If the Israelis disarmed and called for peace, a year later all the Jews still in the area would be dead. That it is cliche makes it no less true. The Israelis are not angels; however, their opponents are barbarians.
You need to. It’s worth reading. Supposedly it’s being adapted by the Australian guy who directed “The Proposition”, which is the closest to the brutal majesty of the book I’ve ever seen a film come.
BLM - which, of course, was part founded by a Palestinian, has come out in full support of Hamas.
Expect to see BLM quietly, but surely, wither away and slowly disappear from all public exposure, discourse and notice in the near future. Quite simply, the gatekeepers of the media will drop them like a hot potato and completely ignore them as if they do not exist.
Remember, the only power BLM ever had was saturation coverage from a media agreeable with its agenda. Now its agenda is disagreeable, its oxygen will be swiftly cut off.Replies: @AndrewR, @Danindc, @Prester John, @res, @Muggles, @Colin Wright
Agreed. But the association w BLM should tar every Corp that supported it.
I've linked to them before, but here are the 3 Parts of the Peak Stupidity review of the great Sam Gwynne book Empire of the Summer Moon: Part 1 - - Part 2 - -Part 3.
The HBD or more anti-HBD story behind the Comanches, as Mr. Gwynne discusses at the beginning of his book, is that before they had horses (coming from the Spanish via Mexico), "The People"* were a pathetic bunch, "indigenous" at that point, to the Wind River Range in Wyoming. Within a century or less they became the best horseman anyone had ever seen.
That gets to this story of their looting of Linnville. Killing and torturing other peoples and stealing horses was not just war, but it was LIFE itself to the Comanche men. The women were beasts of burden with benefits basically.
.
* What "Comanche" meant in Comanche. No peace and perfect harmony among nations with this crowd...Replies: @John Henry, @OsMagyar, @Buroaker, @Achmed E. Newman, @Hypnotoad666, @Herbert R. Tarlek, Jr.
The greatest most well known Comanche warrior was half white…
….. his mother may have been a typical sausage eater from the old country…
In those days living in Texas was pretty much warfare all the time. Battle with Indians, outlaws, and feuds were standard. That’s what made Texas’s larger-than-life reputation for toughness.
Texas isn’t lost yet, but it will have to recover that spirit if it is to continue as a white man’s country.
I don't consider Lindsey Graham a conservative.Replies: @HammerJack, @John Henry, @Bard of Bumperstickers, @Wilkey, @Anonymous, @Legba
Lindsey is the dork who’s trying to make friends with the popular kid. The dork thinks he’s making progress, while the popular kid will just ignore him or mock him when he’s no longer useful.
I have nothing against Israel or its survival. I just don’t understand why so many non-Jewish Americans are so damn obsessed with it, even as they embrace the overrunning of every other Western country by Third World invaders.
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians will probably end up leaving Gaza, and guess where they’ll want to go? Thousands of them will be coming to a neighborhood near you.
Remember, these are your High IQ people. Imagine what the low IQ people are up to - they are the ones coming in.Replies: @Bragadocious
At any rate, one thing to note about the conflicts between Americans settlers/Army and the natives is obviously there is and was respect for their martial prowess. After all, a number of weapons systems have been named after Indian tribes or implements.Replies: @Achmed E. Newman
I got a list yea long of books to read, but I’ll put The First Frontier and Blood Meridian on it. Thanks, both of you.
The biggest reason there was NEVER going to be some multicultural merged society of the White Man and Red Man was the understanding and lack thereof, of property rights, respectively.
As for the Indian names, yes, not just the military helicopters, but also Piper Aircraft went all out on Indian names throughout the General Aviation manufacturer’s history. Oh no, not today, if there were to be a new model… G/A is in a big funk, 20 years running now with no light at the end of the tunnel, same as the Indians …
Cherokee
Dakota
Comanche
Saratoga
Seminole
Seneca
Aztec
Navajo
I’m sure I left a few out.
And that's not treating Indians any different than whites. If you were a settler who bought some land to farm and some white guy showed up saying it was "his land" because he used to sometimes hunt there, you'd tell him to piss off. And if he didn't, there would probably be some violence eventually.Replies: @Prester John, @Erik L, @Anonymous
>Abraham has his hands full with the War of His Own Aggression
>But America's great Western afterthought is making noise
>Can't let settler-Indian fights spill over and mess up messing up the South
>Depicted Lincoln for these reasons, at a special meeting of Indian chiefs at the White House, the White Man's ways as beneficial to those Indians willing to give them a try
>Eschew violence with the settlers and prospecters, therefore, he asked
>Fatidifically replied without difficulty Cheyenne chief Lean Bear, "it's not us, it's you -- tell the white settlers what you're telling us"
>Ghoulishly, the years shortly following saw the most grisly slaughters of Indians in the West
>Harborage was denied to the worst Western-posted American soldiers -- they were investigated and executed (in the 19th century) -- because their recourse to reckless slaughter shocked people even then
>Included among the dead were three of the chiefs who had been at that summit (and posed for a photograph in the White House greenhouse), among them Lean BearReplies: @mike99588
Anyway, I agree on the comment about property and ownership, although the introduction of Euro diseases virtually ensured that even if it had been all love and flowers the native population was going to be dramatically reduced. It is noted that although it was observed along the coast that natives tended to die a lot more often from sickness than Europeans, unbeknownst to the settlers travel by natives between coastal locations to inland areas had already spread disease and depopulated a number of villages before any Europeans ever got there, although once they did they could tell there had once been a lot more people.
To return to our present time, the issue in Israel is irreconcilable without one side or the other being totally subjugated or wiped out. Like Kashmir, Kosovo, Nagorno-Karabakh, there is too much convoluted history, honor, divergent cultures and previous blood having been spilt. I was very surprised to learn that given all that, the Israeli population is by policy almost totally disarmed, with most weapons kept in centralized depots that are not quickly accessible in emergencies like the present That seems to be an incredibly stupid practice given past experience. I am grateful we have the 2A and plan to further avail myself of the freedoms it provides in the very near future.Replies: @Corpse Tooth, @Anonymous, @Achmed E. Newman
I suggest you do not from what I can infer of your tastes, but it is very possible that it might impress you; it’s the go-to best American novel for people who don’t dig Pynchon, Heller, Gaddis, Melville, or that dude who wrote Stoner. Reliable thread on 4chan’s /tv/ board: how do we adapt Blood Meridian to film? My answer: You don’t. You can’t. Not because of the violence, but because the best part (and really the whole selling point of the thing) is its prose, and you obliterate prose when you film it. The book itself: tldr — let us finally exterminate and erase the Myth of the American Cowboy once and for all by showing in graphic detail how completely awful some of them could be. To an extent, the admiration of this novel is worryingly similar to the fandoms of Scarface, Apocalypse Now, Clockwork Orange, etc, that is it’s not shlock but it is shock, and, had it less art, many of the same people would sing many of the same praises.
You'd think given how badly Ukraine has turned out they'd be trying to talk sense into the Israelis to try and contain this but when you've got Blinken in your state department and a man who has lost his mental faculties as president and probably relies on the people around him to tell him what to think, you get a runaway disaster.
One thing to note which is very important and I don't see talked about is, since the US has lost his hegemon status in the idiotic overreach in Ukraine out of the neocon tantrum about the Russian intervention in Syria, every day the US military golem becomes a depreciating asset for Israel. Will this fact, that every day it will become harder for the US military to act for Israel (Along with this admin being ridiculously slavish to Israel) motivate Netanyahu to use this opportunity to push for this to go into a regional war? But can the US win it for Israel?
Blinken is fascinating because nobody brings up him being a creature of deep state nepotism, his father and uncle both being US ambassadors. His intense neocon views also seem to obscured by his low-key nature and ambiguous name.
The other interesting thing about Blinken is he is the archetypal invade-the-world, invite-the-world guy having previously served as UN ambassador with Obama during the million man march during the height of the Israel/State Department funded Syrian civil war. During that time he made a video with Grover the muppet propagandising to children about the necessity of Europe to take all these men, forever.
Here he is at AIPAC in late 2015.
Invade the world. (On behalf of the Sabras)
https://twitter.com/WalkerBragman/status/1331159077397929985
Here he is with Grover in 2016 talking about the million man march.
Invite the world. (On behalf of the diaspora)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUxKsG5YrPE
A perfect twofer.Replies: @YetAnotherAnon, @Anonymous, @Hypnotoad666, @Wilkey, @HammerJack, @TWS
They need a final solution to their Palestinian problem so that they can finally have an ethnically pure state with the living space necessary to thrive.
Lol, that’s also the dream for you and your ilk—s scorched earth policy for your “enemies”. Thankfully, you don’t the guts to pull a Kyle or a St. Brievik.Replies: @Anonymous
I have nothing against Israel or its survival. I just don’t understand why so many non-Jewish Americans are so damn obsessed with it, even as they embrace the overrunning of every other Western country by Third World invaders.
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians will probably end up leaving Gaza, and guess where they’ll want to go? Thousands of them will be coming to a neighborhood near you.Replies: @Achmed E. Newman, @Anon, @Jack Armstrong
Not only that, Wilkey, but it’s the Jewish Family Services org that is bringing them in! VDare’s Former Agent has an article about this today – As Israel Is Under Attack, Jewish Family Services Buses Are Picking Up Arab Illegals At The Border.
Remember, these are your High IQ people. Imagine what the low IQ people are up to – they are the ones coming in.
Obviously, these new arrivals to America could present other, more kinetic problems in the future, but from a narrative control standpoint, it's pretty cool that they're here.Replies: @Renard
https://twitter.com/hemantmehta/status/1711134058971840809?t=-OPJOqD_HLydsGkySK6ylA&s=19Replies: @AndrewR, @Barnard, @Bardon Kaldian, @Corpse Tooth
It may not seem like it, but this stuff does appear to be on the wane. I am seeing a lot less of it than I used to from dispensationalist Christians. The Jews who called abortion part of their religion made a dent in the unthinking, knee jerk support for Israel.
You'd think given how badly Ukraine has turned out they'd be trying to talk sense into the Israelis to try and contain this but when you've got Blinken in your state department and a man who has lost his mental faculties as president and probably relies on the people around him to tell him what to think, you get a runaway disaster.
One thing to note which is very important and I don't see talked about is, since the US has lost his hegemon status in the idiotic overreach in Ukraine out of the neocon tantrum about the Russian intervention in Syria, every day the US military golem becomes a depreciating asset for Israel. Will this fact, that every day it will become harder for the US military to act for Israel (Along with this admin being ridiculously slavish to Israel) motivate Netanyahu to use this opportunity to push for this to go into a regional war? But can the US win it for Israel?
Blinken is fascinating because nobody brings up him being a creature of deep state nepotism, his father and uncle both being US ambassadors. His intense neocon views also seem to obscured by his low-key nature and ambiguous name.
The other interesting thing about Blinken is he is the archetypal invade-the-world, invite-the-world guy having previously served as UN ambassador with Obama during the million man march during the height of the Israel/State Department funded Syrian civil war. During that time he made a video with Grover the muppet propagandising to children about the necessity of Europe to take all these men, forever.
Here he is at AIPAC in late 2015.
Invade the world. (On behalf of the Sabras)
https://twitter.com/WalkerBragman/status/1331159077397929985
Here he is with Grover in 2016 talking about the million man march.
Invite the world. (On behalf of the diaspora)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUxKsG5YrPE
A perfect twofer.Replies: @YetAnotherAnon, @Anonymous, @Hypnotoad666, @Wilkey, @HammerJack, @TWS
And how many Syrian refugees did Israel admit? It’s anti-Semitic to even ask.
I've linked to them before, but here are the 3 Parts of the Peak Stupidity review of the great Sam Gwynne book Empire of the Summer Moon: Part 1 - - Part 2 - -Part 3.
The HBD or more anti-HBD story behind the Comanches, as Mr. Gwynne discusses at the beginning of his book, is that before they had horses (coming from the Spanish via Mexico), "The People"* were a pathetic bunch, "indigenous" at that point, to the Wind River Range in Wyoming. Within a century or less they became the best horseman anyone had ever seen.
That gets to this story of their looting of Linnville. Killing and torturing other peoples and stealing horses was not just war, but it was LIFE itself to the Comanche men. The women were beasts of burden with benefits basically.
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* What "Comanche" meant in Comanche. No peace and perfect harmony among nations with this crowd...Replies: @John Henry, @OsMagyar, @Buroaker, @Achmed E. Newman, @Hypnotoad666, @Herbert R. Tarlek, Jr.
Oops, I do agree with myself on most occasions but meant to hit the button for the Captain.
The modern way: Achmed LIKED “History is awesome.”
Dakota
Comanche
Saratoga
Seminole
Seneca
Aztec
NavajoI'm sure I left a few out.Replies: @Hypnotoad666, @J.Ross, @Arclight
Exactly. The standard line is that whites “stole their land.” But it’s not like any Indian had a deed to it.
And that’s not treating Indians any different than whites. If you were a settler who bought some land to farm and some white guy showed up saying it was “his land” because he used to sometimes hunt there, you’d tell him to piss off. And if he didn’t, there would probably be some violence eventually.
The one that explains the most history is: "Divide up into teams then fight over land"
Dakota
Comanche
Saratoga
Seminole
Seneca
Aztec
NavajoI'm sure I left a few out.Replies: @Hypnotoad666, @J.Ross, @Arclight
I hate Steve Inskeep for many logical reasons (he once argued that Hungarians were being unreasonable to worry about the flood of criminal aliens pouring over their borders because, after all, these criminals apparently had a different ultimate goal than the nation they were then attacking) but he has impressed the Iron Man Halloween mask off of comic book enthisiast and sometime Constitutional law professor Hugh Hewitt with his new book about Lincoln, Differ We Must, in part thanks to an incredible meeting nobody ever heard of, and which, given its politics may well be a movie before Steven “Rocky Road” Spielberg goes to the luxury shotgun shop in the sky. The meeting:
>Abraham has his hands full with the War of His Own Aggression
>But America’s great Western afterthought is making noise
>Can’t let settler-Indian fights spill over and mess up messing up the South
>Depicted Lincoln for these reasons, at a special meeting of Indian chiefs at the White House, the White Man’s ways as beneficial to those Indians willing to give them a try
>Eschew violence with the settlers and prospecters, therefore, he asked
>Fatidifically replied without difficulty Cheyenne chief Lean Bear, “it’s not us, it’s you — tell the white settlers what you’re telling us”
>Ghoulishly, the years shortly following saw the most grisly slaughters of Indians in the West
>Harborage was denied to the worst Western-posted American soldiers — they were investigated and executed (in the 19th century) — because their recourse to reckless slaughter shocked people even then
>Included among the dead were three of the chiefs who had been at that summit (and posed for a photograph in the White House greenhouse), among them Lean Bear
I've linked to them before, but here are the 3 Parts of the Peak Stupidity review of the great Sam Gwynne book Empire of the Summer Moon: Part 1 - - Part 2 - -Part 3.
The HBD or more anti-HBD story behind the Comanches, as Mr. Gwynne discusses at the beginning of his book, is that before they had horses (coming from the Spanish via Mexico), "The People"* were a pathetic bunch, "indigenous" at that point, to the Wind River Range in Wyoming. Within a century or less they became the best horseman anyone had ever seen.
That gets to this story of their looting of Linnville. Killing and torturing other peoples and stealing horses was not just war, but it was LIFE itself to the Comanche men. The women were beasts of burden with benefits basically.
.
* What "Comanche" meant in Comanche. No peace and perfect harmony among nations with this crowd...Replies: @John Henry, @OsMagyar, @Buroaker, @Achmed E. Newman, @Hypnotoad666, @Herbert R. Tarlek, Jr.
It seems like every tribe’s name for itself translates as “us” or “the people.” Whereas their name for the next tribe over is usually “those bastards,” or “the enemy.” Of course we would often first learn about a tribe from its neighbors, so a lot of tribes are now named after their neighbor’s perjorative.
I remember asking a Georgian (the country) what they called their country since I only knew the anglicized "Georgia." He looked at me puzzled and said, in English, "It's 'the Land.'"
The People. The People's Land. Our Land. This is what we want and feel in our bones, no matter how much we pretend otherwise. It's why even Barack and Mish buy a 9BR mansion with 26 empty acres around it.Replies: @Anonymous
When did “Texians” replace “Texans”? Or was it the other way around?
Admit? Not so many. But ask how many they create in a week!
On this topic, why would you recommend Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian rather than S. C. Gwynne’s Empire of the Summer Moon? While I admire the former as a vivid piece of fiction, the latter is a well-researched history of the Comanche nation that includes a detailed account of the sacking of Linnville.
Dakota
Comanche
Saratoga
Seminole
Seneca
Aztec
NavajoI'm sure I left a few out.Replies: @Hypnotoad666, @J.Ross, @Arclight
I know Blood Meridian is supposed to be an excellent book, but after reading All the Pretty Horses and The Road I felt like I had enough of McCarthy. Undoubtedly a great writer but the books are just so dark it’s not exactly what I want to spend an hour with before bed.
Anyway, I agree on the comment about property and ownership, although the introduction of Euro diseases virtually ensured that even if it had been all love and flowers the native population was going to be dramatically reduced. It is noted that although it was observed along the coast that natives tended to die a lot more often from sickness than Europeans, unbeknownst to the settlers travel by natives between coastal locations to inland areas had already spread disease and depopulated a number of villages before any Europeans ever got there, although once they did they could tell there had once been a lot more people.
To return to our present time, the issue in Israel is irreconcilable without one side or the other being totally subjugated or wiped out. Like Kashmir, Kosovo, Nagorno-Karabakh, there is too much convoluted history, honor, divergent cultures and previous blood having been spilt. I was very surprised to learn that given all that, the Israeli population is by policy almost totally disarmed, with most weapons kept in centralized depots that are not quickly accessible in emergencies like the present That seems to be an incredibly stupid practice given past experience. I am grateful we have the 2A and plan to further avail myself of the freedoms it provides in the very near future.
https://twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/1711928827318866331?t=-9syu4rm4zpRhoWMOFHxkw&s=19Replies: @Kylie, @Anon, @deep anonymous, @JosephD, @Director95, @anonymouseperson, @James Braxton, @Dr. X
Lindsey is no conservative. He is 100% all in on war. His mantra – Your tax money goes to the war machine. How in the fvck is that conservative. He conserves nothing.
I should say that they not only understand that but aren't beholden to Neocon donors and pressure and their own avarice. That's been kind of rare around Washington, FS.
E.g., Methodists and Quakers.
BLM - which, of course, was part founded by a Palestinian, has come out in full support of Hamas.
Expect to see BLM quietly, but surely, wither away and slowly disappear from all public exposure, discourse and notice in the near future. Quite simply, the gatekeepers of the media will drop them like a hot potato and completely ignore them as if they do not exist.
Remember, the only power BLM ever had was saturation coverage from a media agreeable with its agenda. Now its agenda is disagreeable, its oxygen will be swiftly cut off.Replies: @AndrewR, @Danindc, @Prester John, @res, @Muggles, @Colin Wright
BLM was never more than a scam anyway but, nevertheless, spot-on just the same. To Big Media, BLM has served its purpose so…onward.
The jewish conflict in Palestine began with the jews’ invasion of multiethnic Palestine in the first half of the last century and the jews’ attempt to impose themselves on the local Gentile communities. When the jews started their campaign of conquest, Gentiles were 90% of the population of Palestine.
You have survivorship bias in saying that pastoralists “usually” beat agriculturalists. Agriculturalists could win 99 out of 100 battles, and only the ones where they lost and were conquered would stick in the minds of anyone literate.
And that's not treating Indians any different than whites. If you were a settler who bought some land to farm and some white guy showed up saying it was "his land" because he used to sometimes hunt there, you'd tell him to piss off. And if he didn't, there would probably be some violence eventually.Replies: @Prester John, @Erik L, @Anonymous
Actually the Injuns said nobody “owned” land–it was just “there”.
And, in a way, they were right. May as well “own” the planet Venus. Ownership is a legal fiction. Nothing more or less. People come and go, the land (whether developed or undeveloped) was and is always “there”. It was there even when underwater eons ago and there was no one around to “own” it.
And that's not treating Indians any different than whites. If you were a settler who bought some land to farm and some white guy showed up saying it was "his land" because he used to sometimes hunt there, you'd tell him to piss off. And if he didn't, there would probably be some violence eventually.Replies: @Prester John, @Erik L, @Anonymous
Evolution has written many programs in our brains.
The one that explains the most history is: “Divide up into teams then fight over land”
https://twitter.com/hemantmehta/status/1711134058971840809?t=-OPJOqD_HLydsGkySK6ylA&s=19Replies: @AndrewR, @Barnard, @Bardon Kaldian, @Corpse Tooth
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12617621/Israeli-official-calls-Doomsday-missile-shakes-Middle-East-used-response-Hamas-attacks-despite-nation-never-openly-admitting-having-nuclear-weapons.html
Israeli official calls for ‘Doomsday’ missile that ‘shakes the Middle East’ to be used in response to Hamas attacks – despite the nation never openly admitting to having nuclear weapons
That’s why hysterical pre-menopausal women should be better kept away in the time of crisis….
Injuns fought the U.S. and got their asses handed to them. Same thing the Confederates did. Funny how libwipes worship one and hate the other.
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During the Nat Turner slave revolt, as I remember, several of the marauding slaves stopped at a White owned farm–I forget if they killed the owners, or if the Whites had fled before the slaves got there, but the farm was taken over by the slaves. It was a prosperous farm, locally famous for the quality of their pigs, as well as the brandy that they made from their apples.
The groids ransacked the house for valuables, and, weary from their “labors”, slaughtered some hogs and had themselves a BBQ feast, washing the pork down with the stored bottles of apple brandy.
Free booze, pigmeat, and shiny things that they stole from mean ol’ YT=Colored Boy Heaven! Who cares about tomorrow?
They passed out after their celebrating, and several hours later, when a White posse found them there, the posse made short work of them, killing/capturing all of them.
You'd think given how badly Ukraine has turned out they'd be trying to talk sense into the Israelis to try and contain this but when you've got Blinken in your state department and a man who has lost his mental faculties as president and probably relies on the people around him to tell him what to think, you get a runaway disaster.
One thing to note which is very important and I don't see talked about is, since the US has lost his hegemon status in the idiotic overreach in Ukraine out of the neocon tantrum about the Russian intervention in Syria, every day the US military golem becomes a depreciating asset for Israel. Will this fact, that every day it will become harder for the US military to act for Israel (Along with this admin being ridiculously slavish to Israel) motivate Netanyahu to use this opportunity to push for this to go into a regional war? But can the US win it for Israel?
Blinken is fascinating because nobody brings up him being a creature of deep state nepotism, his father and uncle both being US ambassadors. His intense neocon views also seem to obscured by his low-key nature and ambiguous name.
The other interesting thing about Blinken is he is the archetypal invade-the-world, invite-the-world guy having previously served as UN ambassador with Obama during the million man march during the height of the Israel/State Department funded Syrian civil war. During that time he made a video with Grover the muppet propagandising to children about the necessity of Europe to take all these men, forever.
Here he is at AIPAC in late 2015.
Invade the world. (On behalf of the Sabras)
https://twitter.com/WalkerBragman/status/1331159077397929985
Here he is with Grover in 2016 talking about the million man march.
Invite the world. (On behalf of the diaspora)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUxKsG5YrPE
A perfect twofer.Replies: @YetAnotherAnon, @Anonymous, @Hypnotoad666, @Wilkey, @HammerJack, @TWS
Of course not. He will slaughter innocents by the tens of thousands. Expulsion would not slake the Israeli thirst for blood.
BLM - which, of course, was part founded by a Palestinian, has come out in full support of Hamas.
Expect to see BLM quietly, but surely, wither away and slowly disappear from all public exposure, discourse and notice in the near future. Quite simply, the gatekeepers of the media will drop them like a hot potato and completely ignore them as if they do not exist.
Remember, the only power BLM ever had was saturation coverage from a media agreeable with its agenda. Now its agenda is disagreeable, its oxygen will be swiftly cut off.Replies: @AndrewR, @Danindc, @Prester John, @res, @Muggles, @Colin Wright
A good test case. I suspect your are correct. Another possible outcome is BLM recants.
https://twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/1711928827318866331?t=-9syu4rm4zpRhoWMOFHxkw&s=19Replies: @Kylie, @Anon, @deep anonymous, @JosephD, @Director95, @anonymouseperson, @James Braxton, @Dr. X
Jewish power money and control of the media and entertainment world of Hollywood. Also I don’t believe they truly are conservatives anyways. They are more like the “wet” Tories of the United Kingdom.
Remember, these are your High IQ people. Imagine what the low IQ people are up to - they are the ones coming in.Replies: @Bragadocious
This is a good thing (in part). Now, when Zionists go to Times Square to wave flags and chant racist crap, there’s significant pushback by real live Arabs with real flags. That didn’t happen back in the 1980s when Zionist Jews had complete control of the media, academia and the public square. Back then, the only critics of Zionism were on the nativist Right, and Jews could wave them off as pitiful irrelevant anti-Semites. They can’t do that with the new left–they’ve even (apparently) lost Harvard University!
Obviously, these new arrivals to America could present other, more kinetic problems in the future, but from a narrative control standpoint, it’s pretty cool that they’re here.
There are two Siberian peoples whose ethnonym is not “people,” but “real [as opposed to fake] people:” the Luoravetalen (which are Chukchi, be they reindeer Chukchi or walrus Chukchi), and the Nganasan. They are literally keeping it real.
On the ‘Blacks have no agency’ principle, I strongly suspect it will just be ignored. Time will tell.
I have nothing against Israel or its survival. I just don’t understand why so many non-Jewish Americans are so damn obsessed with it, even as they embrace the overrunning of every other Western country by Third World invaders.
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians will probably end up leaving Gaza, and guess where they’ll want to go? Thousands of them will be coming to a neighborhood near you.Replies: @Achmed E. Newman, @Anon, @Jack Armstrong
Do you have anything against Palestine and its survival? Gaza and its survival?
The Grand Bargain between jews and the Arab world is the trade of Palestine to the jews for access of Arabs to the United States and Europe. The beneficiaries of this access are disproportionately wealthy and advantaged Arabs—in other words, their natural leadership class. By co-opting the Arab leadership class with Western goodies, the jews have neutered Arab resistance to Zionism.
Read Blood Meridian first. Top tier fiction provides insights and nuances that non-fiction cannot provide due to its constraints (facts). A family member of mine read Gwynne’s book and deemed it excellent. He is now dead.
I know how that feels. My sister-in-law died after reading the last Harry Potter book.
https://twitter.com/hemantmehta/status/1711134058971840809?t=-OPJOqD_HLydsGkySK6ylA&s=19Replies: @AndrewR, @Barnard, @Bardon Kaldian, @Corpse Tooth
Christian Zionists are a captive people.
Anyway, I agree on the comment about property and ownership, although the introduction of Euro diseases virtually ensured that even if it had been all love and flowers the native population was going to be dramatically reduced. It is noted that although it was observed along the coast that natives tended to die a lot more often from sickness than Europeans, unbeknownst to the settlers travel by natives between coastal locations to inland areas had already spread disease and depopulated a number of villages before any Europeans ever got there, although once they did they could tell there had once been a lot more people.
To return to our present time, the issue in Israel is irreconcilable without one side or the other being totally subjugated or wiped out. Like Kashmir, Kosovo, Nagorno-Karabakh, there is too much convoluted history, honor, divergent cultures and previous blood having been spilt. I was very surprised to learn that given all that, the Israeli population is by policy almost totally disarmed, with most weapons kept in centralized depots that are not quickly accessible in emergencies like the present That seems to be an incredibly stupid practice given past experience. I am grateful we have the 2A and plan to further avail myself of the freedoms it provides in the very near future.Replies: @Corpse Tooth, @Anonymous, @Achmed E. Newman
Chicks dig guys who spend an hour with a dark book before beddy-bye. I discovered this after I took to breaking out the dark book after sexy hijinks to get them to go back to their apartment. I became even more attractive to them.
You'd think given how badly Ukraine has turned out they'd be trying to talk sense into the Israelis to try and contain this but when you've got Blinken in your state department and a man who has lost his mental faculties as president and probably relies on the people around him to tell him what to think, you get a runaway disaster.
One thing to note which is very important and I don't see talked about is, since the US has lost his hegemon status in the idiotic overreach in Ukraine out of the neocon tantrum about the Russian intervention in Syria, every day the US military golem becomes a depreciating asset for Israel. Will this fact, that every day it will become harder for the US military to act for Israel (Along with this admin being ridiculously slavish to Israel) motivate Netanyahu to use this opportunity to push for this to go into a regional war? But can the US win it for Israel?
Blinken is fascinating because nobody brings up him being a creature of deep state nepotism, his father and uncle both being US ambassadors. His intense neocon views also seem to obscured by his low-key nature and ambiguous name.
The other interesting thing about Blinken is he is the archetypal invade-the-world, invite-the-world guy having previously served as UN ambassador with Obama during the million man march during the height of the Israel/State Department funded Syrian civil war. During that time he made a video with Grover the muppet propagandising to children about the necessity of Europe to take all these men, forever.
Here he is at AIPAC in late 2015.
Invade the world. (On behalf of the Sabras)
https://twitter.com/WalkerBragman/status/1331159077397929985
Here he is with Grover in 2016 talking about the million man march.
Invite the world. (On behalf of the diaspora)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUxKsG5YrPE
A perfect twofer.Replies: @YetAnotherAnon, @Anonymous, @Hypnotoad666, @Wilkey, @HammerJack, @TWS
I think neocons have run foreign policy since Bush the Elder.
https://twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/1711928827318866331?t=-9syu4rm4zpRhoWMOFHxkw&s=19Replies: @Kylie, @Anon, @deep anonymous, @JosephD, @Director95, @anonymouseperson, @James Braxton, @Dr. X
More like why do conservative Americans elect homosexual warmongers to represent them?
An oft-overlooked aspect of the Council House Fight: while the Texan men were meeting the Comanche chiefs inside, their women discovered the white girl — horribly mutilated if I recall aright — among the party of Indians remaining outside.
They got to talking, and the girl related all that had been done to her. The account spread among the Texans…and, well, people got upset.
…or so I’ve read.
BLM - which, of course, was part founded by a Palestinian, has come out in full support of Hamas.
Expect to see BLM quietly, but surely, wither away and slowly disappear from all public exposure, discourse and notice in the near future. Quite simply, the gatekeepers of the media will drop them like a hot potato and completely ignore them as if they do not exist.
Remember, the only power BLM ever had was saturation coverage from a media agreeable with its agenda. Now its agenda is disagreeable, its oxygen will be swiftly cut off.Replies: @AndrewR, @Danindc, @Prester John, @res, @Muggles, @Colin Wright
Along the lines of this story, a report says three “Squad” members (female congressmen, Woke Dems) have endorsed the Hamas attacks.
Or more or less so, by condemning Israel. Two of those three are Somali Muslim imports, one of whom fake married her brother to get him in here.
So the Comrades are being split by this recent event. Despite many of them being Jewish. Of course the Jews won’t endorse Hamas outright, though some publicly back “Palestinians” in this.
This recent Hamas raid is like a prison break writ large. Gaza is largely an Israeli prison for uncooperative Palestinians. Funded by Iran, Syria (a bit) and some Gulf Arab states and funders.
To the degree the Comrades appear divided or perplexed here, this will weaken their ideological hold.
Due to heavy Jewish influence/ownership/control over US news media, being pro Hamas won’t fly. Also it seems to be a major political blunder and temporary Pyrrhic “victory” for them.
Now Israel will starve them out and pound them with artillery and missiles. Perhaps raids to capture suspected leaders.
Like most prison breaks, this will end badly for them.
Israel pays a heavy price for running this prison. This is about land, not religion. Both Jews and Arabs are famous for being insane bargainers and crazy stubborn.
Outsiders fund both sides and pay to watch. Innocents pay the price.
At the 2012 American Renaissance Conference, Indian Speaker David Yeagley mentioned that of all the Plains Indians tribes, the Comanches were the most fearsome warriors of all. Both the Sioux and Apache had nothing on the Comanches, and that it took the US longer to subdue them than the other tribes of the Plains.
The forerunner of civil forfeiture.
"Send a smoke signal to our fort in 2 weeks with evidence proving it's yours."
I've linked to them before, but here are the 3 Parts of the Peak Stupidity review of the great Sam Gwynne book Empire of the Summer Moon: Part 1 - - Part 2 - -Part 3.
The HBD or more anti-HBD story behind the Comanches, as Mr. Gwynne discusses at the beginning of his book, is that before they had horses (coming from the Spanish via Mexico), "The People"* were a pathetic bunch, "indigenous" at that point, to the Wind River Range in Wyoming. Within a century or less they became the best horseman anyone had ever seen.
That gets to this story of their looting of Linnville. Killing and torturing other peoples and stealing horses was not just war, but it was LIFE itself to the Comanche men. The women were beasts of burden with benefits basically.
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* What "Comanche" meant in Comanche. No peace and perfect harmony among nations with this crowd...Replies: @John Henry, @OsMagyar, @Buroaker, @Achmed E. Newman, @Hypnotoad666, @Herbert R. Tarlek, Jr.
“The People”* were a pathetic bunch, “indigenous” at that point, to the Wind River Range in Wyoming. Within a century or less they became the best horseman anyone had ever seen.
The Sioux, another famous plains tribe, originally came from the eastern woodlands. One branch of that tribe, the Santee, lived in the woods of Minnesota as late as the 1860’s, when they were deported to a reservation in Nebraska for something or other. They were going to hang a shitload of them, but the Great Emancipator commuted most of their sentences.
Prior to the introduction of the firearm and, especially, the horse, hardly any Indians lived in the high plains. They were too dry for farming and, while there were vast herds of bison, that resource could not be well exploited by unmounted braves with only arrows and lances.
The horse and the gun changed all that: there was a “gold rush” of large numbers of mounted, armed Indians from the outskirts of the plains to pluck the low-hanging fruit of the then easily killed bison.
The heyday of plains Indian culture lasted well less than a century.
The war lasted for five weeks and resulted in the deaths of hundreds of settlers.
Conceptually, it was more like “the human beings” and “the other beings.”
I remember asking a Georgian (the country) what they called their country since I only knew the anglicized “Georgia.” He looked at me puzzled and said, in English, “It’s ‘the Land.’”
The People. The People’s Land. Our Land. This is what we want and feel in our bones, no matter how much we pretend otherwise. It’s why even Barack and Mish buy a 9BR mansion with 26 empty acres around it.
“We acknowledge that Victoria is situated in the traditional lands of the Comanche, who are its keepers in perpetuity.”
Such as?
I remember asking a Georgian (the country) what they called their country since I only knew the anglicized "Georgia." He looked at me puzzled and said, in English, "It's 'the Land.'"
The People. The People's Land. Our Land. This is what we want and feel in our bones, no matter how much we pretend otherwise. It's why even Barack and Mish buy a 9BR mansion with 26 empty acres around it.Replies: @Anonymous
Do Jews feel it in their bones? What about the wandering Jew stereotype? How protective are they of the United States territory?
That's the attitude of many US immigrants. They're not coming to make a better Here; they're coming to make a better There. If it's your Here, too bad and who cares.Replies: @Colin Wright
BLM - which, of course, was part founded by a Palestinian, has come out in full support of Hamas.
Expect to see BLM quietly, but surely, wither away and slowly disappear from all public exposure, discourse and notice in the near future. Quite simply, the gatekeepers of the media will drop them like a hot potato and completely ignore them as if they do not exist.
Remember, the only power BLM ever had was saturation coverage from a media agreeable with its agenda. Now its agenda is disagreeable, its oxygen will be swiftly cut off.Replies: @AndrewR, @Danindc, @Prester John, @res, @Muggles, @Colin Wright
Inshallah. Every cloud has a silver lining.
But actually…
The Jewish-controlled media has been going absolutely beserk about Hamas’ attack — and in that context, it’s striking how little coverage the position of Black Lives Matter has received.
Maybe they want to keep their black tool. I prefer to avoid explanations that imply a conscious decision — but this is noticeable.
Anyway, I agree on the comment about property and ownership, although the introduction of Euro diseases virtually ensured that even if it had been all love and flowers the native population was going to be dramatically reduced. It is noted that although it was observed along the coast that natives tended to die a lot more often from sickness than Europeans, unbeknownst to the settlers travel by natives between coastal locations to inland areas had already spread disease and depopulated a number of villages before any Europeans ever got there, although once they did they could tell there had once been a lot more people.
To return to our present time, the issue in Israel is irreconcilable without one side or the other being totally subjugated or wiped out. Like Kashmir, Kosovo, Nagorno-Karabakh, there is too much convoluted history, honor, divergent cultures and previous blood having been spilt. I was very surprised to learn that given all that, the Israeli population is by policy almost totally disarmed, with most weapons kept in centralized depots that are not quickly accessible in emergencies like the present That seems to be an incredibly stupid practice given past experience. I am grateful we have the 2A and plan to further avail myself of the freedoms it provides in the very near future.Replies: @Corpse Tooth, @Anonymous, @Achmed E. Newman
Or, the jews could grant the Gentiles equal rights. Duh. Same thing the jews demand for themselves and other minorities in the United States.
Or more or less so, by condemning Israel. Two of those three are Somali Muslim imports, one of whom fake married her brother to get him in here.
So the Comrades are being split by this recent event. Despite many of them being Jewish. Of course the Jews won't endorse Hamas outright, though some publicly back "Palestinians" in this.
This recent Hamas raid is like a prison break writ large. Gaza is largely an Israeli prison for uncooperative Palestinians. Funded by Iran, Syria (a bit) and some Gulf Arab states and funders.
To the degree the Comrades appear divided or perplexed here, this will weaken their ideological hold.
Due to heavy Jewish influence/ownership/control over US news media, being pro Hamas won't fly. Also it seems to be a major political blunder and temporary Pyrrhic "victory" for them.
Now Israel will starve them out and pound them with artillery and missiles. Perhaps raids to capture suspected leaders.
Like most prison breaks, this will end badly for them.
Israel pays a heavy price for running this prison. This is about land, not religion. Both Jews and Arabs are famous for being insane bargainers and crazy stubborn.
Outsiders fund both sides and pay to watch. Innocents pay the price.Replies: @Anonymous
Americans are the ones who have borne most of the cost, in lives lost and in resources expended.
Of course they do. They build little Zions wherever they go.
That’s the attitude of many US immigrants. They’re not coming to make a better Here; they’re coming to make a better There. If it’s your Here, too bad and who cares.
Perhaps Epstein had a tape of Grover carrying out unspeakable acts?
PS I’m only brave enough to name Grover as I’m pretty sure he can’t sue.
OT: I’m not sure how you missed this Steve, but surely this deserves attention?
How L.A.’s bird population is shaped by historic redlining and racist loan practices
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2023-10-11/historic-redlining-bird-biodiversity
Dunno about the bird population but the bird liner population I would go along with.
I remember in college reading Hayek's essay, "Why I Am Not A Conservative" and thinking my eyes had been opened, but unfortunately, today I also would have to explain why I am not a libertarian. If White people are going to survive, we need to develop a racial consciousness. Otherwise we will be killed off, it's that simple. That does not mean we have to hate other groups, just that we love our own extended family.Replies: @Catdog
Listen to Rockwell’s “Why I am not a conservative”.
I don't consider Lindsey Graham a conservative.Replies: @HammerJack, @John Henry, @Bard of Bumperstickers, @Wilkey, @Anonymous, @Legba
And what about the people who keep electing him?
Graham’s ravings are not some bizarre aberration.
That's the attitude of many US immigrants. They're not coming to make a better Here; they're coming to make a better There. If it's your Here, too bad and who cares.Replies: @Colin Wright
Yeah — but you could say the same about Mennonites and Mormons — both of whom we have a fair number of around here.
They’re making their little Zions too. But they seem to take care not to stomp on anyone’s toes in the process.
Now Jews…well, that’s a different story.
And that's not treating Indians any different than whites. If you were a settler who bought some land to farm and some white guy showed up saying it was "his land" because he used to sometimes hunt there, you'd tell him to piss off. And if he didn't, there would probably be some violence eventually.Replies: @Prester John, @Erik L, @Anonymous
Oh, come on now. A deed to the land had meaning in our culture, not in theirs. And it’s not like it helped the Cherokee or the other Civilized Tribes, or even much smaller scale earlier examples, like the civilized, christianized Indian villages and families in the northeast.
Of course Indians were crushed and cleared off the land, often in brutal ways. That was normal then both in their cultures, and in ours. Obsessing over the United States’ “original sin” or whatever they call it is for the ill-intentioned and the stupid. But trying to wiggle out of the truth of how the land was won and cleared is for the weak. Just own it.
If the Plains Indians had acquired legal title and were non-threatening farmers and ranchers like the whites, nobody would have "stolen" their land. (Well, this isn't 100% true as in 1830 they did force the property owning Indians off their land in Georgia -- but they did somewhat respect their property by giving them land of supposedly equal value in Oklahoma). Lots of Indians who lived adjacent to whites on the early frontier (especially East of the Mississippi) just acquired land and got acculturated and absorbed to American life over time.
It's true that legal title -- as opposed to possession by right of conquest -- wasn't really a cultural thing for hunter-gatherer people. But that's my point. Property rights and rule of law were pretty important to early Americans and the idea that we just waged an unprovoked extermination and land theft campaign is not accurate.
The Stinky Waters (Winipegs) and Snakes (Sioux).
I will, thanks.
“This shocked the Comanches’ sense of morality.”
Citation needed. What it shocked was their sense of thinking they were the biggest bully in the land, and that everyone should submit to their demands because of it. What the Comanche failed to realize is that they weren’t anymore; not by a long shot.
“In the Indian wars, the Native Americans tended to be far more politically fractured, so it took an impressive leader to assemble that large of a force in one place.”
Similar to how different lion prides are “politically fractured”. Different tribes had enough sentience to combine forces against a common enemy, but aside from that their understanding of “politics” was as primitive as the rest of their existence.
“But that suggests how much Americans, north and south, feared the potential of the mounted warriors of the plains.”
If by fear you mean caution, determination, and sensibility, then yes. If you mean quaking in their boots, then no.
“They first attacked the inland town of Victoria about 125 miles southwest of Houston, killing a dozen locals. But the heavily armed Texian civilians fired out from inside their buildings and eventually the Comanche rode on to the busy port of Linnville, killing maybe another dozen civilians. ”
The Great Raid supports the notion that Amerindians were largely clever opportunists, seeking weak targets and avoiding direct confrontation with equal forces. Attila and the Huns they definitely were not.
No, I think you’re wrong. The U.S. didn’t steal Spanish land grants from the residents when we conquered California. As I noted in my original post, any white squatters were also liable to get “cleared” out of an area if they threatened the persons or property of settlers. (Heck, for that matter, look at how the residents drove the non-conforming white Mormon tribe out of Missouri and Illinois).
If the Plains Indians had acquired legal title and were non-threatening farmers and ranchers like the whites, nobody would have “stolen” their land. (Well, this isn’t 100% true as in 1830 they did force the property owning Indians off their land in Georgia — but they did somewhat respect their property by giving them land of supposedly equal value in Oklahoma). Lots of Indians who lived adjacent to whites on the early frontier (especially East of the Mississippi) just acquired land and got acculturated and absorbed to American life over time.
It’s true that legal title — as opposed to possession by right of conquest — wasn’t really a cultural thing for hunter-gatherer people. But that’s my point. Property rights and rule of law were pretty important to early Americans and the idea that we just waged an unprovoked extermination and land theft campaign is not accurate.
I don't consider Lindsey Graham a conservative.Replies: @HammerJack, @John Henry, @Bard of Bumperstickers, @Wilkey, @Anonymous, @Legba
He wears a garter belt & silk stockings under the suit, just like the rest of them.
https://twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/1711928827318866331?t=-9syu4rm4zpRhoWMOFHxkw&s=19Replies: @Kylie, @Anon, @deep anonymous, @JosephD, @Director95, @anonymouseperson, @James Braxton, @Dr. X
Who’s “we,” Kemosabe?
A family member of mine read Gwynne’s book and deemed it excellent. He is now dead.
I know how that feels. My sister-in-law died after reading the last Harry Potter book.
Israeli official calls for 'Doomsday' missile that 'shakes the Middle East' to be used in response to Hamas attacks - despite the nation never openly admitting to having nuclear weapons
That's why hysterical pre-menopausal women should be better kept away in the time of crisis....Replies: @Anonymous
Speaking of times of crisis, thoughts on your beloved party’s asylum seeker housing policies bringing a bedbug infestation to Croatia? For once at the forefront of European trends!
Yes, yes, we’re all connected, it would’ve happened sooner or later… Sure. But that wasn’t good enough for the beloved party. Delaying this for as long as possible, being prepared and actively practicing preventative measures just wasn’t an option.
Instead, asylum seekers and all sorts of illegals are shitting in the streets and wallowing in dirt in apartments all over the country. Allowed in and housed, just like that, and inflicting disease and infestation on their helpless Croatian neighbors. As if the fear they’ve already brought to these communities wasn’t bad enough.
I’m sure some think it’s all worth it. Wouldn’t want to fall behind the West! Move out of the way, France! Croatia will show you infestation!
Remember the scabies they brought to Bosnia a while ago? That was back when Croatia was still pretending that it had a border and that old, boring public health concerns mattered. Now that that’s all out of the window at a time when a replay of 2015 is loading, I’m sure there’s much excitement to look forward to.
And if that’s not enough, much as I empathize with their situation, most among the flood of exotic legal foreign workers (many of whom work with food!) aren’t actually that much more hygienic.
The beloved ruling party, of course, has never been stronger. Demoralizing. I wish there was a place one could go and actually escape. But, sooner or later, this just follows you anywhere.
There will be blood.
I immediately thought of Blood Meridian and Empire of the Summer Moon if you are interested in Comanche raids. The women taken way by motorcycling raiders reminded me of The Searchers.
Texas isn't lost yet, but it will have to recover that spirit if it is to continue as a white man's country.Replies: @Achmed E. Newman
If they have one more fight in them, it should be with the Feds. The Feds have been purposely obstructing and derailing Texas efforts to control parts of their border. These Potomac Regime minions must be arrested – that’s the first, step.
Anyway, I agree on the comment about property and ownership, although the introduction of Euro diseases virtually ensured that even if it had been all love and flowers the native population was going to be dramatically reduced. It is noted that although it was observed along the coast that natives tended to die a lot more often from sickness than Europeans, unbeknownst to the settlers travel by natives between coastal locations to inland areas had already spread disease and depopulated a number of villages before any Europeans ever got there, although once they did they could tell there had once been a lot more people.
To return to our present time, the issue in Israel is irreconcilable without one side or the other being totally subjugated or wiped out. Like Kashmir, Kosovo, Nagorno-Karabakh, there is too much convoluted history, honor, divergent cultures and previous blood having been spilt. I was very surprised to learn that given all that, the Israeli population is by policy almost totally disarmed, with most weapons kept in centralized depots that are not quickly accessible in emergencies like the present That seems to be an incredibly stupid practice given past experience. I am grateful we have the 2A and plan to further avail myself of the freedoms it provides in the very near future.Replies: @Corpse Tooth, @Anonymous, @Achmed E. Newman
Of those 2, I’ve only seen The Road as a movie. Yes, not very optimistic – a good prepper lesson though.
Agreed about the weapons too, Arclight. That reminds me of Fort Hood, Texas, or whatever they’re calling it now.
I haven’t checked ammo prices in at least a year. You’re never stocked up enough, if nothing else, for inflation.
His father was a foreman on the King Ranch. He and his two brothers were all graduates of Texas Tech. His brother Bobby was a second team All-American football player in 1953. His other brother, Lauren, was the first Hispanic cabinet member, serving in the Bush 1 administration. He was a major proponent of parental school choice programs.
A distinguished family from humble roots. I’m not a fan of renaming military installations but have no quarrel with the selection of General Cavazos since renaming was a done deal.
Still can't find .410 handgun ammo anywhere.
☮Replies: @70sTarheel
Support for the military and most of its adventures by Conservatives is an artifact of the Cold War, Director. Conservatives wanted to conserve a world not enveloped by Communism. After it was won, by a whole lot of Conservatives, there was no need for any of this. Real Conservatives understand that.
I should say that they not only understand that but aren’t beholden to Neocon donors and pressure and their own avarice. That’s been kind of rare around Washington, FS.
I have nothing against Israel or its survival. I just don’t understand why so many non-Jewish Americans are so damn obsessed with it, even as they embrace the overrunning of every other Western country by Third World invaders.
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians will probably end up leaving Gaza, and guess where they’ll want to go? Thousands of them will be coming to a neighborhood near you.Replies: @Achmed E. Newman, @Anon, @Jack Armstrong
O/T: From the Harvard student newspaper.
That gold bullion was stolen drug money. The Rangers were obligated to confiscate it as evidence.
“Send a smoke signal to our fort in 2 weeks with evidence proving it’s yours.”
“Zionism” – a nation for every people and a country for every nation – seems like a good way to organize society.
We have that already. See: United Stares.
a little different than the “disease killed them all, white guys actually didn’t do much” narrative that you get from many sources these days.
back in reality, they put up a hell of a fight in North American and it took over 300 years of battles to push them out of the way.
what i’ve wondered was whether the ‘they killed all the buffalo’ thing was about settlers just being stupid or was that deliberate to take away the locals food supply.
Injuns only got horses since European arrival; however, their closest cousins across the Bering Strait, hunter-gatherer Chukchis, were the only Eurasian people that Russians couldn’t subdue at peak power.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Pavlutsky
Agriculturalist armies require heavy taxes to maintain, and often bureacratization, at the cost of élan, otherwise Prigozhins would occur.
Responding to you here about light calvary:
https://www.unz.com/isteve/has-mit-finally-figured-out-why-roman-concrete-was-so-great/#comment-5758264
1. In set-piece mêlée, European heavy cavalry and infantry can make mincemeat of Mongol light cavalry. But light cavalry can run-and-shoot and escape from set-piece battles, and re-seize the strategic initiative
2. East Asian agriculturalist armies don’t utilize heavy armor, but in set-piece battles can also defeat Mongol-Manchu light cavalry using combination of fortification, pikemen and archers, as you wrote. In addition, East Asians began using crossbows before anyone else.
3. But, Chinese can only thoroughly defeat Mongols with its own light cavalry, which is expensive and can only be led by the most vigorous emperors, Wudi, Taizong, Hongwu, Yongle.
Ming Chinese razed the ancient Mongol palace, but only by horse archer light calvary led by Hongwu,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karakorum
The future I think is still light calvary, in the form of AI-driven tanks or AI-driven Fallschirmjäger.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texians
More at the link.
And as PF & PG keep reminding us, We’re All Palestinians now.
https://www.unz.com/jfreud/two-kinds-of-justice-in-the-world-jewish-justice-and-palestinian-justice-how-jewish-power-divided-the-world-into-jews-meta-jews-versus-palestinians-meta-palestinians-jews-regard-whites/
https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/we-are-all-palestinians-2/
This reminds me of people who always used to say Key-ev, then started saying Keev to be fashionable.
That said, the lines between civilization and barbarism in the conflict with Israel are pretty clear. It may be cliche to say that if the Muslims in the area disarmed and called for peace, a year later there would be fixed lines, a Palestinian state, and peace. If the Israelis disarmed and called for peace, a year later all the Jews still in the area would be dead. That it is cliche makes it no less true. The Israelis are not angels; however, their opponents are barbarians.Replies: @HammerJack
Yeah, by and large the Palestinians have tried that time after time, and the result has always been dispossession, hideous oppression, torture, and progressive erasure. Take a look at an honest map of the West Bank some time. This is what gives rise to more desperate measures now and then.
Wow.
That was my first thought after they said the Israeli’s
were not armed.
I thought about the Texans and The early Texas Rangers during the Great Comanche Raid.
Never give up your guns.
The cannabalistic Caribs were reputed to rape captive Arawaks and other captive women. They ate the babies produced from the rapes.
The Comanches fought a long war with the Apaches. They fought another tribe known for cannibalism and slaughtered a number of the cannibals when they caught up to the cannibals after a raid and found Comanche body parts in the campfire of the cannibals.
One lesson regarding the current situation in the Middle East is that if you afford your enemies some autonomy and there is peace, it means they are stockpiling drones and missiles for an overwhelming strike. Does this generalize to bigger enemies such A2 and X? I hope there are other lessons.
There is no longer a need to go full Tamerlane on anyone, warriors don’t matter, just control their access to technology. Future is looking impotent and boring, with rage or not.
Obviously, these new arrivals to America could present other, more kinetic problems in the future, but from a narrative control standpoint, it's pretty cool that they're here.Replies: @Renard
Installing Harvard’s first black woman president might not turn out to be the genius stroke they were contemplating.
The Sioux, another famous plains tribe, originally came from the eastern woodlands. One branch of that tribe, the Santee, lived in the woods of Minnesota as late as the 1860's, when they were deported to a reservation in Nebraska for something or other. They were going to hang a shitload of them, but the Great Emancipator commuted most of their sentences.
Prior to the introduction of the firearm and, especially, the horse, hardly any Indians lived in the high plains. They were too dry for farming and, while there were vast herds of bison, that resource could not be well exploited by unmounted braves with only arrows and lances.
The horse and the gun changed all that: there was a "gold rush" of large numbers of mounted, armed Indians from the outskirts of the plains to pluck the low-hanging fruit of the then easily killed bison.
The heyday of plains Indian culture lasted well less than a century.Replies: @duncsbaby
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakota_War_of_1862
The war lasted for five weeks and resulted in the deaths of hundreds of settlers.
>Abraham has his hands full with the War of His Own Aggression
>But America's great Western afterthought is making noise
>Can't let settler-Indian fights spill over and mess up messing up the South
>Depicted Lincoln for these reasons, at a special meeting of Indian chiefs at the White House, the White Man's ways as beneficial to those Indians willing to give them a try
>Eschew violence with the settlers and prospecters, therefore, he asked
>Fatidifically replied without difficulty Cheyenne chief Lean Bear, "it's not us, it's you -- tell the white settlers what you're telling us"
>Ghoulishly, the years shortly following saw the most grisly slaughters of Indians in the West
>Harborage was denied to the worst Western-posted American soldiers -- they were investigated and executed (in the 19th century) -- because their recourse to reckless slaughter shocked people even then
>Included among the dead were three of the chiefs who had been at that summit (and posed for a photograph in the White House greenhouse), among them Lean BearReplies: @mike99588
it became a techno slaughter – centerfire cartridges with multishot Winchesters, Colts, Remingtons etc became affordable and reliable after the Civil War ….
Before Civil War, rapid fire was expensive and less reliable – rimfire rifles and cap and ball, paper cartridge hand guns
It’s called Fort Cavazos, in honor of the late four star general Richard Cavazos. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for combat action in both Korea and Viet Nam, one Silver Star, five Bronze Stars, and a Purple Heart, among his many awards. He was the first Hispanic four star general, long before Affirmative Action was a thing in the military.
His father was a foreman on the King Ranch. He and his two brothers were all graduates of Texas Tech. His brother Bobby was a second team All-American football player in 1953. His other brother, Lauren, was the first Hispanic cabinet member, serving in the Bush 1 administration. He was a major proponent of parental school choice programs.
A distinguished family from humble roots. I’m not a fan of renaming military installations but have no quarrel with the selection of General Cavazos since renaming was a done deal.
Two or three times at the book store in the last few years I’ve picked up “Empire of the Summer Moon” only to have dropped it off just before getting to the cash register.
The Comanancheria is a very understudied and important part of North American history.
Steve, you a fan of audible books?
—Empire of the Summer Moon, ch. 6
Perhaps this is “oft-overlooked”, but it was one of the most notable parts of the book in my recollection, along with Cynthia Ann Parker’s obvious Stockholm syndrome, which Gwynne absurdly tries to pass off as female empowerment.
On Cynthia Ann Parker, I don't know if I would describe her loyalty to the Comanches as Stockholm Syndrome. She was captured as a very young girl and adopted and raised by the tribe. She barely remembered the English language. She had married and raised a son with the Indians. Coming of age among the Comanche had made her a Comanche. After she was re-captured and returned to her Texan family she was miserable and lost for the rest of her life. Bad as the Comanches were she would have been better off at that point to just stay with them.
Third time’s a charm.
Mr. Sailer there are pros and cons to this great American novel, but a “story in a story” that is told to the protagonist about how the infamous Judge assists the band of desperados when they find themselves without gunpowder in rough country is one of the great sequences in 20th century American literature. I read it several times a year. McCarthy at his best has no rival.
Real fans also know the sequence when the Kid finds the mummy is the heart of the book. I still ponder the meaning of it, which is made no clearer even when you realize who or what the mummy is.
It’s a fun read but check out Hamalainen’s book about the Comanche if you want the real story.
The Comanancheria is a very understudied and important part of North American history.
Thanks, Res.
I recently paid $16 a box for 9mm at the local sporting goods store.
Still can’t find .410 handgun ammo anywhere.
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I remember this passage from Empire of the Summer Moon. When the fight at the Council House is told by Dee Brown in “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee”, or told by someone like Howard Zinn, they only report that the whites violated a flag of truce and murdered the Indians. They don’t mention the severe torture of the girl that so enraged the Texans. Trading for a prisoner under a flag of truce is one thing, but when the kidnappers turn out to be worse than Ted Bundy, who cares about a truce?
On Cynthia Ann Parker, I don’t know if I would describe her loyalty to the Comanches as Stockholm Syndrome. She was captured as a very young girl and adopted and raised by the tribe. She barely remembered the English language. She had married and raised a son with the Indians. Coming of age among the Comanche had made her a Comanche. After she was re-captured and returned to her Texan family she was miserable and lost for the rest of her life. Bad as the Comanches were she would have been better off at that point to just stay with them.
Still can't find .410 handgun ammo anywhere.
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A lot of people bought the Taurus Judge.
So, I did find some 2.5" .410 shot shells online, but they're a bit pricey at $2.20 a round.
Kinda reminds me of the .22 shortage a few years back.
When the .410 becomes more available (and affordable) I will stock up.
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NewsGuard Adviser Michael Hayden Calls for Sen. Tommy Tuberville to Be ‘Removed’ from the Human Race
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/10/10/former-cia-nsa-director-gen-michael-hayden-calls-for-sen-tuberville-to-be-removed-from-human-race/Be pro-Israel, or be unpersoned."Entangling alliances with none."
https://mises.org/wire/get-us-out-middle-eastReplies: @Ben tillman
Michael Hayden has no standing, as he is not human himself.
“”Zionism” – a nation for every people and a country for every nation – seems like a good way to organize society.”
We have that already. See: United Stares.
“They need a final solution to their Palestinian problem so that they can finally have an ethnically pure state with the living space necessary to thrive”
Lol, that’s also the dream for you and your ilk—s scorched earth policy for your “enemies”. Thankfully, you don’t the guts to pull a Kyle or a St. Brievik.
Never read Borges, I guess. Try the Story of the Warrior and the Captive.
Lol, that’s also the dream for you and your ilk—s scorched earth policy for your “enemies”. Thankfully, you don’t the guts to pull a Kyle or a St. Brievik.Replies: @Anonymous
Interesting. Is that your view? That Zionist Jews are seeking an ethnically pure state with “living space”?
Never said that. What I said is that it seems the extreme right would love to rid their “enemies” permanently Pinochet style.Replies: @Anonymous
Many of us bought a Judge or a Smith & Wesson Governor. Meanwhile, .410 shotguns have become popular in recent years. There has also been “supply chain issues” involving primers. I guess it’s a perfect recipe for an ammo shortage.(?)
So, I did find some 2.5″ .410 shot shells online, but they’re a bit pricey at $2.20 a round.
Kinda reminds me of the .22 shortage a few years back.
When the .410 becomes more available (and affordable) I will stock up.
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I don’t know.
I’m sure plenty of Croatian blood will be spilt at the altar of Western modernity, but not too sure that Croatians will put up much of a defense. Young people seem lost. By the time denial becomes impossible, I’m afraid everyone will just shrug and quietly accept our fate. Already a few of the people I’ve discussed it with have reluctantly reconciled themselves to it.
The people at the root of this story are apparently Afghans who arrived two years ago. They’ve stayed, instead of just running away chasing the more generous benefits of Western Europe, as so many have hoped they would. Perhaps it’s time to face reality and start seriously worrying. At this point, even panic might be an appropriate response.
It might be silly, as I’ve already become used to migrants shitting all over the place, breaking and entering (and smearing shit all over the houses in question), desecrating graveyards, shooting at border police, scaring the native population and limiting its movement… But for some reason this bedbug story made my blood boil.
It’s supposed to be these people’s country, supposedly run for their benefit. Now even their homes are ruined (with so many others to follow), and there’s absolutely nothing they could have done to prevent it.
The trouble is, I’ll get used to this, too, at some point. We all will.
“Interesting. Is that your view? That Zionist Jews are seeking an ethnically pure state with “living space”?”
Never said that. What I said is that it seems the extreme right would love to rid their “enemies” permanently Pinochet style.
Why this analogy?
Simple. The idea is that Palestinians are subhuman savages who should be exterminated.
Perfectly fine that Jews hold the entire Palestinian territories hostage.
Never said that. What I said is that it seems the extreme right would love to rid their “enemies” permanently Pinochet style.Replies: @Anonymous
Good. I just wanted to be sure you weren’t saying that about Jews.