* You learn more when you regard people’s behavior as rational, purposeful and filled with meaning rather than dismissing them as ignorant and inept. People are usually doing the best they can. They’ve learned from reward and punishment over a lifetime. So if they’re acting strangely in your view, try to understand what they get out of it. Why am I so weird on FB? Because I never learned to attach normally. This is my clumsy way of attaching to others.
* It’s not uncommon to run into married Orthodox Jewish men who take pride in their comely shiksa assistants and they don’t mind letting you know that they’re tapping that.
Why do they want you to know? Because they know, wink, wink, nod, nod, that what they’re doing is widely considered cool — strictly hush hush and off the record — in the Orthodox community.
This goes for countless Orthodox rabbis in good standing in Pico-Robertson.
* Most of us want other people to love us to fill the deep ache we have because we don’t like ourselves.
* “For less mature people, so much effort goes into seeking love and approval that there is little energy left for self-determined goal-directed activity.”
* I grew up in a home where from about age six on, I could wander around alone in the bush for hours without anyone worrying. From about age nine on, I could be gone all day without anyone worrying. When we lived in DC and Baltimore when I was 14, I would sometimes just go for a walk all afternoon, no worries at home. My brother around age 15 would hitchhike all Sunday to go to stuff without any grief at home.
* So women on JSwipe and Tinder often want to know why I have never married. I get stumped. What’s the best and most pithy answer I can use?
* Thus spake Chaim Amalek : “Yidden! Let us stop being seen as the universal solvent of racial solidarity and instead espouse for the goyim the same sort of bonds of group identity we avidly seek for ourselves!”
* When I hear that someone grew up picking cotton or that their family were sharecroppers, I burst out laughing. Is that my white privilege poking out?
* “When Moshiach comes, droves of goyim will foolishly try to ‘convert’ to Judaism, thinking it as easy as sneaking over America’s border with Mexico with only a Republican Bush standing guard. But they will soon discover that conversion is more like sneaking past Israel’s fence with Sinai looking like an African.” (Chaim Amalek)
* Luke: “How was your weekend?”
Mexican Friend: “I went to a wedding.”
Luke: “Did you have mariachi singers?”
Mexican: “It was a white wedding.”
Luke: “Boring! A bunch of cold aloof people, right?”
* I admire the work ethic that leads latinos to rob the recycling bins we put out at night to steal from that which was supposed to fund city services. Only racists want to launch an assimilation campaign urging the adoption of civic virtue.
* I think I’ve got a way to limit the damage tribalists can do. Meet with the leaders of that tribal community and let them know that any member of their community who works against the interests of the US will be deported. Do the same with all tribal groups who’ve committed espionage or terrorism, including Muslims, Chinese etc. Any wayward tribesman should be given a choice of deportation or living inside the equivalent of the Torah Corral in Miami Beach or the Aleutians or Haiti or Guantonomo.
* I just thought of a great Passover gag to play on left leaning, open border Jews. Hire some homeless black dudes to hang out just outside the Jew’s home when they open the door to ask if anyone is hungry. Then in comes the homeless dudes, preferably accompanied by twenty Mexicans.
* Is it possible to have a strong tribal identity and to not feel hostility for the majority population? Of course. Are you more likely to feel hostility for the majority population the more deeply you develop your tribal identity? Of course. The stronger your tribal identity (be it as a Jew, Black, Chinese, Mexican, etc), the less strong your identity with the majority population (such as America). I remember when I was a Seventh-Day Adventist, the more deeply Adventist the identity, the less the person identified with his majority population.
* A friend says: People don’t understand what pro nazi means. I don’t hear you calling for persecution of Jews, expulsion of Jews, ghettoization of Jews, deportation of Jews, liquidation of Jews, extermination of Jews. You simply want to understand the Nazi mentality and fit it into the paradigm of tribes and peoples wanting what is best for them. That isn’t pro Nazi. That is pro-understanding.
* “If you slug a cop or try to combat them they’ll kill you. That’s the rules of the game. They just say the standard ‘in fear for their life’ line, used over and over again. Cops are more robotic these days; in the old days they would just beat you up. Why I don’t know, perhaps it’s the militarization of everything, the hiring process picking a colder personality, violent video games influencing the attitudes of youth, who can tell. Cops will go ballistic when provoked and it doesn’t take much.”
* “I love it when the weak, oppressed comedian Sacha Baron Cohen ridicules the pompous, powerful peasants of Kazahkstan.”
* Comment: Exactly how oppressed have Jews been in America?
Not oppressed at all. They’ve historically been very privileged.
Back when the New York Stock Exchange was created by the signing of the Buttonwood agreement in 1792, 5 of 24 signatories were Jewish. This was at a time when less than 0.05 percent of Americans were Jewish.
Not only were Jews not excluded from the establishment back in the 1960s (Barry Goldwater was the first Jewish man on a presidential ticket), they weren’t excluded back in the 1700s either.
Here’s a quote from President George Washington:
May the Children of the Stock of Abraham, who dwell in this land, continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other Inhabitants; while every one shall sit under his own vine and fig tree, and there shall be none to make him afraid.
The reason it seems like anti-semitism was pervasive in the past was because anti-black sentiment was pervasive in the past. So it seems logical to think that if Americans kept blacks out of the establishment, they behaved similarly towards Jews. The reality is that not only were Jews welcomed in, Jews were historically respected (and even mildly feared) by white gentile elites.
When Jews socialized apart from white gentiles and had their own country clubs, that was NOT because white gentiles didn’t want to socialize with Jews. It was because Jews didn’t want to socialize with gentiles. Jews have historically been very clash and often viewed socialization as a path to assimilation and intermarriage, which they feared. Eastern European Jews were historically excluded from fancier German Jewish clubs though. So when you hear stories about Jews being excluded from clubs, it was a question of Eastern Europeans being discriminated against by Germans. Not gentiles against Jews. As Steve Sailer has pointed out, Jews historically were big on eating, but didn’t care much for drinking or gold ,which were two interests of gentiles. So that’s why Eastern Euro Jews wanted to join German Jewish clubs.
As for General Grant’s order to excluded Jewish merchants from the North-South border, that order came because Jewish merchants were helping to evade the blockade of the South. That order was immediately rescinded. When he ran for president after the civil war, Grant apologized profusely to Jews. He even went on to run what many saw as the most pro-Jewish administration in the history of America. So even this incident of “anti-semitism” was actually a common sense policy that was controversial due to mid 1800s political correctness towards Jews.
It’s pretty shameful for Jews to even bring up that incident. You would think they’d feel ashamed that their community was involved in undermining the war effort against the Confederacy, but no. They’re not ashamed. It’s gentiles who are supposed to feel ashamed for trying to win the civil war.
Jews may be one of the least discriminated groups in the history of America. If you read American history, it’s striking how little anti-Jewish discrimination you’d find.
* Comment at Unz.com: Telling a joke about Jews by anyone other than Jews has always been fraught with danger, and was only successfully performed by masters of comedic delivery (witness Louis C.K. below). Since it’s all about delivery, trying it on Twitter is an incredibly bad idea.
I agree that there we’re witnessing a knee-jerk reaction right now by secular liberal Jews who are choosing to double down on traditional ideas (oh the irony) of everybody everywhere waiting with pitchforks to form pogroms out of some uncontrollable sickness with absolutely no predictability. This is much more palatable than thinking rationally about the consequences of mass immigration.
Back when Louis C.K. was younger and edgier, he walked very close to precipice:
Now he’s much more nuanced, but the genius of his comedy is that he can take a story in so many directions that the listener is amused at the controversial subject, while not being able to pinpoint if he’s poking fun of Jewish media hegemony (Schindler’s List on every channel, all the time), or stoking Jewish feelings of righteousness as the ultimate oppressed group (the “Goodbye Jew” story must be real, so Spielberg reservedly fit it in the movie).
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Is there a big market for Alexander Technique comedy? I have not found lessons to be the ideal situation for the full monty of my range. And then there’s that awkward thing whereby when you make fun of the way you earn your living, other people don’t tend to take your work so seriously.
“If you can make it as a comic, go for it! You’ll do the rest of us a favor. Think of Farah Fawcett; what mattered is that everyone knew who she was, not how good her work was or wasn’t.”
I always knew I had a lot in common with Farrah, aside from our swimsuit calendars.
When I graduated from my training, all I wanted to do for a few months was to mock everything I had learned. Good thing I am largely over that now.
How does Alexander Technique affect one’s writing? I think it makes it more calm and measured. Similarly, I’m not sure Alexander would be good for stand-up comics because they seem to need to come from a dark place. A calm comic doesn’t sound very funny.
I find that the more emotionally concerned I get about a student, the less likely they are to come back. One of my Alexander teachers warned me about getting too nurturing. Another one of my Alexander teachers shared that whenever she told a student, “You really need Alexander Technique”, they never come back. I’ll never forget this young woman, about 25, who came to me with her boyfriend. She worked long hours at a desk job and her back was like concrete and her arms were going numb, etc. She loved to carry big heavy purses and wanted to learn how to do that with Alexander Technique. I showed her, but I also said, in effect, that given the state of her back and her job, she was headed for trouble. She replied, “You sound like the voice of doom.” She came for four lessons.
Occasionally I get calls from women wanting Alexander lessons to learn to walk in high heels. We chat a bit and I always suggest that they could reduce the amount of time they wear high heels and thus reduce their risk of injury and pain, and most of the time, they say, oh yes, I could wear comfortable shoes until I have to see a client, etc, and then they don’t end up booking lessons, but I think they got what they needed.
Isn’t that because they’re shorter on average? Short people’s hearts don’t have to work as hard as tall people’s. Gravity is relentless.
Oh, and a lot a black folks are huge, both vertically and horizontally.
The less there is of someone, the less there is to go wrong.
* Cocaine is “cracked” from its base (cocaine HCL) to yield crack cocaine, which vaporizes at a low temperature and is much more readily absorbed by the lungs and mucosa, therefore giving its inhaler a very direct dose to the brain via the pulmonary veins and carotid artery. It’s a much quicker and more efficient delivery system, so you get a much bigger bang for your buck.
People say it’s discriminatory to distinguish between crack and powder cocaine, but we distinguish distilled from non-distilled beverages. We also distinguish between 50cc scooters and superbikes. Frankly put, one is more dangerous than the other.
Personally, I don’t think cocaine would be a big deal if people only chewed it like the Andean Indians, but I guess that isn’t good enough for some of us.
But I’m sure you’re right about the bankers. You can’t exactly function as a rational decision maker when you’re a cokehead. If bankers abused any drug, it would most likely be alcohol to dial down the pressure at the end of the day. Cocaine is really a pretty worthless drug for creativity and focus. If anything, in small doses it might have some beneficial effect on physical performance, i.e. staying alert and invigorated during a forced march or grueling ball game. But like most drugs, its cognitive benefits are dubious at best.
* Germans and their predilection for nudism. They quoted one older Eastern German woman who’d been baring it all for decades. She said something to the effect that Communism was better because since reunification there were so many fat people it wasn’t fun to get naked any more.
* The quality of your health care system is only the third most important factor in longevity. The first is public health systems, like water and sanitation (that’s the big one). The second is the habits of the populace, i.e. what they eat and how much activity they get. Only after that comes the health care system.
We’re paying for heart surgeries on people who should have gone another twenty years before they had problems because they have bad habits. If the Mexicans had clean air and water they’d probably live longer than we do.
* I’m actually not surprised that healthcare access matters less for the poor. For life-threatening matters, they get access to an emergency room, regardless of whether they “have access to healthcare” in the sense of insurance coverage.
My wife is a nurse and she regales me daily with stories of non-English speakers going to the ER because of very mild fevers or injuries (their pain level is always “diez”), the drug seekers that know that complaining of abdominal pain guarantees Dilaudid, the diabetics that are back in the hospital shortly after having their feet amputated because they’re still not following an appropriate diet, and patients that don’t even pretend to listen while they’re being given instructions about how to use meds, make lifestyle changes, etc to keep them from being back in the hospital.
The hospitals are essentially held hostage by them because they are required to report patient feedback, and if satisfaction scores are poor enough they risk losing federal funding. The “patients” treat nurses like room service – “Nurse, could you get my guests some refreshments?” is an actual quote from a drug seeker that was faking to get opiates – and don’t make any effort to take care of themselves.
These are exactly the kind of people that need social pressure to not be obese, or a drug addict or commit whatever other form of slow suicide.
* A white guy I know in Manhattan is very bright, in his mid-60s, has a lot of physical and psychological challenges (translation: he takes about 15 prescription drugs a day), and hasn’t made a penny of income in nearly 20 years. Yet he gets by. Rent stabilization keeps his apartment (which he’s had since the 1970s) cheap; a disability check gives him enough to pay for the internet and keep him in Subway sandwiches, about all he’s interested in eating; and city medical services pay for most of his doctor appointments and drugs.
It isn’t an enviable life — a new set of underpants or a new shirt is a major expense for him — and he doesn’t even take much advantage of the free cultural life the city offers. But he’s living in his own place in a non-scuzzy Manhattan neighborhood, he’s feeding himself adequately, he’s horsing around on the web, he’s getting his medical needs looked after, and he’s doing it all on basically zero income.
A factor I don’t think I’ve seen anyone raise about life in NYC: you don’t need a car to live decently. That’s a huge chunk of change saved. And it probably doesn’t hurt to be doing more routine walking than most Americans do either.
I sometimes wonder why my acquaintance doesn’t move someplace more friendly and less overwhelming than NYC, but he loves the city, and — who knows — maybe he wouldn’t be able to do as well for himself elsewhere.
(Milking the city’s social system for all it’s worth is something that thousands of New Yorkers are devoted to and often very accomplished at, but that’s another story.)
This is no surprise to anyone acquainted with IQ’s predictive ability.
REPORT: In a new NFL draft-related study released Tuesday, it was revealed there may be a correlation between players scoring poorly on the Wonderlic test and running into off-field issues that result in an arrest.
According to ESPN.com’s Kevin Seifert, a group of college professors studied draft data from 2002 to 2003 and found that those who score below the mean on the Wonderlic are twice as likely to get arrested as those who score above it.
Per Seifert, University of Georgia associate professor Brian Hoffman believes there is some credence to the findings, but he also feels as though teams must do their due diligence on every prospect regardless:
The effects are relatively small. But it’s important here because when making multimillion-dollar decisions, a small effect can be very meaningful. A player’s getting a four-game suspension can be a big deal, competitively and financially.
[…]
If I were a decision-maker, I wouldn’t view getting into trouble as a zero-sum game. You check off that they’ve been in trouble and know what that has meant for others on a percentage basis. And then there’s a factor that would make the likelihood a little worse: If they score lower on the Wonderlic. Really, that tells you there’s even more work to do there.
ESPN analyst and former Philadelphia Eagles director of pro personnel Louis Riddick also chimed in on the results and opined that numbers cannot accurately predict whether a player will run into off-field problems, according to Seifert:
Everyone is looking for ways to predict future performance, whether it is through three-cone tests, shuttle drills or anything else. Then they assume that these guys have it figured out once you get them, and they don’t. That’s where the focus should be, helping them be better people and players, rather than hiring a psychologist to tell you which players are more or less likely to get arrested.
Because the reality is, you just don’t know, and you can’t know when it comes to human nature. It’s so hard. You can talk to everyone, from the friends to the coaches to the gas-station attendants, and so many times you’re literally just holding on and hoping you’ve done your best evaluation. Human development off the field is something that is lagging in this league and has to be ramped up and taken more seriously.
While the sample size is small and the study focuses solely on arrests and not other potential character issues, it could prove to be of some use to NFL teams.
Early-round draft picks require massive financial commitments from franchises, so it is paramount they work out since mistakes can set teams back for years.
Off-field failures are a surefire way to derail a promising career, and while some prospects enter the league with a history of such issues, teams are often willing to take a chance on their talent alone.
The Wonderlic study isn’t likely to change that approach, but with teams obsessing over athletic data compiled at the NFL Scouting Combine, it isn’t unreasonable to think that data predicting the likelihood of character shortcomings could become commonplace moving forward.
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* Trump’s people have a lot in common with the FDR coalition and more generally with the old Democratic party, he gets urban ethnics, backwoods folk and Southerners on the same page.
* But what did FDR ever win?
* Does southeast England have a 5-10 IQ point advantage over the rest of England? The prosperity of southeast England and New England would support this.
* Anyone in the UK, who has both talent and ambition, knows that moving to London & the Southeast corner of the UK is a good move because that is where,
(a), the HQs of most big companies /organisations are
(b) that’s where the money is because that is where the large Government budgets are distributed .
( c) A disproportionate volume of trade is centred on London/Southeast because it’s only a short (20 miles) trip across the English Channel to the large European markets.
Thus, this corner of the UK has a huge natural advantage and, yes, it will accrue a higher than average IQ pool, not from its own populace but by talented people moving there.
A similar effect happened to Edinburgh after 1999. The the Scottish Parliament was re-established … and with its own Budget, companies and lobbyists flocked there because they wanted a piece of the government pie.
House & office prices soared as more talented and high IQ folk moved there from other places.
* How many smart people have ever gone to Cambridge University?
* So, Trump’s granny was a Wee Free? That’s hilarious – they’re the least Trumpish people on the planet.
One of Thatcher’s Lord Chancellors was a Wee Free – Lord McKay. He used to shave on a Saturday night to avoid breaking the Sabbath. IIRC he was eventually excommunicated for attending the funeral of a Roman Catholic friend.
* Trump’s just a New Yorker, I don’t think it is more complicated than that.
* Trump will have a serious problem with Upper Midwestern Scandi/German types. His personalty will grate them to no end, easily to the point of them not listening to his ideas. His personality is everything that they despise, especially from East Coasters.
I know these people. They are good, trusting and industrious; however, they hate (and I mean deep-in-their bones hate) cocky arrogance, at least from other whites. They can tolerate quiet confidence – very quiet – but anything beyond that steams them. (A business professor of mine once told me that the Japanese and Minnesotans liked doing business with one another because they had similar ideas on personal manners, i.e. their great fear was offending each other.)
Also, most of these people live in very white areas so they’ll still vote on obsolete Left-Right politics, which means that not only will Trump’s personality offend them, his very moderate political ideas will make him not a true “conservative.” They haven’t gotten the Lee Kuan Yew’s message yet.
* If this election were in a Troloppe novel, it would have all been planned long in advance in someone’s Scottish estate. Oh wait, it was.
* If there’s anyone who’s an expert on Appalachian life, it would be Yoni Applebaum.
This is just a way of tarring Trump by association with toothless hillbillies and KKK’ism:
“[Trump is like] other politicians who have projected dominance, flaunted intolerance, promised pugilism, and fanned racial and ethnic resentments.” [I think that pretty well describes Obama but I don’t think that’s who he has in mind.]
It’s really not worth giving pieces like this serious consideration. They might as well just skip all the pseudo-sophisticated analysis and just type over and over “Warning: Trump is a bad man. Trump is a bad man.” This is like the mirror image of the puff pieces written about Obama 8 years ago, which would start from the conclusion that Obama was the Bringer of Hope and Change and work backward to explain why that was. Not very far under the paper thin layer of intellectual filigree is a very simple black and white view of the world.
* If you can’t trust a man called Yoni Applebaum to tell the truth about a White man who doesn’t bend over for the Narrative Gatekeepers, who can you trust?
* The accusations of “Nazi” sympathies in Trump shows how illiterate our media and left wing political class has become. The word “Nazi” has become like the word “fascist”, and they both mean the same thing in modern discourse: “something someone on the left does not like”. But that is why I always enjoy calling someone on the Left, “fascist” or even “Nazi”. It confuses them and even renders them speechless at times. Calling them “Stalinist” might be considered a compliment, so I avoid that one.
Whatever his background, I see Trump as a pre-1965 American who simply looked around and said: “What the hell is going on here … in immigration, in defense spending, in trade” whatever, all things no one ever truly debates. And those are questions the political class, the media industrial complex, the foreign policy institutions, the bureaucratic class do not want asked. Even to raise these questions is to invite accusations of “nazi” sympathies or even insanity. Why is that? That is another question no one asks. Why is a debate on NATO somehow the equivalent of calling for the abolition of the First Amendment? Does no one find this odd?
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I don’t care if this sounds awful, it makes sense to me. When a woman is giving birth, she probably doesn’t want to be cared for by out-groups. Why shouldn’t any mother be able to seek out the care she wants? Whatever happened to freedom of association?
Israel shows us the way forward. It is proud country run for the benefit of its majority. The West can learn from that.
Newsweek: It started on Tuesday morning, April 5, with an investigative report on Israeli radio news. Israeli hospitals were accommodating Jewish mothers who wished to give birth in separate rooms, rooms without any Israeli Arabs.
This was taking place even though it violated the official policy of the Ministry of Health and the officially stated policy of the administrations of each of the hospitals.
The evidence was undeniable. Tapes were recorded of women calling the hospitals in question to ask whether it would be possible for them to not be placed in rooms with non-Jews. In all but two cases, the women were answered in the affirmative.
A public storm ensued. To date, Israeli hospitals have been one of the central institutions known for their integration, where a large number of Arab-Israeli doctors and nurses serve together with their Jewish-Israeli counterparts—and where no one questions the fact that Arab and Jewish Israelis are treated and served equally.
This public controversy might have been a five-minute story had it not been for a Knesset member from the right-wing Bayit Yehudi party. Bezalel Smotrich was unable to contain himself. He tweeted that after giving birth, his wife wanted quiet and did not want to be in a noisy room where Arab parents might hold a hafla (a rowdy party of celebration).
Not to be outdone, his wife gave a radio interview and said she does not want her newborn Jewish infant touched by non-Jewish hands. Then, Smotrich, not wanting to be outdone himself, stated that he does not want his newborn baby to be in the same room with an Arab infant who a few years from now will try to kill his child.
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"This guy knows all the gossip, the ins and outs, the lashon hara of the Orthodox world. He’s an [expert] in... all the inner workings of the Orthodox world." (Rabbi Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff)
