From Chateau Heartiste: Flirting with women ties into the whole alpha male philosophy of not taking girls seriously. Treating women’s idle politeness like a sounding board for you to amp up…
When you are flippant with women, they sense that you think you are better than them, and that turns them on. Women love a man who is better than them, but they will accept as a substitute a man who simply thinks he is better than them.
From Chateau Heartiste: What advantage accrues a man who decides to cohabit instead of marry? Well, for one (and it’s a BIG one), women tend to let themselves go once they’ve extracted marital vows from their men. Here’s a referenced study which shows that once a woman gets what she wants from a man, she doesn’t (subconsciously) care anymore about pleasing him. (Study title is hilariously droll: “Entry into romantic partnership is associated with obesity”.)
Maxim #204: Modern marriage is a waiver of liability that relieves wives of the responsibility to remain attractive to their husbands.
Corollary to Maxim #204: The modern marriage waiver of liability does not extend to husbands, who must remain optimally attractive to their wives so long as the marriage is intact and the cost of failing in this responsibility is excessive.
From Chateau Heartiste: In a story about the Secret Service agents and the Colombian whore with the fake tits, I was thrown by this jarring editorial commentary that was inserted after a quote attributed to one of the agents:
“I was really checking [Sarah Palin] out, if you know what i mean?” [Secret Service agent] Chaney wrote in the comments section after friends had marveled at the photo. He is married and has an adult son.
I’m not seeing the relevance of his marital or fatherhood status to the story. Is it the “””reporters’””” contention that staring at Sarah Palin’s ass (a fine one, for a middle-aged woman) would be Ok if the agent admitting to it was single and childless?
You’ve really gotta wonder what planet these Columbia J-school grads live on. Planet Stupidity aka Feminism? Yes. You’d have to be delusional, evil or thoroughly brainwashed to think that a man’s sexual desire and attraction for hot bodied women somehow disappears after he gets married and his kid grows up. If women really think that married men stop checking out other attractive women, then I’ve got a bridge to sell them to fatopia, where fat chicks are beloved by men everywhere.
This kind of mass delusion among the elite is what happens when you ensconce them from cradle to grave in a gooey bath of feelgood platitudes, post-rationality sophistry and calculating ignorance. Nuke the beast from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure it’s dead.
From Chateau Heartiste: Think about the revulsion you feel when you see a grossly obese person. It’s instinctive, like the way you would recoil from a pile of dog shit. This revulsion is near universal. But why do we feel disgust for fat people? Hordes of obese have only been with us recently in evolutionary history. Instead of seeking an explanation in a “fat revulsion” gene, it’s better to think of our natural disgust for fat people as having its origin in a more general “abnormality” or aberration template deeply wired into our hindbrains.
This abnormality template — you could call it the monster mechanism — is easily triggered by the sight of anything which seriously deviates from its category’s normal phenotype range, provoking fear and disgust in the observer. You can find indirect confirmation of the monster mechanism hypothesis in the fact that it is limited to objects which exist in the state of nature, and therefore would have been around during the millennia humans evolved. For example, if you deform something that does not exist in the state of nature — a car, say — you may make it look really weird, but it won’t inspire visceral terror and revulsion.
But if you deform a human being by adding eyeballs, limbs or hundreds of pounds of fat, you get a nightmare creature that will make small children, who have not yet learned the proper polite restraint, cry. Similarly, masculinizing a woman or feminizing a man turns each into a monstrous aberration, the degree of perceived monstrosity and primally induced disgust proportional to the deviation from the normal sex phenotype.
Your typical outrage feminist and limp-wristed manboob flirts dangerously close to the monster threshold. Humans recoil from manjawed, mustachioed, beady-eyed, actively aggressive women and chipmunk-cheeked, bitch tittied, curvaceously plush, passive-aggressive men as if they were the human equivalent of dog shit. The farther your feminist or manboob deviates from the normal human template, in physical and psychological form, the more monstrous it becomes to the average person.
Although the rape took place in June, police kept silent about it for nearly three months, until local media published a story about the crime. According to an editorial comment in the newspaper Westfalen-Blatt, police are refusing to go public about crimes involving refugees and migrants because they do not want to give legitimacy to critics of mass migration.
A 13-year-old Muslim girl was raped by another asylum seeker at a refugee facility in Detmold, a city in west-central Germany. The girl and her mother reportedly fled their homeland to escape a culture of sexual violence.
Approximately 80% of the refugees/migrants at the shelter in Munich are male… the price for sex with female asylum seekers is ten euros. — Bavarian Broadcasting (Bayerischer Rundfunk).
Police in the Bavarian town of Mering, where a 16-year-old-girl was raped on September 11, have issued a warning to parents not to allow their children to go outside unaccompanied. In the Bavarian town of Pocking, administrators of the Wilhelm-Diess-Gymnasium have warned parents not to let their daughter’s wear revealing clothing in order to avoid “misunderstandings.”
“When Muslim teenage boys go to open air swimming pools, they are overwhelmed when they see girls in bikinis. These boys, who come from a culture where for women it is frowned upon to show naked skin, will follow girls and bother them without their realizing it. Naturally, this generates fear.” — Bavarian politician, quoted in Die Welt.
A police raid on the Munich refugee facility found that guards hired to provide security at the site were trafficking drugs and weapons and were turning a blind eye to the prostitution.
Meanwhile, the raping of German women by asylum seekers is becoming commonplace.
A growing number of women and young girls housed in refugee shelters in Germany are being raped, sexually assaulted and even forced into prostitution by male asylum seekers, according to German social work organizations with first-hand knowledge of the situation.
Many of the rapes are occurring in mixed-gender shelters, where, due to a lack of space, German authorities are forcing thousands of male and female migrants to share the same sleeping areas and restroom facilities.
Conditions for women and girls at some shelters are so perilous that females are being described as “wild game” fighting off Muslim male predators. But many victims, fearing reprisals, are keeping silent, social workers say.
At the same time, growing numbers of German women in towns and cities across the country are being raped by asylum seekers from Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Many of the crimes are being downplayed by German authorities and the national media, apparently to avoid fueling anti-immigration sentiments.
On August 18, a coalition of four social work organizations and women’s rights groups sent a two-page letter to the leaders of the political parties in the regional parliament in Hesse, a state in west-central Germany, warning them of the worsening situation for women and children in the refugee shelters. The letter said:
“The ever-increasing influx of refugees has complicated the situation for women and girls at the receiving center in Giessen (HEAE) and its subsidiaries.
“The practice of providing accommodations in large tents, the lack of gender-separate sanitary facilities, premises that cannot be locked, the lack of safe havens for women and girls — to name just a few spatial factors — increases the vulnerability of women and children within the HEAE. This situation plays into the hands of those men who assign women a subordinate role and treat women traveling alone as ‘wild game’.
“The consequences are numerous rapes and sexual assaults. We are also receiving an increasing number of reports of forced prostitution. It must be stressed: these are not isolated cases.
“Women report that they, as well as children, have been raped or subjected to sexual assault. As a result, many women sleep in their street clothes. Women regularly report that they do not use the toilet at night because of the danger of rape and robbery on the way to the sanitary facilities. Even during daylight, passing through the camp is a frightful situation for many women.
“Many women — in addition to fleeing wars or civil wars — are also on the run for gender-related reasons, including the threat of forced marriage or genital mutilation. These women who face special risks, especially when they are on the run alone or with their children. Even if they are accompanied by male relatives or acquaintances, this does not always ensure protection against violence because it can also lead to specific dependencies and sexual exploitation.
“Most female refugees have experienced a variety of traumatizing experiences in their country of origin and while on the run. They are victims of violence, kidnappings, torture, rape and extortion — sometimes over periods of several years.
“The feeling to have arrived here — in safety — and to be able to move without fear, is a gift for many women…. We therefore ask you…to join our call for the immediate establishment of protected premises (locked apartments or houses) for women and children who are travelling alone….
“These facilities must be equipped so that men do not have access to the premises of the women, with the exception of emergency workers and security personnel. In addition bedrooms, lounges, kitchens and sanitary facilities must be interconnected so that they form a self-contained unit — and thus can only be reached via lockable and monitored access to the house or the apartment.”
After several blogs (here, here and here) drew attention to the letter, the LandesFrauenRat (LFR) Hessen, a women’s lobbying group that originally uploaded the politically incorrect document to its website, abruptly removed it on September 14, without explanation.
The problem of rapes and sexual assaults in German refugee shelters is a nationwide problem.
In Bavaria, women and girls housed at a refugee shelter in Bayernkaserne, a former military base in Munich, are subject to rape and forced prostitution on a daily basis, according to women’s rights groups. Although the facility has separate dorm rooms for women, the doors cannot be locked and men control access to the sanitary facilities.
Approximately 80% of the refugees/migrants at the shelter are male, according to Bavarian Broadcasting (Bayerischer Rundfunk), which reports that the price for sex with female asylum seekers is ten euros. A social worker described the facility this way: “We are the biggest brothel in Munich.”
Police insist they have no proof that the rapes are taking place, although a police raid on the facility found that guards hired to provide security at the site were trafficking drugs and weapons and were turning a blind eye to the prostitution.
On August 28, a 22-year-old Eritrean asylum seeker was sentenced to one year and eight months in prison for attempting to rape a 30-year-old Iraqi-Kurdish woman at a refugee shelter in the Bavarian town of Höchstädt. The reduced sentence was thanks to the efforts of the defense attorney, who persuaded the judge that the defendant’s situation at the shelter was hopeless: “For a year now he sits around and thinks about — about nothingness.”
On August 26, a 34-year-old asylum seeker attempted to rape a 34-year-old woman in the laundry room of a refugee facility in Stralsund, a city near the Baltic Sea.
On August 6, police revealed that a 13-year-old Muslim girl was raped by another asylum seeker at a refugee facility in Detmold, a city in west-central Germany. The girl and her mother reportedly fled their homeland to escape a culture of sexual violence; as it turns out, the man who raped the girl is from their country.
Although the rape took place in June, police kept silent about it for nearly three months, until local media published a story about the crime. According to an editorial comment in the newspaper Westfalen-Blatt, police are refusing to go public about crimes involving refugees and migrants because they do not want to give legitimacy to critics of mass migration.
Police chief Bernd Flake countered that the silence was aimed at protecting the victim. “We will continue with this policy [of not informing the public] whenever crimes are committed in refugee facilities,” he said.
Over the weekend of June 12-14, a 15-year-old girl housed at a refugee shelter in Habenhausen, a district in the northern city of Bremen, was repeatedly raped by two other asylum seekers. The facility has been has been described as a “house of horrors” due to the spiraling violence perpetrated by rival gangs of youth from Africa and Kosovo. A total of 247 asylum seekers are staying at the shelter, which has a capacity for 180 and a cafeteria with seating for 53.
Meanwhile, the raping of German women by asylum seekers is becoming commonplace. Following are a few select cases just from 2015:
On September 11, a 16-year-old girl was raped by an unidentified “dark-skinned man speaking broken German” close to a refugee shelter in the Bavarian town of Mering. The attack occurred while the girl was walking home from the train station.
On August 13, police arrested two Iraqi asylum seekers, aged 23 and 19, for raping an 18-year-old German woman behind a schoolyard in Hamm, a city in North Rhine-Westphalia.
On July 26, a 14-year-old boy was sexually assaulted inside the bathroom of a regional train in Heilbronn, a city in southwestern Germany. Police are looking for a “dark skinned” man between the ages of 30 and 40 who has an “Arab appearance.” Also on July 26, a 21-year-old Tunisian asylum seeker raped a 20-year-old woman in the Dornwaldsiedlung district of Karlsruhe. Police kept the crime secret until August 14, when a local paper went public with the story.
On June 9, two Somali asylum seekers, aged 20 and 18, were sentenced to seven-and-a-half years in prison for raping a 21-year-old German woman in Bad Kreuznach, a town in Rhineland-Palatinate, on December 13, 2014.
On June 5, a 30-year-old Somali asylum seeker called “Ali S” was sentenced to four years and nine months in prison for attempting to rape a 20-year-old woman in Munich. Ali had previously served a seven-year sentence for rape, and had been out of prison for only five months before he attacked again. In an effort to protect the identity of Ali S, a Munich newspaper referred to him by the more politically correct “Joseph T.”
On May 22, a 30-year-old Moroccan man was sentenced to four years and nine months in prison for attempting to rape a 55-year-old woman in Dresden. On May 20, a 25-year-old Senegalese asylum seeker was arrested after he attempted to rape a 21-year-old German woman at the Stachus, a large square in central Munich.
On April 16, a 21-year-old asylum seeker from Iraq was sentenced to three years and ten months in prison for raping a 17-year-old girl at festival in the Bavarian town of Straubing in August 2014. On April 7, a 29-year-old asylum seeker was arrested for the attempted rape of a 14-year-old girl in the town of Alzenau.
On March 17, two Afghan asylum seekers aged 19 and 20 were sentenced to five years in prison for the “particularly abhorrent” rape of a 21-year-old German woman in Kirchheim, a town near Stuttgart, on August 17, 2014.
On February 11, a 28-year-old asylum seeker from Eritrea was sentenced to four years in prison for raping a 25-year-old German woman in Stralsund, along the Baltic Sea, in October 2014.
On February 1, a 27-year-old asylum seeker from Somalia was arrested after attempting to rape women in the Bavarian town of Reisbach.
On January 16, a 24-year-old Moroccan immigrant raped a 29-year-old woman in Dresden.
Dozens of other cases of rape and attempted rape — cases in which police are specifically looking for foreign perpetrators (German police often refer to them as Südländer, or “southerners”) — remain unresolved. Following is a partial list just for August 2015:
On August 23, a “dark skinned” man attempted to rape a 35-year-old woman in Dortmund. On August 17, three male “southerners” attempted to rape a 42-year-old woman in Ansbach. On August 16, a male “southerner” raped a woman in Hanau.
On August 12, a male “southerner” attempted to rape a 17-year-old woman in Hannover. Also on August 12, a male “southerner” exposed himself to a 31-year-old woman in Kassel. Police say a similar incident occurred in the same area on August 11.
On August 10, five men of “Turkish origin” attempted to rape a girl in Mönchengladbach. Also on August 10, a male “southerner” raped a 15-year-old girl in Rinteln. On August 8, a male “southerner” attempted to rape a 20-year-old woman in Siegen.
On August 3, a “North African” raped a seven-year-old girl in broad daylight in a park in Chemnitz, a city in eastern Germany. On August 1, a male “southerner” attempted to rape a 27-year-old woman in downtown Stuttgart.
Meanwhile, parents are being warned to look after their daughters. Police in the Bavarian town of Mering, where a 16-year-old-girl was raped on September 11, have issued a warning to parents not to allow their children to go outside unaccompanied. They have also advised women not to walk to or from the train station alone because of its proximity to a refugee shelter.
In the Bavarian town of Pocking, administrators of the Wilhelm-Diess-Gymnasium have warned parents not to let their daughters wear revealing clothing in order to avoid “misunderstandings” with the 200 Muslim refugees housed in emergency accommodations in a building next to the school. The letter said:
“The Syrian citizens are mainly Muslim and speak Arabic. The refugees have their own culture. Because our school is directly next to where they are staying, modest clothing should be worn in order to avoid disagreements. Revealing tops or blouses, short shorts or miniskirts could lead to misunderstandings.”
A local politician quoted by Die Welt newspaper said:
“When Muslim teenage boys go to open air swimming pools, they are overwhelmed when they see girls in bikinis. These boys, who come from a culture where for women it is frowned upon to show naked skin, will follow girls and bother them without their realizing it. Naturally, this generates fear.”
The increase in sex crimes in Germany is being fueled by the preponderance of Muslim males among the mix of refugees/migrants entering the country.
 Where are the women? |
A record 104,460 asylum seekers arrived in Germany in August, bringing the cumulative total for the first eight months of 2015 to 413,535. Germany expects to receive a total of 800,000 refugees and migrants this year, a four-fold increase over 2014.
At least 80% of the incoming refugees/migrants are Muslim, according to a recent estimate by the Central Council of Muslims in Germany (Zentralrat der Muslime in Deutschland, ZMD), a Muslim umbrella group based in Cologne.
The asylum seekers are also overwhelmingly male. Of the 411,567 refugees/migrants who have entered the European Union by sea so far this year, 72% have been male, 13% women and 15% children, according to calculations by the United Nations Refugee Agency. Information about the gender of those arriving by land remains unavailable.
Of the asylum seekers arriving in Germany in 2014, 71.5% of those between ages 16 and 18 were male; 77.5% in the 18-25 age group were male; as were 73.5% of those between 25 and 30, according to German migration statistics. Data for 2015 is not yet available.
Soeren Kern is a Senior Fellow at the New York-based Gatestone Institute. He is also Senior Fellow for European Politics at the Madrid-based Grupo de Estudios Estratégicos / Strategic Studies Group. Follow him on Facebook and on Twitter.
Steve Sailer writes: “The New York Times editorial “Europe Should See Refugees as a Boon, Not a Burden” has not struck a chord with NYT readers. None of the top 30 or more Reader’s Pick comments are supportive.”
* I’m floored by this. I’ve seen anti-immigration comments land a lot of support in the NYT comment sections but always alongside some opposite progressive pro-immigration responses as well. I’ve never seen a solid wall of backlash like this.
* I’ve been paying attention to the immigration issue for years, and I’ve never seen the kind of emphatic opposition to mass immigration that we are now seeing. It will be interesting to see what coming elections in the US and Europe bring, and whether our leaders finally start listening to the citizens or whether they continue to find even more ways to blatantly ignore and undermine the will of the voters.
* Mexican immigrants to the US boost GDP, while dragging down GDP per capita. They benefit business owners and upper-middle-class people who want cheap nannies, while hurting people at the bottom end of the economic scale.
Arab Muslim immigrants to Europe are not only transparently shopping around for the countries with the most generous welfare payments, they actively want to destroy their host countries. Not only will Europe have to pay for cradle to the grave welfare, they’ll have to spend billions on security measures to keep them from blowing the place up. Letting them in is a disaster for everyone, including the wealthy.
* In this case I think it’s called “the collapse of traditional print newsmedia.”
Even Carlos Slim buying a hefty share of Grey Lady stock and pushing the editorial content and story development guidelines in the direction of his view of what’s Boonly (externalizing his lawless and stupid onto El Norte, and hectoring its beleaguered residents to see this as a good thing as their wages are attached to supply welfare dollars to pay for phone calls back to Mehico) doesn’t seem to be bailing the model out.
Meantime, those within that model are having a remarkably hard time comprehending their own irrelevancy to and disengagement with the rank and file.
Believe me, the MSM panic rooms are fuller by the moment. Between medium collapse and narrative collapse, it’s not at all clear how they’re going to keep the revenues propped up, particularly with talk of a Wall St. hard correction in the near future.
Hardening clickbait demographics works to some degree. (What, in this house, we call the “boobs, freaks, and Hitler” model of clickbait.)
But sites like Unz and Taki, blogs like Those Who Can See, JayMan, and VDARE, and “new right” outlets like Counter-Currents and Radix are leading even those who disagree with the “new right” to do a lot of rethinking and reframing of their own views.
Viewers/readers may still buy access to and read NYT…but NYT, like The Nation, The Atlantic, and that piece of crap Mother Jones are learning that the audience, not the medium, is the message.
> I’ve never seen the kind of emphatic opposition to
> mass immigration that we are now seeing.
Watching this electron cloud of rank and file opposition coalesce around lightning rods such as Mr. Sailer has been glorious indeed.
It has left me feeling that maybe AOHell and Zuckerberg couldn’t turn every last corner of the Internet into a combination shopping mall, porn palace, and infotainment clickbait currency mint. There are still niches where the awake and thinking and honestly dissenting can talk to one another.
What’s more transformative than people observing as that sort of dialogue proceeds? God knows the MSM don’t allow it. One doesn’t have to agree to benefit, and that’s what the old media don’t comprehend, but the Romans did 2,000 years ago: lockstep collapses bridges.
Who’s behind all that new media agora-disputation is another question. I like to think that for every Eye of Soros and Ford Foundation operative pushing the Stalinish MSM, there’s 1,000 “quarter-millionaires next door” funding these smaller information projects. You know, the kind of people the Founders had in mind as the ones who should be allowed to vote.
But there’s probably some super rich angels as well.
* At what point did the European countries realize they were being invaded? Last weekend? Yesterday? Will history look at the leaders’ initial open-border policy as the greatest lapse in historical memory recorded in modern times? Or just a spot of momentary insanity?
* Despite Hungary’s brave stand, basically nothing has changed. The refugees are being allowed to pass through Croatia, to Hungary, and then to Austria. 4000 arrived in Austria last night.
The problem is once they are inside Europe’s exterior perimeter, no nation wants to keep them on their territory nor send them back. No Balkan nation wants to become Europe’s “panic room” where all the refugees are stuffed into.
What this means is that despite the border clash theater in Hungary a couple days ago — nothing has changed and the flows have only been slightly diverted but not slowed down. The Balkan states say the problem has to be solved in Turkey and Greece which is actually correct since no one is man enough in Europe to collect these refugees and physically take them back to Turkey.
But the EU moves as slowly as a turtle. Germany and France have to get motivated to provide the required border protection in Greece and Turkey. They will drag their feet until the Eastern bloc nations accept forced quotas.
So this invasion is no where near containment. Even Hungary is wussing out a bit although they are being placed in a terrible position due to no fault of their own.
Knowing the pace of “action” by the EU, it will be months (if ever) before this invasion is stemmed — and at that point it will be too late to save a large part of Europe.
* I get maybe 25% of my comments to the NYT’s published. I’m usually heretical against the Narrative but not outright rude. So for everyone of these nicey-nice anti-immigration comments, you can well imagine there are plenty of others that don’t make it past the filters.
The Daily Telegraph has pretty much shut down comments. The Guardian very heavily censors. One place where I push a lot of limits is the Washington Post and so far I have not had a problem there. Seriously there are times I go overboard there and nothing ever happens. NRO is almost impossible for me, even if I don’t use the word “cuck” my comments there maybe last 3 minutes at best.
* Facebook isn’t a good venue for political discussions, especially if you’re college educated. There is too much signaling being done on Facebook that renders most exchanges inauthentic or phony.
* Facebook is an EXCELLENT resource for political discussions…if you know how to use it (and oddly, very few people seem to). What you do, is set up a Facebook Group, and then designate it as Private. You then fill up that Group with interesting people (ideally, no more than a couple dozen active posters), who can be trusted not to rat each other out in the event they do see something they dislike, and voila – no threat of censorship, and no idiots chiming in with PC nonsense. I’m in several private FB Groups (including one where one of the principal writers at this site is a member, for example), and the discussions that go on there are significantly better than even the commenting section at this fine website.
* The Washington Post seems to have a high tolerance for crime think comments. Might be Bezos doing. They still have limits though, during the case of the murdered wealthy DC family the comments came in fast & furious. Most were pretty racist blaming blacks for crime & some even advocated for segregation.
They turned off comments to most stories having to do with the case as a result. Same thing with that UVA girl that was murdered by a black guy.
* Economists talk all the time about opportunity cost … except when the topic is immigration.
* The strangeness associated with the Western “diversity” movement is the movement’s attempt to relativize and trivialize the issues of ethnic, cultural, and religious antagonisms that have historically led to social disruptions, civil wars, and mass migrations in the first place — Shiite vs. Sunni, Muslim vs. Hindi, Catholic vs. Protestant, Christian vs. Muslim, Christian vs. Jew, Africans vs. Europeans, English vs. Irish. You get the idea.
So, what makes the liberal SJWs believe that the “diversity” movement in Western European societies will succeed? The SJW “new world order”: A society intermixed with large populations of Shiites, Sunnis, Muslims, Hindi, Catholics, Protestants, Jews, Black Africans, Europeans, Amerindians, etc., ad nauseam … all living peacefully together in a divinely ordained “Camp of Saints” while enjoying an explosion of ethnic restaurants, colorful dress, and new insights into foreign cultures. What are they thinking?
The reality is more common sense: The evolution of “no go” areas in Western European and North American cities; that is, Muslim communities in Great Britain and France run in accordance with Sharia Law with mutawa enforcing dress codes for women; “no go” areas for Whites in African-American, Hispanic, and North African communities (choose your continent); the trivialization of education as communities mandate “multicultural” perspectives in the classroom. Indeed, the “multicultural” perspective by its very nature assumes that all cultures are created equal and therefore there is no such thing as “civilization” that one generation passes to another.
What the SJWs miss is that culture is more than colorful dress and ethnic food. It governs a culture’s understanding of right and wrong; what is good and what is bad; the concept of what is lawful and unlawful; social interaction between the sexes; what is and is not acceptable dress; assumptions about how to raise children (or decide what is and is not child abuse); the roles that men, women, and children play in life. In short, a multicultural society quickly devolves into a “freak show” in which anything goes and nothing works … a Hobbesian nightmare in which life is “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short” (Leviathan, Chapters XIII–XIV). Ironically, the Syrians and Iraqis appear to know what this is about as they stampede to the “more civilized” culture of Western Europe to raise their families in safety.
Who knows? Perhaps someday the Whites in North America and Western Europe might be part of a new mass migration to somewhere else to escape the continual social strife and civil wars in their new “multicultural” societies.
* There’s a lot of sputtering incoherence in the NYT comments, indicating incipient rage. Interesting to note that a plurality of commenters oppose the refugees because they come from misogynistic and homophobic cultures, that might be a way to gain allies on the left. Also a number stress the anti-Semitism of the refugees, another way to gain allies.
I’m sure the NYT is looking at this in terms of the Irish, Italian and Jewish waves to the US, where xonophobic comments about them were common (The Germans didn’t have it so bad except for the WW1 anti-German mania, and the Chinese hysteria ca. Blaine’s candidacy is also relevant but the numbers were far smaller, not forgetting Japanese in WW2.) So NYT extrapolates and determines that all will be OK in the end.
Badfeels associated with the Euro Refugee crisis are probably being suppressed by NYT management because the association with Latino immigration to America are obvious, even though the Euro case is much worse.
This is turning into a classic lifeboat problem. Neither US nor EU are where they were 100, 150 years ago. The EU doesn’t have the room, or the resources, except artificially, and the US has the room, but doesn’t want the decline in quality of life that immigrant swarms will bring. Time to reconstruct Lady Liberty and take away the torch and replace it with a stop sign — or a weapon.
At the same time, lack of native population growth and economic growth as such is going to lead to more stratification in both EU and US, which explains the premium on IQ and education, since lack of growth equals a kind of serfdom or hereditary underclass.
* This is the end of the Left. That’s the core of this ongoing crisis, which will drag on for years and probably bring down a lot of societies. The social welfare state is based on the idea of human equality and the idea that social engineering can control human outcomes. This fantasy dominated the 20C; it is a religion to most Westerners, especially their vast bureaucracies. Mass non-Western immigration is exploding this paradigm, one country at a time. Sweden, the granddaddy of social democracies, is beginning to crack. If Swedes decide that their welfare state is actually just a generous nation state, its foundations shift fundamentally. Denmark is already there. This is the end of the Left.
* The doomer blogger Gail Tverberg, who was and maybe still is an actuary, calculated that half of GDP growth is simply population growth. The elites in Europe and the US are running a sort of ponzi scheme where assets are valued on the basis of “growth” in the future. But the growth requires an ever increasing population. If the native population reduces their family size, as has been happening in both the US and Europe (and which historically does happen over time as places become more crowded and the cost of living goes up), then more people will have to be imported. Its really that simple. A big problem for the European elites is that the nearby developing countries with exploding populations are in the Muslim Near East and sub-Sahara Africa, the US elites at least get to bring in Indians from the Andes and Central America.
The only two countries that I’m aware of where the government has a policy of getting the population down to a more sustainable figure are China and Japan. I wonder if this is an East Asian thing. The Indian government also tried in the 1970s and failed. In Japan low population growth/ population decline has translated directly into really low GDP growth numbers. They will have to go throw several generations who accomplish nothing much, not having the opportunities that come when the economy is growing, but at the end of the century will have a less crowded and less import dependent country that is still culturally Japanese. And people have noted that the “silent depression” in Japan hasn’t really reduced living standards, because with a smaller population there is more go to around per capita, but it probably has limited the numbers of Japanese billionaires.
* I think this is one of the few times where I have seen the top comments on more conservative publications closely match those on liberal sites. Us commoners are now calling out the media/politicians and their pathological altruist followers on this. Many commenters correctly note that most of the migrants are fit young men, yet the media acts like over half of them are comprised of women, children and the disabled.
* Chaim Amalek: Yes, and this is an important tool in their toolkit of social control. It isn’t so much that the elites who run our media (including the goy Jeff Bezos) care what this or that plebe has to say so much as they worry that by publishing such comments, masses of readers will reach certain conclusions that would be dangerous to the globalists. They do not want us to conclude that 1. they are not alone, but are perhaps more numerous and thus entitled to policies that reflect their views than the oligarchs want generally known, and 2. that it is possible to speak out, be read by others, and not vanish into a puff of smoke. But to really buttress democracy we shall need more than comments areas where people can hide behind fake names. We need a system of laws and legal defenses that protect Americans from getting fired simply for speaking out. And for that, the American worker needs the protection of UNIONS. Screw what you have heard about unions from the Ayn Rand worshipers of the RNC. The American worker needs a union.
“France is taking in as many refugees as we are in the district of Allgäu,” Horst Seehofer, the Christian Social Union (CSU) state premier of Bavaria, told the daily Passauer Neuen Presse. “That is selfish. When things get tough, there is no solidarity in Europe any more.” French officials have said they would take in up to 24,000 refugees this year; Germany is expecting to take in 800,000 – Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel is even figuring on a million.
But the criticism goes both ways. French politicians, from the right as well as the left, are baffled by Merkel’s open-door policy. “The generosity of the German people is laudable, but Merkel made a huge political mistake when she put out her unilateral siren call to refugees,” Socialist Malek Bouith, himself the son of Algerian immigrants, said earlier this week on French television. “Mrs. Merkel’s behavior is starting crises for Germany’s neighbors – first and foremost France.”
Sarkozy – who may well stand in the next French Presidential elections, and who during his time as head of state worked closely with Merkel – has warned that a continuing influx of refugees could “dissolve French society.” He is also against quota rules. In June, Sarkozy said acceptance quotas were the political equivalent of a plumber trying to distribute water more efficiently in an apartment after a pipe burst, rather than stopping the flow.
Last week, former conservative minister Patrick Devedjian, who is of Armenian descent, offered a statement even more abstruse when he said: “The Germans took our Jews and gave us Arabs.”
It was clear from the start that Germany’s refugee policy would be a golden opportunity for Marine Le Pen. “I accuse the German chancellor of burdening all of Europe with illegal immigrants after she already burdened it with her financial order,” Le Pen said, deftly touching upon two sore spots for the French people.
It is not just French politicians who think differently than Germans when it comes to the refugee debate. French society does as well. According to a recent poll, about 50 percent of those questioned said they did not want to take in any more refugees. And over 60 percent said asylum applications from Syria should be handled “like everybody else” – exactly the opposite of the “culture of welcoming” that is being propagated by all of the German parties represented in parliament.
Christopher Caldwell writes: The big danger ever since this migration got underway is that it would get stopped up somewhere. The day after Germany closed its border with Austria, there were 20,000 migrants stuck in the Austrian villages of Nickelsdorf and Heiligenkreuz. And the further south you go, the fewer resources residents have to give the travelers a welcome. The migrants are largely young men from rough, tough parts of the Muslim world. There is now a queue of them that stretches all the way east to Bangladesh and beyond, and deep down into sub-Saharan Africa. People have sold cattle, abandoned houses, robbed employers, left wives and children, and burned all sorts of bridges to come. There are now hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of them. Many are war-hardened. They are looking for money, food, and female companionship, and they are convinced that Europeans are gullible sissies. This is where Frau Merkel’s Willkommenskultur has led: With the impending closure of the Croatian border, hundreds of thousands of young Muslim men are about to hit a brick wall in Serbia. Serbia!
