One of the big differences between life in Australia and in America is the amount of fear.
Americans walk around with much more fear about crime, litigation, loss of a job, and loss of health insurance. Australians don’t worry much about these things. Australians have a bigger and more generous social safety net, much more of a sense of community, a higher quality of life, socialized medicine, and relatively few lawsuits.
Many of the things Americans worry about don’t register for Aussies.
Ever since Uber and Lyft effectively doubled their prices about a year ago, I’ve ridden the bus more in LA and it seems like about half of the black passengers don’t bother paying while about 90% of other groups do bother paying the fare.
Asians are the most scrupulous about following the rules with regard to masks.
Enforcing rules against theft is racist.
* Professors Examine Racialized Responses to Metro Fare Evasion
Ever since Uber and Lyft effectively doubled their prices about a year ago, I’ve ridden the bus more in LA and it seems like a lot of people don’t bother paying the fare.
Black passengers cited, punished disproportionately by Sound Transit fare enforcement
* “Blacks Can’t Jump”: The Racialization of Transit Police Responses to Fare Evasion: “This study demonstrates that racially disparate fare evasion citation outcomes are the product of racialized social systems that allow transit police officers to determine the belongingness of Black riders in systems of mass transit. Using citation data from the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, we test the impact of race and place attributes on transit officer decisions to allocate punishment for subway fare evasion using mixed effects logistic regression controlling for individual and contextual predictors. Although rider racial identity alone proves statistically irrelevant, Black riders suspected of fare evasion possess an elevated risk for being fined as opposed to merely being warned at stations located within predominately white neighborhoods and as stations increase in ridership. These findings demonstrate how transit police officer discretion challenges Black belongingness on systems of public transportation. Broader implications of this work include the importance of scholarship linking statistical disparities to organizational intent and integrating diverse voices in policing policy development.”
* NYT: Subway Arrests Investigated Over Claims People of Color Are Targeted
* RTA enforcement of fare evasion on HealthLine discriminates against blacks, ACLU and NAACP say
There are few things that are as thrilling to me as the open road with no commitments. You give me time and you give me money and I’ll want to drive or fly away.
Like a running back, I want to run to daylight.
I still savor the memories of all those college professors who told me I could become anything I wanted. My mom said I could become a star for God. My dad was a star. I wanted to outshine him.
I’ll never forget taking the I-5 South from Sacramento in March of 1994. I was returning to LA after five years away and I had a place to stay in Westwood for a few weeks until I got things sorted. I had money in the bank and I had choices and I had dreams and I had no obligations.
I was 27. I was coming out of six years of bed-ridden Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. I felt like the world was my oyster (while living out of my car for most of the next year). I loved exploring LA and its beautiful women. I thought about returning to UCLA to finish my degree. A 27-year old on a university campus would not be weird. Or I could go to work for Dennis Prager. He said he might have a job for me. Or I could become an actor or write a book. The possibilities seemed endless (beyond my significant limitations of exhaustion).
As the months rolled by, I felt my options dwindle. I couldn’t articulate what was going on. I just felt my life getting smaller. I saw that I would not be on the same level as my peers for much longer because they were all getting established in careers and family. Within six weeks, I learned I wasn’t getting the job with Dennis Prager. Then I realized I did not want to return to UCLA to study Economics. So I started going on acting and modeling casting calls and I got hooked on the Hollywood culture. At the same time, I was having a ball exploring every type of Judaism. I felt like there was a significant conflict between these two worlds.
One significant parting of the roads that I faced was my sex life. Whatever I chose to do with that would send my life in two different directions. If I chose to contain myself, the best way to live the monogamous life was serious religion. If I chose not to contain myself, I could wander indefinitely. I was having a ball having a ball but I sensed that my promiscuity was incompatible with my best interests (marriage and children and career and commitments like a mortgage). Without consciously choosing balling over non-balling, I kept balling and though my actual promiscuity ended by the summer of 1995, the fantasy of promiscuity dominated my life for the next 17 years and with it a mounting dread that my life was going unlived.
The most intense Judaic experiences I had in LA in my first three years were at Aish HaTorah. Orthodox Judaism did not seem as rational to me as non-Orthodox forms of Judaism, but it moved me more deeply. I resonated with Orthodoxy in ways I couldn’t articulate and did not expect but there were feelings of joy for me that were only available inside the dance. For my first six years in LA, I kept a foot in both camps, but by the summer of 2000, after a trip to Israel, I went in all in on Orthodoxy. That choice narrowed my life options.
By the time Covid rolled around in 2020, I was simultaneously happy with a small life and yearning for something more.
One great thing I learned from ten years of therapy and 12-step programs is that I always have more options than I think.
I want to run to daylight. At the same time, I recognize the force of some sort of ratchet in my psyche that wants to separate me from others so I can live alone in my delusions.
It’s 2022 and I’m nearly 56. I’m happy but I’m living small and there’s got to be more for me. My default setting is towards isolation and I have to keep making concrete choices against my grain to go social. So most every Sunday these days, I explore LA again like it’s 1994.
03:00 Styx vs Richard Spencer – Internet Anonymity, https://odysee.com/@KillstreamKlips:4/killstream-klip-styx-vs-spencer-internet-anonymity
09:00 Richard takes things seriously
28:00 The porn question
35:00 What does it mean to be a Christian? https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/donna-summer-facts/story?id=16370574
42:00 The Buffalo shooter had a toothache, https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1527713922928852993
47:30 Riding the World’s Biggest Waves, Without a Surfboard, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/19/sports/big-wave-bodysurfing.html
56:00 Why You Should Not Use Ivermectin to Treat or Prevent COVID-19, https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/why-you-should-not-use-ivermectin-treat-or-prevent-covid-19
59:30 What’s the future for non-Haredi Jews in the diaspora? https://twitter.com/jh_swanson/status/1527813423068860419
1:00:30 Richard reflects on his debate with Styx, https://radixjournal.substack.com/p/the-great-replacement?s=r#details
1:02:30 Stripper says we’re in recession, she checks market to decide if it is worth going in to work
1:06:20 Richard says Ann Coulter, Peter Brimelow, Tucker Carlson only offer extreme whining
1:07:00 The class issue
1:10:00 Richard Against “Free Speech”, https://radixjournal.substack.com/p/against-free-speech?s=r#details
1:24:00 Richard Spencer on America First, Nick Fuentes, The Alt-Right, His Shortcomings, and More, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4k5Dv74rTJ4
1:36:00 Is America First imploding? Friendship nationalism
00:00 Tucker Carlson critiques Biden’s embrace of the WHO
04:00 Fact Check: The World Health Organization Will NOT Have Authority To Lock Down All of America, https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2022/05/fact-check-who-will-not-have-authority-to-lock-down-all-of-america.html
06:00 COVID-19 Shows Why United Action Is Needed for More Robust International Health Architecture. https://www.who.int/news-room/commentaries/detail/op-ed—covid-19-shows-why-united-action-is-needed-for-more-robust-international-health-architecture
07:30 Public health requires us to combat misinformation
09:00 Is Biden Preparing To Give Sovereignty of US to WHO?, https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/biden-usa-sovereignty-who/
15:00 Constitutional Dictatorship: Its Dangers and Its Design, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=130386
17:00 Illegal immigration into Texas
23:00 Watergate: REGIME CHANGE, AMERICAN STYLE, https://www.firstthings.com/article/2022/06/regime-change-american-style
25:40 New House bill to monitor Joe Biden’s critics
45:20 $40 Billion for Ukraine
52:30 Banging Beyond The Binary – Philly Teacher Conference
56:00 Creating a new Republican elite, https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/towards-a-republican-counter-elite/
1:11:30 Dinesh D’Souza DEMANDS Public Apology From Tucker Carlson
1:25:40 Milleniall Woes comments on Richard Spencer
00:00 Tucker Carlson on the inflation threat
10:00 LAT: Laguna Woods shooting highlights growing tensions between Taiwan and China, https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2022-05-18/laguna-woods-shooting-taiwan-china-relations
14:00 Ann Coulter on nutters who believe in the great replacement, https://anncoulter.com/2022/05/18/here-are-the-nutcases-who-believe-in-replacementx/
21:00 Amy Wax on America’s racial craziness, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/amy-wax-paul-gottfried-on-cancel-culture-society-it/id1494171864?i=1000513719467
24:00 What is American identity? https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=138772
28:00 Elon Musk plans to vote Republican
35:00 How to get your Instagram account back
37:30 Triggered by Steve Sailer, https://www.takimag.com/article/triggered/
47:00 Keith Woods: Factions Of The Dissident Right, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VgqovWGTNk
55:00 I am ANGRY about POLITICS on TWITTER DOT COM!
58:00 Racist violence against Asians, https://www.unz.com/isteve/wp-racist-violence-against-asians-is-out-of-control/
1:00:30 Why do we have mass shooters?
1:12:00 “Human Trafficking” and a “Casting Couch” In the “Dissident Right”, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wc6xWGgq_0
1:36:00 Columbia Shuttle Disaster, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Columbia_disaster
1:40:00 The Politics of Expertise, https://www.amazon.com/Politics-Expertise-Stephen-P-Turner/dp/1138929638
* The road to recovery
* Our Problems Are Not Our Problems, They’re Just Symptoms Of Deeper Problems
* With or without you
* I’m Dysfunctional, You’re Dysfunctional: The Recovery Movement and Other Self-Help
* Sham: How the Self-Help Movement Made America Helpless
* Bypass your self-destructive tendencies
* A life that works
* Bringing souls out of hiding
02:00 Tucker Carlson plays clips from Democrats celebrating replacement migration
28:40 The Buffalo Shooting and Migration Replacement, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXDiDpxmVMY
18:00 ‘I lied to them for months’: Buffalo shooting suspect kept plans from family, he wrote, https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2022/05/17/payton-gendron-parents-buffalo-shooting/
40:00 Gray rocking to repel narcissists, https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/health-wellness/2022/05/17/gray-rocking-communication-technique-repel-narcissists/9729436002/
43:00 PolitiFact Is to Fact What Pravda Was to Truth, https://dennisprager.com/column/politifact-is-to-fact-what-pravda-was-to-truth/
47:00 Let’s spent $2 trillion for war against Russia
48:00 We’re now at war in Somalia
50:00 Amy Wax on Cotto-Gottfried, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/amy-wax-paul-gottfried-on-cancel-culture-society-it/id1494171864?i=1000513719467
54:00 How to Be Adventurous Again – It’s time to restore excitement to your life, https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-to-be-adventurous-again-11652784521?mod=hp_featst_pos4
1:08:00 So You Want To Be A Famous Content Creator…, https://jasonpargin.substack.com/p/so-you-want-to-be-a-famous-content?s=r
1:19:00 Resisting Temptation and Self-Serving Psychology, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Psl6hQ8hGuc
1:22:00 Elliott Blatt joins
1:59:30 Mickey Kaus hates rabbis – because they self-select for people who like the sound of their own voice, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74eBgUpd5lA
2:02:40 AmericaFirst.Live Is A Scam! Fuentes Lied! Patrick Casey Was Right!, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgDu-JD_M7g
00:00 Tucker Carlson reacts to Buffalo massacre
25:30 Richard wants to be the bride at every wedding, the corpse at every funeral
29:00 Can only Richard save us from racist mass murderers?
32:00 Mass shootings are rarely partisan and ideological, https://www.outsidethebeltway.com/mass-shootings-ideology-and-mental-illness/
38:15 Pro abortion protests
48:00 How Love Changes Your Brain, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/15/well/mind/love-brain.html
59:00 Do Jews/Anglicans/Japanese have a plan?
1:00:00 A vision for you, https://radixjournal.substack.com/p/race-baiting?s=r
1:09:00 REM Theory Part #2: The Christian Question
1:23:50 The Christianity Question
1:39:00 A bloke who works in a hospice says Jews have the least faith
1:45:00 Buffalo shooting suspect wrote of plans 5 months ago, messages show, https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2022/05/16/buffalo-shooting-previous-supermarket-confrontation/
1:48:00 Commentary on Buffalo shooting, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=143415
1:50:00 Center for Study of Violence paper finds violent video game effects across cultures, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=143421
1:52:00 Violent Video Games and Automatic Pilot, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=143410
AMES, Iowa — It’s not just American kids who become more aggressive by playing violent video games. A new study — presented last month at the inaugural seminar sponsored by Iowa State University’s Center for the Study of Violence — showed effects of violent video games on aggression over a 3-6 month period in children from Japan as well as the United States…
Anderson began collaborating with Japanese researchers on the study several years ago when he visited Japan to give an invited address at the International Simulation and Gaming Association convention. He says Japan’s cultural differences with the U.S. made it attractive for the comparison studies.
“The culture is so different and their overall violence rate is so much lower than in the U.S.,” Anderson said. “The argument has been made — it’s not a very good argument, but it’s been made by the video game industry — that all our research on violent video game effects must be wrong because Japanese kids play a lot of violent video games and Japan has a low violence rate.
“By gathering data from Japan, we can test that hypothesis directly and ask, ‘Is it the case that Japanese kids are totally unaffected by playing violent video games?’ And of course, they aren’t,” he said. “They’re affected pretty much the same way American kids are.”
“It is important to realize that violent video games do not create schools shooters,” Gentile said. “They create opportunities to be vigilant for enemies, to practice aggressive ways of responding to conflict and to see aggression as acceptable. In practical terms, that means that when bumped in the hallway, children begin to see it as hostile and react more aggressively in response to it. Violent games are certainly not the only thing that can increase children’s aggression, but these studies show that they are one part of the puzzle in both America and Japan.”
