{"id":98100,"date":"2016-06-05T15:18:39","date_gmt":"2016-06-05T23:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=98100"},"modified":"2016-06-05T15:22:17","modified_gmt":"2016-06-05T23:22:17","slug":"who-made-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=98100","title":{"rendered":"Who Made Los Angeles?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnRiversToo\">The Twitter wisdom of John Rivers<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>* LA was built by Midwestern Germanic engineers moving there during &#038; after WW2. The best of the best &#8211; and they got crushed by demographics.<\/p>\n<p>* There are few places on the planet more worth fighting for than Southern California. It&#8217;s literally perfect weather.<\/p>\n<p>* White Flight is the only form of Ethnic Cleansing where we blame the victims.<\/p>\n<p>* Ppl say whites are gonna &#8220;fight back&#8221; someday. I dunno. They got dispossessed in California without much of a fight.<\/p>\n<p>* Rather than fight for SoCal, whites said, screw this perfect weather, I&#8217;m moving to a desert. Pack it up, kids, we&#8217;re movin&#8217; to Phoenix!<\/p>\n<p>* Point is, America&#8217;s big. Whites got kicked outta Detroit, kicked outta LA, they&#8217;ll probably just keep running. Plenty o room in the Dakotas.<\/p>\n<p>* Point is, America&#8217;s big. Whites got kicked outta Detroit, kicked outta LA, they&#8217;ll probably just keep running. Plenty o room in the Dakotas.<\/p>\n<p>* I&#8217;ve never seen an adult physically cower when a black stranger walks in the room. Seen that plenty with kids.<\/p>\n<p>* Every Indian I know tells me caste doesn&#8217;t matter anymore, but their family is in the top one.<\/p>\n<p>* If we observe the same behavior over and over in other species, we assume it&#8217;s a natural instinct, an inborn trait. But not for humans.<\/p>\n<p>* Girls calling each other sluts when they hit puberty is probably an evolved trait, too. I mean, it happens like clockwork.<\/p>\n<p>* Mild homophobia is clearly an evolved trait. For obvious reasons.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s why we have indoctrination programs now to beat it out of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Twitter wisdom of John Rivers: * LA was built by Midwestern Germanic engineers moving there during &#038; after WW2. 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