BurdensomeCount
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The neighborhood of Hampstead is just at present exercised with a series of events which seem to run on lines parallel to those of what was known to the writers of headlines and "The Kensington Horror," or "The Stabbing Woman," or "The Woman in Black." During the past two or three days several cases have occurred of young children straying from home or neglecting to return from their playing on the Heath. In all these cases the children were too young to give any properly intelligible account of themselves, but the consensus of their excuses is that they had been with a "bloofer lady." It has always been late in the evening when they have been missed, and on two occasions the children have not been found until early in the following morning. It is generally supposed in the neighborhood that, as the first child missed gave as his reason for being away that a "bloofer lady" had asked him to come for a walk, the others had picked up the phrase and used it as occasion served. This is the more natural as the favorite game of the little ones at present is luring each other away by wiles. A correspondent writes us that to see some of the tiny tots pretending to be the"bloofer lady" is supremely funny. Some of our caricaturists might, he says, take a lesson in the irony of grotesque by comparing the reality and the picture. It is only in accordance with general principles of human nature that the "bloofer lady" should be the popular role at these al fresco performances.
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After the uprising of the 17th of June
The Secretary of the Writers' Union
Had leaflets distributed on the Stalinallee
Which stated that the people
Had squandered the confidence of the government
And could only win it back
By redoubled work. Would it not in that case
Be simpler for the government
To dissolve the people
And elect another?
The ongoing riots in the UK and the senseless destruction they have caused remind me of Bertold Brecht's famous poem he wrote in response to the 1953 East Germany strikes. While Brecht, himself a communist sympathizer, initially intended his poem to be a satirical polemic about heavy handed work quotas it recently struck me that he might have been more correct than even he had anticipated.
The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines "to dissolve" as "to become dissipated or decomposed". After seeing the behaviour of the rioters right now as well as the rhetoric that has been coming from that class of people over the last few decades one must wonder if the right solution isn't really to dissolve the people. By this I don't mean immersing them in sulphuric acid until dissolution but rather dissipating their population density as a fraction of the whole country until there is no longer enough of a critical proportion of people which can light the fuse so to speak. There's a reason why even though there are far more "natives" in London than Sunderland the violence in the former has been more chickenhearted and more easily put down.
These rioters are generally low human capital people who take out a lot more over the course of their life than they put in. It's not scientists and lawyers you see giving the middle finger to police officers and pushing garbage bins in their general direction. I think it is perfectly fair to say that as a group they are best characterized as failures who have disappointed their betters and what's more don't even think there is anything wrong with their current state and behaviour. They are even confused and disoriented about the flashpoint of the current disorder: unlike what their prejudices told them the person who killed the three girls in Southport was not a fresh off the boat Muslim migrant but rather a black Welsh 17 year old child who had been born in the UK having a schizo moment. The true facts about the stabbing coming out did not placate their desire for an orgy of violence in the least.
Furthermore they live off the tax contributions of people like me and instead of being thankful for what they are given they blame us for making the country worse and want to bleed us even more. I like to quip that if the majority of people want to see a human parasite they would be better served by looking in the mirror instead of the Times Rich List and I think that applies perfectly here.
Another good example of a city that had some riots is Manchester; when the thugs tried their trade there they were met with swift counter protests bigger than what they could muster and were forced to disperse, leading to no public damage. It appears that the violence only really gets out of hand in the minor cities where the concentration of "natives" is too high. To prevent future riots the obvious solution is to reduce this concentration or namely, to dissolve the people.
Whenever there is dissolution there must be a solvent. And what would make the best solvent here? The usual answer provided by the left is something like "integration" where rich and well off people are asked to live amongst the lower classes in the hope that they will have a civilizing effect on the poors. Normally this is done by mandating the building of housing intended for poor people very close to housing occupied by the well off. While this may work at preventing tantrums from being thrown in the first place it won't do very much to quell them if they happen: a bunch of effete button pushers (Note: I count myself as among this group) doesn't put the fear of God into anyone. They would never have the guts to go up to the rioters and do this (choice moment: the rioter responding with 2 fingers when asked how many brain cells he has).
Instead the best solvent you can get is someone who will also stand up to debauchery when it rears its ugly head: migrants who are unafraid of giving it just as good as they get (see above video). And what's more, unlike the low tier "natives" who Great Britain is saddled with because they were born here the non-natives are all people who were either themselves selected by the UK as being positive for the country or descendants of such people which means they still have a portion of the net positive genetics (I'm ignoring refugees here because they make up a very small proportion of total migrants and something tells me the rioters of today wouldn't be happy if illegal migration stopped but legal migration continued at the same levels as today).
In fact a more reasonable word for these migrants would be "elects", since they are the chosen. Each and every single legal migrant in the UK has been collectively chosen as being worthy of being allowed into the country. They should be accorded the respect such an honour deserves instead of being told that they don't belong here. In fact the reason so many of them were chosen in the first place is because the "natives" have continued to disappoint the real decision makers day in day out for the last however many decades where importing so many migrants was the only choice left to keep a stable state going: firstly refusing to take care of older family members and foisting them onto the state and then refusing to have enough children if they're net contributors/having too many children if they aren't net contributors. Any attempt to talk sense to these people about how a welfare state with sub replacement birth rates and no migration is unsustainable was (and is) met with fingers in ears and "na-na-na can't hear you". Is it any surprise that with such a badly behaved lower class the elites decided to do away with them like you do with a bad employee and get someone new?
And we shouldn't forget that many of the migrants had far worse starting conditions than the gentlemen throwing bricks but through industry and positive sum contributions to human flourishing have managed to make something of themselves, only to be looked at enviously by the people who previously have been appropriating the wealth of the successful and now want to get even more at the elects' expense.
So yes, the elite class in the Western world has taken Bertold Brecht's words to heart. When confronted with unruly and disruptive lower classes it really is simpler for them to dissolve the people and elect another. I for one am looking forward to the consummation of this process; we'll probably end up with fewer riots at least.
BurdensomeCount
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11mo ago
One thing I've always liked about Macron how willing he is to put the common man in his place and his actions over the last month have only solidified this view. A substantial minority of the French threw a far right tantrum in the EU elections and they are going to be punished for it with total government deadlock over the next year at least. Here's hoping next time around they see sense (the pessimist in me knows though that it'll take at least a few more rounds of "treatment" before they behave).
Who gives a shit what color Tolkien's world was or wasn't. It could have been purple with green spots and the myth he created would be just as great (yes I know he wanted to create a new mythology for England, at that time populated by white people, but characters in myth need not resemble the people who created it, pray tell which Germans resembled the dragon Fafnir?)
BurdensomeCount
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6mo ago
Amazing. My (already high) opinion of musk has gone up two notches. These people are just as bad as the woke in trying to prevent humanity from achieving true Greatness. The woke were completely right that these people didn't dislike DEI, they only disliked who it was used to benefit, and btw, poor Blacks and Hispanics are a lot more sympathetic than by all accounts overpaid American white tech workers. Even the longshore men union is more sympathetic when it comes to asking for gibs than American tech workers (yes the US is richer than other developed countries but the wage premium American tech workers command is massive compared to just as well trained tech workers in the UK for example). Borders are meant to provide national security, they aren't meant to be a DEI scheme for those who're already gonna live 99th percentile lives when averaged out over all of humanity.
Interesting, my priors were very strongly on "black teens from da hood try and swindle bike from pregnant woman" when I saw the video. I freely and openly admit that I was wrong.
I guess I should update away from them and towards the opposite, sometimes that pregnant white female trying to leverage her "oppression" really is the unreasonable one there.
BurdensomeCount
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1yr ago
Now do you guys see why I want to add 100 million more poor third worlders to Europe? Progressive modernity can not be convinced it is wrong, it has to fail, and fail spectacularly. And what better way to make it fail than giving it the exact same things it wants and says are good and will lead to a better life for everyone, only to have their belief system crumble due to an unstoppable force of human social nature that they have spent decades trying to convince everyone (including themselves) does not exist.
Whites pay significantly more in than they take over their lifetimes
Is this before or after you include the imputed damages of tens of thousands of dollars each year they cause by hogging desirable accommodation near jobs after they retire and forcing actually productive working age people to live further away and waste time on commutes (or alternatively pay through the nose to live a pretty shitty life centrally)?
BurdensomeCount
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2yr ago
She tried to claim the bike, even though the black teens were using it. The fact that it had been redocked doesn't mean the teens were done with it as any reasonable observer could see they intended to take it out again very very shortly (they were even sitting on it as a further signal that it was claimed!). The fact that the bike makers never intended the repeated 45 free minutes trick to work but didn't do anything to patch this exploit is a lapse of their judgement, not a shortfall in goodness from the black teens.
This case is no different to you leaving your stuff at an arcade machine for two minutes because you need to go get more tokens from the main desk. Even though you aren't playing a game at this exact moment, leaving your stuff is a very strong signal that you are still using the machine. If someone came and started a new game in your absence I would absolutely say they were in the wrong.
It was OK for the women to ask the teens to give up the bike as she needed it too, but the prerogative on what to do with the bike lies with the teenagers as they were using it, no different to a case where someone had asked them for the bike while they were out riding in the street. Once the teenagers had said no, the woman should have gracefully bowed out instead of snatching it from under their noses and claiming her "oppression" gave her a greater right to the bike than the people who were using it.
BurdensomeCount
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6mo ago
Banned for 3 days.
Oh come on. I post 10x milder takes from the other side and get banned for 90 days instead.
The Chinese may be smart but they're uninspired robots was always finest grade copium. It turns out that in the end whites as a race are certifiably mid and they don't take the news of this very well.
EDIT: I protest this ban. I sincerely mean what I say here and don't think calling whites mid as a race is even an insult, it would only be perceived as such by someone who puts particular pride in the race they were born into by chance. Had I said blacks as a race are mid nobody would have raised even a peep (and fwiw, my opinion of whites is higher than my opinion of blacks).
I'm not joking or trolling here. Seriously considering decamping off to Twitter at this moment (would have been Bluesky because I think the algorithm there is better, but alas, like for lots of other things, the worst thing about Bsky is the people there).
Also:
It turns out that in the end whites as a race are certifiably mid and they don't take the news of this very well.
Really proving the point of my statement with that ban.
BurdensomeCount
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11mo ago
The 2010 rioters were gang members and other assorted types. You won't find me defending them at all, they have a honor based culture and the solution with them is public flogging and total humiliation until they become clowns in the eyes of their peers. That rioting was caused by bad selection policies used by the UK in the past labouring under the usual blank slate delusion ("if we just treat them well they'll turn out no different to high tier humans") and I wouldn't recommend electing those sorts of people ever.
Fortunately countries now realize, at least for legal immigration purposes, that all human beings are not equal and are at least making some effort to select the ones likely to contribute vs not. I don't expect this to be an issue for future migration unless the UK degenerates to such a point that high tier migrants themselves pass on the UK for better destinations and we end up left with the dregs of society.
BurdensomeCount
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1yr ago
this is no more complex or innocent than casting white men as dumb losers and creeps who get humbled by Girlbosses and Smart-Dressed Blacks (who have good chemistry with Girlbosses) in commercials.
Well, when we have the western white right wing on a complete hair trigger to the point where using a stock photo of a Muslima is enough to trigger something that wouldn't be out of place at a Klan rally you do start to wonder where else they may be hallucinating about Chinese Robbers in commericals.
BurdensomeCount
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2yr ago
what is the name of the chap that killed Fafnir? What did he look like? What was his culture?
Seigfried killed Fafnir. He was described as tall and fair, but that is not the same as "white", plenty of Indians can be said to be fair as well. He almost certainly (if he had existed) was white though. His culture was Norse.
Fafnir was a Germanic flightless dragon, as you can probably tell, the concept came from Norse/Frankish tales.
I am not denying that Tolkien wrote LOTR to be a tale of the British Isles, however the culture he wrote it for is long dead now, modern white people are vestigial hangers on who have perverted the thing that Tolkien wanted to embellish and preserve until it became a crude mockery of itself. Modern whites can't claim that the butchering that has been going on affects them any more than it affects black people, and if they are complaining about the old culture itself being desecrated then we can safely say their own actions have caused far far more lasting and irreparable damage to it than any number of race swaps ever will.
BurdensomeCount
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2yr ago
What is the point of replacing Putin if our options are communist Putin or fascist Putin?
This is why I think current Russia is a lost cause for the world, little more than a gangrenous sore on planet Earth. The only real solution is complete and utter cultural eradication of "Russianness" until the current subjects of the federation are themselves left cursing very name of Rurik.
BurdensomeCount
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3d ago
Genuine applause for taking one for the team. I protest your ban as unjust silencing for stating true facts about the world, with your only crime being that your blade was too sharp and well honed. I stand with you in solidarity. Omnes pro uno.
BurdensomeCount
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6mo ago
What reason did you give them to?
This reason:
training them
It's almost certainly better to just fire low performing staff and get in high performing staff, even if they have to be paid more. American mediocrity has been given free reign for the last few decades and desperately needs to be put back into its place. Giving these people training just means they know more stuff, it doesn't fix the fundamental problem with them that they are mediocre. For that replacement is the only solution.
EDIT: Actually thinking more about it, training them so they leave of their own volition and go be mediocre at your competitors so you can then hire higher caliber humans may well be cheaper than redundancy etc. so maybe it's not so bad an idea after all...
BurdensomeCount
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11mo ago
I do not think white people are subhuman, most of my friends are white and so are some of the smartest people I know (far smarter than me). If anything I'd say the average white is better than the average non-white. However the difference is that the average white is here living the high life off my taxes while the average non-white is not.
his Muslim cohorts in Britain consume in services relative to the taxes they contribute
The Muslim cohorts in Britain right now are made up in large parts of the descendants of illiterate rural farmers. This is all due to poor selection policies of the UK in the past. I don't think they consume more in services than contribute any more than you'd expect of the descendants of illiterate rural farmers to do when placed in a welfare state.
These individuals are not "my people". Back home "my people" rule over them with an iron fist and keep these kinds in line, which is something the UK doesn't do and then acts shocked they go wild when all the restrictions placed on them to make them behave are removed.
Modern Muslim (non-refugee) immigration to the UK is no longer these types of people but rather mostly made up of middle class+ people who are going to have middle class+ kids and net contribute to society. That is what I am calling for more of, not more illiterate rural farmers.
BurdensomeCount
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1yr ago
You can't just blame black people for your own failures as a society. Enterococcus faecalis is a gut bacteria that all healthy humans have in our digestive tract. It helps keeping our gut healthy and is even used as a probiotic is some of those probiotic yoghurts etc. you can buy at the supermarket. However sometimes it leaks from the gut and gets into the human bloodsteam. Once there it wrecks havoc on you and if left untreated, eventually kills you.
Just because E. faecalis kills you if it gets into your bloodstream does not mean it isn't a "good bacteria" to have if properly controlled. Much the same with black people, you can't blame them when your society is set up in such a way that brings out the worst in them (i.e. lets the bacteria into the bloodstream) and lets it run rampant (i.e. not treating the bloodstream infection) rather than the best in them (i.e. keeps the bacteria confined to the gut where it aids in digestion).
BurdensomeCount
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1yr ago
I am no fan of white people and even I think this is not right. There is no way this remark was targeted at any other category in that photo other than white. The photo is not "too perfect" for a stock image, it doesn't seem staged at all. The only good thing from this is that at least the racial animus isn't targeted towards minorities. Hopefully this is a good empathetic lesson for what they historically had to face in the past, and why that was bad and wrong.
BurdensomeCount
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18d ago
Unfortunately
BurdensomeCount
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1mo ago
Norman_Rockwell_Freendom_Of_Speech.jpg
God I hate that painting. Rockwell wasn't even a good artist btw., unfortunately people have only really seen that particular work by him and his wider artworks have that uncanny valley feeling to them...
BurdensomeCount
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6mo ago
You're not taking into account that these people aren't learning new skills on their own, it's due to the hedge fund's efforts and support that they learn stuff. And how do they repay this generosity (remember, the hedge fund could just have summarily dismissed them which based on "these people have no idea how a domain controller works" basically seems like the right decision)? They leave as soon as they have new skills so they can go off and be mediocre in another higher paying job.
BurdensomeCount
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11mo ago
My social media is full of leftists who are openly saying that they wish Trump was killed, and they're not going to pretend otherwise
Time for some reportmaxxing? Please post the receipts and trophies if you do go for it, I'm sure we can all do with a laugh here.
BurdensomeCount
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1yr ago
Pointwise vs Uniform "badness"
Note: This post assumes the axiom that some people are better than others, and that we can to some degree of accuracy say whether someone is a net contributor to the world or not.
Often when it is pointed out that people who are in group X are a net negative to society (e.g. low paid cleaners who consume a lot more in benefits and general wear and tear on public goods like roads than they put in) others are quick to point out that actually these people are the lifeblood of the country and if they suddenly disappeared the country would collapse within a week (e.g. truck drivers refuse to work, thereby causing collapse as food doesn't get to where it needs to be etc.). This is then followed by the conclusion that therefore these people are not bad for society but rather good for it, and so we shouldn't complain about them at all.
I am completely convinced that they are correct that the country would indeed collapse in short order if truck drivers went on strike, cleaners stopped working etc. However this fact is a statement about the group as a whole, instead of individual members of it. For example: If a factory needs 5 people to work the machines but union regulations require them to hire 25 people instead of 5 then yes, each and every single member of the group of "workers" is a parasite sucking on the teat of the group of people who are "factory owners", even though the "factory owners" need the group "workers". In this case it is not the individuals who are indispensable to society, but rather the group as a whole, and the example above shows, it's possible for the group to be a net positive while every single individual in it is a net negative.
Of course not all groups of people are like this. The group of people who are criminals is a net negative to society full stop (restrict criminals to those who commit non-state sanctioned violence+thieves if your worried about how exactly criminal is defined). The individual members of this group are a net negative to society and the whole group is a net negative too. This is probably why "criminals bad" is a much less controversial statement compared to "street cleaners bad" even though someone who earns enough to be a net contributor plus does some light burglary on the side is probably much less of a drain on public welfare.
To be clear here: the people who are members of a net positive category but themselves are net negative are still those who society would be better off without on the margins. And since all economic decisions are made on the margin it is perfectly valid to say that ceteris paribus the world as a whole would be better off without them in expectation.
I think it makes sense to distinguish these two types of a group being bad for society. Firstly we have pointwise badness as an individual which we define as a person who is on their own a net negative to society ceteris paribus holding everything else the same (i.e. we remove them and just them from society and ask if the result if better or worse in expectation). From this we can define pointwise badness for groups where a group is given this label if most of its members are pointwise bad as individuals (note: here we depart from the mathematical definition, every group has it's saints, I'm sure there are some net positive criminals so we don't require every single member of the group to be a net negative).
As examples the group of Criminals are pointwise bad for society, equally street cleaners are pointwise bad for society because they are easily replaceable and consume more than they output.
Then you have uniform badness, which is when the group as a whole is a negative influence on the world and if we could somehow Thanos snap every single member of it away the rest of society would be better off. Criminals are uniformly bad for the world, while street cleaners, truck drivers and steel mill workers are not. Note that uniform badness sort of implies pointwise badness in the real world (not exactly: a group with 10 good people but 1 Literally Hitler is uniformly bad for the world, while it wouldn't be pointwise bad, the Literally Hitler is pointwise bad as an individual, but none of the others are) much more than pointwise badness implies uniform badness.
There are lots of pointwise bad groups but much much fewer uniformly bad groups. Generally when people are talking about how members of a group are bad, especially when they want something to be done they're talking about pointwise badness rather than uniform badness.
Yes, I am aware it is a rude gesture (dating back to the time just after Agincourt when the English archers stuck up their two fingers at the French to show they would continue to shoot at them; likely the person who made this gesture wouldn't know this, I'd be surprised if they could name even the war in which Agincourt happened), however that doesn't mean it's any less stupid to do this when there is an alternative reasonable interpretation that makes you look very stupid.
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