BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
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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BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
11mo ago
Amazing movie btw. The cinematography is next level. Highly recommended to everyone!
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
11mo ago
On giving parents votes for their children
One idea that people here have mentioned a couple of times has been to give parents a vote for each underage child they have. The more I think about it, the better this proposal seems, and not only just that, but almost everyone, no matter where they are on the political spectrum should find something in it they support.
Firstly on the logistics front this is very simple to implement. We already have a database of who is the legal parent of who, and whether or not they are emancipated from their parents. Every non-emancipated child's parents get a ballot paper in a different colour to the standard one (say a green ballot paper vs white for adults) which is worth half of a normal vote. So overall both parents of a child get half an extra vote that they can use to vote as they wish. Then we can just count the votes after the election, giving 1/2 weighting to the green ballots. If you have 4 children you are legally the parent of (and responsible for), then you get 1 white and 4 green ballots every election, totally to 3 full votes. Any emancipated children get their full vote, as they are already considered adults for many other things.
This method removes the argument that children shouldn't get a vote because they aren't well developed enough to choose themselves what they want. We already trust parents to act in their child's best interest for many things, asking parents to vote for them as well isn't much of a stretch beyond this. It also rewards parents for sticking with their children and raising them well, as you only get to vote on their behalf if you accept responsibility for them.
The consequences of such a policy would be very positive. Firstly the greater political power handed to parents over non-parents would lead to policies favouring those with children, which would help increase the abysmal birth rates of many western countries as having a child becomes more beneficial/less of a burden. Parents are generally considered as having more stake in the long term future of society too, so giving greater political power to them would shift society towards more long term thinking too, which is sorely lacking at the moment.
Parents tend to be more conservative than childless people, controlling for all the usual factors. Giving them extra voting power would almost certainly shift the Overton window rightwards. Expect to see greater focus on tackling crime, nicer neighbourhoods and better schools if such a policy comes to pass.
At the moment the age of the median voter is significantly higher than the average age of the population as whole. This leads to greater emphasis being placed on the concerns of the old disproportionately, see for example the UK where attacking the entitlements of the old (pensions, high house prices etc.) is effectively a no-go area, as whichever party does this is certain to take a drubbing at the next election. Giving children the vote via their parents would fix this issue, the age of the median voter (controlled for vote power) would come down a fair bit, thus shifting political focus away from the concerns of the old towards the concerns of those of childbearing age.
Equally at the moment in many western countries due to demographic differences in age cohorts minorities have significantly less voting power than you would expect given their share of the population. This is due to minorities being disproportionately minors (pun not intended) who don't get the vote. Thus current political focus is disproportionately focused on placating whites. Such a change would hand more power to minorities in the country allowing them to push for policies that are best for themselves and their children, rather than just what white progressives say are best for themselves and their children. Doing this basically just pushes the voting demographics of a country forward by 18 years, it's going to happen anyways, might as well just accept it now even if you are white.
And children themselves probably benefit the most from such a policy. Parents generally put great emphasis on giving the best possible start to their children, and many already vote accordingly to what they believe is going to be best for them. Amplifying their voices relative to the childless will probably lead to these children entering a world more suited for them when they reach adulthood than presently.
Basically no matter whether you are conservative or liberal, white or a minority, young or old, giving votes to the parents of children is a policy that has something to offer you.
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
11mo ago
I highly doubt they'll commit to spending hundreds of thousands or millions on more children so they can cast an extra half vote each in three or four consecutive general elections before the kids turn 18.
Oh I absolutely agree they aren't going to be having more children because of this policy directly giving them an extra half vote. However once this policy has been in place for a few cycles politics/society will have shifted to be more welcoming towards parents/more hostile towards the childless (since politicians play towards groups they can get votes from, and parents will be a more important group under this policy), and that may well encourage such people to have an extra child or so.
In the UK this would probably see a big swing to the left and to Labour, since the big age boundary where people start voting Conservative is around 45-55, and most parents with children aged 0-18 are below this age (average age of parent at birth - for all births, not first child - is 32-33 in the UK).
In the short term yes, but in the long term conservatives would be forced to court the young, unlike now where they are focusing almost exclusively on the old. This would lead to much better outcomes for people aged 20-40 as both parties would be vying strongly for their votes.
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
11mo ago
Oh, that's definitely an issue with the policy, but I think the other benefits outweigh this drawback by a big amount. Plus poorer people are less likely to vote (probably still true even if you amplify their voting power somewhat) so I don't expect the harm from this to be particularly high, while the benefits from the other things are substantial. You can't have everything 100% unfortunately.
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
11mo ago
LMAO, that's an excellent comeback.
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
11mo ago
Property owners already have disproportionate power here in the UK. See all the restrictions on building more to preserve the value of their assets. Giving multiple votes to property owners just stimulates further demand while doing nothing to fix supply issues, while at the same time encourage political parties to suck up to them to the detriment of those who don't own their own place yet.
since no one should want to surrender public policy to the whims of crackhead welfare moms and the 7 children that survived the abortion clinic.
Such people don't vote very much. And anyways the UK just introduced ID requirement legislations to vote that serve to discourage the voting of such people even more (a policy I absolutely agree with). There are other ways to handle the potential dysgenic effects.
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
11mo ago
This policy can be seen as "one vote per natural person full stop" plus parents having the custody of their children's votes where they are expected to vote in their children's best interest, no different to how we expect parents to do many other things in their children's best interests at the moment.
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
11mo ago
The expected monetary value of an additional vote is very, very low.
Oh the additional value of a single vote is effectively zero I agree. The point is not that the additional half vote incentives children. The point is that giving votes to parents makes them a stronger voting block, thus making politicians pander to their needs more than they do at the moment and society slowly changes to one that is better for children/worse for those without children than it is at the moment, and that is what incentivises more children.
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
11mo ago
It's not the poorest who'll propose and enact these policies, but rather politicians. Making politicians pander more to parents than they currently do is probably a good thing. Now they could decide to pander to the poorest as a proxy for getting the extra votes parents are given, but why do that when you can be more effective and directly pander to the parents instead?
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
11mo ago
· Edited 11mo ago
He’s not a troll, the deeply ingrained hostility towards non-muslims is entirely genuine.
I have no hostility towards non-Muslims. Most of my friends are non-Muslims and I support them living the lives they wish to live. It is not my business to meddle in their affairs, all I ask in return is that they don't meddle in mine.
who say democratization when they mean islamization
Oh God no, Islamization is 100% a bad thing. Like Aristotle I support a happy middle. Western countries have become too godless and need to move back, however most Islamic countries are too Islamic for the modern world and stifling towards those of other faiths as well as many Muslims (including myself) too.
9/11, or jews.
9/11 was bad and it is good the perpetrators got punished and I hope they suffer in hellfire for their sin. This is the 21st century, we do not need to conquer the west with violence, we'll do it with love instead (by having more children than you).
Jews are great for humanity if you ask me. I've had almost completely positive interactions with the Ashkenazi Jews I've had the pleasure to meet. If the Arab Palestinians had control of the land of Israel it would almost certainly be a worse place than it is today in the hands of competent Jews. Basically I consider the Israel to be the only competent state in the ME and competence is something I generally want to see more of in our world. I am unabashedly, 100% pro Israel. If the world was ran by Jews it would be in a far better state than it is at the moment.
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
11mo ago
· Edited 11mo ago
about apostates, the place of unbelievers in society, the ‘law of god’ versus law of man
Apostasy is fine, sad but fine. Belief can not and should not be compelled. I'm very very secularized as a person, to the point that compared to my brethren back home I'm practically irreligious (I don't pray 5 times a day, I weak silk and gold, I dance etc.).
Unbelievers have a place in society just as much as anyone else does. An Islamic society should be structured so that being a Muslim is easy, it should not be structured in a way that makes the lives of non-Muslims hard.
To quote Ambrose, "while in Rome, do as the Roman do". Hence while I am in the west I follow the laws of the west, even though they are not my preferred laws (btw, OG Sharia, is also not my preferred social system) and ask others of my faith to do so as well. Naturally I think some of your laws should be changed, but I wish to have them changed through your system for updating laws, namely democracy (much as I dislike it, it's how things are done in your country) rather than violence, hence my support for my people having more children in the west (conversely back home I'm the opposite, I'm like "stop having kids you idiots, condoms exist"; different social and political realities in diferent countries).
Muslim resentment towards the country they choose to live in really stands out.
I would not say I'm resentful at all, I think I have the mentality of a conqueror far more than that of a slave, here to beat you at your own game (democracy) and then rule over what is left. Not personally ruling over your people, I'm too fickle and easily distracted for that, but our culture ruling over yours. I have a very very internal locus of control, I don't believe I am a ward of fate at all, bur that that we make our own luck. The "resentment" is just a tactic that works well on progressives and other assorted whites for getting power for those who are like me, and so I do it and support my people doing it. Much like taking an Aspirin for a headache, I do it because it works, not because I am beholden to some Cult of the Willow. If it stopped working, I would stop doing it. You people only have yourselves to blame for the current state of affairs.
Supporting an al-sisi or muhammad bin salman?
MBS is probably the best thing to come out of Saudi Arabia for a long long time.
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
11mo ago
Wrong.
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
11mo ago
· Edited 11mo ago
Therefore you are under constant threat of death, like a slave. The lowest english prole, as a free man, has more control over his own life than you have. It’s acceptable to you to be lower than the elites, but intolerable to be lower than the scum. Hence, your resentment towards them in particular.
I am under constant threat of death of being run over by a bus every time I go out. It doesn't make me tremble in fear. Same with back home in Pakistan. Everyone there is under greater risk of dying in a suicide bomb attack, but people don't let that influence their lives due to how rare such attacks are as well as more pressing concerns.
so you try to convince yourself that apostasy is a ‘sad’ choice you rejected out of your own will.
No. I am an open an proud Freemason, and Freemasonry is also looked at very dimly in Islamic Countries (due to it providing an alternative social group, thus weakening the powers of the mullahs etc). People have been executed for mere membership of our fraternity in Muslim countries. And yet I talk openly about it. I am not a prole and arrange my affairs to minimize my contact with them, they have next to no power over people like me, a single extra peep out of them more than their allotment and the military snaps their spine like a toothpick (yes, this is the military where drinking whisky is basically a stereotype among the higher ranks). Some minor lone wolf attacks happen from time to time and might hurt us if they manage to get past our private security but where we have our house back home there are so many people like me that we have strength in numbers. The probability of me in particular or someone close to me getting hurt, even if I lived there full time, are minimal. Generally though the people that die in these attacks are other proles.
if you walked through the wrong neighorhood, pissed off the wrong people.
Back home we have connections to the "wrong people" you don't want to piss off. And the "wrong people" by and large tend to be more westernized than the unwashed masses. Yes there are parts of the country I would not visit, but that's nothing to do with my belief system, I wouldn't recommend visiting those areas even if you are merely wearing western clothing, that on its own is enough to mark you out.
But the thing is, I would never ever visit those areas in the first place, what ever would they have to offer me?
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
11mo ago
Hey, I would attend Wimbledon in July if I could get tickets easily at reasonable prices. Shit's wild at the moment, Wimbledon debentures (which guarantee you a seat for 5 years) trade for close to 6 figures...
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
11mo ago
I just kicked the absolute shit out of him, taking him by surprise and beating him within an inch of his life, or stabbing him before he could get a hand in me.
Killing human garbage of this sort is doing them an act of mercy they do not deserve. Beating them to within an inch of their lives is absolutely the morally correct choice here. Their lives are already not worth living, and making them continue stew in the suffering of their own making is small recompense for the suffering these people inflict upon other human beings. And before I am met with the refrain of "who are you to decide that another human's life is not worth living" know that I have the same conviction in my belief that these people's lives are not worth living as I have that the life of a battery hen is not worth living, save that at least a battery hen has a positive overall impact on the world.
To get Kabbalistic for a moment here, it is only through the harsh judgement of Gevurah towards those who are undeserving that the light of Chesed (mercy) is revealed. Unconditional mercy towards all merely condemns the innocent to suffer at the hands of the wicked. It ceases to even be merciful unless the restraining force of Gevurah is there to guide it. Here in this case it is the very policies of "mercy" towards the lumpenproles that is destroying society as well as in a cruel twist of fate hurting them too, for these people would almost all be better off inside an insane asylum.
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
11mo ago
SMH, all of Life seems to be one big P2W scheme...
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
11mo ago
So if you consciously reject Jesus, you will likely be judged unrighteous after death (though in the end only God knows, at best we can just speculate). But if you just wind up never having heard of him during your life, that isn't going to factor in. Instead you would be judged based on how much you tried to do right insofar as you were taught it, and what your conscience nudged you to do.
The reasonable course of action for all sensible Christians who truly believe this is to limit the world's knowledge of Christianity as much as possible and make talking about Jesus absolutely forbidden for every member of the faith, for anyone who tells someone who has never heard of Christ about him risks that person's eternal damnation.
No different to how the reasonable course of action if you're Buddhist is to embark on a crusade to eliminate all life. Can't reincarnate if there is nothing to reincarnate into...
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
11mo ago
Eh, we still have the "fuck you, dad" stage, it just manifests differently to how it does amongst western teenagers and gets snuffed out quicker because the consequences of not following good advice to study hard etc. are freely available for everyone to see on a daily basis and there is no welfare state to catch you if you cut off ties with family.
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
11mo ago
With an added bonus that if it proves too hard to return the money, one could just tell the Jews to take a hike
And then those same gentiles would be crying about why the Jews were charging them such high rates of interest, I know that "counterparty risk" was not a term at that time but this is just common sense.
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
11mo ago
· Edited 11mo ago
Yeah, the updated story isn't looking good for this dude. Sure the person he killed was not that many steps above scum, but he was still human. Good on him for turning himself in at least.
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
11mo ago
The third book is easily the best of the trilogy. Unless you read books for "the characters" there is no contest.
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
11mo ago
alle Menschen werden Brüdern
Fellow Beethoven fan?
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
11mo ago
How does Hanania consistently manage to not miss, time and time again?
BurdensomeCount
Singapore is the only country that learned the correct lessons from the British Empire.
11mo ago
Ethical Capital Partners, chaired by the not-very-Jewish sounding Rocco Meliambro, bought MindGeek.
Hmm... The name does not square with their actions...
Oh they will and they already do. White worship is very big there. Although in a way it's to be expected because the only whites they ever come into contact with tend to be managerial professional level+ as very very few other whites ever go to the country, and in comparison to unselected, somewhat stunted natives, such people are definitely more godlike.
Before coming to the west my (few) interactions with whites were all like this. The men were all tall and handsome, the women beautiful. It's hard to not feel inferior when the specimens you see are such and I definitely thought that whites were better than us as a class, going so far as to think of them as like eagles, superior to us crows. In the end an eagle, no matter how stunted, is an eagle, and a crow, no matter how beautiful, is still a crow.
Then I came to the west and found out that whites are just as much in the gutter (if not more) as ourselves...
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