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17d ago
I don’t believe it’s a strawman. Yes you want to say it’s a strawman because it improves your arguments and makes it more prestigious.
But Jews are just “rich white people” is the only thing that connects all the issues the left has promoted recently. Third Worlders versus successful white people. DEI, BLM, etc common thread is that they attack richer, better, smarter white people who win. Brown people without a white enemy to attack never matter to the left.
When you only promote issues where they hurt white men then it seems apparent you just want to hurt white men.
Now I will admit there are always some with pure intentions. Some black people in blm. In this issue you have some pure Islamists who want to do river to the sea Jews will be gone because they rightfully view Israel as historically Muslim land and want to reconquista which is their right. And are using American leftists white man haters for their Muslim goals.
Being Jewish and at a Synagogue isn’t quite the same thing as being black. I understand people’s desire to keep the culture of their parents buts it’s still a CHOICE to be Jewish and at a Synagogue. American Jewish money and votes are a big reason why Israel wins wars. Maybe just being at a Synagogue doesn’t make you complicit with Israel but at what point would you be part of their war effort? A person donating to AIPAC or more?
Now I am not saying any random person gets to take action here. But at some point you end up being a Nazi and a Frenchmen living in NYC in 1942 and you become 2 people who are actually in war living in a third country.
So I will asks you a question what actions by the Jewish Synagogue would make it not “Collective Guilt” for a man with family killed by Israel to shoot them?
To answer your final question would an American be justified shooting up a mosque who had losts a family member in 9/11? Potentially yes.
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18d ago
I think the perpetrator in that case….just read the article….did in fact have proper cause to shoot up a synagogue. He’s still my enemy. Most Jews do support Israel, many go on their free trip to Israel, vote for US guns to go to Israel, and the key point ISRAEL did kill a bunch of his family in Lebanon. Human groups do have conflict. He doesn’t have the state capacity to go win a war and remove Israel. This isn’t mistake theory….he is/was properly at war with Israel. Same thing Bin Laden the US did arm a regime that was against his interests. He had a proper cause to hit the US and the US being mightier after being hit had cause to torture and kill his supporters. It’s war. Civilizations are clashing and they kill each other.
My personal vote is we should have never let a Lebanese Muslim into the country. There’s no crying in war. If your tribe kills a guys family then yes he’s allowed to try and kill your tribe.
That’s not a defense he has to get off for murder but it is a moral justification for revenge. And I support the US cops killing him.
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18d ago
Dems are demanding it for one (Yglesias)[https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/2045619973586837717?s=46]
And second interests groups do tend to only support one party. Catholics only vote GOP. Evangelicals GOP. Blacks Dem. Historically Jews Dem. Sure you can say this isn’t 100% support but these group have been 85% voting and donating to one party.
Why should the GOP back Israel when Dems won’t yet 85% of Jews vote Dem and donate to Dems. Politics is transactional.
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18d ago
Modern leftist anti-semitism is not historical antisemitism. It’s an offshoot of DEI, blacklivesmatter, woke, anti white beliefs that have grown on the left. Jews are compared to normal whites even richer and more successful. And of course they mostly have white skin. Same with anti-Zionism on the left it’s fundamentally the same as anti-colonialism leftism. Unfortunately the Jews largely backed those beliefs for decades while not realizing that eventually Ashkenazi Jews have extremely high IQ on average and win more than anyone else is modern neoliberalism and this anti-whitism logic would eventually turn on them.
And yes Israel was colonialism or probably even closer to apartheid than colonialism in N America. Except they did it historically in the 20th century. N America for the most part displaced few people as it was sparsely populated similar to Argentina. Modern Ashkenazis are as much Italians as they are genetically related to the historical people of Israel. Their richer, smarter, and better at military than the people who lived in Palestine and conquered Israel in the 20th century.
I’ve got no problem with Israel except when they act against my interests. The ADL was one of the biggest promoters of anti-whitism which has now turned on their own people.
And those “left center” or whatever you want to call them group of bloggers have been posting for days that Dems need to drop Israel because Israel is not doing enough for Democrats. Some reason this reminds me of the quote “fairness feels like oppression when your use to privilege”. Jews and Israel have been in voting and dollars backing Dems at about an 85% rate for decades. They still found support on the right because of Evangelicals end time stuff and I think a general feeling on the right that Jews in the ME are better friends than Muslims.
I think we are at a point where Jews/Israel are going to have to decide which party they back and won’t be able to play both sides anymore. I am tired of Jews running an ethnostate and opposing the West from shutting down immigration. At this point I think the Jews have no choice but to go hard right. The current forces on the left in the west love brown and unsuccessful people. The Jews are too rich and white to have a seat with the Dems.
I am disappointed Trump hasn’t struck a harder bargain with Israel. I can love the Jews if their money and political power goes all in on white nationalism. Anyway Yglesias an Noah Smith etc are saying the Jews need to do more for Dems if the want backing for Israel and I’ve been saying the opposite that we need more support from them if they want support from MAGA.
I think Yglesias just realizes Israel/Jews are unpopular with the left and pushing them out of the Democrats has political benefits but he’s acting it’s like the Jews left the Dems instead of the Dems turning against Jews first.
If we went back in time the only way Israel could fix their political problems would be backing tough border enforcement in Europe and the rest of the west. The US and Europe being filled with third worlders always meant the left would eventually become anti-Israel. And then the right wouldn’t despise Israel for backing immigration.
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21d ago
Someone here I remember posting that they had sold their stocks and bought only oil stocks because of the war. And that they thought they could easily swap back when it ended. Now that the war has ended do people think that was true? SPY is back at highs. Oil etf (XLE) at one month low. In my opinion it would have been hard to swap back. And I assume he has not and he’s currently at a small loss. Market moves happen fast. Faster now than ever before. I’m not even sure if the war is over. Even now you are reading Trump tea leaves.
In the last year or two I’ve pretty much decided I only want to marry within race. Preferably an Argentinian because I’m Italian. I would be a little Jew curious if they would be open to converting. Because I tend to have a lot in common with Jews and most share a lot of Italian ancestry.
I don’t want to have kids who are mystery meat and also lack a culture they are from and only have whatever modernist garbage is currently in vogue. I think it’s important to have young people who can connect to something far older than themselves.
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23d ago
I own a ton of snap stock. Wish I owned more. I think they have developed a niche with 12-20 year olds. An activists just got involved probably why they doing layoffs. They got down to like a $7b EV with $6b in yearly revenue.
Sometimes in the past 4 years SAAS and platforms use to trade 100x revenue. Because they have a lot of operational leverage.
That being said from a value investor standpoint if their “platform” is stable and does revenue of $6b and can turn that into even $2b in income then what’s that worth? Even a 10 multiple gets you $20b or a 2-3x return. Far high multiples if the business still growing etc.
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24d ago
Aren’t all girls trained in the art of seduction? Is there really some mysterious art CIA/KGB/Mossad can teach? Nearly every girl takes some kind of dance courses since they were 5 like how every boy plays t-ball. Then girls do make-up together. Talk about boys all thru high school.
Sure some are better. But most have a lot of training growing up.
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26d ago
Iran isn’t Afghanistan. I’ve been to weddings with people who flew in from Iran. Many are normal/high IQ types. Not goat fucking inbreds like Afghanis. There actually is a replacement elite in Iran to seize power.
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29d ago
Your first link brings up an interesting question for me when it says the Irish controlled the Church in America. Why is this? All the Catholic Colleges in America seem to be Irish dominant. Maybe I am forgetting some colleges. I am likely solving my own question but it’s still an interesting question.
- The came about 50 years earlier so a head start
- English fluency day 1 so that likely spread up advancement 20-40 years.
- Twice as much population today
Counters: Italians controlled more cultural and educational capital in the old world.
St John’s is the only Catholic school of note that the AI is telling me is Italian dominated though still founded by the French.
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29d ago
I think the strategy with taking out top leadership was entirely a strategy of changing the type of regime. Likely not literal the name of the regime but that the guy who ends up staying into the throne fears enough for his life to be friendly with the Americans. Like Venezuela. Same regime in name but essentially a US vassal on key things.
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29d ago
You are correct it needs to be taken only when he’s speaking “infallible”. When he’s speaking like on Iran then it’s just under advisement. My point stands though at “certain” times a Catholic POTUS obligation would be to what Rome says over domestic popular opinion. On his Iran speaking it would need to be taken under advisement and their own moral judgement.
My opinion is military target strikes are mostly fine. Targeting the electric grid probably not ok.
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30d ago
We might actually need to bomb Tel Aviv to get Israel to stop. I’m rooting for this because I’m bored and Trump bombs Israel because they told Trump FU on his peace deal and kept bombing Iran would be entertaining. Potentially very good politically too for Trump
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30d ago
This is the most maga pope ever. Maybe not on explicit agreement, but culturally completely. The popes brother is literally the ranting Facebook maga type and if I get bored maybe I will edit and go find posts.
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30d ago
Catholics are not allowed to ignore the pope. A Catholic potus has an obligation to obey the pope or they are not Catholic. I’ve always said Jews have the same issue with Israel and their tribe.
The pre-eminent Catholic school in Americas motto is literal God-Country-Notre Dame.
That being said Catholic and Jews have already conquered this country and the Wasp are dead so the old evangelicals have already made their choice to back the Catholics.
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30d ago
Modern libertarianism has basically concluded the only people capable of living in a libertarian society are whites (some factions).
That is where up to the borders I assume comes from.
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30d ago
If the SOH toll funds yachts with Russian hookers then it’s probably fine. If it funds guns and funding foreign militias then bad.
Then Iran essentially just becomes 20 years behind the Saudis.
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30d ago
“They already failed and let in bad people” - is not a good argument for open borders. It’s actually a good argument for being even stricter which Europe is starting to do.
I don’t think you need to refute HBD every time you argue for open borders but I don’t think you should introduce partially open borders caused bad things as an argument for open borders.
I believe in open borders for Anglo and Anglo adjacent in Anglo and Anglo adjacent countries. I believe this has logical consistency.
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30d ago
A lot of countries do this. I got fingerprinted in Argentina. I can’t remember if Mexico does it.
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30d ago
Fair. But I feel like in those wars there was less a feeling we losts and found our way out. This war I believe regime change was the primary goal and we clearly did not achieve that. Libya I don’t know our goals. Gulf 1 was a win.
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30d ago
Agree. It means moving closer to the center. That is what I have been saying a centrists is. It’s defined as being between Democrats and Republicans and lacking core beliefs.
You specifically said you don’t view yourself on the Dem-GOP axis which has been my point.
You say centrists have political beliefs. What are they? The meaning of the word “centrists” is between the gop and Democrat positions. Today it would be a neoliberal like Bill Clinton in the ‘90s. But if the gop or Dems move right or left Bill Clinton would no longer be a centrists. This is why I say centrists have no core beliefs because the definition of centrists changes as the right or left move.
EA are obviously high IQ. They have some dumb beliefs but the average member is 1 standard deviation above average. Before EA got popular the average EA was probably 2.5-3 standard deviations above average.
For the record I don’t define myself as right or left. In America I am MAGA because I think it’s best for America. If the US was still an Anglo nation I would be a libertarian. In most of LATAM I would be a fascists because they have huge low IQ populations. In Russia a militaristic authoritarian because of how hard the country is to defend.
I say centrists isn’t a definition because you need actual beliefs - what’s the abortion position? The optimum tax rate etc. Centrists is only defined by what the others are doing.
You later updated to radical centrisms. I think that’s a Reddit term when I’ve come across it so it has very little meaning in the vernacular outside of Reddit. Your political beliefs should have actual definitions. If you lack that then yes I would call you just apolitical.
Most political beliefs don’t fit neatly in one party. Catholic libertarians always vote GOP like Paul Ryan but he’s not purely right. Bernie Sanders isn’t a true leftists in American context. He’s left of the neolibs on social spending but traditionally has been far right on immigration (changed lately).
The right doesn’t have pro-Palestinians. The left does. The right just wants Israel out of American politics or as allies.
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