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TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
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User ID: 3097
Banned by: @Amadan
Except that for most of that time, the vast majority of immigrants were white Western Europeans
Fuck the immigrants.
The existence of Florida and the Carolinas as states proves that there was already a prepondererance of Niggers and Spaniards on site before the United States even came to be.
the USA became a superpower while it had an immigration moratorium and with more homogeneous demographics
I don't think that is true at all. The USA has never been "homogeneous". Ironically, given much of the rhetoric here, the USA is kind of unique in having been founded as an "ideastan". Anglo, Dutch, French, and Spanish colonials choosing to forsake thier national identities in favor of identifying as colonists.
I agree that the "Abortion is essential! George Floyd protests are OK but churches aren't!" element played a huge role in the split, but "retirees vote republican and low end service workers are mostly democrats" just doesn't match my experience at all.
If anything it's the opposite, the loudest Harris-boosters and TDS-sufferers I've met offline have all been senior citizens who (like David French) feel that Trump is "unpresidential" and "destroying the dignity of the office". Meanwhile most of the service workers and pretty much all of the younger to middle-aged couples I know voted for Trump.
Once again, don't think a lot of people here (or in the wider blue/grey-tribe) really grasp just how much of a nuke the "they are the party of they/them not you" line was.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
7mo ago
It has always confused me why conservatives aren't the party of environmentalists and climate conservation.
Because, "environmentalism" and "climate conservation" in this context isn't actually about the climate or environment. It's a Trojan horse for left-wing academics to smuggle in thier prefered social-engineering schemes.
Look at which side is more supportive of things like, fish and game regulations, national parks, and nuclear power, and suddenly the valance shifts.
Another one I’m trying to square is COVID.
The reason seems obvious to me when you look at who the core constituents of the two parties are.
The core constituents of the Democratic party either don't work (retirees and the unemployed) or they work in fields like finance, social media, and academia that can be done remotely and were thus minimally effected by the lockdowns.
The core constituents of the Republican party are people with children and day-jobs. Specifically jobs in fields like manufacturing, energy, construction, logistics, etc... work that can not be done remotely. In other words, the core constituents of the Republican party are the people whose lives were most disrupted the lock-downs, and George Floyd riots.
Throw in some ham-fisted attempts by progressives to use Covid as an excuse to crackdown on conservative interests like church gatherings and charter schools, and Republican opposition seems not only predictable but inevitable.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
7mo ago
White enough.
Heck i would argue that guys like Larry Elder and Clarence Thomas are "Whiter" culturally than a lot of the queer/non-binary grifters posting about "white supremacy" on X.
Have you been to Alabama?
Have you been reading his thread?
I'd put more value on the "human capital" of the median Alabaman than i would a lot of the users running thier mouths about "elite human capital" here.
My main take away from this bit downthread is that working class nieghborhoods in the south are just cleaner and nicer than anywhere the "high-castes" (be they Indians or Blue-tribe professionals) hold sway.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
7mo ago
Forget it Jake, it's theMotte.
Sir, I demand satisfaction!
Pistols or Swords? If the latter we might actually be able to make that happen. I plan to be at Pennsic 51 (Schedule Permitting), bearing the banner of The Outlands on behalf of Cariadoc. Look for the knight in white, black, and gold with a sausage pierced by a sword on his shield. The Poleaxe/Bill is also an option, as is the Spear.
at the very least you must grant that the magnitude if not the sign of my contributions is leagues and bounds beyond that your average sub-Saharan African is capable of.
No i do not, because little or no gain is still preferable to a "loss" of any magnitude.
To be clear I don't "think" you are "a net negative value to society". I am taking your own statements about your relationship with your host country at face value and drawing what, to me, seem like obvious conclusions.
Finally, if the job you're working is borders agnostic, why immigrate? if the answer, is "superior quality of life" why can't you just shut up and be grateful instead of sneering at your hosts?
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
7mo ago
I get the impression that you and I agree on much and would get along quite well offline. That or we would bicker endlessly like siblings. ;-)
For my part, I have always been partial to Teddy Roosevelt's bit about "Hyphenated Americans".
I feel like a certain part of the debate is circling around the conflation of 'high paid' roles, 'productive' roles and 'socially valuable' roles.
Agreed, as @Stellula suggests above there seems to be a semantic bait-and-switch going on. What's being sold is something like Operation Paperclip or the Rockefeller Foundation's Assistance to Refugee Scholars program that brought figures like Werner Von Braun, Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, and Alexander Solzenhitzen to the US. What we're actually getting in practice, is a bunch of minimally competent third-worlders who are, to all appearances, contemptuous of Western norms/values, and more concerned with extracting value than producing it, and who's only observable contribution to the community is diluting the supply and thus lowering the wages of native-born code-monkeys, medical professionals, finance bros, Et Al.
I consider myself reasonably "Based and MAGA-Pilled" and I am totally onboard with the former, while being deeply opposed to the latter.
I'd sooner accept a 100 immigrants from Central America or Sub-Saharan Africa who sincerely love baseball, apple pie, and everything else American over a single immigrant like @BurdensomeCount as even "low human captital" is of greater value than negative human capital.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
7mo ago
I Amazon is the yard-stick you are measuring by, the US (with Apple and Amazon) and South Korea (with Samsung) are pretty much the only games in town.
FAANG is dead, long live AAS.
If Thales and BAE count as big tech, then so does Lockheed and Boeing. There’s no equivalent to FAANG.
How many billions in assets and net revenue, or thousands of engineers in it's employment, does a company have to have to be considered "big tech" in your eyes? Netflix is a relative small-fry by said metrics, and arguably not even a "tech" company (they're more of a movie studio) when compared a company like BAE or Lockheed.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
7mo ago
As fucked up as it is, I unironically believe that this would be a superior system to the one we have. If the government or some company/VC genuinely believes that this particular individual could be a game changer then they should be able to come up with the money.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
7mo ago
Nokia, Thales, Bosch, Ericsson, BAE, SAP, ASML, Logitech, Et Al would all like a word.
Parasites acting as carriers for the dysfunction of thier home culture is all the more reason to stop importing them.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
7mo ago
No insights i would call new or ground breaking, but still a solid read. Mostly it contextualizes and expands upon various bits. IE "this is what Lewis was going through when he wrote that", and "chapter A is a effectively a reply to essay B written by so-and-so", that sort of thing. Fascinating for those who enjoy the "inside baseball" perspective, but far from essential.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
7mo ago
As @Shrike points out, the idea that portions of the old testament, specifically Genesis and the other books of moses are more allegorical than historical is arguably as old (if not older) than Christianity itself.
The default Roman or Orthodox Catholic response to "A lot of the Old Testament was confirmed non-historical" is basically "no shit Sherlock".
Yes there are young earth creationists out there but they are a weird fringe of a fringe hence the "young earth" appelation to distinguish them from more conventional creationists.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
7mo ago
The world you write about has zero antibodies against a woke style purity spiral takeover
On the contrary, such a culture would, at first blush, seem to be substantially hardened against such threats compared to the current mainstream one. As our dear departed Barnaby and Hlynka were fond of pointing out, you don't survive as a sincere traditionalist in the year of our lord twenty-twenty-something without developing strong "antibodies" against entryism and parasites.
How do you plan to status-maximize and "take over" a society where overt status-maximization gets you kicked out? Sure you might be able to fool some people some of the time but you'll never fool everyone all of the time.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
7mo ago
But how is this at all sustainable?
It isn't thats the secret. As for "are they just stupid?" The jury is still out.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
7mo ago
I listenend to the Collected Essays as an audio book followed by Bishop Barron's commentary on Lewis (After Humanity) a few months back and highly recommend.
The question is whether this is something specific to Islam.
I didn't claim that false flags and deception were specific to Islam, only that they were tactics that radical Islam has been known to engage in and endorse.
I don't know if any Daesh clerics have issued some tortured interpretation of "Taqqiyah" to convince their agents to go deep cover as an infidel, but if so, I've never heard of it.
One of the core tenets of Wahhabism (the subset of Islam from which pretty much all modern radical Sunni movements trace thier roots) is that anything is acceptable if it is done in the pursuit of god's enemies. Or to put it in more familiar/secular terms, there are no bad tactics only bad targets. Deash clerics don't need to make the argument explicitly because the argument is already implicit in the Deash worldview.
if there's evidence that he's actually a jihadist and the media is covering it up, that would be pretty dumb since we're already seeing years of his Twitter rantings being dug up.
Is your argument really that the media and assorted twitter personalities couldn't possibly be decieved and would never just lie to our faces? Because if so i have a bridge in London to sell you.
I still think "woke right" is a pretty incoherent concept
And again, i disagree because it seems pretty coherent to me.
As i have argued in prior discussions there seems to be a distinct subset of the extremely-online "right" that is far more "woke" and identitarian than they are right-wing. One of the unifying themes of this subset is a seething resentment of Christians/Normies/Anyone who isn't as black-pilled miserable or cynical as they are.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
7mo ago
I think that says more about the grading metrics than anything else.
Also is this the "Dreaded Jim" from the LessWrong/SSC days?
Heartily endorsed.
I'm the lead algorithms developer for a large tech company (im not going to say wich one to avoid doxxing myself, but i can assure you that you have heard of us) and i find that i tend to be more "bearish" on the practical applications of Machine Learning/AI than a lot of the guys on the marketing and VC sides of the house or on Substack because I know what is behind the proverbial curtain and am accutely aware of its limitations. A sort of psuedo Dunning Krueger effect if you will.
Are you are you arguing that these terms are exclusive? Because i don't think thats apperant at all.
If anything, all this nonsense about the enlightenment/blank slatism being a recent invention is itself a recent invention of woke degenerates looking to discredit the enlightenment.
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