Massive amounts of Muslim non-assimilating immigration is very destabilizing as western europe is discovering. This is bad, but bad in a way that is obvious to low-information, low-IQ voters. So, the problem is being corrected slowly and there is at least general awareness about it.
Jewish disproportionate influence in western democracies from the control of media outlets, financial institutions, and general high-level intellectual output is destabilizing in a different way. Shabbat, the jewish day of rest, is Saturday because of jewish influence on western culture. The paradigms of universal education and literacy are also rooted in jewish religious tradition. That is to say, the paradigms of western daily life are rooted in jewish thought and religious-cultural practices, in a way that Islamic influences can never compare. The low-information, low-IQ voters cannot recognize or deal with this type of problem like the way they respond to unchecked Muslim immigration at the ballot box.
At the same time, jews are seen as both a protected religious minority and a protected cultural minority. So, while jews are foundational contributors to modern western culture, they are also simultaneously a protected double-minority. Jews avoid being the targets of woke leftism while enjoying most of the cultural majority benefits of white christians. You could say that jews are Schrodinger's white+, white when convenient and nonwhite when the woke left is looking for the next target.
While all this is going on, many diaspora jews also feel an obligation to defend Israel from potential harm. For some jews, this takes the form of deprioritizing their home country's interest in favor of policies that favor Israel's interest. This is a recipe for disaster for their home country.
In my opinion, @Rex has it right when he says that Israel is the single biggest external threat to US interests. They are an unacknowledged threat because they have convinced both political parties (AIPAC) that Israel's interests are one and the same as American interests. To voice this paradigm in public is antisemitism. To persist in criticism of Israel is Nazism.
sleepyegg
14d ago
Not appreciating the good things in one's life is probably a common mistake, and a mistake that I've made many times. Sometimes it's useful to reflect on the bad points in one's life to regain perspective on the things that are actually going very well by relative comparison.
sleepyegg
15d ago
Oh. Then maybe drugs are a consequence of being a philosopher, and the sex tent is from the drugs.
sleepyegg
15d ago
Got it, no drugs. Perhaps the sex tent is a social status marker of sorts. As in, we are the enlightened philosophical elite unrestricted by plebeian sexual mores. Participation is then demonstration of status.
I see. I did read a little of Scott's stuff but I mostly lurked the SSC subreddit. I didn't stay long enough to learn the terms. In fact, without SSC I never would have found the Motte, which is spoken of only indirectly with hushed whispers as if naming the Motte would invoke darker powers. Like naming Voldemort in the Harry Potter setting.
sleepyegg
15d ago
I'm too old to understand your abbreviations. Rat, postrat, EA, tpot, what do these mean? Is this a drug thing?
Nudity and children should not be in the same vicinity, I think not having orgies within earshot of children is basic human understanding.
sleepyegg
15d ago
Is this a case study in why we should all hate more? Seemed to have worked well for Bismarck. Hate can be a powerful motivator, after all.
Yeah, I followed a similar but slower trajectory in my thinking. My pattern matching is probably below average, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been of the least importance to me. The instigation of the recent Iran war and strait closure is what made me start paying attention. From the Israeli perspective, the goyim must constantly be convinced that defending Israel and the jewish diaspora by extension is in their own best interest.
I think the rise of the internet allows the discussion of previously taboo topics in mainstream western media. The Motte is a good example of this.
sleepyegg
15d ago
It may be antisemitism, but the left frames it as anticolonialism (when Israel is brought up), or maybe "eat the rich". Well, funny thing is that a lot of the rich just happen to be jews.
sleepyegg
15d ago
proceed to cry out in pain
The most compelling victim narrative usually wins in the court of public opinion.
sleepyegg
15d ago
Probably true. But I don't think any mass casualty events of whites, jews, christians, or treaty allies are survivable for any US president. Which is why I doubt it will take that form if Israel badly loses a war, the presumably muslim victor can use soft explusion tactics to remove them slowly with no diplomatic consequences. It would be framed as decolonization by news outlets.
sleepyegg
15d ago
The voting base sentiment of democrats is being shaped to think of Israel as South Africa, except funded by the US. The white South Africans are being soft-expelled by the country, and the US would probably turn a blind eye to Israelis being forced to leave in a similar fashion.
The pro-Palestinian wing of the democrats has been steadily gaining influence, Israel will not find it easy to regain support there I think.
In democrat leaning media Israel is already vilified as a Jewish racial apartheid state. There doesn't seem to be any pushback narrative either, which may be a fatal mistake for Israel in hindsight.
sleepyegg
16d ago
Very likely. To paraphrase the immortal Zapp Brannigan, "Some of you autists may die alone, but that's a price I'm willing to pay."
sleepyegg
16d ago
Autists hyper focusing on work they enjoy is how we get extreme specialists that sometimes make contributions to the pool of human knowledge. In that sense, I encourage it from a utilitarian perspective.
sleepyegg
16d ago
Would it? If he could assure cheaper oil and an economic boom many voters would be pleased, even if Israel lobbied against him. It's not as if Trump is running for a third term.
That is some serious cope. We are releasing 20-25 billion to get rid of Iran's outdated military assets. If sanctions come off, they can reequip better than they had before with full access to raw materials from the world market.
Once they feel they have rebuilt enough they are free to close the strait again, this time with military assets better optimized to do so since they know it's effective leverage rather than theoretical leverage. By then Trump will no longer be president and it will be someone else's problem.
"she's not here right now" classic in response to an "any allergies"
Were you talking about an ex-girlfriend, to another woman (not your ESLesbian)? It sounds like you were on a date. If that's the case then it's a sad joke that reflects your inability do some mental filtering before you speak.
sleepyegg
16d ago
Hence the progressive and mainstream media interest in sports as a vector of propaganda to status-boost low-achieving minority groups and to get/keep whites simping and clapping for them. If whites will simp and clap for members of low-achieving minority groups to score some fackin goals, purpose this habit of simping and clapping for low-achieving minorities will spill into other areas of life.
I get the opposite feeling from this type of propaganda. Why is tossing or kicking the ball so important, is this underachieving minority incapable of worthwhile accomplishments in other areas? I can appreciate great physical feats on their own merits.
sleepyegg
16d ago
This is one of those times where the easier path is most likely the worse path in the long term. Force yourself to socialize the way you should force yourself to physically exercise, if you are not already exercising through your work or hobbies.
Imagine yourself the parent of an antisocial child refusing to talk with their peers. They might turn out the type of person who values solitude, but the odds are the child has normal social needs and some forced socialization is healthy for the child even if they are unwilling to do it. If you let the child's antisocial behavior become a habit, it will only be harder to break the habit later and you do the child harm. As an adult, if your parents didn't correct your bad habits, you will need the force of will to establish good habits yourself, for your own health and happiness.
It may or may not be doxxing. But it sure delivered a coup de grace to Franco's potential career in New York. It creates an unfavorable apperance of wealthy jews using their business clout to crush the economic prospects of non-jews under a victim narrative of antisemitism.
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