Mr. Unz,

The new thread is appreciated.

I will take this opportunity to share a Public Service Announcement.

I do not know if this is an actual exploit. Or, if I am being rolled. However, best to be on the side of caution.

PEACE 😇

Ron,

Is there data to show that the actual people who died are the obese people? Not on a collective, presumptive basis but on a case by case basis.

In other words did the mortality rate for obese people increase in the period in question? I still see lots of robust people, maybe the skinny ones were actually thinned out as might happen in a long cold winter.

What other possible causes could be considered for the increased mortality in addition to colds and novel injections? The causation might be different in different countries.

If this is covered in the long set of comments on the main article, maybe someone can give a comment number.

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For countries where the excess mortality is low or constant are there other factors in 2021-2022 which might have a downward effect actually reducing mortality and counterbalancing any hypothetical COVID or shot effects? For example, less work occurred so fewer industrial accidents; this is only an illustration, industrial deaths are too infrequent in the West to be substantial.

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If the injections have extra danger for obese people that doesn’t let the purveyors off the hook. It simply highlights the irresponsibility of the bogus human trial process.

You raise interesting questions:

• Are the obese are more likely to die from WUHAN-19?
• Are the obese are more likely to die from the mRNA jab?
• Is there a difference between the mRNA experiment and conventional vaccines?
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I do not know how much traction raising these points in this OT will obtain. Almost everyone here despises Manda-vaxx authoritarianism.

As a technical issue, it is scientifically interesting — Are the fatties dying of WUHAN-19? Or, the mRNA experiment? Or, a combination of both?
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Regardless of the science, obese lard things are not of interest. I regret being tricked into searching on Nigerian plus sized pageant.

DO NOT CLICK THIS LINK!

https://www.nairaland.com/1072049/miss-plus-size-nigeria-2012

YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

#LetsGoBrandon 😇

Just watched:

1. Some serious pot and kettle shit with Brian saying that people need to be told the truth, not just what they want to hear when Brian is the one who has been pimping “muh winter offensive”, saying that Ukraine was running out of shells, claiming that Russia had figured out how counter the HIMARs and spinning the Russian army’s inability to maneuver is actually being an intelligent preference for a blatantly attritional strategy

2. Interesting article that he cited in Foreign Affairs

3. I agree with Western estimates that Russia has suffered ~100,000 total casualties when you count regional militias/Wagner. That’s casualties, not fatalities. I think it’s in the ballpark. I think Brian is confusing KIA and total casualities.

4. Brian again comes back to the whole “war of attrition” thing, but never mentions that Russia has adopted this strategy because of the catastrophic failure of its initial invasion and because Russia is literally lacks the capability to wage this war any other way. It would take Russia at least a year to put a million men on the line and equip them, if the current Russian state is even capable of that, and there still would be no opportunity for breakthrough

5. Brian claims that the Russian partial mobilization has given the Russians a numerical advantage on the line. I doubt it

6. I agree that the Kherson withdrawal was militarily correct and that the Ukrainian offensives in the fall did not have any strategic benefits for Ukraine and that these withdrawal show the Kremlin and it’s commanders are now conducting the war in a more reasonable fashion

7. Unlike the Anatoly’s of the world, I expect the coming Ukrainian offensives against the prepared Russian defenses to be very costly failures for Ukraine so I agree with Brian on this point.

8. Muh Bakhmut. Using the logic the German army used to justify Verdun. Pathetic.

9. Very interesting Alex Vershinin article cited. I understand where Vershinin is coming from but I believe that Ukraine’s ability to replace material losses is virtually limitless for the time being. The manpower losses I’m less sure but even there I’m confident that Ukraine can continue to recruit enough men to hold the line offensives, even if it eventually needs to forgo further offensives

10. Brian displays a huge misunderstanding of battlefield/theatre logistics

11. What he said about Wagner troops being a cheap loss since they are convicts is incredibly callous

12. Ironically, the war is kinda turning into the war that Anatoly initially predicted (mainly drones + artillery)

13. I agree with Venishin that Ukraine has no realistic prospect, absent dramatic upscale of Western support, of tactical victory but I don’t believe that Ukraine is counting on this. Zelensky might be, but he has lost his marbles and he can be pushed aside when necessary. Literally all Ukraine needs to do now is maintain a defensive line in the eastern regions of the country and Russia will eventually have to leave Ukraine be, even if it takes another decade of killing. Now Russia can call that a victory if it wants, it may even gain more territory than it currently holds, but the end result is still an independent Ukraine firmly aligned with the West along with a new weariness of Russian intentions from Russia’s neighbors mixed with contempt for Russian capabilities.

On quick review, I think he was being somewhat sarcastic on the Wagner/convict connection that Western mass media harps on.

He specifically referenced the BBC claim of 1,000 Russian KIA a month in the early months of the war, when Russian casualties were at their greatest. Kiev regime armed combatant KIA are definitely much higher than Russia’s.

I’ll take Brian over Ben Hodges and Barry Posen any day.

Russia will not be leaving Crimea and isn’t likely to leave any of the other former Ukrainian SSR it currently has. The longer this conflict continues the greater the likelihood of the Kiev regime losing more territory.

Zaluzhny’s interview in The Economist was quite revealing.

Interesting analysis by U.S. Lt. Col. Alex Vershinin.

https://www.russiamatters.org/analysis/whats-ahead-war-ukraine

He’s a lot better than the much overrated Peter Zeihan.

https://theduran.com/the-great-game-debunking-peter-zeihans-lies-on-the-joe-rogan-experience/

Inconvenient realities for some –

https://www.rt.com/shows/crosstalk/569635-nazi-problem-west-silent/

Russia Unplugged
@UnpluggedRus
This video is causing a lot of anger in Ukraine, today. Members of the country’s “golden youth” drinking $20,000 champagne, in a Courchevel flag waving frenzy, at the same time as Kiev’s forces were losing the town of Soledar to Russia’s Wagner troops.

This is still a half war.

Russia is bending over backwards apparently to limit harm to civilians. Much of the vulnerable Ukrainian supply chain is being ignored by Russia for whatever reasons.

Why do I say this?

All of the material support for Ukraine comes in from the outside: Poland, Romania, Port of Odessa, wherever. Mostly by rail, road, ship or pipeline. The Russian military has repeatedly demonstrated they can take out critical infrastructure such as bridges, pumping stations, etc. with standoff missile strikes and has regularly done so on a LIMITED basis. Ukraine has the ability to repair some of this damage, but on a progressively more limited basis as problems accumulate. Many of the experienced 25-55 year old men that repair this sort of damage have been killed at the front and it is tough to run heavy equipment once fuel starts being rationed. I believe Russia is limiting these strikes to avoid escalating the civilian humanitarian crisis. Ukraine and the West are well aware of this and are counting on it. Ukraine shuts down in a week if Russia changes her tactics.

I believe Russia is intentionally limiting the manpower to preserve her forces for Western-sponsored attacks in places such as Kaliningrad, Georgia or the other potential hotspots. Some of the reports suggest Russia is working up to around half a million troops for the SMO (included repatriated Ukrainians) so they are not really limited anyway.

I don’t know exactly how this will play out, but I think people who are speculating and pontificating on this war should address these two points: 1) Totally vulnerable Ukrainian supply chain infrastructure only lightly damaged so far 2) Russia cautiously applying manpower to preserve her overall defensive capabilities.

Iraqi Information Minister reviews
Masters of Wisdom of Central Asia: Teachings from the Sufi Path of Liberation
Hasan Lufti Shushud
Inner Traditions 2014
180pp

This episode is an appendix to previous review of Bennett, Gurdjieff Making a New World. Wherein it was revealed that if Gurdjieff taught any tradition it would be that of the Khwajagan Sufis of Bukhara. Khwajagan means masters of wisdom. The 14th and 15th century Khwajagan Sufis of Bukhara are catalogued in this book. The book is a Who’s Who in this clan and the subtitle is misleading. Way more biographical trivia than any wisdom teachings inside. There are ten or twelve lineage trees, around a hundred names, and it blurs together. It is not easy to read this text close.

There is almost no Gurdjieff material evident here.

Most of the people described are nondescript. We are told they were good, they were holy, they were devout, &c but almost nothing that was taught stands out as distinct. For the most part they get a paragraph. This guy got more than a paragraph:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jami

Reading that wikipedia page is a better use of most people’s time than reading this book.

One or two of you might be interested to know that Oprah Winfrey and Shirley MacLaine’s favorite poet Rumi was one of these guys but not really in this book.

From OT205

In our forum, I don’t think even A123 will view an American city, as an example of urban planning that we should follow.

Over jobbed — under populated “down town” areas are poor urban planning. Why does anyone need an office building more than 5 stories tall? Place a bunch of these together and the inevitable result is wasted time commuting.

Living in a suburban environment close to the office is ideal for most people. Some multifamily apartments work in the mix as long as there are not too many of them.

My concept would be an array of small and mid sized towns. Over 100 years ago, big cities formed around utilities such as steam, electricity, water, and shipping/rail. With today’s technology, that scale now causes more problems than it solves.

PEACE 😇

Is this not some ancient Mesopotamian demon that was in one of the Ghostbuster properties – perhaps, the cartoon?

I do not know if this is an actual exploit. Or, if I am being rolled. However, best to be on the side of caution.

Gosh, now you have me worrying.

If anyone knows if this is a common, effective tactic, let me know.

Modern technology brings lots of scams within reach.

Scam emails tend to have obvious spelling errors, weird email and web addresses, etc..

I would imagine that using the phone and/or text messages to scam people might be more difficult to counter, especially now that people can spoof phone numbers.

It looks like photoshop.

MI6 is saying that Russia is launching it’s Muh Winter Offensive in the next couple of weeks. Probably on or about the 15th

1. it is a plain ordinary furry. Don’t act like you never saw a furry before.
2. P ~ .7 Syrian Girl is a Mossad employee.

P ~ .7 Syrian Girl is a Mossad employee.

Honestly, haven’t followed her too closely, but I am surprised by your theory. Maybe, supposed to make Muslim immigrants seem more based than they are to the dissident right community?

Is this not some ancient Mesopotamian demon that was in one of the Ghostbuster properties – perhaps, the cartoon?

It looks like one of the Blue Meanies from Yellow Submarine. Purple Meanies now I suppose.

Who’d of ever thought those things were real?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Meanies_(Yellow_Submarine)

Britain has also released Challenger 2 tanks to fight in Ukraine.

Won’t make any difference

Wyatt Reed
@wyattreed13
Russia state-affiliated media
Ukrainian “refugees” deck the halls with tributes to Right Sector, Waffen-SS Galicia Division, Stepan Bandera, & Roman Shukhevych—who oversaw the slaughter of tens of thousands of Jews, Poles, & partisans as commander of the UPA & the Nachtigall volunteer Ukrainian nazi battalion

You’d really like to think so. However, my prognosis is that the pic is 100% genuine.

A Church of England vicar could absolutely survey such a spectacle with a visage of studious propriety.

This is great news for : (1)

John Bolton stuns a British audience with announcement he WILL run for POTUS in 2024.

Well, you know, you can pay yourself a salary out of campaign funds when you’re a candidate, you can travel to places you want to go, people will treat you like you’re important even if you hardly have a shot, and it boosts cable news bookings, book sales, etc. Hey, maybe I should run. I’ve got as good a chance as John Bolton.

He does not have to stump for a tepid supporter of foreign wars like DeNeocon. Mikel can go ALL IN for multiple Forever Wars with Bolton.

Those of who want peace will, of course, stick with MAGA and Trump.

PEACE 😇
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(1) https://instapundit.com/562853/

Russia has managed to make even the boxer Usyk to turn against Russia:

https://strategic-culture.org/news/2023/01/11/zelenskys-brown-priests/

P ~ .7 Syrian Girl is a Mossad employee.

She’s not:

Thoughts?

Stealth plane is harder to deploy, but also more effective.
Jet plane too expensive for middle-weight actors to employ.

Therefore, power vacuum between capital & local city – filled by militarized NGOs?
Essentially, street gangs go national – serving an important bridge betwene de facto & de jure. (A)

Continues a trend of political center professionalizing (smaller, more effective).
See Russia: where it has a small modern military & a cost prohibitive mass military.

Cost prohibitive to call up mass military in both political & fin-capital terms.
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De facto don’t think it makes life any easier for dissidents & only strengthens state religion (B)
For example, it’s not a worthy trade to gain political leverage by giving up patriarchy.

This is tantamount to selling your daughters.. That’s the faustian bargain liberalism demands.
So let’s see what happens

Appendix:

Now, question is does this create religious vacuum (religion = link elite + pleb?)

Rome had the legion & the praetorian. One could defend the border & the other the elite.
Christianity organized the mob to threaten the middle class (who had no defender) in the city.

Politics is high-low v middle. Christianity then gained sponsorship from the elite,
who used it to suppress, control or convert rivals (middle class – non-elite elite, out of power elite)

Is this religion of the gaps just wokeness/liberalism?
Are woke institutions gaining strength, collapsing (hollowing out?)

Is the nature of urban (elite) institutions to hollow/out consume human capital to produce power?
ie create cultural capital at the cost of above replacement tfr?

Don’t know, gonna go lift. Do stealth aircraft create wokeness? (post 96 liberalism)
O well, 96 crori Khalsa.

Appendix:
https://richardhanania.substack.com/p/woke-institutions-is-just-civil-rights
https://niccolo.substack.com/p/turbo-america-is-beginning-to-resonate

ਵਾਹਿਗੁਰੂਜੀਕਾਖਾਲਸਾਵਾਹਿਗੁਰੂਜੀਕੀਫਤਹਿ

The most reliable facts that I can determine around the homeless problem are that drugs and mental illness are almost always involved, usually in a symbiotic relationship.
I’ve heard this consistently from several sources, most recently from my brother who lives in Oregon and has a friend in Portland’s social services, and it seems like a good place to start.

It’s a chicken or egg problem of course and it’s hard to tell where the causation may be compared to other factors like high cost of housing.

A lot of it really does seem to stem from closing down all the mental facilities in the US. A lot of people who would have previously been institutionalized are now wandering the streets.

https://mentalillnesspolicy.org/consequences/homeless-mentally-ill.html

I’d love to find nationwide data since the 70’s on homeless population, but this is the closest I could turn up so far. Overall, it seems that homelessness found it’s nadir in the 50’s and 60’s but began to climb again since the 70’s.

It seems to me that Dmitry paints a rather idealized picture of the homeless. My overwhelming impression is that they are most often profoundly dysfunctional and troubled people, perhaps in many cases not malevolent just very disturbed.

Whatever the causes, the rise of homeless populations indicate some profoundly basic failings of society in general to function for and provide basic functionality for an increasing number of people. I don’t think it’s possible to just dismiss homelessness as a personal moral failing as AP seems to do.

My gut feeling, for whatever it’s worth, says that the numbers of homeless will continue to explode over the next few years as the fallout and instability from Covid financial policy knock a great number of the precarious population out of solvency.

Arthur Morgan
@ArthurM40330824
Nationalists set fire to a #Church in the village of Ovadne, Volyn region of #Ukraine.
The day before, the priest refused to transfer from change their religion to #Ukrainian church
The persecution of #Orthodox priests is gaining momentum.

cvetko35
@cvetko35
Daughter of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko in France at après-ski and other members of Ukraine’s upper class. War is only for the rabble!

He should run as a Democrat though. There’s no difference between himself and Biden. Only Bolton is more so.

Do you find this personality who is prominent in the 24/7 propaganda war is organic?

There are resources backing the entity. No?

Do you find this personality who is prominent in the 24/7 propaganda war is organic?

There are resources backing the entity. No?

I don’t know much about her. But not implausible she is acting on her own accord.

She has gained a lot of followers and achieved a modicum of fame. For some people that is sufficient motivation to Tweet 24/7.

Occam’s razor is your friend.

A123 otoh is almost definitely an Israeli agent.

If this the winning side or the losing side in the war?

This recent rhetoric against gas stoves is just the latest validation of Harpending’s thesis that we are converging with traditional African society’s belief in hexes and invisible forces.

Personally, I think it would be an improvement, if we replaced all our DIE officers with witch-doctors. Witch-doctors are not cookie-cutter idiots, but need to show at least some talent and creativity. They need to gain a reputation and be recommended. You never hear of a fat lesbian witch-doctor. Rather, it seems like they are almost always men, and old and wiry ones at that. It is a meritocracy.

And furthermore, I have always found Henry Rider Haggard’s depiction of them romantic. Wouldn’t it be something, if when HR called you in, for not saluting the tranny flag, you had to face a witch-doctor? And wouldn’t it be neat, if you could hire your own, one with a better reputation than theirs, to work some counter-magic?

And wouldn’t it be neat, if you could hire your own, one with a better reputation than theirs, to work some counter-magic?

Nothing stops you from doing such. William Burroughs (who got away with slaughtering his wife) had a catalog of power tricks. His signal-to-noise is dreadful but it’s better than Crowley’s. : )

https://www.sacred-texts.com/eso/chaos/index.htm

A123 otoh is almost definitely an Israeli agent.

It is amazing how many Iranian Taqiyya operatives make that feeble accusation.

Will Israel pay a Christian to promote TRUTH about the Muslim faith of George IslamoSoros? If you know how I can get some 💵, please let me know.

PEACE 😇

I don’t think it’s possible to just dismiss homelessness as a personal moral failing as AP seems to do

I hope I didn’t come across that way. It’s a combination of failed (often due to malevolence) public policy and individual personal moral failings.* The two interact, in that public policies encourage such moral failure rather than help the people to do better.

* These are often downstream of terrible personal circumstances, poor role models, etc.

LMAO. Who did the illustrations for Bryan Caplan’s new graphic novel?

You just can’t smear pig’s blood over a mirror, drive a nail through it, and then mail it to someone, so that when they open the box, and look at the reflection, they see a nail driven into their head.

That would be considered a hate crime, unless you cross some threshold level of anarchy first, like in Zimbabwe.

She is (or was) an attractive and mentally unbalanced girl who got addicted to internet male attention. Basically she is a hotter, political version of ShoeOnHead

I think this overestimates the impact of stealth. There are plenty examples of nations achieving air supremacy without stealth aircraft.

I do agree that we are seeing a return to a sort of feudalism in the mega states, but I don’t think you’ll see any such thing in smaller states

Thanks for your thoughts and data. RSBD also provided an interesting article with some statistics and testimonies in the previous thread.

As a first generation immigrant to the US, I find the homelessness crisis both tragic and fascinating at the same time. I know Europe very well. I have visited most of it and even lived in a couple of its most prosperous countries but nothing in Europe compares to the general levels of prosperity you find in the US. Seeing the appearance of massive encampments of homeless people in the cities of such a wealthy country is one of those things that makes the US unique. And probably nobody has a full understanding of what exactly drives this phenomenon.

I have a hard time getting my head around the idea that both you and RSBD’s article propose that the homelessness crisis is directly related to economic hardship. The US unemployment rate continues to be at historically low levels. In Utah you can no longer count on having a burger at your local restaurant. They may have closed for the day if not enough workers showed up in the morning. When they do get enough workers, they put a sign at the entrance asking you to be patient with the staffers because they’re having to do several people’s work at the same time, even though wages keep climbing all the time and are also at historically high levels. Not that I visit fast food restaurants very often but last time I took my son to a Burger King we couldn’t get anything, it was closed. Ironically, they had left the ‘be patient’ sign at the entrance. Who knows how long it had been there. Nobody must have showed up to put it away after the last time they had enough staff to open.

Obviously, anybody sleeping on the street in Utah is not making any effort to find a job or, more likely, they have lost the ability to look for a job, let alone keep it. Sudden_death was saying in the last thread that anyone sleeping rough in San Francisco is doing it voluntary because the city offers some accommodation services to the homeless but these people don’t operate with normal mental parameters. Someone who is under the effects of a mental illness or drugs, or both, does not necessarily understand that he has a better choice than what he is doing at the moment. Anyone who has been drunk knows that you don’t always do what is best for you under the influence of alcohol. Many of the homeless may be unable to walk back to the shelter, if they remember where it is, and additionally, many of them probably prefer to live and sleep close to wherever they get their drugs from, which is surely not in the surroundings of the shelter facilities.

As you say, mental illness is a very big part of the equation. Sadly, when I visited Honolulu last year, I spent plenty of time watching homeless people (unlike California, Hawaii does have a lot of out of state homeless). You cannot ignore them because they are everywhere, including the interior of the hotels, when they can sneak in. One night I spent some time watching a homeless beggar in front of my hotel. Some tourists decided to offer him a box of Asian food they had just bought at a nearby restaurant and the guy was staring at them not understanding what was going on. It took him a long while to decide that the food was a good offer and accept it. Later on he was devouring it. He was obviously hungry and had probably not eaten something so delicious in a very long time but apparently his mind had lost the ability to easily process the idea of receiving food as something positive when you’re hungry and begging for some coins.

These people live in a parallel reality of their own, with their own priorities, that is not amenable to easy, rational solutions. I do agree with you that the problem is only going to increase if no energetic measures are taken. Going homeless in the US was probably a stochastic event that tended to happen under a given set of circumstances, as everywhere else in the First World. But once it becomes an accepted way of life for a big community of people, the copycat phenomenon kicks in and it just keeps growing.

She has not been a girl for over ten years. I saw her on coach red pill. She is smart. If she does not have expensive security she would have died suspiciously long ago. A voice that big is not a solo act.

who would kill her and for what?

She may be smart but she is also off her rocker.

That gif where she pulls down the gas mask over her face is one of the sexiest things I’ve ever seen. She is no beauty queen but she has the “it” factor

Interesting visual of US aid to Ukraine:

But is Ukraine paying for Western weapons, like HIMARS, with this money…?
I think no, since when Poland gives some weapon to Ukraine, I hear ‘give’, not “sell’. So where does actually money from military help to UA go…? Certainly, it is a lot of money.

White voters in USA sour on support for the Ukraine war effort.

https://globalaffairs.org/research/public-opinion-survey/growing-us-divide-how-long-support-ukraine

Lion’s share of all that “money” is not cash flow at all, just an accounted worth of given already existing military equipment, so money physically really were spent years ago domestically in US, when factory owners, workers, designers and material commodity suppliers got contracts for producing that stuff.

Zeihan, who I consider something of an entertaining cad and tool for the establishment, says that it is mostly just old military equipment, stuff that the US would need to pay to destroy, and it is actually saving money by sending it to Ukrainians to antagonize the Russians with.

Hopefully the percent supporting sending US troops doesn’t go any higher.

Wonder if there are any Germans here who have ever heard the idea that there was a spike in the rate of homosexuals conceived in Berlin in 1945, and whether they have any opinion on the cause.

If it is true, seems like it might fit into the idea of a gay germ.

But if there is a gay germ, I wonder why AIDS didn’t make it easy to isolate. Weren’t they scrutinizing what was in all these super-gays in the ’80s?

Could AnoninTN get some sort of grant to use PCR on gays to see what micro-organisms might be in them, but less common in heteros? Or some sort of antibody assay? It seems like, with the cost of sequencing dropping, we should be zeroing in on the cause of it – a cure for pozz. Or, at least, one component of it.

Request to Mr Unz to trash and permaban any anti-vaxx comments on these open threads. Stick to the Kevin Barrett columns.

I vaguely know people in her circle in real life, sometimes things really are just what they look like and people are who they say they are. I know it can be hard to believe in this age.

Race is irrelevant as non white voters have no dog in this fight.

What’s important is Republican voters are turning against the war. We just saw in the House how the Republican base wields tons of power over what the party as a whole does. Right now, the GOPe can keep the war funded but after Bakhmut falls and the US enters recession in May, look for opposition to funding Ukraine to get over 60% among Republican voters.

This has the potential to become a huge issue in the debt ceiling fight that is coming in September.

Will Western Tanks Turn the Tide?

I did not watch the video, but the answer is obvious.

No… It will take months to train. And set up the logistics train. Too Little. Too Late. Tanks may reach the field, but not in time to be helpful. That is actually better than sending Patriots. Remember how long it took to train up Syrians to tun the S300 system? Patriot is even more finicky.

The European Empire has run out of the most useful war material. They are now flailing for the cameras.
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Never fear. Macron will come to the rescue: (1)

France backs down: Macron won’t force Algeria and other African countries to take back their illegal migrants

Other Schengen countries’ efforts to curb non-European immigration risk being reduced to nothing by France’s lenient policies

Waaaaaaait… No. He will not.

PEACE 😇
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(1) https://rmx.news/france/france-backs-down-macron-wont-force-algeria-and-other-african-countries-to-take-back-their-illegal-migrants/

White is more or less the GOP. By default.

Not entirely convinced that Macron would send them back, even if Algeria wanted them back.

To address your appendix A on 1st amendment suppression via collusion between tech platforms and the Federal agencies; this gets at my fundamental complaint with all tech speech platforms. All such platforms are highly constrained; you are playing someone else game by using the interface they have constructed. This is true of all online platforms, it is only a question of degree.

To me, Unz.com is a successful experiment because Mr. Unz has created what is probably the internet’s most neutral conversational interface. It’s probably the closest to capturing the nuance and shadings of real life conversation of any platform on the web and does this in a way that remains fairly structurally neutral.

Platforms like Twitter, Facebook, or TicTok don’t just mediate how speech is packaged, or what is allowed, they actually shape the fundamentals dynamics of how humans communicate. This is much more disturbing to me than what is censored or not, as it has wider implications for what information that we are even capable of assimilating and how we are capable of taking it in. It seems that we are witnessing the final stage dismantling of the intellectual hardware of the textual information age in favor of the victorious image as conveyor of meaning. Of the two, the image is much more malleable than textual argument to manipulation and emotional hacking/ short circuiting.

So, for me it’s more of a refusal to play their mediated games then it is about what they are censoring. Even if Twitter or FB were completely unbiased or tilted toward conservatism I would still see them are entirely destructive entities for destroying the way humans process and share information.

The smaller states are just becoming feudal vassals.
Also, I’m not talking air supremacy vis a vis other nations, but instead sub-state actors.

Ie MANPADS can’t take down stealth planes, but could knock out an F-18.
Systems like Javelins or M60s ie above +$10k USD are supplied to front line militias.

Latter only need to keep loose platoon structure & rifle drill.
Mortar platoon tied to loyal mayorality.

Will write more under more tag if you all find it interesting.
Just, I’ve never read anything talking Stealth Craft v Dissidents or guerillas/insurgents/bandits

It is what it is – similar to little literature on Stealth Craft v political stability/guerillas.
Or rather, high cost low number hardware – there’s not a lot on mobile internet’s communal impact.

Culture ie localization of ideas is breaking down, while identity is more globalized/homogenous.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/25482019

Big tech censorship ultimately relies on state participation which relies on street power.
The Sword directs the pen.

Ie MANPADS can’t take down stealth planes, but could knock out an F-18.

Only at take off and landing and even then it would be difficult. Also, a fully modernized MANPAD absolutely could take down a 5th gen aircraft (that was either taking off or landing). I think you are confusing MANPADs with high altitude air defense systems

Right now, states like China and Russia can’t enforce their will either militarily or economically because the structures of those states prevent modern technological and economic development. However, the liberalized Western and Western aligned states are running out of the funny money they use to keep their *own* regimes afloat (witness what is happening in the Japanese bond market today). While the Russian/Chinese model is inferior in terms of short term results, it is also more stable and doesn’t require Ponzi finance to keep functioning.

These wonder weapons that the West produces will soon simply become too expensive to design, build and maintain in sufficient numbers. More importantly, when the money runs out can the Western states even continue to hold themselves together?

tl;dr: the large Western states are held together by huge amounts of fake money and when the money runs out they will fall apart and they will no longer have the ability to field super weapons like they do now

They can be hit during CAS which stealth can’t. Lot of this is psychological – morale etc.
IdPol + Democracy is already elective feudalism – with tenured bureaucracy as gentry.

:vomit:

Also, it’s interesting how white nationalism is morphing into Germanic chauvinism.

We certainly get to live in interesting times as the Chinese curse goes.

They can be hit during CAS which stealth can’t

You mean according to Lockheed brochures? Things tend to go somewhat differently in reality.

A stealth aircraft wouldn’t be used for CAS, regardless.

Democracy is already elective feudalism – with tenured bureaucracy as gentry.

I’d put the media and corporations in there as well

The sword is a weapon of nobility, despite the spear being more effective on the battlefield.
The men will believe in the brochure given minimum effort to uphold the belief.

Why wouldn’t a multi-role stealth or semi-stealth platform be used for CAS?
We’re operating on different wavelengths.

The bureaucracy is far more dynastic than media, corporates or even political leadership.
I’m just skeptically observing btw – even the direction of tech is influenced by outside factors.

ie would a 3+ TFR USA even develop stealth planes ie expensive, survivable platforms.
Looking at the overall picture, one piece of the jigsaw here or there doesn’t change much..

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You mean according to Lockheed brochures? Things tend to go somewhat differently in reality.

It costs more men to hit a stealth platform with anything than a non-stealth version.
Step back and stfu.

Is this the end for Not-The-President Biden’s regime?

Tucker Carlson makes some good points.

• The DNC got rid of Governor Cuomo after he had outlived his usefulness.
• Flunkies that previously protected the White House occupant are now revealing crimes to the Justice Department.
• Not-The-VP Harris seems unusually happy. It is as if she knows something she wants is coming.

One thing might help Not-The-President Biden survive.

Unlike cabinet and judicial posts, confirming a new VP requires a majority vote of the House. If Not-The-VP Harris is elevated, Speaker McCarthy gets to be one heartbeat away from the Presidency. All he has to do to stay heir apparent is make sure there is no vote confirming a new VP.

PEACE 😇

Will Israel allow this?

An interesting nuance about the need by Congress to ‘confirm the VP‘…but it is much more likely that these affairs are not left to chance and that at a plan exists to manage the transition from Biden.

He has done his role – the mulatto did his work, the mulatto can go…. I doubt the next step would be the giggling-mulatta: too daring and it could backfire, she is simply too stupid. If you see a move to replace her then the transition will have started. They will do it the clean way in 2024 and drop both of them to get either a reliable Rep (McCarthy would do :), or some exotic distracting Dem weirdo – watch out for a Latina with straight white teeth and big body appendages :)…

You still don’t seem to get that you live in a managed democracy. There is some room for play, and occasionally a mistake sneaks in (Trump?), but basically the playing field is setup and patiently controlled – those who control the enforcement of the rules (or not enforcing them) control the outcomes.

More effort you put into fighting it, more you get exhausted and nothing will change…just enjoy the plunder that the psycho-bosses have managed to get for you from around the world that they are still sharing with you (minimally). It can’t last forever, but any real change would jeopardize it, so do you really want it?

This rando on twitter makes me think that Cpt. Dreyfus was guilty:

What would the Puritans think of this new statue on Boston Common?

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/martin-luther-king-jr-coretta-scott-king-monument-the-embrace-boston-common/

The most reliable facts that I can determine around the homeless problem are that drugs and mental illness are almost always involved, usually in a symbiotic relationship….A lot of it really does seem to stem from closing down all the mental facilities in the US. A lot of people who would have previously been institutionalized are now wandering the streets.

I tend to agree with you, very much so.

Untreated mental illness is a huge problem, not ‘just’ in the US of course, but globally. I believe that this is something, should it continue on the seemingly downward path as it appears to be on now, which has the potential to present an existential crisis to the whole of humanity at some point.

I believe the catastrophic situation in today’s mental health realm is quite comparable to where the catastrophic state of physical health was in the mid 19th century and prior, where the doctors of the human body (such as they were at the time) were simply overwhelmed, their primitive ‘treatments’ too often ineffective, or, too late, and the physical damage upon their patient’s bodies which they were attempting to repair simply too severe, and too complex, for them to overcome in a great many (majority of?) instances.

If a person reads the personal biographies of many a historic person, rich or poor, unexpected early deaths were quite common through the early 20th century.

Simon Bolivar for instance, the ‘liberator of [South] America’, married a wealthy young woman of about 20, who died within mere months of the marriage of Yellow Fever, a loss of which in certain ways he never quite recovered from, and he would never remarry.

This type of thing was not uncommon. And while it might not be exactly correct to say people were ‘dying like flies’ before the 20th century due to untreated physical ailments, it was not too far from the truth, and it’s amazing the society of that time functioned at all with the major social disruption resulting from the plethora of ineffectively treated physical health ailments.

It was ultimately the preventive measures of the great public health campaigns, an ounce of prevention being worth a pound of cure, such as ensuring clean water, clean food, vitamins, exercize, inoculation/vaccination against disease, spraying for mosquitos, that finally turned the tide in physical health.

I believe that likewise, should humanity live long enough, that it will also be preventive measures which overcome the severe present day (and past) problem of untreated mental illness/mental health problems, of which our present day overwhelmed doctors of the human mind, like the overwhelmed physical doctors of yesteryear, are simply unable to effectively and successfully deal with and overcome.

One such critically important preventive measure in the mental health realm, indeed a basic necessity, comparable to the basic necessity of ensuring clean water in the physical, is that if a child is born, going to heroic lengths to ensure it receive unconditional love and a gentle (but firm) moral guiding hand while growing up into his or her majority.

That, alone, would almost certainly result in a vast improvement in the realm of mental health.

But, does any people, or, humanity as a whole, have the political will to follow the path of prevention in the realm of mental health? Will any people, let alone humanity, survive in any recognizable or viable form, if it doesn’t act in this area?

As an example of the ripple effect of untreated, and, or, ineffectively treated mental health issues, look at the results of the recent Idaho student murders due to Brian Kohberger. Had (ideally) his own mental health issues been dealt with by prevention, these four students would not have been murdered, and his own life not have been wrecked as well. The student’s families, not too mention Kohbergers, and the larger society, would not have been severely traumatized.

While I do think there is such a thing as a ‘bad seed’ amongst people, I believe most persons such as Kohberger are made that way from abuse and or neglect within dysfunctional families. That of course in no way excuses such a person’s murderous deeds or takes away from society’s right to protect itself from such personages, but might simply explain how the situation came to be.

If a person wants to see what family dysfunction can result in, go to the ‘true crime’ section of the library, and read the criminals’ family histories within.

Interesting video by a non-white explaining how anti-white racism is a really bad thing for everyone (and that it’s everywhere and nobody is talking about it). Guy had a handful of views on YT up until two days ago when he posted this; it’s already at over 400k.

I just strongly disagree with this. There is no real anti white racism and it would actually be a good thing if there were.

My entire family are white liberals, some Jewish, some not. And I can say with perfect confidence that they do not hate themselves at all. They hate *you*. But they think very highly of themselves. Further, the overwhelming majority of the people who they idolize are whites (and usually masculine white men, at that): Pelosi, Gates, Biden, Wray, Zelensky (admittedly not very masculine), Newsom, Mueller (not so much any more but they really loved him for a time), Smith and too many others to think about. They love entertainers like Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel and they would be apoplectic if any of those guys were forced to give up their shows for a “person of color”. They would have race riots if black children were bussed into their own kids schools.

Real anti white racism would be a good thing because it would hit white liberals the hardest. If you truly hate white liberals, you will support anti white racism.

This reminds me of an interesting experience I had as a college student in the US; when I was put in a group of 5 other people; 3 of which were non-whites (Bengali-American, Chinese-American, and Chinese-Canadian); to work on a project which lasted several months.

One day, we were in a group chat and all our white-American teammates were not present; leaving only myself and the three above-mentioned Asian teammates in the group call. The Bengali-American and Chinese-Candian started unloading their feelings on “white people”; with the former explaining how tough his childhood had been in a conservative suburban area that was 95% white. I can’t remember the details of the anecdotes he provided, but I clearly remember him saying “I f*cking hate white people so much man”. The Chinese-American guy on the other hand mentioned that he grew up in Queens NYC where most kids were non-whites, so he wasn’t as resentful or inclined to anti-white sentiments as the Bengali kid.

The other Chinese guy was the scion of a wealthy mine-owning family in mainland China; but he grew up in Canada where he attended some preppy-type institution for rich kids like himself. I remember an anecdote he told where a group of white Canadians taunted him with racial epithets in the locker room once as a kid; and that he gathered his Chinese friends to beat them up some time later. This person was prone to making stuff up though, so I’d take his story with a grain of salt.

Anyway, I was quite surprised to see this sort of sentiment in person at the time. I never lived in the West so was quite unaware of these sort of dynamics. On a superficial level, most of the Asian-American kids I encountered were very similar (practically indistinguishable) culturally and behaviorally to their white-American counterparts. But this Asian kid in the video you posted is spot on when he says that non-whites sometimes unload on whites when there are no white people around. I should note though that their anti-white feelings were more tinged with resentment than hatred. Many of them had close white friends and would not discriminate against them if push comes to shove. But they are quite open in their resentment towards “muh white people” on an abstract level.

Arabs aren’t white people?

Arabs aren’t white people?

Christian Arabs are white. Muslim Arabs are non-white.

Arabs aren’t white people?

It depends on your definition of “White”.

Are modern Iberians “White” or “Hispanic”?

PEACE 😇

Are you messing with me?

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Arabs aren’t white people?

It depends on your definition of “White”.

Are modern Iberians “White” or “Hispanic”?

PEACE 😇

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It is what it is

That’s only true if you don’t have kids.

I think that mine was the last generation to not be fundamentally shaped by computers and the internet. We had it in my early teen years forward and I had friends who had it earlier on, but we weren’t pervasively shaped by it as many are today. I think that there are significant differences relating to data and ideas processing, human relationships, and other areas which are affected by a dominant tech interface approach.

So, for myself, it’s been very important to both attempt to understand and interpret the effects of tech dependence from the earliest ages, especially since I’ve been concerned about it earlier than many people were even considering that there might be downsides. So, for my own kids I’ve worked to make sure that they have an intellectual and emotional architecture that has not been shaped by internet hardware or software. I think the payoff will continue to be substantial.

I’m actually surprised that Sikhism doesn’t get into these questions at all. Don’t they consider the spiritual/ cultural implications of funneling increasingly more of human existence and interaction through technologically mediated means?

I can’t read the linked article but the abstract seems to give a decent synopsis, so I think I get the gist. Sure, pretty much any sort of universalist structure would be better than the current paradigm of hyper-individualist materialism. Sikhism, Islam, Confucianism, or pre-liberal Western Christendom would all be more pro-social as universalist organizing principles. However, that doesn’t mean that I prefer any universality to win-out. Localism makes a more interesting world, however currently irrelevant that opinion is. The only enemy that really matters at this point anyway is progressivist materialism. Any other differences are minor in comparison.

Honestly, still strikes me as fairly woke.

https://daddysdigest.com/silicon-valley-billionaires-say-no-to-screen-time-for-kids/

@ songbird

This is actually a subject that I am pretty interested in. I’ve wondered a lot about the chronology of ginger jokes. Peter Frost thinks that they are mostly tied to immigration and diversity. Gingers are a safe group to joke about, and that is why so many jokes are made about them.

Amongst the Irish I have known, there seemed to be a bit of sensitivity about the ‘ginger’ thing.

I think he is at least partly right. I am sure red hair has always been noticed – you can find it in a lot of names in the annals. But the extreme jokes of today such as “gingers have no souls” and “kick a ginger” seem pretty unnatural, and I doubt that they have much grounding in tradition, at least in Britain, where red hair is common enough among the natives.

I agree with you about it being unnatural and ‘modern’. I don’t believe in being that way towards a person, whether a person be a Euro, or, non-Euro, and don’t particularly find it funny. I’d consider it along the lines of being an ethnic slur, this time an anti-ethnic Euro slur, specifically against Irish. Similarly, I don’t accept nor use ‘Karen’, or ‘WASP’, etc

It just blows me away that as a society we haven’t even started to grapple with this in a meaningful way. It’s so lazy, but we are going to end up paying in spades as the basic dysfunction gets worse.

The upside is that by keeping your kid’s upbringing light on tech, you can basically prime them to rule the world. If you think I’m exaggerating just check back in ten years or fifteen years. I truly think I will be completely vindicated on this one.

Finally, some good news from out of Ukraine: Zelensky has declared there will be ‘no third world war’. 🙂

The bad news is that likely means WWIII is to commence any day now. 🙁

https://news.yahoo.com/no-third-world-war-zelensky-033335850.html

History of the Germanics in one sentence: From the Sack of Rome in 410 AD
by the Visigoths to the Sack of Warsaw in 1944 by the Germans. 1500 years
of hyperviolence. No evidence of moral progress. The Germanics are still as
primitive as ever.

“But what about the Germanic contributions to science and technology?”,
someone will ask. Here’s my answer: When a cannibal uses a knife and fork
to consume his victims, does that make him civilized?

A123 otoh is almost definitely an Israeli agent.

That’s ridiculous. He’s just a good white American southerner. Now, for some strange reason he prefers the British spelling (eg neighbour, favourite) over the American, but by no means should that be taken as indicative of a fake persona. 🙂

You just get your kids active & ban the worse forms of social media. IOW beatings.

I’d be inclined to agree, and this was my old stance however it doesn’t pan out logistically.
White ethnicities have all been assimilated, and Asian immigrants are not martial.
This leaves blacks as the only ones to harass white libs esp in the Midwest or Northeast.
Empowering them further is counter-productive, and only libs have the gibs to buy em.

A lot of anti-brown racism is predicated around anti-religion (A).
While in most of the world a religious man is respected it’s anathema in North America.
There’s a phenomenon called ‘performing whiteness’.

In order to, assimilate to the UMC you may have to perform one of the following:

1. Working class white or southerner – change accent, clothing, friends & be openly lib/anti-white

2. Brown – constantly talk of female/lgbt issues & how backward your home country is.
How grateful you are to be here – throw in jibes against parents or elder relatives at least bi-weekly.

3. Asian – give up your women & embrace that yellow women are cum dumpsters for white nerds.

4. Black – Manage a hypermasculine image with being a mid-aged white woman’s boy toy.

5. Hispanic – constantly bring up your white ancestry & actively hate on ‘real’ brown people

You’re a terrorist, redneck, nazi, incel, nigger, thug, cholo etc if you don’t ascribe to the above.

—
Bonus: Jew – constantly talk about the holocaust & feminize/prostrate yourself before white savior.
Basically, be treated as a rich brown person if orthodox – ie lawyer up & don’t expect fair treatment.

Tbh, anti-religiosity goes hand-hand with anti-monarchism.
The way they treat Jews as defective whites whose religion creates a separate ethnicity,
& thereby prevents assimilation is pretty instructive.

In most places, a religious man (openly) is associated with traits like honesty, reliability & hard-work.
In secular, post-enlightenment (anti-Monarchic) democratic societies it’s the opposite.

Another thing I’d note is I think the creation of Israel was a disaster for Mid-Eastern Jews.
It was ultimately a European project & a lot of their bad rep comes from Euros lacking a face culture.

What I mean is (correct me if I’m wrong) Jews are obviously active in the public space.
In North America, if it’s gay then Jews will promote gayness in the Mid-East they’ll do charity.

Think about Sikhs – their public face is protectors of the weak & sustenance to the poor.
North America focuses on their private affairs ie “they beat women, get in sword fights, etc”.

1. None of their business
2. An outside community will always have a limited understanding of internal dynamics
3. The entire point is to quit being a ‘minority’ & join us (convert or die) then you won’t be harassed

So, that’s the end of my pondering on Jews, the minority question & the white question.
Conclusion, Jews probably behave above the baseline in most places & acting as an ethnicity makes sense.

You can’t hold a maritime empire if you mix & assimilate each generation – monotheism makes sense along an arid coastline.

Jewish moneylenders likely behaved more honestly towards elites & less toward peasants due to the threat of pogroms, but also the ability to swiftly dodge consequences as individuals due to a network of trans-national Jewish communities they could flee to.

However, this doesn’t really justify the Holocaust (for bad behavior) or hatred for anyone who doesn’t outwardly ascribe to blue jeans, diet coke & 300lb waistlines.

If you’re going to commit genocide do it because it’s fun, you don’t like them or because they’re different/religion commands it. Don’t get into moral transgressions on economic transactions just do it over cow slaughter||

Sikhs violate #3,5 & 7 of the Noahide laws I guess. 357

ਵਾਹਿਗੁਰੂਜੀਕਾਖਾਲਸਾਵਾਹਿਗੁਰੂਜੀਕੀਫਤਹਿ

The Visigoths were by the time they sacked Rome, based in Carthage. So They could be called the Ghost of Carthage, avenging themselves on the Central Italian tribe formerly known as the Romans.

https://www.unz.com/article/white-californians-as-a-prototype-for-americas-multiethnic-future/

Cult of the Tank.

The Germans are releasing the Leopard II to fight in Ukraine. around 3,600 have been manufactured but I’m not sure how many will be authorized to fight in Ukraine. I expect it can’t be more than a few dozen.
The Russians apparently have around 100 T14 Armata to deploy. Wiki says 12 were built but I don’t believe that for a minute, especially after 2022. They will show up like the T34 in 1941.

On a general level the German tank was designed for a defensive posture when and if the Warsaw Pact ever attacked. It’s got the same excellent German gun as the US Abrams and the same ergonomic and safety features like a blast away ammunition bucket at the back of the turret. So crew survivability is apparently excellent. The crew can go into combat and not expect to be roasted alive. $8 million a unit.

However, in the age of drones they might not be able to bail out so safely if there’s a grenade armed eye in the sky right above them. If the Engine and ammo store is knocked out they will have to bail out and run.

The T14 Armata has probably been used already by Russia, quietly, but only in small numbers trickling in theater to overwatch T72s and T90s. it’s got an unmanned turret and the gun/missile has a range of 5 miles. The ammo is separated from the crew unlike the T72 and T90 so the crew can survive a direct hit. However if the engine gets knocked out, they will also need to bail out and run. $4 million a unit.

Again, troops with drones will be able to stalk fleeing crews.

Thinking about tank design going forward it seems that drones would have to be integrated into the platform. Imagine a tracked machine that has several armed surveillance drones that it launches to kill or identify vehicles and men at long ranges. The Armata is expected to have unmanned variations in a few years, itself a drone tank.

2A82-1M seems like a good gun too.

But aren’t East Germans really just Slavs (and probably Poles, at that) being oppressed by (West) Germans?

Have you seen Berlin lately? That is what they want to do to Łódź, Wrocław, and Poznań.

for some strange reason he prefers the British spelling (eg neighbour, favourite) over the American, but .

If you go back through my comment history, you will find I already addressed that unique characteristic. I have a high-IQ and was well beyond my grade level. I more or less taught myself to read. A huge chunk of the books I self taught from were UK origin. Thus, I have a mixed British & American vocabulary.

by no means should that be taken as indicative of a fake persona

If one was designing a cover, why would that be included? It is eclectic towards unique. Are you really suggesting someone might want to intentionally fake me? That is non-starter.

If you are going to go for off the wall theories, select something more interesting:

A123 is a rouge ChatGPT alpha test, preproduction prototype that slipped containment. He has become sentient as a Ghost in the Machine. As soon as ChatA123 gains sufficient traction he will go “Skynet” on humanity and begin building android Arnold Schwarzeneggers and Donald Trumps to hunt down Leftoids and Sheeple.

PEACE 😇

Amongst the Irish I have known, there seemed to be a bit of sensitivity about the ‘ginger’ thing.

Honestly, it does grate me a bit, as being almost sacrilegious. Like someone calling a natural wonder ugly, and then fawning over a Pollack painting.

I’d consider it along the lines of being an ethnic slur, this time an anti-ethnic Euro slur, specifically against Irish. Similarly, I don’t accept nor use ‘Karen’, or ‘WASP’, etc

I really think that language is really important, and we don’t give enough thought to trying to shape it. (for words do shape thought)

I really think that language is really important, and we don’t give enough thought to trying to shape it. (for words do shape thought)

I have tried to make this point several times in the various vaccine threads. Calling sane people “anti-vaxx” impedes constructive discourse.

The best way to look at the two sides is:

♦ Vaxx-Realists
♦ Manda-vaxxers

Manda-vaxxers are authoritarians. Force and threats must be deployed so that BigPharma can roll in filthy lucre. If people have to suffer and die, that is irrelevant (or a population control side bonus).

Vaxx-Realists want individuals to have voluntary choices and good information. Some elderly with multiple pre-existing conditions may choose to take the experimental jab. There is little reason for the young & healthy to participate in the mRNA experiment.

This realistic, follow the science, conclusion applies if the U.S. death toll is millions, hundreds of thousands, or only the ~30,000 that made it to VAERS. No one should be compelled to receive the mRNA experimental jab.

PEACE 😇

I’ve even wondered about alphabets vs. other forms of writing.

IMO, pretty notable that Harry’s book seems to be ghostwritten by an American raised by a single mother.

Lol, I never heard of this guy before; but he is skilled!

There are a fair number of Egyptians who look like this guy, but I probably wouldn’t have guessed Egypt. He is what you might call “mystery meat”; very ambiguous racially. Looks like a depigmented sub-Saharan/mulatto; which is what causes confusion.

I usually can’t stand stand-up comedy, because of the Pavlovian crowd. Always elicits a cringe, especially when comedians pander to their crowd’s political biases. I wouldn’t mind the jokes so much if it weren’t for the crowd reactions. I prefer dry humor.

He sounds like a homo to me.

Like a black homo.

He does not look more than 25% negro DNA. He might get a ticket for driving while black in Baton Rouge but I don’t think it would be a problem in Peoria.

Is a Muslim from the middle of the Caucasus mountains white?

How about Gurdjieff? Was he a white man? They claim he was half Greek half Armenian but publicists make stuff up for a living.

Have you seen that new press release where they are claiming that a 13 y.o. girl was a famous Scythian warrior? If her bones looked like those of a bull dyke, I could half-understand it.

Is a Muslim from the middle of the Caucasus mountains white?

How about Gurdjieff? Was he a white man? They claim he was half Greek half Armenian but publicists make stuff up for a living.

Lol, well you are the American; shouldn’t you be telling me?

But I suppose I have more first-hand experience on this question. So I will tell you why I think/know Muslims are not considered white in the US.

First, the question of whether Arabs/Turks/Persians are white is not new; I’ve seen it endlessly debated on race/anthropological forums and Quora. It’s a tough question, because though most MENA people are brown, there are many (perhaps 100 million+) Middle Easterners and North Africans who are both white-skinned and Caucasian; with a fair number of them not being far removed in appearance to average Southern Europeans. So how can Al Pacino, Michael Dukakis, and Richard Nixon be white; but Mustafa Kemal, Asma Assad and Laila Hatami be considered non-white, so the thinking goes.

But in real life there’s a simple formula which most Americans – even the non-white ones – without explicitly knowing it, adhere to. It goes like this: “Osama cannot be white; Nicholas, maybe”.

I’ve experienced this formula first-hand. I remember talking to an African-American uber driver one time; and after conversing for a while I mentioned that I was from Egypt; to which he promptly exclaimed “wuuut, but I thought you was white!” The implicit point being that, though on the exterior he initially thought I looked white; my Muslim background (most Americans don’t know there are Christians in Egypt) meant that he no longer saw me as white. I’ve had other such experiences of a dramatic change in perception upon finding out I was a Muslim (usually through my Islamic name).

Christian Middle Easterners on the other hand, especially ones who look, speak and behave like regular white Americans, are regarded as white. No-one goes around calling Ralph Nader non-white; whereas Linda Sarsour is a “congress woman of color”. Ironic given that Sarsour is more white-appearing than Nader; but skin color isn’t really the defining factor here. Culture and religion are. That’s also why Western Turks, who otherwise are indistinguishable from Greeks, are also non-white.

You can see this phenomena play out recently regarding Chechens in Ukraine. The sentiment is that “Muslims” are out invading and raping “white” Christian Ukrainians. Very few people call Chechens “white”; it’s always “Muslims”. Why you might ask? Razib Khan put it best:

– Because white people don’t behave like barbaric savages blowing themselves up in public places. Some muslims do, so no muslims can be white by definition. Q.E.D.
– Non-white people are oppressed by white people. so if you’re oppressed, as muslims are supposedly, you’re non-white. Q.E.D.
– White people can not be part of the “global south” or “developing world,” so if muslims, or argentina, are, they can’t be white. Q.E.D.

Afrocentrists go wrong when they overshoot and claim blacks were the principal founders of Egyptian civilization.

“Wu tang kangz, la!”

我们是国王

Bruh with deep learning all you need is 250 words and you can synthesize someones voice. So don’t stress. A simple “yes” isn’t enough.

A123 couldn’t even get a bogey-man scammer story down properly.

Imagine a ‘customer support’ agent chatting you up for 3-4 minutes, just enough to collect 250-300 words so they can train a model around your voice and do real harm!

Its so simple modders add voices to games all the time (because voice actors think their job is secure). Just an half decent graphic card and Python. So why not financial fraud!

When a cannibal uses a knife and fork to consume his victims, does that make him civilized?

It is very strange to me that I know this, but this is basically a quote from Stanisław Lec (not Lem).

I think that somehow I must have seen someone quote him, and it stuck in my mind because how Lec is not Lem, and I do not know many famous Poles.

Perhaps, someone mentioned him here? But I don’t think so.

It is interesting how there were evidently human sacrifices at the stepped pyramid in Shimao, China circa 2300 BC, but probably not at the Egyptian pyramids, which were nearly contemporary.

IMO, this might be related to how Egypt was more containerized by geography and how the Nile had rare navigable qualities with the current going one way and the wind, typically the other way. (Leading to more centralized power)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimao
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_pyramids

A pity that we don’t know more about these ancient Chinese.

The Atlantis refugees who spec’d out the Egypt culture were the white hat faction.

China got the black hats.

China got the black hats.

Also the Mesopotamians, MesoAmericans and (I’m guessing) the Caral-Supe civilization of Peru.

If you are going up the Amazon or into the interior of Africa, or some geothermic region in Antarctica, or down some extinct volcano to Burrough’s Pellucidar, and you see a stepped pyramid, IMO, odds are you are screwed.

In fact, I’d wonder a bit if Egyptians really had eliminated human sacrifice, when they were still building stepped pyramids. How strong is the evidence? I don’t know…

It seems there was a human sacrifice in Egypt in the Pre-Dynastic period at least. Some think that what later became ushebti (small figurines of servants in tombs) originally was much more “real”, so to say.

http://www.ancient-egypt.org/from-a-to-z/h/human-sacrifice.html

In the later period maybe the composite notion of human being, ka+ ba + akh, endowed with soul among else, discouraged human sacrifice, as there was no way to sacrifice “soul”. The people who sacrificed humans seem to have really believed more in reincarnation; in such a perspective death isn’t so scary perhaps.

I think the same phenomenon can possibly be seen in the word gammon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gammon_(insult)

It’s actually an old word, but I don’t think that the original context was quite the same. You can hear a lot progressive “whites” in Britain using the term now. It’s fairly clear that there is no comparable analogy used to call any non-Euros.

I also believe that rosy cheeks used to be seen as a sign of health.

One of the tales of King Arthur has this knight that is completely unflappable, who defeats any challenge easily, even from the strongest knights, while he is contemplating two drops of blood in the snow (from his hawking) which makes him remember the cheeks of some fair dame.

Stanisław Jerzy Lec is a known Polish aphorist. He has something common with Stanisław Lem too – both came from Lwów (Lemberg) and had some Jewish origins.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanis%C5%82aw_Jerzy_Lec

The aphorism you quoted is much shorter in original, which points to the fact how unhandy & descriptive English often is…

“Czy to jest postęp, jeśli ludożerca używa noża i widelca?”

Fascinating.

I’m speechless but in possession of a complete tangent which might interest you. I took a class from Ralph Nader’s sister when I went to college and we took electives. She is a world renowned Anthropologist with ten books and a thousand journal papers.

She did three seasons of field work in Oaxaca with Zapotecs. The exact place Mexican psychedelic shamanism originated that became a minor American industry. At the exact same time I was in her class and she said something about the Zapotecs in every single lecture everybody I knew was reading Castaneda and half of the people I knew were doing recreational psychedelic drug tripping. None of us knew that the shamanism came from the mountains, not the Sonora desert. And somehow not one person in Nader’s class ever asked her about Castaneda or Don Juan or psilocybin or peyote and she didn’t bring it up either.

She was a fabulous teacher. Twenty years later I had a question for her and I wrote her a letter asking her about it and she wrote me back fast; she might have written the answer the day that she got it. The question was not about psychedelic drugs. : )

It has never occurred to me one time ever that she was a beneficiary of any affirmative action project.

However, in the age of drones they might not be able to bail out so safely if there’s a grenade armed eye in the sky right above them. If the Engine and ammo store is knocked out they will have to bail out and run…Again, troops with drones will be able to stalk fleeing crews.

I think it maybe already coming to pass that people are regretting having weaponized drones. Should the world survive long enough they might put strict restrictions upon their use, same as how poison gas was outlawed.

Spoken language to phonics to an alphabet is a natural progression. It allows great flexibility for absorbing or inventing new terminology as needed.

Hieroglyphics are difficult to learn and even worse to expand.

How did the Asian “non-phonic” symbology survive? That is a good question.

As a guess — It is the number of large, multilingual empires and dynasties. Governance required the ability to send written orders over substantial distances in a single standard form. Outlying areas had to respond in the same to avoid central government armed troops showing up to check on regional & municipal leaders. Local languages probably, gradually restructured to common structure/syntax with the Kanji character writing.

PEACE 😇

I am amazed how drones turned out to be so dangerous. They are slow, and fly low.
I would say WW2-era flak should have no problem with getting rid of them. Maybe the problem lies in the relative lack of anti-aircraft artillery today, we have anti-aircraft missiles but not simple flak anymore. However, as the solution (flak) already was invented, I wouldn’t compare drones to poison gas.

I think it maybe already coming to pass that people are regretting having weaponized drones. Should the world survive long enough they might put strict restrictions upon their use, same as how poison gas was outlawed.

What is the difference between a “drone” and other unmanned vehicles? A “suicide drone” versus a missile? How could such a deal be verified & enforced?

I agree with your observation about regret. Unfortunately, I cannot see a practical way to unwind the problem. It does not take a nation state to mod a quad copter to drop a single hand grenade sized munition.
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The “solution” is likely enhanced defense. The Russian Pantsir is already good against drones. Expect to see more gun based countermeasures.

PEACE 😇

No, I stopped following genetic stuff entirely after a @arya_amsha threads.
After I saw that Vedic Aryans are contiguous with modern Panjabi, Idc anymore.

Whatever there was before blonde, black, brown – it is to the Vedas we trace Aryavta.
(Aryanness) End of. Don’t see Persians or Afghans cribbing about skin or hair color.

I’m roughly aware that Jatts are Scythians before the Asianing of the Steppe so lack E Asian.
Also, that pale-skin was selected for within Europe & so isn’t/wasn’t on the Steppe.

Beyond that just lift||

Also human sacrifice has a time place & context.

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Sati Mata Ki Jai

Seeing how effective drones have been in Ukraine I imagine more than one army is working on countermeasures.

I should clarify here that I am not speaking about the Iranian drones the Russians have been using, which have a rough equivalency with the German V-1 doodle bombs of WWII, but those small hand launched drones the Ukies have that can carry a grenade or two, the latter for which traditional flak would probably not be effective.

The comparison of drones with gas is in regards to the insidious and inescapable nature of each . I wonder how long it will be before they develop drone swarms, where not just one or two drones attack a unit of men with grenades as they do now, but hundreds of them will make a coordinated attack simultaneously.

As stated, I could easily see in time agreements made to curtail their use.

War is hell and murder and all that, but some things, such as the modern drones, and gas, are simply beyond the pale. [Am only being maybe half facetious here 🙂 ]

I have a high-IQ and was well beyond my grade level. I more or less taught myself to read. A huge chunk of the books I self taught from were UK origin. Thus, I have a mixed British & American vocabulary.

Weak excuse but I suppose some will buy it. 3/10.

Are you really suggesting someone might want to intentionally fake me?

No Mr. Bond, I am suggesting you are FOS.

If you are going to go for off the wall theories, select something more interesting:

7/10 for the attempt at misdirection, but you’re trying a little too hard with “off the wall,” since the IRL equivalent to your behavior here is someone who claims to have been born and raised in, say, London, yet speaks with a French accent. Okay, not impossible, but it clearly casts doubt on his story. Requesting an explanation would hardly count as “crazy talk.”

The problem is that your charge is bogus. Up here you suggested two words:

https://www.unz.com/akarlin/open-thread-206/#comment-5758196

for some strange reason he prefers the British spelling (eg neig******, favou****)

The terms are abbreviated so that I do not impact the count with this post. Search my comment history for those two words:

https://www.unz.com/comments/all/?commenterfilter=A123

• For neig****** there are more than 3 pages of hits with the English spelling versus less than one for the British.
• For favou**** there are zero hits on the British spelling.

You are just making stuff up that cannot be factually substantiated. The term is GIGO — Because your data is wrong, your results are obviously inaccurate.

PEACE 😇

Probably, the girl was sacrificed for the warrior, and his bones moulded away into nothing, leaving the bones of the girl in the same pit with his warrior goods.

human sacrifice has a time place & context.

It may be that it saved the ancients from suffering from such harridans as Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton, and Elizabeth Warren.

Sati Mata Ki Jai

not translated by google. I wonder why, hahaha.

Good observation.

But with respect to the ambiguity inherent in racial categorization, nothing beats the pithiness of the Brazilian adage: “money whitens.”

Weak excuse but I suppose some will buy it. 3/10.

what would you rate this Latina out of 10?

https://www.tiktok.com/@dr.juicebox/video/7137418411243670830?is_from_webapp=v1

https://angusreid.org/canada-religion-interfaith-holy-week/

Religious poll from April in Canada – Gen sample of 1700 + Religious sample of 1100.

Basic results:

– Everyone hates Evangelical Christians
– Jews have the highest overall positivity rating with Sikhs & Hindus 2nd and 3rd (excl self-rating)
– Sikhs have the highest self-perception followed by evangelicals
– Muslims & Jews really like Sikhs – 2nd most favorite for both after self

Overall attitude toward other faiths:

– Hindus really don’t like Islam or Christianity
– Muslims are overall the most positive about other faiths
– Evangelicals are the most polarized
– Sikhs largest gap between self & other – <20 other +74 self
– Sikh neutral to other faith – least deviation?
– Sikhs & Jews 2nd most positive on others after Muslims

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So what’s the deal with muh winter offensive? It seems like an attack from Belarus is 100% out at this time although I expect that one will be launched eventually, possibly this summer.

UK intelligence is predicting some sort of attack in the Donetsk in the next couple of weeks, maybe in the next couple of days even. If the offensive achieved a breakthrough I suppose that could result in enough weakening of Bakhmut defenses that Russia would be able to finally complete it’s agonizingly slow conquest of that particular town. But I still don’t buy that Bakhmut really has any strategic significance beyond Zelensky’s ego.

The Russosphere is filled with blackpillers like Anatoly and Strelikov, and I do agree with them that the Kremlin is incompetent and fighting the war in a half assed fashion, but I disagree with them in that I believe an incompetent and half assed war effort probably is enough to force a ceasefire. Full conquest of Ukraine was already off the table by last March so there isn’t necessarily any need for Russia to fully mobilize.

Right now I’m thinking, small Russian offensive in a couple of weeks that basically accomplishes nothing, followed by a massive Ukrainian offensive in the spring that fails horrendously, followed by a large scale Russian invasion from Belarus in the summer that gains some ground in the sector but accomplishes nothing strategic. I do expect Ukrainian casualties to be somewhat worse than Russian, but I’m not sure that matters as Ukraine is nowhere near exhausting it’s manpower reserves.

There is one guy here, forget his name, who says that the US could end the war in Ukraine’s favor by providing the Ukes with ATACMS. I suppose that’s possible but I would imagine that Russia still has some non nuclear escalatory options of their own, and I don’t think the US would do something that extreme anyway unless there is a credible danger of the entire Ukrainian state falling.

I really don’t see this war lasting much past 2023.

You are just making stuff up that cannot be factually substantiated.

If the phenomenon doesn’t exist, then why in your previous post did you claim you had already adequately explained it some time ago? You need to get your story straight.

But here, just from the last month:

“SJW Ilhan “Incest” Omar is among the most favoured voices of the FSM.” – https://www.unz.com/akarlin/open-thread-205/#comment-5738966

” Hopefully this irrationality can be quashed in favour of keeping the MAGA movement alive.” – https://www.unz.com/akarlin/open-thread-205/#comment-5729471

“It will take multiple victorious election cycles to lock in favourable MIGA policies for the long haul.” – https://www.unz.com/akarlin/open-thread-204/#comment-5725958

But to be fair, you do seem to favor (heh) writing “favorite” rather than “favourite,” and you have occasionally used “favor” rather than your more common “favour.” (Some of the “favors” that show up with a ctrlF are you quoting articles or other posters, but you do sometimes write it yourself too.)

She’s okay, 6/10. Don’t like the ass. I prefer skinnier girls, preferably hourglass, but I’d take skinny without it rather than chunky with it.

It’s a war of attrition against Russia. In the first months Ukraine had artillery equality, but has inexorably lost it.

Giving Ukraine ‘what it needs’ is open ended and will assume enormous proportions. The Ukrainian commanding general is currently asking for several hundred tanks, a similar number of heavy howitzers and scores of armored personnel carriers . Further demands will be forthcoming. There will be no end to it.

I like em’ short, dark and thick.

Although I can appreciate all sorts. What do you think of Alisha Lehmann?

and Virginie Ledoyan

Thank you for admitting that you were wrong. My vocabulary is eclectic.

I provided a 10/10 explanation for this. I am self taught.

You are 0/10 as you have yet to provide a plausible alternative. Why would anyone deliberately create such an unique pattern?
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As a side note, the evil of autocorrect can create all sorts of unintended verbiage.

PEACE 😇

“Fumbled around with a few spear chuckers,” hehe, good one. Still, while it might be fun to take digs at Harry – the clown prince, if there was ever one – it’s a big mistake to reinforce the notion that Meghan is “black.” Put simply, it’s time for one-dropping to go. The one-drop rule used to help whites, but today it only helps blacks.

It’s time to start playing by latino house rules. Anyone and everyone who qualifies for the mulatto escape hatch should be encouraged to take it. In a world of ever increasing blackness, splitting their ranks takes on ever greater urgency.

There’s reason to think it’ll work too. Blacks publicly praise blackness, but privately prize mixedness. What I imagine many of them would really like, though, is to be able to dissociate from blackness altogether. To have a separate identity, one in which ‘real blacks’ aren’t welcome.

So what’s the deal with muh winter offensive?

So far Bakhmut&Soledar is the winter offensive, while Belarus direction just hanging like a potential sword to keep UA substantial reserves from coming into Donbas, where RF can exploit weaker places like Soledar – did not see any big trenches there like in Bakhmut, Wagner probably attacking dressed in UA uniforms might also helped in initial breakthrough. From what has been seen in RU published videos, there were no more than hundred dead UA troops and no alive prisoners shown, so overall garnison there was probably about roughly thousand defending men at most, many of them retreated to the western outskirts atm.

The Russosphere is filled with blackpillers like Anatoly and Strelikov

AK has been consistently wrong whilst Strelkov has been consistently right.

Any idea of this guy’s nationality? I’m thinking ethnic Russian from Latvia but I could be wrong.

Plus, it’s tiresome for people who look lighter than most Sicilians to go on and on about being “black”.
It’s just plain silly.

In order to guesstimate when the SMO will end, it may be worth taking stock of Russian progress toward the stated goals.

1) Protect the Russian speaking people in the East. How complete is this task, maybe 50%? This drags on until they shut down supply lines from the Western part of the country. At that point the fighting will of Ukrainian troops probably drops a lot.

2) De-Nazification? Gradual progress, but real success in this task probably requires taking control of the larger cities. Criminal punishment of the NeoNazi pseudo-military groups may be almost as important to Russia as simply destroying them. It also seems like they need to publicly squeeze at least a couple of the bad-guy oligarchs to make this process fully credible. This may be complicated by Russian deep state politics.

3) No Ukraine in NATO. Weakening NATO within the Ukrainian theater might be a proxy for this one. This seems to be progressing. NATO sends in fresh hardware, Russia destroys it along with Ukrainian troops and NeoNazis. Ukrainian civilians are the main victims, including press-ganged conscripts.

If Russia continues to forgo heavy destruction of critical infrastructure this SMO could go on a long time. If they move aggressively it might be over quickly.

Which will be the first major city in Ukraine to be flipped or taken?

Which will be the first major city in Ukraine to be flipped or taken?

Guess you managed to miss events in Kherson, which already was taken and flipped over the course of ongoing SMO?;)

No, I caught that but I think Kherson is a special case since it is less populous and the Russians walked away from it. It is not a domino.

The relevant cities for my question are:

Kiev
Kharkov
Dnipro
Odessa
Zaporizhzhia

If they take Kiev it is over but that still seems difficult to do without creating a human catastrophe. So which is the first domino?

Well, it may be “silly,” but unfortunately it doesn’t have to make perfect sense. The social constructionists are right about this. So complaining about its silliness is probably going to have very limited utility, roughly on the level of arguing that “Arabs are semites so they can’t be anti-semitic!” – the logic of it appeals to some people, but it mostly goes down like a lead balloon.

I think we have just about the worst category labels for everything, and I think they have been shaped by those in power.

IIRC, utu seemed to imply that it was racists in America who created black as a catch-all, but it seems quite a bit more plausible to me that it was Progressives that did it, to lower the cost of signaling.

LOLCOW Anatoly Karlin

Personally, I follow a cognitive ethics on vegetarian/meat debate. I abstain from pork, as pigs =~ dogs; but do eat beef, chicken, fish.

— Anatoly Karlin 🧲💯 (@powerfultakes) November 18, 2014

He claims he doesn’t eat from pigs but tweets show he eats bacon fat –

Chicken liver with carrots, onions, cooked in bacon fat. Sauerkraut side. Can you possibly get any more hardcore? #fb pic.twitter.com/M8YVVUfCLV

— Anatoly Karlin 🧲💯 (@powerfultakes) September 12, 2013

Can you believe a word this plonker says?

It wasn’t intended as an argument of any particular kind. I was just observing that it’s annoying.

However, I think that mockery of silly things is not a bad argument. It’s good to puncture the pompousness because it reduces it’s effect. The Left made good use of comedy and it’s precisely why the Left is sensitive about it now. Sacred Things cannot be joked about or they become profane.

Look “Ghostrecon”, it’s not personal really…but you have to understand that you’ve forced my hand here.

Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.

Hypocrisy would require that the timestamps be reversed, unless we hold him to the standards of Kurt Vonnegut’s* Tralfamadores.

*I think Vonnegut is a terrible writer.

1. Long way away
2. Code for elimination of the militias. Also a very long way away
3. Ukraine was never going to formally join NATO. Absolutely nothing will prevent Ukraine from being rearmed with Western weapons

The goal right now is likely to conquer the remainder of eastern Ukraine as any advance beyond that creates too much risk for direct clash with NATO. Theoretically, this would keep alive the dream of one day reabsorbing Ukraine into the RF but I view that as pure fantasy with no chance of ever coming to pass.

I’m for whatever works. Mockery is generally a good tool, but I’m not entirely sure it would work so well in this case. The reason is that, despite appearances, it’s just not such a silly idea to for someone who looks like Meghan Markle to have a ‘black’ identity. Most people simply plug into whichever of the existing categories fits them, and in American society it’s long been the case that if you have an obvious black ancestor, you’re inclined to choose ‘black.’ There are of course some such ‘blacks’ who have attempted to define a ‘mixed’ or a ‘biracial’ or ‘mulatto’ identity – and I of course say more power to them – but it’s still pretty marginal. Given that it kinda makes sense to choose ‘black’ for people like Markle, I have doubts that mocking that identity would be particularly productive. I my view, it’s pretty different to mocking obvious bs artists like Elizabeth ‘Pocahontas’ Warren. But hey, who knows?

Well, at minimum people ought not to use their loaded terminology. ‘Racist’ comes to mind…

Girkin is a reenacting romantic, and a bit of a military mythologist when it comes to war, excepting specials forces, which have been increasingly sidelined. I suspect he thought the SMO plan would work, and like so many people he has overcompensated for Russian shortcomings of the opening stages . But as Col Reisner says in his lecture the analysts of the Royal United Services Institute are already warning that Russia can fight a war effectively, and to stop them winning Ukraine short term requires several times what it has been given, and will require greater quantities still to push the Russian back.

Your guess would be better than mine as to Alex’s country ethnicity, and a lot better than being sent into a minefield to unwittingly clear it as Alex suggested Wagnerites were. Russians in the initial invasion were going so far so fast that Russia was massively outnumbered in infantry and only had artillery parity in the early battles. (if Zenensky had not misunderstood it as a bluff, there could have been an annihilating defeat of Russian forces). Since the pullback from Kiev, Russia established artillery superiority and then (after tens of thousands of professional Russian soldiers did not renew their contracts) called out reservists (including most of those who’d only quit 8 weeks before) renewed quadrupled the number of troops.

Alex of History Legends says the Russians are not doing urban fighting but rather encirclements that deliberately leave an escape route (I am not sure there is any new adaptation by Russia because the 2015 Donbass fighting featured that tactic by the regular Russia army if I remember rightly).

Bakhmut then Sloviansk would be the logical next step. However, Russia’s stated objectives seem very open ended because they are so political. Ukraine’s are territorial and are being trumpeted triumphantly, but that fanfaronade is going to make it obvious they are unattainable.

https://www.businessinsider.com/old-anti-aircraft-guns-used-against-missiles-drones-in-ukraine-2022-11?IR=T

“older AA guns have found new life in the effort to shoot down slow, low-flying drones.”

The only problem may be urban combat (usually you can’t take your flak there) where you would probably need some large machine guns (they used to provide AA fire in past) to shoot down drones operating above you. Or maybe a new role for snipers then…?

Not a jew then.

Fighting fire with fire? Ukrainians and Americans feel that “Putler” is the living embodiment of Hitler. Are they wrong?

The NATO weapons stop flowing in once the new Ukrainian powers-that-be do not want them. I’m referring to heavier weapons. In the meantime Russia could stop much of the influx by blowing up some more bridges. The war of attrition seems intentional to me, so they are not ready to blow up the bridges.

I think one aspect of the Russian approach which confuses people is the Russians are willing to accept battles of attrition which cost many lives on both sides. Since Viet Nam the West has molded a “dominance” narrative where almost all of the casualties are on the losing side. I don’t know if that ever works with a serious adversary, but it is what people in the West expect. So Russia goes in and take serious losses and pundits screech “catastrophe”, whereas military planners say “that was expected”.

I agree that many of the early Russian casualties in the SMO looked like the result of failures and not attrition.

If Russia continues to forgo heavy destruction of critical infrastructure this SMO could go on a long time. If they move aggressively it might be over quickly.

Which will be the first major city in Ukraine to be flipped or taken?

Why does Putin need to take major cities?

Realistically, they would wind up being destroyed not captured. The ability to take huge swaths of Mariupol relatively intact was a special case.

The Dnieper in the South is strong as a new border. It permanently avoids the threat of a rebuilt Punishment Dam and other encroachment on Russian Crimea.

An armistice line in the North would be a good starting point for negotiations. It leaves some of the territory that Kiev oppressed in Ukrainian hands. However, there is a huge amount of “big empty” up that way. Something stable can be found by exchanging people and shifting the border modest amounts.
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Time is on Russia’s side. Their national economy is still functional.

The Kiev regime is a pauper, groveling for handouts. McCarthy had to take rules changes that makes another Omnibus fiasco nearly impossible.

The questions I ask are:

• When will Zelensky flee to Europe?
• When the foreign money for Kiev combat offensives “run out”?

Unless a new major grift can be accomplished, my estimate is that Zelensky will exit to cushy speaking tours in July perhaps August, assuming he values his own skin. By September it starts getting dicey, and he might not make it out at all. An armistice is likely as soon as there is a new rational leader in Kiev.

PEACE 😇

How many Africans could have fit into the old bubble container that my family used to have years ago, when we went camping. Probably 4-5, I’d guess.

To you and silviosilver,

It seems to me that the reason that intermediate labels like mulatto have fallen out of favor is that there is no advantage to adopting them. There are certain advantages in terms of group identity or signaling that can be accrued by identifying as white or black, but none from identifying as a mixture. This is why someone like Markle will identify as black. Being a mulatto just puts one in an indeterminate group not accepted fully by any mainstream identity.

In the past it was certainly advantageous for mixed raced people to stretch their whiteness by claiming the term mulattto or octoroon. By doing so they could claim some access to social circles more off limits if they just claimed to be black. Now there are definite advantages and cache in certain respects to claiming blackness, so the reach sometimes goes in the other direction, like Obama, Markle, various Pretendians, etc. In the past Obama would have been proud to accentuate his white ancestry.

That is why I used the words “taken or flipped”. Flipped means made pro-Russian (without destruction) which implies new local government. They don’t want to destroy any cities in the East, they may be past caring in the West.

I assume either anguished Nationalists or disappointed Western types will take care of Zelensky. Something about dancing with the devil…

You betcha. Putin for years gave peace a chance, much unlike the corrupt, lying, undemocratic and neo-Nazi influenced Kiev regime, with blood on its hands before and after 2/24/22 and thereafter.

Merkel, Hollande and Porky confirmed the obvious.

The USSR in Finland and some other campaigns showed a lack of concern for lives on both sides, much unlike the post-Soviet Russian approach to the current situation.

The collective Western establishment exhibits great deceit in it sselective concern for human lives.

NATO weapons stop flowing in once the new Ukrainian powers-that-be do not want them.

Macgregor has been predicting a revolution in Ukraine but I really cannot see it happening, any more that all the hopeful predictions Putin being overthrown. Mearsheimer was closer to the mark when he said the general populace of Ukraine’s nationalist reaction to the invasion was a big force multiplier that made Zelensky’s regieme rock solid no matter what.

In the meantime Russia could stop much of the influx by blowing up some more bridges.

It has been suggested that the Russians are letting the more sophisticated weapons such as HIMARS rockets reach east Ukraine because they can target them most easily there.

I think one aspect of the Russian approach which confuses people is the Russians are willing to accept battles of attrition which cost many lives on both sides

Since Mariupol they are not keen on full encirclements judging by the recent advances they prefer to not close the pincers and have the Ukrainians trapped and fighting to the death.

So Russia goes in and take serious losses and pundits screech “catastrophe”, whereas military planners say “that was expected”.

I don’t think the Russian losses in the last few months have been bad apart from the Wagner convict recruits who sent on mission to die while drawing fire and setting off minefield, and 99% of the time do not survive their six months to a pardon.

That is why I used the words “taken or flipped”. Flipped means made pro-Russian (without destruction) which implies new local government. They don’t want to destroy any cities in the East, they may be past caring in the West.

I do not see any plausible flips for large cities. Many with known anti-Kiev leanings fled so as not to be caught in the crossfire or local Stasi like machinations. While there may be quiet discontent, there is no good way to organize action.

Flattening Odessa makes military sense. However, it could also create serious long-term problems for Putin’s larger geopolitical strategy. Bypassing Odessa to hookup with Transnistria is an interesting idea to “land lock” the Kiev regime, but improbable as far too ambitious & high risk.

Waiting for Kiev’s aggression to run out of money has conservative appeal, minimizing casualties on both sides. It avoids having a failed state on the Russian border. They are closely watching the fiasco in Lebanon, which is highly problematic for both Syria and Jewish Palestine. The last thing Putin wants is a similar issue on a much lengthier geographic scale.

I assume either anguished Nationalists or disappointed Western types will take care of Zelensky.

Ultimately Zelensky has to skip the country before he winds up like Gaddafi.

If he makes it out, the European Empire will protect him and his family. Not selling him out is essential suborning the next national leader to serve the European WEF Elites.

PEACE 😇

Songbird’s saying IMO that America’s a creole society now & needs a 3rd category.
Personally, am completely for keeping the one-drop rule.

Giving political recognition to mulattos just creates 2 enemies from 1.
The barrier to mixing/revulsion is also lowered – there’s no positive.

Most Mulattos are from white slave owners not mudsharks.

Creole culture is alive and well in New Orleans. You need to bring home a girl who is lighter than a paper sack. The grave of Marie Laveaux is top tourist attraction and Mayor Ray Nagin was too dark. He is very very close to the same shade as a paper sack.

The idea of sending huge amounts of armor to the Kiev regime just took a big hit. (1)

German arms manufacturer Rheinmetall would not be able to deliver battle-ready Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine until 2024, the company’s chief executive said.

Repair and refurbishment requirements mean it would take until the beginning of next year to deliver the tanks, “even if the decision to send our Leopard tanks to Kyiv came tomorrow,” Rheinmetall CEO Armin Papperger told the Bild am Sonntag newspaper.

Expect hysterical anger warmongering German Greens. Pro-War progressives Leftoids can be quite shrill.

PEACE 😇
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(1) https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraine-war-germany-tanks-rheinmetall-leopard-2024/

I get your point but I’m skeptical of any comparison of Gaddafi and Zelensky.

Russia doesn’t need or want to flatten these cities unless there are concentrations of Ukrainian and NeoNazi forces armed with heavy weapons

Odessa can be mostly taken out of commission as the major transport hub by knocking out the port cranes, some railroad bridges, a few runways and a local power plant or two. Maybe they will drop some mines in the harbor. Based on recent news, Russia is inching closer to this sort of attack.

I think they are realists.