We’ll see whether their stupidity saved the world from anything. Neocons sped up the downfall of the dominance of the US and USD by 20-30 years. They made inevitable de facto alliance of all anti-imperial forces, Russia, China, Iran, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and quite a few other countries in Asia, Latin America, and Africa. This alliance is so unnatural that only clinically insane imperial policy could have created it.

Too late now to cry over spilled milk. There is only one hope for a better future: that dying Pax Americana is not replaced by Pax Sinica. Multi-polarity is the only path to anything more decent than what we had for quite some time.

Multi-polarity is the only path to anything more decent

Looks like you’re going to have to pin your hopes on India then. Europe is completely under America’s thumb, and Russia under Putin’s brilliant leadership can hardly afford to antagonize China on important matters.
Not all bad though, here’s some nice Xi Jinping art by a Russian painter:
https://www.artmajeur.com/tb-sid/en/artworks/10781431/xi-jinping-and-the-youth-of-the-planet

Btw Barbarossa they tried arresting Bhai Amritpal Singh.
80,000 police couldn’t locate him since early Mars.

They shut down the state & all.
He turned himself in after they threatened his wife & in laws.

Shameless Hindus are proud of using that tactic.
Otherwise Idk, they sent in paramilitary as well but couldn’t locate him within Punjab let alone abroad.

Speaks ill of the republic’s security

ਅਕਾਲ

Just posting – they’ll definitely try to top it though.

Here’s a “powerful take” that our former impresario, Anatoly Karlin, might even appreciate:

Washington Warmongers’ overreaction to Russia’s invasion might have *averted* a US war with China.

I think once Russia made its move America had to go all in to help Ukraine or be seen as a country that did not support its allies. There is a Mearsheimer argument that the current war in Ukraine was America’s fault, yet that is really rhetoric because Mearsheimer’s theory has no place for moral blame. Not only that but in Mearsheimer’s theory a country ought to take every opportunity to increase its power whether by becoming a regional hegemon (as the US long has been), or by preventing other countries from becoming a hegemon in their own region.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/05/emotions-crucial-to-how-we-think-charles-darwin-decision-making

Perhaps the most important discovery regarding the role of emotion is that even when you believe you are exercising cold, logical reason, you aren’t. People aren’t usually aware of it, but the very framework of their thought process is highly influenced by what they’re feeling at the time – sometimes subtly, sometimes not. As the Caltech neuroscientist Ralph Adolphs puts it: “Each emotion is a functional state of the mind that puts your brain in a particular mode of operation that adjusts your goals, directs your attention, and modifies the weights you assign to various factors as you do mental calculations.” [A] biological brain can run in various modes, each with different characteristics. An emotion – both in humans and animals – is a functional backdrop that orchestrates and coordinates those many programs in a manner tuned to the type of situation you are in.

RF is financing and directing African commie reparationists in USA:

The indictment alleges that African People’s Socialist Party Chairman Omali Yeshitela and members Penny Joanne Hess and Jesse Nevel acted as illegal agents of the Russian government without notifying the U.S. attorney general. They each face up to 10 years in prison for that charge. They also face up to five years in prison for conspiring to have U.S. citizens act as illegal agents.
………….
The indictment comes several months after the FBI raided the party’s Uhuru Center in south St. Louis. Agents raided the party’s St. Petersburg office as well. Yeshitela said at the time that his organization had never taken money from the Russian government.

The Uhuru Center drew attention last year after it had raised money for projects across the city, including nearly $130,000 from GoFundMe for the basketball court in the Fairground neighborhood. Yeshitela also founded the Uhuru Solidarity Movement, an anti-colonialist organization, and led a march for reparations in cities across the country in 2021.

https://news.stlpublicradio.org/government-politics-issues/2023-04-18/three-st-louis-residents-indicted-on-charges-of-illegally-pushing-pro-russian-propaganda

Omali Yeshitela named creature here in all his visual glory:

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/22123394/ionov-indictment.pdf

The individuals involved are extremely unlikeable, but still looks like a politically motivated travesty of justice to indict them. Very ominous sign of what Russiagate and Ukraine war hysteria have led to (erosion of freedom of speech even in the US).

He’s isn’t saying “ought” to. He’s arguing that states through history have done this and still do this. And even if they don’t appear to do it; like the US or contemporary Britain or France, they actually do this through other means than military.

If as an Anglophone you watch US films about ww2 the propaganda is not so easily felt, say with Fury (with Brad Pitt) or Saving Private Ryan (Tom Hanks)…if you watch late Soviet or even recent ww2 films (like T34 or White Tiger, which are both close to Fury and SPR) from Russia the fetishistic propaganda and double standards are more blatant/obvious as you are not familiar with the basic perspective of the Russians, about this ww2 event and the men in it.

One group of men are Fighting And Fucking their way to secure hegemonic power status while the other men are fighting to secure Freedom/Equality. One group is Imperialist the other group are Liberators. But which was which?

Niggers are weird and the FBI is weirder still.

…Neocons sped up the downfall of the dominance of the US and USD by 20-30 years.

When you look into an abyss too much it pulls you in…abyssus abyssum invocat…

It is also possible – even likely – that the dominant neo-cons have never been interested in the US empire as it is: a prosperous, stable, livable land, run well enough to mostly stay out of other people’s quarrels. The neo-cons are attracted by chaos, not orderly societies – they are vengeful, bitter, bored, insecure narcissists. They generally despise the masses of Americans and other Westerners.

The preservation of the US’s dominant position is important for them only as the means to do other more exciting stuff. Their basic emotion is a deep resentment – they really dislike what actually happened in the history. Most think that WW2 was won by the wrong country (Russia), and minority goes further and dreams of what would a German victory be like. They are bitter revisionists at war with the past.

Allowing this infantile and yet morbid small group to take over almost all elite positions was a fatal error: they are only harmless in their personal weakness – none of them are what one would describe as traditional honorable men (or women) – but as a yapping cult of weaklings they are very dangerous. They play games with other people’s lives – like the ancient royals but without any dignity or honor.

I am always amused how many here on Unz – who seem otherwise normal – parrot the neo-con worldview without admitting it. The Georgetown ‘wanna-be’s’ who like to break out the maps after dinner – and to dream childish dreams…’what if’… and ‘maybe this time…’

For the sake of extrapolation fun worth waiting hearing concerns about homo freedom of speech in Uganda;)

Ok, I suppose you’ve got a point here regarding my own hypocrisy. Of course my views are conditioned not least by the fact that people like me have no power in the contemporary West, when you’re in that position it’s easy to make appeals to liberal values you might not respect yourself if positions were reversed. I admit this isn’t a very honest or principled attitude.
Still, what always strikes me about your comments is that you seem to have absolute faith in the essential goodness of Western political elites, and those running the US intelligence complex. Apparently they can do no wrong, as long as it’s supposedly directed against Russia. Seems pretty naive to me.

In a very principled attitude they’re not persecuted for spewing their nonsense though, the criminal offense seems to be they are doing it for the money and getting directed by foreign power without publicly disclosing it all.

Don’t know about the exact legal issues, maybe something could be construed that they would have to register as foreign agents, if they have actually received money from Russia (something apparently denied by Yeshitela). Given the influence lobbyists of other foreign countries (e.g. Israel or Saudi-Arabia) have on US politics, still seems absurd to me to focus on such a fringe group.
More generally, I get that you’re not sympathetic to people who present Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as part of some anti-imperialist struggle, in best Soviet tradition. The trouble is that given the mentality of the people running today’s West it’s unlikely to stop there. And accusations of the type “intended to cause dissension” are so vague they can be used against anything those in power don’t like.

A very great problem with assessing the USSR is the presence of Ukrainians who carried out the policies of the time.

One good example of this is General Kulik.

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

Ukrainian ethnic who initially impressed Stalin in the Russian Civil War in the Battle of Tsaritsyn (now Volgograd). Kulik commanded the Soviet forces that fought Poland in 1919-20 and had to be replaced by the even more suspect Budyonny. You couldn’t find a more boobish general if you tried. He opposed the development of T34 tanks, mines, certain antitank guns, opposed rockets development like the Katyushka and disliked motorization in general. He had a hand in the Katyn Massacre later on as a commander of forces for the annexation of Poland in 1939 too. He was a senior commander in Leningrad right before it was a siege and is held responsible for fumbling the siege.

Kulik also was key in the Officer Purge of the 1930s getting rid of more forward thinking Russian general officers like Marshal Tukhachevsky. Kulik survived into 1950 despite Zhukov hating him, only because he was Stalin’s favorite lackey from the civil war. Zhukov probably came close to falling victim to this political animal several times.

There’s a case to be made that as Defense Minister Kulik was the ultimately the brain behind the ill fought early operations of the Finnish War and the poorly conceived idea of Suicidal Pell Mell counter-attacking at all costs as the Wehrmacht rolled in 1941. Zhukov again had to sideline him by November 1941 to preserve whatever was left to defend Moscow and Leningrad.

It’s almost like this Ukrainian Kulik was a German saboteur. Kulik sounds like the Lysenko (another Ukie) of military theory. Kulik Kaganovich Lysenko…What a way to fuck a great power.

It’s fascinating that a US black is doing the whole pro-Russia schtick. Most 99% nig-nogs are dependent on the Federal Government for their livelihoods and physical security, and know it.

Kulik survived into into 1950 despite Zhukov hating him

Quite peculiar description of survival, knowing that Kulik was arrested in 1947 and shot for treason in summer of 1950;)

…accusations of the type “intended to cause dissension” are so vague

It is so wonderful that the ephemeral concept of ‘unity‘ is back in vogue. Unity was the desired state for the fascists, communists, nationalists, royalists, clericals …it is what they always sought and it was often high-lighted in the names of their institutions.

Thank heaven, the liberals have finally reached the unity point after spending a few centuries posing as liking ‘pluralism’…Pluralism is by definition dissension, how could that be? The liberals know the truth, there is only one truth, and they own it…simple and unifying…

When there is unity there has to be something to ‘unify against‘: satan, imperialist, plutocrat…and now finally the “Russians” – very simple and thankfully an ethnic satan needs less paperwork, it is more straightforward. Having an enemy allows for clear boundaries and so it promotes “unity”…

(Holy shit, “dissension“, “disinformation“…are these morons for real? Are we being ruled by elderly women who used to work as school administrators?)

Thank heaven, the liberals have finally reached the unity point after spending a few centuries posing as liking ‘pluralism’…Pluralism is by definition dissension, how could that be? The liberals know the truth, there is only one truth, and they own it…simple and unifying…

Indeed, that’s exactly the issue. As far as I can see, those black radicals aren’t accused of actually planning violence or other criminal acts, no, they’re accused of voicing opinions, spreading a narrative etc. the government has declared to be illegitimate. The self-styled defenders of “liberal democracy” aren’t really that more liberal than their opponents after all.

By my way of of thinking America which would certainly not and did not accept China buying a Venezuelan island, is trying to give other countries freedom from a shadowy overlordship by Russia, which insists on remaining a sort of implicit hegemon–in relation to Ukraine at least.

America is a more robust society than Russia because the US is more complex and thus flexible in the face of new challenges. Since the fall of the USSR, American strategist assumed politics was dead leaving ethics as the guide, and because ethics forbids attacking other countries Ukraine would be safe. Russia’s propinquity gives it profound advantages in Ukraine; it also has escalatory dominance inasmuch were if being pushed out of all Ukraine including Crimea Russia could and surely would use theatre thermonuclear weapons on Ukrainian military forces and as Mearsheimer says, what would not America do then? I think the US are aiming for stalemate in Ukraine and Russia to get frustrated and give up. China has not intention of invading Taiwan, unless it is foolhardy enough to declare independence from China, because China’s productive capacity is increasing and Taiwan will be inexorably drawn to ever closer links with China.

Worth noting also that RF has been straight out inciting/amplifying and paying for all this “gimme black slavery/genocide reparations” stuff long before 2022 invasion happened:

Even NYC Democrats oppose Not-The-President Biden’s open border policies: (1)

“The city is being destroyed by the migrant crisis,” said Mayor Eric Adams (D) in a Friday panel discussion hosted by the African American Mayors Association in Washington D.C.
…
Adams also expressed concern over the Biden administration trying to get rid of Title 42, a Trump-era policy that allows the US to rapidly expel migrants who have entered the country illegally, warning that “52,000 [asylum seekers] could jump to 100,000 if we don’t get this under control.”

According to city Comptroller Brad Lander in an April 7 report, the city has had to ramp up its provisions for shelter by over 75% due to the influx of more than 55,000 foreigners claiming to be seeking asylum over the past year.

Meanwhile, the Mayor’s Office of Management and Budget says that the full cost of providing shelter and other services to refugees is around $1.4 billion this year, and will be $2.8 billion in 2024.

“New York State and (to a lesser extent) the federal government have begun to offer some assistance, though less than their appropriate share. But even with federal and state support, the current approach is beyond what the City of New York can reasonably sustain,” wrote Lander.

Governor Abbott of Texas needs to keep busing illegals to New York, Chicago, and Boston. If Leftoids feel pressure, perhaps the country can fix its migration failures.

PEACE 😇
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(1) https://www.zerohedge.com/political/democrat-mayor-says-migrant-crisis-has-destroyed-new-york-city-biden-admin-has-turned

@ Mr Hack,

The heroic armies of Snowmen defeating the invading barbaric armies of Coalmen !

Or is it the opposite ?

Full Race — IMSA Long Beach

Not a good day for Cadillac. The lap 1 incident looked merely embarrassing. Alas, the new hybrid power train placed itself in a fail safe state. This could have been fixed in an endurance race, but Long Beach is the shortest in the series at only 100 minutes.
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Also, the FIA WEC race at Sebring

PEACE 😇

https://www.ned.org/

The west is the best, the west is the best. Get here, and we’ll do the rest.

Jim Morrison & The Doors

https://nedwhisky.com.au/

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 Try this NED
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because I said
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Ummmmm….. Said so…. Poetry #EpicFail achieved.

PEACE 😇

Somewhat related –

TRUMP: Paid of his side chick to keep her yap shut
BLINKEN: Organized a group of spies to lie to the American people and interfere with the 2020 election
Guess which one gets indicted?

— Garland Nixon (@GarlandNixon) April 21, 2023

I’ve always thought that penguins make better musicians than soldiers. Besides, my generation always thought that it was better to make love and not war. 🙂

Some folks are on the right side of history.

Surviving the 1930s was quite the trick for a general officer in the Soviet Military. So he’s got those skills.

“FRED, MAKE SURE THEY DON’T
MESS WITH MY BOOKER’S®.”
-BOOKER’S ONE REQUEST TO HIS SON AT RETIREMENT

http://www.bookersbourbon.com/#

And yeah, before I forget:

https://getjerry.com/insights/hilux-vs-tacoma-are-they-same-truck#the-hilux-vs-tacoma-body-design-and-size

Although I personally would prefer driving a Chevy Colorado ZR2.

I have often written about the Bell-Beaker genociding the Old Europe male lines, I have also mentioned tangentially that the Corded Ware Battle Axe folks have also committed massacres while moving into Fenno-Scandia. I would be a hypocrite if I did not share a PNAS article about a mass grave of Globular Amphora folks in modern day Poland that have been possibly massacred by the Corded Ware.

The victims have been most probably executed after being captured because there doesn’t seem having been that much violence preceding the kill (i.e. no other major wounds than the ones to the head). The difference with the later Bell-Beaker conquest of the Western and Central Europe that has cleared out the Corded Ware, is that the Bell-Beaker kept the women and possibly children as servants/slaves. The people in this particular mass grave have been mostly women and children.

The male skeletons have all been tested to Y haplogroup I2. Given that Globular Amphora has been derived from the collapsed Tripolye culture, it would imply that the Tripolye folks would have had Y haplogroup I2 male ancestry among their male lineages. Also the people killed in this massacre had no Steppe ancestry. The authors casually notice that the Steppe ancestry entered European gene pool through the Corded Ware.

Finally we’re probably coming to what Klyosov was claiming all along, that it was most probably Corded Ware and not Yamnaya that contributed most Steppe ancestry to modern Europeans.

Unraveling ancestry, kinship, and violence in a Late Neolithic mass grave.

We sequenced the genomes of 15 skeletons from a 5,000-y-old mass grave in Poland associated with the Globular Amphora culture. All individuals had been brutally killed by blows to the head, but buried with great care. Genome-wide analyses demonstrate that this was a large extended family and that the people who buried them knew them well: mothers are buried with their children, and siblings next to each other. From a population genetic viewpoint, the individuals are clearly distinct from neighboring Corded Ware groups because of their lack of steppe-related ancestry. Although the reason for the massacre is unknown, it is possible that it was connected with the expansion of Corded Ware groups, which may have resulted in violent conflict.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1820210116

In order to accommodate two passengers comfortably in the rear of that cab you have to cut the cargo bed capacity in half.

The marketing managers who ordered this stuff are essential to American industry assisting the Neocons in eluding the Thucydides trap.

The dead appear to have been buried by people who cared a great deal about them. Did they encounter the dead group after a roving band of warriors murdered them?

Saturday night at prehistoric Charlie Manson’s ranch.

Where is the Russian kid among the Youth of the World surrounding Comrade Xi ?

I see a couple of Balts, a Mordvinian Girl, an Ukrainian girl, but where are the typical Russian Vanya and Nastya ?

Nowhere to be found in this idyllic Social Realist painting…

Perhaps the painter was trying to convey something through this subtle omission. Especially that he seems quite aware of what has befell the ethnic Russians in RusFed:

http://www.gorodkovrov.ru/obo_vsem/hudozhnik-viktor-bychkov-i-ego-kartiny-vzglyad-iz-segodnya.html

Of course when someone has chosen to live in the Russian hinterland and stay true to one’s roots, one would be quite aware that великая Ресурсная Федерация встала с колен чтобы было удобнее стоять раком…

(стоять раком is Russian for standing doggy style)

Here's the segment I did last night at the top of @TuckerCarlson's show about the Biden DOJ's dangerous indictment of 4 radical black leftists.

Half the segment is Carlson denouncing this and (as Glenn Beck did) defending their free speech rights:https://t.co/SE8JAnm1Pp https://t.co/Ycv2fwgst9

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 21, 2023

yeah. Hegemonic Liberals really are pieces of shit.

Overall a good comment and two sensible replies to it.

The men of the Globular Amphora clan probably came back from their hunting or cattle herding trip and buried their relatives. These massacres often seem to have happened when most men of a clan were missing.

Although I agree that the absence of the other wounds is troubling. Perhaps some intra clan feud, with a part of the clan killing the other part while they were asleep? Anyway, the Corded Ware / Battle Axe folks committed a number of similar massacres while moving into Fenno-Scandia.

My ancestors were no saints, no one was a pacifist back then. At least they didn’t eat them as the Linear Band Ceramic culture early farmers used to do with their victims.

https://shs.hal.science/halshs-00446157

No wonder that the resurgent Y haplogroup I WE hunter-gatherers eliminated the LBC folks as soon as they could. Those who killed Otzli the iceman did that for a reason.

The liberals are losing their raison-d’etre – and it will be a catastrophe for them. One saving grace for the liberal West has been the relative freedom of speech. The liberals’ market globalism idiocies, open borders, and the gender-homo insanity are unpopular, even repulsive. But the libs were perceived as being easy-going and less intrusive – the safest choice when one wanted to be left alone.

You can’t abandon the core principle of your ideology and survive. So they are done, maybe that’s why they are increasingly hiding behind ‘progressive’, green or pirate labels. It won’t work – this will haunt them for years.

Hegemonic Liberals – just call them (((Neocon))). They’re not liberal, not left ans neither right, they only care about the interests of their destructive cult…

They don’t care, the advanced technology triggered “end of history” is nigh. As long as they come on top, it’s worth everything else. We have already entered the Singularity. Nobody knows what’s out there on the other end of the current era.

Well yes, but what’s your point? I’m under no illusions that Putin is “the saviour of the white race” or whatever nonsense dumb contrarian right-wingers may believe. Of course Russia is still trying the same subversive bs as in Soviet times (unsurprisingly so, given that her leadership consists largely of Chekist fossils who seem to be severely lacking in imagination). But there’s no reason to think that it’s especially effective, and compared to the madness promoted by the people who actually rule the West it’s of negligible importance.

You can’t abandon the core principle of your ideology and survive. So they are done, maybe that’s why they are increasingly hiding behind ‘progressive’, green or pirate labels. It won’t work

I think that’s too optimistic, this liberal authoritarianism enjoys considerable support among the classes who regard themselves as pillars of society throughout the West. The opposition is disparate and not very effective, and if there ever should be a real chance of change, I’m absolutely convinced we’ll see the establishment resorting to methods many people can’t imagine now.

Russia depends on China no more than China depends on Russia. Recent Xi visit to Moscow demonstrated that he, being a level-headed realist, understands this.

India may or may not be one of the poles. It is not critically important. Total population of Asia is 4 billion 750 million:
https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/asia-population/

So, if you subtract China and India, you get 1,87 billion left. After subtracting imperial poodles (Japan, South Korea, Taiwan), you still get more than twice as many people as Europe has (currently ~750 million). Minus Russia and Belarus you get ~600 million in the imperial poodles. Latin America has more people than that (~655 million). Even Africa (~1.44 billion people total) might yield a pole or two.

So, in addition to the two certain poles (the US and China), there might be 3-6 additional ones. Europe crossed itself off the list, but even that might change yet. We’ll see who ends up being one of the poles. This will be clear in 20-30 years.

you still get more than twice as many people as Europe has (currently ~750 million).

Because the likes of Laos and Cambodia will form their own pole (instead of drifting into China’s orbit)? That seems exceedingly unlikely.
Latin American countries might have a chance of running their own affairs, but I don’t see them playing a large role in world affairs beyond their own continent.
Africa may of course eventually inundate the entire world with its people (which might render all that geopolitical talk superfluous…), but do you really want to tell me you think Nigeria or the DRC are going to be the next superpower?
There might be room for some middle powers like Turkey or Iran to chart a somewhat independent, opportunistic course. But no one will even come close to the US and China and their immense power.

In order to accommodate two passengers comfortably in the rear of that cab you have to cut the cargo bed capacity in half.

For surre, Colorado ZR2 is not a family car.

The postmodern Western genderless family is better driving this:

https://www.caranddriver.com/mini/cooper-s-e

The engineers at Cooper might even be inspired enough to produce a Mini “countryman” trim with a 2,5 inch ground clearance.

The marketing managers who ordered this stuff are essential to American industry assisting the Neocons in eluding the Thucydides trap.

These supposedly off-road trucks increasingly feel like a bunch of processors on wheels, choke-full of complex, fragile and expensive electronics. It would be even worse on the EV off-road trucks such as Rivian. I am unsure whether this would contribute preventing or contributing to the potential conflict between US and PRC.

…this liberal authoritarianism enjoys considerable support among the classes who regard themselves as pillars of society throughout the West.

That is never good for any group – the pillars are composed of career opportunists and naturally conformist people. They are unreliable when things go south and will abandon a sinking ship (or ideology).

I am an optimist because we humans go from impossible to inevitable in a fraction of a second. And being an optimist is more fun…:)

…Nobody knows what’s out there on the other end of the current era.

That is true about all eras: future is unknown, that’s the way it is.

The attempts to control everything are bound to fail. When any group tries to do it they spend a huge amount of time analyzing all variables and metrics, create plans and models, tweak and adjust….it is never enough.

At the end there is a variable or an event that they didn’t account for: the one metric they miss will get them. It is always like that, the libs are toast…

Because the likes of Laos and Cambodia will form their own pole (instead of drifting into China’s orbit)? That seems exceedingly unlikely.

Just a few possibilities in Asia: Indonesia (possibly with Malaysia), Vietnam (possibly with Kampuchea and/or Laos and/or Thailand), Iran (+Iraq and/or Syria), Saudi Arabia and allied satrapies. In Latin America: Brazil, Mexico, Argentina + Paraguay + Uruguay. In Africa: Nigeria, Egypt, Algeria.
For now it’s an empty guessing game. We’ll see in ~20 years.

What’s interesting is that Mearsheimer actually advocated in favor of allowing Ukraine to keep its nuclear weapons back in the early 1990s:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/20045622

I would be a hypocrite if I did not share a PNAS article about a mass grave of Globular Amphora folks in modern day Poland that have been possibly massacred by the Corded Ware….All individuals had been brutally killed by blows to the head..

Roman Polanski was from Poland. Maybe the art piece of Polanski’s photographed below at his London flat (his wife Sharon Tate sitting just beneath) in the late Spring of 1969 was supposed to represent a Neolithic massacre of the sort you describe.

As the two club wielders pictured look nothing less than like the spitting images of Charles Manson and his second in command Tex Watson as they appeared then in real time in mid-1969, and the painting has no known title that I know of, hindsight being 20/20, I would have called the piece:

‘Manson Family Unleashed’

I imagine after the murders Polanski had the painting burned for obvious reasons.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7269437/Photographer-revisits-agonising-photos-took-heavily-pregnant-Sharon-Tate-murder.html

What’s quite interesting is that the EU could become quite a powerful pole in its own right, albeit extremely friendly to the US, if it actually had the desire to do so. It has a lot of elite science production, will have ~500 million people in the long-run (or ~600 million people if Turkey will also eventually join the EU), has a high human capital population, et cetera. Frankly, if I was a Russian, I’d support withdrawing from all Ukrainian territory, including Crimea and the Donbass, and either significantly boosting the Russian TFR or, if that is not possible, having Russia join the EU so that it could be a part of a much larger pole/bloc.

I hope that Polanski will finally croak within the next decade or so, since if there is someone who does not deserve to live to see radical life expectancy, it’s certainly him.

Despite life being in general unpredictable, we usually can project into the future for a few years down the road. It no longer seems possible. The uncertainty is mostly technologically motivated. That might be the reason why young people in most technologically advanced societies increasingly prefer not having children. Might be a premonitory intuition of sorts.

DHAKA – Google’s artificial intelligence (AI) has apparently learned a language on its own without any training, according to Google tech executive James Manyika. Speaking with CBS’ 60 Minutes, Manyika confirmed that the company’s AI, with very little prompting in Bangla, can now translate all of Bangla. The development has left many experts at Google baffled and perplexed as it appears that the AI has learned something that it was not programmed to know.

CEO Sundar Pichai also acknowledged during the interview that there is a “black box” aspect to AI that even experts can’t explain. “You don’t fully understand. And you can’t quite tell why it said this,” he said.

https://asianews.network/googles-ai-apparently-learned-bangla-without-any-training/

I remember you posted about that. The choice of painting might be less puzzling when we take into account Polanski’s Eastern European Jewish background. The pogrom related narratives have deeply impacted the psyche of such individuals. It might be a kind of token of remembrance to those who fell victim to the mob violence among his family lineage. It would be interesting to find who painted this work and what the title was. I agree that the resemblance with Charlie Manson is uncanny.

Missed the disclaimer in the article;)

However, experts on Twitter quickly pointed out that this was not true, and that the AI had already been trained on Bengali with millions of tokens.

Real good capture of a javalin taking out a BMP:

I missed it alright. Did they lie then ?

Another painting by Viktor Bychkov, named “Happy Ending”:

(Westerners shouldn’t underestimate Russian talent for self-derision and sarcasm.)

Speaking of AI, this article was fun to read:

In 2016 — with Trump running for president and Black Lives Matter protests filling the streets — Bender decided she wanted to start taking some small political action every day. She began learning from, then amplifying, Black women’s voices critiquing AI, including those of Joy Buolamwini (she founded the Algorithmic Justice League while at MIT) and Meredith Broussard (the author of Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World). She also started publicly challenging the term artificial intelligence, a sure way, as a middle-aged woman in a male field, to get yourself branded as a scold. The idea of intelligence has a white-supremacist history.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-chatbots-emily-m-bender.html

Iceman is a good film too. All over a mirror glass.

https://futurism.com/the-byte/chatgpt-costs-openai-every-day

The Russians are a convenient solution. All Barbarians are.

MLRS Cluster falls on Avdeevka…

🇷🇺MRLS fire at Avdeevka at night pic.twitter.com/U3yjR5albV

— Tony (@Cyberspec1) April 23, 2023

biker avoids the Draft in Kiev!

Czechoslovak writer Milan Kundera couldn’t stand feelingz of slavic brotherhood forced love after 1968, must be similar today for many former pro-RF ukrainians too:

Why the sudden aversion to Dostoyevsky?

Was it the anti-Russian reflex of a Czech traumatized by the occupation of his country? No, because I never stopped loving Chekhov. Was it doubts about the esthetic value of the work? No, because my aversion had taken me by surprise and made no claims to objectivity.

What irritated me about Dostoyevsky was the climate of his novels: a universe where everything turns into feeling; in other words, where feelings are promoted to the rank of value and of truth.

On the third day of the occupation, I was driving from Prague to Budejovice (the town where Camus set his play ”Le Malentendu” – ”The Misunderstanding”). All along the roads, in the fields, in the woods, everywhere, there were encampments of Russian infantrymen. At one point they stopped my car. Three soldiers began searching it. Once the operation was over, the officer who had ordered it asked me in Russian, ” Kak chuvstvuyetyes? ” – that is, ”How do you feel? What are your feelings?” His question was not meant to be malicious or ironic. On the contrary. ”It’s all a big misunderstanding,” he continued, ”but it will straighten itself out. You must realize we love the Czechs. We love you!”

The countryside ravaged by thousands of tanks, the future of the country compromised for centuries, Czech Government leaders arrested and abducted, and an officer of the occupying army makes you a declaration of love. Please understand me: he had no desire to condemn the invasion, not in the least. They all spoke more or less as he did, their attitude based not on the sadistic pleasure of the ravisher but on quite a different archetype: unrequited love. Why do these Czechs (whom we love so!) refuse to live with us the way we live? What a pity we’re forced to use tanks to teach them what it means to love!

Man cannot do without feelings, but the moment they are considered values in themselves, criteria of truth, justifications for kinds of behavior, they become frightening. The noblest of national sentiments stand ready to justify the greatest of horrors, and man, his breast swelling with lyric fervor, commits atrocities in the sacred name of love.

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/98/05/17/specials/kundera-variation.html?source=post_page———————---—

Kundera had his aversion to Dostoievsky in common with another talented individual, namely Chubais.

It’s quite natural, for anyone who self- alignes with core Western values of pragmatism and self-gratification, cannot really appreciate what Dostoievsky represents.

Sucking up to the West in Kundera’s times might have been understandable for an anti-Soviet dissident (although see Zinoviev or Shafarevich who were an order of magnitude smarter than Kundera was).

Sucking to what the West is becoming today, strikes me as a debatable strategy of personal self-identification.

Anyway, since reading him many decades ago, I have always thought of Kundera as a shallow thinker.

But then, to each his own.

As an aside, I have already written that your russophobic bias prevents you from seeing a very simple truth that when Russians are gone for good, you will be left alone to face Islam and the raising power of China/Asia. There is a joke I heard once in Tallinn when I visited there in the eighties: “Куркули ждут не дождутся когда по телику объявят что на Финско-Китайской границе всё спокойно“. Perhaps that is what you also would want as a Lithuanian.

Your people are a small (although quite valiant and historically very significant) nation, be careful what kind of neighbors you wish for your folks. You could end up with worse than Russians…

If they are ready to pay, then it is probably worth it. Also, do you believe in the intrinsic value of money?

Another painting by Viktor Bychkov, named “Happy Ending”:

ROTFLMAO

No American would be caught dead with an accordion. The corpse would have undergone spontaneous zombification and shambled away from such dread & unholy object.

The NIKE indicator is 100% IslamoGloboHomo. And, exclusively urban.

With different ethnic features, perhaps the NIKE logo could have been set in the flames of Portland or Chicago. However, that accordion would be toxic & exclusionary even there.
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Perhaps the CNN inspired painter was going for this?

PEACE 😇

Will reactionary feminism and “secular” Calvinism offer the Northern Euros a way out of their predicament?

The techies in the Silicon Valley have caught on to some of the things we have been discussing here.

While their approach is a bit “elitist” (naming your female child Titanus Invicta is a bit pretentious), they might be on to something. It is funny how they are trying to circumvent the eugenics issue (knowing full well that they use embryo selection), and how they try to skirt around the ideological hurdle of potentially being viewed as “far right Whites”, by stating that “diverse cultures” need to be preserved.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/life/pronatalists-save-mankind-by-having-babies-silicon-valley/

If it doesn’t have any value go ahead and send me some of that stuff that you consider your money.

The way I usually approach this argument, if I have to, is I tell people that when their parents yelled at them “do you think money grows on trees?”, that it turns out that money does grow on trees [for some people]. Not for me so far. When I approached the Silicon Valley foresters they acted like I was a complete idiot.

Because the likes of Laos and Cambodia will form their own pole (instead of drifting into China’s orbit)? That seems exceedingly unlikely.

I didn’t write that money has no value, and I don’t consider any of it as mine, because I read that Jesus said “give unto Caesar what is Caesar’s and into God what belongs to God” and I also heard Kadyrov telling that in the end “it’s Allah that gives all wealth”. I tend to think that both these eminent Abrahamics understand money way better than a poor heathen such as myself does. Therefore I refer to their august authority on this question. Now that we have established that money must have some (non intrinsic) value, that is defined somehow, do you think that people who operate OpenAI ignore its value ? If they spend so much to operate the Chat Bot, then probably it’s worth it. Now we have to think why is it worth it. I have my ideas about it, but why don’t you share your pov ?

The painting is about RusFed, not US. The painter is a patriotic Orthodox Christian. As I wrote earlier, do not underestimate the Russian capacity of self-derision and talent towards sarcasm. When the same painter painted Xi Jinping and the Youth of the World, that German Reader has pionted at, this painter probably was just as ironic. There is no ethnic Russian kids around the CCP leader, that is if one doesn’t see the Mordvinian girl to the left as the symbol of RusFed (which would be funny). One has to have an eye for that details and understand the sociocultural references.

BTW, what did you think of my Hilux/Tacoma comment?

It’s Hilux in Australia, but Tacoma in North America…

😉

It’s just the beginning. They will have their offspring genetically optimized. And they would be right to do that. Sooner or later these distraction oriented optics will be no longer needed. Their kids will be the genetic elite and the plebs’ kids will be the epigenetic garbage.

Your people are a small (although quite valiant and historically very significant) nation

Sucking to what the West is becoming today, strikes me as a debatable strategy of personal self-identification.

Oh, it’s not like there are a ton of attractive ideologies or world views out there for Europeans to explore and get attached to (except drawing on their own past traditions and creating new ones).

You talk a lot about Islamization, but the truth is, that even though Islam might have a few attractive aspects for right-wingers, most people do not find it attractive enough to accept it in their lives (much less commit to practicing it).

Your people are a small (although quite valiant and historically very significant) nation

His people have been around for thousands of years so I’d say they know a thing or two about survival.

At least they are thinking in pro-natalist terms and at least they are listening to what women’s needs are.

Technology is just one aspect of it.

Cum non solum

The painting is about RusFed, not US.

Is it? The cap is uniquely American.

How old is the painting?

It’s Hilux in Australia, but Tacoma in North America…

Roads are wider in the U.S. Thus, the Tacoma is also several inches girthier. Feel free to insert your “plump American” driver joke here.

There are a few younger kids with Tacoma work trucks. You get a proper 6 foot bed with the 2 door variant. The uncomfortable 4 door with only a 5 foot bed is nonexistent in the South, or at least my part of it. My current car is in decline, and a base Tacoma is on my list. The only necessary upgrade is the V6 engine.

Toyota Tundras are amazingly common. The 6½ foot bed plus child functional rear seats work for both husband and wife. One or two clever folks have eschewed the cost and weight of a 4×4 drive train, instead using that $3-5K on epic winch packages.

PEACE 😇

do you think that people who operate OpenAI ignore its value ?

For all practical purposes the answer to this question is yes.

If they spend so much to operate the Chat Bot, then probably it’s worth it.

A long time ago Leibniz wrote that there ain’t any valid way to deal with probability in logical arguments. This was true then. And it is very probably (P~.9) still true. To completely cover all your comment I suppose I could build a tree but even if I was patient enough to do so you probably (P>=.51) would not be patient enough to follow it.

Have you ever read Jorjani’s bits about Plato and them getting most of their best stuff from Persia? He is an Iranian Supremacist but on that corridor he has a story which kept my attention.

Reminds me of this video:
https://funker530.com/video/nsfw-grenade-lands-directly-on-russian-soldier/

So is that Scott blogging from his parent’s house? The background looks like grandparent stuff.

As usual Scott is incapable of providing a source.

Once again he is also in contention with a Russian commander on the ground:

Prigozhin suggests that Putin end the war before the coming counter-offensive.
https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3699514-prigozhin-trying-to-convince-putin-to-go-on-defensive-ahead-of-ukraines-counteroffensive-isw.html

As I have already written, you are barking up the wrong tree.

🙂

Yep they are cool to drive. I had two of them. But I was writing about the off road capable cars, that’s one of my guilty pleasures – to drive as far into the wilderness as I can. Perhaps the CX50 would be okay for that.

https://www.caranddriver.com/mazda/cx-50

Although its ground clearance is somewhat low and I don’t think they will put protective skid plates on the bottom. Good for overland, but not for true off road conditions.

Updated my blogroll for the first time in 3 years: https://t.co/ME4vQx1T2A

(Getting blog ready in preparation for resuming blogging).

— Anatoly Karlin (@powerfultakes) April 23, 2023

It’s hard to say when the US economy will stagnate. In the last 10 years (from 2014 to estimated 2023 GDP) the US economy has held up really well for an advanced economy. But as discussed before the US is not living within its means. It can go on for another 5-10 years? 20 years?

I asked ChatGPT to calculate the numbers below for GDP growth for major countries:

India (2,039,127 million USD in 2014; 3,736,882 million USD in 2023) – Growth rate: 83.2%
China (10,524,241 million USD in 2014; 19,373,586 million USD in 2023) – Growth rate: 82.2%
United States (17,550,675 million USD in 2014; 26,854,599 million USD in 2023) – Growth rate: 53.1%
Germany (3,890,095 million USD in 2014; 4,308,854 million USD in 2023) – Growth rate: 12.8%
Russia (2,048,836 million USD in 2014; 2,062,649 million USD in 2023) – Growth rate: 1.67%
France (2,856,701 million USD in 2014; 2,923,489 million USD in 2023) – Growth rate: 2.34%
United Kingdom (3,066,819 million USD in 2014; 3,158,938 million USD in 2023) – Growth rate: 3.00%
Japan (4,896,995 million USD in 2014; 4,409,738 million USD in 2023) – Growth rate: -10.0%

Will reactionary feminism and “secular” Calvinism offer the Northern Euros a way out of their predicament?

I watched this interview the other week and found it interesting:

Most of it is but especially after the 53 minute point. I came away thinking that they end up de facto sounding like something other than a progressive, but possibly they are not aware of it. Reactionary feminism and this drift in an anti-liberal direction by more Anglo feminists, particularly the British ones, may be something like ‘a return to the norm’, after negative experience of adopting strong liberalism and progressivism in their 20s and 30s.

I know some women irl who are like this, who are starting to have intuitions about some coming social and cultural crisis. It’s strange that I was introduced to post-liberalism myself by an online female influencer (Alex Kaschuta) who interviewed the American academic Patrick Deneen. I bought his book ‘Why Liberalism Failed’, then my younger sister saw I had this book, bought her own copy and has been recommending it to her friends. There seems to be some interest there.

An interesting fact about the US share of World GDP, it’s steadily shrinking each year, while at the same time the US share of G7 GDP is steadily increasing, it was 40% of G7 GDP in 1990 and now it’s 58%. The World economy will end up having two poles, if this trend doesn’t change.

pic.twitter.com/nZAeyvVjxB

— Asians With Attitudes (@AznWithAttitude) April 22, 2023

Ukrinform and yourself have a way of distorting certain particulars.

Total GDP growth between 2000 and 2020:

🇨🇳 China: 1266%
🇷🇺 Russia: 466%
🇮🇳 India: 440%
🇧🇷 Brazil: 316%
🇸🇦 Saudi: 300%
🇦🇺 Australia: 250%
🇹🇷 Turkey: 250%
🇰🇷 South Korea: 220%
🇿🇦 South Africa: 200%
🇮🇩 Indonesia: 175%
🇨🇦 Canada: 166%
🇺🇸 USA: 108.7%
🇬🇧 UK: 85.7%
🇩🇪 Germany: 77%
🇫🇷…

— World of Statistics (@stats_feed) April 23, 2023

They got it from Taxila in West Panjab & later Greeks state it plainly.
It came a bit too late as Christainity had gained state control.

Neo-Platonism is basically Vedanta – see @arya_amsha for more

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_ancient_Taxila?useskin=vector

Iranis in the West often claim Panjab & latter doesn’t care all that much.

https://halcyoninitiative.wordpress.com/2014/10/05/morality-and-abstract-thinking-how-africans-may-differ-from-westerners-from-amren-com/

Charles Bronson was “domesticated and tamed” Lithuanian Catholic Tatar though;)

Bronson was born Charles Dennis Buchinsky, the eleventh of fifteen children, into a Roman Catholic family of Lithuanian origin in Ehrenfeld, Pennsylvania, in the coal region of the Allegheny Mountains north of Johnstown, Pennsylvania.His father, Walter Buchinsky (born: Valteris P. Bučinskis) was a Lipka Tatar from Druskininkai in southern Lithuania. Bronson’s mother, Mary (née Valinsky), whose parents were from Lithuania, was born in the coal mining town of Tamaqua, Pennsylvania.

Bronson did not speak any English at home during his childhood in Pennsylvania, like many children he grew up with. He recalled that even back when he was in the army, his accent was strong enough to make his comrades think he came from another country (despite Bronson having been born and raised in the US).Besides English, he could also speak Lithuanian, Russian and Greek.

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

Sure the cap is typically American. As is the t-shirt. But the rest of the outfit and the landscape are typically Russian peasant hinterland. In the US, one would say hillbilly or redneck flyover country hinterland. The guy lies dead with an emaciated (addict ?) face looking up the sky and the accordion, that has become the traditional instrument of Russian peasants in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, lies beside him. He looks exalted and sad at the same time. The accordion itself was invented in the West. Before the nineteenth century ethnic Russian peasantry played other types of musical instruments and adopted a completely different style of dressing. Basically, it is the image of the westernized RusFed trying to fit the American made global standards and fashions that would end up dead if it continues that way. It shows a lot in a single image: the demographic decline, the ruined peasantry, the failure of three generations of aggressive communist westernizing after four more centuries of a less aggressive one, but just an oppressive as well, under the Romanov dynasty. Westernizing brought exaltation and excitement, and then it ended in exhaustion, moral decline and death. It did the same in South Korea, Japan, would do the same in China if it continues that way. And there are no Russian kids among the Youth of the World in the Comrade Xi’s painting because the ethnic Russians are simply dying out with few children compared to their share of the population. One has to have a look for the details. The painter is a very talented man, no doubt about it. And given what I read about him and his life choices he is an inspired and a wise man as well. Kudos for German Reader for making me discovering Victor Bychkov. German Reader most probably didn’t have a clue about the message in the painting that he found amusing, it takes someone who is capable of looking beyond the smiles and the glitter to see this kind of thing.

The choice of painting might be less puzzling when we take into account Polanski’s Eastern European Jewish background. The pogrom related narratives have deeply impacted the psyche of such individuals.

That could be. I hadn’t thought of that.

Or, Polanski, being something of a Brian Epstein ‘light’ type character, like Epstein he may have simply had some rather ‘peculiar’ taste in art.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Buddhism

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

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

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

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

I could go on.

Yes, Vedanta and Neoplatonicist thought have many patterns in common. An awful lot of ideas traveled both ways along the Silk Road between Alexandria in Egypt and Alexandria in Sogdiana. And yes Gandhara was a place of learning in Taxila and Nava Vihara. Some of these ideas have been of great interest to the teacher of Plotinus, Amonius Saccas (yep Saccas)…

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

Notice how the later Christian sources wrote that Ammonius was a Christian. Just like they wrote that the Therapeutae monastic community was proto-Christian.

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

Was Jesus also Christian ?

😉

Catholotartarism.

From the other thread:

Japanese do eat a lot of rice, but arguably they are evolved to do so.

While many food items pricier, it seems the Japanese are not as fat.

Am not sure extreme food abundance should be valorized. In the West, it has led to the importation of millions of unassimilable aliens. Winter fruit in America from Chile led to hordes of Haitians being imported into Chile, many of whom have already made their way into the US.

Suspect that Japan needs high prices to prop up its doemestic farmers. The economists would no doubt like to get rid of that, but in the long term, it would probably result in some extremely severe famine.

One theory (I forget whose) is that all of Anatoly K’s emotional problems began when he stumbled on this video at a critical age in his development.

Or, Polanski, being something of a Brian Epstein ‘light’ type character, like Epstein he may have simply had some rather ‘peculiar’ taste in art.

He made home movies of Sharon Tate being multi penetrated by negroes. That is like six sigma peculiar. The Los Angeles intelligence agents loved spying on the guy. They had projects under the heading of fighting communism. Polanski was from a commie country so they could do this as long as they wanted.

And then there was that one day all the fun went out of it poof.

I would certainly rather look at the median Japanese woman naked than the median American. That is like a no brainer.

Who is the Lizzo of Japan? She probably weighs 140.

The discovery of Thunderbird wine (“an exceptionally good drink for every occasion”) will be his undoing. 🙂

OK yours is better. And we all thought Japanese television watchers were goofs.

Today’s trivia. Anthony Blinken’s stepfather was buddies with Robert Maxwell and might be the very last person who ever spoke to the man before he (was?) suicided. The clever internet commenter who found this and alerted the masses claims the ambiguity in wikipedia is forced.

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

He lived to the ripe old age of 86 after plotting against his friend.

Hey there’s that famous Turkic actor!

Ukrinform and yourself have a way of distorting certain particulars.

Prigozhin is on the Russian side. Nothing in my post quoted the Ukrainian military.

I pointed out that he and Ritter are in disagreement. Prigozhen thinks Putin should end the war before the counter-offensive and Ritter believes it won’t happen.

My post contained a few sentences with a link and yet you were clearly unable to process it.

You are so biased that you can’t even read about the opinion of someone not only on the Russian side but on the ground and involved in the war. Is this how you go through life? Ignore all contradictory information until you absolutely have to face reality?

Russians in America are actually more likely than Anglos to prominently wear Nike or Addidas. The Russian in a track suit stereotype did not create itself. They are also most likely to copy certain Black styles like the gaudy gold chain or sideways baseball cap. Slavs in the US are pretty easy to spot since White guys don’t normally wear gold chains or earrings. They are also like Blacks in that they will make payments on a BMW even if they live in an apartment.

I would certainly rather look at the median Japanese woman naked than the median American. That is like a no brainer.

Median is not particularly informative, like an average fever level in a hospital. Averages have no predictive value in individual cases. No doubt, higher percentage of US women would look repulsively fat naked, they would look much better in an Islamic head-to-toe cover. But there are lots of shapely American women that would look great w/o clothes. You are right that the percentage of good to look at women in Japan is higher, as in most countries. As far as obesity goes, the US is an outlier. But you can eat normal food, with lots of meat/fish and veggies, not eat rice or pasta at all, and have normal body weight. You can also eat mostly rice and be fat like a pig (after all, rice is almost pure starch, i.e., calories).

BREAKING NEWS:

Tucker Carlson, the highest rated cable news host in history, is out at Fox News. The news comes days after the network cut ties with host Dan Bongino 48 hours after the network settled with Dominion Voting Systems for nearly $800 million.

FOX News Media and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways. We thank him for his service to the network as a host and prior to that as a contributor. Mr. Carlson’s last program was Friday April 21st. Fox News Tonight will air live at 8 PM/ET starting this evening as an interim show helmed by rotating FOX News personalities until a new host is named.

Shares of 21st Century Fox dropped like a rock on the news, and is now sitting at January lows.

 

What is next for Tucker’s show?

If Amazon Prime or Disney+ want a guaranteed return, they could pick him up. Just Kidding…. OANN or NewsMax are the obvious options.

PEACE 😇
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(1) https://www.zerohedge.com/political/tucker-carlson-out-fox

My mother cautioned me when I was a young man that if I ever needed a good lawyer in life, to always consider getting a Jewish one.

Apparently, Demjanuk’s mother was of the same opinion. 🙂

Japanese do eat a lot of rice, but arguably they are evolved to do so.

Humans have evolved to be omnivorous: eat meat/fish/seafood plus plant-derived foods, including rice, pasta, bread, fruits, veggies, nuts, and berries. You don’t eat mostly rice by free choice, you eat it out of necessity: you can’t afford anything better.

Suspect that Japan needs high prices to prop up its domestic farmers.

My point was not prices per se, but what a regular person can afford given the price level. BTW, the price of rice in Japan is a lot higher than in other Asian countries, as Japan severely limits rice imports to protect domestic farmers. But farmers are only a small fraction of the population. In my book protecting the majority is more important.

Now maybe we get to hear the unleashed Tucker.

He still won’t mention a certain religion though since he wants to live.

So a day after AOC calls for him to be taken off the air the guy with the most popular show in the history of cable news (more viewers than the O’Reilly Factor) is out. So much for the free market – lol does anyone still believe that exists? My guess is Fox will try to replace him with some contard similar to Hannity who loves muh free markets, Our Greatest Ally, and NATO (support our troops!).

He still won’t mention a certain religion though since he wants to live.

I think he is brave enough to call out Muslims, like George IslamoSoros. Supporting Judeo-Christian values is good for the soul. And, Carlson can afford pretty good security for himself and his family.

To defeat IslamoGloboHomo, one must call it out for Leftoid deviancy and Jihadist violence. For example, the Muslim ‘Great Replacement’ plan to eliminate Infidels (Christians and Jews) in Europe. And, similar Islam inspired infiltration here in America.

The Antisemitic Defaming League of Muhammad [ADL] tried to create a fake controversy about Carlson a few years ago. Carlson pointed put that Israel has a good migration policy for their national interest. And, America should have a similar one for our national interest. Because the ADL is ultra left, they have to advocate for open U.S. borders. They engaged in laughable, near Orwellian, double speak trying to say U.S. policy could not resemble Israel’s.

PEACE 😇

One America News (nixed by Verizon), Americans writing for the Strategic Culture Foundation (suppressed by the US government) and Tucker Carlson now have something more in common, relative to not readily accepting the dubious neocon/neolib establishment views on Russia related matters.

The guy who really went to bat for Demjanuk was the very Russian and Ultra-Monarchist, Count Tolstoy. He appeared in various courts defending the guy.

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

The mistreatment of Demjanjuk was an early red pill to many of us regarding the real nature of the USA and Israel.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/24/discord-leaks-moscow-strikes-ukraine
Cool, what could go wrong.

At one point, Demjanjuk was said to have been in Vlasov’s army. Would have to check if that particular was used as a defense saying that his presence with the ROA negated the camp guard claim against him.

Those all post date Alexander.

Jorjani has Heraclitus spending years in the Persian capital which is not in the wikipedia article–they say that we know very little about Heraclitus.

My guess is Fox will try to replace him with some contard similar to Hannity who loves muh free markets, Our Greatest Ally, and NATO (support our troops!).

Tucker for years on CNN talked about how free markets are your best friend and Black areas have problems because they are held back by taxes or big government or something.

He has always been a Con Incster. He only backed off on free trade after Trump made it acceptable.

I can smell his type a mile away. He knows full well that the Con Inc pyramid scheme will collapse if race is allowed into the conversation.

Where would he and Hannity stand in such a world? It would be like a tv faith healer saying “well I’ve been lying and don’t think it works and but I want you to buy my new book on medicine”.

To defeat IslamoGloboHomo, one must call it out for Leftoid deviancy and Jihadist violence. For example, the Muslim ‘Great Replacement’ plan to eliminate Infidels (Christians and Jews) in Europe. And, similar Islam inspired infiltration here in America.

That term doesn’t make any sense.

Once Muslims get a majority they will go after the homos.

If that happens I’ll be fully prepared with popcorn and a comfy chair.

Live now Alex Jones & Scott Ritter on Carlson and other matters:

https://gettr.com/streaming/p2f9b0ye52e

Tucker for years on CNN talked about how free markets are your best friend and Black areas have problems because they are held back by taxes or big government or something.

Almost all American conservatives had such views such is the brainwashing and conformity in the US. Tucker changed his mind on Iraq & interventionism way back around 2005 or so when he was in his mid-30s and personally apologised to Pat Buchanan, who has been right about every major issue since the end of the Cold War. More importantly he brought up issues that other conservatives refused to discuss to a large audience. Obviously it would be better if he talked about other stuff like race, but that would not be permitted on TV anywhere in the multiculti American Empire, so it’s hard to hold that against him in the current atmosphere.

Once Muslims get a majority they will go after the homos.

Huh? That makes no sense.

Once Muslims are present in sufficient numbers, they begin sex trafficking. Most notably, the Bacha bāzi trade. Underage boys for use by Muslim men.

This core Muslim behaviour is unsurprising. Muhammad raped Aisha when she was 9. All zealots want to be as sexually deviant as their Prophet.

PEACE 😇

I wonder if Ukraine’s got something planned in Moscow for 9 May. iirc there were similar tweets like the one below before the bombing of the Kerch bridge.

Muhammad raped Aisha when she was 9.

How do you know that he raped her? Considering her likely brainwashing it could have been consensual. She probably did not enjoy it physically, but might have felt flattered that a grown-up man has sex with her.

I wonder if Ukraine’s got something planned in Moscow for 9 May.

They are dumb enough to try it. We’ll see in 15 days.

Did you read the Veteran’s Today (ug) piece on the Kinzal missile strike on the buried NATO bunker in March?

Not recommended to use this type defence in court if neccesity arises – minors mentally simply do not have capacity to consent therefore this will be justifiably considered as rape irregardless of physical force appliance or not, doesn’t matter also if victim wanted it or was happy with it;)

Supposedly Ukraine was going to bomb Moscow in February but was dissuaded by the USA.

Since Moscow has attacked places in Kiev, Kiev can attack Moscow. Kiev would probably kill far fewer civilians.

Humans have evolved to be omnivorous

This is true in large part, but it is also true that human history has been a life and death struggle where small differences in digestive ability have been strongly selected for over the past 10,000 years or so.

Just enough time for you to get your visa in order. A little bit of Belgorodization of Moscow is well over do.

Part of me wishes that the Swedes would drop their wokeness. Become militant again, develop nuclear weapons, and threaten such countries as block scihub and LibGen. As well as such countries that don’t immediately crackdown on cookies (i.e. tracking) with an iron fist.

and threaten such countries as block scihub and LibGen

I really hope those sites will never be taken down due to lobbying by intellectual rights fetishists. For all of Karlin’s faults, I have to thank him for bringing LibGen to my attention.
Regarding Swedes, unfortunately I think it’s more likely they’d do something really dumb if they become militant again. Either taking part in a war against Russia, as revenge for Poltava, or starting a Green crusade unter Greta’s leadership, to destroy all cars with internal combustion engines and create eco-dictatorships. I could imagine ThuleanFriend as commander of some bycycle terror squad in such a scenario.

Not recommended to use this type defence in court

You are right about the 21st century court. By current law it’s statutory rape, no matter what. But that was in the seventh century.

An aside: quite a few people even today say that they like Nabokov’s Lolita. These people have no leg to stand on criticizing Mohammad. They, as well as the culture that accepts this novel, are exactly as repulsive.

Obviously it would be better if he talked about other stuff like race, but that would not be permitted on TV anywhere in the multiculti American Empire, so it’s hard to hold that against him in the current atmosphere.

Race is related to practically every domestic issue. Talking about guns, crime or poverty inevitably ends in conservatives lying about race.

When Con Inc hucksters like Tucker avoid the reality of race they only defer to liberalism.

Conservatives have tried their own from of race denial and it simply doesn’t work. You end up engaging in the same forms of censorship as the left. Charter schools didn’t fix Black schools as libertarians promised? Oh well we can’t talk about that. Censor.

You end up playing this game of wack a mole with the truth. It doesn’t work.

Conservatives wrap themselves up with these intellectually dishonest arguments. Then in comes liberals to blame evil White men and conservatives have no real response because they accept the argument that race is only superficial so something must be to blame.

This game has been tried for decades and Tucker is still trying to play it. It only serves as false opposition that ultimately favors the left. I truly understand the motivation but this isn’t working. Trying to ascribe biological differences from thousands of years of racial evolution to “big government” doesn’t work and ends up denigrating all forms of government. Conservatives are supposed to be the adults in the room.

Maybe you are content with Tucker doing his little Con Inc shuffle dance around the truth. I don’t see the point when all demographic data suggests that the country will eventually follow California and Democrats will get their supermajority.

Once Muslims get a majority they will go after the homos.

Huh? That makes no sense.

I’m not saying that they go after them sexually.

What they do is impose Sharia law where homosexuality is not only a crime but punishable by death.

The left supports importing Muslims to undermine Whites but those same Muslims will eventually undermine leftist values. We have seen a glimpse of this with Muslim patrols in London and NYC.

Did you read the Veteran’s Today (ug) piece on the Kinzal missile strike on the buried NATO bunker in March?

Well, it’s the usual: unnamed sources. I would not be surprised if that story is true. However, everybody will deny it. NATO would deny its direct involvements in the Ukraine war, because NATO hawks are nasty, unscrupulous, vindictive, murderous, but their defining characteristic is “chickens par excellence”. Russia will deny it because at the moment it does not want to escalate. But that might change. Then all bets would be off.

Are you a Russian or an American? I thought you were shilling for how RusFed is kicking ass? Why don’t you ask yourself–

1. What percentage of Japanese in Japan would choose to emigrate vs. Russians in Russia?

2. Why does Russia who industrialized earlier than Japan and endowed with infinite natural resources have less than three times per capita GDP?

You are showing off your plebian palate. Look up any list for “world’s most popular cuisine”. 日本料理 nihon ryōri is atop.

There is a lack of confidence but its not what you are suggesting–

Indeed, some details of other countries can only be discovered after living for a long time.

Let me talk about a Japanese detail: Japan does not have the problem of “too conceited” at all, but the problem of too much loss of self-confidence. The Japanese have a very low opinion of Japan.

Almost every day, the media say that Japan is a “third-rate country that is no longer a developed country” and “was inferior to China long ago, and now it is inferior to South Korea.” The most patriotic people can only admit it and say “useless to only complain.”

From Karl Haushofer’s Japan und die Japaner,

The Germans should be able to make their own judgment about them based on the perception of an honest, impartial observer of their own people, independent of Anglo-Saxon, Russian and Asian sources and free from the falsifying influences of hatred and self-interest of foreign powers.

Dem Deutschen soll ein eigenes Urteil über sie ermöglicht werden nach dem Augenschein eines ehrlichen, unvoreingenommen Beobachters des eigenen Volkes, unabhängig von angelsächsischen, russischen und asiatischen Quellen und frei von den fälschenden Einflüssen des Hasses und Eigennutzes fremder Mächte.

What they do is impose Sharia law where homosexuality is not only a crime but punishable by death.

I see where you are having the problem.

• They say that have “Sharia” hoping to trick infidels.
• What they actually do is engage in deviant sexual practices, with prepubescent children. Just like Muhammad abused Aisha.

In Europe & America wherever there is a concentration of Islamists, crime & sexual deviancy follow. (1)

Pakistani Muslim Grooming Gangs in UK have raped and pimped thousands of non-Muslim British Christian, Sikh, Hindu and Atheist girls of age 8-12 years. Majority of the convicted persons are Pakistani Muslims. However as per people, the convictions are just a tip of the iceberg. There are far bigger number of Pakistani Muslim Grooming Gangs that are still out at large and have created a terror in whole UK.

Irony is that the same UK is continuously giving Billions of Pounds in Foreign Aid and other charities to Pakistan despite British daughters being raped by the Pakistanis for decades. Main Stream Liberal Media calls these Pakistani Muslims as “Asians” to hide their guilt.

The reason you do not hear about Muslim crimes more often is the complicity of the Islamophile MSM.

IslamoGloboHomo is very real.

PEACE 😇
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(1) https://news-communique.com/index.php/2019/07/26/pakistani-muslim-grooming-gangs-in-uk-raped-thousands-of-girls-8-12-year-old/

The Supermajority is here…sadly.

What in Moscow would they hit accurately?

Who knows what kind of trolling this is but two things stand out – the tryzub and the word “Goida”.

Goida was the Russian battle cry a few months ago and became a meme.

What percentage of Japanese in Japan would choose to emigrate vs. Russians in Russia?

I do experimental science, so I believe only experimental data. With comparable population there are a lot more Russians in the US than Japanese. However, here is the catch: most people who Americans call Russians are not. More than half of those are Jews. Plus, Americans call Russians people from all post-Soviet territories, even Georgians and Armenians, who are visibly different. This reflects poorly on Americans’ knowledge of geography and history, but there is nothing new here. However, even if you count real Russians in the US, there would be more than real Japanese per million of country’s population. But here is another catch: whereas in the US I look like most people, I would never move to China or Japan simply because I do not look Chinese or Japanese. As alchemists used to say, like dissolves like.

Why does Russia who industrialized earlier than Japan and endowed with infinite natural resources have less than three times per capita GDP?

GDP calculations include so much creative accounting that they are not worth discussing. Not to mention that when a single tomato costs $5 in one place and a few cents in another, comparisons in USD are meaningless. From my personal experience, people in Moscow have higher living standards and much more money to spend after their basic needs are satisfied than in Japan. Living standards in Russian provincial cities are about the same as in Japan. Cannot judge living standards in rural areas of either country: never was there.

You are showing off your plebian palate. Look up any list for “world’s most popular cuisine”.

Again, being an experimentalist, I would go by the cuisine in restaurants that actually exist, rather than by theoretical lists composed by people whose credentials cannot be verified. There are very few Japanese restaurants in the US and in Russia, a lot fewer than virtually any other kind (with the exception of maybe Eritrean). I liked food in Japan, but I cannot say that it’s better than in Russia, France, Italy, or Spain. Some things I found remarkable (and good) in Japan, like sushi with horsemeat. BTW, horsemeat sushi had meat-to-rice ratio of normal food, in sharp contrast to what they sell in boxes at train stations. I was also surprised that Japan makes a lot of decent wines. While most are better than California wines, they are not as good as middle-range French wines.

There is a lack of confidence but its not what you are suggesting

I have no idea what Japanese believe about their country. I commented on what they appear to think about themselves. So nice and polite, yet so visibly unhappy. I can only feel pity for them.

Sorry if this offends you Japanese sensibilities, but reality, like nature, is always honest, but never polite.

Any formation of Ukies forming up will get CBUed.

Almost all American conservatives had such views such is the brainwashing and conformity in the US. Tucker changed his mind on Iraq

When it actually mattered, he supported the evil American invasion of Iraq.

When it actually matters, he supports the evil Russian invasion of Ukraine.

At least publicly. I’ve heard from people who occasionally interact with him in real life that in person, away from the public, he is a fairly normal liberal northeastern guy, who views many of his fans with contempt. His public persona is a show that has made him a lot of money (for fun, look into his main producer and closest professional confidante). He’s like the Russian-Jewish propogandist Solovyov who is now on Russian TV talking about the Satanic West but whose son is a non-binary unknown gender London partier.

I see where you are having the problem.

• They say that have “Sharia” hoping to trick infidels.
• What they actually do is engage in deviant sexual practices, with prepubescent children. Just like Muhammad abused Aisha.

I’m not having any problem.

Pointing out that they have been known to break their own rules doesn’t negate the existence of Sharia law. They still enforce the law even if their leaders secretly have sex with men or drink alcohol.

There is no trick. There is hypocrisy which seems to go with any controlling belief system.

They don’t belong in the West and they should be grateful that we showed them how to drill oil so they no longer have to fight over water wells.

Pointing out that they have been known to break their own rules doesn’t negate the existence of Sharia law.

That might be true if transgressions were rare. However, in Europe & America — Deviance is the rule and ubiquitous culture. Muslim criminality is so horrifying there are No-Go zones in France unsafe for native Christians.

ISLAM = Crime
ISLAM = Violence
ISLAM = Sexual Deviance

This is the IslamoGloboHomo wielded against Infidels (Jews & Christians) in Europe and America. A growing majority sees this simple truth. Someday, I hope you will too.

PEACE 😇

Okay, and ?

The 6 Hours of Portimão ran on the 16th, so this is a one week turnaround.

FIA WEC took forever to cycle replays last year. Hopefully this a trend that will continue.

PEACE 😇

He’s like the Russian-Jewish propogandist Solovyov who is now on Russian TV talking about the Satanic West but whose son is a non-binary unknown gender London partier

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Ridiculous comparison. Solovyov’s a freak. If Tucker had a different view on Ukraine you’d be defending him. There is no reason for anyone outside Ukraine to share your ethnic prejudices and interests.

John Johnson: From what I’ve heard over the last few years Tucker has had a significant impact on getting conservative boomers to wake up to how evil the US regime is. Many of the West’s problem stem from the belief among older people that leftists are merely wrong or ignorant rather than the truth that they are malevolent existential threats to our civilization. He also gets more young viewers than anyone else on cable news including registered Independents & Democrats who, presumably, can be influenced by his coverage of immigration and other issues. Maybe you’d like him to be replaced by a bog standard conservative who channels patriotic sentiment towards foreign wars as GOP shills have been doing for the last 60 years?

For all of Karlin’s faults, I have to thank him for bringing LibGen to my attention.

Also, Sci-Hub is pretty cool as well. 🙂

What specifically makes you think that Solovyov’s son is non-binary rather than just a femboy?

Quite interesting that even in the present-day, though, statutory rape is NOT a defense against a child support order!

As if anyone being Frank about racial inferiority of blacks would be on broadcast TV. You can’t even keep a YouTube channel after articulating such positions.

Tucker may be prepping for a Presidential run. IMHO.

That describes many Europeans too though. Most young Germans live in rented apartments and make payments on BMWs (of one sort or another) and wear Adidas hoodies or sports clothing.

In some of its aspects the philosophy of Heraclitus is quite similar to some Buddhist concepts (such as anicca), but is completely different from the Zoroastrian ones. I think we have here a case of philosophical co-evolution, not some influence of the Dharmic religious thought on early Hellenistic philosophy.

“Ukraine’s Greatest Composer”

"Ukraine's Greatest Composer: Sergei Prokofiev" went through life believing his birthday to be 11 April, or 23 April new style. Yet, his birth certificate gives the date as 15 April (27th). pic.twitter.com/20NkIKrrqq

— myaskofiev 2 (@madigan_melvyn) April 23, 2023

Tbh I don’t know enough about this subculture to differentiate the two terms.

Again, being an experimentalist, I would go by the cuisine in restaurants that actually exist, rather than by theoretical lists composed by people whose credentials cannot be verified. There are very few Japanese restaurants in the US and in Russia

What’s weird this to say.

Perhaps not in Tennessee, but on the coasts in the USA, and all over Canada, Japanese restaurants are very popular. Mostly they are run by Chinese or sometimes Koreans.

And sushi is very popular in Moscow, also. It has become almost a “native” cuisine. TripAdvisor lists 492 sushi places in that city:

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurants-g298484-c38-Moscow_Central_Russia.html

Thanks for that fascinating information! I had no idea we were as high as second on the list.

One thing I did notice with Australia on there is that I know Australian government has made massive efforts to invest in and get Australians and foreigners moving to Australia to move en masse to the ( very small population density) Northern Territory Oblast in the last 10+years. We have also made program with many incentives to get more of us to move to Far East, North, parts of Siberia. I write about this because the population numbers show Australia has found it harder to get people to move there ……than we have with our offers for people to Far East/Siberia ( although we are still a far from population optimal for these regions).

It just shows how difficult these type of policies are to make successful. Australia’s failure is more surprising in that while Russian Government are working with other Russians to move East/North in a policy that has been much more succesful……Australian system are working with other Australians and huge amounts of white and non-white foreigners who apply to live and work in Australia each year. And it’s well known that it’s so easy to get foreigners desperate to immigrate to a high income country…to unsuspectingly move to the unwanted shithole part of that country in US, UK, Germany, France etc. Not that the Northern Territory in Australia is a shithole (from what I hear), actually it would be a near guaranteed high standard of living at very high wages……but just in a very empty area.

Here is some good long form on the FOX situation: (1)

For financial context, remember Rupert Murdoch paid Megyn Kelly $15 million (Via Harper Collins) for the 2015/2016 operation against Donald Trump. Paying $60 to $100 million to get rid of Carlson’s antagonistic voice is small money to Murdoch Inc. in the grand scheme of things. [Murdoch has also paid for Ron DeSantis to oppose Trump]

Carlson will not be asked to sign an NDA, is not bound by a “non-compete” clause following the contract nullification by Fox Corp, and will be free to do anything he wants in any venture. Additionally, he will be free to say whatever he wants about the issues at Fox and speak freely, or not, without any legal or contractual constraints.
…
Fox had just settled a lawsuit with Dominion Systems that has been widely reported. The decision to fire Carlson had only one aspect connected to the Dominion settlement, financial timing.

Fox Corp is going to take a big hit in second quarter (Q2) earnings as part of the Dominion settlement. If you are going to take a big financial hit, it’s better to go ahead and clear the decks of all financial hits at the same time.

Paying out Carlson simply gets all the big hits in the same quarter.

Context in the Tucker worldview expanded and he began to frame the conflict in a big picture of Good -vs- Evil. Unfortunately for Carlson, this view was from inside a multinational corporate system spreading the darkness. He had to be removed.

This is the reality of the situation as it unfolded. Accept it or not, it matters not. This is the Carlson reality.

Carlson was connecting the dots of manipulation beyond media, beyond social battles and constructs, and into the realm of finance, economics and ultimately behind the Potemkin Village of UniParty politics. Blackrock has an increased stake in Fox Corp.

Talking about what happens behind the false front of the DC village is always a threat. It is in the research and acceptance of the darkest pretending constructs that you realize how the illusions of choice are presented.

Tucker Carlson was no longer selling the illusions.

There are trillions at stake.

He was removed.

 

 

Tucker is free.

Welcome to the rebellion my friend!

PEACE 😇
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(1) https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/04/24/thoughts-on-tucker-carlsons-firing/

Post-credits scenes in movies are a sign of degeneracy.

And sushi is very popular in Moscow, also. It has become almost a “native” cuisine. TripAdvisor lists 492 sushi places in that city:

1. A fantasist scumbag as yourself has never been to Moscow, Russia, or probably even Europe – so this charade of yours is pitiful

2.Those in Moscow are mostly American-style sushi you dumbfuck, not traditional japanese. Even the decor of these eating places is more mixed than majority Japanese. Much like around much of the world “Pizza” is done in the American reimaging of Pizza, that has basically zero connection to true Pizza in Italy you idiot. So different to Far East side of Russia which is different in Japanese influence, rest of Russia is having sushi from western influence, very little actual Japanese. I suspect if looking at the link you have given ( which I won’t as you are a sociopathic freak addicted to giving fake links) then it will be clear from any fotos shown there that I am correct ( and its certainly nowhere close to even 300 instead of 500 in Moscow you POS)

Unless I suppose in your autistic scumbag permanant liar “existence” the Korean or Chinese (WTF?) chef travelled to Kyoto to learn the art of making a traditional Japanese “Californian Roll” sushi

I have always treated sushi places separately from Japanese restaurants – because a nation-themed restaurant should be covering a spectrum of japanese cuisine , just like Chinese restuarants do with their food, and Indians with theirs……..and Japanese restaurants (not western-style sushi bars) are if not non-existant, then near non-existant in west and Russia. Sake much be most unused alcoholic drink in America also.

And sushi is very popular in Moscow, also. It has become almost a “native” cuisine.

There are 10-20 times fewer Japanese restaurants in the US than Chinese. Curiously, in the US Chinese restaurants tend to be cheaper than Japanese, whereas in Russia it is the other way around. Japanese food in Moscow occupies the niche of semi-junk food, popular among those who want something on the cheap.

Perhaps not in Tennessee

There is one good Japanese restaurant in Nashville, where you can get good sushi, sashimi, and even authentic Japanese sake. The chef is Korean, but the two guys making sushi are Japanese. For comparison, there are two Turkish restaurants, not to mention more than a couple of dozen Chinese, even more Mexican, etc.

This is the IslamoGloboHomo wielded against Infidels (Jews & Christians) in Europe and America. A growing majority sees this simple truth. Someday, I hope you will too.

Do you even read my posts? I said I don’t want them here. Islam isn’t compatible with Western society.

Live now Alex Jones & Scott Ritter…

Did that show include some Quanon representative as well?

Non-binary implies some other identity in addition to male and/or in place of male. Femboy can also imply that, but doesn’t have to.

Also, off-topic, but (and while I really hope that this won’t happen), if Azerbaijan will actually succeed in wiping Armenia off the map as a result of Russia being distracted in Ukraine, then I don’t think that Russian nationalists such as Anatoly Karlin would actually be able to complain about this considering that if they endorse a right of conquest for Russia, why shouldn’t other countries also enjoy a reciprocal right of conquest? The sin of commission vs. sin of omission distinction wouldn’t really work here since by invading Ukraine, Russia engaged in a sin of commission while by sitting idly by while Azerbaijan conquers Armenia, Ukraine would be engaging in a sin of omission. I truly hope that Azerbaijan won’t conquer Armenia, though. Won’t be the first time that the Armenians would have gotten burned as an indirect result of something that Russia did, though. When the Russian Empire tried to use the Armenians as pawns against the Ottoman Empire in the 1910s, or at least gave the Ottomans that impression, the Armenians got brutally slaughtered by the Ottoman Turks. 🙁

Honestly, Turkish Armenian genocide denial doesn’t strike me as being too productive. Why not simultaneously commemorate the genocide/ethnic cleansing of Balkan/Caucasian Muslims and Armenians and argue that the former contributed to a feeling of extreme paranoia among the Ottoman leadership that tragically led to the latter? It would likely be true in any case.

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

They may be impoverished, malnourished and suffer from collective depression, according to your always categorical judgements, but somehow they manage to enjoy longer and healthier lives than almost anyone else on the planet. There may be more than meets the eye of a cursory visitor.

It is nonsense that they have a bad diet, it’s quite the opposite. They probably eat less rice than the Westerners (and Russians) – definitely less starch (since their portions are smaller). They mostly eat vegetables (including the sweet potato, the purple colored one which is better than the yellow one). Soba noodles are made of buckwheat so lower carb and higher protein than normal noodles. Let’s not forget the famous Okinawa diet (the famous longevity diet).

A123’s cousin was there!

Two good rips in 24 hours, not bad. 🙂

That said, though, I do think that Ukraine should choose better friends; a country that behaves like Russia (perhaps even worse than Russia in some regards, actually) isn’t exactly a good friend to have unless one is truly desperate (as the West was during WWII, for instance):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Armenian_sentiment_in_Azerbaijan#:~:text=Contemporary%20Armenophobia%20in%20Azerbaijan%20traces,SSR%20to%20the%20Armenian%20SSR.

“In 2004, the Azerbaijani lieutenant Ramil Safarov murdered Armenian lieutenant Gurgen Markaryan in his sleep at a Partnership for Peace NATO program. In 2006, Safarov was sentenced to life imprisonment in Hungary with a minimum incarceration period of 30 years. After his request under the Strasbourg convention, he was extradited[86] on 31 August 2012 to Azerbaijan, where he was greeted as a hero by a huge crowd,[87][88][89] pardoned by the Azerbaijani president despite contrary assurances made to Hungary,[90] promoted to the rank of major and given an apartment and over eight years of back pay.[91] Armenia cut all diplomatic ties with Hungary after this incident.[86] On 19 September 2013, President Aliyev stated that “Azerbaijan has returned Ramil Safarov—its officer to homeland, given him freedom and restored the justice.”[92]”

Unfortunate associations coming up during US wargame over Taiwan: