In today's the "second Trump term won't be bad, we pinky promise", Trump says he needs the same type of generals that a certain mid-20th century German dictator had. Also asks how much it costs to bury a Mexican.
The Los Angeles Times are a bunch of fishing cowards then. Either they go for Trump out of tribal loyalty or they recognize how bad Trump is and tell people to vote Democratic, or as P.J. Roarke would pitch to his right-leaning fellow travelers "wrong within the normal parameters."
I think the poster on the other blog is right when he said that many of these people are motivated by a deep existential boredom and Hamas along with other Islamist groups excite them. Most of them can't bring themselves to become ideological islamists, so they turn themselves into Further Left allies.
Here is an earlier piece about Fergie Chambers. The TL/DR version is that Fergie Chamber is the heir to Cox Enterprises, decided he was a radical Communist, set up a gym to train "revolutionaries" along with a polyamorous commmune, and later converted to Islam and moved to Tunisia. Fergie Chambers might have set up two young women to do a felony at an American office of Elbit Systems and now abandoned them as they face federal charges. One of them apparently put Yahya Sinwar on her ballot.
I see him as basically embodying all the pathologies of the Further Left in one person. He seems motivated by a source of existential border. What I also don't understand is how the Further Left has this romance with Islam as a radical and revolutionary religion while they hate every other religion on the planet in general but seem to have a special disdain for Jews and Judaism.
I think a more accurate statement is that liberal intellectuals look at right-wing and left-wing intellectuals with a bit of crush and the rightists and leftists look at the liberal intellectuals and say "fishing Jews."
For at least some of them, I think they are LARPING is true. Or at least there is a combination of both. Some are there because they truly believe, others for the release of energy, and others for both reasons. I just wish that Jews wouldn't be the target of this so often.
The Nat Turner rebellion took place over 30 years before the abolition of slavery and slavery was ended in a violent confrontation but a more normal one. Meanwhile, I was today year's old when I learned about this piece of work:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fergie_Chambers
Somebody on the other blog believes that deep existential boredom drives a lot of this activity. Based on Fergie Chambers, I think there might be something to that.
I realize how they read it but for most normie liberals, trying to treat Hamas as anything but a vile organization is dumb even if they don't like Israel that much. Even on the other blog, many otherwise critical of Israel people were strangely fine with Sinwar departing this mortal coil and one even said they hoped his death hurt a lot. This was not written by somebody that was sympathetic towards Israel. The use of high academic language by Pro-Palestinian Westerners hurts the Palestinian cause more than it helps them.
It is apparently a thing in Further Left circles to compare 10/7 to Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion. I have really no idea why they believe this is a persuasive argument. Even many people who don't like Israel that much hate Hamas. 10/7 was clearly organized by Hamas. The Further Left basically exists in their own headspace on this issue and refuses to deal with reality.
I think that not collecting ethnic data is common across European countries. Wikipedia's article on the Nordic countries also state that they don't collect ethnic data in their census. It is sort of like creating a multicultural society by engaging in a lot of denial at the same time and powering through the issues.
Out of all the world's religions, Islam seems the one most immune to liberalization. I have various theories why this is true* but I also think that creating Liberal Islam is very important.
*One of which is that more traditional Muslims will have no issues using violence against anybody that sets up a Muslim equivalent of Reform Judaism to get them to conform. Another related reason is that they have more opportunities to do this, mainly the Hajj. A Muslim community in the United States might set up a Liberal Mosque but they are going to conform when they go on Hajj if they want to come back alive.
I don't think that any European country is going to become permanently non-White any time soon if ever. Since they refuse to get proper information on ethnic demographics for reasons that make sense to them, it is very hard to determine how many French people are "ethnic French" or at least "white" but I think it is still a comfortable majority.
51% say they have no religion and another 29% report Roman Catholicism. Only 10% say their religion is Islam. Using this as a rough proximate of race, "white" French people are still around 80% of the population. Everybody's birthrate is going down.
Losing to Monotheism 1.0, and a group that didn't have an army or country of their own for nearly 2000 years at this point, really messed them up psychology. Some seem to be slowly recovering but not enough.
Sorry for the triple response but it is darkly funny that liberals who believe that their own reactionaries or Israeli extremists are serious look at the Palestinians and go "oh, they don't really believe this and are just saying it as a negotiating tactic."
My theory is that Pro-Palestinian liberals in the West are unwilling to deal with this because if most Muslims really do see Israel as a theocratic blot on all of Islam than that is both alien and unsolvable problem. Many Western liberals are also deeply afraid of saying anything that could be interpreted as racist or Islamophobic and that includes telling the Palestinians to be sensible. So they create sensible Palestinians in their headspace.
The Further Leftists who see Israel as a settler-colonial entity are perfectly willing to allow the Palestinians to cleanse the entire MENA region of the Jews. They see it as a just destruction a la Algeria even though Israeli Jews don't have a place they can go to like the Pied-Noirs do. Further Leftists tend to not have the most accurate information about Israel's demographics or Jewish history and perceptions.
The more liberal rather than leftist Pro-Palestinian people in the West tend to really ignore what real actual Palestinians and Muslims are saying because it goes against what Western liberals are acceptable. They might be aware of what the hardline Israelis say but they tend to create Fantasy Palestinians in their headspace that use ANC type rhetoric rather than what they are saying.
From what I've observed the allegedly moderate Palestinians sound just as bad as the Israeli extremists. They really view the entire area as their place. They might be willing to deal with a small to medium sized Jewish community that they can manage and be treated as pets but it has to be known that the Arab Palestinians are the real true inhabitants. A Jewish population big enough that can press on these issues is too much for them.
My theory and it is mine is that losing to Jews repeatedly has basically cost a big psychological shock among Muslims that they are still recovering from. The Facebook algorithm gave me a political cartoon yesterday of a dignified Muslim man with a robe, turban, and beard standing on books titled poetry, philosophy, etc.; looking down with contempt on a boy in a kippah dancing cluelessly on a smaller stack of US dollars.
I don't know if this was created by a Muslim or non-Muslim more sympathetic to them than Jews/Israelis but it speaks volumes. The Muslims are men and heirs to a a great intellectual tradition while the Jews are clueless spoiled brat boys. Despite all the Nobel Prizes we won and the fact that Israel's GDP exceeds that of all it's neighbors combined. They seem to be jealous.
We see it on this blog and the other blog when some Pro-Palestinian people argue for an immediate and full right of return for all the Palestinians, still alive, who left Greenline Israel in 1948 and their kids, grandkids, and great grand-kids. Obviously Israel isn't going to commit demographic suicide like that and such a right of return is basically a back way into a one Palestinian state solution. Lots of Pro-Palestinian people still insist on this as a matter of absolute justice despite the fact that no Israeli government would agree to it.
The Palestinians alleged allies have spent decades fueling Palestinian delusions. They have been steadily taught that Jewish self-determination is totally illegitimate, that they can get a reversal of everything they want, and they don't need to negotiate on even the most minor issue. Israelis allies in both government circles and among ordinary people have generally, not always successfully obviously, encouraged a more moderate path. So unless the Palestinians get hit with a clue stick, I don't see much improvement.
Calling a commanding officer being killed in a war an extra-judicial killing seems a bit much. If Sinwar as a meeting or something than it would count but Sinwar was killed in battle and was acting as an officer and soldier.
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On “From The Atlantic: Trump: ‘I Need the Kind of Generals That Hitler Had’”
Godwin himself said that it is perfectly fine to call Trump a you know what.
On “From Semafor: Los Angeles Times won’t endorse for president”
Sometimes telling clowns that we need to take something seriously is very important.
On “Open Mic for the week of 10/21/2024”
In today's the "second Trump term won't be bad, we pinky promise", Trump says he needs the same type of generals that a certain mid-20th century German dictator had. Also asks how much it costs to bury a Mexican.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/10/trump-military-generals-hitler/680327/
On “From Semafor: Los Angeles Times won’t endorse for president”
The Los Angeles Times are a bunch of fishing cowards then. Either they go for Trump out of tribal loyalty or they recognize how bad Trump is and tell people to vote Democratic, or as P.J. Roarke would pitch to his right-leaning fellow travelers "wrong within the normal parameters."
On “Open Mic for the week of 10/21/2024”
Here is the article on Elbit Systems felony:
https://nhjournal.com/fbi-investigating-group-behind-elbit-systems-attack-in-merrimack/
I think the poster on the other blog is right when he said that many of these people are motivated by a deep existential boredom and Hamas along with other Islamist groups excite them. Most of them can't bring themselves to become ideological islamists, so they turn themselves into Further Left allies.
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Here is an earlier piece about Fergie Chambers. The TL/DR version is that Fergie Chamber is the heir to Cox Enterprises, decided he was a radical Communist, set up a gym to train "revolutionaries" along with a polyamorous commmune, and later converted to Islam and moved to Tunisia. Fergie Chambers might have set up two young women to do a felony at an American office of Elbit Systems and now abandoned them as they face federal charges. One of them apparently put Yahya Sinwar on her ballot.
I see him as basically embodying all the pathologies of the Further Left in one person. He seems motivated by a source of existential border. What I also don't understand is how the Further Left has this romance with Islam as a radical and revolutionary religion while they hate every other religion on the planet in general but seem to have a special disdain for Jews and Judaism.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/fergie-chambers
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I think a more accurate statement is that liberal intellectuals look at right-wing and left-wing intellectuals with a bit of crush and the rightists and leftists look at the liberal intellectuals and say "fishing Jews."
"
For at least some of them, I think they are LARPING is true. Or at least there is a combination of both. Some are there because they truly believe, others for the release of energy, and others for both reasons. I just wish that Jews wouldn't be the target of this so often.
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Trump vows to take America back to 1798.
https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-rally-2669451517/
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Like Cocaine Cowboys but without the glitzy night life and flashy clothing.
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The Nat Turner rebellion took place over 30 years before the abolition of slavery and slavery was ended in a violent confrontation but a more normal one. Meanwhile, I was today year's old when I learned about this piece of work:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fergie_Chambers
Somebody on the other blog believes that deep existential boredom drives a lot of this activity. Based on Fergie Chambers, I think there might be something to that.
"
I realize how they read it but for most normie liberals, trying to treat Hamas as anything but a vile organization is dumb even if they don't like Israel that much. Even on the other blog, many otherwise critical of Israel people were strangely fine with Sinwar departing this mortal coil and one even said they hoped his death hurt a lot. This was not written by somebody that was sympathetic towards Israel. The use of high academic language by Pro-Palestinian Westerners hurts the Palestinian cause more than it helps them.
"
Where people get bad ideas about the economy, a theory in one paragraph.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/684da1fc3502e015f647ac113375d8c3ceb14dd6adced8eb0673d4c236bf69ca.jpg
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It is apparently a thing in Further Left circles to compare 10/7 to Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion. I have really no idea why they believe this is a persuasive argument. Even many people who don't like Israel that much hate Hamas. 10/7 was clearly organized by Hamas. The Further Left basically exists in their own headspace on this issue and refuses to deal with reality.
On “Hamas, Anyar Sinwar, and The Grand Delusion”
I think that not collecting ethnic data is common across European countries. Wikipedia's article on the Nordic countries also state that they don't collect ethnic data in their census. It is sort of like creating a multicultural society by engaging in a lot of denial at the same time and powering through the issues.
"
Out of all the world's religions, Islam seems the one most immune to liberalization. I have various theories why this is true* but I also think that creating Liberal Islam is very important.
*One of which is that more traditional Muslims will have no issues using violence against anybody that sets up a Muslim equivalent of Reform Judaism to get them to conform. Another related reason is that they have more opportunities to do this, mainly the Hajj. A Muslim community in the United States might set up a Liberal Mosque but they are going to conform when they go on Hajj if they want to come back alive.
"
I don't think that any European country is going to become permanently non-White any time soon if ever. Since they refuse to get proper information on ethnic demographics for reasons that make sense to them, it is very hard to determine how many French people are "ethnic French" or at least "white" but I think it is still a comfortable majority.
51% say they have no religion and another 29% report Roman Catholicism. Only 10% say their religion is Islam. Using this as a rough proximate of race, "white" French people are still around 80% of the population. Everybody's birthrate is going down.
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Losing to Monotheism 1.0, and a group that didn't have an army or country of their own for nearly 2000 years at this point, really messed them up psychology. Some seem to be slowly recovering but not enough.
"
Sorry for the triple response but it is darkly funny that liberals who believe that their own reactionaries or Israeli extremists are serious look at the Palestinians and go "oh, they don't really believe this and are just saying it as a negotiating tactic."
"
My theory is that Pro-Palestinian liberals in the West are unwilling to deal with this because if most Muslims really do see Israel as a theocratic blot on all of Islam than that is both alien and unsolvable problem. Many Western liberals are also deeply afraid of saying anything that could be interpreted as racist or Islamophobic and that includes telling the Palestinians to be sensible. So they create sensible Palestinians in their headspace.
"
The Further Leftists who see Israel as a settler-colonial entity are perfectly willing to allow the Palestinians to cleanse the entire MENA region of the Jews. They see it as a just destruction a la Algeria even though Israeli Jews don't have a place they can go to like the Pied-Noirs do. Further Leftists tend to not have the most accurate information about Israel's demographics or Jewish history and perceptions.
The more liberal rather than leftist Pro-Palestinian people in the West tend to really ignore what real actual Palestinians and Muslims are saying because it goes against what Western liberals are acceptable. They might be aware of what the hardline Israelis say but they tend to create Fantasy Palestinians in their headspace that use ANC type rhetoric rather than what they are saying.
From what I've observed the allegedly moderate Palestinians sound just as bad as the Israeli extremists. They really view the entire area as their place. They might be willing to deal with a small to medium sized Jewish community that they can manage and be treated as pets but it has to be known that the Arab Palestinians are the real true inhabitants. A Jewish population big enough that can press on these issues is too much for them.
"
My theory and it is mine is that losing to Jews repeatedly has basically cost a big psychological shock among Muslims that they are still recovering from. The Facebook algorithm gave me a political cartoon yesterday of a dignified Muslim man with a robe, turban, and beard standing on books titled poetry, philosophy, etc.; looking down with contempt on a boy in a kippah dancing cluelessly on a smaller stack of US dollars.
I don't know if this was created by a Muslim or non-Muslim more sympathetic to them than Jews/Israelis but it speaks volumes. The Muslims are men and heirs to a a great intellectual tradition while the Jews are clueless spoiled brat boys. Despite all the Nobel Prizes we won and the fact that Israel's GDP exceeds that of all it's neighbors combined. They seem to be jealous.
"
We see it on this blog and the other blog when some Pro-Palestinian people argue for an immediate and full right of return for all the Palestinians, still alive, who left Greenline Israel in 1948 and their kids, grandkids, and great grand-kids. Obviously Israel isn't going to commit demographic suicide like that and such a right of return is basically a back way into a one Palestinian state solution. Lots of Pro-Palestinian people still insist on this as a matter of absolute justice despite the fact that no Israeli government would agree to it.
"
The Palestinians alleged allies have spent decades fueling Palestinian delusions. They have been steadily taught that Jewish self-determination is totally illegitimate, that they can get a reversal of everything they want, and they don't need to negotiate on even the most minor issue. Israelis allies in both government circles and among ordinary people have generally, not always successfully obviously, encouraged a more moderate path. So unless the Palestinians get hit with a clue stick, I don't see much improvement.
"
Calling a commanding officer being killed in a war an extra-judicial killing seems a bit much. If Sinwar as a meeting or something than it would count but Sinwar was killed in battle and was acting as an officer and soldier.
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