Friday Ephemera (744)

(Gets PST314’s coat)

her house smells powerfully of cat piss and box wine.”

but he repeats himself

@ccwscientist, who said:

In Spain they removed hundreds of dams for “the environment” and over 200 died in floods. Many things exist for a reason, such as dams. Dams don’t care about your ideology.

I heard this right when it came out, almost as the floods were receding. Thing is, I can’t find reliable sources that corroborate it. Any cites?

It’s one of those things… It sounds right, you want it to be true, but… Is it?

I’m going to go out on a limb and say that the more likely explanation for all the damage is probably a.) urbanization without sane planning for runoff, and b.) the fact that they never, ever seem to plan for “black swan” events when they’re doing the urban growth BS.

Case in point: Go to California. Look at their flood control programs and everything associated with it. Now, look at those for any sign that they’ve factored in the historical flood records here: Great Flood of California 1605 and here.

You’ll be a long time looking; per an informant of mine in the Army Corps of Engineers, all of those “great floods” were simply hand-waved away; anomalies, couldn’t happen ever again. One-time events.

You believe the planners, you’re in for a rude awakening. In my native Pacific Northwest, I was taught as I grew up that we did not have earthquakes. Not like California… Oh, and volcanoes? Not happening.

Since I was a kid, we’ve learned that, yes, we do have active volcanoes. One of them even blew up. We’ve also learned about the Cascadia Subduction Fault, and all those dead trees out on the coast that I asked about were killed by one back about 1700, which produced a rather massive “orphan” tsunami in Japan, clear across the ‘effing Pacific. Said tsunami was damn near as big as the last one they had, which was an historical gonger…

Did I mention that none of the people doing the highway and road design in the Northwest accounted for those earthquakes when designing highway and other road cuts and fills? Nor did any of the building departments, when approving home construction on hillsides…

Can you say “Oso“? I knew you could…

Oh, and here’s another thought: Most of the housing in the Puget Sound region was not designed with a lot of earthquake resistance built in. They did mandate good foundation fastening, but at the same time, this is a very humid, moist climate. The mandate was also for treated plate to be put atop the concrete foundations, lest the structure be undermined by rot. Trouble is, nobody really thought or cared about the foundation fastening systems, which were mostly just iron J-bolts. Not hot-dip galvanized bolts, either; plain iron in most applications.

Which the copper salts in a lot of the treated lumber react badly with, leading to… Ta-da!!! Corrosion!!!

Last remodel we did on the coast, we had to have a chunk of the outer foundation wall cut out and we discovered, much to our horror, that the combination of environmental moisture and untreated iron in conjunction with treated lumber… Well, the J-bolts on the part of the foundation we worked on had gone from “1/2 inch of sturdy metal” to “rustcicle about the diameter of a pencil lead”.

I’ll leave the likely implications of all that as an exercise for the reader. It would be my expectation that should we experience another 1700-like earthquake, the resultant damage is going to leave everything west of I-5 corridor in a state of nature not too far removed from what it was in the early days; the road network is gonna be gone, along with everything else modern. Rural areas will likely survive best, but I fully expect the urban ones to go full Mad Max within hours of it all.

I rather suspect that the political lean afterwards is going to be somewhat different, as is the economy. It would take generations for people to forget the aftermath and regain confidence in it all. A lot depends on the time of year, however… If it hits in the dead of a wet winter? LOL… A.) things are going to shake like a literal bowl full of Jell-O, and B.) a lot of people are going to freeze in the dark. Especially if it happens at night…

Only one or two small communities over there are paying attention and doing any prep for it. The rest just ignore it, and rely on “government” to take care of them, while the bureaucrats are asleep at the switch.

@ccscientist,

Many American blacks are hard-coded for failure. They see others being successful who often start out worse than they do, and all they can do is try to tear them down. It’s the “crab bucket” mentality that has destroyed much of sub-saharan Africa; one member of a family makes themselves successful, then the rest glom onto them for freebies. It’s why their governments are so corrupt; there’s no structure or cultural underpinnings for anything above about family/clan level.

As such, I don’t think that a western model of governance will ever work.

I’m going to go way out on the observational limb here, and suggest that the reason you find Western social forms working well with Western populations is that the “hooks” have been installed in those populations via selection. We Scots/Irish were once as bad or worse when it came to lawlessness and depravity; the crime rates in the Appalachians and small communities where we settled were horrendous. In England, you go back and look at the level of violence and murder during the “old days”, and it’s quite on par with the modern black here in the US. What changed? Well, we bred that crap out of the population. There was a long time there where if you wanted to get laid, you had to be a hard-working steady sort, or the “nice girls” wouldn’t look at you twice. This had effect; all those disruptive genes are gone, or at least, successfully repressed. The Scots-Irish woman had a lot to do with that; she decided she was done with the bullshit, collectively, and stopped breeding with the disruptives. Modern black women, on the other hand? Totally not paying attention to what they’re breeding with, and that explains why the two different communities have had such different outcomes.

You want to know why the sub-Saharan Africans are so inept in civilization? It’s because of things like that; they’re really not suited for that sort of collective effort, because the necessities in their genes ain’t been installed. They’re much closer to a state of nature for humanity than we are.

Of course, at the rate the Left is going, we’re gonna decivilize at some point. Their women keep wanting to breed with the exotic outsider, so they bring in their own barbarians.

I ain’t never going to forget the “brave strong feminist” that dumped my buddy because he wasn’t enough of a “feminist ally”. Know who she wound up with? Why, an Iranian sort of “gentleman” who I’m reasonably sure was beating her ass on at least a weekly basis, if not daily. She loved it, and him… Gave him two kids, both girls, who I felt nothing but pity for. She didn’t give him sons; he hated her for it.

I kept track of her through a mutual female friend that worked with her. State employee, did I mention…? Last I heard, she was wearing a hijab and all the rest.

Feminist. Rejected a literal blond football-star all-around athlete and scholar of a guy, for that. My buddy literally worshipped her sorry ass; she dumped him, we had him on suicide watch for about a year after. I think he wound up married to a Ukrainian or Polish girl he met over there as a contractor.

It’s a lot like that hunter with the bear joke… I don’t think she was there for the feminism.

This is why…

When the race war starts, the whole thing will be triggered by things like this.

Marn’i Washington is, by the way, black. I knew that before I even searched for her details, from what she wrote and her mentality.

Blacks need to be purged from government positions permanently when they perform like this. The rubble needs to bounce around their careers. She should be unemployable for life in any public capacity.

I’ve worked around a bunch of outstanding black Americans, and I value their contributions. What I can’t tolerate is how the left has propagandized a bunch of the younger ones into being “activists” like this; it ain’t like the tax dollars she’s divvying out were earned by her ilk, that’s for damn sure.

Racial spoils systems absolutely have to die, and if they don’t, then there goes any hope for a “diverse society”, if that is even a good thing. They don’t end this woman’s career, she’s only going to go on sowing more division and hatred.

When it blows up, she’ll be right there, playing victim. Just like the Hamasniks did, after October 7th.

You see, she needs to know where you live. And you have to wear an identifying bracelet. 

Good advice, because when you are “in danger” from random roving mobs of Trump voters the the best thing to do is identify yourself as one of the “endangered”.

Reverse camouflage is real 4D chess thinking though I thought the notion of identifying population groups with external markers went out around 1945, but what do I know.

The genius of the side of love, hope, joy, and progress is truly boundless. Speaking of which, and demonstrating that as the twig is bent so grows the tree, another says “we” failed black women, (I am guessing especially the blacks – though not a much as the ytes who voted for Orange Hitler), and is ashamed of us as America doesn’t deserve Harris.

True, I guess, though in much the same way as not deserving a meteor impact, plague of locusts, or having to listen to Cardi B try give another speech.

Hope told her followers she’s giving herself “the week to be sad and to mourn what could’ve been, what should’ve been.”

She left off “unburdened by what has been”, but given her grief and anger an understandable omission.

cat piss and box wine

Band name. 

Jabba the Hutt is sad.

Great googly moogly, one would think that when you start to accumulate fat in your forehead, it might just be time to cut back at least a little bit – unless the beluga look is a new thing, I am not up on the latest trends.

Oh, and yes, she’s a high-school teacher. Influencing other people’s children. Every day of the week.

These mad women make me wish I could have voted for Trump and I don’t even live in America.

These mad women make me wish I could have voted for Trump and I don’t even live in America.

All you had to do was ask for a ballot from a state that doesn’t require ID…

Kirk goes off with:

You look at it, and it’s pretty damning. Remember the old Nazi claims about jazz music being the product of a Jewish attempt to leverage “African rhythm” into destroying the moral fiber of white youth…? Go have a look at who, specifically, is financing and profiting from “Gangsta Rap”. It’s an interesting thing, when look at it side-by-side with the old Nazi propaganda.

Jazz and rap were not developed in some secret Jewish laboratory. Jazz certainly developed long before Jews gained influence over popular culture.

And BTW the biggest push to mainstream undesirables was the Anglo-American Abolitionist movement – and it was motivated entirely by sincere Christian feeling. The American Civil War and the British abolition of slavery were achieved without any significant Left-wing or Jooish input.

So calm down. It seems that others’ unhinged rants have triggered your own unhinged rant.

Here are the kernels of truth in your post:

Since its formation, the Leftist Commune has tried to destabilize Western Judeo-Christian democracy. Their ultimate goal has never been to liberate or empower, but to take power themselves.

To do this they have constantly tried to undermine the Judeo-Christian moral standards of society by:
Identifying and riding trends, movements, and groups that can be used as wedges of social unrest. In particular, steering various movements towards the politics of victimhood as a proxy for Marxist class theory.Using greed, lust, tribalism, and other baser elements of human nature to their political advantage. Portraying morality as constricting and artificial, and anarchy as freedom and authenticity. Using this rhetoric to encourage rejection of received Judeo-Christian morality, to glamorize and cover for lawlessness… because violent revolution was the goal from the outset.In particular, develop a dysfunctional underclass dependent on welfare.
Certainly many of the “Prison Reform” and “Progressive” movements were promoted by Left-leaning Fabians, but the push for female suffrage did not come out of some fiendish Marxist back room – it grew out of the same industrialization changes that extended political suffrage to working class men who were not property owners.

Did the left identify and use the movement to amplify division? Sure… the pose of the handwringing social organizer has served them well. But that doesn’t mean all social changes of the modern era are a big conspiracy…. I will grant you that most policies that absolve or dilute personal responsibility are promoted by Leftists.

Unfortunately, the appeal to baser human nature usually works, although it’s a disgusting way to gain political power.

Does it “prove” that certain populations are substandard?
As Charles Murray and others have explained – the poor, the stupid, and the impulsive need the external support/direction of a strong society more than people of greater endowments. The clearest example is the black middle class in America – which was almost entirely wiped out by Leftists “helping” them in the 50s and 60s, with welfare programs that decimated family and Church-based community structures that withstood the worst of Jim Crow.

That story certainly proves the revolting callousness of the Left – made more revolting by the hypocritical caring front they put on it all.

But all it proves to me about blacks – and about Fentanyl-addicted poor whites – is that they need strong, moral social structures to keep them on the level as good, productive citizens.

In the same vein we can ask – what would female suffrage and liberation look like if it were entirely devoid of the double standards of victimhood politics?

The big divide it seems to me is Dems==party of free stuff, Repubs=party of creating opportunity. Many hispanics have started on the ladder of business/career and would rather have opportunity than handouts. IRL there can never be enough handouts to bribe the entire population.
Free stuff destroyed the black community. Welfare was available if you had kids but not if there was a husband, thus single motherhood became incentivized (for all races) but it has terrible effects on the next generation and on the single, rootless men it creates. Being a husband and father incentivizes civilized behavior, planning, saving, working hard. Being a “baby daddy” does not.

@ccscientist, who said:

Free stuff destroyed the black community.

Uhmmm… No. That’s like saying “drugs and the availability of drugs create addiction”.

Which is a bizarre interpretation on the whole cause-and-effect sequence. Drugs aren’t lying in wait and ambushing addicts, out in the wild. They’re inert, without agency; you don’t develop a drug addiction until and unless you take the drugs.

The root problem with “free stuff” isn’t that the goods were offered; it was that the offers were taken up.

I had immediate family who were in really bad circumstances because the family provider got himself killed doing “the right thing”, and his wife and kids then entered poverty as a direct result. Rather than go “on relief”, wife then pulled up her sleeves and went to work. Took her forever, but she pulled herself and the kids out of poverty, never once going “on relief” as it was in those days. Why? Family pride, mostly… Misplaced? Perhaps… But, it was a choice. There was charity available to her, but she never, ever took it. Didn’t consider it.

This will come as a news flash to an awful lot of people: You don’t have to put the needle into your arm, or take the drink.

I’ve been prescribed opiates multiple times in my life. Each time, a point was reached that I could recognize as “Oh, this isn’t good… I think I’m getting dependent on this crap…”, whereupon I quit taking the opioid and dealt with the chronic pain.

I ain’t going to tell you that that’s due to any particular virtue of mine, but it is because I chose not to let the pain or the chemical masking the pain become my master.

Similarly, my female forebear chose not to give up her agency and her freedom to the situation she was in, requiring of herself that she remained her own master.

That’s the choice that blacks made, and you could likely make a case that because they made those choices, they demonstrated their natural inclination towards slave-status: They want someone else to care for them. Those were the choices they made, of their own will. Which probably explains a lot about their whole situation, these days. They’re domesticated animals trying to live free and wild in a free and wild environment.

That this also says a lot about the do-good types is also an unpleasant truth; they want dependency and slaves. Main difference between now and the ante-bellum South? They don’t want those slaves picking cotton for them; they want them voting for them…

@David, who over on X/Twitter said:

Imagine these neurotic, controlling women having the power they crave. A world shaped in their image, according to their compulsions.

<raises hand, tentatively…> Uhmmmmm… David? I hate to point out to you that we mostly already do.

Which is why everything has been going to shit, of late.

@pst314,

Oh, and do you know just why I happen to know who the financiers were behind Gangsta Rap?

I once got into an argument with a bona-fide, real-life, card-carrying neo-Nazi. I made the mistake of pointing out the lunacy of the whole “Jazz as exercise in Jewish destruction of Western Civilization through popularizing African jungle music”.

I think you can make the extrapolation to how I lost that argument. There’s a whole bunch of evidence out there, including interviews and actual statements by said executives, along with black recording artists complaining about it.

At the time, I was too ‘effing sickened by it to really keep all the links going, but it is out there. I’ll let you do your own research.

It’s kinda like trying to defend abortion rights people and so forth against the anti-abortion arguments when Margaret Sanger’s words are all out there… Ya want people to be A-OK with what you’re doing? Then, you’d better be simon-pure and accurate yourself.

Frankly, Margaret Sanger did rather more to turn me against abortion than anything else I’ve experienced.

@pst314,

Uh, no. If ethnically Jewish people are to be condemned while ethnically Christian people don’t get the same attention then we’re looking at a double standard.

That whooshing sound you’re hearing? That was the point missing your head.

The issue is not assigning blame for the existence of Gangsta Rap; the point is Jewish (and, idiot…) executives failing to examine the premises of what they were doing and saying to themselves “Ya know… Maybe we ought not be in this aspect of the business, because… Ya know… Optics.”.

There’s plenty of blame to go around; black artists that came up with it? White enthusiasts who thought glorifying criminality, misogyny, and drugs was a great idea? The people who then chose to “live the gangsta life”?

What I’m pointing out is the sheer ‘effing stupidity of those Jewish executives. I mean, OK, I’m trying to argue with losers against their anti-semitism, here: Is it really a good idea to be giving them ammunition?

Same with the other bullshit out there: You want me to be on your side, and say that black Americans are just like everyone else? Have a f*cking look at the FBI statistics, then… You want me to defend you? Give me something to do it with, not more evidence that you as a group can’t self-regulate enough to participate in polite society.

@pst314, who said:

Now you seem to using a mott-and-bailey defense to say you didn’t really mean the facts about Da Jooz are “pretty damning”.

Did you read that post, or just pick out things that offended you?

My whole damn point was the way the various assholes have apparently taken the old ravings as guides to their conduct.

You don’t want to be tarred by the bigots? Then, quit acting as though what the bigots were saying was true.

Is that too hard for you to make out?

What the various offensive parties in all these demographics are doing is their level best to prove out the stereotypes, to the extent that their demographic will wind up discredited and dealt with accordingly. Is that wise?

It’s almost as if I said “Ya know what? They’re accusing me, a “cis-hetero white male”, of being a congenital unreformable rapist… Well, if I’m going to do the time for the crime, let’s get raping…”

Which is effectively what a lot of these groups are doing.

Case in point: Democrats say they are the “smart people” when it comes to economics.

Democrat displaying economic wisdom:

Whoopi thinks inflation is happening because grocers are raising their prices to gouge the public; the insane printing of money and spending it that her chosen party has performed since the first day of the Biden administration has nothing to do with it.

Thus, providing perfect evidence for all the assertions about three things: The essential economic illiteracy of Democrats, women, and blacks.

You want to be treated like a sane person? One who understands irrefutable laws of economics? Then, don’t cosplay as a f*cking idiot and provide ammunition to all your potential opponents, who you will no doubt claim are “racist” when they point this crap out.

I swear to God, these people are their own worst enemies. I really, truly do not like looking at this crap through a political lens, or a racist one, or a sexist one, or any lens at all… But, here you are, where you’ve left me, unable to argue effectively on your behalf.

Because of your actions and words.

@aelfheld, who said:

So, Jews need worry about conforming (or not) to historical stereotypes but cis-heterosexual white males are exempt?

Lemme see if I get this right… I’ve been expected to bend over backwards all my goddamn life as a “cis-hetero white male” in order not to be considered automatically as a racist rapist, yet me suggesting that other groups might want to partake of the same supper of shit is somehow… Wrong?

Frankly, piss off. All my life, I’ve lived under the burden of prejudice and automatic suspicion just because I’m male and white. Women automatically look at me and move away in personal spaces, because they’re conditioned to look at me as a “threat”. Blacks automatically accuse me of racism, where none was ever intended or demonstrated.

Somehow, then? My suggesting that others ought to be doing the same? That’s racist?

I don’t think you lot have been living in quite the same world I have, or you’ve so internalized the narrative that you no longer notice the abuse.

There’s a codependency on display here, one of virtue-signaling. It’s anathema to question the shibboleths, or point out the inconsistencies.

Ever wonder why you’ll often see things like a little kid crying somewhere in public, with nobody doing anything about it? Plenty of adult males around, why aren’t they doing something about it?

Why, do you suppose it might be due to the stereotype of males being pedophiles?

Instead of automatically leaping to the defense of pedophiles, I usually do something about them, instead. Sad that I have to, but there you are: I’m not making excuses for them, I’m acting when I see it.

And, it’s murderous to recognize that there are reasons, good ones, for that stereotype to exist.

What I’m not seeing, anywhere that I’m pointing out these things, is any of the demographics in question doing what I’m doing about pedos. They’re not even criticizing them; it’s “Oh, they’re Jewish… They’re beyond criticism or anything else…” or “He’s black; he’s a victim, can’t be guilty of criminality…”

So, what we’ve effectively established here is a double-standard: I’m white, so I’m automatically guilty of everything anyone with my Pantone shade skin color ever did.

Meanwhile, if some other group does something consistently enough to become a stereotype, we’re to ignore that because “individual”.

That’s the standard you’re setting, with all this.

As an aside? Do you want to know what turned me off, more than anything else in my life from the traditional liberal “luvvie” ideology of white guilt? Learning and internalizing that all I’d ever be to most women and blacks was a threat… Because of how I look.

Not because of how I behaved. Not because of anything I ever actually did, but because I looked “evil”. Like other people who did bad things, a long time ago and a long ways away…

Kirk:

The point that I’m making is that whoever takes the “free stuff” has made a deliberate choice in the matter.

Just like the Jewish record executives and impresarios made a deliberate choice to make money off of putting filth and misogyny out there in the commons, using black artists.

Nobody forced them to, did they? They just made a choice, and bedamned to the consequences…

OK – keep going:
All those goyim who bought hip-hop records and baggy pants also made a deliberate choice in the matter.

And their (grand)parents made deliberate choices to experiment with pot, get divorced, etc. – the main, disastrous choice being abandoning religion and letting celebrity and pseudo-science replace humility and faith, letting professors and entertainers dictate values.

All the result of deliberate choices.

Entire Youtube channels are devoted to trends that crashed upon launch. Nothing was forced on anyone – nor can it be.

And we now see many people – especially young males – pushing back against the media elite. Go woke, go broke is a thing – entire entertainment franchises have crashed and burned due to the deliberate choices of ‘Murican goyim.

So what fever-brain logic turns you back to the Joos?

and then it will be game on…the world is going to revert to the “bad old days” with a rapidity that will shock all these privileged scum

The Gods of the Copybook Headings are on line three.

If there were a way to reliably detect Cluster Bs

There is. It’s a behaviour disorder and pretty trivially diagnosable. The problem is that normal people greatly struggle with don’t listen to what they say, look at what they do as a diagnostic tool. If you need something more explicit, here it is: the etiology behind the cluster B personality disorders is severe, sustained childhood abuse. The child’s emotional development ceases due to their developing brain being trapped in a constant fight-or-flight survival mode. If you suspect you are dealing with a Cluster B, close your eyes, forget everything you know about them and just listen. Are you listening to a child, or an adult?

White enthusiasts who thought glorifying criminality, misogyny, and drugs was a great idea?

I’ve pointed out before that there simply aren’t enough black people in the US for gangsta rappers to be making the kind of money they are unless the majority of the market is actually white teenagers.

The Scots-Irish woman had a lot to do with that; she decided she was done with the bullshit

Ummm….no. What happened was Archbishop “Dagger” John Hughes decided to do something about the Irish being…well, everything in the 19th century that urban blacks are today. He leveraged Irish Catholicism, ethnic pride and characteristic Irish pugnaciousness to bring Irish immigrants back to the Catholic church and instill in them Catholic values, which slowly tamped down the promiscuity, alcoholism and violence typical of the diaspora. The “[…]Irish woman” was just as promiscuous as the men and as inclined to hybristophilia as any 2024 hood rat prior to Dagger John’s reform efforts.

What he is pointing at is that unlike Christian White Men, those groups don’t feel any shame if some of their members behave in ways that seem to confirm those stereotypes.

At least as far as Jews, wrong. In fact we have a value called kiddush Hashem, sanctifying G-d’s name, which includes acting in a way that increases esteem for G-d in the world, and of avoiding its opposite, chillul Hashem, desecrating His name. Yes, we are painfully aware that the hip-hop impresarios and many others are committing terrible chillul Hashem.

The problem is, as an old story’s punchline has it, that “the Trotskys make the revolutions and the Bronsteins (Trotsky’s original last name) pay the price.” And at least Trotsky was raised in something approximating a Jewish environment! A large part of American Jewry is completely deracinated and, in many ways, are practically members of another religion. (Already in the 1870s a prominent Orthodox rabbi, Samson Raphael Hirsch, pointed out in a memorandum to the German government that the differences between Orthodox and Reform Judaism are greater than those between Catholics and Protestants.)

[As a microcosm of the difference, consider voting patterns. In many Orthodox neighborhoods and communities, Harris supporters are/were as rare as hen’s teeth; even among the more acculturated Orthodox communities, support for her was pretty low. If they were representative of the electorate at large, Trump would have easily won with 75-80% of the vote, if not higher. Meanwhile, among American Jewry as a whole, something like 79% voted for her.]