"In the 1950s Wisconsin was 0.8% black. The researchers likely had to pass judgment on very few “people of color.” Oh, they could’ve done Louisiana, South Carolina, Mississippi, or D.C. But no. They studied blondes and dairy farmers." Being from Louisiana, that 0.8% stat boggles my mind; it's like Lionel Hutz imagining a world without lawyers.
Not my real last name, but my grandmother's maiden name; that side were the Spaniards who settled south Louisiana when the state was under Spain. Yeah, they're not exactly bleeding hearts; the biggest segregationist (to the point of being excommunicated by the Vatican) was Leander Perez. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leander_Perez
Very interesting, never heard of that guy. The church's track record is pretty consistent. The Sublimis Deus issued in the 1530's which banned enslavement of native americans was followed by the threat of excommunication. Latins were the first woke abolitionists and they passed the torch to the northern barbarians.
Those damned Germanics -- they learned mathematics, architecture, and white guilt pretty darn fast.
Most of the architecture in the French Quarter is Spanish, not French; a lot of the original French buildings burned down because the Spanish wouldn't let them use the church bells for a fire alarm.
I worked in the off-shore Louisiana oilfields in the very late 70's, Morgan City was our base. There was plenty of Leander Perez-type sentiment going on at that time in that place. What with the "coon ass" accent, bayou living, and culture, I felt like I was living in a foreign country. I remember telling the Southern white boys (from Mississippi mostly) whom I worked with that I can't believe we have the same president.
Perez was an "Isleno": the descendents of the settlers from the Canary Islands. Old family friend is half-Isleno/half-coonass; he's a raging liberal, oddly enough. There's a story in Buchanan's book about Nixon: the liberals were claiming Nixon could get a fair trial in DC; Pat said "if it was Martin Luther King on trial in Leander Perez's parish, you'd change your tune."
Isleños, or Canarios, were known to be as stubborn and hotheaded as drunk Irishmen after their Football (Soccer) Team loses the World Finals against Vanuatu - on penalty kicks.
There's the story of the kid who pierced his thumb with a fishing hook, and fearful of his (Isleño) dad's reaction - after being forbidden to play with hooks - cut off his thumb with a machete. Hint: A true story.
The "Isleno" people in Louisiana remind me of all the Portuguese in Hawaii who came from Madeira Island to work in the cane fields. Or all the Portuguese fishermen in Massachusetts who came from the Azores Islands.
I'm writing this comment from Portugal; my father-in-law is from the Azores and my sister-in-law is from Madeira. I've visited both groups of Portuguese islands, they are beautiful.
P.S. While working in Louisiana as a teenager, I thought calling someone a Coonass was a slur, a word that would get my ass kicked. They just laughed and said they were proud to be Coon asses. They'd say, "I'm more than a coonass, I'm a registered coonass!"
Arguing with deniers is like arguing with a “sassy sistuh” who argues like a broken record. They’re both obnoxious and retarded and you’ll get nowhere except getting frustrated or blowing a fuse. Best thing to do is to avoid them and move on.
Yes, engagement, even though it's negative, validates them---no engagement, they look for validation somewhere else. They're NOT ALIVE without engagement, which makes sense because their ideas are dead.
I wanna see video of Dave at the upcoming Weingart riots getting arrested for aggravated kvetching with intent to oygenflagen. Maybe he’ll burn a police car and/or get extradited to the UK for hurty word crimes and substandard Substacking
I live in Western Europe where Holocaust denial is illegal (born and raised here too). Still, I don't deny the Holocaust, and not because of the law. My great grandparents, who weren't jews, were treated like absolute shit by Hitler when he invaded, despite all the bullshit fantasy neonazis have of Hitler being some white savior. So if my ancestors, who Hitler considered as his "European brothers", were treated like shit by him, how would he treat the people he considered his enemies?
I tried indeed engaging with deniers a few times, but to no avail. They snap back at me that the European laws prevent me from seeing the "holohoax truth" even when my literal family history disproves their narrative. Holocaust denial is also fucking retarded from a strategic point of view, because it ruins every otherwise reasonable discussion about politicians with questionable loyalty or foreign interference. But it doesn't matter to them, it's either all or nothing, no grey area.
Dave has said the deniers jerk off to Holohoax-fantasies, and I think that's pretty close to the truth. There's something almost sexual about denying a huge portion of reality, similar to the transgender fallacy. "I take testosterone and grew a beard so now I'm a man." "I deny the evidence of creditable historians so now I'm a bold thinker."
The transgender fallacy is worse because whereas Holocaust denial isn't mainstream (edit: it isnt mainstream in EU), transgender delusion is, especially in peer reviewed journals, because a lot of scientists and communicators fall victim to the gaslighting and word salads. There is nothing quantifiable about "gender", no matter how much self proclaimed neuroscientists claim transgenders have different brains (after those same neuroscientists unironically claim there is no "female" or "male" brain). Not to mention that their whole worldview still centers around accepting stereotypical male/female characteristics (in terms of biology like genitalia + cultural metrics like interests/clothing/etc). That, and the fact denialists don't go to schools to teach about Holocaust denial, unlike transgender activists.
Check the details of the law where you live, because I live in Portugal that is always on those maps of "illegal to deny the holocaust", but when you check the law out it's clear that it's only illegal if you're inciting violence. (I'm not defending the law btw, just saying that meme maps are bullshit)
Well we already had people getting arrested for merely JOKING about Austrian painter and his policies through memes. Potential violations to this law are being investigated and followed up on by a far-left organisation, so you can imagine it's often being used as a political tool to mess with political enemies.
Some aspects of the law are vague enough so it can be misused to punish dissidents. For example, it appears revisionism with scientific evidence is ok, as long as you're not "minimalising" the Holocaust, but that's clearly open to interpretation, which is why I'm not sure how legal it is to disseminate Mr. Cole's work here (even though it is science based and doesnt minimalise the Holocaust in my opinion).
A "funny" anecdote related to this is that politicians tried extending this law to other genocides like the Armenian genocide, but then the Turks complained and it didn't pass.
England understands it and doesn't care because they, like most governments, want to silence people.
And it's not a recent violation of free speech under the new labour government, it's been violated just as much under the Conservatives rule too.
According to David Starkey, England is now beholden to non elected officials, much like a Brazilian Supreme Court, which was brought in under the Tony Blair era.
Once his character was killed, the movie went down the toilet. Imagine if Nicholson had been killed halfway through The Shining--- that's Full Metal Jacket.
I've always had a fondness for films that take the lead character through a journey that sees him meeting ancillary characters who are only in the first half or the second. Because that's life. People come and go. The Parris Island part of FMJ and Da Nang both bring something important, and there's some crossover, but it's better that they're distinct, because that was the truth of the experience. Most people prefer the first half, but nobody had ever filmed city 'nam combat as well as Kubrick. So the second half has stuff to recommend it, too (to be clear, I'm not a Kubrick superfan, but I did enjoy the film as a whole).
The first time I saw FMJ on state TV it was dubbed so they had removed all profanities from Gunny’s roast of the recruits. The first time I saw the original in English, I almost died laughing at his insults. I know the entire scene by heart. I saw it so many times I even noticed the marines aren’t standing in their initial place as the scene continues due to a continuation error.
True story you may already know about how Ermey was initially hired to coach Kubrick and the actor playing Gunny, but his "coaching" videos were so good, Kubrick gave him the part, and the actor originally hired to be Gunny was relegated to the cameo part of the crazy helicopter pilot "GET SUM! GET SUM!"
Yeah, I was thinking about Kubrick and the "compelling personality"---Kubrick didn't need one to make a film work, but if he got it he milked it. Ermey in FMJ (and when his character died the war itself became the compelling "personality"); Nicholson in The Shining; Barry Lyndon had no c.p. (except for the photography and music); Clockwork had McDowell; 2001 had HAL; Strangelove was overflowing with c.p.: Scott, Hayden, Sellers, Pickens. I could never get through Lolita, felt like a Golden Book Illustrated version of a classic novel. From what I've seen, the 1997 Adrian Lyne Lolita was much better, with Irons, Langella, and Dominique Swain who was really a find. "Murder me like you murdered my mother! MURDER ME LIKE YOU MURDERED MY MOTHER!!!!"
If you've watched any Frederick Wiseman documentaries, he's another filmmaker who can live without a c.p., but when he finds one he milks it.
BTW, Wiseman and Thomas Sowell are both 94 this year! I couldn't believe this morning I saw a Drudge link to a Sowell op-ed at the WSJ---I thought Sowell died a long time ago!
Platoon was about the only entertainment worth a dämn that we could get on tv/cable when I worked on Prince of Wales Island - we were blasting fish passes for the Forestry Department. I heard that "Alabama Blacksnake" line at least a dozen times. The cook laughed how we workers were all able to quote the character's lines before the actors spoke them.
They should do a trailer of The Clockwork Orange too---a film called Orange: "He was a bad boy---but he was changed by the love of some very good women." Cut to slow montage of all the women in the film, including the nurse baring her breasts.
D'Onofrio was also great in Altman's The Player, as a Hollywood writer named David Kahane.
Dave, I figured out how the wily Zeke who worked his way up from night time stocking to the head of LA Ralph's pulled off his odious closing of those two LA grocery stores.
He hired two different Indian data scientists and told them he wanted to close a couple of stores that had the most niggardly customers.
One data scientist interpreted that as the most price conscious, and surprisingly, found data that more people in the Cheviot Hills area complained about pricing than anywhere else in LA. (by like, 10-1!)
The other guy interpreted it as Zeke not liking negroes...
Okay, I gave you a chance after your last comment, but now you're banned, asswipe. This isn't Musk's Twitter - it's Dave's Substack. No tards allowed unless they sit quietly and don't bother others. You have violated that rule. Yer bounced!
On my first day in the 1st grade in a new school I was five minutes late because my mom didn´t speak English too well. The teacher said I was "tardy". I thought she meant I was a retard.
Also growing up as a little kid in America, I asked my mom why all the other kids in swimming class had circumcised penises and I didn´t. And she explained that during the war all little kids with circumcised penises were killed because they were Jews, so after the war all the Jewish doctors made sure everybody looked Jewish so nobody would get killed anymore. Of course, it didn´t occur to me to ask about little girls because to me all little girls had penises too. Which may very well be the case now.
Dude left one comment about "fuckin' rich Jews" in another thread, and he got a warning. Then he insulted Bari Weiss here, so, two strikes, that's good enough.
Hi Dave! The response coming from these neighborhoods is very much representative of the population at large. Feeling that crippling sense of powerlessness, folks find themselves dreaming of the day when a great champion will ride in and drive the barbarians from their gate. The problem is there is no great leader coming to deliver us and make the world right again. Life has never worked like that nor will it ever. If there be any hope for our country it must come from we, the people and no other. This involves regular individuals going to school board, city planning, and city commissioners' meetings and speaking up. Sometimes, this means being the loud "troublemaker" who keeps demanding answers and is not afraid to speak truth to power. In short, this is the work of an engaged citizen who gets off his ass, shows up, and refuses to abdicate. Such people inspire others and numbers grow.
But what if you hate the public school system and everything it stands for and see it as unredeemable? I suppose one could advocate for shutting it down, but parents want taxpayer-funded day care.
I share your revulsion. Above all, the DoE needs to go away. My meaning is citizens should engage the system whenever and wherever they can. My mention of the school board was merely an example.
America's public schools have turned out some of the best businesspeople, doctors, writers etc in the world. For every kid getting indoctrinated into the tranny bullshit there are 2-3 walking past on their way to chem lab, rolling their eyes.
What are you going to do when people are even less employable and more illiterate than they are now, because that's what closing public schools will get you. I have an idiot cousin who 'homeschools' her kids - she sends out remarkably misspelled newsletters about how great it's going every Christmas.
There are worse things than the US public school system, even in its current state. Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Your snooty attitude toward your homeschooling cousin speaks volumes. Her kids are hers, she gave them birth, pays their bills, and farking them up is HER right, not the right of twentysomething ditzes who go into teaching only for the pay and summers off, and don't give a hot damn about their "students."
And if your condescending attitude toward your "idiot cousin" isn't revealing enough, you give the game away by focusing on her misspellinks. "I don’t give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way," said you-know-who, because he knew that spelling is the least important rung on the ladder of human qualities. A kid with great spelling who has been programmed over the course of 12 years to kiss the asses of vacuous power-trippers in order to get "all A's": yeah, that's something to shoot for in a child's development.
I wish I could receive your cousin's Christmas newsletter, I'd appreciate it more than you do.
She's not even qualified to be a teacher. The people you're mad about at least stuck with something for 4 years and passed a practical student teaching portion, then a licensing exam.
People like my cousin hide from the world and educate their kids from weird church approved booklets, not textbooks. The kids are also weird; the one thing you can say for public school is that it prepares you for life.
If a kid can get through NYC or LA public schools...they can cope with anything. My cousin's kids are going to be unemployable except as missionaries. They won't be able to deal with anyone who's not just like them. They won't be able to think any better than if they'd had bad teachers; they already do have a bad teacher in their mom.
For what it's worth, next Monday's column mentions my 6 years in black L.A. public schools in the early 1980s (7-to-12th grade). Again, for what it's worth, I chose that fate. My parents tried me at a fancy private school in 5th grade, because it looked like bussing was coming to the area, and NO FUCKING WAY was I gonna wake up two hours earlier to get ready for a bus ride when my own school was across the street (I've NEVER liked waking up early). But I DETESTED the private school and never wanted anything but public after that.
I think I got the best of both worlds, in that I had a highly intellectual mom who was actively involved in my education, AND I had the socialization that came from public schools (were I home schooled, no theater class, no standing ovations from an auditorium full of peers, no losing my virginity at 16 to a hawt blonde, and no social skills).
These things are what you make them. I'm public schooled, and y'all read and enjoy my writing, and I'm assuming you think I'm decently literate. That's a combination of me making the most of my public schooling (at least regarding English & history), and a mom who raised me from an infant to read the classics, and discuss them with her. But she'd never have wanted to "home school," and I'm happy she didn't.
I'm not surprised by the suicidal tendencies of white Jews. One of their ancestors was Jesus, a guy who literally let himself be killed in order to save the prostitutes and impoverished and what not. White Christians worship Jesus, a magical person of color; it's only natural that Tyrone is elevated to the status of god, who shall not be blasphemed against, who shall receive nothing but praise and tedious apologetics.
Committing suicide to save the misgotten is Christ-like.
No offense taken. "White Jews" is in reference to Jews who left the middle east about 2,000 years ago and, according to S. Waldman et al., experienced a founder effect in Italy, becoming white over time. Basically, the first Ashkenazi, the first David Cole, was half-middle eastern and half-Italian. Jesus never left the middle east. There are still jews in the middle east who never became white.
Interestingly, a lot of famous Hollywood directors are Italian. Southern Italy was the most recent part of Italy to experience a genetic invasion from the middle east. I remember David once said, "Jews are artsy people." Yea, well, Italians are artsy people too because they're basically Jews but with extra steps.
That's an interesting angle, but Southern Italy - Sicily, especially, where the Jews landed two millennia ago - was invaded by whichever mediterranean emperor got drunk and decided to conquer on that day. It's hard to pinpoint where their traits are coming from.
Also, they - Southern Italians - were artsy before the first Ashkenazi (and Hollywood).
Let me refine myself here. I didn't mean to imply that the Italians are artsy or smart strictly due to Jewish colonization 2000 years ago. As I stated before, the most recent genetic invasion of Italy was Middle Eastern, this doesn't mean strictly Jewish. And the reason why Europeans are light skinned (aside from Ancient North Eurasian ancestry) and became farmers before 0 AD is because light skinned Middle Easterners colonized Southeastern Europe and moved west. The highest rates of Early European Farmer DNA are in Southern Europe.
During the Roman Imperial period, the Italian peninsula received a larger flow of Middle Eastern genes than, for example, Iberian genes. If we imagine the archetypal Iberian phenotype in contrast to the archetypal Italian phenotype, what comes to mind? In my opinion, Italians look vaguely Middle Eastern (or Jew-y) but Iberians have a Western European vibe. Plus, I think Italians are more entrepreneurial (or Jew-y) than Iberians. It's possibly of no coincidence that banking and civilization began in the Middle East; it's possibly of no coincidence that Middle Easterners are just Caucasians like Europeans. Basically, race-mixing has positive results, sometimes.
In the study I cited in my previous comment, it contends that the first Ashkenazi, genetically, was walking around in Northern Italy by 900 AD. If we use Jesus' hippie-like temperament as the reflection of a deeper Middle Eastern tendency -- or Jewish tendency, or West Eurasian tendency -- then it should be of no surprise that humanism began in Northen Italy. And it should be of no surprise that the Latins were the first -- to my knowledge -- to ban slavery on some gay moral grounds.
These are just random thoughts that come to mind when I'm doing drywall for rich Jews in LA. Don't put too much stock in the words of a guy named "Man with 85 IQ" 😉
Don't put much stock on what I type here, I never learned how to do drywalls ;)
European race mixing is one topic you can spend years reading about without losing a bit of interest in it, and without categorical knowing what made them European. But the birth of Humanism coincided with the spread of Christianity - a Judaism offspring - in Europe. And Italy was the only place it could realistically happen - Rome was there before. And Greco-Roman Art as well.
The Jewish intelligentsia accelerated the process, but the same didn't work in Northern Africa, Iran, Morocco, and all other places where they settled. It was only in an ever-expanding Euro-Christian World where Jews became Ashkenazi.
Yes, the ingredients of humanism are in Judeo Christian history. Without that history Europe would be very different. In Galatians 3:28 we can see the echos of modern social constructionism, relativism, and transgenderism: "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus." Jesus also treated women equal to men, which is kinda gay tbh. If Jesus founded a state during his lifetime humanism might have began in the Levant, at least in part.
After the fall of Rome, Sub-Saharans began flooding into North Africa and West Asia, lowering the average IQ. Some Jews settled deeper into Africa about 2500 years ago and became phenotypically black, and today they are wholly inconsequential. It was only in a high IQ world where Jews became Ashkenazi. So in that sense, you're right, Europe was fertile ground to produce productive stocks.
When I lived in Silverlake years ago a halfway house was quiet put up down the street from my apartment, in this city when they wanna be stealth with this stuff they certainly are good at it. I had no idea until a guy walked by and told me & gave me a business card but by then the deal was signed, it would have been nice to know before that. I wonder how soon before the ADUs are in all the backyards over there with chinese owned section 8 apartments that have perpetual Princess bouncy houses in the parking area.
It's the very height of outrageous for these various NGO's (a scam) and government rat bastards to "sneak" shit into people's neighborhoods, KNOWING that the residents don't want it, and would reject it, and the lack of such places is at the heart of why they chose to live there in the first place! At some level, these disgusting pieces of shit, get off on spitting in the faces of the ordinary citizenry. They should be lynched.
Couldn't agree more, I was blown away that something like that was snuck in there like that, it isn't an isolated situation either in LA. I follow local politics very closely now here so keep an eye on it, they are behind so much of it. Not a lot of people do this but they should.
I'm reminded of the OC and Stiggs issue of National Lampoon, when they get their revenge on a rich guy who kicked them out of his pool by opening a junkie rehab clinic called PENIS LOVE HOUSE in his neighborhood.
The only thing I deny is that Schindler’s List was a good movie. I use that film as an example of a cabal of secret antisemites getting their message out by making every Jew in the movie a Schlomo and every German kinda badass.
I actually really enjoyed Ralph Fiennes in Schindler's List. Heavy drinking, womanizing, likes to maintain some lively adventures in his camp... truly making lemonade out of lemons (and still better than the Eastern Front).
Joseph Epstein just released his autobiography, and there's some funny stuff in there. Quoth the Myron (his birth name is Myron Joseph Epstein):
[My father's] own best wit entailed a comic resignation. In his late eighties, he made the mistake of sending to a great-nephew, whom he had never met, a bar mitzvah gift check for $1,000, instead of the $100 he had intended, When I discovered the error while going over his checkbook and pointed it out to him, he paused only briefly, smiled, and said, "Boy, is his younger brother going to be disappointed." At a certain point late in his business life he became intent on collecting even rather small debts owed him by deadbeat customers. "It's not the principle," he said. "It's the money."
[My father] gave large sums to Jewish charities, and at one point put upon the wall of his den a plaque from the Israel Bonds Office in Chicago that read "Morese Epstein, $25,000 Donor." When I pointed out that they had misspelled his first name of Maurice, he replied, "You can't really expect them to spell your name correctly for less than a hundred-thousand-dollar donation."
Epstein recounts this joke about a Jew from a shtetl who visits Warsaw and upon return tells his friend of the wonders he had seen:
"I met a Jew who had grown up in a yeshiva and knew large portions off the Talmud by heart. I met a Jew who was an atheist. I met a Jew who owned a large clothing store with many employees, and I met a Jew who was an ardent communist."
"What's so strange?" his friend askes. "Warsaw is a big city. Nearly a million Jews live there."
"You don't understand," the man answers, "it was the same Jew."
People often asked me why I would sometimes donate to a poor person with a good "poor me" story but endlessly harass a customer who didn't pay me what they owed me.
It was not the principle of the thing to me or the money. I just hate motherfuckers who don't pay their bills when they have the means to do so. They offend me. I can recall in my mind their pompous promises to pay, and I want them to suffer.
I hate people who do not pay their bills even more than I hate faggots, who, ironically, usually pay their bills!
Great job as usual! You have a knack for writing about subjects that nobody else would and explaining their significance in terms of the big picture/where we are headed.
"In the 1950s Wisconsin was 0.8% black. The researchers likely had to pass judgment on very few “people of color.” Oh, they could’ve done Louisiana, South Carolina, Mississippi, or D.C. But no. They studied blondes and dairy farmers." Being from Louisiana, that 0.8% stat boggles my mind; it's like Lionel Hutz imagining a world without lawyers.
LOL!!!!
Hello, my fellow Hispanic. Not many of us 'round these parts. You must be -- ahem -- based.
Not my real last name, but my grandmother's maiden name; that side were the Spaniards who settled south Louisiana when the state was under Spain. Yeah, they're not exactly bleeding hearts; the biggest segregationist (to the point of being excommunicated by the Vatican) was Leander Perez. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leander_Perez
Very interesting, never heard of that guy. The church's track record is pretty consistent. The Sublimis Deus issued in the 1530's which banned enslavement of native americans was followed by the threat of excommunication. Latins were the first woke abolitionists and they passed the torch to the northern barbarians.
Those damned Germanics -- they learned mathematics, architecture, and white guilt pretty darn fast.
Perez was really well known in the 60s; the main street in St. Bernard Parish is named after him and I gotta wonder how long that'll last
Most of the architecture in the French Quarter is Spanish, not French; a lot of the original French buildings burned down because the Spanish wouldn't let them use the church bells for a fire alarm.
Fascinating! I didn't know that (I know very little of that region).
Fucking Spanish logic at its best: Let the bitch burn down 'till I finish my Siesta!
Here's one of Leander Perez's infamous quotes:
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I worked in the off-shore Louisiana oilfields in the very late 70's, Morgan City was our base. There was plenty of Leander Perez-type sentiment going on at that time in that place. What with the "coon ass" accent, bayou living, and culture, I felt like I was living in a foreign country. I remember telling the Southern white boys (from Mississippi mostly) whom I worked with that I can't believe we have the same president.
Perez was an "Isleno": the descendents of the settlers from the Canary Islands. Old family friend is half-Isleno/half-coonass; he's a raging liberal, oddly enough. There's a story in Buchanan's book about Nixon: the liberals were claiming Nixon could get a fair trial in DC; Pat said "if it was Martin Luther King on trial in Leander Perez's parish, you'd change your tune."
Isleños, or Canarios, were known to be as stubborn and hotheaded as drunk Irishmen after their Football (Soccer) Team loses the World Finals against Vanuatu - on penalty kicks.
There's the story of the kid who pierced his thumb with a fishing hook, and fearful of his (Isleño) dad's reaction - after being forbidden to play with hooks - cut off his thumb with a machete. Hint: A true story.
The "Isleno" people in Louisiana remind me of all the Portuguese in Hawaii who came from Madeira Island to work in the cane fields. Or all the Portuguese fishermen in Massachusetts who came from the Azores Islands.
I'm writing this comment from Portugal; my father-in-law is from the Azores and my sister-in-law is from Madeira. I've visited both groups of Portuguese islands, they are beautiful.
P.S. While working in Louisiana as a teenager, I thought calling someone a Coonass was a slur, a word that would get my ass kicked. They just laughed and said they were proud to be Coon asses. They'd say, "I'm more than a coonass, I'm a registered coonass!"
I saw a lot of these on pickups growing up: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1380841209/registered-coonass-rca-round-vinyl
Arguing with deniers is like arguing with a “sassy sistuh” who argues like a broken record. They’re both obnoxious and retarded and you’ll get nowhere except getting frustrated or blowing a fuse. Best thing to do is to avoid them and move on.
Perfect analogy, my friend!
Yes, engagement, even though it's negative, validates them---no engagement, they look for validation somewhere else. They're NOT ALIVE without engagement, which makes sense because their ideas are dead.
I wanna see video of Dave at the upcoming Weingart riots getting arrested for aggravated kvetching with intent to oygenflagen. Maybe he’ll burn a police car and/or get extradited to the UK for hurty word crimes and substandard Substacking
LOL!!!!
Dave would only go as far as burning a Mattel police car in effigy.
I live in Western Europe where Holocaust denial is illegal (born and raised here too). Still, I don't deny the Holocaust, and not because of the law. My great grandparents, who weren't jews, were treated like absolute shit by Hitler when he invaded, despite all the bullshit fantasy neonazis have of Hitler being some white savior. So if my ancestors, who Hitler considered as his "European brothers", were treated like shit by him, how would he treat the people he considered his enemies?
I tried indeed engaging with deniers a few times, but to no avail. They snap back at me that the European laws prevent me from seeing the "holohoax truth" even when my literal family history disproves their narrative. Holocaust denial is also fucking retarded from a strategic point of view, because it ruins every otherwise reasonable discussion about politicians with questionable loyalty or foreign interference. But it doesn't matter to them, it's either all or nothing, no grey area.
Well-said, Robert. Thank you.
Dave has said the deniers jerk off to Holohoax-fantasies, and I think that's pretty close to the truth. There's something almost sexual about denying a huge portion of reality, similar to the transgender fallacy. "I take testosterone and grew a beard so now I'm a man." "I deny the evidence of creditable historians so now I'm a bold thinker."
The transgender fallacy is worse because whereas Holocaust denial isn't mainstream (edit: it isnt mainstream in EU), transgender delusion is, especially in peer reviewed journals, because a lot of scientists and communicators fall victim to the gaslighting and word salads. There is nothing quantifiable about "gender", no matter how much self proclaimed neuroscientists claim transgenders have different brains (after those same neuroscientists unironically claim there is no "female" or "male" brain). Not to mention that their whole worldview still centers around accepting stereotypical male/female characteristics (in terms of biology like genitalia + cultural metrics like interests/clothing/etc). That, and the fact denialists don't go to schools to teach about Holocaust denial, unlike transgender activists.
Check the details of the law where you live, because I live in Portugal that is always on those maps of "illegal to deny the holocaust", but when you check the law out it's clear that it's only illegal if you're inciting violence. (I'm not defending the law btw, just saying that meme maps are bullshit)
Well we already had people getting arrested for merely JOKING about Austrian painter and his policies through memes. Potential violations to this law are being investigated and followed up on by a far-left organisation, so you can imagine it's often being used as a political tool to mess with political enemies.
Some aspects of the law are vague enough so it can be misused to punish dissidents. For example, it appears revisionism with scientific evidence is ok, as long as you're not "minimalising" the Holocaust, but that's clearly open to interpretation, which is why I'm not sure how legal it is to disseminate Mr. Cole's work here (even though it is science based and doesnt minimalise the Holocaust in my opinion).
A "funny" anecdote related to this is that politicians tried extending this law to other genocides like the Armenian genocide, but then the Turks complained and it didn't pass.
Interesting clarification. I wish England better understood the concept of non violent free speech.
England understands it and doesn't care because they, like most governments, want to silence people.
And it's not a recent violation of free speech under the new labour government, it's been violated just as much under the Conservatives rule too.
According to David Starkey, England is now beholden to non elected officials, much like a Brazilian Supreme Court, which was brought in under the Tony Blair era.
To engage the benighted is to make them belighted. Arguing gives them credence. Ignoring makes their heads explode.
As Gunny told Private Pyle: “What is your major malfunction, numbnuts? Didn't Mommy and Daddy show you enough attention when you were a child?”
Once his character was killed, the movie went down the toilet. Imagine if Nicholson had been killed halfway through The Shining--- that's Full Metal Jacket.
Meh. It had its moments after that too “Soul brother too beaucoup.”
I've always had a fondness for films that take the lead character through a journey that sees him meeting ancillary characters who are only in the first half or the second. Because that's life. People come and go. The Parris Island part of FMJ and Da Nang both bring something important, and there's some crossover, but it's better that they're distinct, because that was the truth of the experience. Most people prefer the first half, but nobody had ever filmed city 'nam combat as well as Kubrick. So the second half has stuff to recommend it, too (to be clear, I'm not a Kubrick superfan, but I did enjoy the film as a whole).
The first time I saw FMJ on state TV it was dubbed so they had removed all profanities from Gunny’s roast of the recruits. The first time I saw the original in English, I almost died laughing at his insults. I know the entire scene by heart. I saw it so many times I even noticed the marines aren’t standing in their initial place as the scene continues due to a continuation error.
True story you may already know about how Ermey was initially hired to coach Kubrick and the actor playing Gunny, but his "coaching" videos were so good, Kubrick gave him the part, and the actor originally hired to be Gunny was relegated to the cameo part of the crazy helicopter pilot "GET SUM! GET SUM!"
Yeah, I was thinking about Kubrick and the "compelling personality"---Kubrick didn't need one to make a film work, but if he got it he milked it. Ermey in FMJ (and when his character died the war itself became the compelling "personality"); Nicholson in The Shining; Barry Lyndon had no c.p. (except for the photography and music); Clockwork had McDowell; 2001 had HAL; Strangelove was overflowing with c.p.: Scott, Hayden, Sellers, Pickens. I could never get through Lolita, felt like a Golden Book Illustrated version of a classic novel. From what I've seen, the 1997 Adrian Lyne Lolita was much better, with Irons, Langella, and Dominique Swain who was really a find. "Murder me like you murdered my mother! MURDER ME LIKE YOU MURDERED MY MOTHER!!!!"
If you've watched any Frederick Wiseman documentaries, he's another filmmaker who can live without a c.p., but when he finds one he milks it.
BTW, Wiseman and Thomas Sowell are both 94 this year! I couldn't believe this morning I saw a Drudge link to a Sowell op-ed at the WSJ---I thought Sowell died a long time ago!
Yeah, "Alabama blacksnake" or sumtin like that.
"Alabama Blacksnake" is from Platoon.
Platoon was about the only entertainment worth a dämn that we could get on tv/cable when I worked on Prince of Wales Island - we were blasting fish passes for the Forestry Department. I heard that "Alabama Blacksnake" line at least a dozen times. The cook laughed how we workers were all able to quote the character's lines before the actors spoke them.
It's in FMJ too!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iUQSM14YsE&t=90s
Thanks so much for those links! The Shining trailer recut is good too, into a chick flick called Shining:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmkVWuP_sO0
They should do a trailer of The Clockwork Orange too---a film called Orange: "He was a bad boy---but he was changed by the love of some very good women." Cut to slow montage of all the women in the film, including the nurse baring her breasts.
D'Onofrio was also great in Altman's The Player, as a Hollywood writer named David Kahane.
Here's D'Onofrio on how it was on the FMJ set:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzQj0jb4S_E
Full interview with V.D.:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtjJ6gzhWvo
Here's V.D. sporting his D.C. look:
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000352/mediaviewer/rm3547747840/
YES, perfectly said!
Dave, I figured out how the wily Zeke who worked his way up from night time stocking to the head of LA Ralph's pulled off his odious closing of those two LA grocery stores.
He hired two different Indian data scientists and told them he wanted to close a couple of stores that had the most niggardly customers.
One data scientist interpreted that as the most price conscious, and surprisingly, found data that more people in the Cheviot Hills area complained about pricing than anywhere else in LA. (by like, 10-1!)
The other guy interpreted it as Zeke not liking negroes...
That's actually way more likely than it should be!
I could imagine it is possible!
Does the Weingart Camp have wooden doors that open in?
LOL!
Mein biseleh Dovid what even is this, I signed up for ratibor updates not this Scheiße. UNTHUBTHRIBE
LOL!!!!
That’s just fucking outrageous, about the Jewish senior center.
Next time don’t be so old, rich, and Jewish, eh? Eh, you colonizing scum? <dons keffiyeh, burns American flag>
Okay, I gave you a chance after your last comment, but now you're banned, asswipe. This isn't Musk's Twitter - it's Dave's Substack. No tards allowed unless they sit quietly and don't bother others. You have violated that rule. Yer bounced!
No tards allowed? But I’m grandfathered in, right?
LOL!
On my first day in the 1st grade in a new school I was five minutes late because my mom didn´t speak English too well. The teacher said I was "tardy". I thought she meant I was a retard.
“You’re late, retard. Welcome to first grade”
Also growing up as a little kid in America, I asked my mom why all the other kids in swimming class had circumcised penises and I didn´t. And she explained that during the war all little kids with circumcised penises were killed because they were Jews, so after the war all the Jewish doctors made sure everybody looked Jewish so nobody would get killed anymore. Of course, it didn´t occur to me to ask about little girls because to me all little girls had penises too. Which may very well be the case now.
Sasha Latypova banned me from her substack, for hitting on her ... real hard. Blush and ban!
Oh man, I didn't even get to see the tardery
Dude left one comment about "fuckin' rich Jews" in another thread, and he got a warning. Then he insulted Bari Weiss here, so, two strikes, that's good enough.
My dream is to turn Bari hetero--- I hope that's not an insult, it's certainly not meant to be!
Can I insult Randi Weingarten?? I thought she might be the inspiration for the riots!
First Albert Shanker, then Randi Weingartner--- like Ratibor & co. they never go away.
<clears throat>
Hi Dave! The response coming from these neighborhoods is very much representative of the population at large. Feeling that crippling sense of powerlessness, folks find themselves dreaming of the day when a great champion will ride in and drive the barbarians from their gate. The problem is there is no great leader coming to deliver us and make the world right again. Life has never worked like that nor will it ever. If there be any hope for our country it must come from we, the people and no other. This involves regular individuals going to school board, city planning, and city commissioners' meetings and speaking up. Sometimes, this means being the loud "troublemaker" who keeps demanding answers and is not afraid to speak truth to power. In short, this is the work of an engaged citizen who gets off his ass, shows up, and refuses to abdicate. Such people inspire others and numbers grow.
But what if you hate the public school system and everything it stands for and see it as unredeemable? I suppose one could advocate for shutting it down, but parents want taxpayer-funded day care.
I share your revulsion. Above all, the DoE needs to go away. My meaning is citizens should engage the system whenever and wherever they can. My mention of the school board was merely an example.
America's public schools have turned out some of the best businesspeople, doctors, writers etc in the world. For every kid getting indoctrinated into the tranny bullshit there are 2-3 walking past on their way to chem lab, rolling their eyes.
What are you going to do when people are even less employable and more illiterate than they are now, because that's what closing public schools will get you. I have an idiot cousin who 'homeschools' her kids - she sends out remarkably misspelled newsletters about how great it's going every Christmas.
There are worse things than the US public school system, even in its current state. Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
A Schoolocaust denier!
Your snooty attitude toward your homeschooling cousin speaks volumes. Her kids are hers, she gave them birth, pays their bills, and farking them up is HER right, not the right of twentysomething ditzes who go into teaching only for the pay and summers off, and don't give a hot damn about their "students."
And if your condescending attitude toward your "idiot cousin" isn't revealing enough, you give the game away by focusing on her misspellinks. "I don’t give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way," said you-know-who, because he knew that spelling is the least important rung on the ladder of human qualities. A kid with great spelling who has been programmed over the course of 12 years to kiss the asses of vacuous power-trippers in order to get "all A's": yeah, that's something to shoot for in a child's development.
I wish I could receive your cousin's Christmas newsletter, I'd appreciate it more than you do.
She's not even qualified to be a teacher. The people you're mad about at least stuck with something for 4 years and passed a practical student teaching portion, then a licensing exam.
People like my cousin hide from the world and educate their kids from weird church approved booklets, not textbooks. The kids are also weird; the one thing you can say for public school is that it prepares you for life.
If a kid can get through NYC or LA public schools...they can cope with anything. My cousin's kids are going to be unemployable except as missionaries. They won't be able to deal with anyone who's not just like them. They won't be able to think any better than if they'd had bad teachers; they already do have a bad teacher in their mom.
For what it's worth, next Monday's column mentions my 6 years in black L.A. public schools in the early 1980s (7-to-12th grade). Again, for what it's worth, I chose that fate. My parents tried me at a fancy private school in 5th grade, because it looked like bussing was coming to the area, and NO FUCKING WAY was I gonna wake up two hours earlier to get ready for a bus ride when my own school was across the street (I've NEVER liked waking up early). But I DETESTED the private school and never wanted anything but public after that.
I think I got the best of both worlds, in that I had a highly intellectual mom who was actively involved in my education, AND I had the socialization that came from public schools (were I home schooled, no theater class, no standing ovations from an auditorium full of peers, no losing my virginity at 16 to a hawt blonde, and no social skills).
These things are what you make them. I'm public schooled, and y'all read and enjoy my writing, and I'm assuming you think I'm decently literate. That's a combination of me making the most of my public schooling (at least regarding English & history), and a mom who raised me from an infant to read the classics, and discuss them with her. But she'd never have wanted to "home school," and I'm happy she didn't.
I'm not surprised by the suicidal tendencies of white Jews. One of their ancestors was Jesus, a guy who literally let himself be killed in order to save the prostitutes and impoverished and what not. White Christians worship Jesus, a magical person of color; it's only natural that Tyrone is elevated to the status of god, who shall not be blasphemed against, who shall receive nothing but praise and tedious apologetics.
Committing suicide to save the misgotten is Christ-like.
Since you acknowledge the existence of white Jewish people, why do you conclude Jesus of Nazareth was a person of color?
Do you think Netanyahu is a person of color?
P.S. I hope my tone is not offensive. I think you are an excellent commenter on Ol Dave's substack.
No offense taken. "White Jews" is in reference to Jews who left the middle east about 2,000 years ago and, according to S. Waldman et al., experienced a founder effect in Italy, becoming white over time. Basically, the first Ashkenazi, the first David Cole, was half-middle eastern and half-Italian. Jesus never left the middle east. There are still jews in the middle east who never became white.
Interestingly, a lot of famous Hollywood directors are Italian. Southern Italy was the most recent part of Italy to experience a genetic invasion from the middle east. I remember David once said, "Jews are artsy people." Yea, well, Italians are artsy people too because they're basically Jews but with extra steps.
And so those feet in ancient times did NOT walk upon England’s mountains green?
That's an interesting angle, but Southern Italy - Sicily, especially, where the Jews landed two millennia ago - was invaded by whichever mediterranean emperor got drunk and decided to conquer on that day. It's hard to pinpoint where their traits are coming from.
Also, they - Southern Italians - were artsy before the first Ashkenazi (and Hollywood).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_art
Let me refine myself here. I didn't mean to imply that the Italians are artsy or smart strictly due to Jewish colonization 2000 years ago. As I stated before, the most recent genetic invasion of Italy was Middle Eastern, this doesn't mean strictly Jewish. And the reason why Europeans are light skinned (aside from Ancient North Eurasian ancestry) and became farmers before 0 AD is because light skinned Middle Easterners colonized Southeastern Europe and moved west. The highest rates of Early European Farmer DNA are in Southern Europe.
During the Roman Imperial period, the Italian peninsula received a larger flow of Middle Eastern genes than, for example, Iberian genes. If we imagine the archetypal Iberian phenotype in contrast to the archetypal Italian phenotype, what comes to mind? In my opinion, Italians look vaguely Middle Eastern (or Jew-y) but Iberians have a Western European vibe. Plus, I think Italians are more entrepreneurial (or Jew-y) than Iberians. It's possibly of no coincidence that banking and civilization began in the Middle East; it's possibly of no coincidence that Middle Easterners are just Caucasians like Europeans. Basically, race-mixing has positive results, sometimes.
In the study I cited in my previous comment, it contends that the first Ashkenazi, genetically, was walking around in Northern Italy by 900 AD. If we use Jesus' hippie-like temperament as the reflection of a deeper Middle Eastern tendency -- or Jewish tendency, or West Eurasian tendency -- then it should be of no surprise that humanism began in Northen Italy. And it should be of no surprise that the Latins were the first -- to my knowledge -- to ban slavery on some gay moral grounds.
These are just random thoughts that come to mind when I'm doing drywall for rich Jews in LA. Don't put too much stock in the words of a guy named "Man with 85 IQ" 😉
Don't put much stock on what I type here, I never learned how to do drywalls ;)
European race mixing is one topic you can spend years reading about without losing a bit of interest in it, and without categorical knowing what made them European. But the birth of Humanism coincided with the spread of Christianity - a Judaism offspring - in Europe. And Italy was the only place it could realistically happen - Rome was there before. And Greco-Roman Art as well.
The Jewish intelligentsia accelerated the process, but the same didn't work in Northern Africa, Iran, Morocco, and all other places where they settled. It was only in an ever-expanding Euro-Christian World where Jews became Ashkenazi.
Now back to my truck oil change.
Yes, the ingredients of humanism are in Judeo Christian history. Without that history Europe would be very different. In Galatians 3:28 we can see the echos of modern social constructionism, relativism, and transgenderism: "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus." Jesus also treated women equal to men, which is kinda gay tbh. If Jesus founded a state during his lifetime humanism might have began in the Levant, at least in part.
After the fall of Rome, Sub-Saharans began flooding into North Africa and West Asia, lowering the average IQ. Some Jews settled deeper into Africa about 2500 years ago and became phenotypically black, and today they are wholly inconsequential. It was only in a high IQ world where Jews became Ashkenazi. So in that sense, you're right, Europe was fertile ground to produce productive stocks.
Why, yes, I am indeed racist. Problem? 😎
That's an oversimplification of Christianity and the "suicidal" tendency of white Jews.
You might be right, but it makes for a good meme
Whatever gets you through the night / it's alright / alright.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBDfYDwUSkc&t=18s
Compared to new age thought (crystals, Reiki healing, etc.), Christianity looks like molecular biology.
I know the Prop. 13 guy is the passenger waiting in the cab in AIRPLANE!; I guess that was ZAZ's tip of the hat to him.
Indeed it was! Howard Jarvis. He was beloved or hated at the time, depending on whether you were a homeowner or a politician/lefty activist.
Sounds like that Jewish elderly center will soon be speaking jive.
LOL! Sad but true.
"Yo, where da pork chops at?"
When I lived in Silverlake years ago a halfway house was quiet put up down the street from my apartment, in this city when they wanna be stealth with this stuff they certainly are good at it. I had no idea until a guy walked by and told me & gave me a business card but by then the deal was signed, it would have been nice to know before that. I wonder how soon before the ADUs are in all the backyards over there with chinese owned section 8 apartments that have perpetual Princess bouncy houses in the parking area.
It's the very height of outrageous for these various NGO's (a scam) and government rat bastards to "sneak" shit into people's neighborhoods, KNOWING that the residents don't want it, and would reject it, and the lack of such places is at the heart of why they chose to live there in the first place! At some level, these disgusting pieces of shit, get off on spitting in the faces of the ordinary citizenry. They should be lynched.
They don’t need permission from the People for Aktion Weingart
Love that!
Couldn't agree more, I was blown away that something like that was snuck in there like that, it isn't an isolated situation either in LA. I follow local politics very closely now here so keep an eye on it, they are behind so much of it. Not a lot of people do this but they should.
I'm reminded of the OC and Stiggs issue of National Lampoon, when they get their revenge on a rich guy who kicked them out of his pool by opening a junkie rehab clinic called PENIS LOVE HOUSE in his neighborhood.
Robert Altman directed an O.C. and Stiggs movie in the mid-80s, but I think the studio took it away from him and finished it themselves.
yeah I saw it on VHS back then; it's terrible. Dunno how a studio could be accurate to the source material even in the 80s.
The 80s were Altman's dark years---methinks he resuscitated his career with The Player (1992).
The only thing I deny is that Schindler’s List was a good movie. I use that film as an example of a cabal of secret antisemites getting their message out by making every Jew in the movie a Schlomo and every German kinda badass.
I gave Schindler’s List two thumbs up - as far up as possible!
That's probably just you.
I didn't come away thinking the German's were kind of bad ass.
They came across as typical people in power who knew they had the power of the state behind them to treat other people awfully.
An incredible movie that felt like watching a documentary at times but today it's very trendy to attack it, so well done for joining the edgelords.
Ho-hum, must be.
"Conspiracy" is a pretty good movie.
Conspiracy Theory, that nineties Mel Gibson movie, was pretty good, and funny at times
Stanley Tucci was awesome in that
I actually really enjoyed Ralph Fiennes in Schindler's List. Heavy drinking, womanizing, likes to maintain some lively adventures in his camp... truly making lemonade out of lemons (and still better than the Eastern Front).
Tucci is great in Some Velvet Morning, a 2013 Neil LaBute movie---a two-hander I think it's called, just two actors, Tucci and Alice Eve.
Joseph Epstein just released his autobiography, and there's some funny stuff in there. Quoth the Myron (his birth name is Myron Joseph Epstein):
[My father's] own best wit entailed a comic resignation. In his late eighties, he made the mistake of sending to a great-nephew, whom he had never met, a bar mitzvah gift check for $1,000, instead of the $100 he had intended, When I discovered the error while going over his checkbook and pointed it out to him, he paused only briefly, smiled, and said, "Boy, is his younger brother going to be disappointed." At a certain point late in his business life he became intent on collecting even rather small debts owed him by deadbeat customers. "It's not the principle," he said. "It's the money."
[My father] gave large sums to Jewish charities, and at one point put upon the wall of his den a plaque from the Israel Bonds Office in Chicago that read "Morese Epstein, $25,000 Donor." When I pointed out that they had misspelled his first name of Maurice, he replied, "You can't really expect them to spell your name correctly for less than a hundred-thousand-dollar donation."
Epstein recounts this joke about a Jew from a shtetl who visits Warsaw and upon return tells his friend of the wonders he had seen:
"I met a Jew who had grown up in a yeshiva and knew large portions off the Talmud by heart. I met a Jew who was an atheist. I met a Jew who owned a large clothing store with many employees, and I met a Jew who was an ardent communist."
"What's so strange?" his friend askes. "Warsaw is a big city. Nearly a million Jews live there."
"You don't understand," the man answers, "it was the same Jew."
People often asked me why I would sometimes donate to a poor person with a good "poor me" story but endlessly harass a customer who didn't pay me what they owed me.
It was not the principle of the thing to me or the money. I just hate motherfuckers who don't pay their bills when they have the means to do so. They offend me. I can recall in my mind their pompous promises to pay, and I want them to suffer.
I hate people who do not pay their bills even more than I hate faggots, who, ironically, usually pay their bills!
Great job as usual! You have a knack for writing about subjects that nobody else would and explaining their significance in terms of the big picture/where we are headed.
Thanks so much, Mike!