lucius septimius 9/10/2020 5:36:24 AM

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lucius septimius 9/10/2020 5:38:58 AM

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doppelganglander 9/10/2020 6:28:54 AM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 2:

Godfrey Elfwick is a treasure. 

midwestgak 9/10/2020 6:43:20 AM

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In #3 doppelganglander said: Godfrey Elfwick is a treasure. 

And wrongskin.

lucius septimius 9/10/2020 7:26:01 AM

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JCM 9/10/2020 7:48:03 AM

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Morning, smoky skies have cleared out a bit.

Occasional Reader 9/10/2020 7:55:15 AM

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Rainy days and Mondays always get me down.

/following up on a musical theme we were doing on Tuesday

Occasional Reader 9/10/2020 7:57:09 AM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 2:

"I imagine she’ll be writing heated letters to her employer, and subsequent potential employer, informing them that they are about to consider a vile bigot for the position in question and that if they insist on validating her by giving her a job, Jessica will threaten to protest outside their building every day until Jessica is sacked and removed by security.

Love it.

JCM 9/10/2020 8:00:57 AM

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My internet speeds dropped off the cliff this morning.

So much my remote connection to my work computer is barely usable.

Online with support.

JCM 9/10/2020 8:21:02 AM

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In #4 midwestgak said: And wrongskin.

That can be fixed.

Find a skin donor of the right hue.

Skin him.... and graft the donor skin on!

I shouldn't be giving them ideas.......

doppelganglander 9/10/2020 8:54:46 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 8:

In all seriousness,  I want to know what her major malfunction is. Some of the comments from people who know her imply she's "difficult, " which seems like a nice way of calling her a jerk. She cut off her family to avoid detection, but they don't seem to mind, except that she refused to visit her dying mother or attend her funeral. Who does this sort of thing?

Occasional Reader 9/10/2020 8:56:27 AM

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In #10 JCM said: Find a skin donor of the right hue. Skin him.... and graft the donor skin on!

Technical support by Jame Gumb. 

Occasional Reader 9/10/2020 9:24:53 AM

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In #11 doppelganglander said: Who does this sort of thing?

Someone with serious mental illness issues.

As I've said, I think most of Leftism is just mental illness writ large. 

Occasional Reader 9/10/2020 9:26:29 AM

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Random discussion question:

Can you think of significant areas of technology in which we (the human race) have actually moved backwards; that is, forgotten how to make or do something important that we (or some portion of us) used to know how to make or do? 

vxbush 9/10/2020 9:42:34 AM

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In #14 Occasional Reader said: Can you think of significant areas of technology in which we (the human race) have actually moved backwards; that is, forgotten how to make or do something important that we (or some portion of us) used to know how to make or do? 

Are you talking about technologies we don't use any more, or things that are still in use? For example, few people know how to make stagecoaches anymore, although there is one individual out west who has a Youtube channel and is always working on one type of coach or another. 

Alice in Dairyland 9/10/2020 9:42:42 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 14: Addition and Subtraction.

Occasional Reader 9/10/2020 9:53:40 AM

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In #15 vxbush said: Are you talking about technologies we don't use any more, or things that are still in use?

Either one.

Occasional Reader 9/10/2020 9:55:00 AM

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buzzsawmonkey 9/10/2020 9:56:59 AM

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In #14 Occasional Reader said: Can you think of significant areas of technology in which we (the human race) have actually moved backwards; that is, forgotten how to make or do something important that we (or some portion of us) used to know how to make or do? 

Tough question; I'm not sure what you mean by "significant areas of technology."  In both the synagogues I have attended over the last 20-odd years, I have been astounded at the utter incompetence of the college-educated fellow-congregants, who have no idea how something is made, or fixed: they've shown themselves incompetent at setting thermostats, making basic repairs (including such simple things as using drills and screwdrivers for minor fix-it jobs).  

In my former synagogue, they decided to build a supposedly-movable wall of bookcases under the balcony overhang; I told them that this would not work unless they put the bookcases on casters.  They replied that if the bookcases were on casters, they'd be easily knocked over---not true, and particularly not-true if the specific gravity of the bookcases was kept below the middle, i.e., if the bulk of the books were on the lower shelves.

They built the bookcases without casters, and were astonished to find that the cases were...not movable, unless the cases were entirely emptied of books, and then only with great difficulty.  

Likewise---same congregation---when I first came there the ceiling, beautifully painted with a Maxfield Parrish-like sky was covered by a pattern of grayish lines.  It was obvious to anyone who knew anything about anything that this was the result of 60+ years of dirt having accumulated in the slight vaulting of the slightly-warped boards which lay behind the painted plaster, and that the ceiling could be restored to its former glory with a mere cleaning.  I pointed it out to the others in the congregation, who said, "Oh, no...it's faded."  So I went up to the balcony with a sponge-mop and cleaned a portion of the painted ceiling that was easily reachable, showed this to them to show that they were wrong, and they said, "Oh, no...it's faded."  They would not believe the evidence before their own eyes.

It is my observation that most people---certainly most college-"educated" people---have absolutely no concept of how anything at all works, unless they were fortunate enough to have had a good shop class at some point in their lives, and preferably a bit of Boy Scout experience, plus a tool-savvy mentor.  I was fortunate enough to have had all these things, plus have spent much of my life not only in semi-crumbling apartments where you needed perforce to learn how to do repairs, but in finding and "rescuing"/repairing antiques and artifacts and trying to make them workable again.  There are lots of things I don't know, but I have a pretty good idea how Object X can be made functional again, even if I know I need someone else to do what I cannot.

Is any of this "significant areas of technology?"  I have no idea.  I do know that handling tools and understanding how something works or why it doesn't are important things to know---and that vast numbers of people I know or have known, who are very nice people, have absolutely no clue as to what to do if something goes wonky.   They are Eloi of the dimmest sort.

buzzsawmonkey 9/10/2020 10:02:36 AM

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To the above I will add that the credulity, and the reliance on "experts," which this invincible and widespread ignorance of the college-"educated" exhibits, is one of the reasons why these morons believe the diet of lies they are daily fed by their "information sources."  

They are not analytical in any way, shape or form; they are not "educated"; they have no actual knowledge.  They are credentialed only, and believe that their credentialed status gives value and weight to their thoughts and utterances.

JCM 9/10/2020 10:05:39 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 14:

Alice in Dairyland 9/10/2020 10:13:24 AM

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Reply to Alice in Dairyland in 16: Should have said calculators have made people unable to do simple math problems.  How about the microwave?  I know I would have a hard time living without one.  Nobody knows how to make a basic white sauce anymore.  The basis of some many dishes.  You just open a jar of premade gravy or stew and nuke it.

Occasional Reader 9/10/2020 10:14:03 AM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 19:

Interesting, but not quite what I was referring to.  I mean thing that nobody know how to make/do any more. 
Damascus Steel was one example I was thinking of.

Occasional Reader 9/10/2020 10:14:59 AM

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Reply to Alice in Dairyland in 22:

Similarly.... interesting phenomena you're referring to, but not quite was I meant.  

buzzsawmonkey 9/10/2020 10:16:20 AM

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In #22 Alice in Dairyland said: Nobody knows how to make a basic white sauce anymore.

When we were in Europe in the early '60s, my mother bought a whole set of copper pans, which we then had to have re-tinned inside at great expense.  Someone had told her that you couldn't really make a true white sauce without a copper pan.  

While we used some of the pans, some of the time, over subsequent decades, Mom---who had never before made a white sauce---never used them to make one after we'd acquired them, either.

Occasional Reader 9/10/2020 10:16:47 AM

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Reply to JCM in 21:

Yes, that.  And the "landing a man on the moon" concert-of-technologies was something else I was thinking of, indeed. 

buzzsawmonkey 9/10/2020 10:17:57 AM

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In #23 Occasional Reader said: Damascus Steel was one example I was thinking of.

"Damascus steel" was superior to the crap that the European Crusaders had, but was always grossly inferior to the steel used in Japanese swords, which technology has still been preserved by Japanese swordmakers.

Occasional Reader 9/10/2020 10:20:43 AM

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Reply to JCM in 21:

Interesting article, but after reading it, I'd have to add "the ability to spell, and edit" to the list...

buzzsawmonkey 9/10/2020 10:20:53 AM

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lucius septimius 9/10/2020 10:22:17 AM

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Just got out of a meeting with the Monstrous Regiment of Women.  Trying to come up with some strategies to help autistic son deal with this whole "virtual learning" nonsense.  The representative from the county pointedly ignored me through the entire Zoom meeting, only talking to mom and acting like I didn't exist.

I'm so fucking sick of these people.

Alice in Dairyland 9/10/2020 10:28:58 AM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 30: Another prime example, Zoom meetings.  It's much harder to ignore someone when you are face to face.  It's easier to meet with someone, but can be much harder to communicate with them.  Sorry your son has to suffer because of this.

Occasional Reader 9/10/2020 10:29:09 AM

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In #27 buzzsawmonkey said: but was always grossly inferior to the steel used in Japanese swords

I had been under the impression that Damascus steel was overall better (though the Japanese made superb use of the poor-quality iron available to them).

And at least one source on the internet supports me, therefore, it's true! 

lucius septimius 9/10/2020 10:33:23 AM

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In #19 buzzsawmonkey said: It is my observation that most people---certainly most college-"educated" people---have absolutely no concept of how anything at all works

Growing up around the boat store I had to learn how to do many mechanical tasks.  A big part of my job was diagnosing specific engine problems over the phone with customers, figuring out what parts they needed to make the repairs and often walking them through the steps.

When the wiring harness on one of my many crap cars burnt out in the parking lot at work, I had to do the repairs there.  It was a lovely fall day, and a colleague drove up in an obscenely expensive pick up (of course, she was also one of the sorts of liberals who worried about global warming and thought everyone else should use public transportation, but I digress).  She expressed shock that I knew how to do such things.  From her remarks, I gathered that she just sort of assumed that anyone who works on cars (her cars in particular) only did that sort of thing because they were too stupid to be sociologists.

doppelganglander 9/10/2020 10:33:48 AM

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Reply to JCM in 21:

That list looks like a new series on the History Channel. I know they've done programs on the Antikythera device.

lucius septimius 9/10/2020 10:36:18 AM

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Reply to JCM in 21: 

No offense, but that article was bullsh*t.

We know how to make Damascus steel, we know how Romans made concrete, there is no shortage of people who build wooden boats/ships, etc. etc. Pyramids?  We know exactly how they were built.

Occasional Reader 9/10/2020 10:36:50 AM

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In #30 lucius septimius said: Trying to come up with some strategies to help autistic son deal with this whole "virtual learning" nonsense. 

Coincidentally, Little OR's mom (with whom he is staying this week) just texted me, expressing her frustration at the seemingly "remedial" nature of his online kindergarten.  

lucius septimius 9/10/2020 10:37:03 AM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 25:

I make white sauce regularly.  It's not all that tough.

buzzsawmonkey 9/10/2020 10:38:42 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 32:

The article appears to be unaware of the actual production techniques of Japanese-sword steel.  

The primary steel---the part that carried the edge---was made of twisted steel wire which was forged, folded, and re-forged several times.  This steel was made into a hollow "V" shape which was filled with softer steel; in short, the exterior of the blade was made of hard steel, and the hollow inside was filled with soft steel, so that the sword would absorb the force of the blow instead of rebounding.  The so-called "singing swords" of the West were not built this way, which is why they "sang"---i.e., vibrated in rebound---when striking a blow, which made them ultimately hard to hold.  The Japanese sword did not do this; its softer-steel core/back made it possible to absorb the force of the blow, and minimize rebound, making it a far more formidable weapon. 

The hard steel which wrapped around the soft core was covered with clay prior to the final tempering, the clay being removed from the edge of the blade; this resulted in the "white" edge of a true Japanese blade, which was a cutting-edge of extremely hard, keen steel, backed by slightly-less-hard steel, and with a backing/core of softer steel, so that the blade would cut keenly but not rebound.

JCM 9/10/2020 10:39:25 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 26:

Vacuum tubes, there is only couple plants in Russia that still make vacuum tubes.

There are a lot things associated with the power grid, if there was a large CME or EMP and the grid was offline for months. So many things people have "forgotten". From hunting and gathering, water collection, waste disposal, to sheltering, and other basic survival skills.

Occasional Reader 9/10/2020 10:39:50 AM

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In #35 lucius septimius said: We know how to make Damascus steel, we know how Romans made concrete, there is no shortage of people who build wooden boats/ships, etc. etc. Pyramids?  We know exactly how they were built.

But can we make a pyramid out of Damascus steel and Roman concrete, with a wooden keel on the bottom? 

buzzsawmonkey 9/10/2020 10:41:06 AM

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In #37 lucius septimius said: I make white sauce regularly.  It's not all that tough.

I'm sure it's not.  I just find it amusing that Mom, who'd never bothered to make a white sauce before she acquired the set of copper pans, didn't make one after she'd acquired them either.

Occasional Reader 9/10/2020 10:42:52 AM

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In #39 JCM said: So many things people have "forgotten". From hunting and gathering, water collection, waste disposal, to sheltering, and other basic survival skills.

But again, I'm distinguishing between things that most people no longer know how to do, as compared to most people from X years ago - yes, of course, there are many such things; and things that no one knows how to do any longer. 

Occasional Reader 9/10/2020 10:45:35 AM

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In #38 buzzsawmonkey said: the sword would absorb the force of the blow instead of rebounding

I don't understand how a steel blade can "absorb" the force of a blow without vibrating.  The kinetic energy of the blow has to be going somewhere; where's it going?

midwestgak 9/10/2020 10:47:20 AM

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In #40 Occasional Reader said: But can we make a pyramid out of Damascus steel and Roman concrete, with a wooden keel on the bottom? 

A similarly intriguing question is who invented the wheel?

('First base' is not a valid answer.)

lucius septimius 9/10/2020 10:48:39 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 36:

Kids coming into kindergarten are all over the map developmentally.  My sister would frequently get kids who weren't even toilet trained showing up at the beginning of the school year.  By the second half of the year they're all pretty much at the same level, but those first couple of months are hard for some of the kids, particularly those with late birthdays.

lucius septimius 9/10/2020 10:51:25 AM

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In #44 midwestgak said: A similarly intriguing question is who invented the wheel?

We know who invented spoked wheels -- the early Indo-Aryans living at the south end of the Urals.

buzzsawmonkey 9/10/2020 10:52:57 AM

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In #43 Occasional Reader said: I don't understand how a steel blade can "absorb" the force of a blow without vibrating.  The kinetic energy of the blow has to be going somewhere; where's it going?

The softer steel which backs the keen edge absorbs the kinetic energy---or at least a portion of it.  Since I've never attempted to split someone with my own Japanese sword, I admit I can't speak from personal experience, but I do know that Japanese swords were, back in the day, tested on condemned prisoners, and that there was a series of cuts, starting with severing the hand at the wrist (easy) and progressing to how many pelvises could be severed with a single stroke, which was how blades were rated back during the Tokugawa Shogunate years.

Again, the softer steel which backed the single-edged blade was supposed to absorb/dissipate the kinetic energy of the blow---or some of it, better than a homogeneously-hard steel blade would.

lucius septimius 9/10/2020 10:53:12 AM

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Reply to Alice in Dairyland in 31:

I'm just tired of being treated like I don't matter because I'm "Dad."  Fathers are unimportant, you see.  Only mothers matter, which is why their mom gets all the correspondence, updates, etc.  I've been in face-to-face meetings where they ignore me because women something or another.

buzzsawmonkey 9/10/2020 10:53:57 AM

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In #46 lucius septimius said: We know who invented spoked wheels -- the early Indo-Aryans living at the south end of the Urals.

Is that true, or are we just relying on their spokes-men?

Occasional Reader 9/10/2020 10:54:14 AM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 45:

Per Little OR's mom, in this afternoon's class there was a kid who was stumped by what letter comes after "A".  Wow.

I do hope things speed up, and plan on talking with the teachers about it.   My fear is that he'll get very bored, and this will manifest as behavioral issues.

Now, this disparity does offer moments of comic relief.  For instance, earlier in the week, the teacher was asking what things begin with the letter E.  Kids offered "egg", "elephant", and the like.  Little OR's turn came, and he said, "Esophagus starts with the letter E.  [pause]  And peristalsis doesn't start with E, but it's the process that pushes food down the esophagus."

Occasional Reader 9/10/2020 10:54:54 AM

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In #46 lucius septimius said: We know who invented spoked wheels

And the Italians probably invented bespoked wheels... 

lucius septimius 9/10/2020 10:56:53 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 50:

Let's hope that, unlike my experiences in school, he isn't mercilessly bullied for such like.

Occasional Reader 9/10/2020 11:00:36 AM

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In #52 lucius septimius said: Let's hope that, unlike my experiences in school, he isn't mercilessly bullied for such like.

So far, so good.  And we'll be starting him in a martial art within a year or so.

Occasional Reader 9/10/2020 11:02:57 AM

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Via Insty:

University of Rhode Island announces they will remove World War II mural because it contains too many white people.

The depicted white people being, of course, veterans.

doppelganglander 9/10/2020 12:02:02 PM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 30:

This is the last year you'll have to deal with this particular group of misandrists, so there's that. 

doppelganglander 9/10/2020 12:05:25 PM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 50:

What sort of options do you have for gifted education? He is going to be frustrated in a class like this.

JCM 9/10/2020 12:27:43 PM

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‘Super-massive’ plume of smoke expected in Seattle area as wildfires rage across west

Occasional Reader 9/10/2020 12:49:36 PM

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In #56 doppelganglander said: What sort of options do you have for gifted education?

DC schools aren't great about that.  But it's one thing I'll be looking into.

In any event, there may be big changes coming fairly soon to living arrangements, school, etc. 

doppelganglander 9/10/2020 12:59:07 PM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 58:

A lot of systems provide very little in the way of gifted services; they are understandably focused 
on kids with learning disabilities. I'm sure you'll make the best possible arrangements for him.

PaladinPhil 9/10/2020 1:53:15 PM

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Kosh's Shadow 9/10/2020 2:29:12 PM

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In #26 Occasional Reader said: And the "landing a man on the moon" concert-of-technologies was something else I was thinking of, indeed. 

The article mistakes rebuilding the technology (which is way out of date) with the activity. An example:

We don't take steamships from NY to England. The QM2 is the only remaining transatlantic liner, but it uses diesel and turbine engines to produce electricity to run electric motors to run the propellers.

Or we can't cross the Pacific on a flying boat (link). But we can more quickly, more safely, cross in a modern jetliner.

Same with Zeppelins.

If we want to go to the moon, we would NOT want to duplicate the obsolete Apollo equipment. The computer, for example, was less powerful than many calculators, and way less powerful than a cell phone.

The engines on the first stage had what would be today an unacceptable risk of failure. They had a very hard time with combustion instabilities. 

We do KNOW how to go to the moon if someone wants to spend the money. We don't need to replicate the old devices.

JCM 9/10/2020 2:33:01 PM

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Amazon is adding 33,000 tech roles, not the warehouse jobs.

Anyone interested or if you know anyone spread it around.

https://www.amazoncareerday.com/?cmpid=SMLIOT5293B

Alice in Dairyland 9/10/2020 2:38:38 PM

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In #48 lucius septimius said: Fathers are unimportant, you see.

It seems that way, doesn't it?  I think that is why we see so many screwed up kids today, no strong father figure in their lives.  Maybe the schools prefer to go to the moms because they are more easily manipulated.  They don't question their authority.  They will go along with anything as long as they think it will help their child.  Not all families are like this, but a lot are.  I'm seeing dads (when kids are fortunate to have one)  more personally involved in raising their kids today.  Also, it seems there are more female teachers than male, especially in the lower grades.  I think those women prefer to speak with other women and not men.  At least you are setting a good example to your own children.  All the parents on this site seem to be doing an exceptional job for that matter!  

lucius septimius 9/10/2020 2:41:40 PM

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In #63 Alice in Dairyland said: Maybe the schools prefer to go to the moms because they are more easily manipulated. 

I think they want to deal with mom because they're all women, and most of them are black and frankly not used to fathers being around or of any use.  They assume "single mom; absent father" even when I'm sitting in the room with them.

Kosh's Shadow 9/10/2020 3:00:42 PM

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As for Damascus steel, I believe it also had to do with the carbon content of the ore.

One step in making a Damascus steel blade could not be performed today - they were quenched (from the heat) by being plunged into the body of a muscular slave, with the idea the slave's strength would be transferred to the blade.

As for some Japanese swords, one book I read of WWII memoirs had some US Naval officers part of the occupation force, and they got friendly with a local Japanese businessman, who wanted to make connections for use later.

McArthur had ordered all the swords be handed over to US officers (for destruction). The Japanese family handed theirs over to these officers, but for safekeeping. I believe some were returned.

buzzsawmonkey 9/10/2020 4:00:00 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 65:

A friend of mine in gradeschool had an absolutely magnificent katana---long sword---that his father had brought back from the Pacific war.  It had a clan insignia imprinted on the hilt, but the fixtures---scabbard, hilt, etc.---were Army issue, as was common with officers who had family blades that they wore into battle. 

The non-noble officers, who did not have traditional family blades, had mass-produced machine-made swords, which had metal imitation hilts---that is to say, instead of a hilt made of ray-skin wrapped in silk, they were metal hilts imprinted to look (more or less) like traditional sword hilts, and the mass-produced blades had serial numbers imprinted on the blades near the hilt.

Kosh's Shadow 9/10/2020 4:23:08 PM

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A good article on how the current tech elite and Wokeness has similarities to the robber barons of years ago

Not an adequate description of the article; I suggest RTWT

Well, this goes back to another dimension of Jewish political weakness, and that has to do with African Americans. Jews saw themselves as, and indeed were, supporters and patrons of African Americans during the Civil Rights era and beyond. But patrons are often resented and younger generations of Black leaders then attacked their elders for being too closely identified with Jews.

Stokely Carmichael, as you might recall, was the first recognized Civil Rights leader to say anti-Semitic things in public, as part of his message, by way of differentiating himself.

God how I hate this stupid race language. I don’t find African American anti-Semitism, or whatever you want to call it, to be some kind of endemic or innate characteristic. It’s something creepy and pathetic about some failed individuals. It doesn’t strike me as coming from a place of power.

You may regard it as such, but it was useful for people like Jesse Jackson at one time. Certainly for Louis Farrakhan, and for Al Sharpton and others.

Anti-Semitism has been a useful organizing tool for many people in many places throughout history, right?

Black anti-Semitism gave others ideas—it gave legitimacy to an anti-Semitic discourse that was always lurking among the elites. When some African Americans started to attack the Jews, American leftists saw the possibilities and began attacking Israel making use of the rhetoric of Third World anti-Zionism which was already quite prevalent in Europe.

Kosh's Shadow 9/10/2020 4:24:24 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 67:

Whereas, African Americans are so often seen within such circles with this enormous condescension, as recipients of charity or handouts. It’s all that “Obama is so articulate, he speaks so beautifully” crap that these supposedly “liberal” people spout.

Oh, absolutely. This rush in the publishing business led by that bastion of wokeness, The New York Times, to capitalize the word “Black” and lowercase “white.” It’s utter condescension. We white folk, especially those of us who are really woke and work for The New York Times, are happy to throw these crumbs to people of color. We’ll even capitalize them! How noble!

We will kneel with a piece of your tribal kente cloth draped around our necks, in order to show our respect to your culture, as per page 72 of the British Raj handbook.

It is quite disgusting. But, yes, that’s right. It’s about interelite conflict.

Kosh's Shadow 9/10/2020 4:26:21 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 68:

What wokeness means in practice is that the gentile corporate and political bourgeoisie can offer Blacks positions in the Democratic Party and state institutions, and in universities, and so forth, that were previously held by Jews and Asians. To the gentile bourgeoisie these are crumbs, right? They’re not giving them charge of major corporations or banks.

That’s exactly right. I remember Hannah Arendt made the observation in the Origins of Totalitarianism that Jews are reputed to be smart, but politically they seem to be quite stupid. They hang onto their political allegiances long after it makes any sense to do so. And they support political parties that don’t protect them. So, when you look at them politically, they’re quite dumb.

Looked at coldly and rationally, why should the Jews not be Republicans? The Republicans have plenty of money without the Jews, but Jews would play a major role in the GOP.

The gentiles in the Republican Party claim to like Jews, who figure prominently in their eschatology. Why should the Jews not enjoy the freedom to maneuver politically like everybody else does?

Kosh's Shadow 9/10/2020 4:27:21 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 69:

The reality is that America is a one-party system with an opposition. The opposition consists of everybody who, for some reason or another, is at odds with or excluded from the ruling party. Structurally speaking, the opposition party in America today is the Republican Party. It’s the Democratic Party that is presiding over the marriage ceremony of the new elite, not Republicans.

So, then the question is are Jews actually rich and secure enough on one hand, or acutely marginalized enough on the other hand, to afford to be Republicans?

The answer to that question is no.

Well, Jews are certainly rich enough, but they don’t feel secure enough.

Kosh's Shadow 9/10/2020 4:28:52 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 70:

Multinational corporations embrace woke-ism because they benefit politically from virtue signaling, benefit economically from labor arbitrage and pass along the costs of their virtue by engaging in tax arbitrage that frees them from paying U.S. taxes.

buzzsawmonkey 9/10/2020 4:29:00 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 67:

Damn link isn't working, for some reason.  Safari can't find it.

buzzsawmonkey 9/10/2020 4:37:43 PM

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Kosh's Shadow 9/10/2020 4:46:09 PM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 73:

From tabletmag

It is not the clearest article, being written as questions and answers. Difficulty getting into the site sounds like an internet connection problem.

I think I copied and pasted many of the important points.