The Anglos, Saxons, and Jutes were all tribes from what we’d call Germany. The Romans paved the first roads of London, and taught the Pagans about Jesus. And Rome was cosmopolitan, so it was a lot more than Italians in that army. England has also suffered under Danish/Scandinavian conquests small and large. The King Cnut was not a misspelling. His nephew, William is a Scandinavian settled in France.

So… as far as “blood and soil” goes, Britain, and her people, were always more of a group project.

I remember these “Trump won’t be so bad” think-pieces from 2015. They did not age well.

You’re right. Using Twitter quotes as a source of news is journalistic malpractice. They’re just lazily pushing out dumb articles that are only popular because they confirm your priors.

Every election cycle, the Democrats and media start to fret about the black vote. Will black women turn out? Will black men vote correctly? And this cycle culminated in the Obamas going on a “pull your pants up and vote” tour to boost turnout.

Now I’m not black, but I recognize double standards and condescension. I wouldn’t want to be treated that way.

After the election, Latinos have been targeted by progressive rage and lashing out. I’ve seen people that I used to respect say that they deserve to be deported because of their vote.

Ted is a forum for reassuring rich liberals that they’re good and smart.

The government of Rwanda is not preventing the poor from being taken advantage of, they’re taking a cut of the action.

Everyone assumes that Uncle Tom was a character like Sam Jackson’s Stephen from “Django Unchained” or Uncle Ruckus from “Boondocks”. The character in the book is nothing like this. In fact, Uncle Tom is an admirable character. How this man’s name became a slur is more complicated than it first appears.

The weird part about reading “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” is that its advocacy literature, and most of us don’t need much convincing that slavery is bad. But we need this context to understand that Uncle Tom was created by a white woman to appeal to a white audience because it’s his tragedy that is supposed to persuade the reader. Uncle Tom didn’t fashion himself to please some master like Calvin Candy, he was created whole-cloth as a device to awaken empathy of white audience. It’s not his character, it’s his raison d’être.

She’s forgotten her roots. Back in the 90s she had to hold down all kinds of jobs to get by like psychic, showgirl-nun, and dinosaur cop.

What’s learning good for?

Some people look down on WWE, I see it as a window on American culture. Even the lazy refrain: you know it’s not real right? Well read the allegations against McMahon with special attention to how he ran his enterprise, and say that again. It’s as obtuse as saying “you know movies aren’t real, right”? Wrasslin’ is like what would happen if an improv troupe went global. Just think of the talent that’s come out of it: legendary athletes, blockbuster actors, …POTUS.

Instead of getting up early for Meet the Press, I stay up late for Monday night Raw.

These people who get so incredulous about “soft” social sciences, (think critical theory) yet talk about IQ testing like it’s Newton’s 4^th law do not value, or do not understand the science. Even the serious people who defend IQ in good faith, speak of it with qualifications.

What is so attractive about a system to categorize and rank humanity? And what do the people who are attracted to it have in common?

Didn’t grow up with one, but consider it standard now. There should be an organic stream to waste disposal. Much more green to send your plate scrapings to the treatment plant than to wrap them up in plastic and bury it in a landfill.

Zimbardo is part of a generation of psychology that struggled with why modern European people did a Shoah. Or rather a generation that sought to confirm through experiment that the Germans were alright and it was really all Hitler’s fault. Or at least a small number of evil Germans who caused the whole mess.

It’s auspicious to bring this up now because just watching the news these days makes a fool of Zimbardo.

The absolute fragility of the right. I mean people on the left have been feeling pretty low this week, but I haven’t seen a single lefty so openly seeking validation from the right. You can’t “both sides” some random cruel rhetoric with specific stated cruel policy goals.

You are a bad person for voting Trump. And you’re fretting about being labeled a bad person because you know it.

The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is whith a good gyne with a gun. Brilliant.

I had an anatomy instructor who insisted that neural activity was a purely chemical process and that the electromagnetic stuff was just a byproduct that got all the attention because it was easy to detect. His central argument was that nerve transmission speeds are no faster than 150m/s which is somewhat slower than the speed of light you’d expect if neurons were little wires transmitting signals.

Do tankies really think that 10+million Americans boycotted an election in solidarity with the Palestinians? This is why they’re not taken seriously. k

Even when the plan is “do nothing” Tankies fuck it up.

This is a perfect story, that’s why I don’t believe it happened.

Harris is missing 10 million votes that Biden got in 2020. It looks like many of those 10 million were suburban men who didn’t vote Trump, just sat on the couch. misogyny is a viable explanation for this because otherwise you’ll have to explain why Biden set the left on fire, or why Biden was so inspirational to men.

She lost the scrote vote, simple as that.

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