Privilege and Hobbles

Posted on by Sarah A. Hoyt

Among the many strange things that Kamala Harris has done in her life, there is a video going around of her giving a talk at a black — college? — association where one of the guys opines there should be a different law for black people, because they are “400 years behind.”

First, sure, let’s see how stupid this man is from the historical perspective. He apparently believes that a) slavery holds you back sort of in stasis for the time period you were a slave. b) that it happened only to black people. c) that the 16– whatever project is true. d) that there is some “level” at which all white people are and some “level” at which all black people are.”

Taking the last one first, he’s a dumbass. He’s looking at history as a chart on the wall and positing that if you leave a civilization alone, each one progresses exactly like the other. Maybe this is an example of the left culture-blindness. Because culture absolutely dictates how a civilization develops or not. As does geography and a ton of other things.

Look, the civilizations of South America built cities but they never invented the wheel. This probably had to do with their geography more than anything. But still, there it is. An invention that Europeans made so far back we literally have no record of who did it, never happened in South America.

In Africa? It gets complicated. Because Africa is a whole fricking continent. Some civilizations had agriculture and complex languages, some were hunter gatherers and unclear on the concept of future tenses in verbs or counting above 3. So are tribes in the Amazon.

That’s to begin with. There simply is no set marks or places that all civilizations hit. It’s not like in school. You don’t pass certain grades.

On top of which, if you’re talking about American blacks, which this guy was and Kamala pretends to be, they’re mostly white. Or at least fifty percent or so. So, why would black people in America be 400 years behind? How do you do the math on how far behind each genetic component is.

Also, unpacking this, this dumbass thinks that culture is genetic. Black people somehow got slavery “retardation” encoded in their genes. WHAT?

Second, the idea that the US was founded on slavery does not pass the laugh test and is a-historical nonsense.

Third, how do you compute how much each person has been held back by “slavery” if you presume slavery holds a race back? Do I go to 23 and me and compute the percentages of each race I am, then go back and see when these were enslaved and by whom, then…. What? I mean, let alone that the math would be mind-boggling and that 23 and me doesn’t even go deep enough to get all that, much less that history is not detailed enough to figure out who was a slave when…. again I say WHAT?

Look, the Romans enslaved everyone. If you’re even partly Mediterranean you probably are descended from slaves … and Romans. But wait, the Romans also went everywhere throughout Europe with their slaves, and enslaved more people there. So if you’re British, you’re descended from slaves and at least some Romans. Oh, but wait, the Germanic tribes enslaved each other. Moors enslaved everyone, including other moors.

Barring psychic ability and the power to see into the past of each person, how do you calculate how ‘behind’ each individual is?

Most of all, though, slavery doesn’t work that way. No, seriously. Slavery doesn’t work that way. Oppression doesn’t work that way. Oppressed races are routinely more cunning, more able, more capable, and once freed fly higher and further than their former masters.

Look at the Jews. From slavery to a functional civilization, and under oppression becoming intellectual giants.

This is not rare. Looking around my group of friends, recently we realized we were all the least favorite child. And all of you, for sure, have seen that the pampered and handed everything children of the wealthy tend to go nowhere fast.

In fact, if you want to look at people who have been hampered in life, look at those — either charity cases or the noblemen of old — who were handed everything by virtue of being born.

Which is what this dumbass is asking for, and Kamala is agreeing with.

Special laws? What, so that they’re not punished for crimes other would be punished for? That is privilege, the definition of – private law.

And think about it. Humans respond to incentives. If people are allowed to steal and kill or even just flaunt the law with impunity, what does it do to them?

It means the thrifty, the law abiding, those who are polite and sober and work hard become a despised minority who aren’t taking all the advantage they can. They therefore not only leave fewer children, but — evolution is slow, culture is fast — the bad behavior that’s rewarded will be imitated even by those who would not have behaved that way.

It destroys subcultures. It destroys people. It destroys civilization.

The noblemen of Europe who “fell” fell all the way to the bottom. They had no skills other than lording it over people. (Not the ones in Victorian times, but the ones who fell from grace in the middle ages. It’s complicated. In Victorian times, the noblemen behaved like the middle class, more, and had imbibed bourgeois virtues.)

Let’s have one law for everyone. That’s how people actually catch up. No special breaks for anyone, in law or hiring or anything.

Pure meritocracy is impossible, but let’s make it as close as possible.

And I bet you race becomes irrelevant in short order.

This very stupid idea of making black people like the noblemen of old comes from the Marxist stupid idea that white people are all like medieval noblemen. They’re not. The ones who are privileged — Hi Obamas, Clintons, Hunters — are also complete basket cases personally.

Welfare has done more harm to black people in America than slavery ever did. And affirmative action has compounded it to ensure that even black people who get ahead are tainted with the suspicion of not having gotten there by their own efforts.

Free everyone. Remove the hobbles from everyone. Let meritocracy reign. And I bet you, giving family culture time to catch up, within 3 generations you won’t be able to tell the difference in racial achievement in America.

167 thoughts on “Privilege and Hobbles”

    1. What did LBJ say?

      “I’ll have those ******* voting Democrat for 200 years.”

      And too many of them are still on the plantation, voting blue, no matter who.

      It also didn’t help that the CIA help flood their communities with drugs…

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      1. It’s appalling and sad that the urban black communities basically sold their birthright, votes and standing as productive and free citizens … essentially for a message of pottage.

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  4. Marxist shitheaddery.

    !!!!Kill those others that “inherently oppress”, thus “unfairly did better”!!!!

    !!!!Destroy everything useful, that paradise will then “inevitably” sprout!!!!

    One of the most dysfunctional pseudo-religions ever set in opposition to reality.

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  5. Today’s WSJ has an op-ed by law Prof. Jonathan Turley (subscribers only, unfortunately) in which he quotes a whole bunch of law school professors, deans, and other elitists saying that the Constitution is evil, needs to be scrapped, is an obstacle to democracy, etc. etc. etc. He didn’t point out that this is why those same people want to get rid of the 2nd Amendment.

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    2. Yar. I’ve seen that argument by him or others of his ilk. Members of the Globalist-Statist Cabal academia who are firmly convinced that their ‘expertise’ has bestowed divine powers of being always right in their decisions and wants. “Liberty for the hoi poli? Preposterous! They’ll do what we tell them to do for their own good.”

      Excuse me while I use the emesis bucket.

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      1. Given what I have seen of Turley’s past writings, I suspect he wasn’t advocating those views, just quoting them to make a point about how anti-Constitution academia and the establishment are.

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      1. Unfortunately academe has convinced itself they have to be Revolutionaries, which implies changing That Which Was Here Before, Even If Working Fine, so the fact that they publish and are quoted in such nonsense is unshocking.

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  6. Aristocracies need an underclass, because how else are you supposed to be a member of the Elect otherwise?

    You need somewhere to draw expendable people from, and to throw your failures as a dire warning for breaking covenants.

    And you need to have someone to praise you to the fullest extent possible.

    …which is why the Democrats are always trying to make a new underclass after slavery fell.

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  7. One thing you can say about Thomas Sowell, he didn’t get where he is because of welfare and Affirmative Action. School drop out, odd jobs, USMC during the Korean War, night classes through Harvard (i.e. he worked his way through.) And his bio even says that he was a Marxist during his 20’s when he was going through college; and not until he was doing real research on minimum wage (not just confirming his bias) that started him down the path to conservativism.

    He was spot on with his prediction of what would happen if Biden won in 2020 (unfortunately.) Not that it was just Biden, but the Globalist Statist behind the Democrat Party are the ones who have been pushing this conversion of the U.S. for decades.

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    1. I have literally heard leftists say that he shouldn’t criticize AA because he benefited from it.

      I point out that’s chronologically impossible, and one literally said that letters of recommendation are the same thing.

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          1. Probably, but depending where they rolled to, removing the worst of the cat fur, dog detritus, and dust-bunny-proxies might be a good idea.

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  8. Race means nothing.
    Culture means everything.
    —Sarah Hoyt

    The above is from yesterday’s post. It’s distilled truth. It’s the best way I’ve heard yet to fight back against the open borders enthusiasts, the multi-cultists, and the “you’re all just racisss” left.

    If you see a photo of an illegal alien carrying a “free range meal”, or a heavily armed gang of illegals banging on an apartment door, or whatever the next abuse of American values turns out to be, stamp it with that passage and release it as a meme. “Race means nothing” at the top. “Culture means everything” at the bottom. And tag it #CultureMeansEverything until they catch on and start suppressing that.

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  9. one of the guys opines there should be a different law for black people, because they are “400 years behind.”

    I didn’t realize they let a Klansman speak at the event?

    Then again, we’re in the process of being told Haitians have separate law because, I don’t know.

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    1. Because shut up, that’s why. #HeelsUp was Border Czar, therefore everything to do with borders and [migrants] is SHUT UP! Racist!!!

      But I really love the memes from this. Trump with a cat under each arm, running from the mob, caption “Grab the pussy!”

      I really don’t know if it has dawned on #TheBlob that the joke’s over this time. The #OrangeMan campaign did not create and post those memes. The RNC did not produce that “eat the cat” TickTock song that’s going mega-viral right now. That’s true peasant art, welling up from the masses. Kids did it! Kids!

      Peasant art is getting pretty frickin’ good in the USA these days, right?

      Any control #TheBlob thinks they still have is an illusion. The problem with them is that they’re stupid, and they’ll keep pulling the lever expecting it to work.

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        2. I think it was Rankin that publicly stated that, even if he won the election, Trump would never be permitted to take office.

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          1. Which is why my ballot does not go through the mail, but directly to a drop box (not that it is any safer hands than the county clerks). We were much better off when counting was done at the precinct level with checks and balances. But what in the heck do I know? (/sarcasm off)

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      2. Ironically, I was reading about an “eat the dog” song earlier this morning. It was in fact released by a Harris supporter as a way to try and poke fun at Trump. But the public has taken it and run with it for the opposite reason. Meanwhile, the composer’s fellow lefties have turned on him for supposedly creating Trump propaganda.

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    3. Because the self-styled overlords of this land are blithering idiots and monomaniacs incapable of rational thought. Cunning, yes, to come up with their schemes, but utterly unfit to see beyond their next mark, or what those marks can do.

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  10. The Haitians eating cats in Springfield OH really blew up…. and shows why centralized planning for controlling people and societies fails.
    When the Trump Cat memes first appeared, a large minority of commentors expressed frustration because the real issues were being ignored. Conversely, the faked news/debunk push back failed because it kept appealing to the wrong emotions, ie only dummies and bigots fall for such lies.
    Now because it broke, people who apparently are honest and have first hand knowledge are getting a chance to tell what they know.
    All because of cute memes.

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  11. Sorry, meant to post that as slightly off topic. The following is too….

    Converesly the Venezuelan gang take over of apartment complexs in Aurora CO and now in El Paso dont have the kind of outrage and coverage.

    It needs good memes.

    Also the take over in El Paso underscores the lie about guns. People will use them for self defense….usually, when pressed to. They will not pull an Athens TN, regardless of whether authorities would prosecute them.
    People mostly barely lift a finger to help themselves and even then do so against the tides of people telling them no. If its their own family they do not risk attacks on their family….they risk their family attacking them.
    I speak from personal experience.
    So at some point we will end up in a bad war, probably to the level of every commie take over, brother against brother, parents vs children, spouse against spouse.
    The complete atomization of society and culture.

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    2. “With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.”  Jean-Luc Picard, “The Drumhead”

      The MSM, Progressive Socialists, and the Swamp have a whole box full of chains they want to put on us. They already have a bunch wrapped around people’s ankles.

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      1. Wikipedia lists Jeri Taylor as the writer for that episode.

        And I keep telling you lot, D.C. is not a swamp, it’s a sewer. ‘Twere a better place when it was a swamp.

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    3. As I recall, the Battle of Athens wasn’t fought by Regular-Folks-With-Guns, but by World War II Veterans who’d had practice and motivation in resisting tyranny. But it was also a generation with a far greater per-capita set who were combat-honed than today (and a larger cross-section of the veterans themselves, than of our GWOT heroes, had come through actual combat).

      Even so, there were plenty of non-Veteran civilians around the US, and I don’t recall any stories of armed resistances to City Hall by the Home-Front Jones brigades.

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  12. If Kamala discovers the Muslims in Dearborn also eat cats will she suddenly remember eating kitten stew during the childhood Kwanzaa celebrations with her middle class family?

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  13. “If people are allowed to steal and kill or even just flaunt the law with impunity, what does it do to them?”

    This reminds me of a situation in a jurisdiction to the north of me. There is a 12 year old who has been stealing high end cars and electric scooters and joy-riding for the past few weeks. He has been picked up a few times and promptly released to his mother. Why? Because according to the statues of this jurisdiction, he is too young to be charged.

    Excuse me?! He’s 12, not 6. He’s old enough to be held responsible for his actions. Instead he is left to terrorize several neighborhoods with his crime spree.

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    2. Jurisdictions generally allow going after the parent if the child is too young. I’m guessing that law enforcement ignored that.

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  14. “People mostly barely lift a finger to help themselves and even then do so against the tides of people telling them no.”

    I would venture that the people in your family might have been trying to save your life from the authorities. (Or they might be idiots, you’d know better than I.)

    The attached debate shows the situation in Canada. That’s what you’re up against.

    IMHO as an old hand, financially speaking in Canada it may be better to let home invaders beat you up, steal your car and burn your house to the ground than to fight them. Particularly if you win the fight. You could easily pay more than your house and belongings are worth in legal fees no matter that you are legally in the right and acted appropriately, and have a freaking video recording of the whole thing. That’s how it works here.

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      1. It’s called shoot, shovel, and shut up for a reason.

        I’ve never seen a country so determined to replace police with mob violence (of which SS&S is a subset) in history except maybe early Soviet Russia.

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        1. If you are in any area with medium building density, count on at least one camera being live and aimed your way.

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          1. I was chatting with my family several days ago, and due to the particular (not serious) topic that we were discussing, security cameras came up. One of the individuals present – who is in a position to be aware of how such things are handled – noted that the way to deal with the ever present security cameras is to rapidly put as much distance between yourself and the location of the “incident” as possible. Authorities will track your movement following the “incident”, using cameras. When you leave one camera’s field of view, they use other cameras nearby to figure out where you subsequently went. If you travel farther, law enforcement needs to look at more cameras. They inspect a group of cameras, find which one is tracking you, use that to determine the next group of cameras they should examine, and then submit a request for footage from those cameras.

            But that takes time. And companies that have security cameras don’t have infinite storage space to store what their cameras record. Footage gets overwritten if it isn’t needed within a fairly short period of time. So if a couple of weeks have passed, and law enforcement submits a request for camera footage from a particular camera, there’s a good chance that footage no longer exists.

            Just an interesting factoid.

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              1. I work in the security business. 8 TB will store about 2 months of video from 16 cameras. Longer if they’re set for Motion Detect and don’t waste space on hours of video with nothing and nobody of interest moving in the frame.

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              3. Be that as it may…

                1.) A lot of security camera footage is stored off-site by the company that the camera is being leased from. The length of time that the footage is stored is determined by the agreement that was signed when the lease was finalized. Small businesses often go this route.

                2.) Storage might be cheap. But there’s no money in it for whoever is maintaining the camera. If I own a business and have half a dozen cameras set up to monitor the premises, I probably don’t care about something that happened a month ago. I probably only care about holding the data for a long enough time to ensure that I’m able to retrieve footage from illegal activities that took place on my own premises. That doesn’t mean that I’ll delete it the moment I decide it’s not useful. But I probably won’t keep it around for long. I might have enough storage space to store and catalogue a year’s worth of footage. But unless I’m using it for blackmail material, I would probably prefer to do something more productive with that storage space (or the money that would otherwise be used to purchase that storage space).

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                1. Hardly anybody actually deletes surveillance video. Most systems are set up so that when the storage space is full, the oldest video is deleted automatically to make room for new video. It’s a continuous process.

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                  1. There’s also Standard vs Archive storage. It isn’t deleted, just moved off to something that takes more time to access. Went from tapes to optical to metal vs SSDs. 3 years worth is not uncommon.

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                    1. Thing is, there’s nothing that remotely rivals the storage space of a modern hard drive or SSD. DAT, the last gasp of tape storage, topped out at 160 GB. Double-sided, 4-layer Blue-Ray disks hold just over 100 GB. What would they put ‘archive storage’ on? More hard drives, that just aren’t always connected to a computer?

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        1. Just FYI, the trick is to only put one link in any one comment, and if you have more, reply to yourself containing only one of each subsequent link.

          The thing that’s tripped me up recently is copy-pasting something that has an embedded link that I missed, but that’s mostly just me posting in a hurry.

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          1. Aware of the single-link limit. Didn’t think of replying to self. Also, a bit reluctant to count on GWP for accuracy, but Insty covered the self-defense. The charges weren’t directly mentioned in the bit, and GWP was the only source I could find. They do link to the DA’s video announcement (which I don’t do for bandwidth reasons. One of these days, StarLink.)

            https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/09/outrageous-district-attorney-announces-iraq-war-veteran-who/

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    2. Several instances through my life, none every rose to that level. In my 20s I escorted a cousin of mine to a jazz club in town to hear someone she liked. It was in a not so good part if town. Later, without incident, we were at the bus stop in the good part of town and an individual of a nonwhite persuasion high and incoherent was walking up to every pair of people waiting for a bus and literally getting their face scrwaming nonsense. In every case, the screamie would turn away or take a step back and screamer would smile and continue on. My cousin was terrified to the point of babbling.

      When he reached us he got in my face nose to nose and started screaming. I continued staring didnt move didnt look away, face mosy neutral. He stopped after 30 seconds….looked at me hard, then turned and walked away. When he was almost out of sight he turned and yelled and shook his fist and left.

      My cousin was so shaken I had to ride home with her and walk her to her apartment. The entire way she castigated me for what I did instead of yielding like everyone else.

      Aside from that…I had to walk almost two hours back to my place because that was the last bus.

      There were others, some bigger some smaller. In each instance, I stood my ground and was punished for it because it violated group agreement.

      People hate that because it shows them how little they have to do to improve their lives….but they must act.

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      1. Yes, people must act. But I suspect your cousin was smaller and physically weaker than the crazy, as well as smaller than you. Taking on someone crazy when you are smaller almost always escalates to dangerous and potentially lethal levels of violence. Because the crazy cannot allow himself to lose to a girl.

        A crazy will not back down from a girl simply standing her ground, unless she is very, very lucky and it looks like the crowd will back her.

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        1. Important safety tip ladies: the crowd is never going to back you.

          They’re going to pull out their phones and take video of your death. Because they KNOW if they step in they’re goin’ to jail, for sure. You are on your own.

          And should you survive the assault, that video will be used in court against you by the cops.

          That’s how it is.

          Plan your lifesaving self-defense accordingly.

          And maybe spare a thought to begin pressuring your city/state/nation to get the f- off your lawn. They left your 5’3″ mini-skirted @ss swinging in the breeze, they don’t get to come along later and armchair quarterback your decisions during a battle of life and death.

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            1. I should amplify. She was madder at me for staring the unsub down and
              stopping him from terrorizing than she was about him doing what he was
              doing. She also kept complaining about the cops  not doing more, but she
              was also one of those people who automatically assumes racism and police
              brutality when the suspect is not white.

              It goes deeper though. In 8th grade, the class  bully jumped me after
              school. As the entire class was there, I was the only one who didnt know
              about it. I beat him. The principal broke it up about the third time I
              bounced his head on the ground.

              The mean fat kid wanna be bully puffed up at me, I told him we could go
              right there. He backed off but was an asshole the rest of high school.
              The smart girl group who was always harrased by this guy castigated me.
              I told them they were on their own if he bothered them again. He looked
              shocked.

              He was out for a couple of days. When he came back he had a black eye
              and bruises and such. I asked him point blank what happened. He said his
              father beat him for losing to a pussy.

              I watched one of the Death Wish movies. At the end, Kerseys new fiance
              realizes he is the unknown vigilante killing the drug gang that was
              targeting her for plot reasons. He is killing the last of the gang one
              place when she realizes it in his apartment. She removes her engagement
              ring puts it on a table and leaves. He comes back, picks it up and just
              looks at it. I was a teenager and didnt understand.

              I asked both parents separately about it. My mother said she left him
              because she realized he had a capacity for performing violence, so she
              left him before he could focus it on her.

              My father said woman want control in a relationship and she knew she
              wouldnt really have it.

              My family is mostly female – and they all think bend the neck is safer.
              My circle of friends, mostly also feel that way. I knew one guy back in
              college who was exarmy. He thought fighting was better.

              So most people are bend the neck and hope to live. Its why they got on
              the trains. Its why the first 3 plane loads on 911 did nothing. Its why
              no one helped the Branch Davidians during or after. Its why we have
              illegals flooding the country (and even if they were all trying really
              hard to become good Americans) and why what is coming will be bad. No
              matter who loses the wrong people will win.

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                1. It is possible. I will mention that one BIL who was originally of the Fight Fight Fight mentality somewhere changed so hard that he was Obama/Hillary/NOT TRUMP/Joe. I left our family Face Book group because he posted multiple rants every day about evil Repubs.

                  He sold his guns, including the family heirlooms my father gave him. (I couldnt take them as my wife is in the accidentally shoots husband for not annoucing himself when he comes in from taking the trash. Yes, she greeted me at the door with a cast iron skillet in hand once.)

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              2. We had an attempted assault down here. Bystanders put an end to it, then the police hauled off the “alleged perp.” That’s not rare, around here. But we also have concealed carry, and constitutional carry, so that contributes to the difference in mindset among bystanders.

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              3. I think you’ve been very, very lucky.

                Was castigating you a wise choice on her part? I doubt it.

                But as someone who has survived the kind of violence you apparently think she should have tried to incite, someone who will never have the kind of nervous system that will let me win a physical fight like that without using ambush tactics and a weapon – mine glitches, there is absolutely nothing I can do about it except try not to die – I don’t think I can see where you’re coming from.

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                1. I think we are talking at Cross Purposes. This girl was mad that I did not surrender as everyone else did even though she asked me along to do exactly what I did.
                  I learned early in life that most people, including armed people with weapons out intending to do criminal mischief, will hesitate or back down when you calmly face them down.
                  Given the times I have been in this situation have been few, perhaps I have been lucky…but I also always had a backup plan. Hint, most people are neither Chuck Norris nor Bruce Lee. They also react badly to sudden pain (myself included).
                  Honestly if it had gone the wrong way, I would have been arrested and no one I know would have thought anything except I deserved it.

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    3. There was the instance in Denmark a few months ago in which a young woman used pepper spray to fight off some would-be rapists. Then she went and reported it to the police, and was arrested for having pepper spray.

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      1. I knew about the girl in Denmark. That one was weak-sauce. For the true, absolutely heinous atrocity of judicial insanity I refer you to Toronto:

        https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/braun-woman-exonerated-in-self-defence-killing

        5’3″ woman assaulted -nearly to death- by 6’5″ “boyfriend” survives by a fluke. Taken directly from hospital to jail, receives zero treatment for profound complications from the -near fatal- beating including brain injuries and so forth, stays in jail for FOUR MONTHS because… well no reason really that’s just what happened because nobody gave a sh1t, gets to trial and it is over in one session. Open and shut, no question it was self defense.

        The Crown prosecutor had to gall to say “the system worked” in his statement to the media. Nothing bad happened to that guy that I’m aware of.

        Then there is the even more judicially malfesant case of Peter Khill who shot a car thief in his driveway, the obscene travesty perpetrated against Ian Thompson (who had VIDEO of them trying to burn his house down with firebombs) and let us not forget Jonathon Logan arrested and ruined because he… didn’t do anything at all.

        Meanwhile, catch-and-release for violent migrants. Oh yes, they get let off every time.

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    4. Then it’s time to take up arms against the government. Past time in fact. That does require people to shoulder the responsibility to replace it with a more suitable government. And most people avoid responsibility as much as possible.

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  15. For what Sarah is writing about today….the Nazis always had ‘honorary aryans’ which meant people who went along with their program but were not german.

    They dont care about the reality. They will assign who is what. My wife is 70% african by gene scan. Culturally she is identical to my older sisters who are 102% white.

    Our grown kids keep telling her she is white. Culture not genes

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    1. The problem is that culture isn’t visible over iron sights at 500 yards. Skin color, unfortunately, IS.

      Which is why the Left has worked so hard to turn it into a uniform, damn their eyes.

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      1. If they get what they want they will regret it most of all.

        The Internet will provide great evidence of “race traitors” and, for practical reasons, they will get the bullet first if it comes to a color war.

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      2. Observing behavior rather than noting appearance takes longer when trying to identify targets. That’s why most game laws are written that you can take antlered deer, rather than bucks, because sometimes does have antlers.

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    2. I am around 16% African, apparently (around there. Sometimes less. It keeps changing. Apparently from two sources (we knew of one, and it didnt’ warrant that high).)
      In the US it’s enough to be “black” but I’m NOT. Culturally I’m mostly white nerd, with a bit of Mediterranean leftover.

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              1. And since we’re all, including the Neanderthal parts, descended 100% from Africans we must all be entitled to “reparations”… :twisted:

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      2. I see The Blogger Who Shall Not Be Named linked to this post, and is going on (and on, and on) about “It’s race, not culture, plus SAH is an immigrant so there!”

        I’m not sure which is more tiresome, his ranting about race & immigration or his hate for Boomers. OTOH, on rare occasions, he posts something worth reading. On rarer occasions, I might even agree with his point.

        So, the trollhammer might get a workout today. Sigh.

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      3. Go back far enough (like, half a million years) and we’re all 100% African. That’s where our species evolved. Since then, minor variations have cropped up due to different environmental conditions in the diverse regions we migrated to.

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  16. I love how by wanting a different (looser) set of laws for blacks, these liberals are literally playing into EVERY racist stereotype of blacks. Low IQ, low impulse control, too stupid to be responsible for their own actions. Y’know, the whole being a responsible member of society thing is “acting White.” It’s genuine self-defeating insanity. People who would not otherwise buy into racist rhetoric would hear stuff like this and go “hmm, well, if a black lawyer thinks this way, maybe it’s true…”

    Nice own goal.

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    1. The Reader notes that unfortunately, that own goal is on the liberals of the 1960’s, not the flaming Commies claiming to be liberal today.

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    2. That is because liberals believe them. Full stop.

      Oh, they’ll claim otherwise and are generally incapable of admitting it to themselves but their actions tell us what they believe.

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  17. An invention that Europeans made so far back we literally have no record of who did it, never happened in South America.

    More so far back we’re not sure where it happened or if it was a unique or multiple discovery. My money is on the latter and if it is the former my money is more on Asia than Europe (and probably on the Eurasian steppe regardless of which side).

    The reason I pick that location is I think it isn’t just geography that kept South America from doing it but the lack of very strong pack animals. While handcarts are known it does seem in the earlier archeological record we only find animal pulled carts.

    The steppe is where the horse was domesticated, but ox carts in the precursors of one of the great river valley civilizations in Asia might have done it (I don’t see evidence for Egypt, the one non-Asian great river civilization having it early).

    Black people somehow got slavery “retardation” encoded in their genes. WHAT?

    Genes? No, but culture through “well meaning” whites and the elevation of black “leaders” both of whom rely on blacks being poor and angry for their power? Yeah, I’ll buy that.

    But wait, the Romans also went everywhere throughout Europe with their slaves, and enslaved more people there. So if you’re British, you’re descended from slaves and at least some Romans.

    If you talk to people doing genetic work in archelogy you’ll get long winded discourses on just how fine the genetic differences of “Germanic” vs. “Celtic” people are in Europe. To get real divergence in populations in Europe you need to go back 4000+ years to the transition to the Bronze age where entire genetic lines all but disappear to be replaced with the ancestors of the Celts and the Romans and the Germanic tribes who are all tightly related.

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    1. I have read that wheels were in fact known, but not used as not practical. An inter tubes search yields some confirmation:

      It had long been assumed that ancient Americans didn’t use wheels because they didn’t know how to make them. That turned out to be false. In 1880, as archaeologist Désiré Charnay excavated the tomb of an Aztec child in Mexico City, he came across a small coyote figurine mounted on an even smaller set of wheels. Since then, other wheeled toys have been found across the country. Most belonged to the Toltecs, whose culture flourished between 900 and 1100 AD.

      Full article at https://bigthink.com/the-past/aztec-inca-maya-wheel-invention/

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      1. Wheels are overrated. Merchants didn’t use pack mules out of a love of making less money but because the mules couldn’t pull carts on some of the roads they traveled.

        Good roads are non-trivial.

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        1. In the absence of good roads, favorable terrain would be helpful. Roadside rest areas in Nebraska mention that Conestoga wheel ruts are visible near the highway. Flat, sort-of-hard soil, probably a decent alternative to roads.

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          1. Lots of wheel ruts in western states, those that haven’t been paved over. The Applegate Trail ruts have been marked coming into the southern access. I-5 covers the trail from where the trail came in from the east, and up the valleys and southern passes.

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      2. The Americas also lacked domesticable beasts of burden. Llamas and dogs were about it, and where llamas are, wheeled vehicles wouldn’t have worked well at all. Dogs could only pull a limited amount of mass.

        The wheel seems to have been invented at least twice, once in Asia and once in Mesopotamia or the area north of the Black Sea and then moved south to Mesopotamia. Cattle and asses of varying kinds pulled carts before horses were domesticated, as best archaeologists and anthropologists have been able to determine.

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      3. IIRC, “Mexico City” of the time was a canal city in a swamp.

        Wheels would have been of limited utility in anything larger than a child’s toy.

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      1. True, but for low-speed travel (say the speed of an oxcart) plain axles through bored holes in the frame, slathered with plenty of grease, work fine.

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        1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_River_cart

          Red River carts traveled with a supply of replacement axles and used no grease. And it is said you could hear one coming for miles.

          “The cart, constructed of native materials, can easily be repaired. A supply of shaganappi and wood are brought; a cart can break a half-dozen axles in a one-way trip.[2] The axles are ungreased, as grease will capture dust, which acts as sandpaper and can immobilize the cart.”

          These are spoke wheels with coopered rims and iron tires. The wheels didn’t turn on the axle, the axle turned under the cart to save the wheel hubs. Axles were a consumable.

          Nothing is never as easy or as simple as you think it ought to be.

          Something else about S. America, mountains. The Canadian West is -flat-. So very flat. Can you imagine trying to manage a Red River cart going down a mountain in Peru? Up would be bad enough, with the llamas or whatever pulling it, but down? No brakes?

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        2. Trying again, without the wikipedia link this time:

          Red River carts traveled with a supply of replacement axles and used no grease. And it is said you could hear one coming for miles.

          “The cart, constructed of native materials, can easily be repaired. A supply of shaganappi and wood are brought; a cart can break a half-dozen axles in a one-way trip.[2] The axles are ungreased, as grease will capture dust, which acts as sandpaper and can immobilize the cart.”

          These are spoke wheels with coopered rims and iron tires. The wheels didn’t turn on the axle, the axle turned under the cart to save the wheel hubs. Axles were a consumable.

          Nothing is never as easy or as simple as you think it ought to be.

          Something else about S. America, mountains. The Canadian West is -flat-. So very flat. Can you imagine trying to manage a Red River cart going down a mountain in Peru? Up would be bad enough, with the llamas or whatever pulling it, but down? No brakes?

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          1. Ah, yes, carretas [southern Red River cart]. The good news for traders down here was that the Comanche could hear them coming a long way off. The bad news for ciboleros was that the Comanche could hear them coming … [Comanche were good with trade. Not so good with other people hunting “their” buffalo/bison.]

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          2. Both came through; thanks for the info. Although I can’t see how dust in grease could stop a cart, I’ll accept that there might be a way I can’t think of. A more serious issue, IMHO, is the wheels locked to the axle; in that scenario, the wheels cannot turn at different rates, putting enormous torque stress on the axles during turns, stress which only increases as the load does. It’s no wonder they lost multiple axles per trip.

            Conestoga wagons had both brakes and free-turning wheels on fixed axles (AFAICT; it’s not especially clear; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conestoga_wagon); a mix of pine tar and lard was used to lubricate them.

            I guess my point is that multiple schemes have been used over the centuries, and whatever is required for a given environment will usually show up in some form. The only thing that can’t be invented is an appropriate draft animal; the only suitable one became unavailable for domestication in the Americas when the last native horse was eaten by the proto-Amerinds. No reflection on them; food is food, and hunter-gatherers have to take what’s available.

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  19. im sick and tired of hearing blacks complain about their lot in life, buncha lyin violent stupid SoBs, dont want to get thrown in jail? Dont do stupid schitt. Want to get ahead? Work your azz off like most of the rest of us have to if we want anything. They can cram their entitled BS where the sun dont shine

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    2. I caught the Freudian slip he made: “When she was a young prostitutor…”

      From the mouth of babes and idiots…

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  21. Clearly these leftists idiots don’t understand that slavery existed in the America’s before the first European ever arrived. One reason they so many tribes helped the Spanish against the Aztecs was because they were tired of having their people captured and either made slaves or offered as human sacrifices. In North America, some of the various tribes enslaved people they captured in conflicts as well.

    This is the kind of behavior that existed throughout the world for millennia, and it was only the British decision to finally end support for slavery and the American Civil War which triggered the widespread abolition of slavery; a practice that still exists in places ruled by Jihadists.

    But please leftists, continue to insist that people are defined solely by what designated identity group they are born into. The most infamous people who believed that kind of nonsense were the National Socialist German Workers Party, i.e. the Nazis.

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    1. A friend gave me the executive summary of the Modoc wars near Tulelake. “The Klamath were living on roots and sucker fish, while the Modoc were slavers.” Things didn’t go well when they (and the Yahooskin–related to the Snake tribes) were lumped into one reservation. That friction still exists, though AFAIK, the Klamath are better at playing the Politick Game.

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  22. A reminder that the gaslighting is coming from the same people who have engaged in unprecedented lawfare against their political opponents:

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  23. so heres the thing, have yall seen those memes with the pictures of Roman and early European architecture, and then mud huts,

    that pretty much says it all.

    our local similars are likened to crabs in a barrel, one tries to crawl out the others pull it back down and in. Same smell.

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  24. Jason Cordova on Twitter just announced he has melanoma. Will be undergoing surgery and, hopefully they will get it all. If not, chemo, radiation and so forth. Prayers up.

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  26. In today’s effort to educate, it doesn’t matter if facts don’t support the narrative. That’s where the problems lay. Until that’s changed, foolish, inaccurate history, and science, will be taught as truth.

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      1. Stop that! For a second there, I was tempted to vote Democrat! :-D

        Like the guy hitchhiking in the South. Every car that stopped, the drivers asked his party. When he said ‘Republican’ they wouldn’t pick him up. Finally in desperation he answered ‘Democrat’ to a pretty young thing in a convertible, and she gave him a ride. He couldn’t stop looking at her. Finally he was forced to say, “You’d better stop and let me out. I’ve only been a Democrat for five minutes and already I want to screw somebody.”

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  30. Calling Kamala Harris a whore is an insult to honest prostitutes everywhere. I will admit, I have no sympathy with the people who sneer at and look down on prostitutes. The same people who do so would shake the hand of a Democratic politician and then not even burn it off in a fire like that guy in Ancient Rome did.

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  31. Guys? I hate to say this, because Nightmare Fuel….

    But if supposed humans keep grabbing pets because they’re easy to catch, you know what they’re going to get?

    Rabies.

    Rabies makes some animals very easy to catch.

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    1. Locally it is required for Dogs to have rabies vaccines. It is NOT require for cats, or any other animal. Recommended. Not required. A lot of peoples attitudes are “my cat is not outside, my cat doesn’t need rabies vaccines!” Want to bet? That is not counting all the feral cat clowder colonies. (Then they complain that their not outside cats get fleas …)

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        1. Yes. 100%

          All our cats have their rabies shots. They have good flea treatment too. (For the win. No more flea bombing the house and yard! Not that we didn’t directly treat the pets before, just the stuff now is a whole lot more efficient … It Works!)

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            1. Used to be a state certified home day care across the street. They had 3 dogs, 6 cats (counting the Stewart who thought he lived at the grade school). She kept an entire file box of the animals vaccinations. The school office had a copy of Stewart’s records.

              We also have a street full of the fuzzy tailed rats, er squirrels. Not that any of the cats ever caught any. Got scolded a lot by them, but none caught. They did catch a lot of mice, more than a few birds. No hummingbirds, although one put itself in to Hobs mouth. Seriously bird? The cat was a very infirm 21, he did not catch you. Bird survived.

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    2. Thanks a lot; now I can’t get the Black Tide Rising series out of my head. Especially since the Springfield ferals already seem to act a lot like Ringo’s “afflicted”.😒

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      1. I’ll give you another nightmare.

        Plague is endemic in our smaller wildlife, worse than rabies. (As in people catch plague from rodents every year. People do not as easily catch rabies. Both are endemic in wildlife.) Given the conditions the PTB are housing, and working, these “refugees”, how quickly does it go pneumonic?

        I read too much fiction (and this is not even new fiction).

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        1. Yep, already knew about plague in mice, ground squirrels, etc., here in the Southwest (Hantavirus, too, in the Four Corners region). Luckily, it doesn’t seem a prevalent in the Sonoron Desert where I am. But it was specifically the comment about rabies that prompted my comment; in the series I mentioned the “manufactured” zombie plague was a rabies-based “double-expressor” virus. And while bubonic isn’t usually fatal with modern medicine (aside from the pneumonic, and especially, septicemic, forms) rabies is; I’ve only heard of one person who survived it, with constant medical care for about a month. That was decades ago, but I’ve never heard of another.

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          1. Our latest cat came to us as a *semi-feral golf coarse dump, kitten, but was 3 when we brought him home. (Should have brought both kittens home when they first showed up, but we’d just brought in two kittens … Water. Bridge. etc.) Dumped as a kitten with another kitten, and female (probably mother but?). Already was an older male. Veterinarian who golfs there said “catch them all, I’ll neuter/spay, and release”. Couple of golfers expressed interest to take all 4 as barn cats. Never happened.

            Fast forward. Adult female disappeared before getting TNSR. Other 3 never taken in as barn cats. Last summer older male and female “kitten” disappears. Which is why we (not easily, but did it without trap) brought the last “kitten” home. Found out later that the female kitten had be found torn up. One of the other golfers caught her to take her to the vet, where she had to be put down. Doing so however got the rescuer scratched up (lots of bleeding … given the age of most the golfers in this group, bleeding is a given because of medications). The scratches went bad, golfer ended up in the hospital. Did get rabies protocol from an abundance of caution until test results back. No rabies were involved. Given where the golf coarse is located (not urban) it is a pick list of what finally got the other 3 cats: coyotes, bobcats, eagles, bear, even fox, (not Haitians) etc., is possible.

            (* Was being fed. Allowed petting. Would jump up next to hubby for more pets. Could not pickup. Capture involved some bleeding. But no infections. Then any scratch hubby gets means there is bleeding. Here at home? Cuddles with hubby and son. Other cats and he have a stand off. He stays in family room over garage, they get the rest of the house. Won’t have anything to do with me. I am just the meany who fills kibble and water bowl, and makes hubby hold him so I can apply flea killing stuff.)

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