Hate

Posted on by Sarah A. Hoyt

What, drawn, and talk of peace! I hate the word,
As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee.

Save that quote as we’ll return to it before this is over. For now let’s look at two other observations on hatred. In The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, Heinlein says it is easier to get people to hate than to love. Easier to get them to hate the enemy than to love their country (or their ideas, or their future. Or whatever.) As we know this is correct, because the left has run on it for centuries.

Rogers and Hammerstein, who could write great songs but were no political philosophers, on the other hand, thought that hatred had to be carefully taught. This is … what’s that word? Oh, yeah: Idiotic. Humans hate as easily as they love. Both are part of the same thing: of being social apes who defend their own and protect against the enemy.

If you want to know Europe’s geography of hatred look to the borders. Where countries meet, there are battle lines, fought out and back and forth over time. And there are proverbs “From Portugal neither good demons nor good matrimony” “From Spain neither good wind nor good marriage.” Every border in Europe. (And I’ll admit that finding myself in the middle of a group of Spanish speakers makes my blood pressure rise. I think it’s because it’s so similar and yet not and I don’t understand all of it, which spikes the anxiety. This is made worse by Castellano which hisses. Look, I grew up with cats.)

Hatred like love requires proximity and pervasiveness, and that you KNOW the other people. This is why, btw, the program that I first came here under as an exchange student could only be started by Americans. Because it assumes knowing the other better causes you to love them. It’s …. not right. It’s easier to hate them, particularly if they’re similar enough to annoy you because they’re not right.

Think of hominid bands. The biggest threat was your closest neighbors, which well…. raiding and such being what it was, were probably just like you genetically.

You don’t have to be taught to hate. Hate happens when two groups, similar enough and yet different, are competing for the same resources. That’s it. Love happens in similar circumstances, where there’s no competition.

Part of the reason America managed at least SOME degree of cultural integration is that the resources were so abundant, and that it was colonized by a big lump of the same culture (two big lumps of closely related cultures, if you consider the German influx large enough) and then a lot of groups SO DIFFERENT that there was no “hook” for the hatred. They were simply too different.

(This incidentally explains why the English hate the French but LOVED the Arabs. This crazy Arabophillia wasn’t found in the peninsula where memory ran deep and there were enough remnants that Arabs were understood and different enough to be hated.)

Heck, there wasn’t a lot of hatred against the King and England in America. Probably a lot more love than hatred. Until the king started stomping around. (Hence the quip in TMIAHM which is a roman de clef of the American revolution. In TMIAHM the stomping around is provoked and calculated. It probably didn’t have to be in the revolutionary war.)

Anyway, what does this matter?

Well, first you have to understand the left runs on hatred. No, seriously.

You see, the latest incarnation of its ideology, communism, with the USSR as its flagship, imploded drastically, so they have to keep hatred flowing towards their opponents, so that its thralls don’t escape the dying vision for a vision that works.

Some of their hatred is organic. The beliefs of Marxism provide hatred and envy aplenty. After all, being an economic ignoramus but a for-real poisonous neurotic, Marx knew the reason he wasn’t king of the universe was the vast conspiracy of how society was organized. The whole “class war” thing is designated to make you hate a collective enemy. So that comes naturally to the devotees of the cult.

On top of which there’s the fact that the ideology makes perfect sense in an intellectual way “if only everybody.” If you have the type of mind that doesn’t realize that never in the history of ever has “everybody” done something, including not cutting off their own nose to spite their faces, i.e. if you life so much inside your own mind that you have no idea other people aren’t widgets, you’re going to hate people. It would be so easy if they just got with the program, abolished private property and looked after each other! Obviously their not doing it means they’re evil. You’re going to hate them. Particularly the ones you think “benefit from the system.”

So their hatred is organic, and ridiculously easy to point at whoever is the hatred of the day. The truth is they hate even the classes they’re told to love. Over my many years in the arts I met a lot of open Marxists. Become friends with one of them and behind the scene you find they hate every possible identifiable minority, as well as the majority, of course. The more new agey of them dream of “Earth changes” that will wipe out the majority of the population while leaving them (and I want to point out for disambiguation these are by and large people who need help crossing the street without a guide) both untouched and in charge. Because of course, they’re smart. (That’s the other illusion of Marxism.)

Now, the other thing you have to understand is that the left KNOWS they’re the good people. THE REALLY GOOD PEOPLE. After all, they want to share every bit of wealth and look after the disenfranchised. (Which includes them, for… reasons.) So they’re good. Their enemies, meanwhile, the ones who refuse to share and be equal, they’re evil people. Self-explanatory. Therefore, if they have all these hates…. the right must be based on MORE HATE. In fact the only reason we don’t want to share and sing Kumbaya is because we are racist, sexist, homophobic and hate EVERYONE.

The left is so sure of it that Obama’s bullshit about people in rural areas clinging to their bibles and their guns and their fear of people who aren’t like them — regurgitated stuff from college. And not deep stuff from college, mind — was kindness itself, cutting those haters some slack.

And this is why their latest attempt to destroy MAGA — a coalition that both scares them and baffles them — is trying to make us hate Jews.

Why Jews specifically is an utter puzzle, unless the whole thing is actually run by Russia, who seem to have a Jewish obsession for reasons I can’t explain without a deep history of Russia. (And I ain’t doing that.) There are indications that way. But I think it’s too simple. I mean sure, the Russians would jump after that like a rooster after a berry, but if you think the Russians are our only enemies…. well! (And I’m almost sure Obama himself was a Muslim Brotherhood construct, so they can do stuff, yes.) And most of them are — for reasons of their own — obsessed with Jew hatred. (The exception is the Chinese, for whom we’re all inferior round eyes, every single one of us.)

However, if you’re thinking that MAGA is falling apart, you must be listening to on media propaganda too much. Why? Because MAGA isn’t talking heads. MAGA isn’t the “online discussion.”

MAGA is — as I told you when all of you were sure Trump was washed up. Another such online operation before the 24 election — a thing of the rest of the country that has had enough of the democrat bullshit. (And it took them long enough to get fed up, honestly.) Making one’s own country great again shouldn’t be controversial, unless you’re a foreign invaders. So people screaming at it are self identifying, and people see that.

As I told you back in the days of “DeSantis is the new face of the right” ya, no. Stop falling for stupid propaganda. I have nothing against DeSantis (he annoys me in some ways. But in some ways he annoys me less than Trump. So.) but in the country at large, those not extremely online, he was a “Who?” which is much worse than being hated when it comes to political prospects. Yes, the extremely online left hated him. The extremely online right loved him. For the guy who came to fix my oven he was a “Who? Oh. The guy in FL. I guess he’s okay.”

The coalition wasn’t being ripped apart. Some idiots (or evil people) had convinced Ron he had a chance, so he was trying, but in the rest of the country he had no purchase. None at all. Online? Oh, hell, if you went by online commenters he was already elected president, no question.

This entire Jew hatred thing? Same thing. Exact same thing.

And part of it is that proximity thing. Look, yes, America has a lot of Jewish people. Most of the visibly different Jews, though? The identifiable Jews? Urban. (Might be genetic. Would explain why I long for the skyscrapers. ;) Note that’s a joke.) And because they’re a middleman minority, they tend to strive and get to prominent positions.

All of them? Don’t be an idiot. No, not even most of them. For some reason my Jewish friends are as broke as I am. But enough for people to be able to point to positions of prominence and see Jews in them.

Historically there’s a ton of reasons why Jews would end up in prominent positions in the 20th (and from the 18th on) centuries. Including the fact that almost all governments tried to prevent them from doing things like owning land. (There were exceptions, yes, but not worth mentioning.) And the fact that the majority they lived among could be stirred to hatred if they became too visible (see massacre of innocents, Egypt, but really, all of the middle ages.) meant that they specialized in professions that were portable. You could leave at any minute and take your knowledge with you. (Also give gold to your kids for important life events — this is a thing in my family, but I suspect it’s true in all of Portugal, honestly — because if you have to pick up and go you won’t go destitute.)

There were other reasons, like the fact most of Europe hampered itself with “Christian” laws against lending at interest. Without the Jews it’s doubtful that the renaissance could have happened.

Anyway, so the culture, as a culture — it is a culture though one with a million faces, because each small group took from the host country — was perfectly poised for industrialization and intellectual professions becoming the pinnacle of the modern world. Oh, and understood finance.

So, yes, there are a lot of Jews in visible, prominent positions. And a lot who live a day at a time and paycheck to paycheck. It doesn’t take a grand conspiracy. Just a complicated and fraught history and a stubborn streak a mile wide, which MIGHT be genetic.

Again the point/problem with that is that they’re highly visible in cities and in certain fields. (Look, bucko, if Jews really ran the world in a grand conspiracy none of them would work in publishing. Not a single one. There ain’t no money in it. There are however a lot of neurosis. Which seem to be genetic, as well but might be cultural.)

Jews are not highly visible anywhere else. They’re not highly EXISTENT anywhere else. Not as a visible cultural minority.

They exist mostly in academic settings and urban settings. There aren’t very many of them in the US. There aren’t very many of them in the world, for that matter.

So is there a great upswelling of Jew-hatred in the right in the US? No. There is Jew-hatred in Academia because they’re being carefully taught to excuse one of the most barbaric attacks of modernity and somehow blame it on the victims. And there are minorities in urban settings who’ve been taught they’re government clients and that if they don’t get their “due” it’s other minorities fault.

That’s it.

So where is the upswelling online coming from? Mostly from outside. From the left, of course, because they do hate Jews because they’re convinced all Jews are capitalists, and they hate them people with money. If only they gave everyone everything! Then they could have a paradise! And from abroad who think they can push on these divisions to stop America unflopping itself and making itself a beacon for the world. The reason they think they can push on this and make it happen is their OWN cultural blind spot.

You see very European country including (particularly?) Russia, but also most (if not all) Middle Eastern countries are ABSOLUTELY convinced that the people running the news, etc. are super smart and completely know what’s going on in their own country. Instead of, as in the US, being a minority of grifters hired for political allegiance to the left. They also think (as we’ve run into with the French gigolo who commented here once) that our media MUST be run by the government or at least controlled by it, else how would they “know what to say.”

This results in them buying every lefty narrative about the right and ALSO believing it must be much worse. (“If this is what they’re allowed to publish.”) Which means they know that half the country is racist sexist homophobic, and flying those flags is a great way to divide the right and destroy America, making it go to war against itself, particularly what the Europeans (but particularly Russians) firmly believe is the entire financial elite.

It’s an illusion chasing stupid. But it’s very loud and some of you people keep getting all nervous-nellied over it.

Go out and talk to normal people, outside college campus and outside the extremely online community. It’s nonsense.

There simply aren’t enough Jews to hate in the rest of the country. (Oh, there are plenty, they are just …. not culturally visible. They look, act and are just like everyone else, without that little bit of difference that stokes suspicion or hatred.)

And the lefty media no longer has the unified megaphone power to make Jew hatred a thing everywhere, as they would have (did have) early in the twentieth century.

And MAGA? MAGA is fine. We might occasionally get mad at Trump, but he’s better than the alternative. And if he falls, we’ll find someone who gets up the left’s nose even more. He’s not our leader. He’s our flag. Something the left utterly fails to get, because they run to “great leaders” the poor idiots.

Weirdly the Jew Hatred attempt is being run with minority flags. This is an attempted dual piece of social engineering by the left. First because they know the indoctrination in school worked and people shut down if asked to be “racists”. This might no longer be true, btw, but the left moves slowly. So if you want to stoke ethnic hatred you need to use ethnic minorities.

Second because they realize they’re in danger. Their various sympathy ploys for the illegals haven’t worked. Being idiots, they don’t realize this is not racial but cultural/situational. People don’t like illegals because they are illegal and by and large are here to TAKE ADVANTAGE of the US social net, unlike immigrants of old.

BUT the left thinks this is racism against Latins (they’ve tried to convince me of this online. It’s hilarious) so therefore they are trying to defuse that by having someone with a Spanish last name stoke up Jew hatred to redirect. The same with the black chick.

This must be sop in some old soviet agit prop book, because it’s ALWAYS one of the marks it’s an op run by that side. It just makes things weird in America, without doing what they want, but hey.

As for the Jews, my biggest problem with them is that they fell for the media psy-op when they landed in the US: the media psy-op that told them the right hated them. (Oh, some did. As did some of the left. Maybe most.) And so they are fearfully clinging to the left.

There might also be, in people who mated for intellectual excellence for a long time a touch of the ’tisms (naaaah) so they believe what the left says about themselves, and therefore they’re all for inclusiveness and love and restorative justice. Sigh.

They’re also, you have to understand this, culturally very against demonizing any group or turning against it. Possibly because they know the results of that in their own history. It’s almost like the guy who told us to love our enemies and pray for those who would hurt us was one of them. (Seriously. So annoying. Yes, I am one of his followers. But I have the right to find Him super-annoying.)

They are…. waking up. Slowly. One by one. Slightly hampered by cultural assumptions, high buy in of academia and being urban. But they are waking up.

Which probably is another reason the left is pointing at them and shrieking kill.

Look, the left is in disarray. They have no ideas. People keep defecting.

Breaking up the right is their last best hope.

It won’t work. It won’t work because you can’t break what was never one piece. The right right now is “I don’t know what I want, but it’s not what the left is offering.” That’s it.

That type of pissedoffness won’t break, because it’s not together.

When things calm down, when victory is more obvious, when being on the right has its own perks, THEN it’s time to worry about where the movement is going and try to steer it. To the extent a group of individuals who are very individual can be steered. At least keep it out of the deeper ditches, and keep the “converts” i.e. lefties from making it exactly like the left.

For now? this is the latest lefty psy-op. Best handled by laughing, calling them names and moving on.

It won’t last long. It’s already losing purchase. But it will last longer than say “the economy is dying, we must now vote left” because it’s a favorite among the left. You see, they really do hate Jews, mostly because they convinced themselves the “Palestinians” are underdogs. (That or a perpetual fascination with tyrants and destructive people.)

And now we return to the top. Peace: they hate the very word. Because they define themselves by their hatred and their opposition to something or someone.

So they must keep peace at bay by hating those they were designated to hate. Just like the whole Montague and Capulet thing. And it no doubt was very useful to the patrician of the city to have these powerful families enmeshed in endless brawling. Just like the international would-be rulers think if they only make America fall abrawling they can rule the world.

They can’t. And the fact they think they can is the measure of their lack of understanding of the world.

Don’t be like them. Be aware there is life beyond online psy ops.

Go live it a bit.

UPDATE: While I was doing yard work — I hate yard work, and I forgot to get an audio book for the mind while I did it — it came to me I’m being an idiot. This is not primarily, or possibly even, about dividing the right. Well, not for the left in the US. (The Russians are trying to put their oar in and are as usual misreading everything about the US.) No. The left thinks we hate Jews, sure. (And everyone else.) But they also think we hide it so well. Hence “dog whistles.” No. This is PRIMARILY and perhaps above all about stopping the American Jewish exodus from the democrats.
You see, they took the mask off rather dramatically after 10/7 and a lot of people woke up. A lot of them are volunteers and donors. A lot others are academics and writers. The left wants them to think the right is even MORE anti-Semitic than they are, to stop that hemorrhaging.
Extra reason for our commentariat on the right, Jewish and not, to take a deep breath and see through the psy-ops. Then point and laugh, boys, (and girls. And small winged animals.) point and laugh.

121 thoughts on “Hate”

  1. The left fails to understand individuals. The concept of singly acting, thinking, working, dreaming, goal directed units is so foreign as to be spaceship aliens come to earth. All we need to do is not get sucked into collectivist thought patterns. The left is comprised of insecure, neurotic, would be rulers, if the could get a government grant.

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  3. I chuckle at the “Hate Doesn’t Live Here” signs because the owners of those signs LOVE TO HATE the people their “masters” want them to Hate.

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  4. The exception is the Chinese, for whom we’re all inferior round eyes, every single one of us.

    And not just round eyes – the round eyes are of course all foreign devils, but anyone Asian who is not Han is an inferior. Ask the Vietnamese (who actually have some Han-blood folks) what the Middle Kingdom thinks of Vietnamese, and vice versa. And even in the Middle Kingdom, if you ain’t Han, you ain’t …worth much.

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        1. A foreign Buddhist monk is impressing the heck out of the emperor. You, as a Taoist sage, reveal that the monk is really a camel.
          Indeed I have heard claims that Han legends say that all the other purported humans in the world are really disguised animals.

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          1. Hey, wait… Call a deer a horse, call a monk a camel…

            Hmm. We may have found Ground Zero for all the Transgender stuff.

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            1. If you can disenchant the deer and reveal that it is a horse under the enchantment, you’re all set.

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          2. Amusingly, having animals and plants become humans is possible in the Taoist-inspired cultivation stories (though it has nothing to do with them being foreigners). It’s somewhat rare, but it’s not considered unusual. It’s even the basis of a famous Chinese romance about a white snake who turns into a woman, and falls in love with a human doctor.

            Within the literature a lower organism that becomes human is generally considered to be just like the other human cultivators, although he or she might have odd quirks, and be referred to as a demon (which in this case references the individual’s somewhat unique status in the Celestial Order, and doesn’t automatically mean that the individual is opposing the Celestial Court).

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              1. More of an observation than anything else.

                However, views have also changed over time. I mentioned above the Chinese romance story about the white snake who falls in love with a human doctor. Apparently in the earliest versions of the story, the relationship between the snake and the doctor is depicted as negative, and the Buddhist monk who continually interferes with the snake is viewed as protecting the doctor (who doesn’t know that his love interest is a transformed snake) from inadvertently ending up in a relationship that will ultimately be bad for him. Over time, the story changed until the relationship between the snake and the doctor was the goal of the story, and the monk became the antagonist for interfering in that relationship.

                Most recently, there’s a live action version that is (or maybe was) available on Netflix. This version of the story changed the Buddhist monk into a well-intentioned man who helps the protagonists deal with various supernatural monsters, but mistakenly views the white snake as a threat. The ultimate antagonist of the series is a different character entirely.

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  5. “Just like the international would-be rulers think if they only make America fall abrawling they can rule the world.”.

    A thought that popped into my head on reading that line, Umm, getting rid of American leaders is “Not A Good Idea”, that means the brakes are off and who knows what would happen. Not sure I really want to live in that interesting of a time.

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  7. I have to admit, I don’t know many persons of Jewishness.

    The two I do know personally are a) a complete cad and b) my sister whom he seduced away from Christianity, apparently assuming that her devotion to her faith was stronger than her interest in him (showing that he didn’t know anything about her stubbornness in the face of a challenge, even after she followed him around the country and supported him – for years – while he did important schooling things).

    Dear sister decided this last summer to insult her entire family, by saying to our faces that she sees no difference between Christians and Muslims. (I’m still annoyed by that.) She has absolutely no respect for the faith she abandoned or the people who didn’t abandon it, and expects us to bend over backward to accommodate her religious practices.

    She’s full leftist with occasional bouts of lucidity, apparently seeing the full Leftist as the proper expression of her Jewishness.

    Even if, intellectually, one can understand that there are different flavors of Judaism depending on which rabbi a particular congregation follows, it is hard to overcome the “up close and personal” impressions.

    Not unlike the instinctive flinch of a reader when any book mentions subjects that Modern Writers (TM) have made more toxic than they need to be.

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    2. My experience has been the opposite. Pretty much all the Jewish people I have known have been great folks. Even the one friend who has always been pretty lefty was pretty decent about it. He has to spend too much time in Washington DC, and methinks probably also adjacent to academia. He is a really smart guy, but has still swallowed too much ‘KoolAid’. Most of the rest have been on the conservative side. And the two times I was mistaken for being Jewish myself I took as a compliment because of the source. One fellow I had been eating lunch with for most of a week said he would see me at synagogue, and though my first thought WAS ‘Which one?’, I said I’m sorry, but I’m pretty Gentile. He wanted to apologize and I explained that was totally unnecessary, I was actually flattered. If he had been able to give me a lift,, I would have happily gone along; educational experience and all that. I wouldn’t be too surprised if I have some Jewish ancestry somewhere back on my father’s side, but have no desire to actually bug the family genealogist about it. I’m proud of my being a ‘mutt’, and by the one-drop rule, could claim allegiance to a LOT of ‘downtrodden’ groups.

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    3. Just goes to show that no people or faith is immune to people being dipshits.

      5 bucks he follows one of the various Reform twerps who think that traditional Judaism is icky.

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  8. Sarah, I believe you are mistaken in part. You don’t need to know someone to hate him. Hating strangers is natural. It’s how isolated bands of humans survived. When nature surrounds you with dangers, strangers are just another danger, only worse. (Rousseau wasn’t even wrong.)

    The Jews are the ultimate survivors. They must be cheating. They are a danger. And when hatred is elevated to a virtue, the purest hate is that directed against those who’ve done the least actual ill to justify it. That makes antisemitism a pure and noble form of hate.

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      1. Stories will do it. Spy ring scares became a trope between the world wars. Like russkies under the bed in the 50s, mocked in the 70s. And fears of a shadowy international illuminati–or Jewish Cabal.

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  9. Which means they know that half the country is racist sexist homophobic, and flying those flags is a great way to divide the right and destroy America, making it go to war against itself, particularly what the Europeans (but particularly Russians) firmly believe is the entire financial elite.

    It particularly smells Russian given their deep rooted theories of determinism based on ancestral country of origin – There was an article written by a traveller in Russia post USSR but pre-Vlad where a relatively cogent and reasoned discussion on international relations was capped with what the traveller viewed as a massive non-sequitur, but made absolute sense to the Russians, of “Well, of course, many Amerikanski families four or five generations back emigrated there from Germany”, met with sage nods and slams of more vodka.

    They are convinced that these things persist in more than family recipes and what you say when someone sneezes, creating clear fault lines they can wedge violence into with little effort.

    And who knows, maybe Russian KGB veterans are “advising” the CCP foreign intel folks.

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  10. One of the regulars at Chicagoboyz made what I thought was a rather perceptive comment, in a discussion about the return of Jew-hate … that it might have been swept away for a time, after WWII, but it’s like dirt: it’s always coming back.

    For myself, I wonder if it’s like evolution on steroids – brutal persecution of Jews in Europe and the middle east over centuries has had the same results as trying to eradicate coyotes in the American west. All it did was create faster, tougher, smarter and more adaptable coyotes.

    And so, the surviving Jews are faster, smarter, tougher and more adaptable.

    And that excites bitter envy and resentment among the slower, duller, unstable and less adept. Especially among the really, really slow and dull.

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    1. That ties in nicely to the “next time, please choose a different people” trope. I doubt many are serious about it, but there’s enough truth in that to make it both funny and painful.

      It also ties into the training as forging people trope. That is, what would the sword think about forging if it were able to think?

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    2. “Jew-hate … that it might have been swept away for a time, after WWII, but it’s like dirt: it’s always coming back.”

      Yes, the baby boom generation in the US was the golden age for mainstreaming tolerance of Jews in this country because of the obvious and absolutely vicious hatred that came from the Nazis. People forget that in the early 20th century, it wasn’t Asians but Jews who were openly discriminated against by the Ivy League schools. The KKK wasn’t exclusively anti-Black. They also openly hated Jews and Catholics since both represented people not of their supposedly lily-white Protestant ilk.

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      1. To some extent, it is how much one believes in conspiracy and ‘we must have our conspiracy to fight the others’. Or, small group disparate influence.

        IE, small effects and noisey averages. I’m not sure that, say, buying AGW correlates to buying Jew hatred. In human behavior modeling, the people who do not have a ‘small effects are weaker effects’ rule of some sort seem to eventually hit on “the Jews do everything”.

        A group that perceives itself as a small elite, and values that identification might also key onto fearing the Jews.

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  12. Ah – I have one stuck in mod because of one of the recent straight-to-mod words (d e f e n s e) in a link URL.

    WPDE.

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    1. So, D of D bad, but Dept. of War good?

      Makes about as much sense as most of Willie Pete’s other doin’s.

      Also note that form of the “D” word is, transposed to our setting, Russian italics. (Which I’ve even used for b i g program comments over the years. And no, I don’t actually speak much Russian.)

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      1. Given I previously confirmed another word with the same first 5 letters is also a straight-to-mod trigger word (d e f e n e s t r a t e) it might be a substring match thing.

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  13. I’ve decided I’m not racist. I’m a culturalist. And American-Western culture, warts, contradictions, and everything else, is superior to all others. Mostly because we steal good ideas for ourselves.

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          1. But we never really know how genes are interacting. It could be stupidus alone, it could be ineptus + oblivius, oblivius alone, etc. Homo Sapiens Stupidus might be its own group, but judging by the generally low reproduction rates of one sub-family (Stupidus x Lefticus) I suspect it’s an interspecies hybrid.

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        1. Ah! I hadn’t considered that! Homo Cretinus Stupidus is also known for low reproduction rates, primarily because they tend to eat their young. That wouldn’t indicate an interspecies hybrid as clearly.

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    3. I’m a geek. My culture consists of appropriating anything I personally deem ‘cool’ from any other culture I can find, hear, or read about.

      Any other culture that objects to this is hereby deemed guilty of ‘cultural hoarding’ and needs to be shamed for not sharing its toys with the other kids.

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  14. The beliefs of Marxism provide hatred and envy aplenty.

    This. Only, a bit stronger; hate and most especially envy really do seem to be most of what makes the gears turn and the current go through the wires in Marxism. (Along with a certain religious or secularly quasi-religious fervor; that “opiate of the masses” crack was probably at least as much dissing the competition as trying to neutralize a possibly-major obstacle. Millennial-utopianism, at an often genuinely cultish intensity.)

    Of course, once the machine has really got going, envy for the Marx-aristocrats (apparatchiki and nomenklatura and so on) ought to gin up quite a bit of well-founded hatred; only then of course it’s too late to do much, by the time-honored “If it doth prosper none dare call it treason” principle.

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    1. Funny thing is that, realistically, even the upper echelons of the nomenklatura generally enjoyed a lifestyle equivalent to an upper middle class American . . .

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        1. If even that. I have known over the years several folks that escaped the Soviet Union. The average 1988 Publix grocery store on any given day had more varied and fresh produce than the KGB/Commissar stores in aggregate for a year.

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          1. Of course that brings to mind that (semi-)famous story about–was it Yeltsin?–visiting the supermarket.

            The way I heard it, he was duly impressed by the “obviously” potemkin-ized place they took him to. He toured, smiled and nodded, congratulated managers, posed for pictures, waved bye-bye and rode off in his limo.

            A block or two further on, he pointed to another store at random and said, “Now let’s see that one.”

            The way I heard the story, that was when he got sorta quiet…

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            1. Yeltsin. It was.

              An acquaintance who escaped as a child tells the story of finally getting permission for her grandmother to emigrate here. On the way home from the airport, they stopped at a Publix. Babushka saw the quarter acre of fresh produce and fell to her knees praying. She thought she was dead and in heaven.

              She had never in her -sixty some- years seen so much fresh produce all piled up and available.

              After much persuasion, she believed she was still alive on earth. Then, she became terrified. She had no business being in a KGB/Commissar store, and feared going to our gulag for such a trespass.

              It was some months before she was able to grocery shop without distress.

              My acquaintance had married a US “combat type” serviceperson, and had a life goal of birthing eight sons, to all enlist for a combat role.

              To kill all communists, everywhere.

              Her hubby liked to claim he had “Americanized her by ‘injection’ “. (heh)

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  15. Why would Jews hold prominent positions beyond their numbers in modern centuries? I posit it’s because of their religious/cultural emphasis on education. To Jews, study — religious at core, but not limited to that — it itself an act of worship. That is a tremendously powerful and adaptive cultural trait. (And an educated mind is highly portable, too.) You can think of a few other ethnicities/cultures that likewise emphasize education, and they tend to punch above their weight, too.

    As for Jewish neurosis, I lean toward it being cultural. Given their long and troubled history, they’ve got some reason for being perpetually worried even when things are looking good. You can compare it to the Russian cultural bent toward paranoia, which given their last millennium or so, from Genghis to Adolf, they have plenty of reason to be. (The problem is that it’s taught them to do unto others just as was done unto them.) We Americans have learned a more expansive outlook from our fairly short history — and I wonder, and worry, whether it’s now being knocked out of us, or even whether we should knock it out of ourselves faster.

    To the overall point: if certain people imagine Nick Fuentes, aka 4chan made flesh, is going to turn me against Jews, they don’t have another think coming because they didn’t have a think in the first place.

    Republica restituendae, et, je suis Charlie.

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    1. Yes. As I said: having had to turn to intellectual pursuits set them up excellently for the 20th and 21st centuries.
      The neurosis, I might have been casting a look at my family tree….

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    2. Part of it was that for generations after the Temple was destroyed, study was the way to show you were a good Jew.

      Many Jews who could not afford it — partly because literacy was not valuable in their lines of work — drifted away. Those who remained were heavily concentrated in jobs where literacy was useful, and also which made money to support scholars.

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      1. What’s more, the marginal value of an extra 5 IQ points is greater in those intellectual pursuits. The smarter accountant does a better job; the smarter ditch-digger’s work turns out about the same as the dumb guy’s.

        So the smarter Dzhuus were more prosperous than the dumb ones and <em>looked</em> like better mates, while smarter Dzhentiles (doing <em>respectable</em> jobs like ditch-digging) didn’t look much different from anybody else–especially before widespread literacy.

        It being so easy for the ladies to spot extra-prosperous (so probably extra-bright) suitors, the more isolated and endogamous communities would concentrate whatever genes contribute to that kind of smarts.

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  16. “Why Jews specifically is an utter puzzle, unless the whole thing is actually run by Russia, who seem to have a Jewish obsession for reasons I can’t explain without a deep history of Russia. (And I ain’t doing that.)”

    Same. Did it once, don’t wanna again.

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  17. Apropos only the references to stupid race stuff and stupid Rooskie stuff: Hey, since the common Russian language epithet referring to Stalin in early Bolshevik circles is well documented as translating to “that black bastard”, I eagerly await Netflix/BBC joint production of “The Life Of Joseph Stalin” starring Wesley Snipes.

    Hollywood, this is your opportunity.

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  18. Celebrities go off the rails all the time (at least it looks that way to me). I don’t understand the reactions to celebrities on the right going off the rails (e.g. Tucker Carlson, Candice whoever). They were interesting voices in the wilderness who became popular and went nuts. So what? Drop them and move on to the next voice in the wilderness; there are plenty of them out there (we’re reading one, right here).

    It reminds me of PJMedia links to the NYT or CNN. WHY? We want them to die. Driving traffic to them is not helping.

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  19. And it no doubt was very useful to the patrician of the city to have these powerful families enmeshed in endless brawling. 

    Well, until he lost a couple of his own to the mix. Street gangs are NOT precision instruments….

    Where be these enemies? Capulet! Montague!See, what a scourge is laid upon your hate,That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love.And I for winking at your discords tooHave lost a brace of kinsmen: all are punish’d.

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    1. So, I guess, no changing diapers until the kid learns to talk? That thing is gonna be almost as full of s*t as a Democrat politician. 😮

      Baby’s first words: “Change my f*king diaper, dammit!!” 😁

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      1. It has been over 3 1/2 decades since our one and only was an infant, but I distinctly remember cries for change me. Took awhile to learn the language, but at least with ours there was a distinction between “change me”, “hungry”, and “exhausted”, um howls.

        Thus in my abundance of experience, infants are not requesting but demanding to be changed. You can tell these experts have never handled an infant or toddler, ever.

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        3. Babies make different cries as long as the adults handling them pay attention. If the adults don’t, the cries grow undifferentiated.

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    2. This is not new. Saw something similar several years back, and could only think… you’ve never actually -had- an infant in your care, have you?

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      1. “never actually -had- an infant in your care“!!!!! *

        Nailed it. Except shouldn’t be a question.

        (*) FIFY

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    3. No doubt the same people who want MAP to be a “legitimate sexual orientation”.

      Because why just normalize pathologies when you can also pathologize normality?

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  21. Sort of off-topic….I can’t figure out if the 2026 Congressional race is on north of us or there’s a special election, but we’re getting ads.

    The Republican: “I didn’t fight for my country (9 tours, I gather) to watch career politicians mess it up.” Ambition, to work for lower inflation, jobs for Americans etc. Whether a Congresscritter can do a lot, at least he knows what to say. And not word one about his opponent.

    The Democrat: “Nasty ol’ Republican wants to take your Social Security! He’s a puppet of the hedge-fund managers! Billionaires! Trump! He’ll raise your health insurance! He’ll hide the Epstein files! Billionaires! Epstein! Vote for me, White Female Democratic candidate!” She’s the absolute avatar of White Girl, ready to be offended on your behalf.

    Her commercials are bad beyond belief, including the, “He’s a puppet of the hedge-fund managers!” spot, done in the animation style of Candy Crush.

    Words have obviously not failed me, but gagging noises are not far behind.

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    1. I told my family putting Trump into office was essentially a vote of no confidence from the electorate to our political establishment. They responded with a complete denial, and refused to understand.

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      1. Trump 2016 was us giving Teh Political Establishment a giant Middle Finger. Trump 2020 was two middle fingers, but the Democrats buried us under riots and COVID lockdowns so they could steal our election in the dark of night. Trump 2024 is a carpet-bombing of the enemy stronghold.
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        Jordan Peterson: “If I told you to cook in the bathroom and shit in the kitchen, that would be a new idea. Doesn’t make it a good one.”

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  25. Several things you said that bear emphasizing. Marxism is envy pure and simple. The activation energy for that envy is hate.

    Thank you for noting the correlation for Jew-hatred in the West for the no loans at interest thing. I rarely hear anyone cite that. “I’m the King of England (and half of France), so I need to take my French holdings back but for that I need to raise an army. Where do I get the money? From the Jews who feel free to loan it to me at interest since I ain’t Jewish.” When the bill comes due, “Hey did you notice that those evil Jews killed Our Savior Jesus?” No Jews, no need to repay my debt.

    Before the Papal secular ascendancy, the early Christians had reason to hate the Jews. They were, after all, literally killing them (see St. Stephen & St. Paul). Also after 70 AD and the fall of Jerusalem, of the four sects of Jews, the Essenes, the Zealots, the Sadducees and the Pharisees, the Pharisees were the sect that survived and wrote the rules, many specifically designed to thumb their noses at those heretical Christians. 800 years later, to the average European, the reaction to the Jews was, “Who? Those guys? Who cares?” until the whole lending/interest thing came up.

    By the time of Marx, it was those d****n Jews were the shop-keepers and middle-class. “We luvs us the working class, so we hatez the middle class, cuz’ there ain’t enough aristocrats to burn, and they’re too dumb to be a threat anyway.” Now, of course, the Jews have moved out of the shop-keeping class in black neighborhoods, so it’s the Koreans. (If the Left ever decides that cheap motels are stealing their money, it will be the Indians, mostly Sikhs.)

    Of course we also hatez the Jooz cuz’, thanks to Thomas Edison and his stranglehold on movie making in the East, da Jooz created Hollywood where he hadn’t bothered to extend his monopoly. If I’m a blonde no-nothing, bimbo actress (but I repeat myself), the reason I didn’t get that part is da Jooz who run Hollywood. You can’t get anywhere in this town if you can’t pronounce chutzpah and use it in a sentence. Oh, the tsuris!

    Of course there’s also a few Harvey Weinsteins, and if you turned him down flat like Mira Sorvino did, you got gossiped out of the business or exiled to minor roles.

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    1. Marxism is the religion of envy. It has sacraments, sins, saints, demons, and a paradise promised to the faithful.

      That’s also why they are so hot and heavy on suppressing any other religions that might compete to fill the religion-shaped hole in human minds.

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        1. M. Simon,

          I read your linked essay. It has some very interesting insights. Yes, there is a big difference from shell shock (I’m with George Carlin and believe that PTSD is a useless term that needlessly sanitizes something real and frightening) that is caused by short term trauma as in the case of significant but one-time trauma from a car accident or horrific war time experience, and long-term shell shock caused by persistent, especially childhood, abuse. However, I find no reason to agree with your assertion that longterm shell shock is genetic. It may seem that way because those abused as children tend to pass on the abuse to their own offspring because that’s what’s been literally beaten into them. It certainly is “the gift that keeps on giving”.

          My own experience is second-hand since my wife suffered from shell shock resulting from an abusive childhood. Hers was physically and emotionally but not sexually abusive, so that she constantly lived in fear of her life while growing up. Some people turn that pain outwards and inflict it on others. Other people turn it inward and end up inflicting it on themselves, but it always goes somewhere. In her case it eventually resulted in fibromyalgia (an inability to sleep deeply that results in constant pain). After 30 years and persistent searching for a way to health, she was finally able to cure that and get free of the pain, but, although you may survive, you never get rid of the scars from abuse, and her life was significantly shortened by it.

          How you respond to that trauma is still up to you. The odds are against you, but statistics are never determinative. We still all have free will. We always have a choice. We just don’t have all possible choices, and sometimes we never have a good choice, only a least bad choice. Still, life has taught me that what you’ve been through means nothing. What you’ve become because of what you’ve been through means everything. Good luck and God bless.

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    2. I picked up what I thought was a complete copy of Jules Verne’s Off On A Comet. It turned out to be only half the book, but before I set it down what struck me was the treatment of the single Jew in the book. He is presented as monomanaically focused on himself and his business; everything to him is, “how does it affect me?” and, “Can I make money off it?” He is specifically described as the only man in the book who has zero sense of fellowship with the others and absolutely no interest in any sort of cooperative project.

      And there’s a 19th-century French stereotype for us.

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      1. And then there’s the Ferengi. Talk about your stereotypical Jew in Gene Roddenberry’s supposedly multi-culturally enlightened Star Trek universe. I’m shocked at how blatant it was.

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        1. It’s curious that their name meant “Franks,” when they were clearly stereotypes of Jews.

          On the other hand, suppose the Marx Brothers had shown up as Ferengi . . .

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    4. And the cause for the activating hate (personal experience) – child abuse. Look up Marx’s history. He was an abused child and drug addict. Hitler was an abused child. Stalin too. And very likely Trump. His brother died of alcoholism, often a symptom of child abuse. I was an alcoholic at age 16. These days I’m a drug addict. Half an ounce of high test weed a month.

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  26. And on the pup up top – What a Good Dog. I have never seen any dog that worked up who could maintain a “sit-stay”. Very well trained puppy dog, who’s an excellent dog? Who? That’s Right! This Doggo!!! Have a treat.

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  27. Pingback: Instapundit » Blog Archive » ALL IS NOT AS IT SEEMS:  Hate.

  28. The ultimate reason for constant Jew hate is because both The Woman Clothed With the Sun and her Son were Jews.

    The serpent does what he can from under her heel to destroy their family.

    It won’t work but he’s pure malice and it’s all he knows. All hatred comes, ultimately, from this jerk. He is a liar and the father of lies.

    If you know, you know.

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  29. I am always LTTP.

    > The left wants them [Jews] to think the right is even MORE anti-Semitic than they are, to stop that hemorrhaging.

    Interesting thing. As I was writing the post I put up this morning, I was trying to find some polling that identified attitudes toward Jews by party. Now, I get it, there isn’t going to be a poll that straight out asks “are you an antisemite?” because only the most virulent antisemites don’t know better than to say no, or rather, they do, but they’re so virulent they don’t care. So, pollsters attempt to gauge antisemitism through proxy questions. As you might imagine, the questions are a mix of the obvious (Do Jews have too much power?), the politically charged, (Should Jews be loyal to Israel?), the confusing (Are Jewish business people more shrewd?), and the seemingly anodyne (Do Jews stick together?). Of course, saying yes to any of these is a mark of antisemitism, even if you think sticking together and being a shrewd businessperson are good things. The point is, no one is really trying to get to the bottom of the question.

    I did find a Gallup poll, however, that found Republicans are more likely than Democrats or Independents to say that prejudice against Jewish people is a problem. Which alone is enough to explain the why there is so much more infighting on the right than on the left directed toward rooting antisemitism out from the ranks. Which makes it all the more curious when smart people who should know about survivorship bias frame the effort to cleanse the GOP as a sign that the GOP has a problem needing cleansing that the rest of the political spectrum does not have and does not have worse.

    Thank goodness I’m among friends, because I could not have put that any worse and I’m glad the people here (I think) understand what I’m saying.

    Last thought, I really liked the part where you pointed out that the left knows they are the good people and so forth. I’ve tried to say it but you said it very well and I’m going to crib your language the next time I try to say it so it doesn’t sound so godawful confusing.

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  30. I think there’s another aspect to the current swirl about jews: it avoids having to address the skin flayer cult running Palestine.

    Israel is a modern country, so regardless of whether it’s supported or censured, we just have to deal with something like ourselves. But to address the various groups running Palestine, we have to face something completely alien and, ultimately evil, to the ways of modern society.

    It kind of reminds me of the gorilla band with the one female gorilla who was killing everyone’s infants, and how confused and hesitant they were to deal with her. People aren’t ready to face that.

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  31. Dear KamalaGPT,

    What does it mean when it says on a position advertisement that “strong written and verbal skills are a must”?

    I’m not sure what the comparison is, or whether I would qualify.

    If I compare myself to an autist who is low functioning, and non-verbal, then obviously I have some verbal, writing and maybe even social skills.

    If I compare myself to David Chapelle, Dinesh D’Souza, Ben Shapiro, David Freer or David Drake, then obviously I do not speak very well in person, nor does my writing impress.

    Presumably “strong written and verbal skills are a must” means very different things when the position is a senior engineering manager, when the position is a project manager communicating with the federal government on a serious regulatory or procurement situation, or when the position is an ordinary and junior entry level engineering position.

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      1. I understand what you meant, and it did help me. Thanks.

        There’s an obvious joke in that I’ve mostly been hanging in places where I like the regulars, so I have forgotten that these folks are not regular, ordinary and normal.

        Your competition is the average Internet commenter.

        Me: (thinks about the ATH regulars)

        Me: awkward look monkey puppet

        https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/awkward-look-monkey-puppet

        But seriously, I was convincing myself I was probably not qualified, and the feedback here helped me see the proper context.

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  32. So, I came across this, and feel like the link deserves a little more comment than merely a factcheck joke.

    https://redstate.com/bonchie/2025/11/22/whoa-major-foreign-propagandists-utterly-exposed-after-x-glitch-reveals-user-locations-n2196457

    Red state is reporting evidence that would support Sarah’s claim.

    I definitely do not buy all of Bonchie’s arguments.

    One, I have long understood Red State as having a strategic goal, in terms of information warfare. Additionally, different columnists, and I figure that they are all having some sort of individual agenda in play. Even if merely click bait.

    Two, the fundamental incentive of a conservative media worker is established network of contacts and business partners versus restarting in an occupation where the skills do not transfer, and where one does not have a lot of contacts very interested in using one’s statements for the wider game. (I basically also see academic corruption and insanity as partly being the by inches stuff of people who do not nope out with their line in the sand.)

    Anyway, I agree that the Jew hating, and certain other allegedly American alleged influences in Republican politics are not a real native and natural phenomena. Or, don’t seem so to me.

    I strongly disagree with the ‘no civil war in the Republican party’ hypothesis.

    1) Trump coalition is a bunch of disparate factions, influences and interests. We are not all naturally lined up in the same rows. We experience the world and reality in different ways. The key and explicit point is that merely choosing to align with the same political entity does not always mean that everyone associated person necessarily endorses all of what another associated person says. There is not a simple set of tests for identifying who gets to be the conservative police, because the existence of conservative police can itself be questioned. Large group workign consensus, /not/ small group rigid consensus.

    2) Basically, this is my reiterated position that i) academia has screwed its own credibility ii) David French and Tom Nichols basically created the credibility vacuum where a bunch of hateful losers who did not care to finish the LGBT studies PhD and compete for tenure and funding instead see an easy path to doing similar things ‘on the right’. There was a faction on the right that wanted to scholastically define an ideology of conservativism (4), and then was wedded to the factions inside the GOP promoted during Bush admins, and screwed their own credibility by fighting harder against Trump than they did against Obama. iii) Also, maverick McCain.

    3) Trump is a liberal Democrat, and wants to fairly deal with all the people who came over to him, including more recently. This does not mean that there is any clearly established rubberstamped succession plan that can seal that deal.

    (4) I have also worked on doing this.

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    1. First. Glitch? Account origin, current country location, VPN status, of the post should be part of the date time stamp. VPN status to show “location untraceable”. Country origin to prevent stalking for US citizens. Not my fault other countries are not very big.

      Second. I’ve always known my fellow conservatives don’t have the same views on everything. Just from one topic alone. I guaranty the average Greater Yellowstone ecological niche residents (Idaho, Wyoming, Montana), rural Oregon and Washington, thinks I am a flaming liberal.

      Why? Because I support keeping wolves protected and on the endangered species list. I am against delisting grizzlies. I also think that grizzlies should be transplanted into the Cascades (being done now into the North Cascades National Park, s/b not just there), Oregon Coast Range, Southern Rockies, and Sierras; at least the mountain areas of their traditional ecological systems. I am against hunting with dogs. or baiting, for mammals (birds – okay); cougar, bear, fox, deer, … okay invasive species (hogs) it’d be okay, etc. Note, I did NOT say no hunting. Although if you are hunting, you’d better be eating the meat, no excuses.

      OTOH I have no problem with the ability to protect ones property with livestock dogs. In fact the rangers should be able to use not only bean bag shots to harass bears away from park roads (yes, as a wildlife photographer/watcher, I will hate this), but dogs too. Bears need a healthy fear of dogs, people, and livestock. Right now the sows are more afraid of boars than they are of people. Note, if people were more afraid of the rangers and not do stupid things, that’d work instead; kinda. Bears need to be afraid of cars, too many get hit.

      A view I have on livestock killings by predators if it is happening on public land, grazing allotments, then it is the cost of doing business, no going after the predator, no poison, no traps, no additional compensation. They do not own the ground or the grass.

      See? I’m a flaming liberal. /sarcasm-alert

      OTOH start logging again, dang it.

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