tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post1715517728214741717..comments2024-03-29T05:14:33.223-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: Syrian general defectsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger113125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-84294755987884885622012-07-09T19:15:56.490-07:002012-07-09T19:15:56.490-07:00Perhaps the Tiber backwashed into the Orontes?Perhaps the Tiber backwashed into the Orontes?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-53574783847838288602012-07-09T08:54:16.511-07:002012-07-09T08:54:16.511-07:00Elite Jordanians like to absorb white women into t...Elite Jordanians like to absorb white women into the cultural fold. <br /><br />King Hussein married the daughter of a British officer and their son in the current king.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-43211224541143175192012-07-09T03:32:59.520-07:002012-07-09T03:32:59.520-07:00"Makes me realize that South Asians are able ..."Makes me realize that South Asians are able to absorb white people into their cultural fold as eagerly and without questions as Latin Americans.<br /><br />Compare that with the fate of "Glubb Pasha" in Jordan. Who remembers the French and British mandates?"<br /><br />They do. Americans don't, of course, unless they've read up on it. But elswhere, it's pretty well recalled.averynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-24194359041847670132012-07-08T19:11:00.184-07:002012-07-08T19:11:00.184-07:00"Rajiv Gandhi and his Italian wife."
Af..."Rajiv Gandhi and his Italian wife."<br /><br />After Rajiv was assassinated his Venetian wife entered Indian politics and became the leader of the ruling party. She is now one of the people running the show in India and is determined to make her son (who looks like a white guy) becomes PM. <br /><br /><a href="http://www.http://www.theunrealtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/rg.jpg" rel="nofollow">His picture.</a> I wonder if the Indian public and especially elite leadership would be perfectly happy if he married a European woman.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-55644050860339150542012-07-08T16:10:39.491-07:002012-07-08T16:10:39.491-07:00"That's the last thing anyone with any se..."That's the last thing anyone with any sense of self-preservation would love to do."<br /><br />But what a way to go!<br /><br />SyonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-50186797102759142602012-07-08T16:09:44.082-07:002012-07-08T16:09:44.082-07:00"You should get out more."
I do get out..."You should get out more."<br /><br />I do get out quite a bit. Sadly, I only see individuals; the chimera known as "the people" remains elusive.<br /><br />SyonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-79343601463693294602012-07-08T16:07:45.787-07:002012-07-08T16:07:45.787-07:00Syon:I rather doubt that the USA has ever represen...Syon:I rather doubt that the USA has ever represented me. after all, I think that the American Revolution was a colossal mistake..<br /><br />Anonymous:"This doesn't follow."<br /><br />My interests are overriden; hence, I am not represented by the USA.<br /><br />SyonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-16183950659998922662012-07-08T15:56:04.690-07:002012-07-08T15:56:04.690-07:00"Sure it is. Per the Civil War, it's abou..."Sure it is. Per the Civil War, it's about territory, not people."<br /><br />And territory must be defended from invasion in order for sovereignty to be maintained....and the USA has failed to defend its border for several decades now.Hence, the USA is no longer a nation;it has surrendered to Mexico.<br /><br />SyonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-64880099715321494202012-07-08T15:52:21.637-07:002012-07-08T15:52:21.637-07:00Anonymous;"And so the majority's will pre...Anonymous;"And so the majority's will prevails in governance, and its people are therefore self-determining."<br /><br />Hardly. Its people (the majority) are governing all those who are in the minority (unless you live in some fantasy land where 100% of the people agree on everything).It is all about imposing your will on some one else.<br /><br />SyonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-57957126119091402172012-07-08T15:48:31.075-07:002012-07-08T15:48:31.075-07:00anonymous;"I didn't say there was right t...anonymous;"I didn't say there was right to self-determination. Self-determination means a people's liberty to govern itself."<br /><br />People don't govern themselves;they are governed by elites.<br /><br />"And in point of fact, force doesn't make rights."<br /><br />Force makes everything. War is the father of all things.<br /><br /><br /> "The source of rights is controversial. Rights derive from compacts, explicit or implied. They may also exist inherently, in the case of natural rights."<br /><br /> There are no natural rights; all rights are artificial.<br /><br />SyonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-2412052975506277092012-07-08T15:45:25.155-07:002012-07-08T15:45:25.155-07:00Anonymous:"To surrender following a prolonged...Anonymous:"To surrender following a prolonged, bloody war is not to blink. To blink means to back down before engaging in real conflict or enduring real danger."<br /><br />Hardly, dear boy; it proves that they were not willing to fight to the last men. Hence, they blinked at the prospect of annihilation. Of course, most people behave in a similar fashion. Even the Japanese blinked at the prospect of atomic devastation (of course, it did take two bombs).<br /><br />SyonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-62120550476443983122012-07-08T13:58:33.453-07:002012-07-08T13:58:33.453-07:00Makes me realize that South Asians are able to abs...<i>Makes me realize that South Asians are able to absorb white people into their cultural fold as eagerly and without questions as Latin Americans.</i><br /><br />Compare that with the fate of "Glubb Pasha" in Jordan. Who remembers the French and British mandates?IHTGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13543091238926738309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-75712060627567828712012-07-08T12:43:11.850-07:002012-07-08T12:43:11.850-07:00I searched for comments about race and the Aga Kha...I searched for comments about race and the Aga Khan but couldn't find much. I could only find one magazine article that directly addressed the issue and it wasn't written by a South Asian: “For all appearances, the Aga Khan looked and acted like a rich white man, down to his thousand-dollar suit and his mannerisms and his Prince Charles-like English accent.” http://www.theasiamag.com/people/the-prince-on-pakistans-invisible-throne<br /><br />Makes me realize that South Asians are able to absorb white people into their cultural fold as eagerly and without questions as Latin Americans.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-91850770713537243232012-07-08T09:25:55.820-07:002012-07-08T09:25:55.820-07:00"The South never blinked."
Of course th...<i>"The South never blinked."<br /><br />Of course they did. They surrendered.The big blink, so to speak.</i><br /><br />To surrender following a prolonged, bloody war is not to blink. To blink means to back down before engaging in real conflict or enduring real danger.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-14525797856919950422012-07-08T09:23:45.275-07:002012-07-08T09:23:45.275-07:00The key point, though, is that there is no right t...<i>The key point, though, is that there is no right to self-determination. Force makes rights.</i><br /><br />I didn't say there was <i>right</i> to self-determination. Self-determination means a people's liberty to govern itself.<br /><br />And in point of fact, force doesn't make rights. The source of rights is controversial. Rights derive from compacts, explicit or implied. They may also exist inherently, in the case of natural rights.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-30426602527305421882012-07-08T09:20:42.815-07:002012-07-08T09:20:42.815-07:00When have "the people" ever ruled themse...<i>When have "the people" ever ruled themselves? there is always an elite of some kind. As for the "general will" (touchingly Rousseauian of you), that is simply the imposition of the will of the majority over a minority.</i><br /><br />And so the majority's will prevails in governance, and its people are therefore self-determining.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-49827299643510225172012-07-08T09:19:33.904-07:002012-07-08T09:19:33.904-07:00My whole point was that the USA is no longer willi...<i>My whole point was that the USA is no longer willing to use force to maintain herself (cf the frontier with Mexico).</i><br /><br />Sure it is. Per the Civil War, it's about territory, not people.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-73315051937748432492012-07-08T09:18:34.824-07:002012-07-08T09:18:34.824-07:00I rather doubt that the USA has ever represented m...<i>I rather doubt that the USA has ever represented me. after all, I think that the American Revolution was a colossal mistake..</i><br /><br />This doesn't follow.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-5305365520467591822012-07-08T09:17:30.373-07:002012-07-08T09:17:30.373-07:00All this talk of the people! I would dearly love t...<i>All this talk of the people! I would dearly love to meet the people someday...</i><br /><br />You should get out more.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-35761461375113679632012-07-08T08:37:39.565-07:002012-07-08T08:37:39.565-07:00"All this talk of the people! I would dearly ...<i>"All this talk of the people! I would dearly love to meet the people someday..."</i><br /><br />That's the last thing anyone with any sense of self-preservation would love to do.Kylienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-21711982615508700802012-07-08T05:58:15.069-07:002012-07-08T05:58:15.069-07:00Anti-Gnostic:"The British monarchy by that po...Anti-Gnostic:"The British monarchy by that point was already illegitimate and politically emasculated."<br /><br />"illegitimate?" I'm afraid that I don't understand your reasoning there, old man. As for politically emasculated, well, it had certainly been reduced to a ceremonial role (one of the innumerable ways in which Britain is superior to America is that the British have separated the ceremonial, the monarch, from the political, the pm).<br /><br /> "So once you're already at democratic rule, the right of secession can be taken as a given because, as you end up acknowleding, it's really just a question of force at that point."<br /><br />And this differs from an autocracy how? Seeing as both are reliant upon force.<br /><br /><br /><br /> "Democracy is only a thin veneer for the exercise of raw power: we just count who can muster the bigger army and everybody goes home instead of fighting."<br /><br />Indeed.<br /><br />SyonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-56893397724284929482012-07-08T05:53:24.573-07:002012-07-08T05:53:24.573-07:00Anti-Gnostic:"The point you're missing is...Anti-Gnostic:"The point you're missing is that a coherent nation wouldn't need force to maintain its existence. The Amish, for example, are still Amish despite the fact their patriarchy doesn't mow down dissenters with machine guns."<br /><br />Last time I checked, the Amish lack the ability to "mow down dissenters with machine guns." They are a subaltern people existing within the greater American hegemon. It would be rather interesting to see what their attitudes would be like without that exterior entity...<br /><br />SyonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-52190121233968644122012-07-08T05:35:41.029-07:002012-07-08T05:35:41.029-07:00Gordon sed
Yes but how many Wisconsin High Sc...Gordon sed<br /><i><br /> Yes but how many Wisconsin High School Principals would slaughter ten thousand people because they did not share his opinions on the Blank Slate theory?</i><br /><br><br />I don't think I'd like to be pals with Bashar, but I only recently understaood what transpired in Hama back in the days of his daddy. Seems the Israelis and US were meddling by supporting the Muslim brotherhood. Back then it was the Cold War, so I can imagine daddy got a simple order from Moscow, and took care of things quickly. Most probably the USSR was not interested in another Afghanistan.<br /><br />Nowadays, it seems the same crowd is meddling again, but my guess is that daddy was more ruthless and efficient than his spoilt son, which is why it is taking so long for him to sort the the thing out. His dead brother made a more ruthless impression, maybe that's why he's dead, perhaps the Israelis did not like him that much.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-64874686692044044812012-07-08T00:31:00.231-07:002012-07-08T00:31:00.231-07:00As someone pointed out earlier, Middle Eastern Chr...As someone pointed out earlier, Middle Eastern Christians tend to look whiter than there Muslim neighbors. Egyptian Christians look a bit darker but still seem lighter than Muslim Egyptians. Since they've probably had few converts since the Muslim takeover (a Muslim converting is punishable by death), these populations are probably pretty representative of the local genetic makeup c. AD 600. African slave imports and concubines have probably darkened the Muslims a bit.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-66433540203160662642012-07-07T23:50:38.228-07:002012-07-07T23:50:38.228-07:00The Syrian president reminds me a bit of John Clee...<i>The Syrian president reminds me a bit of John Cleese.</i><br /><br />I was saying that about his father 20 years ago. Hafez was all the more Cleesian. Does Damascus have a Ministry of Silly Walks?<br /><br />BTW, isn't John the only male Cleese on the planet? His grandfather made the name up, and John has no sons nor brothers, nor uncles nor male cousins IIRC.Reg Cæsarnoreply@blogger.com