tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post5131919494505490465..comments2024-03-27T18:24:19.683-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: Is it OK to be bored with Egypt by now?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger58125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-26808414498323074202011-02-14T17:27:30.338-08:002011-02-14T17:27:30.338-08:00It's pretty hard to see how low IQ in Egypt wo...It's pretty hard to see how low IQ in Egypt would be otherwise than central to the outcomes of the current turmoil. All the lofty emphasis about democracy <br />does not quite confront the fact that a huge amount of the population base is not urban, not educated much at all, and by the work of such scholars as Lynn, the overall population IQ is very low.<br />Democracy does not work to its aims in such a circumstance. When such a nation "finds itself" it is not too unlikely it'll be back close to that which it has purportedly just now departed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-44457167629526541102011-02-10T22:05:03.584-08:002011-02-10T22:05:03.584-08:00I can explain it. Enthusiasm and optimism for the...I can explain it. Enthusiasm and optimism for the prospects of a democratic Egypt are just another form of SWPL posturing intended to prove one's superiority to other white people. Just like professing confidence that ghetto kids will excel in calculus if only they are given the chance to take it. And just as likely.International Jewnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-27528065004010462642011-02-10T17:17:26.583-08:002011-02-10T17:17:26.583-08:00We cannot force Mexicans to change their ways. We ...<i>We cannot force Mexicans to change their ways. We can only plead, and it's not working.</i><br /><br />I can't remember the "exact" figures for Mexicans living in Mexico vs. Mexicans living in America. Something like 20+% of Mexicans are living in America.<br /><br />Mexico's 2nd biggest foreign source of income (after oil) is remittances from Mexicans working in America. That's a LOT of money.<br /><br />We've got plenty of leverage on Mexico. Mexico's <i>ability</i> to change is far more in doubt than our ability to induce change in Mexico.<br /><br />Sending all the Mexicans back to Mexico would run a good chance of precipitating Mexican collapse.Svigorhttp://majorityrights.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-84957420134029965442011-02-10T16:46:29.700-08:002011-02-10T16:46:29.700-08:00That's because Mexico is next to a big shitty ...<i>That's because Mexico is next to a big shitty country called United States of America. But Egypt is bordering the most important country on earth: Israel.</i><br /><br />Yep.Svigorhttp://majorityrights.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-42913049610356692742011-02-10T00:04:21.703-08:002011-02-10T00:04:21.703-08:00Whiskey, I bet you $10,000 at 100:1 odds (in your ...Whiskey, I bet you $10,000 at 100:1 odds (in your favor), that Ayman al Zawahiri will not be part of any Egyptian government.TGGPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11017651009634767649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-1854615777354974892011-02-09T21:06:09.040-08:002011-02-09T21:06:09.040-08:00Whiskey: Want AQ's #2, Ayman Al Zawahari, repl...<b>Whiskey:</b> <i>Want AQ's #2, Ayman Al Zawahari, replaying Lenin's train ride from Switzerland to St. Petersburg, and taking over Egypt? Then you'd better care about who runs it.</i> <br /><br /><b>The Anti-Gnostic:</b> <i>Oh yeah. Torture, beheadings, cross-border kidnappings and massacres, military and police in on the action ... they're a laugh a minute all right. And they're already duking it out in El Paso and Phoenix. Do you live there? Maybe you could stroll outside some time and yuck it up with them.</i> <br /> <br />I didn't say that the narcos aren't evil.<br /><br />Obviously they are.<br /><br />But they represent a disorganized evil.<br /><br />The Muslims, like the Bolsheviks, are united by the umbrella of ideology, and so present a systematized, coordinated threat to Western Civilization.<br /><br />"We like hookers & blow, and are willing to murder for them" is not a unifying ideology.<br /><br />"Allah promises me 72 virgins in heaven if I murder you" is a unifying ideology.<br /><br />Now you could equally well point out that the narcos, backed by the fertility rate of their aboriginal Amerindian demographic base, pose an existential threat to America [and you would be correct if you did argue that], but it is not the systematized, coordinated existential threat which Islam [or the Frankfurt School] poses.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-32555285045841201492011-02-09T20:43:31.485-08:002011-02-09T20:43:31.485-08:00Egypt has Mubarak and we have Barack. --anon
And...<i>Egypt has Mubarak and we have Barack.</i> --anon<br /><br /><br />And aren't we blessed? From Wikipedia on <a href="" rel="nofollow">Baruch</a>:<br /><br /><i> The root B-R-K meaning "blessing" is also present in other Semitic languages. The most common Arabic form is the passive form <a href="" rel="nofollow">Mubarak</a>, but the form <a href="" rel="nofollow">Barack </a>is also used.</i><br /><br />(Redundancy is Wikipedia's, not mine.)Reg Cæsarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-3814744096056487172011-02-09T19:51:28.738-08:002011-02-09T19:51:28.738-08:00OT. Jobs at 23.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F...OT. Jobs at 23. <br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzDBiUemCSYAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-39340508431666670692011-02-09T18:36:19.310-08:002011-02-09T18:36:19.310-08:00Who cares what genetic race they belonged to? -- t...<i>Who cares what genetic race they belonged to? -- that has nothing to do with the gulf between farmers and herders, or sedentary and nomadic people generally. That's the key, as I spelled out.</i><br />but sweetheart, some peoples are genetically predisposed to be one of these, but not all of these, Darling.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-55661850355316277122011-02-09T18:01:52.631-08:002011-02-09T18:01:52.631-08:00Why not combine Jesus Malverde and Santa muerte? T...Why not combine Jesus Malverde and Santa muerte? Then a jolly ol' saint nick can visits all the little drug dealer residences while they sleep and if they've been good little boys all the policia will be curled up dead around their house in the morning...Willynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-67109098294723306442011-02-09T17:49:24.843-08:002011-02-09T17:49:24.843-08:00SFG said... Are any of the major Mexican newspaper...<i>SFG said... Are any of the major Mexican newspapers translated into English?</i><br /><br />The National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers (NAFBPO) puts out a daily translation of news--mostly astonishing crime news--from newspapers south of the border. It's called the <a href="http://m3report.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow">M3 Report.</a>Harry Baldwinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-60470857713065324002011-02-09T17:01:18.178-08:002011-02-09T17:01:18.178-08:00Fred: "Not only that, but Manhattan must get ...Fred: "Not only that, but Manhattan must get the elite of Mexican illegals. They are quiet, industrious, and unobtrusive. Like little robots, almost."<br /><br />Yes, indeed!---It's really pretty mysterious. After all, anyone who spends a little time reading the commentary on rightwing or quasi-WN websites such as this one or VDare or Mangan's or a bunch of others knows perfectly well that Mexican illegals tend to be lazy, violent, criminal, and extremely "boisterous." And since these are exactly the characteristics of a model worker, that presumably explains why employers are so eager to hire them, despite serious legal penalties for doing do.<br /><br />This reminds me of when I first visited Japan many, many years ago. Having watched a lot of Japanese movies, I naturally expected to see Ninja assassins and Yakuza gangsters dueling with swords and wracking up huge body-counts on every city street. I even thought I might see Godzilla and a few of his rival monsters destroy all of Tokyo for the tenth or eleventh time. But none of that happened---all I saw were vast oceans of quiet "sararimen" going off to their office jobs every morning. I really felt I'd been cheated on my plane fare.<br /><br />Ha, ha, ha, ha...RKUnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-33565098834142015642011-02-09T16:30:36.661-08:002011-02-09T16:30:36.661-08:00Who cares what genetic race they belonged to? -- t...Who cares what genetic race they belonged to? -- that has nothing to do with the gulf between farmers and herders, or sedentary and nomadic people generally. That's the key, as I spelled out.<br /><br />That's also why Indonesia, with a huge Muslim population and history of Western imperialism, is nowhere close to Afghanistan or Arabia in the per capita rate of Islamic extremists / terrorists / etc. Basically none. They have no history of pastoralism, so no wild cowboy culture.<br /><br />Keep your eye on the ball next time, dumbass.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-49191533088067005632011-02-09T16:23:32.202-08:002011-02-09T16:23:32.202-08:00Thread Summary -
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Luc...Thread Summary - <br /> <br />Insouciance: "N"<br />Lucius Vorenus: 0<br /> <br />Oh well, don't say I didn't try to warn you.Lucius Vorenusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-40654012874705159272011-02-09T16:20:11.090-08:002011-02-09T16:20:11.090-08:00We have the luxury of laughing at the narcos becau...<i>We have the luxury of laughing at the narcos because [if we overlook a little Che nostalgia and a sprinkling of liberation theology & reconquista theory] they are completely disorganized - sort of a Keystone Kops of criminality.</i><br /><br />Oh yeah. Torture, beheadings, cross-border kidnappings and massacres, military and police in on the action ... they're a laugh a minute all right. And they're already duking it out in El Paso and Phoenix. Do you live there? Maybe you could stroll outside some time and yuck it up with them.The Anti-Gnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04386593803225823789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-49725055527695471742011-02-09T16:18:38.201-08:002011-02-09T16:18:38.201-08:00Although I'm not exactly bored with Egypt, I d...Although I'm not exactly bored with Egypt, I don't see what we can do about the place one way or the other. It is what it is, and que sera sera.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-37100918035080732502011-02-09T16:18:20.473-08:002011-02-09T16:18:20.473-08:00The answer is, BOTH are important, and neither are...The answer is, BOTH are important, and neither are boring.<br /><br />Want 50 million more Mexicans simply arriving in California and Texas? Then you better pay attention to Mexico's no longer slow motion collapse.<br /><br />Want AQ's #2, Ayman Al Zawahari, replaying Lenin's train ride from Switzerland to St. Petersburg, and taking over Egypt? Then you'd better care about who runs it.<br /><br />Egypt controls the Suez Canal and the Sumed pipeline through which substantial amounts of oil and cargo pass through. A new widespread ME war means defacto an Arab Oil Embargo. You might not care (or even cheer) if Israel is wiped out, but you will pay for it by gas at $10 or more per gallon. Better get used to moving into places like South Central at those prices. Or riding the bus not your private car. Egypt in the MB control means defacto, AQ's return and ruling there. Which means a huge threat to Saudi, and thus Saudi turning down the oil spigot to drive prices up and pay off internally to stave off bin Laden's return.<br /><br />What is happening in Egypt is right out of Zawahari's playbook. It is what he wanted, and tried to bring about. As he has written extensively, his next step is to conquer Southern Europe through mass waves. He also wants to acquire nukes through Pakistan/China/North Korea.<br /><br />BECAUSE America depends on imported oil, we need stability in the ME (unless you look forward to riding the equivalent of the Blue Line everyday) AND in Mexico (source of our illegals). Same goes for Haiti. Want a million Haitians showing up on Florida's shores?Whiskeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01854764809682029464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-77744797771574657332011-02-09T15:35:22.635-08:002011-02-09T15:35:22.635-08:00My not very informed prediction: If the MB takes o...My not very informed prediction: If the MB takes over in Egypt, it will have little impact on us. They pose no particular threat to us, since they're very far away and are several orders of magnitude less powerful than we are. They will probably be less friendly with Israel, and stop cooperating on the Gaza blockade, but won't pick an unwinnable fight with Israel. <br /><br />If we find their future government annoying, we should cut off their two billion dollar a year aid. That probably won't make them less annoying, but it will save us a couple billion dollars, and it will leave them with a couple billion dollars a year less money to be annoying with.none of the abovenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-46139272573538034322011-02-09T15:15:05.883-08:002011-02-09T15:15:05.883-08:00Mamluks and Janissaries aren't the same thing....Mamluks and Janissaries aren't the same thing.<br />Most of the former were from the Caucasus, as were many of the latter.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-49532260216941145792011-02-09T15:03:51.519-08:002011-02-09T15:03:51.519-08:00Americans are deathly afraid of Muslims but not of...<i>Americans are deathly afraid of Muslims but not of Mexicans. That explains the difference.</i><br /><br />I think this is the key point. Mexican <i>narcotrafficantes</i> aren't going to be flying airliners into buildings in the US. People in the American media (and to a lesser extent the public at large) are disdainful of Christians, but they're <i>terrified</i> of Muslims.<br /><br />As Glenn Reynolds likes to point out, there's a moral hazard here. As every parent knows, if you lavish attention on people behaving badly you encourage bad behavior.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10330712047609650184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-22850309537971891252011-02-09T14:47:51.197-08:002011-02-09T14:47:51.197-08:00The problem with following news from some faraway ...The problem with following news from some faraway region of the world is that you need to follow it for awhile (and know something about the region and history) before it makes sense. But becoming informed enough to have a non-cartoon view of things in the middle east, or elsewhere, has a high cost for most of us. I don't have family in that area, I don't speak any of the local languages, I never lived there, few of my friends have a strong interest in it, and I don't really need to travel there much. So unless I find the region fascinating for some reason, it's an awful lot of work to really know what's going on. <br /><br />As an analogy, imagine someone from China who has only the vaguest knowledge of US history or culture, trying to understand what the heck the 2010 midterm elections meant. Was it dangerous right-wingers taking control of the government? Or maybe crazies with guns having rallies? Or a reaction to some kind of plan to lower medical costs with sinister-sounding "death panels?" Or was it something to do with some kind of ethic politics somehow? <br /> <br />I don't know what he'd understand of this, but I'm pretty sure it would bear little resemblance to reality, because he just wouldn't know enough. Let him spend a few days watching occasional snippets of Fox and CNN coverage of the election, and he will remain bewildered.none of the abovenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-51477554859207839102011-02-09T14:43:09.520-08:002011-02-09T14:43:09.520-08:00"wrong, in so many ways. Mamlukes were white ..."wrong, in so many ways. Mamlukes were white christian boys who had been taken from their famlies at birth and islamisized, the jannissaries. <br />second, the people who 'settled down' were not semetic arabs, who overran Egyp, nor Nubians, who overran egypt. they were probably some caucasian people, probably Meds, (not nordics as some asset)"<br /><br />There are two types of Mamluks. The earlier ones were indeed Central Asian Turks. Mamluk also became a catch-all term for a white Muslim. It was mostly applied to Caucasian whites, not European whites.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-26700153981850295512011-02-09T14:19:12.134-08:002011-02-09T14:19:12.134-08:00Sorry Steve but philo-semites and anti-semites are...Sorry Steve but philo-semites and anti-semites are agreed that if it affects Israel then it's news. You, I believe, are neither; you've got things in the right perspective and I'll take your indifference over the loving but disastrous concern of a Bill Clinton any day.international Jewnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-57587422976521249092011-02-09T13:19:44.208-08:002011-02-09T13:19:44.208-08:00We shouldn't worry about Egypt too much. They ...<i>We shouldn't worry about Egypt too much. They were one of the first places to settle down and plant crops and get wimpy. They have rarely had a strong nomadic pastoralist element among the natives, so hotheadness and cowboy behavior isn't as likely to catch fire and turn the place into Iran or Afghanistan or Saudi Arabia.<br /><br />The big exception was the Mamluk Sultanate that kept out even the Mongols, but those guys were all your standard Turkic horse-riding, milk-drinking pastoralists from the Eurasian steppe, not native Egyptians.</i><br />wrong, in so many ways. Mamlukes were white christian boys who had been taken from their famlies at birth and islamisized, the jannissaries. <br />second, the people who 'settled down' were not semetic arabs, who overran Egyp, nor Nubians, who overran egypt. they were probably some caucasian people, probably Meds, (not nordics as some asset)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-5163288098175925482011-02-09T12:53:08.113-08:002011-02-09T12:53:08.113-08:00I don't see why you guys are so obsessed with ...I don't see why you guys are so obsessed with Mexico. It's not like anything that ever happened in Mexico is relevant to the U.S.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com