tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post5802227627139514500..comments2024-03-27T18:24:19.683-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: Amy Chua, 24/7Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger91125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-33594477886633601032011-01-17T20:32:45.754-08:002011-01-17T20:32:45.754-08:00"Offhand, I can't think of too many high ..."Offhand, I can't think of too many high Czarist noblemen or other elites who were Georgian, Armenian, or Tatar"<br /><br />RKU, because you're not thinking. The Nabokovs had Tatar blood, the Ulyanovs were Tatars, the Sheremet'evs were Poles/lithuanian, etc. etc. scratch any Russian noble family and you'll find very little ethnic Russian blood, especially by the late 19th century. Most of the ruling class was Western European. The real Russians were the serfs. The revolution in 1917 was not started by the Jewish leadership - they were only exploiting the wave of anger and resentment. The real violence, in 1905 and 1917, was what took place in the provinces - where peasants burned, looted and destroyed on a massive scale. Yes, the revolution was later co-opted by Jews and Caucasians, as I pointed out, but without the lingering resentment of former serfs against their former masters Russia would have never degenerated into anarchic civil war in the first place. <br /><br />You also misread my post - I am denigrating Russia's economic performance since 1990. I agree with you that before 1917 Russia was well on its way to becoming a true great power - when the empire was ruled by Germans, not surprisingly, it did much better than it has ever done subsequently.Peter Anoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-82306842063840314412011-01-17T19:23:29.202-08:002011-01-17T19:23:29.202-08:00"It [Israel]built up the mightiest military p...<i>"It [Israel]built up the mightiest military power in the Middle East."<br /><br />"In the land of the blind ..."<br /><br />IDF is pound for pound, one of the best in the world.</i><br /><br />The IDF has never been really proven. The IDF rules the Middle East, but the US has repeatedly exposed just how pathetic even the best Arab warmaking abilities are.<br /><br />Israel's latest military misadventures showed the IDF to be pretty ineffective even on short punitive raids despite overwhelming military and strategic advantages. To be fair, part of this was due to Israel's inability to accept any casualties or hostages at the hands of Arabs no matter how favorable the kill ratio.<br /><br />However good the IDF is, Israel itself lacks America's wide and deep a pool of a natural warriors like our Southerners, Scotch-Irish, Germanics or Anglo Saxons.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-30463284756632580652011-01-17T14:46:52.922-08:002011-01-17T14:46:52.922-08:002. Because Jews were a small disliked minority in ...<i>2. Because Jews were a small disliked minority in Russia in the 90s, it's rather obvious that they won by superior wits than by social favors.</i><br /><br />So, is it smarter, from a group POV, to be radical individualists, or ethnocentric?<br /><br />Which strategy would a high IQ group pursue?Svigornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-51086347679605940632011-01-17T13:36:37.781-08:002011-01-17T13:36:37.781-08:00By the way Fred, Taiwan is not currently ruled by ...<i>By the way Fred, Taiwan is not currently ruled by China.</i><br /><br />Of course not, but Taiwan's people are Chinese.Christopher Paulnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-87001096884066624302011-01-17T12:40:37.744-08:002011-01-17T12:40:37.744-08:00"RKU said...
Nearly all the top Bolshevi..."RKU said...<br /><br /> Nearly all the top Bolsheviks were Jewish, and the few important exceptions were generally from other restive minorities such as Felix Dzerzhinsky (Polish) and Stalin (Georgian), with Lenin being only part Jewish."<br /><br />Your mention of Dzerzhinsky got me to thinking - it's a pity he didn't live longer.....long enough so that he could have been put to death by Stalin. It would have served him right.Mr. Anonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-526587422468899252011-01-17T11:46:05.110-08:002011-01-17T11:46:05.110-08:00Steve, that's a facile comment and you know it...Steve, that's a facile comment and you know it. You know that "competence" to these people does not mean the same thing as it does to you and me: It means expanding the power and wealth of their group as much as they can get away with. If what you said has any relevance, it must be an amazing coidcidence that all this imcompetance just happens to have the effect of enriching the people doing it. It also just happens by some crazy coincidence to fit the pattern of behavior that has been observed by numerous men from all over the world for several thousand years. <br /><br />The bottom line is that Jews were in charge of telling the Russian government how to privitize its assents and the result was that Jews, who were about 1% of the population, ended up owning most of the largest industrial concerns. The Russian people suffered greatly in this period while many Jews became extremely wealthy, just like what is happening now in America and seems to always happen when Jews get a lot of power in other people's countries. <br /><br />This idea that the Jewish advisors were unaware that their fellow tribesmen were looting Russia under their watch is ludicrous. These people are hyper aware of who is member of the tribe and what their fellow tribesmen are doing. <br /><br />It's also wrong to say that Jews were exculded from high positions in the Soviet Union. They were heavily over represented among the elite at all levels through the entire duration of the communist regime. When their posistion dropped from one of domination in the early post revolution period to mere overreprentation under Stalin, they whined about it. That's the extent of Soviet "anti-semitism."<br /><br />On another note, am I the only one sick of reading dozens long winded of posts a week fetishizing non-whites and denigrating whites from this weirdo "adsfasdfsadf?"<br /><br />This is the same freakish troll who used to go by Andrea. Does anyone have any info on this character?ATBOTLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-23505486757319286042011-01-17T11:40:15.719-08:002011-01-17T11:40:15.719-08:00"It [Israel]built up the mightiest military p..."It [Israel]built up the mightiest military power in the Middle East." <br /><br /><br />"In the land of the blind ..."<br /><br />IDF is pound for pound, one of the best in the world.dfasdfasdfnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-49825785726542934142011-01-17T04:26:52.319-08:002011-01-17T04:26:52.319-08:00It [Israel]built up the mightiest military power i...<i>It [Israel]built up the mightiest military power in the Middle East.</i> <br /><br /><br />In the land of the blind ...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-22702870439630190212011-01-16T23:30:22.112-08:002011-01-16T23:30:22.112-08:00For most of its history Russia has been controlled...<i>For most of its history Russia has been controlled by an elite of mostly non-Russians. The founders of Rus were Scandinavians, the early Tsars had lots of Tatar blood, the Romanovs intermarried extensively with Western Europeans, and many of the Imperial nobility were German, Polish, Georgian, Armenian and Tatar. In many ways the Russian Revolution can be understood as an ethnic revolt of Russians against foreign rulers. However the revolt was quickly co-opted by Jews and Caucasians (and to a largely unrecognized extent ethnic Poles and Ukrainians). Look at the Soviet leaders - Lenin was part Tatar, Trotsky - Jewish, Stalin - Georgian. Khruschev and Brezhnev were both part Ukrainian.</i> <br /><br />It's sometimes a bit difficult to distinguish sheer ignorance from total dishonesty...<br /><br />Now it's certainly true that the Czars and a good slice of the ruling elite of the Russia Empire were non-Russian, but that element was almost entirely ethnic German. Offhand, I can't think of too many high Czarist noblemen or other elites who were Georgian, Armenian, or Tatar. In fact, the Bolshevik Revolution can reasonably be understood as being the exact opposite of what "peter A" claims, namely that it represented a "ganging up" of some of the subjugated minority peoples against the ruling Russian-German elite and population. <br /><br />Nearly all the top Bolsheviks were Jewish, and the few important exceptions were generally from other restive minorities such as Felix Dzerzhinsky (Polish) and Stalin (Georgian), with Lenin being only part Jewish. Almost none of the revolutionary leaders were Russian or German, and offhand I can't even think of a single Ukrainian, Belorussian, or other Slav, although all these groups together probably constituted over 75% of the total population. This was a totally different generation of Soviet leadership from the 1950s or 1970s, when the top leadership mostly consisted of Russians or Ukrainians such as Khrushchev and Brezhnev. I'm hardly a Russia specialist and it's been decades since I studied any of this, but I still do remember the difference between up and down.<br /><br />Perhaps "peter A" will next tell us that Irish and Italian Catholics were the central force behind the American Revolution, and point to the Kennedies and today's heavily Catholic Supreme Court as evidence of the political rewards they won as a consequence.<br /><br />It's also a little strange for him to seemingly denigrate Russian economic performance. As I recall, Russia's economic growth rate during the decade or so prior to WWI was by far the fastest in all of Europe, much better than anything later achieved by the Bolsheviks despite enormous cost in blood. In fact, Russian industrial strength was growing so rapidly---it was basically the China of that era---that there was some concern among German leaders that perhaps any war between had better be fought sooner rather than later, and this was an important contributing factor to the war's outbreak.RKUnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-49826728600972110692011-01-16T22:46:47.972-08:002011-01-16T22:46:47.972-08:00If you put it that way then the "soccer mom&q...If you put it that way then the "soccer mom" could be considered white trash but that's not the general image conjured in most people's minds when they hear that term. Rather, one thinks of a woman who really dotes over her children and is driven to fill their day with educational and athletic activities while also fretting over their health and wondering whether the latest fad diet really works. In other words, the antithesis of white trash.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-44833943290869996912011-01-16T20:28:53.416-08:002011-01-16T20:28:53.416-08:00"they did force a wrenching creative destruct..."they did force a wrenching creative destruction that made some of the successes of the Putin yrs possible."<br /><br />What successes? More dachas for Putin and his cronies? Or the houses in the South of France. Putin is not a "patriot" - he's simply a gangster out for personal gain. The Chinese government is run by patriots. Russia is not. China invests in infrastructure, education, and stealing technology to build the nation. Russia has wasted the last 20 years and built nothing. When the last Russian leader hands over sovereignty of the Far East to China in, oh, 30 years, Putin will be rightly vilified by real Russian patriots.peter Anoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-63825868272003885112011-01-16T20:24:03.417-08:002011-01-16T20:24:03.417-08:00"Ethnic Russians" are mostly peasants an..."Ethnic Russians" are mostly peasants and fairly unadept at business. For most of its history Russia has been controlled by an elite of mostly non-Russians. The founders of Rus were Scandinavians, the early Tsars had lots of Tatar blood, the Romanovs intermarried extensively with Western Europeans, and many of the Imperial nobility were German, Polish, Georgian, Armenian and Tatar. In many ways the Russian Revolution can be understood as an ethnic revolt of Russians against foreign rulers. However the revolt was quickly co-opted by Jews and Caucasians (and to a largely unrecognized extent ethnic Poles and Ukrainians). Look at the Soviet leaders - Lenin was part Tatar, Trotsky - Jewish, Stalin - Georgian. Khruschev and Brezhnev were both part Ukrainian. Since the fall of the USSR ethnic Russians appear to have finally gained political power, but at the price of selling the productive assets of the country to non-Russians.peter Anoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-52703418684443999712011-01-16T15:58:54.194-08:002011-01-16T15:58:54.194-08:00"Remind me again ... what exactly has Israel ..."Remind me again ... what exactly has Israel done with US aid? Aid which, on a per capita basis, vastly exceeds the aid the US has ever given to any other country."<br /><br />It built up the mightiest military power in the Middle East.adsfasdfdfnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-65145310848274226472011-01-16T15:57:32.613-08:002011-01-16T15:57:32.613-08:00"Of course, Russians--or a handful of gangste..."Of course, Russians--or a handful of gangsters around Putin--eventually won out but through muscle, not brains, and largely because there's no rule of law in Russia."<br /><br />"The implication being, of course, that winning through brains is more moral than winning through muscle.<br />Unless it's whites out-braining blacks, Amerinds, or mestizos. Or Chinese out-braining Mongolians or Tibetans."<br /><br />Two issues. <br /><br />1. Brain power isn't necessarily more moral. Intelligence beats dumbness but it can be a case of evil intelligence vs good-hearted dumbness(like Tim Wise vs Sarah Palin). In the case of Russia, it was maybe a case of greedy Jews vs greedy Russians. But Jews won because they were smarter. Even if Jews pulled a lot of dirty tricks, smart people pull better dirty tricks than dumb people do. <br /><br />2. Because Jews were a small disliked minority in Russia in the 90s, it's rather obvious that they won by superior wits than by social favors. (To be sure, Russian Jews were fortunate to be connected to non-Russian Jews. So, to an extent, yes, Yeltsin understood that in order to attract foreign investment and aid from the West, he needed approval from globalist Jews who control the West, especially the US. Thus, he had to go easy on Russian Jews.) <br />In America, though whites may well be smarter than blacks, because of the long history of anti-black discrimination, it's more convenient to lay the blame of black failure on white discrimination than on lower black IQ.Piriperonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-79656016765290784622011-01-16T15:53:40.369-08:002011-01-16T15:53:40.369-08:00White trash soccer mom an oxymoron? What universe...White trash soccer mom an oxymoron? What universe have you been living in? The soccer mom is the EPITOME of White trashiness. Think chunky woman with dyed blond hair, cigarette in hand, screaming, "Go, go!" ego hanging on her son/daughter's performance on the field. White trash, thy name is soccer mom!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-6174650224616653332011-01-16T15:32:04.045-08:002011-01-16T15:32:04.045-08:00The quote from Lenin about Jews suggests to me tha...The quote from Lenin about Jews suggests to me that Lenin was Jewish.<br /><br />Is there vast literature on this subject that I have missed?<br /><br />goatweedAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-34762270662307649132011-01-16T14:15:03.946-08:002011-01-16T14:15:03.946-08:00David Davenport: Yes, China has been investing a l...David Davenport: <i>Yes, China has been investing a lot of its free cash into US Treasury bills and other American financial paper, which will probably turn out to be in imprudent investments. The USA will probably default on much it its bond obligations. So sorry about that, foreigners.</i> <br /><br />Well, that's an interesting argument rebutting claims of America's decline and weakness: our government owes a gigantic amount of money to foreigners and will probably default on our national debt.<br /><br />I guess that proves Venezuela was the great world powerhouse of the late 19th Century, and that Haiti and most of Sub-Saharan Africa have been the most successful nations over the last half-century.RKUnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-37782717881050426382011-01-16T12:57:46.569-08:002011-01-16T12:57:46.569-08:00"Putin and his hoods took over or muscled in ..."Putin and his hoods took over or muscled in on new industries created by Jews."<br /><br />"No new industries were 'created'."<br /><br />Fair enough. Jews took over moribund industries falling apart from waste and incompetence, cut out the fat and streamlined them, managed them better, brought in new investment and equipment, and modernized them. At they very least, they refurbished the old industries that had been falling apart under old communism with Soviet era 'work ethic' and technology. They had an advantage in being Jewish not only for their talent and high intelligence but in social networking with international Jews who provided expertise, advice, connections and lots of money--just like post-communist mainland Chinese gained lots of knowhow and investment from overseas Chinese. Putin and his hoods took over what the Jews had much improved. <br />OTOH, the Jewish oligarchs were stupid if not dumb. A bit of German modesty, self-restraint, and civic mindedness would have gone a long way in winning respect from the improverished public, but they acted like a bunch of loud, brash, vulgar, and indulgent Moe Greens. They just couldn't get enough of talking big and showing off how rich they were. The nouveau riche thing.adfadfasdfnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-84895783105763646062011-01-16T11:35:55.331-08:002011-01-16T11:35:55.331-08:00Well, Chua's childrearing methods may seem har...<i>Well, Chua's childrearing methods may seem harsh, but I'll take her over the white trash soccer mom any day!</i><br /><br />Isn't "white trash soccer mom" an oxymoron?ben tillmannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-42168199091989990312011-01-16T11:22:30.790-08:002011-01-16T11:22:30.790-08:00Ree-ply to Fred, cont.:
Do not underestimate thes...Ree-ply to Fred, cont.:<br /><br /><i>Do not underestimate these people of the epicanthic fold. I have lived among the Chinese, in Taiwan years ago. I liked them, and still do. I know them to be smart, disciplined, studious, practical—as well as nationalistic and very racially conscious. No, we do not think these attitudes proper. It doesn’t matter what we think.</i><br /><br />Rather heavy on the racial stereotyping, aren't we?<br /><br /><i> <b>Note that China has that perfect government, an intelligent dictatorship concerned with advancing the country.</b> The American government consists of self-interested lobbies and Wall Street looters. China is run by engineers, America by lawyers. Watch.</i><br /><br /><i>The US is midway through an inexorable suicide. If a country does not manufacture things, it does not have an economy, and manufacturing has fled American shores. Ship-building, steel, consumer electronics, railroads: gone. You may think your HP laptop is an American product, but in all likelihood every component was made overseas and it was assembled in Taiwan.</i><br /><br />Right-o Fred, so don't we agree that it's time for the USA to start protecting its endangered industries? Think of this as a type of ecological protection: protecting endangered North American industries protects North American human communities. <br /><br />By the way Fred, Taiwan is not currently ruled by China. <br /><br /><i>The country as a whole, as always, looks inwards and doesn’t understand, doesn’t know what stirs without. Communism no longer protects America from Chinese competition.</i><br /><br />The USA always looks inward? But Fred, in some of your other opinion screeds, you say the USA is too internationally imperialistic.<br />...<br /><br /><a href="www.fredoneverything.net/MonkeyTrap.shtml" rel="nofollow">fredoneverything</a><br /><i>Do not underestimate these people of the epicanthic fold. I have lived among the Chinese, in Taiwan years ago. I liked them, and still do. I know them to be smart, disciplined, studious, practical—as well as nationalistic and very racially conscious. No, we do not think these attitudes proper. It doesn’t matter what we think.</i><br /><br />Rather heavy on the racial stereotyping, aren't we?<br /><br /><i> <b>Note that China has that perfect government, an intelligent dictatorship concerned with advancing the country.</b> The American government consists of self-interested lobbies and Wall Street looters. China is run by engineers, America by lawyers. Watch.</i><br /><br /><i>The US is midway through an inexorable suicide. If a country does not manufacture things, it does not have an economy, and manufacturing has fled American shores. Ship-building, steel, consumer electronics, railroads: gone. You may think your HP laptop is an American product, but in all likelihood every component was made overseas and it was assembled in Taiwan.</i><br /><br />Right-o Fred, so don't we agree that it's time for the USA to start protecting its endangered industries? Think of this as a type of ecological protection: protecting endangered North American industries protects North American human communities. <br /><br />By the way Fred, Taiwan is not currently ruled by China. <br /><br /><i>The country as a whole, as always, looks inwards and doesn’t understand, doesn’t know what stirs without. Communism no longer protects America from Chinese competition.</i><br /><br />The USA always looks inward? But Fred, in some of your other opinion screeds, you say the USA is too internationally imperialistic.<br />...<br /><br /><a href="www.fredoneverything.net/MonkeyTrap.shtml" rel="nofollow">fredoneverything</a>David Davenportnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-78570270729338708672011-01-16T11:20:48.475-08:002011-01-16T11:20:48.475-08:00Does anyone care to argue his points and conclusio...<i> Does anyone care to argue his points and conclusions?</i><br /><br />That old 1960's hippie Fred is trying to take on the role of the late Hunter S. Thompson, posing as a cee-gar smoking ageless macho man and man of the world clad in a leather jacket, whereas Fred's really just a never-changed-his-mind, doped-up, hippy-dippy Lefty:<br /><br /><i>The US has played War-on-Drugs for half a century, with no results but to make drugs an integral part of the economy. The evils engendered are great. Yet the monkey can’t let go.</i><br /><br />Let go of what, Fred? Tell us what drugs you are in favor of legalizing.<br /><br /><i> It is internationally that the monkey principle really bites. The country is well on its way to being a merely regional power militarily, economically, and diplomatically. Short of a miracle, short of a conceivable but unlikely catastrophe in China, Americans will soon be medium potatoes. There is nothing we can do about it, but we will bankrupt ourselves trying. We can’t let go.</i><br /><br />Do you have any evidence for those dire pronouncements, Fred? <br /><br /><i>If you look beyond the Reader’s Digest patriotism of Fox News, and the high-school cheerleading of little Sarah Palin, if you look beyond the national borders, all of this is obvious.</i><br /><br />Loathing of Sarah Palin is a sure sign that the loather is going to vote Democrat.<br /><br /><i>By Chinese standards, America is a small country, having a quarter of its population.</i><br /><br />But China's large, aging, and gender-imbalanced population is a problem instead of a blessing. <br /><br /><i> Their economy grows at close to double digits. Yes, it may slow down, or it may not. Short of unforeseen disaster, the question is not whether but when the Chinese economy will dwarf the American economy. Tell me why this is not true.</i><br /><br />Problems for China's economy: (1) a large, aging population; (2) lack on natural resources in China; (3) the coming era of trade protectionism in the USA and the EU.<br /><br /><i> All power springs from economic power. While America decays, plays, and sucks its thumb, China invests. Everywhere. There is nothing unprincipled in this. It is just intelligent commerce.</i><br /><br />Yes, China has been investing a lot of its free cash into US Treasury bills and other American financial paper, which will probably turn out to be in imprudent investments. The USA will probably default on much it its bond obligations. So sorry about that, foreigners.<br /><br />(MORE)David Davenportnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-90492202410845198462011-01-16T09:06:47.069-08:002011-01-16T09:06:47.069-08:00Does anyone care to argue his points and conclusio...<i>Does anyone care to argue his points and conclusions?</i><br /><br />I don't even care to read it. Reed plays too many games with the truth in his quest to be king of the curmudgeons, and I have better things to do with my time than unpack all his baggage.Svigorhttp://majorityrights.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-62415899302257184692011-01-16T08:59:17.187-08:002011-01-16T08:59:17.187-08:00American Jews aided Russian Jews no doubt, but we ...<i>American Jews aided Russian Jews no doubt, but we should ask ourselves... why are American Jews so powerful and why were Russian Jews so effective in working with American Jews?</i><br /><br />Ethnocentrism and intelligence. In that order.Svigorhttp://majorityrights.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-4575249390831502132011-01-16T08:56:19.986-08:002011-01-16T08:56:19.986-08:00Of course, Russians--or a handful of gangsters aro...<i>Of course, Russians--or a handful of gangsters around Putin--eventually won out but through muscle, not brains, and largely because there's no rule of law in Russia.</i><br /><br />The implication being, of course, that winning through brains is more moral than winning through muscle.<br /><br />Unless it's whites out-braining blacks, Amerinds, or mestizos. Or Chinese out-braining Mongolians or Tibetans. Then it's evil again. But if it's Jews out-braining <i>and</i> out-muscling Palestinians, that's okay. And Jews muscling the cognitive elite of China and India to keep them out of their country altogether is okay, too.<br /><br />Majorities beating minorities is always bad, until it's not.<br /><br />Okay, I think I have it sorted out now!Svigorhttp://majorityrights.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-13460407287232241082011-01-16T06:42:39.352-08:002011-01-16T06:42:39.352-08:00If special US aid is all that takes for a people t...<i>If special US aid is all that takes for a people to succeed, why did so much of US aid go to waste in Africa, Latin America, Middle East, etc? US has pumped gazillions into Afghanistan, but what happened to all the money? How effective have Iraqis been with US aid? Now, compare what Israelis did with US aid.</i> <br /><br /><br />Remind me again ... what exactly <i>has</i> Israel done with US aid? Aid which, on a per capita basis, vastly exceeds the aid the US has ever given to any other country.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com