tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post7368458081134865150..comments2024-03-27T18:24:19.683-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: World War G and the Military-Industrial ComplexUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger102125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-91485713966440033772013-12-23T13:25:12.011-08:002013-12-23T13:25:12.011-08:00"Yes, I've used those things. For many ye..."Yes, I've used those things. For many years. Unlike you, apparently. They were objectively better than the Chinese crap that has now filled the entire world."<br /><br />You're better off using sandpaper. <br />I have one in my house as a souvenir from a friend. <br /><br />At least all that Chinese crap is made with Western technology. Soviet crap was made with 'bonafide' soviet technology. <br /><br />What other stuff do you have from the communist bloc? The yugo? The Trabant? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-10747373405388555652013-12-22T22:02:55.310-08:002013-12-22T22:02:55.310-08:00"Have you ever seen and felt a Soviet toilet?...<i>"Have you ever seen and felt a Soviet toilet? Have you ever used a Soviet TV? "</i><br /><br />Yes, I've used those things. For many years. Unlike you, apparently. They were objectively better than the Chinese crap that has now filled the entire world. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-83013818445977380352013-12-22T21:44:06.802-08:002013-12-22T21:44:06.802-08:00"Soviet movies and TV were highly moralistic ..."Soviet movies and TV were highly moralistic and wholesome."<br /><br />Not wholesome. Wholesome is G-rated Disney stuff and Brady Bunch. <br /><br />Soviet stuff had more grit. They were often realistic(if not exactly accurate) and featured life with all its blemishes. <br />But Russians always tended to be more naturalistic and earthy. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-62651832563427120142013-12-22T21:40:17.345-08:002013-12-22T21:40:17.345-08:00"The Soviet dearth of normal, middle-class-le...<br />"The Soviet dearth of normal, middle-class-level consumer goods was exaggerated in Western media for propaganda purposes. Same for these goods' quality. Trust me, most of it beat modern Chinese crap."<br /><br />TOTAL BS. Things were so lousy in the USSR that Russians thought they were in heaven when they visited Poland(during the communist era). You have no idea what you are talking about. <br />Even basic stuff was often hard to get,and the quality was unbelievably poor. Have you ever seen and felt a Soviet toilet? Have you ever used a Soviet TV? <br /><br />Among eastern bloc nations, East Germany was most advanced, but have ever used an East German camera? My friend showed me lots of photos shot with commie camera and the quality was atrocious. <br /><br />Chinese-made goods are solid gold compared to those. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-7528717933124251042013-12-22T16:55:57.894-08:002013-12-22T16:55:57.894-08:00"I don't get why more commenters are not ..."I don't get why more commenters are not jumping onto Masha Gessen and her comments about marriage that others have linked."<br /><br />I expect many already knew. The important thing with people like her is to keep a link and remember the name for use with people who don't yet understand it's a cultural war.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-27789785383483854812013-12-22T16:53:59.955-08:002013-12-22T16:53:59.955-08:00"The original Cold War was fought to bring bu..."The original Cold War was fought to bring buggery, porn, drugs, crime, radical feminism, third-world immigration and thievery through oligarchs to Russia and Eastern Europe."<br /><br />A 1960s style cultural revolution in every detail was applied in Russia after the 1917 revolution. It was so destructive the policy was reversed some years later and only retained as a weapon to use against the West by cultural Marxists.<br /><br />Then everything changed as YKW gradually lost control of Russia as they gained control of the USA and Russia became more nationalist and traditionalist while the US became an aircraft carrier for cultural marxism.<br /><br />.<br /><br />"So in an arms race between Russia and America, which side are White guys supposed to be on?"<br /><br />In the 1950s, America. Now, Russia.<br /><br />.<br /><br />"I really am not sure what Communism has to offer for the anti-immigration or nationalist set"<br /><br />Communism as communism, nothing. Communism as turned into national-capitalism / national-socialism is better than the bankster capitalism plus cultural marxism we are currently ruled by.<br /><br />Democratic capitalism is still better than both imo at least for those populations it is suited for - although it may need some more defensive adjustments to prevent it being so easily hijacked.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-8213538192830088562013-12-22T16:20:14.710-08:002013-12-22T16:20:14.710-08:00" the real question is whether it is Putin wh..." the real question is whether it is Putin who is so good or his Western opponents (Obama's admin, EU bureaucrats) that are so bad? I personally believe it's the latter. Obama was unbelievably incompetent on Syria."<br /><br />Western leaders aren't being selected on merit they're being selected on one or more of<br />-corruptability<br />-blackmailability<br />or<br />-stupidityAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-72534675331924900002013-12-22T16:12:27.299-08:002013-12-22T16:12:27.299-08:00There's a long, detailed answer to this but th...There's a long, detailed answer to this but the simple, quick one is this is just another example of<br /><br />"Let's you and him fight."<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-43566236311822380822013-12-22T15:23:51.464-08:002013-12-22T15:23:51.464-08:00"The Soviets were opposed because they were a..."The Soviets were opposed because they were a murderous regime that slaughtered millions of its own people during peacetime. Is everyone forgetting the Gulags?"<br /><br />Not really. It was because it was the other superpower. <br />Mao killed more than Stalin, but American elites loved it when Nixon went to China to shake the chairman's hand. bloggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06607033974434672862noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-32961733740151824662013-12-22T12:35:29.489-08:002013-12-22T12:35:29.489-08:00I don't object to stealth, but stealth is not ...<i>I don't object to stealth, but stealth is not something that can be effectively done in an aircraft that is supposed to engage in air to air combat ... </i><br /><br />Seems to me that someone is scoffing at stealth because his nation's fighter planes have none. Sorry, Charley!<br /><br />Re "jack of all trades, master of none," there is also the adage "[Pursuit of ] the best can be the enemy of good enough."David Davenporthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03315090179595817174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-31982795634973901552013-12-22T12:05:47.366-08:002013-12-22T12:05:47.366-08:00"I hate to drag down the tone of the comments..."I hate to drag down the tone of the comments here but I'm sure I'm not the only red-blooded male here to regret the loss of Masha Gessen to the lesbians."<br /><br />Where is she? All I see is a homely dude. Is the standing behind him?boogabognoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-29962597796200414982013-12-22T11:51:52.929-08:002013-12-22T11:51:52.929-08:00"Going to Africa. Hope I don't get AIDS. ..."Going to Africa. Hope I don't get AIDS. Just kidding. I'm white!"<br /><br />Hilarious. And what an imbecile she is, unless she was trying to get canned because she doesn't really want to live in Africa. In which case: genius!smartyfartsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-2433931607642485532013-12-22T10:46:08.932-08:002013-12-22T10:46:08.932-08:00"It was when it came to capitalist enemies. U...<i>"It was when it came to capitalist enemies. USSR spread tons of propaganda that made American whites to be a bunch of KKK who were oppressing saintly helpless blacks."</i><br /><br />This is actually true. Propaganda-wise both sides in the Cold War used everything they could get their hands on. The USSR wanted to compete with the US for African and Latin American clients, so it used the above rhetoric. And the US portrayed the historical Russian occupation of Alaska (poor Eskimos!) and the then-current occupation of Eastern Europe in the same spirit. The US portrayal of life in Eastern Europe of that time was just as tendentious as the KKK stuff you mentioned above. <br /><br />Internally post-WWII USSR was not anti-white or anti-Russian or anything like that. <br /><br />" They allowed some degree of religiosity to win support among diehard traditionalists and to fool the outside world that freedom of religion existed in Russia. But it was never the kind of freedom one finds in America. "<br /><br />No one pressured churches to perform gay marriages in the USSR or in Soviet-occupied Eastern Europe.<br /><br /><i>"USSR wasn't more traditionalist by design but by default. Since it produced far less goods and services than western nations,"</i><br /><br />Again, it produced fewer LUXURY goods. The Soviet dearth of normal, middle-class-level consumer goods was exaggerated in Western media for propaganda purposes. Same for these goods' quality. Trust me, most of it beat modern Chinese crap. <br /><br /><i>"It's like more traditional buildings were preserved in Eastern Europe than in Western Europe."</i><br /><br />Stalin built little, but in a grand, beautiful classical style. Look up "seven sisters" for a sample. Khruschov built a lot, but in a really ugly, purely utilitarian style. The closest US equivalent are housing projects. Brezhnev's modification of Kruschov's style is what the Chinese have copied on an enormous scale during the last few years. All of China now looks like Brezhnev-era Russian housing. <br /><br />Khruschov once had a highly-publicized confrontation with a modernist Soviet painter during which he asked him if he had served in the war and then questioned his sexual preferences. He hated modernist art, but thought that the state should build as much as possible to fulfill a housing need. Style was an impediment to that. <br /><br /><i>"As communism was far less productive"</i><br /><br />Again, this has been exaggerated.<br /><br /><i>And since a lot of kids didn't have record players, they played folk music at school and sang patriotic songs. Again, it was 'traditionalism' by default than by design. "</i><br /><br />No, traditionalism was pushed from above, just like anti-traditionalism was and is pushed from above in the West. I really don't believe in the bubbling-up-from-below theory of the origin of leftist movements. <br /><br /><i>"So, most Soviet films were about good decent people working hard for the community that movie stars who acted like gods and goddesses on the silver screen."</i><br /><br />Soviet movies and TV were highly moralistic and wholesome. That was by design. There was as much direction from above as in the West, towards wholesomeness, not away from it. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-26551130335565229712013-12-22T10:30:49.757-08:002013-12-22T10:30:49.757-08:00Russia's impact on global politics will not be...Russia's impact on global politics will not be due to them exporting expensive weapon systems but the cheap ones. Think AK-47. It will be modern tactical arms such as hand held missiles, miniature drones, remote controlled detonators, etc. in the hands of 21st century 'freedom fighters' will be what causes us fits.Prof. Wolandnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-63853432764564706152013-12-22T10:06:04.183-08:002013-12-22T10:06:04.183-08:00"All non-western communist nations were natio...<i>"All non-western communist nations were nationalistic, but economically they were still communist. "</i><br /><br />Pre-WWII Soviet Union was strongly anti-Russian. Even more anti-Russian than the US is anti-white, than modern Britain is anti-British, etc. THAT's what Stalin revolted against in the late 30s and early 40s and THAT's why the West began a cold war against him. Modern China is obviously very nationalist, but I don't have a feel for when that began, for what the Mao-Chang conflict was really about, etc. One has to know a culture deeply to be able to look through competing propaganda claims, and I don't know China deeply at all. <br /><br /><i>"And what would traditional morality be among the Chinese? Greed? or among North Koreans? Lying and thieving to have just enough to eat? There is no morality in a nation like North Korea. If this is traditional morality, you can have it.<br />True, they don't allow 'gay marriage', but they do a lot of things that would appall Western conservatives. "</i><br /><br />This is what Western propaganda WOULD say, isn't it? I've read translations of N. Korea's own propaganda where they complain about race-mixing due to cheap foreign labor in S. Korea (saying it's unacceptable) and where they call homosexuality animalistic behavior not fit for humans. Would that be enough for Western media to hate N. Korea? Yes. If they hate something, do they lie about it? Yes. <br /><br /><i>"Rightwing Russian nationalism was suppressed as it tended to stress Russianness against non-Russianness and even called for separatism and breakup of the USSR."<br /><br />"Hardcore Russian patriots hated this kind of use of Russianness as an abstract principle to hold the Soviet empire together."</i><br /><br />The sort of Russian nationalists who would prefer a purely ethnic Russian state are rare. Most are proud of the empire for the same reason that Churchill was proud of his. Most see Gorbachov's and Yeltsin's giving away of huge chunks of the empire as treason. A lot of blood was shed over many centuries, going back to the 15th and before, to create that empire. As I said, the non-imperial, Russians-only nationalism is rare. Putin is actually now trying to bring the pieces together again with his Eurasian Union.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-3704286161196000482013-12-22T10:00:45.773-08:002013-12-22T10:00:45.773-08:00"Anonymous said...
I hate to drag down the t..."Anonymous said...<br /><br />I hate to drag down the tone of the comments here but Im sure Im not the only red-blooded male here to regret the loss of Masha Gessen to the the lesbians."<br /><br />I wonder how much of her resentment of normal people and their normal lives is rooted in the fact that she is ugly.Mr. Anonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-16419057330161622152013-12-22T09:44:34.632-08:002013-12-22T09:44:34.632-08:00"and most of them lacked access to consumer g...<i>"and most of them lacked access to consumer goods;"</i><br /><br />The extent of consumer goods dearth in the old USSR was greatly exaggerated by Western propaganda. It always amazes me how people who don't believe anything the media tells them about their own country believe everything it tells them about other countries. They lie about Arkansas, but they'll tell you the truth about North Korea. Why?<br /><br />There was definitely a dearth of luxury goods. No one, not even Stalin, Brezhnev or Khruschov, lived like a modern Western decamillionaire, let alone a billionaire. And doctors lived very similarly to factory workers. Yet at the same time the average Soviet citizen had most of the consumer goods that the average Westerner had. <br /><br /><i>"Also, it wasn't easy to get married and raise a family because of the tight housing. "</i><br /><br />The USSR had above-replacement birth rates throughout its history. The Russian, Ukrainian, etc. birth rates (really, those of all non-Muslim post-Soviet states) node dived after 1990. There was an enormous population loss (150 million to 143 million in Russia, even worse in percentage terms in the Ukraine). The Russian rate has picked up under Putin, but is not back to replacement yet. <br /><br /><i>"And North Korea is not national socialist. It's national communist. National Socialism(in Germany) was a mixed economy with the bulk of the economy in private hands; that is NOT the case in North Korea where the state owns everything."</i><br /><br />From what I've read, the Kims allowed small-scale private enterprise after the 1990s economic crisis in N. Korea. Their economy isn't as capitalist as China's, but not as command-based as it used to be.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-16067738144922645202013-12-22T09:29:57.484-08:002013-12-22T09:29:57.484-08:00"Woodstock didn't happen because it was &...<i>"Woodstock didn't happen because it was 'legalized' but because young people wanted to get together to put on a rock concert. "</i><br /><br />That's exactly what I don't believe. The people who owned record companies, movie studios, etc., decided to portray certain things as cool, and the sheeple gradually followed. As I said before, I don't think that any of this bubbled up from the people themselves. Woodstock was a long time ago, but at least you MUST have seen that the gay thing was was pushed by the top on the initially-unwilling public. That happened in your and my lifetimes. <br /><br /><i>"Decline of educational standards happened in the USSR as well. "</i><br /><br />Nope. The replacement of rote learning with "new" kinds of learning, the dumbing-down of curricula, the fall in emphasis on classic literature and music - that happened after the Soviet system was abolished. Western educational systems were screwed up in the 1960s, the Russian system was only screwed up in the 1990s. <br /><br /><i>"Though the USSR produced some excellent scientists, it was hardly known as an intellectual powerhouse.."</i><br /><br />Of course it was an intellectual powerhouse. Russian science was utterly decimated in the 1990s. I consider this to be a crime against humanity, by the way. The scientific and technological progress of humanity was retarded by an unknowable number of years by Gorbachov, Yeltsin, the murderous oligarchs and everyone else who was responsible for the 90s disaster in Russia. Scientifically, Russia is now a pale shadow of its former self. Basically, when the state stopped paying for science in the 90s, scientists either found other employment (everything from business to retail) or fled to other countries. <br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-62100528694152207592013-12-22T09:12:42.069-08:002013-12-22T09:12:42.069-08:00"Homosexuality is legal in today's Russia...<i>"Homosexuality is legal in today's Russia."</i><br /><br />It was legalized after the Soviet system was abolished. <br /><br /><i>"If anything, US has illegalized a lot of drugs."</i><br /><br />The USSR was literally drug-free. There were no drugs. Yes, you can think of vodka as a drug, but there was nothing else. Everyone who tells you that it's impossible for a state to eliminate the drug problem completely, that drugs will "always be with us" like poverty according to Jesus, is wrong. I don't know whether or not Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, etc. have been completely successful at this, but I know from personal experience that the USSR was. <br /><br /><i>"Sexual revolution was not 'legalized'. It was a cultural movement. It happened by confluence of social factors outside government control. "</i><br /><br />The USSR was run by its government (WYSIWYG), the US was and is run by those who own and run its media and finance. These people set the course and draw the boundaries. If you're employed in the media and you overstep the boundaries or want to pursue a completely different course, they take the microphone away from you. The message is as controlled as it was in the USSR, but it's a more insidious message. Where the US media's message was sexual revolution, the post-WWII USSR's message was wholesomeness. <br /><br />I don't accept the idea that the sexual revolution spontaneously bubbled up from the masses anymore than I accept the idea that gay lib did. Both were pushed from the top. So the top in the US works somewhat differently from how it works in WYSIWYG countries like the old USSR and modern China - so what? The mechanics aren't hugely important, the message itself is. If anything, the WYSIWYG system is more transparent, more honest. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-32409804676410048352013-12-22T09:05:52.141-08:002013-12-22T09:05:52.141-08:00"You can't make an aircraft that is a fig..."You can't make an aircraft that is a fighter jet, a bomber, a vertical take off aircraft, has stealth capability and can fly close air support for ground troops and expect it to do any of them well. In other words it's a jack of all trades, master of none." - Don't forget that it requires the pilot to be able to perform all of those roles(and others such as the electronic warfare stuff I remember hearing about).<br /><br />The F-35 is going to be no good in any kind of serious fight, but perhaps its the low cost solution to pushing third worlders around.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-18746380160558096752013-12-22T04:33:09.503-08:002013-12-22T04:33:09.503-08:00"Sexual revolution was not 'legalized'..."Sexual revolution was not 'legalized'. It was a cultural movement. It happened by confluence of social factors outside government control."<br /><br />"Bullshit. For instance, in Gomez v. Perez, 409 U.S. 535, the central government decreed that States must offer financial incentives to encourage the birth of children outside of wedlock."<br /><br />It was the pill and pop culture that was mainly behind it. <br /><br />Sexual Revolution was essentially about the change of attitudes among middle class Americans. And much of it involved no pregnancy as contraceptives became available. <br /><br />Also, young people got more freedom and even their own cars, and lots of wild things happened in the back seats. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-39311057765775086732013-12-22T01:17:23.543-08:002013-12-22T01:17:23.543-08:00I love the “burned or buried” thing. It sounds way...I love the “burned or buried” thing. It sounds way more awesome than the way we dispose of dead bodies, by interring or cremating them.Anomaly UKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04780148789321563441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-50268173357690234302013-12-22T00:56:25.303-08:002013-12-22T00:56:25.303-08:00I don't get why more commenters are not jumpin...I don't get why more commenters are not jumping onto Masha Gessen and her comments about marriage that others have linked. Here is a person who explicitly states that gay marriage is being used to destroy traditional marriage, and she is being quoted in this NY Times piece to portray how bad Putin is. How should Putin react when people essentially tell him he needs to get with the times and support gay marriage, while admitting gay marriage is going to be used to destroy traditional marriage? If you are the leader of a nation trying to recover from low birth rates, messing up the institution of marriage and family is the last thing you want, especially if you are actually simpatico with your people.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-52807430208305671632013-12-21T23:38:23.843-08:002013-12-21T23:38:23.843-08:00 when Stalin gave it to them as a gift. Not that i... when Stalin gave it to them as a gift. Not that it matters, but it was Krushchev. Stalin never gave Ukraine anything but a famine(two actually 1932 and 1946).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-37255615350392070392013-12-21T23:30:06.521-08:002013-12-21T23:30:06.521-08:00Anonymous @#12/20/13, 6:24 PM
This does not make ...Anonymous @#12/20/13, 6:24 PM<br /><br />This does not make any sense.<br /><br />The Soviets were opposed because they were a murderous regime that slaughtered millions of its own people during peacetime. Is everyone forgetting the Gulags?<br /><br />The Ukrainians hate the Russians because they remember being starved to death to the tune of 7-8 million people and the relentless attempts at Russification over 70 years to stamp out the Ukrainian language and culture.<br /><br />The Soviets were not some secret good guys fighting the fight against liberalism. America was not manifesting the horrors the Soviets produced and, even today, conditions in the USA have not deteriorated to Soviet norms.<br /><br />Today, Putin is trying to turn Russia into a fascist, ethno-national and religious state, opposed mainly to the United States because there is so much demonstrable failure occurring in America that the Russian government does not want repeated in Russia. Fascist ethno-nationlism coupled with religion is the way the world appears to be going.<br /><br />I don't regard fascism as something negative. In fact, Putin seems to regard the US as an institution run by former KGB agents who have gone rogue.<br /><br />mapnoreply@blogger.com