tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post1372717189213126967..comments2024-03-27T18:24:19.683-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: World War G cranking up again?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger43125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-54810983288103934652014-03-19T00:54:59.136-07:002014-03-19T00:54:59.136-07:00Saw a post once by ex-Denton aggregator Choire Sic...Saw a post once by ex-Denton aggregator Choire Sicha demonstrating how most or probably all The NYer marquee writers with whom Remnick's aura supposedly mingles were actually brought on by noted philistine Tina Brown, and that Remnick's actual hires and institutional adjustments have made considerably less of a lit-scene splash. I think The NYer is almost middlebrow now while Harpers is getting strange new respect.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-90500734519149653512014-03-14T14:28:36.485-07:002014-03-14T14:28:36.485-07:00Paulie Boy:"For many years "anti-semitis...Paulie Boy:"For many years "anti-semitism" was a capital crime in the Soviet Union, no more be said."<br /><br />Could you please cite the statute in question? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-38554604516936105572014-03-14T09:25:19.077-07:002014-03-14T09:25:19.077-07:00Steve Sailor writes “”””"According to "T...Steve Sailor writes “”””"According to "The Court of the Red Tsar" and "The Jewish Century," Stalin didn't turn anti-Semitic until the enthusiasm shown by his Jewish underlings during Golda Meir's 1947 visit to Moscow revealed to him how ethnocentric and Zionist his Jewish officials were. "“”’’<br /><br />Jews actually poured into the street by the tens of thousands to great Golda Meir. The incident was actually commemorated on the 10 shekel note in Israel where they reproduce the picture of the Jews in the street on the back and a picture of Golda Meir on the front<br /><br /><br />http://www.baudelet.net/monnaies/nouveau-shekel-israel.htm<br />DJFnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-39987704937593053502014-03-14T08:34:11.205-07:002014-03-14T08:34:11.205-07:00OT slightly:
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/201...OT slightly:<br /><br />http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/03/13/commission-finds-no-compelling-medical-reason-to-exclude-transgender-americans-from-military/<br /><br />Who better to wage World War T than the Ts themselves?countenancehttp://countenance.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-18983075245112334952014-03-14T07:26:03.464-07:002014-03-14T07:26:03.464-07:00I checked out Masha Gessen's publisher's b...I checked out Masha Gessen's publisher's biography for "Dead Again: Russian Intelligentsia after Communism."<br /><br />This line leaped out at me: Masha Gessen was born in Russia in 1967, and forced to leave in 1981 by state-enforced anti-Semitism. <br /><br />I scared the dogs with my laughter.Hunsdonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-7629856218594743062014-03-14T07:13:56.226-07:002014-03-14T07:13:56.226-07:00ogunsiron linked to Adomanis
Hunsdon: Wow, that&...ogunsiron linked to Adomanis<br /><br />Hunsdon: Wow, that's pretty damning. This is the kind of insightful analysis that got Ms. Gessen hired: pure merit, baby, pure merit.Hunsdonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-61521396440691021262014-03-13T22:35:06.519-07:002014-03-13T22:35:06.519-07:00Keith's view on Berezovsky is surprising, give...Keith's view on Berezovsky is surprising, given that his sister tried to portray the russian 90s as nin a public debate in the UI :<br />http://www.forbes.com/sites/markadomanis/2013/05/24/the-intelligence-squared-debate-masha-gessen-has-some-really-strange-ideas-about-the-1990s/<br /><br />"<br />...<br /> it’s striking that one of Vladimir Putin’s highest profile public detractors thinks that living standards rose during the 1990′s... terribly during the 1990s as a “myth” ...*the 1990′s were actually pretty decent... in Gessen’s understanding the 1990′s were good and the 2000′s were bad.<br /><br />I’m often too excitable, so I will do my utmost to maintain decorum and politeness, but Gessen’s contention that the 1990′s were a time of “improved living standards is flatly inaccurate, easily disprovable, and suggests a near-total ignorance of Russia’s actual economic and social trends.<br />"ogunsironhttp://www.gmail.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-33432887381242327882014-03-13T21:57:51.704-07:002014-03-13T21:57:51.704-07:00If Russia lets homos marry, Jews will find somethi...If Russia lets homos marry, Jews will find something else to bitch about. The real issue is Jews wanna control and own Russia, and they will keep vilifying Russia with one bogus reason after another until they swallow Russia whole. <br /><br />Meanwhile, Jews attack normal gentiles as the 'new other'. If homos are the 'new normal', then we are the 'new other'. <br /><br />And of course, Jews are reigniting the cold war by making Russia into the great 'other' because it believes real marriage is between man and woman. <br /><br />And in Israel, Jews use Palestinians and Iranians as the 'other'. And Jews there spit on Christians. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-91912018325298211792014-03-13T21:05:16.912-07:002014-03-13T21:05:16.912-07:00"Somehow, I get the impression that people ar..."Somehow, I get the impression that people are disappointed that Putin is not anti-Semitic....."<br /><br /><br />I think you may have discovered the reason for WWG.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-47834691777984681712014-03-13T21:04:27.603-07:002014-03-13T21:04:27.603-07:00Oh, and of course Israel was the first Jewish ethn...Oh, and of course Israel was the first Jewish ethno-state. The Soviets gave the Jews their own oblast (still exists) which enjoyed greater autonomy than any other.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12423795657484446149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-76814624912804332842014-03-13T20:54:13.407-07:002014-03-13T20:54:13.407-07:00For many years "anti-semitism" was a cap...For many years "anti-semitism" was a capital crime in the Soviet Union, no more be said.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12423795657484446149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-2606478382204809102014-03-13T20:41:00.853-07:002014-03-13T20:41:00.853-07:00Anonymous:"The simpler and better explanation...Anonymous:"The simpler and better explanation is that it's easier and more fulfilling to love a little human who looks like you than to love something that looks nothing like you. But you just keep on believing in your overly complex question-begging Darwinist fantasies."<br /><br />Of course, one could also note the socio-biological angle inherent in loving a baby that looks like you....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-42959576707623175132014-03-13T20:10:47.767-07:002014-03-13T20:10:47.767-07:00"Yeah, I've heard of this technique being..."Yeah, I've heard of this technique being used by Lesbian couples. Allows both parents to be genetically related to the baby. One could see it, I suppose, as a kind of vindication of socio-biology. Even homosexuals want to have their genes go on."<br /><br />The simpler and better explanation is that it's easier and more fulfilling to love a little human who looks like you than to love something that looks nothing like you. But you just keep on believing in your overly complex question-begging Darwinist fantasies.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-16182186447107944702014-03-13T19:47:54.041-07:002014-03-13T19:47:54.041-07:00And yes, Keith Gessen does seem to be reasonable:
...And yes, Keith Gessen does seem to be reasonable:<br /><br />https://twitter.com/juliaioffe/status/440533980522094592Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-62611173042917661392014-03-13T19:40:53.772-07:002014-03-13T19:40:53.772-07:00America was more tolerant than Russia of homosexua...America was more tolerant than Russia of homosexuality for at least the last 60 years, if not more, for what it's worth. Homosexuality really is bourgeois decadence, and its hard to have much of that when your bourgeoise is tiny, as it was in Russia. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-20294247024246775012014-03-13T19:33:53.077-07:002014-03-13T19:33:53.077-07:00As long as we are on the subject of Putin, gayness...As long as we are on the subject of Putin, gayness, and religion, here is a <a href="https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/8102284032/h72DECE4E/" rel="nofollow">funny GIF</a> of Putin's reaction when a man (a priest) tries to kiss his hand.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-41060789302251224282014-03-13T18:50:08.692-07:002014-03-13T18:50:08.692-07:00Yeah, I really don't think that we will ever s...<i>Yeah, I really don't think that we will ever see Blacks or Mestizo Hispanics achieve the kind of over-representation that Whites enjoy.</i><br /><br />Actually, I suspect blacks are more overrepresented than whites. Blacks are in virtually every other commercial and tv show these days. It's blacks and Jews who are overrepresented in the media. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-54049282922834833262014-03-13T18:08:14.757-07:002014-03-13T18:08:14.757-07:00Anonymous:"It's remarkable how one group ...Anonymous:"It's remarkable how one group is so overrepresented in the media and thus in shaping the culture."<br /><br />Yeah, I really don't think that we will ever see Blacks or Mestizo Hispanics achieve the kind of over-representation that Whites enjoy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-27949658845672481072014-03-13T18:06:09.085-07:002014-03-13T18:06:09.085-07:00More Gessen on criminal capitalism:
My father’s p...More Gessen on criminal capitalism:<br /><br />My father’s partner called the security firm that was supposed to be guarding him, otherwise known as his krysha, or “roof.” The krysha was run by a former police colonel. Other such groups were run by former KGB colonels. Others still were run by former (or current) gangsters. In any case they were now all in the same game. This former police colonel listened to the story and said he would make some inquiries. “If it’s the Georgians,” he said, “we can deal with it. And if it’s the Izmailovo group, we can talk to them. But if it’s the Chechens, we can’t help you.” This was not a great answer to receive from your security group, but that’s how things worked. The Chechens were considered more brutal than other gangs, and they were also, it seems, better-armed; this may have been due to the fact that Chechnya was in the process of arming itself for a war against the Russians that was to break out in 1994. A certain amount of weaponry found its way north. In the event, the police colonel made some phone calls, posted himself and some others at the office for a week, and the men never returned. Nonetheless this kind of thing scared the hell out of my father’s partner, who despite making very good money for that time refused to move out of his old Soviet apartment or replace his old Soviet car. He now lives, happier and more relaxed, in Brookline, Massachusetts, and my father has gone back to being a computer programmer.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-10134279241647791372014-03-13T18:04:50.493-07:002014-03-13T18:04:50.493-07:00Gessen on criminal capitalism:
What was criminal ...Gessen on criminal capitalism:<br /><br />What was criminal capitalism in Russia actually like? On the most fundamental level it was a series of protection rackets. If you sold vegetables on the street corner, eventually you’d be approached by some guys in leather jackets who would demand protection money. If you didn’t pay, they upset your vegetable stand; next time, they beat you up. If you paid them, they protected you. They didn’t do this particularly well, but they would try; if some other group of guys in leather jackets came along and tried to shake you down, they’d tell them to lay off, and if they didn’t lay off, they’d fight them. There was a lot of fist-fighting in those days, and most of the guys in the protection rackets were boxers or karate or wrestling champions, including, occasionally, a former Olympian. There were knives, but, at this level anyway, there weren’t many guns. It wasn’t a great system but in the absence of any other kind of system—of an actually functioning law enforcement system—it mostly kept the violence confined to the battles between the gangs themselves, rather than the vegetable sellers. In the absence of a legal system, it was also a way of enforcing contracts, because eventually these shake-down gangs formed larger shake-down syndicates, or were crushed by them. The larger syndicates, without giving up their positions in vegetable stands, moved on to bigger game: shaking down, or “partnering with,” small businesses, and less small businesses, and small banks. In my understanding of this process—which is an imperfect understanding—there was a lot of mobility for the gangs themselves but maybe not within the gangs. If you were a foot soldier, you probably remained a foot soldier, and you suffered a foot soldier’s fate. If you were shaking down a vegetable stand in 1990, you are probably not in the State Duma in 2013. Chances are, you are probably dead.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-10470290547728231012014-03-13T18:03:37.009-07:002014-03-13T18:03:37.009-07:00Gessen on how the future oligarchs started small b...Gessen on how the future oligarchs started small back in the '80s:<br /><br />"Berezovsky wasn’t just an oligarch: he was the first oligarch. He is sometimes referred to slightingly as a “former used car salesman”—this is a kind of joke. In fact Berezovsky was an accomplished mathematician, a corresponding member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, with a specialization in game theory. In the late 1980s, as free enterprise began to be introduced in the USSR, piecemeal and with every possible loophole for corruption, the other future oligarchs began to go into “business”: Mikhail Prokhorov, future owner of Norilsk Nickel and then the New Jersey Nets, sold acid-washed jeans at the local market; Vladimir Gusinsky, future owner of Most-Bank and the country’s first independent television channel, NTV, became an event planner; Mikhail Khodorkovsky, future owner of the country’s largest oil company, now in prison for a decade, opened a cafe." Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-41237735671266014782014-03-13T18:01:25.937-07:002014-03-13T18:01:25.937-07:00Gessen's article is really good. Here's a ...Gessen's article is really good. Here's a chunk that sticks out:<br /><br /><br />Berezovsky saw this happening and came up with a plan. The mood of the country was nationalistic, even militaristic. The oligarchs (or liberals, as Berezovsky thought of them) needed their own nationalist candidate, and he found one in a short, unassuming former KGB officer named Vladimir Putin. He convinced Yeltsin to replace Primakov with Putin. A month later, two large apartment buildings were blown up in Moscow. The explosions were blamed on Chechen terrorists; the second Chechen war began; and Vladimir Putin was assured election to the presidency even if he hadn’t been assigned to the office in a bizarre New Year’s Eve address by a Yeltsin.<br /><br />To his credit, Putin disappointed Berezovsky’s expectation almost as soon as he assumed the presidency. He tried to bring the oligarchs to heel. Whatever else he was wrong about—which was everything—in this at least he was right. These were men who had been handed immense industrial fortunes by a desperate government. They became billionaires overnight. But they had not built these companies. The companies had been built by Soviet workers over the course of decades—some of these workers believed that they were building Communism, some of them were prisoners of the Gulag. All of them worked for pennies. For the oligarchs to pretend like they had earned their fortunes was tremendously insulting to the millions of people who had built them in actual fact. The best and fairest thing to do would have been to nationalize the giant oil companies right then and there. But Putin is a bully and he tried to bully the oligarchs. He began police inspections of Gusinsky and Berezovsky, and soon they had both fled the country; Gusinsky quietly and forever, Berezovsky loudly and with a promise to return. The other oligarchs agreed to behave themselves. The exception was Khodorkovsky, who neither left nor agreed to behave himself. He ended up in prison.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-21049450298915529832014-03-13T17:58:34.459-07:002014-03-13T17:58:34.459-07:00It's funny, we used to be taught that the worl...It's funny, we used to be taught that the world of the past was a homophobic and bigoted place where a homosexual was constantly at risk of death if anyone discovered his orientation, until good liberals in forward-thinking places worked hard to change that in modern times.<br /><br />Now the Narrative seems to be changing: now the past was a place of relative tolerance, until suddenly backward-thinking leaders like Putin decided to turn their countries homophobic.Cail Corishevhttp://cailcorishev.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-5619313850331178532014-03-13T17:57:07.370-07:002014-03-13T17:57:07.370-07:00Russia acknowledged significant operations in seve...<i>Russia acknowledged significant operations in several regions abutting Ukraine on Thursday</i><br /><br />I don't think that Russia will invade mainland southeastern Ukraine without a serious cause. What kind of cause? A crackdown by the Kiev government against pro-Russian demonstrators in eastern Ukraine that leaves thousands of corpses. And I don't expect such a crackdown to happen, partly because Putin's no-nonsense track record and these exercises are acting as a deterrent. <br /><br /><i>"For one reason or another, Putin is not hostile to Jews as such."</i><br /><br />During the South Ossetian war Putin was as explicit as anyone in his position humanly could be that neither he nor Russia had anything against Georgians and that this was only a conflict with Saakashvili. He framed the Chechen war as one against terrorist renegades, not against the Chechen people, and made sure to have very visible Chechen support for his actions. <br /><br />I remember someone asking him for his opinion of the slogan "Russia for Russians", which I think was coined by Alexander III, who ironically, like all the late Romanovs, was mostly German. Putin said that the people who are saying that are morons. Paraphrasing, "how can you say that in such a multiethnic country as ours, what do these idiots want to accomplish, do they want non-Russians to want to split off, do they want to divide Russia again?"<br /><br />The background to this is that the breakup of the Soviet Union was painful for millions of ethnic Russians. The ones who became minorities in newly-independent countries were discriminated against. Millions had to flee. If non-Russian parts of the Russian Federation (Tatarstan, the north Caucasus, etc.) split off, that process would be repeated. <br /><br />He's very sensitive about ethnic topics. He knows it's a minefield and has decided that his role as a head of a multiethnic state is to be impartial. His main difference from Western leaders is that he's not hostile to the majority either. His ideal is polite coexistence. Everyone knows about P***y Riot, but he had also condemned those Mohammed cartoons years ago. I'm sure that those girls and their backers offended him more as a person, but as a head as state he sees impartiality on such matters as a part of his job. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-27303409049572825142014-03-13T17:49:43.931-07:002014-03-13T17:49:43.931-07:00Re: Masha Gessen. In the 90's anal-marriage pr...Re: Masha Gessen. In the 90's anal-marriage proponent Nan Hunter argued one of its benefits would be to "dismantle the legal structure of gender in every marriage". This was before she was appointed Deputy General Counsel for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.C. Van Carterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09918883799053031223noreply@blogger.com