This is an old post of Radish’s, but it took a while to sink in, so now I summarize it. Radish is replacing Moldbug, with lengthy, slow essays, that marshal all the facts without clearly pushing the conclusion, leaving a mental time bomb to slowly detonate as the implications slowly dawn. Racism, racist, etc are new words. We did not have them before 1930 or so (earlier sightings in google …
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Why gay marriage is not
Why Gay Marriage is not One of the gay couple had a son by artificial insemination, the couple adopted the child, became poster boys for Gay Marriage “Two Dads are Better Than Oneâ€, and proceeded to use him sexually, and rent him out to their friends. Now someone will say “Not All Gays are Like Thatâ€, but all the gays I know are like that, and when the progressive media …
Marriage, supply and demand
The old deal, legally enforced before 1857, and socially enforced before 1960, was that a man got: The role of head of household. Marriage for life. Not to be denied sex by his wife. A bride who gives him her youth, virginity, and submission. This gave all males a powerful incentive to build civilization for their posterity, to invest in the future and in themselves. The deal has been endlessly …
GDP and lies
When a government moves left, it damages the economy. When it moves left far enough and fast enough, this becomes embarrassing, so it lies about the economy. North Korea, Cuba, and Argentina are infamous examples of this, the Soviet Union used to be an infamous example. Lately the USA has been understating inflation and overstating real GDP growth. How far out of contact with reality have things gone?
The real charge against Zimmerman
Supposedly, the state’s theory is that Zimmerman followed Trayvon, jumped him, beat him up, then shot him. Of course no one believes this. When the prosecution questions prosecution witnesses, they make no attempt to support their supposed theory. Every prosecution witness bar one, while being questioned by the prosecution, has shot down that purported theory one way or another. It is clear from the prosecution witnesses while being questioned by …
Racism explained
Yet another excellent post by Radish. All whites are racist. Only whites can be racist. Therefore all whites need to be attacked and beaten up – starting of course, with someone like a small woman who cannot and will not fight back. This post categorized under culture rather than politics, because politics implies that there is some conflict and disagreement on the issue, whereas culture refers to universally shared and …
The left devour their own
In the latest re-run of Racefail09, Barry Malzberg and Mike Resnick are being demonized for insufficient leftism – primarily Barry Malzberg, previously a leading leftist of Science Fiction, who, in his younger days, was substantially influential in imposing the then new and rigidly boring political orthodoxy on science fiction and fantasy. Now in their seventies, they failed to quite keep up with the latest orthodoxy, falling two or three years …
On ripple
Ripple is a scam cryptocurrency. Pity, since the alleged design is more scalable than bitcoin. A cryptocurrency is mainly worth its speculative value, worth the possibility it could replace the US$. Obviously Ripple is not going to replace the US$, being a wholly controlled muppet of Cathedral minions. If Ripple was funded by Baidu rather than Google, I would be on it like a tomcat on a pussy in heat.
Selecting for stupid
Before Google became a huge success, it tried to select for the smartest people, in so far as it was legally possible to do. It then became a huge success. Today, Google’s chief human resources officer tells us selecting for smart does not work, so Google does not do it any more. (Hat tip, Lion of the Blogosphere) What do you think is more likely: That selecting for smart does …
Economic efficiency of slavery
For tasks requiring intelligence and independent judgement, for the kind of job where one would ordinarily employ a contractor or high level free employee, slave owners generally gave one of their best slaves an incentive environment approximating that of a high level free employee, where the slave had a future career path, the opportunity to save and invest, to own money and buy assets, including buying other slaves, indicating that …