According to progressive mythology insurgents must be like a mist—everywhere and nowhere—never trying to hold ground or wasting lives in battles with regular armies. Chairman Mao insisted that guerrillas should be fish who swam in the sea of the local population. Such views are the logical corollaries of “asymmetric warfare†in which a smaller, apparently …
Category: war
Degentrification
Degentrification is ethnic cleansing of whites. The politically correct account of the inner cities is that white people made them into shitholes in order to hurt black people. But, if you look at the ruins, there are a bunch of really nice buildings which were obviously once inhabited by the better sort of people, middle …
Rohingya terrorist problem
You may have heard that there are over a million poor stateless victimized Rohingya that our do gooders want to move into first world countries to vote for more leftism. And indeed it is true that they are poor stateless and victimized. But a big part of the reason that they are poor, stateless, and …
After economic leftism
Economic leftism, workers against capitalists, died with the Soviet Union. Now it is women and nonwhites against white heterosexual males. American Hindus have extremely high incomes and are extremely reliable Democrat voters. Hindus are the opposite end of income and education spectrum to Mexicans, yet vote the same. Old fashioned economic leftism doesn’t explain this. …
Losing Ramadi
Obama is of course a Muslim, progressive, and anticolonialist who hates America and wishes to see America defeated, but allowing Ramadi, and indeed Iraq, to be lost was pretty sensible. The underlying Bush theory was that Iraq would become a well run democracy, like Switzerland, where the Shia majority elected nice moderate progressives, thereby counterbalancing …
Indonesia, Thailand, and Malaysia capitulate and allow the boats.
Since Tony Abbot has been elected prime minister of Australia, no one is known to have successfully illegally immigrated to Australia. Their boat goes back, or if they are unusually stubborn and persistent, they wind up in a military run prison camp in a third world hell hole. From time to time progressives complain about …
A letter to Sunnis facing Shia Democracy
They are going to kill you all. So you had better sign up with the Caliphate. It is inherent in the nature of democracy that you get rule by a religion that has open entry into the clerisy. It is inherent in the rule of a religion that has open entry into the clerisy that …
After white male america
Law enforcement against blacks is inherently racist. Gentrification proceeded under an unprincipled exception. Eric Holder is rolling back that unprincipled exception. Not only does every good progressive know that being black is no indicator of propensity to commit crimes, he also knows that a past history of criminal conduct is no indicator of propensity to …
The point of the dark enlightenment is to understand the world, not to change it.
Theory is understanding and understanding is theory. Seeing the world as a collection of bare unexplained facts is effectively the same as seeing the world as filled with magic. To suppose that somehow price controls on wages or medical treatment do not behave like price controls generally is in effect to believe in magic. Without …
Nationalism, whiteness, and kin
B.S. Haldane observed “I would lay down my life for two brothers, four nephews, or eight cousins.” In otherwords, kin altruism does not go far, being pretty much limited to the nuclear family and the extended family. It can be stretched to somewhat larger groups by deliberate inbreeding, by the practice of father’s brother’s daughter …