While I agree with the overall thrust of your argument, the Bloomberg article you lead with is really misleading, at least according to the Daily Wire.
Truth is somewhere in the middle here. It's true that my profession mostly hires Asians, but whites (men and women) can also still find jobs. Here's the thing, though: I'm in a mathematics-intensive discipline, and taught (as tenured faculty) for some years before moving to industry. Asians are good at, and (more importantly), *interested* in mathematics-intensive subjects. Whites, as a rule, seem not to be. It is my observation as a curmudgeonly Gen-Xer that whites have become intellectually soft (obviously this is a statistical statement not a statement about individuals). So there's a karmic aspect to this. I love Western heritage and mourn the substantial loss, but honestly some of the causes are our own deficits and degeneration of character.
Yes, and I am quite aware that many of the causes are external. Our culture has systematically degenerated since at least the 1960s if not earlier. While the process has been somewhat iterative, I am 100% certain that there have been vested interests that have guided it.
This is absolutely the case. Degradation of the education system, poisoning of the food supply, the spread of drugs, and the promulgation of the "smart nerds aren't cool" meme have all played their part, and absolutely none of it has been organic.
BTW your ilk has over used the scare word "racist" like the boy who called wolf and now it has no effect on anyone with above a room temperature IQ, proud of yourself?
My complex special needs stepson doesn’t do well with questions; he may just respond to one of the words he picks up, much as you did, missing entirely the context and intent.
Beats anything you have to offer regime propaganda spewer. Yes, I have dealt with this heavily propagandized idiot before, he's not even smart enough to be an actual Marxist with a material class analysis which I can at least respect as a well thought out wrong idea, lol!
I have a theory about this decline in mental capacity in general. Mental capacity, or intelligence, is highly dependent on nutrition, especially in the first two years of life. Have you ever looked at what's in baby formula? I promise you that the wealthy elites are not feeding their children that crap. The brain is primarily saturated fat and cholesterol, and for some reason the "health authorities" want us to reduce saturated fat and cholesterol (mostly with a pill). I read somewhere that 30% of the population has detectible levels of glyphosates in their blood. Only the wealthy can afford to consistently eat food that isn't grown with toxic chemicals, unless you grow your own. I could go on about this topic for days, but the bottom line is, our general food supply has been ruined by genetic engineering and chemicals and the population has been brainwashed into believing that rabbit food is healthy for a primate with a big brain that was probably developed because of the eating of fatty meat.
As for the difference you see between different cultures (this has nothing to do with melanin in the skin in my opinion) I would wager that Asians and people of Asian descent typically eat completely differently than your average white person or your average black person. This is a cultural thing. It's a cultural thing between socio-economic classes too.
Weak people, mentally and physically, are easier to control. A sickly man cares nothing for liberty or anything else really. Follow the money...
Not all Asians. There's been a definite tendency in recent years for Americanized Asians to get fat. There's no question that adulteration of the food supply is having a deleterious effect, and I doubt this is unintentional.
I go to China on business. They eat greens and protein. A bit of noodles. Not much rice. They eat far fewer carbs there. I suspect they get here and eat the carb heavy diet we do and get fat, as we do.
When I was growing up one didn’t snack. You had your meal and that was that. Now fridges are constantly full. I suspect 1/ 3 of caloric intake is between meals.
In my opinion, Ancel Keys and FDR did more to destroy Western civilization than any of the great dictators of the 20th century. Sickliness and government dependency are now the norm. And if you point this out and suggest that people should *do* something about it, *you're* evil.
Yes. Everything is a rich man’s trick. It’s all a class war. And that’s where this piece is frustrating, because it seems the author chose racist memes that will garner predictable responses. In fact I think one of these is profoundly wrong: the photograph suggesting the current state of the unhired whites actually makes them indistinguishable from your Sambo - err, “Tyrone” toon above. The picture you want is, seemingly a lot closer to a look in the mirror. These white males you speak of are found in mom’s basement, pale and not mating but gaming with their ilk, or 4channing hate, or, you know, plotting violence (something men, not women, excel at). So there’s that.
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Imagine a place where, 400 years ago, someone started adding a drop of rosewater to the murky water they drank, and this was quickly adopted as custom, and rosewater was added in increasing amounts to the public supply. Let’s say that 100 years ago, some folk started objecting, and began adding lemon juice to their own water. And then fifty years ago after much struggle, they took over the water supply and added lemon to the now fully rosewatered public water. They can’t eliminate the rosewater because most folk are used to it, but now instead of the pure clean water available to the very wealthy few, everybody else is getting rosewater with lemon. No one is happy but the rich. The lemon makes the rosewater only somewhat less unpleasant to those who don’t like it, but it spoils the rosewater of those who do.
It’s not the best analogy, but the point is, one way or another the inequities of the past intrude on today. Now, just as the indentured European would-be settlers found themselves in the same lot as enslaved Africans and were sold a bill of goods about race to fool them into thinking they weren’t at the bottom...they’re back at the bottom. And who is still on top? The MAN with the munny.
You confuse inequity with class-based law, ditto privilege and the corresponding social structure; inequity can only be discovered or exist when one starts out from an assumed position of theoretical equality (itself a logical impossibility because it requires all humans to be equal, meaning identical, in ability et c).
The pre-Leninist socialists were not cocerned with equity but with practical matters. That's a much more profitable (if you'll excuse the word) course of both analysis and action, and don't forget they also were pragmatists: reality first, theory second. Lenin and his bourgeois clique turned it topside-down, with well-known results. In post-war Germany, the Nordic nations and some other places theory took a back seat to reality and thus those nations had what is probably the closest working model of socialism, when compared totheory because they stuck to real things and because the nations were racially homogeous and based on lutheran and culture-bound morals and social structures (and strictures).
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I shouldn't respond to your trolling, but none of us here are stupid, I have a tested 140 IQ and am an Oberlin college philosophy grad, John Carter is also from a high level academic background, before he correctly realized that his career would go nowhere in academia due to overtly stated within academia itself bias against white straight men. My only excuse for believing in academia at all was I am older than John and went to college at a time woke discrimination wasn't quite as deleterious to a white straight male's life.
You’re right, you shouldn’t, but you seem unable to help yourself.
My IQ was about 4 points shy of yours when tested. My father is one of two living philosophers with comets named after them. I have spent an abundance of time in (not merely overhearing) intellectual discourse on many topics.
Please insert your ad hominem insults where the sun does not shine.
Classtardism is going out, give it up. Didn't you ever think that putting different races together is a rich man's trick (it is) and that I have very good, natural reasons not to want to be around other races?
It was the exact strategy pursued by the railroads. They understood that introducing other races created racial divisions and strife which undermined the abilities of the workers to act as a team.
In the book Which Way Western Man?, William Simpson had already observed the decline in quality of the white population in the early half of the 20th century. He discussed the decline in the quality of the topsoil as a potential factor. This explanation is plausible imo.
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This from Heather Mac Donald's 'The Diversity Delusion' forensic investigation of the effect DEI is having on STEM: "A study by the American Association for the Advancement of Science found “systemic anti-LGBTQ bias within STEM industry and academia.” The notorious James Damore Google discrimination lawsuit revealed an instance where an employee was reprimanded for pointing out that white males are actually underrepresented at Google: “’Being absolutely correct is inappropriate’ when it comes to ‘discussions of race and justice’” he was told. Meanwhile, “driven by unapologetic meritocracy, China is catching up to the United States in science and technology. Identity politics in American science is a political self-indulgence we cannot afford.” https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/p/how-diversity-narrows-the-mind
It’s cultural. When I taught English in Russia and Ukraine, it seemed like about 60% of my teenage students were focusing on physics, mathematics, engineering, computer science, and other “hard” subjects.
We have emphasized credentials over actual skills in the U.S. That’s why so many white kids end up choosing easier degrees.
Given how corporate and government jobs seem to be favoring DEI candidates who also chose worthless degrees, maybe it’s time to encourage white boys to challenge themselves and study something useful
We had to pay for extra curricular maths tutoring for our son at our local public high school. The school had a token male teacher ratio, with female headmistress and female maths ‘teachers’ & ‘subs’ blatantly discriminating against him and other boys in his class with their callous indifference and thinly veiled contempt. These women sabotaged his being moved up into the advanced high school maths classes. He has only just started to speak about it now, four years later. Now in the sciences at university, having won two scholarships & working for 3 years after high school, he has sworn that should he ever have a son, he will be sent to an all boys school.
I think I know your profession. Do you deal with Heston or Merton models, or XVAs or need to perform a lot of calibrations, if yes then I know what you do
🧐 this is a perfect example of the sheer incompetence - Bloomberg- THE Bloomberg of finance and trading platforms. And they fail spectacularly at simple statistics. And editorial review. Bah.
It's also possible they knew the numbers were off, but published it anyway to get clicks. The article did go mega-viral, so it worked for them if this was the case.
Indeed. I've seen this in other contexts, e.g. sloppy scientific work yielding "amazing results" which then results in tenured positions only for the sloppiness to be found, corrected, and the "amazing results" reverting to "exactly as expected by conventional models".
John- count me among your straight white guys looking for a job. Every single lead I have had has come from a personal contact. I have sent out maybe 150 resumes with a total of two interviews.
Randomly applying for jobs is a suckers game bc of what you note about white guys being out of favor.
Unfortunately, no one gives a shit. I’m not going to hold my breath waiting for the government to form the “white guy council” for them to figure out why we are killing ourselves with the latest street drugs or blowing our brains out.
I don’t know what the solution is, but I have a terrible feeling that, one way or another, the resolution isn’t going to be pretty.
I don't see this ending in any way other than tears for everyone. You're absolutely correct that the government isn't going to save us from this - the state is, after all, a primary cause of this in the first place.
Best of luck on the job search. The struggle you describe is the reason I'm still hanging onto my job that I'm laughably overqualified for. Of my "black and brown" coworkers, some are solidly competent (and these would thrive without any DEI mandates whatsoever), but many are not at all competent. A few, I hate to say, are not far from the meme shared in John's post about Tyrone the diversity hire. I wish I was joking, but I am not. Since I started working there, standards have been steadily relaxed -- management absolutely, positively will not call a spade a spade and weed out the people who simply lack the cognitive ability to become competent at their jobs; those who are competent get frustrated and then demoralized (including those top-performers who are "black and brown"); and the dysfunction just builds and builds. The whole thing is a microcosm of our civilization: primed to collapse as those with the talents to keep it running are pushed aside.
Like you said, the resolution isn't going to be pretty. "For every action, there's an equal and opposite reaction" isn't true only of physics; it's true of social movements as well. Folks who are happy to push things to the limit now because it seems to benefit them will suffer when the backlash comes. Unfortunately, for many of them, their brains do not work well enough to be able to connect the cause-and-effect when it comes; they will not see that they brought this backlash on themselves.
The worst of it won't be the talented getting pushed aside. That's just how it starts. It's when the talented start actively leaving the system that the collapse will begin.
Parallel networks will be key. Straight white males have been brainwashed so badly about the evils of in-group preference (but only for themselves, for everyone else it's encouraged and celebrated) and punished whenever there's even the faintest whiff of it, that we're behind the curve on this. But once that truly becomes a thing (and it certainly will at this rate), the legacy institutions are done.
They must and will learn better as the system tilts more and more against them. There will be no choice whatsoever, if they do not do so then they will not survive.
Yes, only white people can't have their own anything, whether it's schools, clubs or whatever. You always hear them crowing about historically black colleges and universities. You can't have historically white colleges and universities. I believe they went after Bob Jones University a few years back for prohibiting interracial dating. As long as white people participate in perpetuating this blatant government-sponsored racial discrimination, it'll never stop.
I left 5 years ago into the literal wilderness, there isn't enough you could pay me to go back to the shitty. An anecdote and not data to be sure, still...
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Don't forget that the Third-Worlders pouring in are happy to see the country degenerate to a shit-hole. As long as it is marginally better than their own shit-hole from which they've come they'll be content. This means that the floor for our countries is just a smidge above Somalia, the Congo etc etc. We can't wait until it degenerates for them to leave, they will have to be forced out.
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Anything rather than raise the standard of living for native Westerners. After corona we had a shortage of carers in Britain. Much was said about wages rising as a consequence. The government promptly increased the number of visas issued to Indian and Zimbabwean 'carers' by thousands of per cent. Untrained, illiterate but no formal training required so impossible to reject as 'unqualified'. The care home near me is now almost entirely coloured staff it would seem. As I said, *anything* but make life better for the British.
A long term positive of this situation is that perhaps it will incentivize whites to perform the home care for their own family members instead of outsourcing it to coolie labor.
Speaking of backlash, when is the serious debate on reparations set to occur? Please understand this is a call for a debate on all the history and nuance, and not a demand or even an expectation that money be handed out.
- the British Empire using its navy to shut down the Atlantic slave trade
- America fighting the Civil War to end slavery
- the several trillion dollars that have been squandered on education, housing, welfare, SNAP, affirmative action, etc etc, all to no observable positive effect
Were it not for the reparations America has already paid to its black population, we'd have had cities on Mars thirty years ago.
Translation: no one agrees with your commie critical race theory bullshit, you have no actual idea what you're talking about, and therefore are experiencing "hate".
Also lol at sharing an article with nothing but one paragraph in front of the paywall.
Actually the hate referenced was not felt as directed at me. We disagree sufficiently that there is no percentage in continuing to engage on this thread.
Apologies about the paywall, I thought he had that piece open for a while. Here’s the short version: Musk is the mad scientist supervillain he appears to be. He is pushing science in hopes of uploading his consciousness into immortal robots ahead of common futurist timelines (so his mars (etc) colonies won’t need terraforming to accommodate people, just boring & mining rigs), and the disparate elements of his empire are all tuned to that outcome.
The good news for you is, he’ll probably hire smart white boys.
That’s the mote in your eye, the plank in mine. We always recognize our own failings most easily in others, and least in ourselves. Etc.
Otoh the point I was trying to make about hate was Jaron Lanier’s, that the internet is a huge bummer machine, and it seems regardless the starting height of the brow if you will, regardless of the topic of debate, it almost inevitably devolves (“we’re all D E V O !”) into some degree of insult and cruel one-upmanship. Mr. Raven is a standout example, he seems to want to get nasty early.
If you are talking about the reparations that the blacks owe to the whites for both giving them the fruits of Western civilization, and putting their descendants in a position of wealth, ease, and safety that they never would have been in in a thousand generations on their own, as well as bearing the disproportionate and overwhelmingly one-sided brunt of black criminality and violence, I don't think that's a discussion we are going to have. They cannot afford it.
Blacks are better off here than they would have been having been left in Africa. Ergo no damage, no tort. If you want to argue pain and suffering of the actual slaves then maybe. But they are dead a long time ago. Jay Z does not need reparations. Especially considering rap culture has damaged young black men far more than any micro aggressions, if they exist, have.
Factoring in the cost of property damage, theft, and lost income from murders, add in reduced property prices in areas they control, throw in the money they already get from welfare far in excess of their meager tax contribution, and subtract that from the total cost of cotton and tobacco exports from 1619 to 1865...adjust for inflation...yeah, looks like they owe us a lot of money. I would be willing to settle for them just moving to Africa as payment though.
Somebody vouched for the intelligence of all y’all on this thread, so you must be deliberately trolling.
He also claimed overuse of the term “racist” has rendered it meaningless, but that’s pretty obviously a self serving ruse that would likewise give you cover. You might want to look into early math, medicine, science etc for a more accurate assessment.
As for Mr Rikard, you must be your boss’s favourite insurance adjuster, offering nickels on the dollar like that.
"You might want to look into early math, medicine, science etc for a more accurate assessment."
Please tell us you're not conflating the contributions made by Egyptian, Mesopotamian, and Arabic civilizations with the non-existent contributions made by Sub-Saharan Africans to humanity's intellectual development.
I said a debate. You are contributing some of your thoughts. Others - Ta-Nehisi Coates for example (wrote a piece on Reparations for the Atlantic a few years back) - might disagree.
You can all bring your receipts. It’s a debate, and you haven’t won it yet ;)
Gordon, if your current income is low enough, make sure you sign up for EBT and medicaid.
Take everything you can get from the system while it lasts. Get heating and electricity assistance too.
White males need to start doing this. Fuck the "rugged individualist" bullshit. That was over when White males lost control of the system and had a target put on their backs by the ethnic oligarchs who own and control everything, and their woke commie minions.
Yes, by all means, take as much advantage of the system as you can. They haven't gotten to the point yet where they can discriminate against whites in financial or heating assistance, so before they do, help yourself.
Take for what the system gives, but make sure you gotta a bug out and back up plan. When the 8 million with rifles coming over the border start getting 'activated' it will be hell.. no more law and order like the whites are used to, black situation going to get worse, total Mad Max if the phones go out and the EBT stops. Telling you real truth. Either be out in fly over and remote and within a tight community OR you be close to the coast and ready to bolt (sailboats are best for this to slip away un noticed get yourself some skills sailing, compass map reading and sextant use...). And be ready to flit when the situation begins the plunge because you WONT have much time to leave. Just regard South Africa now for whites compared to what it was.... Family overseas? Friends? a different non western country? Get ready... I would make sure the passport is valid for 10ys NOW and that you have some 'stash' you can travel with.. a skill set? EMT? Vet assistant? hard skills... Farming?
That would only work if you were woke. These shiboleths exist to weed out the faithful from the unfaithful. They don't hate you because you are white, they hate you because you are unclean and not pure in the True Faith.
Pure, True Faith whites males who wear hairshirts and self flagellate for holiness are the holiest of the holy. Especially when they take gay communion and hand over their sons and daughters to be mutilated for holiness.
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"They don't hate you because you are white, they hate you because you are unclean and not pure in the True Faith."
Unfortunately it is both at the same time, in a constantly accelerating cycle. The doctrine of the true faith in the second holds as one of its articles the first. On a metaphysical level to be a true and non-groveling member of that group, and to be a blaspheming heretic, are metaphysically the same.
The beautiful are hated by the ugly both because they are beautiful, and because they are not ugly.
Basically you have two types of survival strategies. One based on resource abundance (rabbits) and the other on resource scarcity (wolves)
Wolvrs cant fuck around. If a pack gets a kill and another challenges they have to fight bc they dont know if thry are ever going to find more food. The pack is only as strong as its weakest member, so they strive for excellence. They mate for life and they even prevent mating when resources are too low. Thats “K”. So you can imagine how this applies politically.
The “r” type strategists are in resouce abundance. Food is plentiful, westher is warm, etc. if a ravbit is challengrd over a carrot, it will just hope away bc a fight could injure it and there is easily another carrot. They have sex with everything (seriously, theyll hump a dead rabbit), bc resources are abundant it low invests in rearing young, instead it tries a shotgun approach to mating.
Where it grts really interesting is that your r strategist doesnt like it when another member develops tough characteristics. It is actually safer when everyone is pathetic bc a predator will only take out one member. And if you have a thoisand members who are app equally pathetic then its odds of survival are 999/1000. But if one of the other members develop tough characteristics, its odd go DOWN.
Anyway, bottom line is that shitbags prefer to undermine the higher quality competitors bc that way they can use the shotgun approach to mating, which is ideal for them when the environment has high resources and they are of the priest class. That is, the class of people whose job it is to transmit the social traditions on what is proper behavior.
At that point we get into “Jimian theory” of what Jim of blog.jim.com called “leftist singularity”. This is when a civilizations military is dominant, meaning their priests are dominant over all competing priesthoods. At thst point the priests suddenly start discovering that their ancient laws and traditions demand that people start giving them free shit. Ie “do not covet” becomes “you didnt build that by yourself”, “do not commit adultery” becomes “let your wife and daughter find themselves by having sex with many priests in the temples and monasteries”.
Priests here refering to university professors and students. As academia is the modern priesthood.
So holiness becomes discovering new forms of bullshit to convince people to give the Church their stuff.
The singularity occurs when priests start competing with one anotjer to be “more holy” ie to come up with new bullshit. Specifically bullshit that makes everyone else profane at which point it is the duty of the holy to take their stuff and kill them.
You can see an example of this with the Khmer Rouge where the eventually ended up killing anyone that so mich as had eyeglasses.
According to Jimian theory, once a singularity goes into full swing it stops in only two situations.
1) a strongman of the faith, such as Stalin or Cromwell steps up and executes anyone that tries to be more holy than the strongman.
2) it burns itself out by literally killing everyone. Ie Cambodia
Only until the video camera comes on for the interview, then, once they see what he looks like, he drops back down to the bottom of the hiring list or drops off entirely.
A Jewish kid applied at all the Ivies. This was twenty years ago. 99th percentile Sats. Straight As. Volunteered etc. Perfect candidate. He couldn’t get in. His name was, if I recall, Richard Martin. He changed it to ‘Ricardo Martinez’ and DIDN’T check Latino as ethnicity. He checked ‘prefer not to say’. He got in to Yale. About two years later they wanted to expel him for lying on his application form. Somehow it came out he wasn’t Latino. He said ‘I never lied. I changed my name legally.’ He had never ever said he was Latino. They still wanted him gone. He had his lawyer write a letter. He stayed at Yale.
Leaving the US is the best option (or the UK, Canada, wherever you are), for Arab/Muslim nations or perhaps S. America. The other option is to legally change your surname or your middle name (or add one) to a Spanish name, and if required to justify, state it is your maternal line. Once established, you are Hispanic and no, you don't have to speak Spanish to be Hispanic in the US.
I really hate how the term 'Hispanic' has been enshrined in discussions about demographics. The fact that it is applied so loosely and incorrectly makes it the perfect tool for sophists. Whites need to stop using it altogether, instead substituting either latino or mestizo.
I read an article about a US black woman who got a job in an all black country. She was so excited to live amongst people who would see the world as she does. Right. It shocked her to find blacks from Ghana aren’t like blacks from Jamaica/US/Nigeria etc. They’re all different cultures and kf course different in myriad individual ways too. She was disappointed she didn’t get to experience what white people experience. Because Swedes Scots Germans Italians Spanish Romanians all are the same, right?
Latino is just as dumb. People of French descent are Latin-American also and the term was coined by the French, primarily for Louisiana (White) Creoles, as well as other Francophones. The entire thing is a scam. Dr. Cristina Mora wrote a whole book about it, I think it is called something like, the Making of Hispanics or something. Google it.
I'm retired. I'm white. I have two thirty-year-old sons living with me. Neither has a job. Fortunately, when I was working, I socked away enough money to keep all three of us going without too much hardship. Offloaded a money-grubbing second wife last year, whose plan was for me to die first, "contest the will" - her words to her friends - give it all to her four children from her first marriage, and kick my two out on the street.
I have been considering "the talk" about work with my two sons, but haven't yet BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO SAY, SO I SAY NOTHING. As angry as I am, I don't have to watch my children take to the streets; I can't imagine the anger of everyone else.
Her first husband simply rolled over; I have enough Highlander in me that I don't give up unless I am beaten into the ground. She wasn't prepared for that. I ended up losing about 5% of my net worth to her, so I didn't have to be crippled in order to learn a Very Good And Very Cheap Lesson.
I still haven't figured out what to do about sex, (can't wait for the Japanese to perfect their robots), but otherwise am very Red-pilled and a lot smarter. I may expatriate to the Philippines, but Western women? Not happening.
There is a film called 'The Menu', came out this year I think.
It's about a creative chef who has been worn down by the abject shite enforced upon him by The Takers. The ending is not pretty, but slightly funny and very appropriate.
The name of the chef is Slowick, or Slow Wick.
"The guys" controlling our cultural demolition know exactly what they're doing; they didn't create, master and corner the psychology market accidentally. Their 'prophecy' must be fulfilled. I wonder how much more insane they'd become if it was thwarted.
Solution work for yourself with a skill or trade that people have to have. Electrician. Plumber. Concrete. Machine operator (esp robots). That kind of jobs. Not glamour job, but you can bet your boots you'll have work.
Americans don't realize just how bad it is in Canada. Down south the discrimination is implicit and informal. Here it's codified in law.
As to making HR's job easier: yep. Way simpler to just toss every application that fails to tick the race box into the woodchipper than it is to actually read them.
Maybe that will make you angrier though and more willing to fight. The "best" (for them) propaganda slow boils the victims so they don't even jump out of the pot before becoming dinner.
Unfortunately our system has no checks and balances. Our PM has a near tyranny available to him legally. We don’t have a charter of rights. We do, but the first paragraph says these rights outlined can be overridden by any government in the interests of good governance. Free Speech? Nope. Free Speech only if the government feels it won’t disrupt anything. Good governance/stable society etc. Canada was guided by English Common Law. We always had that, even without a formal declaration of rights. But our charter of rights declares it takes precedence over English Common Law. When this was enshrined by Pierre Trudeau a very small number of us were horrified. I said at the time Canada would be fine until such time as we elected a tyrant. And then, we would be done. It took forty years.
It'll be codified into law here, too, before too long. In some federal policies, it already is, such as the black first-time home buyers bill, where they don't have to pay closing costs or come up with a down payment, or the black farm bill, where black farmers have access to federal loans whites do not.
I almost marked myself as gay in a few job applications. if things don't improve, I will have to start doing that. I had a black great-great-father but unfortunately his genes were not enough and I would have a hard time convincing people I am black.
Always claim membership of a privileged class on hiring forms, racial or otherwise. Claim that you are a female to male transperson. Threaten lawsuits if they challenge you.
I walked into a furniture store, height of COVID, unmasked. I was told to leave. I asked why. Obvious answer. I said ‘I can’t wear masks as I have a heart problem’. I asked for an accommodation. They said NO. I said ‘are you telling me your store won’t accommodate people with disabilities? What is your name please? I would like to speak to your manager’. She runs off, talks to manager about 30’ away. They both look worried. He comes over ‘Of course we will. But please stay six feet away from anyone.’ I wandered around looking at furniture styles. Not a chance I would buy anything there. But it had modern edgy furniture, which I was looking for. The funny thing is the manager followed me around the whole time I was there ensuring I stayed 6’ apart.
If “self-identify” is the standard, white males should just self-identify as something else. “Yass, I know I look white, but my great grandpa on my mother’s side had a few drops of Cherokee blood.” Hey it worked for senator warren.
The crazy thing is, the juxtaposition of the open and obvious discrimination against straight white men with the endless lecturing about how privileged we supppsedly are. Meanwhile, blacks (and especially black females) love to recite the culturally-acceptable mantras about how you have to be so much better as a black person to get to the same place as whites, even as they benefit from special grants, SBA loans, scholarships, and DEI mandates reserved especially for them, as well as officials at all levels openly promising to make their next appointment a black female, etc. If it was just discrimination against white men purely on account of their race and gender, that would be bad enough, but it's all the gaslighting on top of it that really gets to me.
Isn't it though? I first saw it at Occupy, and I was like WTF, literally the majority of poor people in the U.S. are white, which is pretty simple and obvious demographics because we are the majority population. "The progressive stack," was my first real clue the left was deeply off course, though I had always been anti gun control and pro free speech "even for Nazis." I was naive then, but not that naive, LOL.
If you look at earnings, the average white family earns the average amount per year. Very logical. The largest group average is going to be close to the average. It has to be if the largest group is big enough. African Americans are quite far down the list. Well below average. Because of racism. But….black African immigrants are quite high up the list. Well above whites. And they are very black usually. Much darker than your typical mocha Afrjcan American. South Asian Indians are top or second. Chinese Asians, Jews, are near the top. Nigerians are well up there. Colour of skin is obviously not a factor.
I was recently referred to a position very similar to the one I currently occupy at a SaaS company (where I feel I barely squeaked in before the aftermath of Saint Floyd's Summer took full effect) by an Indian-Canadian colleague who used to work with me here.
The company is a similar size, in the same industry, and the role would have been a perfect fit for my skills.
Having talked to some former coworkers who left my current employer, I already knew I was underpaid but not how woefully: according to the recruiter for this position, the salary range was literally double my current pay and the health insurance premiums for my entire family would have been covered.
Alas, despite being given a chance by the white, 20-something female HR recruiter (who likely just has an incentive to pass along anyone who appears competent), I didn't even get to speak with the white woman in the Bay Area who would have been my manager because they "decided to go with a late-stage candidate."
I noticed basically the same role was open on a different team, so I asked the recruiter about it and had my friend push my resume for that one, too.
This one actually got me an interview with the woman who'd have been my manager-- again, a white woman, this time an overweight, late 30s woman who studied Women's Studies and Social Work, spending half her professional career fundraising for the Social Democrat party in Canada before somehow transitioning into a SaaS technical role.
I was wary of reporting to such a person, but given the potential pay raise, I was willing to try to play nice with almost anyone.
We actually had a great 30-minute conversation where I felt I developed good rapport with her and demonstrated my abilities as a near-perfect match for the role, especially given my own personal experience as not just an employee in the space but an end user of software products in the e-com niche as an entrepreneur myself.
Go figure, I got the exact same email, word for word, from the recruiter about them wanting to go with another "late stage candidate."
Now, the positions are gone from their site, so it's possible they really did have two other candidates and I just missed it by the skin of my teeth, though I had to wonder whether I was competing against other straight, white, married males with dependents or more single cat ladies who vote for progressives.
This was a year after Amazon put me through a 2-month, 8-interview wringer (including making me talk to the same person twice), where I had great rapport with the guys who'd have been on my team, my immediate supervisor and his boss, and the subject matter experts who assessed me. I am almost certain I was shot down by the very last interviewer (the secret "bar raiser" who holds veto power over the entire chain of interviewers), who was a white woman my own age, the only one with pronouns in her signature, and who was training another woman to conduct the interview at the end of a 5-hour day where my brain was already fried.
Although I didn't get that job, I think I dodged a bullet since most of the tech companies did massive layoffs last fall, including my own, though I managed to be enough of a generalist with enough history here I wasn't redundant enough to axe.
In both cases, I received no feedback about why I wasn't selected, but it's one thing when you interview for a job where you figure out you're probably in over your head or the fit isn't that great or you make a poor showing of your skills in the interview and quite another where it feels like a position fits like a glove and would come with a sizeable raise and career advancement.
I haven't exactly been pounding the digital pavement, but if I can't even get a job when I have a referral, it feels pointless. And to be honest, I sort of gave up on the corporate world a while ago and have no desire to try to climb the ladder, especially seeing the writing on the wall for guys like me.
Which is why I've been buckling down continuing to build my own personal brand and consulting services. Would rather be done with all the woke HR departments and keeping my head down just to get a paycheck anyway.
P.S. Feinstein's corpse isn't even cold yet and Gavin Newsome has already nominated a black lesbian woman who doesn't even live in California to be her replacement as senator. As if Karine Jean-Pierre wasn't a warning.
Sounds like you've been experiencing this first hand. It's incredibly demoralizing, on the one hand; but on the other, we no longer need to give these corporations any loyalty, or tie up any of our self worth in our ability to advance within them.
This just parallels every other trend in our society as my wife continues her suburban homesteading while raising our two young children.
I really never expected when I was a kid in the 90s that I would live through the collapse of my civilization in the prime of my life, but I suppose no one does.
I try not to let it overwhelm me, but it is so tragic and all the more galling when you look at what absolute clowns our rulers are. I'm actually more angry at all the idiots who allowed-- and continue to allow-- them to hold any sort of respectability, let alone power.
How the average person doesn't see that the emperor is wearing no clothes at this point is one of the great pains of my life.
The sheer absurdity of it is the worst part. It would be one thing if we'd been conquered, put to the sword, our lands ravaged, our cities burned, our women, daughters, and sons taken as slaves. Having our rulers throw open the gates, hold our arms behind our backs, and give it all up with smiles on their faces is actually far more humiliating simply for how bafflingly ridiculous it is.
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Our traitors posing as representatives know they'll profit more through Mr. Global's bribery than their severance packages. Generous as those are. And their subjects don't mind being lied to yet implicitly trust them enough to get experimental goo pumped into their arms. For reasons.
A whitepill that occurred to me recently is I think there are really only a 100 or so laptop class ass whores who are actual human shitlibs who crank out talking points for the day on Xer, and aside from a few very elderly people, fat trans HR department heads, and wine moms the rest are bots to make us think shitlibs are popular and triumphant when they are not. So what if shitlibs are only actually 5 percent of the population, and we are the counter 5 percent, and the 90 percent are just trying to get by under the radar?
The question is, how to you get the intert mass of people to see that?
"The question is, how to you get the intert mass of people to see that?"
Show them that they A) pay taxes for the clown-show and B) how much of their taxes go to A).
Ideological talking points bore most people to tears and they just shut down; that they have been forced to pay X amount of their wages to pedopropaganda aimed at their kids is tangible and real.
It is consistently only about 8%-11% who are progs. Research shows. Maybe 1% evil. Another 8%-10% minions. Activists, etc. About 20% can think for themselves. And 70% who are essentially NPCs. They’d hate blacks if they were told to. Or Jews. Or whites. Or Chinese. Or Russians. We actually out number them, the active haters, 2-1. The great mass lean our way but are swayed by propaganda.
Yes I live in a 650 sq foot house in literally one of the poorest counties in America. But I have an acre of land, and many lakes and clean running trout streams within walking distance of my house. I'll make it even if shit goes full south.
It's a hard time to be a white male, we've had a lot of young male suicides in my area and what you describe illuminates the entire situation...wishing you the best of luck and success with your company!
It's a silly reference but have you seen 'Layer Cake'? It's worth watching the introduction for the ending line about not taking the piss: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwoCyF6qJzE.
If you are competent and reliable there will always be work. I don't know about large companies but the individual customer is not yet forced to buy from government-approved sources and can build up a reputation. In Britain this is seen by a lot of British medics going private with the Third-World dross staying in the public hospitals.
This is pretty much what I'm suggesting, yeah. The competent will have to establish a new societal infrastructure composed of loose, informally organized networks of freelancers and independent contractors.
The Liberal World Order is catching onto this trend as well and making gig-economy jobs illegal too. They are forcing companies like Uber to hire and pay the independent contractors, pricing their jobs out of the marketplace. Seattle just did this, and nobody wants to pay the premium.
I'm not sure this actually works anymore. I've noticed that LGBT is often not included in the "diversity rainbow" of equity-seeking categories in job ads I've seen from the last several months. I suspect they finally got wise to this obvious dodge.
As the leftist holiness spiral moves into the singularity stage, the requirements for acceptable holiness become more extreme.
"Leftist Singularity" aka "Holiness Spiral", are terms created by the blogger Jim from blog.jim.com. His theory is that when a nations military has dominated all competing groups, the result is that countries priesthood becomes the dominant force.
When a priesthood is in a dominant position, it then becomes in their interest to find new and novel interpretations of scripture that show how God's will was actually to give the priests more free shit at the expense of the populace. For example, "do not steal" becomes "you did not build this yourself therefore you are stealing by not giving your fair share". or "do not commit adultery" becomes "do not keep your wife from finding herself via sex with random men, preferably priests".
At this point, it becomes in the interest of every priest to "out holy" every other priest. Since more holiness means more goods for the priesthood. In the name of God of course. However, this also means that the priests are now in competition with each other, and that means that being "less holy" or even worse "unholy" allows the priests to kill heretic unholy priests whose crime is not being up on the latest agreed consensus as to what exactly is holy.
This incidentally explains why so many women at womens marches simply cannot explain what a woman is. They are there for holiness, not rights. Since it was decided by the priesthood (the universities) that womens rights are holiness, they march for womens rights, in order to be holy. They want to be holy because women depend on others for resources.
A woman can be honorable and genuinely holy and give herself in perpetuity to a man who will take care of her.
Or she can giver herself out to the lying faggots in the priesthood who will find great excuses for the thug class to steal shit from the producers. In return the lying faggots in the priesthood will pimp her out as a temple whore to the military and merchant class youths or even the older members of those classes.
So right now the priesthood has become so holy, that they declared that having a uterus is no longer a necessary requirement of being a women. Because holiness. As a result the temple whores are in a bind, it's obvious that a uterus is in fact a requirement of being a woman but if they say so they will be unholy and cast out by the lying faggots in the priesthood to die in the wilderness. Tough position.
You just described how Byzantium rotted from within.
Granted, it's fall took six centuries to complete, but still.
For an antithesis to the rot you describe (splendidly, by the way), look at what happened to Alexander's brief empire after his death. In fact, the Diadoci and their actions could be said to prove your point from the opposite direction.
The Diadoci display a different sort of rot. For example, I was just reading Plutarch's biography of Demetrius, and he made a point of noting how unusual his family was among the Diadoci in that sons weren't trying to kill their fathers for the throne.
Now that’s an interesting observation. A few years ago I came across an ad for a “crew leader” for a national forest strike team in Colorado or New Mexico. It sounded like really macho shit. Then I saw the minimum qualifications: “must identify as LGBTQIA2S+” (that’s a direct quote—I screenshotted it). You also had to exhibit “the ability to effectively work on diverse teams or with a variety of populations, including those underrepresented at our organization and those of BIPOC communities.” I mean you had to be on the rainbow spectrum to lead a national forest crew—it was the bare minimum requirement. Gives new meaning to the “gay lumberjack” stereotype.
I normally “decline to answer” all of the optional demographic questions, but I’ve actually seriously considered identifying as a “trans woman” and just forcing them to play their game no matter how absurd it seems. Are they really gonna challenge me on my chosen identity in this climate?
I had a waiter say to me ‘Hi I am Brad, he/him, and I will be your waiter today’. I said ‘Hi Brad. I am William, he/her, and I guess I will be your customer today’. He started to say something then he said ‘He/her?’ I explained I was a he when talking to me, but a she when referring to me. So if the busboy says ‘who gets the extra napkins?’ you can say ‘the woman in the green sweater’. He asked if I were pulling his leg and I got offended. ‘I don’t feel comfortable being referred to as a male. I feel it objectifies me wrongly.’ I said he should accept my gender identity! He apologized profusely for doubting me.
My last full-time job was at Craigslist. The sole HR woman there systematically threw out every resume from white males for a number of years until the hiring managers finally realized what she was doing. She was fired, and not replaced. They function much better with no HR department at all now.
HR adds nothing. If anything, it's negative value. That most companies haven't realized this is a testament to just how many useless jobs our fake economy sustains.
It would be far easier if HR were reduced to their old 'Personnel' role of completing routine paperwork in the hiring process and making sure wages, tax etc are paid. That's it. Managers choose whom they hire and that's it.
Problem is that hiring is one of the primary power points in a company. Once the leadership delegates that authority, it will result in the new source of authority becoming the de facto leadership.
Managers are less likely to be fat black menopausal women who particularly dislike young, healthy men. That said there is nothing more nauseating than an old, ugly women slavering over a young man. It's worse than old men and young women by far. So in conclusion I'm not sure whether it's worse having one of these creatures throw your CV in the bin or keep eyeing you up at work.
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I have a completely useless "bullshit job," to use David Graeber's term, Graber's book on that topic is actually really good and funny even though he identified as a left anarchist before he died. He was probably lucky to shuffle off this mortal coil so he didn't have to see what the left became.
There are a few like him, not many. I doubt you have heard of Derick Jensen but he was the Earth First to Earth First an extremely radical at the time "left" anti technology activist. Now the left loaths him as he kept his values and is outspoken about trans cult. He isn't the best public speaker, but this is still worth your time IMO. You can hear the screeeing in the background, lol!
I like Charles Haywood BTW, it's possible to like a multitude writers, and not just be the rightwing version of a cultist hipster who only reads from the pre-approved list of titles.
The real revolution will begin when all workers and employees refuse the old Bankster payroll model that adds so much expense and red tape to having employees. This is the only thing that will save the corporate model. Otherwise, independent local production will take over and outcompete outmoded corporations built on cheap shipping and foreign production. It's too expensive to move goods and parts over the highways now. International shipping is in crisis. What will we do without government regulation? We will develop guilds and apprenticeships that will support prices and quality (what government regulations were supposed to do). This is the anti-corporate model and it is winning. A lot of white guys are going into the trades, owning their own tools, and working for themselves, as free people do.
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Every time I see the word "guild" it brings a smile to my face. The enlightenment modernist winners wrote the histories denigrating the high middle ages. But the return of the repressed is coming.
A lot of ancient science and technology is also coming back. Metaphysics. Electric universe stuff. The shape of water and resonance theories. Improved medicine and new electric gen. tech. All this is being rediscovered.
Yes, and almost none of this is happening inside the Academy, which is probably not accidental, and indicative of where the intellectual energy is shifting to.
The future of knowledge is a return to the 17th century. Neo-Rosicurianism...the culture of the early Royal Society was steeped in Masonry and hermeticism.
I am not arguing for mumbo jumbo but for re-developing practices of discrete, even underground, organisation, mutual support and mentoring. Something like this already exists in the seriously controversial areas of medical research (hbd) where 'silence is golden'. But we need more. We adapt or die.
Yep I have always been an avant gardist, up through that the late 2000s it felt like that energy though it was vitiated was still barely on the left. After Occupy was destroyed by Trostskyite proto-woke proto-ANTIFAs, and the Dim Party, I felt a pretty rapid vibe shift to intellectual energy being on the right, and I didn't look back.
Yes, astrology will lead the cultural awakening as the anti-Woke apparatus for knowledge...leading to embodied wisdom. Something just occurred to me from reading your excellent article and arriving to this epiphany at the end of the comments: diversity hires are a superficial response to a deep problem in western culture -- the left brain corporate state fascist repression of intuition, a human trait associated with .. you got it ... women and minorities! As we are faced now with quantum reality via AI, the crashing of western civilization can be traced to the exile of Carl Jung (an astrologer) from the western philosophical tradition for his occultism and repression of electromagnetics in popular science. If Tesla, obsessed with the magic of the autonomous integer (3,6,9) was widely taught in the university ... well that opens the door to the occult. The elites don’t want the masses to have their secret knowledge. So instead, the diversity hire!
Yes. Occult just means hidden. Plant medicine is occult (for example). There are many medical practices that are occult in the west that are recognized medicine in the east. We're calling this the apocalypse, where we pull back the curtain and see what's been hidden. The devil doesn't like that, so he does his worst to keep it from happening. His whole system of ritual magic that destroys the human empathic responses of its practitioners and priests is being exposed. The system of blackmail that controls our governments is being exposed. There aren't people who are more enthralled by religious superstition than these priests and witches (who despise and exploit humanity). I learned these ideas by reading the book Demonology by KJ1. It is not a grimoire like other old books by the same name, but is a philosophical dialogue and a warning against the ravages of religious superstition. Now, I've claimed I believe in the devil and I'm warning you against religious superstition. This could cause a modern educated person to repel against my ideas, but I'll let you figure it out.
If and when the financial crisis hits, and much of that debt based free money evaporates… I think we’re seeing the first wave of it now. Years of zero cost money for the big players have distorted incentives. Once HR can no longer be freely funded, it will shrink.
Yes. The huge distortion of fiat money not backed by silver and gold (alchemical metals symbolizing the Sun and Moon!) is a reflection of human engineered perversion of natural law, the basis of what is considered “occult” knowledge leading to Self- empowerment because it was hidden from the masses by the priests.
As usual, a great article John. If you want an idea of what will happen in the airlines, take a look at the differential in historic accident rates between Western and non-Western airlines since the dawn of mass air travel.
I read somewhere that the exact same thing happened in Egypt millenia ago.
They had a medical class that focused only on what could be honestly observed, this led to advances in care. They saved lives and were effective, this gave them respect and power.
Power attracts the corrupt and unimaginative who want a free ride. At that point advances in genuine observation were put aside so the corrupt unimaginative drones would be able to maintain power by just memorization rather than actual creative ability. This spiraled and the entire profession became a priestly shit show.
That's what I read anyway. It was from Orson Scott Card, so I don't know what his sources were.
Maybe John Galt knows where they are. I hope they are learning how to weld, wire shit up, plumb, fix cars, etc. Maybe they are building compounds of bunkers in the spaces between the Newly Jacked cities.
I left the city. Live remotely, living on e-commerce income (which I expect to go away), learning real skills rapidly. Growing food, have clean water, composting toilet, heat with wood. Can fish and hunt. Building ties with community.
And... living this way makes one ridiculously happy. At least for me.
If I have to own nothing and be excluded from the system, then this is what appears to be the best option.
This is the way hi 5 brother. I don't have a wood stove yet, but have used them in the past and can rip my freestanding furnace out easily if SHTF in the cities spreads out to the great north woods.
This is the way hi 5 brother. I don't have a wood stove yet, but have used them in the past and can rip my freestanding furnace out easily if SHTF in the cities spreads out to the great north woods.
This is the way hi 5 brother. I don't have a wood stove yet, but have used them in the past and can rip my freestanding furnace out easily if SHTF in the cities spreads out to the great north woods.
This is the way hi 5 brother. I don't have a wood stove yet, but have used them in the past and can rip my freestanding furnace out easily if SHTF in the cities spreads out to the great north woods.
This is the way hi 5 brother. I don't have a wood stove yet, but have used them in the past and can rip my freestanding furnace out easily if SHTF in the cities spreads out to the great north woods.
This is the way hi 5 brother. I don't have a wood stove yet, but have used them in the past and can rip my freestanding furnace out easily if SHTF in the cities spreads out to the great north woods.
Probably no one needs to read this, y'all probably know already, but it is ridiculously easy to learn how to build and fix things now. So if you hesitate to fix an appliance or to repair or replace something in your living space that doesn't look right or work for you, please, try it, at least do some research and see if you can do it yourself. I promise, 9 out of 10 times, you can do it.
For me the most useful thing of the internet is that I can ask "how to" questions and get a slew of answers. Usually one of those answers will make sense to me. When I was a kid and a young man it seemed like knowing how to repair or make something was behind a veil. The older people just seemed to know these things, and it seemed I would never catch up.* I can watch experts reveal their secrets on YT until even I can see how to do it. When I quit NSA, for a while I looked at a lot of PT and FT jobs out there. One was absurd; a position at a library managing their tool lending, but also entailed advising and coaching people how to use the tools and make repairs in their homes. This astounded me that 1) a library is lending out power tools and such, and 2) there are people that don't know about YT? I could see myself sending links to how-to videos all shift long. I actually considered taking on the job just to experience it, but I ran into HR. HR in this case 1) contacted me many months after the job was advertised, 2) announced that several benefits as advertised were not actually part of the deal, and 3) just generally came across as an entitled female troll gatekeeper. So I passed on even doing an interview.
*I see now that this was because I was a TV baby and wasted the time I would have been hanging out with the men soaking up practical knowledge. Before TV, one had to do stuff with one's hands to be amused or diverted. TV for so many of us in the 70s and 80s was a massive detour into profitless diversion. I haven't had TV for at least 25 years, so I don't know what it's like anymore, except that I cannot be in a room where one is on.
Interesting observations. There are solutions, but all will be painful and terribly few may be willing to pay the price.
Personally, simply giving up hasn't been an option. Thought about it once or twice. Anyone tells you they haven't wondered if the world might be better off without them is lying. That's just part of being human. These days, agitation, unease, being uncomfortable for any reason, can be addressed by pharmacology. ASK YOUR DOCTOR IF HELPMECOPE IS RIGHT FOR YOU. The side effects might kill you or make you want to kill yourself, but by God, no one should have to suffer through character building episodes, right? The FAIR is in August and they charge admission.
Too much of this is the natural consequence of seeking equal outcome instead of equal opportunity.
Giving up and giving into despair is what the ethnic oligarchs and their mutant woke minions want us to do. Fuck that, stick around, milk the system for whatever you can get and endure to live for a better day.
Our mere presence on the planet annoys them to no end. So sink your fangs into their necks and rend their flesh in any way you can!!!!!!
I do think there are a lot of people who never have suicidal ideation. They can't conceive of what would cause someone to do that. I can't understand how most people wouldn't have suicidal ideations given the absolute state of things, and a lot of people definitely do, but not everybody.
You're absolutely right in the respect that these companies and institutions are going to bleed themselves to death on a hundred thousand small inefficiencies. I'm of a school of thought that efficiency at all costs is more harmful than helpful, in many ways, but at the same time, there has to be a base level of functionality in any given system before it falls together entirely, which is exactly what's going to happen to these larger companies and institutions as they accrue more and more dead weight. I think that a big solution will present itself in parallel systems. The more and more people are squeezed out, the more necessity there will be for these parallel economies to form, and there will be more and more incentive for people to engage and propagate them. All in all, this is a pretty disturbing and disheartening article, but, at the same time... you're not wrong when you say there's also plenty of opportunity ahead for those who are willing to reach for it.
Also, I'd be interested to see what the data looks like on demographics and how they hire. In my own experience, white men, as you said, hire who they must, but I've also experienced first hand that, when left to their own devices, women tend to hire women (race notwithstanding), black men tend to hire black people, but black women hire exclusively black women. I've heard other people corroborate that, but if the data exists, I'd like to see if it backs up this experience.
This is exactly my experience. White men tend to prioritize competence, and will work with anyone who can get the job done. Every other group tends to prioritize their group, with the exception of White women who seem to go out of their way to help minorities.
Now, whether there's data for this? I'd be a bit surprised if there was. The last thing anyone wants is for these impressions to be corroborated.
A lot of white females are dumb woke bitches, or Vicious Bitches as I called them in my article. They actively hate white males and empathize with and fetihize minorities.
She looks like a nice person, though. I say that sincerely.
This whole thing is bonkers. I wonder who did it, and why?
Took me most of the article to realize “ecosystem” in this case doesn’t mean plants and trees. Her business seems like part of the problem for sure, but that doesn’t mean she deserved to be brutally murdered.
“According to her social media, LaPere's company 'uses technology to automate the process of digitizing ecosystems, from entrepreneurial communities, to industry sectors, to corporate networks and beyond.
'Our proprietary tech allows us to create platforms that are pre-populated with information about the resources, organizations, businesses, and people within any given community, and keep that information continually up to date.
'Our platforms help answer the question "who is doing what?", enable organizations to engage stakeholders at scale, and provide valuable data on the makeup of any given ecosystem.'”
Great stuff. I wrote along similar lines in my series on teaching. I think it’s going to come down to networks in small towns, an integrated system of education designed to create groups of interconnected elites, decentralized credit systems, alternative methods of credentialing, and control of legal processes on the county level (elected sheriffs).
In Russia you can expect a majority of people in corporations to speak English, so learning Russian is not really required to find a job. Russian culture is basically western, food is great, land is stunningly diverse and beautiful, people are cheerful, safety and quality of living is excellent in major cities like Moscow, Saint Petersburg or Kazan. And we still pay skilled (and not so skilled) expats more than local hires, so they can afford a decent living (medical expenses are usually covered by social package from your job). If you are married and with kids, there are a number of English schools. If you are not, there are caring and honest women looking for a husband.
It is not all sunshine, but Russia is a great place to stay while one is waiting by the river for the body of HR-department to float by.
I've visited Russia, and quite liked it. Considered moving there but was scared off by the opacity of the immigration system. How would you recommend someone find a position in Russia?
Here in the rural mountain west there is a big shortage of workers, especially skilled trades. Electrician, plumber, building trades, well drillers, mechanics and so on. Tradesmen I've talked to say no one wants to work and they can't get anyone anyway. Makes one wonder who is going to fix and build stuff after they retire. Which for some of them isn't that far off.
It takes competence and intelligence to build, operate and maintain complex systems. the diversity hires people will find that out. South Africa and Rhodesia will be the future for most of the United States.
I hear exactly the same thing from tradesmen and contractors here. Part of the problem, I think, is that manual work has been coded as low status, as a result of which the youth have no familiarity with it. That, combined with demoralization - the sense that it doesn't matter, you won't ever get ahead - leads many to prioritize enjoying themselves in the moment over working hard for the future.
Manual work is high-status in Australia. The guys are treated like kings and domestic electricians and plumbers (almost always white) make obscene amounts of money.
I know it's been ages since this came out and nobody's reading the comment section anymore, but in the meantime absolute evidence confirming all of this article has came to light. IBM and RedHat have been instituting racist policies, including race-based hiring quotas but also more. Here's a summary post: https://conservativenerds.locals.com/post/5035886/the-ibm-red-hat-leaks-what-weve-learned-so-far Probably more will come to light. Good for cross-referencing the statistics with actual cases. :)
Yep. All the deboonkers citing Little Bennie Shapiro's Daily Wire article claiming the Bloomberg study was fake news are revealed for the shills that they are.
Factoring in all of the dead and disabled young/middle aged white guys that had Fortune 500 jobs who were forced into the safe n' effective should be considered too. I know more than 10 in my professional circle.
I actively hire for bleeding edge IT workers for a huge global institution. It's not really DIE that I've seen factor in, that's all garbage lip service. It's that 90% of the resumes I see are from a select few bodyshops that cater almost exclusively to Indian/Asian candidates. Of these candidates, about 10% of the resumes are legit and maybe half of those actually might fit the role. The offshore/onshore brown-people consulting firms have simply dominated large corporation HR departments through aggressive marketing campaigns and outright kickbacks. They have engaged in massive fraud with huge pools of fabricated talent. I'm one of the few hiring directors who will grill you on hard technical tasks the first day in person which were covered during the interview process. I've lost count now of how many outright charlatans I've fired within the first few hours of day 1. The audacity is overwhelming.
I've suspected something very much like this for some time. Ethnocentric minorites achieve positions of leverage due to diversity hiring policies, then turn around and prioritize hiring their coethnics, with the result that non-ethnics are largely locked out. At that point applying for a job becomes a question of who sees your application first.
From my experience in huge companies it's not even minorities in positions of leverage (They are often lily white Karens/Head girls). These offshore/onshore headhunter companies have just absolutely dominated their field due to fraud and graft over the traditional local agencies I used to deal directly with.
Believe me, when I see a name I can pronounce or an address of an actual local real human, they get priority. DIE is bullshit and everyone knows it.
I've stopped pretending to 'treat everyone equally' as this only works in a homogenous society where the average man in the street can be trusted. The various browns et al will conquer by our rules and then rule by their own. I'm racist in favour of the British (the real ones, not our recent guests) in everything that I do: where I shop, whom I offer extra help at work, everything.
I've had lifelong brown friends and will treat everyone with the respect that they earn over time. That being said there is certainly an initial prejudice that I cannot deny.
I'm not friends with anyone out supporting Hamas, wearing Islamic headdress or an illegal immigrant. That deals with most of the foreigners here already.
God bless you, and I wish I could work in your company.
One of the most frustrating things about corporate life is watching stupid people get into positions where they can hire and fire. Stupid people have almost no ability to assess whether a potential hire is smart or not. This can lead to catastrophic mistakes down the line (At my old job, I once spoke to a server administrator who didn’t know how file paths work.)
I've run multiple remote video technical interviews with candidates who seem like amazing and intelligent people. Only in-person under scrutiny is the deceit easily revealed. There's an entire industry on the Indian side for coaching these liars through tough remote interviews. It's given myself and my coworkers an entire book of hysterical stories and characters who were fired.
You're absolutely correct when stupid non-technical managers are hiring these people they have absolutely no idea and will often go to great lengths to cover up their mistakes once the idiots are revealed. Large corporations are being sucked dry by these parasites.
Thanks for this essay. It's personal to me. I wanted to be an English professor but I didn't fit in. I've made a go of it in working class jobs such as caregiving through an agency and wine warehouse work. I've made good friends in the Mexican working class in Napa valley. In the 1980s there was no Mexican wine workforce in Napa. Now there are more than 3,000 descendants of immigrants from one small Mexican town of 500 people (I know or knew several). Now the wine industry depends on more than 50k wine workers a year, some of which are migrants. The parallel economy already exists. So many Spanish speaking Californians already work under the table and barter, it seems like the real economy. And all the corporate stock options and Bankster bubbles appear to me like the false economy to which there is no bottom. Corporate real-estate buyers like Black Rock simply hold up the fake value of real estate and use that lie to leverage more borrowing, resulting in a prohibitive cost of housing. When the corporate system collapses, professionalism will mean nothing. Those who have successfully unincorporated from the evil system will thrive, but how will all the professionals live when the corporate system collapses?
I literally thank God I got in under the wire for buying a cheap cottage outright in northern Michigan. Real estate has tripled up here since Covid which is insane. I figure even with no jerb or social security I can always rip out the propane furnace, put in a wood stove, and live on fish and game, piss on the system.
LOL, no. I live in an area with 500 sq miles of wilderness, 12,000 people total, and no traffic lights. We can snipe them with deer rifles from hidden positions in the vast forest, they wouldn't stand a chance.
While I agree with the overall thrust of your argument, the Bloomberg article you lead with is really misleading, at least according to the Daily Wire.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/bloomberg-flubs-data-for-bombshell-report-that-only-6-of-new-corporate-hires-are-white
He argues that Bloomberg reporters flubbed the math; I didn’t double check, but it looked plausible.
Good catch. Indeed, that does look plausible, and it would not be at all surprising if the reporters screwed up the math.
Then again, it wouldn't be surprising if corporate America was, in fact, discriminating at this level.
Truth is somewhere in the middle here. It's true that my profession mostly hires Asians, but whites (men and women) can also still find jobs. Here's the thing, though: I'm in a mathematics-intensive discipline, and taught (as tenured faculty) for some years before moving to industry. Asians are good at, and (more importantly), *interested* in mathematics-intensive subjects. Whites, as a rule, seem not to be. It is my observation as a curmudgeonly Gen-Xer that whites have become intellectually soft (obviously this is a statistical statement not a statement about individuals). So there's a karmic aspect to this. I love Western heritage and mourn the substantial loss, but honestly some of the causes are our own deficits and degeneration of character.
You're absolutely not wrong about this. Intellectual standards have absolutely cratered among whites.
Yes, and I am quite aware that many of the causes are external. Our culture has systematically degenerated since at least the 1960s if not earlier. While the process has been somewhat iterative, I am 100% certain that there have been vested interests that have guided it.
This is absolutely the case. Degradation of the education system, poisoning of the food supply, the spread of drugs, and the promulgation of the "smart nerds aren't cool" meme have all played their part, and absolutely none of it has been organic.
And don't forget the divorce / single motherhood epidemic.
Is moving to increasingly overtly racist Florida and embracing the 1776 ‘education’ agenda going to help with that intellectual deficit?
BTW your ilk has over used the scare word "racist" like the boy who called wolf and now it has no effect on anyone with above a room temperature IQ, proud of yourself?
overtly racist florida? why move there move to zimbabwe
My complex special needs stepson doesn’t do well with questions; he may just respond to one of the words he picks up, much as you did, missing entirely the context and intent.
Beats anything you have to offer regime propaganda spewer. Yes, I have dealt with this heavily propagandized idiot before, he's not even smart enough to be an actual Marxist with a material class analysis which I can at least respect as a well thought out wrong idea, lol!
Yes
I have a theory about this decline in mental capacity in general. Mental capacity, or intelligence, is highly dependent on nutrition, especially in the first two years of life. Have you ever looked at what's in baby formula? I promise you that the wealthy elites are not feeding their children that crap. The brain is primarily saturated fat and cholesterol, and for some reason the "health authorities" want us to reduce saturated fat and cholesterol (mostly with a pill). I read somewhere that 30% of the population has detectible levels of glyphosates in their blood. Only the wealthy can afford to consistently eat food that isn't grown with toxic chemicals, unless you grow your own. I could go on about this topic for days, but the bottom line is, our general food supply has been ruined by genetic engineering and chemicals and the population has been brainwashed into believing that rabbit food is healthy for a primate with a big brain that was probably developed because of the eating of fatty meat.
As for the difference you see between different cultures (this has nothing to do with melanin in the skin in my opinion) I would wager that Asians and people of Asian descent typically eat completely differently than your average white person or your average black person. This is a cultural thing. It's a cultural thing between socio-economic classes too.
Weak people, mentally and physically, are easier to control. A sickly man cares nothing for liberty or anything else really. Follow the money...
Not all Asians. There's been a definite tendency in recent years for Americanized Asians to get fat. There's no question that adulteration of the food supply is having a deleterious effect, and I doubt this is unintentional.
I go to China on business. They eat greens and protein. A bit of noodles. Not much rice. They eat far fewer carbs there. I suspect they get here and eat the carb heavy diet we do and get fat, as we do.
Portion size. Some reports on this back when. Americans eat more than they used to. Me included.
When I was growing up one didn’t snack. You had your meal and that was that. Now fridges are constantly full. I suspect 1/ 3 of caloric intake is between meals.
In my opinion, Ancel Keys and FDR did more to destroy Western civilization than any of the great dictators of the 20th century. Sickliness and government dependency are now the norm. And if you point this out and suggest that people should *do* something about it, *you're* evil.
Yes. Everything is a rich man’s trick. It’s all a class war. And that’s where this piece is frustrating, because it seems the author chose racist memes that will garner predictable responses. In fact I think one of these is profoundly wrong: the photograph suggesting the current state of the unhired whites actually makes them indistinguishable from your Sambo - err, “Tyrone” toon above. The picture you want is, seemingly a lot closer to a look in the mirror. These white males you speak of are found in mom’s basement, pale and not mating but gaming with their ilk, or 4channing hate, or, you know, plotting violence (something men, not women, excel at). So there’s that.
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Imagine a place where, 400 years ago, someone started adding a drop of rosewater to the murky water they drank, and this was quickly adopted as custom, and rosewater was added in increasing amounts to the public supply. Let’s say that 100 years ago, some folk started objecting, and began adding lemon juice to their own water. And then fifty years ago after much struggle, they took over the water supply and added lemon to the now fully rosewatered public water. They can’t eliminate the rosewater because most folk are used to it, but now instead of the pure clean water available to the very wealthy few, everybody else is getting rosewater with lemon. No one is happy but the rich. The lemon makes the rosewater only somewhat less unpleasant to those who don’t like it, but it spoils the rosewater of those who do.
It’s not the best analogy, but the point is, one way or another the inequities of the past intrude on today. Now, just as the indentured European would-be settlers found themselves in the same lot as enslaved Africans and were sold a bill of goods about race to fool them into thinking they weren’t at the bottom...they’re back at the bottom. And who is still on top? The MAN with the munny.
You confuse inequity with class-based law, ditto privilege and the corresponding social structure; inequity can only be discovered or exist when one starts out from an assumed position of theoretical equality (itself a logical impossibility because it requires all humans to be equal, meaning identical, in ability et c).
The pre-Leninist socialists were not cocerned with equity but with practical matters. That's a much more profitable (if you'll excuse the word) course of both analysis and action, and don't forget they also were pragmatists: reality first, theory second. Lenin and his bourgeois clique turned it topside-down, with well-known results. In post-war Germany, the Nordic nations and some other places theory took a back seat to reality and thus those nations had what is probably the closest working model of socialism, when compared totheory because they stuck to real things and because the nations were racially homogeous and based on lutheran and culture-bound morals and social structures (and strictures).
I shouldn't respond to your trolling, but none of us here are stupid, I have a tested 140 IQ and am an Oberlin college philosophy grad, John Carter is also from a high level academic background, before he correctly realized that his career would go nowhere in academia due to overtly stated within academia itself bias against white straight men. My only excuse for believing in academia at all was I am older than John and went to college at a time woke discrimination wasn't quite as deleterious to a white straight male's life.
140 is high on the Cattell B scale, but not so much, about 4% quantile of UK population. To enter Mensa, say, you would need 148.
On the CFIT (culture fair) scale instead the threshold for Mensa is 132, so 140 is unrealistically high.
Before boasting about your IQ you have to specify the type of test you took to measure it.
IQ.....Jew construct. Fake.
You’re right, you shouldn’t, but you seem unable to help yourself.
My IQ was about 4 points shy of yours when tested. My father is one of two living philosophers with comets named after them. I have spent an abundance of time in (not merely overhearing) intellectual discourse on many topics.
Please insert your ad hominem insults where the sun does not shine.
Classtardism is going out, give it up. Didn't you ever think that putting different races together is a rich man's trick (it is) and that I have very good, natural reasons not to want to be around other races?
It was the exact strategy pursued by the railroads. They understood that introducing other races created racial divisions and strife which undermined the abilities of the workers to act as a team.
In the book Which Way Western Man?, William Simpson had already observed the decline in quality of the white population in the early half of the 20th century. He discussed the decline in the quality of the topsoil as a potential factor. This explanation is plausible imo.
You are right. Environmental toxicity is our #1 problem
This from Heather Mac Donald's 'The Diversity Delusion' forensic investigation of the effect DEI is having on STEM: "A study by the American Association for the Advancement of Science found “systemic anti-LGBTQ bias within STEM industry and academia.” The notorious James Damore Google discrimination lawsuit revealed an instance where an employee was reprimanded for pointing out that white males are actually underrepresented at Google: “’Being absolutely correct is inappropriate’ when it comes to ‘discussions of race and justice’” he was told. Meanwhile, “driven by unapologetic meritocracy, China is catching up to the United States in science and technology. Identity politics in American science is a political self-indulgence we cannot afford.” https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/p/how-diversity-narrows-the-mind
This is what happens when diversity of everything other than opinion is prioritized.
It’s cultural. When I taught English in Russia and Ukraine, it seemed like about 60% of my teenage students were focusing on physics, mathematics, engineering, computer science, and other “hard” subjects.
We have emphasized credentials over actual skills in the U.S. That’s why so many white kids end up choosing easier degrees.
Given how corporate and government jobs seem to be favoring DEI candidates who also chose worthless degrees, maybe it’s time to encourage white boys to challenge themselves and study something useful
We had to pay for extra curricular maths tutoring for our son at our local public high school. The school had a token male teacher ratio, with female headmistress and female maths ‘teachers’ & ‘subs’ blatantly discriminating against him and other boys in his class with their callous indifference and thinly veiled contempt. These women sabotaged his being moved up into the advanced high school maths classes. He has only just started to speak about it now, four years later. Now in the sciences at university, having won two scholarships & working for 3 years after high school, he has sworn that should he ever have a son, he will be sent to an all boys school.
I think I know your profession. Do you deal with Heston or Merton models, or XVAs or need to perform a lot of calibrations, if yes then I know what you do
No, not surprising at all. 😖
You might wanna reconsider “unemployment rates being low due to a shortage of labor”. Because it’s almost as stupid as your asininely racist cartoon.
DEI is idiocy, and so is ESG: that doesn’t mean it’s okay to let your dumbfuck racism out from under its well-earned rock.
Obviously a person of diversity was checking the numbers.
Exactly.
🧐 this is a perfect example of the sheer incompetence - Bloomberg- THE Bloomberg of finance and trading platforms. And they fail spectacularly at simple statistics. And editorial review. Bah.
Every institution has been hollowed out into a diversity skinsuit.
It's also possible they knew the numbers were off, but published it anyway to get clicks. The article did go mega-viral, so it worked for them if this was the case.
Indeed. I've seen this in other contexts, e.g. sloppy scientific work yielding "amazing results" which then results in tenured positions only for the sloppiness to be found, corrected, and the "amazing results" reverting to "exactly as expected by conventional models".
They're the 'Chosen', but by whom to do what...
John- count me among your straight white guys looking for a job. Every single lead I have had has come from a personal contact. I have sent out maybe 150 resumes with a total of two interviews.
Randomly applying for jobs is a suckers game bc of what you note about white guys being out of favor.
Unfortunately, no one gives a shit. I’m not going to hold my breath waiting for the government to form the “white guy council” for them to figure out why we are killing ourselves with the latest street drugs or blowing our brains out.
I don’t know what the solution is, but I have a terrible feeling that, one way or another, the resolution isn’t going to be pretty.
I don't see this ending in any way other than tears for everyone. You're absolutely correct that the government isn't going to save us from this - the state is, after all, a primary cause of this in the first place.
Best of luck on the job search. The struggle you describe is the reason I'm still hanging onto my job that I'm laughably overqualified for. Of my "black and brown" coworkers, some are solidly competent (and these would thrive without any DEI mandates whatsoever), but many are not at all competent. A few, I hate to say, are not far from the meme shared in John's post about Tyrone the diversity hire. I wish I was joking, but I am not. Since I started working there, standards have been steadily relaxed -- management absolutely, positively will not call a spade a spade and weed out the people who simply lack the cognitive ability to become competent at their jobs; those who are competent get frustrated and then demoralized (including those top-performers who are "black and brown"); and the dysfunction just builds and builds. The whole thing is a microcosm of our civilization: primed to collapse as those with the talents to keep it running are pushed aside.
Like you said, the resolution isn't going to be pretty. "For every action, there's an equal and opposite reaction" isn't true only of physics; it's true of social movements as well. Folks who are happy to push things to the limit now because it seems to benefit them will suffer when the backlash comes. Unfortunately, for many of them, their brains do not work well enough to be able to connect the cause-and-effect when it comes; they will not see that they brought this backlash on themselves.
The worst of it won't be the talented getting pushed aside. That's just how it starts. It's when the talented start actively leaving the system that the collapse will begin.
Actually that's already in progress, so.
Parallel networks will be key. Straight white males have been brainwashed so badly about the evils of in-group preference (but only for themselves, for everyone else it's encouraged and celebrated) and punished whenever there's even the faintest whiff of it, that we're behind the curve on this. But once that truly becomes a thing (and it certainly will at this rate), the legacy institutions are done.
The funny thing is that white guys are actually the least ethnocentric group on the planet.
They must and will learn better as the system tilts more and more against them. There will be no choice whatsoever, if they do not do so then they will not survive.
You guys will be driven to becoming that way eventually.
Yes, only white people can't have their own anything, whether it's schools, clubs or whatever. You always hear them crowing about historically black colleges and universities. You can't have historically white colleges and universities. I believe they went after Bob Jones University a few years back for prohibiting interracial dating. As long as white people participate in perpetuating this blatant government-sponsored racial discrimination, it'll never stop.
I left 5 years ago into the literal wilderness, there isn't enough you could pay me to go back to the shitty. An anecdote and not data to be sure, still...
Good! Let it burn the way that Cersei burned the sept!!! Let it all burn in bright fire!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3EDvBmI_lA
Don't forget that the Third-Worlders pouring in are happy to see the country degenerate to a shit-hole. As long as it is marginally better than their own shit-hole from which they've come they'll be content. This means that the floor for our countries is just a smidge above Somalia, the Congo etc etc. We can't wait until it degenerates for them to leave, they will have to be forced out.
The Invisible Hand of the Market (or is that the WEF?) smoothing the world out into a Somali goat herder's idea of prosperity.
Anything rather than raise the standard of living for native Westerners. After corona we had a shortage of carers in Britain. Much was said about wages rising as a consequence. The government promptly increased the number of visas issued to Indian and Zimbabwean 'carers' by thousands of per cent. Untrained, illiterate but no formal training required so impossible to reject as 'unqualified'. The care home near me is now almost entirely coloured staff it would seem. As I said, *anything* but make life better for the British.
A long term positive of this situation is that perhaps it will incentivize whites to perform the home care for their own family members instead of outsourcing it to coolie labor.
I've already told my parents they will not, under any circumstances, have foreigners caring for them.
Got 2 words for you... south and Africa... connect the dots.
Our competition is formidable. Merit based. Take that out and things get easier for the newcomers.
Speaking of backlash, when is the serious debate on reparations set to occur? Please understand this is a call for a debate on all the history and nuance, and not a demand or even an expectation that money be handed out.
We did reparations already. It was called:
- the British Empire using its navy to shut down the Atlantic slave trade
- America fighting the Civil War to end slavery
- the several trillion dollars that have been squandered on education, housing, welfare, SNAP, affirmative action, etc etc, all to no observable positive effect
Were it not for the reparations America has already paid to its black population, we'd have had cities on Mars thirty years ago.
I’m going to pass on further commenting on this thread, the abundant hatred makes it hard to want to look for actual substance.
As far as your Mars timeline, check this out:
https://open.substack.com/pub/sethabramson/p/proof-exclusive-do-these-new-revelations?r=25hye9&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
Translation: no one agrees with your commie critical race theory bullshit, you have no actual idea what you're talking about, and therefore are experiencing "hate".
Also lol at sharing an article with nothing but one paragraph in front of the paywall.
Finally: (seeing as you couldn’t let me leave without a parting insult, backatcha)
if you actually looked remotely like a Frank Frazetta drawing, you’d probably post a picture of yourself. But you don’t.
Actually the hate referenced was not felt as directed at me. We disagree sufficiently that there is no percentage in continuing to engage on this thread.
Apologies about the paywall, I thought he had that piece open for a while. Here’s the short version: Musk is the mad scientist supervillain he appears to be. He is pushing science in hopes of uploading his consciousness into immortal robots ahead of common futurist timelines (so his mars (etc) colonies won’t need terraforming to accommodate people, just boring & mining rigs), and the disparate elements of his empire are all tuned to that outcome.
The good news for you is, he’ll probably hire smart white boys.
He made arguable points. Why didn’t you address them? You asked for debate. You got it. Then you call it hate.
A pastor said once in a sermon that sinners react sinfully to being sinned against.
That’s the mote in your eye, the plank in mine. We always recognize our own failings most easily in others, and least in ourselves. Etc.
Otoh the point I was trying to make about hate was Jaron Lanier’s, that the internet is a huge bummer machine, and it seems regardless the starting height of the brow if you will, regardless of the topic of debate, it almost inevitably devolves (“we’re all D E V O !”) into some degree of insult and cruel one-upmanship. Mr. Raven is a standout example, he seems to want to get nasty early.
Carry on. Never mind the gamma midwit ;)
Hatred? You mean a better argument?
If you are talking about the reparations that the blacks owe to the whites for both giving them the fruits of Western civilization, and putting their descendants in a position of wealth, ease, and safety that they never would have been in in a thousand generations on their own, as well as bearing the disproportionate and overwhelmingly one-sided brunt of black criminality and violence, I don't think that's a discussion we are going to have. They cannot afford it.
Blacks are better off here than they would have been having been left in Africa. Ergo no damage, no tort. If you want to argue pain and suffering of the actual slaves then maybe. But they are dead a long time ago. Jay Z does not need reparations. Especially considering rap culture has damaged young black men far more than any micro aggressions, if they exist, have.
Factoring in the cost of property damage, theft, and lost income from murders, add in reduced property prices in areas they control, throw in the money they already get from welfare far in excess of their meager tax contribution, and subtract that from the total cost of cotton and tobacco exports from 1619 to 1865...adjust for inflation...yeah, looks like they owe us a lot of money. I would be willing to settle for them just moving to Africa as payment though.
Ok, but realistically the Blacks could never pay the Whites back for all the benefits they got from White-invented technology.
Somebody vouched for the intelligence of all y’all on this thread, so you must be deliberately trolling.
He also claimed overuse of the term “racist” has rendered it meaningless, but that’s pretty obviously a self serving ruse that would likewise give you cover. You might want to look into early math, medicine, science etc for a more accurate assessment.
As for Mr Rikard, you must be your boss’s favourite insurance adjuster, offering nickels on the dollar like that.
"You might want to look into early math, medicine, science etc for a more accurate assessment."
Please tell us you're not conflating the contributions made by Egyptian, Mesopotamian, and Arabic civilizations with the non-existent contributions made by Sub-Saharan Africans to humanity's intellectual development.
Black on white crime has cause several magnitudes greater number of rapes, deaths and material damage than the slavery practiced in the US.
Furthermore, any reparations creates a prejudice that debt and guilt as well as right of reparation can be inherited based on race.
Only a racist would claim that.
I said a debate. You are contributing some of your thoughts. Others - Ta-Nehisi Coates for example (wrote a piece on Reparations for the Atlantic a few years back) - might disagree.
You can all bring your receipts. It’s a debate, and you haven’t won it yet ;)
> He also claimed overuse of the term “racist” has rendered it meaningless
So care to provide a definition, as well as an explanation for why anyone should care about Jeremy Dangerhouse's definition of "racism".
> You might want to look into early math, medicine, science etc for a more accurate assessment.
Don't tell me you're one of those We Wuz Kangz idiots.
>Y'all
Do you people come off a production line somewhere?
Compare it to the black on white crime-ratio and call it even.
Gordon, if your current income is low enough, make sure you sign up for EBT and medicaid.
Take everything you can get from the system while it lasts. Get heating and electricity assistance too.
White males need to start doing this. Fuck the "rugged individualist" bullshit. That was over when White males lost control of the system and had a target put on their backs by the ethnic oligarchs who own and control everything, and their woke commie minions.
See my post here:
https://morgthorak.substack.com/p/white-males-ebt-and-medicaid
Yes, by all means, take as much advantage of the system as you can. They haven't gotten to the point yet where they can discriminate against whites in financial or heating assistance, so before they do, help yourself.
Take for what the system gives, but make sure you gotta a bug out and back up plan. When the 8 million with rifles coming over the border start getting 'activated' it will be hell.. no more law and order like the whites are used to, black situation going to get worse, total Mad Max if the phones go out and the EBT stops. Telling you real truth. Either be out in fly over and remote and within a tight community OR you be close to the coast and ready to bolt (sailboats are best for this to slip away un noticed get yourself some skills sailing, compass map reading and sextant use...). And be ready to flit when the situation begins the plunge because you WONT have much time to leave. Just regard South Africa now for whites compared to what it was.... Family overseas? Friends? a different non western country? Get ready... I would make sure the passport is valid for 10ys NOW and that you have some 'stash' you can travel with.. a skill set? EMT? Vet assistant? hard skills... Farming?
Gordon, from today on, you are Hispanic. If you want to go full enrichment, change your last name.
Congrats on your new job.
This could genuinely work.
That would only work if you were woke. These shiboleths exist to weed out the faithful from the unfaithful. They don't hate you because you are white, they hate you because you are unclean and not pure in the True Faith.
Pure, True Faith whites males who wear hairshirts and self flagellate for holiness are the holiest of the holy. Especially when they take gay communion and hand over their sons and daughters to be mutilated for holiness.
You are in a holy war, not a race war.
"They don't hate you because you are white, they hate you because you are unclean and not pure in the True Faith."
Unfortunately it is both at the same time, in a constantly accelerating cycle. The doctrine of the true faith in the second holds as one of its articles the first. On a metaphysical level to be a true and non-groveling member of that group, and to be a blaspheming heretic, are metaphysically the same.
The beautiful are hated by the ugly both because they are beautiful, and because they are not ugly.
Anonymousconservative.com took r/K selection theory and applied it to politics.
Basically you have two types of survival strategies. One based on resource abundance (rabbits) and the other on resource scarcity (wolves)
Wolvrs cant fuck around. If a pack gets a kill and another challenges they have to fight bc they dont know if thry are ever going to find more food. The pack is only as strong as its weakest member, so they strive for excellence. They mate for life and they even prevent mating when resources are too low. Thats “K”. So you can imagine how this applies politically.
The “r” type strategists are in resouce abundance. Food is plentiful, westher is warm, etc. if a ravbit is challengrd over a carrot, it will just hope away bc a fight could injure it and there is easily another carrot. They have sex with everything (seriously, theyll hump a dead rabbit), bc resources are abundant it low invests in rearing young, instead it tries a shotgun approach to mating.
Where it grts really interesting is that your r strategist doesnt like it when another member develops tough characteristics. It is actually safer when everyone is pathetic bc a predator will only take out one member. And if you have a thoisand members who are app equally pathetic then its odds of survival are 999/1000. But if one of the other members develop tough characteristics, its odd go DOWN.
Anyway, bottom line is that shitbags prefer to undermine the higher quality competitors bc that way they can use the shotgun approach to mating, which is ideal for them when the environment has high resources and they are of the priest class. That is, the class of people whose job it is to transmit the social traditions on what is proper behavior.
At that point we get into “Jimian theory” of what Jim of blog.jim.com called “leftist singularity”. This is when a civilizations military is dominant, meaning their priests are dominant over all competing priesthoods. At thst point the priests suddenly start discovering that their ancient laws and traditions demand that people start giving them free shit. Ie “do not covet” becomes “you didnt build that by yourself”, “do not commit adultery” becomes “let your wife and daughter find themselves by having sex with many priests in the temples and monasteries”.
Priests here refering to university professors and students. As academia is the modern priesthood.
So holiness becomes discovering new forms of bullshit to convince people to give the Church their stuff.
The singularity occurs when priests start competing with one anotjer to be “more holy” ie to come up with new bullshit. Specifically bullshit that makes everyone else profane at which point it is the duty of the holy to take their stuff and kill them.
You can see an example of this with the Khmer Rouge where the eventually ended up killing anyone that so mich as had eyeglasses.
According to Jimian theory, once a singularity goes into full swing it stops in only two situations.
1) a strongman of the faith, such as Stalin or Cromwell steps up and executes anyone that tries to be more holy than the strongman.
2) it burns itself out by literally killing everyone. Ie Cambodia
Only until the video camera comes on for the interview, then, once they see what he looks like, he drops back down to the bottom of the hiring list or drops off entirely.
A deepfake could help :P
A Jewish kid applied at all the Ivies. This was twenty years ago. 99th percentile Sats. Straight As. Volunteered etc. Perfect candidate. He couldn’t get in. His name was, if I recall, Richard Martin. He changed it to ‘Ricardo Martinez’ and DIDN’T check Latino as ethnicity. He checked ‘prefer not to say’. He got in to Yale. About two years later they wanted to expel him for lying on his application form. Somehow it came out he wasn’t Latino. He said ‘I never lied. I changed my name legally.’ He had never ever said he was Latino. They still wanted him gone. He had his lawyer write a letter. He stayed at Yale.
I don't blame anyone who goes that route, and I'd be lying if I said I hadn't considered it myself.
Leaving the US is the best option (or the UK, Canada, wherever you are), for Arab/Muslim nations or perhaps S. America. The other option is to legally change your surname or your middle name (or add one) to a Spanish name, and if required to justify, state it is your maternal line. Once established, you are Hispanic and no, you don't have to speak Spanish to be Hispanic in the US.
I really hate how the term 'Hispanic' has been enshrined in discussions about demographics. The fact that it is applied so loosely and incorrectly makes it the perfect tool for sophists. Whites need to stop using it altogether, instead substituting either latino or mestizo.
I read an article about a US black woman who got a job in an all black country. She was so excited to live amongst people who would see the world as she does. Right. It shocked her to find blacks from Ghana aren’t like blacks from Jamaica/US/Nigeria etc. They’re all different cultures and kf course different in myriad individual ways too. She was disappointed she didn’t get to experience what white people experience. Because Swedes Scots Germans Italians Spanish Romanians all are the same, right?
Latino is just as dumb. People of French descent are Latin-American also and the term was coined by the French, primarily for Louisiana (White) Creoles, as well as other Francophones. The entire thing is a scam. Dr. Cristina Mora wrote a whole book about it, I think it is called something like, the Making of Hispanics or something. Google it.
Good to know, thank you.
I'm retired. I'm white. I have two thirty-year-old sons living with me. Neither has a job. Fortunately, when I was working, I socked away enough money to keep all three of us going without too much hardship. Offloaded a money-grubbing second wife last year, whose plan was for me to die first, "contest the will" - her words to her friends - give it all to her four children from her first marriage, and kick my two out on the street.
I have been considering "the talk" about work with my two sons, but haven't yet BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO SAY, SO I SAY NOTHING. As angry as I am, I don't have to watch my children take to the streets; I can't imagine the anger of everyone else.
What a situation. Good on you for kicking that ho out of your life, though. Dodged a bullet on that one.
Her first husband simply rolled over; I have enough Highlander in me that I don't give up unless I am beaten into the ground. She wasn't prepared for that. I ended up losing about 5% of my net worth to her, so I didn't have to be crippled in order to learn a Very Good And Very Cheap Lesson.
I still haven't figured out what to do about sex, (can't wait for the Japanese to perfect their robots), but otherwise am very Red-pilled and a lot smarter. I may expatriate to the Philippines, but Western women? Not happening.
There are exceptions, but North American women really are the bottom of the barrel right now.
There is a film called 'The Menu', came out this year I think.
It's about a creative chef who has been worn down by the abject shite enforced upon him by The Takers. The ending is not pretty, but slightly funny and very appropriate.
The name of the chef is Slowick, or Slow Wick.
"The guys" controlling our cultural demolition know exactly what they're doing; they didn't create, master and corner the psychology market accidentally. Their 'prophecy' must be fulfilled. I wonder how much more insane they'd become if it was thwarted.
Same same
Solution work for yourself with a skill or trade that people have to have. Electrician. Plumber. Concrete. Machine operator (esp robots). That kind of jobs. Not glamour job, but you can bet your boots you'll have work.
I know what the solution is.👹
Americans don't realize just how bad it is in Canada. Down south the discrimination is implicit and informal. Here it's codified in law.
As to making HR's job easier: yep. Way simpler to just toss every application that fails to tick the race box into the woodchipper than it is to actually read them.
Maybe that will make you angrier though and more willing to fight. The "best" (for them) propaganda slow boils the victims so they don't even jump out of the pot before becoming dinner.
Unfortunately our system has no checks and balances. Our PM has a near tyranny available to him legally. We don’t have a charter of rights. We do, but the first paragraph says these rights outlined can be overridden by any government in the interests of good governance. Free Speech? Nope. Free Speech only if the government feels it won’t disrupt anything. Good governance/stable society etc. Canada was guided by English Common Law. We always had that, even without a formal declaration of rights. But our charter of rights declares it takes precedence over English Common Law. When this was enshrined by Pierre Trudeau a very small number of us were horrified. I said at the time Canada would be fine until such time as we elected a tyrant. And then, we would be done. It took forty years.
It should be called our ‘Charter of Lefts’.
It'll be codified into law here, too, before too long. In some federal policies, it already is, such as the black first-time home buyers bill, where they don't have to pay closing costs or come up with a down payment, or the black farm bill, where black farmers have access to federal loans whites do not.
I almost marked myself as gay in a few job applications. if things don't improve, I will have to start doing that. I had a black great-great-father but unfortunately his genes were not enough and I would have a hard time convincing people I am black.
I'd like to let you all know that I've got a job. I'd even say it is a good one, no sexual preference changes required, yet.
Congratulations!
That's what I love in substack, you authors read our comments and interact with us!
Please God, don't let the fuckers destroy this place of the internet.
Thanks man.
I'm glad it worked out, bro. WAGMI
Always claim membership of a privileged class on hiring forms, racial or otherwise. Claim that you are a female to male transperson. Threaten lawsuits if they challenge you.
I walked into a furniture store, height of COVID, unmasked. I was told to leave. I asked why. Obvious answer. I said ‘I can’t wear masks as I have a heart problem’. I asked for an accommodation. They said NO. I said ‘are you telling me your store won’t accommodate people with disabilities? What is your name please? I would like to speak to your manager’. She runs off, talks to manager about 30’ away. They both look worried. He comes over ‘Of course we will. But please stay six feet away from anyone.’ I wandered around looking at furniture styles. Not a chance I would buy anything there. But it had modern edgy furniture, which I was looking for. The funny thing is the manager followed me around the whole time I was there ensuring I stayed 6’ apart.
That's how it's done, love these stories.
That's the real white man's burden. Being white
Kipling knew.
I have the same problem. I get a bit of a pass though because of my general incompetence.
If “self-identify” is the standard, white males should just self-identify as something else. “Yass, I know I look white, but my great grandpa on my mother’s side had a few drops of Cherokee blood.” Hey it worked for senator warren.
Keep voting for those elected representatives!
The crazy thing is, the juxtaposition of the open and obvious discrimination against straight white men with the endless lecturing about how privileged we supppsedly are. Meanwhile, blacks (and especially black females) love to recite the culturally-acceptable mantras about how you have to be so much better as a black person to get to the same place as whites, even as they benefit from special grants, SBA loans, scholarships, and DEI mandates reserved especially for them, as well as officials at all levels openly promising to make their next appointment a black female, etc. If it was just discrimination against white men purely on account of their race and gender, that would be bad enough, but it's all the gaslighting on top of it that really gets to me.
It's infuriating. They just go on and on about it with no trace of self awareness.
Isn't it though? I first saw it at Occupy, and I was like WTF, literally the majority of poor people in the U.S. are white, which is pretty simple and obvious demographics because we are the majority population. "The progressive stack," was my first real clue the left was deeply off course, though I had always been anti gun control and pro free speech "even for Nazis." I was naive then, but not that naive, LOL.
If you look at earnings, the average white family earns the average amount per year. Very logical. The largest group average is going to be close to the average. It has to be if the largest group is big enough. African Americans are quite far down the list. Well below average. Because of racism. But….black African immigrants are quite high up the list. Well above whites. And they are very black usually. Much darker than your typical mocha Afrjcan American. South Asian Indians are top or second. Chinese Asians, Jews, are near the top. Nigerians are well up there. Colour of skin is obviously not a factor.
Hit the nail on the head, sir.
Your timing is impeccable, John.
I was recently referred to a position very similar to the one I currently occupy at a SaaS company (where I feel I barely squeaked in before the aftermath of Saint Floyd's Summer took full effect) by an Indian-Canadian colleague who used to work with me here.
The company is a similar size, in the same industry, and the role would have been a perfect fit for my skills.
Having talked to some former coworkers who left my current employer, I already knew I was underpaid but not how woefully: according to the recruiter for this position, the salary range was literally double my current pay and the health insurance premiums for my entire family would have been covered.
Alas, despite being given a chance by the white, 20-something female HR recruiter (who likely just has an incentive to pass along anyone who appears competent), I didn't even get to speak with the white woman in the Bay Area who would have been my manager because they "decided to go with a late-stage candidate."
I noticed basically the same role was open on a different team, so I asked the recruiter about it and had my friend push my resume for that one, too.
This one actually got me an interview with the woman who'd have been my manager-- again, a white woman, this time an overweight, late 30s woman who studied Women's Studies and Social Work, spending half her professional career fundraising for the Social Democrat party in Canada before somehow transitioning into a SaaS technical role.
I was wary of reporting to such a person, but given the potential pay raise, I was willing to try to play nice with almost anyone.
We actually had a great 30-minute conversation where I felt I developed good rapport with her and demonstrated my abilities as a near-perfect match for the role, especially given my own personal experience as not just an employee in the space but an end user of software products in the e-com niche as an entrepreneur myself.
Go figure, I got the exact same email, word for word, from the recruiter about them wanting to go with another "late stage candidate."
Now, the positions are gone from their site, so it's possible they really did have two other candidates and I just missed it by the skin of my teeth, though I had to wonder whether I was competing against other straight, white, married males with dependents or more single cat ladies who vote for progressives.
This was a year after Amazon put me through a 2-month, 8-interview wringer (including making me talk to the same person twice), where I had great rapport with the guys who'd have been on my team, my immediate supervisor and his boss, and the subject matter experts who assessed me. I am almost certain I was shot down by the very last interviewer (the secret "bar raiser" who holds veto power over the entire chain of interviewers), who was a white woman my own age, the only one with pronouns in her signature, and who was training another woman to conduct the interview at the end of a 5-hour day where my brain was already fried.
Although I didn't get that job, I think I dodged a bullet since most of the tech companies did massive layoffs last fall, including my own, though I managed to be enough of a generalist with enough history here I wasn't redundant enough to axe.
In both cases, I received no feedback about why I wasn't selected, but it's one thing when you interview for a job where you figure out you're probably in over your head or the fit isn't that great or you make a poor showing of your skills in the interview and quite another where it feels like a position fits like a glove and would come with a sizeable raise and career advancement.
I haven't exactly been pounding the digital pavement, but if I can't even get a job when I have a referral, it feels pointless. And to be honest, I sort of gave up on the corporate world a while ago and have no desire to try to climb the ladder, especially seeing the writing on the wall for guys like me.
Which is why I've been buckling down continuing to build my own personal brand and consulting services. Would rather be done with all the woke HR departments and keeping my head down just to get a paycheck anyway.
P.S. Feinstein's corpse isn't even cold yet and Gavin Newsome has already nominated a black lesbian woman who doesn't even live in California to be her replacement as senator. As if Karine Jean-Pierre wasn't a warning.
Sounds like you've been experiencing this first hand. It's incredibly demoralizing, on the one hand; but on the other, we no longer need to give these corporations any loyalty, or tie up any of our self worth in our ability to advance within them.
This just parallels every other trend in our society as my wife continues her suburban homesteading while raising our two young children.
I really never expected when I was a kid in the 90s that I would live through the collapse of my civilization in the prime of my life, but I suppose no one does.
I try not to let it overwhelm me, but it is so tragic and all the more galling when you look at what absolute clowns our rulers are. I'm actually more angry at all the idiots who allowed-- and continue to allow-- them to hold any sort of respectability, let alone power.
How the average person doesn't see that the emperor is wearing no clothes at this point is one of the great pains of my life.
The sheer absurdity of it is the worst part. It would be one thing if we'd been conquered, put to the sword, our lands ravaged, our cities burned, our women, daughters, and sons taken as slaves. Having our rulers throw open the gates, hold our arms behind our backs, and give it all up with smiles on their faces is actually far more humiliating simply for how bafflingly ridiculous it is.
Our traitors posing as representatives know they'll profit more through Mr. Global's bribery than their severance packages. Generous as those are. And their subjects don't mind being lied to yet implicitly trust them enough to get experimental goo pumped into their arms. For reasons.
Anytime you hear someone say they were "called" to public service...
kind of like I want to be a cop because I want to help people.
1000% this!
It's so painful, I wonder how many people know but are lying to themselves or pretending...
A whitepill that occurred to me recently is I think there are really only a 100 or so laptop class ass whores who are actual human shitlibs who crank out talking points for the day on Xer, and aside from a few very elderly people, fat trans HR department heads, and wine moms the rest are bots to make us think shitlibs are popular and triumphant when they are not. So what if shitlibs are only actually 5 percent of the population, and we are the counter 5 percent, and the 90 percent are just trying to get by under the radar?
The question is, how to you get the intert mass of people to see that?
"The question is, how to you get the intert mass of people to see that?"
Show them that they A) pay taxes for the clown-show and B) how much of their taxes go to A).
Ideological talking points bore most people to tears and they just shut down; that they have been forced to pay X amount of their wages to pedopropaganda aimed at their kids is tangible and real.
very very good question
It is consistently only about 8%-11% who are progs. Research shows. Maybe 1% evil. Another 8%-10% minions. Activists, etc. About 20% can think for themselves. And 70% who are essentially NPCs. They’d hate blacks if they were told to. Or Jews. Or whites. Or Chinese. Or Russians. We actually out number them, the active haters, 2-1. The great mass lean our way but are swayed by propaganda.
Yes parallel economies and other opting out schemes are the only long term hope.
A big problem is they can't offer the goodies the corporations' economy can. That makes starting them like pulling teeth. Sans Novocain.
Reduced standard of living in the short term seems unavoidable tbh.
Yes I live in a 650 sq foot house in literally one of the poorest counties in America. But I have an acre of land, and many lakes and clean running trout streams within walking distance of my house. I'll make it even if shit goes full south.
It's a hard time to be a white male, we've had a lot of young male suicides in my area and what you describe illuminates the entire situation...wishing you the best of luck and success with your company!
It's a silly reference but have you seen 'Layer Cake'? It's worth watching the introduction for the ending line about not taking the piss: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwoCyF6qJzE.
If you are competent and reliable there will always be work. I don't know about large companies but the individual customer is not yet forced to buy from government-approved sources and can build up a reputation. In Britain this is seen by a lot of British medics going private with the Third-World dross staying in the public hospitals.
This is pretty much what I'm suggesting, yeah. The competent will have to establish a new societal infrastructure composed of loose, informally organized networks of freelancers and independent contractors.
The Liberal World Order is catching onto this trend as well and making gig-economy jobs illegal too. They are forcing companies like Uber to hire and pay the independent contractors, pricing their jobs out of the marketplace. Seattle just did this, and nobody wants to pay the premium.
The gig economy is just another form of extractive digital serfdom, frankly. At best it's a way to hold on, but it isn't the path to the good life.
I recommend using Gab for this purpose. It can be a time suck and troll magnet but also great for networking.
Put an intersectionality flag on your desk and say you're bi.
If H.R. wants dumb numbers, give them dumb numbers.
I'm not sure this actually works anymore. I've noticed that LGBT is often not included in the "diversity rainbow" of equity-seeking categories in job ads I've seen from the last several months. I suspect they finally got wise to this obvious dodge.
As the leftist holiness spiral moves into the singularity stage, the requirements for acceptable holiness become more extreme.
"Leftist Singularity" aka "Holiness Spiral", are terms created by the blogger Jim from blog.jim.com. His theory is that when a nations military has dominated all competing groups, the result is that countries priesthood becomes the dominant force.
When a priesthood is in a dominant position, it then becomes in their interest to find new and novel interpretations of scripture that show how God's will was actually to give the priests more free shit at the expense of the populace. For example, "do not steal" becomes "you did not build this yourself therefore you are stealing by not giving your fair share". or "do not commit adultery" becomes "do not keep your wife from finding herself via sex with random men, preferably priests".
At this point, it becomes in the interest of every priest to "out holy" every other priest. Since more holiness means more goods for the priesthood. In the name of God of course. However, this also means that the priests are now in competition with each other, and that means that being "less holy" or even worse "unholy" allows the priests to kill heretic unholy priests whose crime is not being up on the latest agreed consensus as to what exactly is holy.
This incidentally explains why so many women at womens marches simply cannot explain what a woman is. They are there for holiness, not rights. Since it was decided by the priesthood (the universities) that womens rights are holiness, they march for womens rights, in order to be holy. They want to be holy because women depend on others for resources.
A woman can be honorable and genuinely holy and give herself in perpetuity to a man who will take care of her.
Or she can giver herself out to the lying faggots in the priesthood who will find great excuses for the thug class to steal shit from the producers. In return the lying faggots in the priesthood will pimp her out as a temple whore to the military and merchant class youths or even the older members of those classes.
So right now the priesthood has become so holy, that they declared that having a uterus is no longer a necessary requirement of being a women. Because holiness. As a result the temple whores are in a bind, it's obvious that a uterus is in fact a requirement of being a woman but if they say so they will be unholy and cast out by the lying faggots in the priesthood to die in the wilderness. Tough position.
Excellent comment.
You just described how Byzantium rotted from within.
Granted, it's fall took six centuries to complete, but still.
For an antithesis to the rot you describe (splendidly, by the way), look at what happened to Alexander's brief empire after his death. In fact, the Diadoci and their actions could be said to prove your point from the opposite direction.
The Diadoci display a different sort of rot. For example, I was just reading Plutarch's biography of Demetrius, and he made a point of noting how unusual his family was among the Diadoci in that sons weren't trying to kill their fathers for the throne.
Byzantium: priest-caste corrupting everything as per the initial comment I responded to.
Diadoci: ambitious warleaders expending the resources and manpower of the empire they helped make, in a contest of strength.
I wouldn't call that rot, more slash-and-burn.
Now that’s an interesting observation. A few years ago I came across an ad for a “crew leader” for a national forest strike team in Colorado or New Mexico. It sounded like really macho shit. Then I saw the minimum qualifications: “must identify as LGBTQIA2S+” (that’s a direct quote—I screenshotted it). You also had to exhibit “the ability to effectively work on diverse teams or with a variety of populations, including those underrepresented at our organization and those of BIPOC communities.” I mean you had to be on the rainbow spectrum to lead a national forest crew—it was the bare minimum requirement. Gives new meaning to the “gay lumberjack” stereotype.
Gen question: if you said you were 'Hispanic' how do HR know? Why not lie and say your grandmother was a Spaniard? How will they check?
I normally “decline to answer” all of the optional demographic questions, but I’ve actually seriously considered identifying as a “trans woman” and just forcing them to play their game no matter how absurd it seems. Are they really gonna challenge me on my chosen identity in this climate?
I had a waiter say to me ‘Hi I am Brad, he/him, and I will be your waiter today’. I said ‘Hi Brad. I am William, he/her, and I guess I will be your customer today’. He started to say something then he said ‘He/her?’ I explained I was a he when talking to me, but a she when referring to me. So if the busboy says ‘who gets the extra napkins?’ you can say ‘the woman in the green sweater’. He asked if I were pulling his leg and I got offended. ‘I don’t feel comfortable being referred to as a male. I feel it objectifies me wrongly.’ I said he should accept my gender identity! He apologized profusely for doubting me.
LMAO
Historically I've done the same, but I will be adopted a victim class identity on every job application for a Fortune 1000 company from here on out.
That just perpetuates the whole charade we need to go medieval warrior Vlad the Impaler punk on their asses, FUCK THEM!
The authoritarians must have their violence...
My last full-time job was at Craigslist. The sole HR woman there systematically threw out every resume from white males for a number of years until the hiring managers finally realized what she was doing. She was fired, and not replaced. They function much better with no HR department at all now.
HR adds nothing. If anything, it's negative value. That most companies haven't realized this is a testament to just how many useless jobs our fake economy sustains.
It would be far easier if HR were reduced to their old 'Personnel' role of completing routine paperwork in the hiring process and making sure wages, tax etc are paid. That's it. Managers choose whom they hire and that's it.
Problem is that hiring is one of the primary power points in a company. Once the leadership delegates that authority, it will result in the new source of authority becoming the de facto leadership.
Managers are less likely to be fat black menopausal women who particularly dislike young, healthy men. That said there is nothing more nauseating than an old, ugly women slavering over a young man. It's worse than old men and young women by far. So in conclusion I'm not sure whether it's worse having one of these creatures throw your CV in the bin or keep eyeing you up at work.
I have a completely useless "bullshit job," to use David Graeber's term, Graber's book on that topic is actually really good and funny even though he identified as a left anarchist before he died. He was probably lucky to shuffle off this mortal coil so he didn't have to see what the left became.
Graeber was great. I think he did see what was happening to the left, and if I recall, even warned about it.
There are a few like him, not many. I doubt you have heard of Derick Jensen but he was the Earth First to Earth First an extremely radical at the time "left" anti technology activist. Now the left loaths him as he kept his values and is outspoken about trans cult. He isn't the best public speaker, but this is still worth your time IMO. You can hear the screeeing in the background, lol!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJsf5QY12rg&t=38s
I've heard that name before. Believe it or not I used to be deeply embedded in the leftist cultural matrix.
Weren't all of us old schoolers? LOL!
So, he was eventually attacked by the monster he helped enable, that doesn't make him great.
There you go again crapping on things you don't even bother to investigate.
> Graeber was great.
No, he wasn't. You can get 110% of the value of reading his book by reading the title.
https://theworthyhouse.com/2019/12/10/bullshit-jobs-a-theory-david-graeber/
I like Charles Haywood BTW, it's possible to like a multitude writers, and not just be the rightwing version of a cultist hipster who only reads from the pre-approved list of titles.
You really love shitting on things based on having a thimble full of knowledge about them don't you? Why is that?
HR's job is to comply with employment law.
The people doing the hiring _were_ the new hire’s future co-workers and managers.
The problem was that incoming resumes were all filtered through the HR lady, who was secretly throwing out every resume from a white male.
Dying to know if she dyed her hair in Skittles colors.
I never saw her myself, because I couldn't get my resume through while she was there.
Noice!
The real revolution will begin when all workers and employees refuse the old Bankster payroll model that adds so much expense and red tape to having employees. This is the only thing that will save the corporate model. Otherwise, independent local production will take over and outcompete outmoded corporations built on cheap shipping and foreign production. It's too expensive to move goods and parts over the highways now. International shipping is in crisis. What will we do without government regulation? We will develop guilds and apprenticeships that will support prices and quality (what government regulations were supposed to do). This is the anti-corporate model and it is winning. A lot of white guys are going into the trades, owning their own tools, and working for themselves, as free people do.
I think there's a lot to this. Informal business relationships are inherently almost impossible to regulate, and are far more nimble.
Every time I see the word "guild" it brings a smile to my face. The enlightenment modernist winners wrote the histories denigrating the high middle ages. But the return of the repressed is coming.
Cyberpunk medievalism. This is the way.
I think that used to be called steampunk. :-)
A lot of ancient science and technology is also coming back. Metaphysics. Electric universe stuff. The shape of water and resonance theories. Improved medicine and new electric gen. tech. All this is being rediscovered.
Yes, and almost none of this is happening inside the Academy, which is probably not accidental, and indicative of where the intellectual energy is shifting to.
The future of knowledge is a return to the 17th century. Neo-Rosicurianism...the culture of the early Royal Society was steeped in Masonry and hermeticism.
I am not arguing for mumbo jumbo but for re-developing practices of discrete, even underground, organisation, mutual support and mentoring. Something like this already exists in the seriously controversial areas of medical research (hbd) where 'silence is golden'. But we need more. We adapt or die.
The Invisible College is already the future of intellectual life, and in far more disciplines than HBD.
Sorry for my ignorance, but what is "hbd"?
Sorry for using an acronym without spelling it out first.
HBD is human biodiversity...variation in the genome. Draws on physical anthropology, physiology, DNA, psychometrics.
Yep I have always been an avant gardist, up through that the late 2000s it felt like that energy though it was vitiated was still barely on the left. After Occupy was destroyed by Trostskyite proto-woke proto-ANTIFAs, and the Dim Party, I felt a pretty rapid vibe shift to intellectual energy being on the right, and I didn't look back.
Yep. I picked up on that shift by 2015 or so.
Yes, astrology will lead the cultural awakening as the anti-Woke apparatus for knowledge...leading to embodied wisdom. Something just occurred to me from reading your excellent article and arriving to this epiphany at the end of the comments: diversity hires are a superficial response to a deep problem in western culture -- the left brain corporate state fascist repression of intuition, a human trait associated with .. you got it ... women and minorities! As we are faced now with quantum reality via AI, the crashing of western civilization can be traced to the exile of Carl Jung (an astrologer) from the western philosophical tradition for his occultism and repression of electromagnetics in popular science. If Tesla, obsessed with the magic of the autonomous integer (3,6,9) was widely taught in the university ... well that opens the door to the occult. The elites don’t want the masses to have their secret knowledge. So instead, the diversity hire!
Yes. Occult just means hidden. Plant medicine is occult (for example). There are many medical practices that are occult in the west that are recognized medicine in the east. We're calling this the apocalypse, where we pull back the curtain and see what's been hidden. The devil doesn't like that, so he does his worst to keep it from happening. His whole system of ritual magic that destroys the human empathic responses of its practitioners and priests is being exposed. The system of blackmail that controls our governments is being exposed. There aren't people who are more enthralled by religious superstition than these priests and witches (who despise and exploit humanity). I learned these ideas by reading the book Demonology by KJ1. It is not a grimoire like other old books by the same name, but is a philosophical dialogue and a warning against the ravages of religious superstition. Now, I've claimed I believe in the devil and I'm warning you against religious superstition. This could cause a modern educated person to repel against my ideas, but I'll let you figure it out.
If and when the financial crisis hits, and much of that debt based free money evaporates… I think we’re seeing the first wave of it now. Years of zero cost money for the big players have distorted incentives. Once HR can no longer be freely funded, it will shrink.
Yes. The huge distortion of fiat money not backed by silver and gold (alchemical metals symbolizing the Sun and Moon!) is a reflection of human engineered perversion of natural law, the basis of what is considered “occult” knowledge leading to Self- empowerment because it was hidden from the masses by the priests.
This is happening in medicine as well. The system is going to implode from incompetence and wokeness, which has no place in that arena.
Medicine and engineering are the two most terrifying occupations for this to be applied.
Well actually. Airline pilots.
Agree. We are witnessing the self immolation of our technical class. No one will be able to fix the broken things.
Barsoom looks better and better.
As usual, a great article John. If you want an idea of what will happen in the airlines, take a look at the differential in historic accident rates between Western and non-Western airlines since the dawn of mass air travel.
Mining. Luckily it is so immediately dangerous that the very dangerous jobs have not suffered with woke policies (as much as they try).
Corporate is another story.
I read somewhere that the exact same thing happened in Egypt millenia ago.
They had a medical class that focused only on what could be honestly observed, this led to advances in care. They saved lives and were effective, this gave them respect and power.
Power attracts the corrupt and unimaginative who want a free ride. At that point advances in genuine observation were put aside so the corrupt unimaginative drones would be able to maintain power by just memorization rather than actual creative ability. This spiraled and the entire profession became a priestly shit show.
That's what I read anyway. It was from Orson Scott Card, so I don't know what his sources were.
Maybe John Galt knows where they are. I hope they are learning how to weld, wire shit up, plumb, fix cars, etc. Maybe they are building compounds of bunkers in the spaces between the Newly Jacked cities.
I left the city. Live remotely, living on e-commerce income (which I expect to go away), learning real skills rapidly. Growing food, have clean water, composting toilet, heat with wood. Can fish and hunt. Building ties with community.
And... living this way makes one ridiculously happy. At least for me.
If I have to own nothing and be excluded from the system, then this is what appears to be the best option.
Outstanding!
This is the way hi 5 brother. I don't have a wood stove yet, but have used them in the past and can rip my freestanding furnace out easily if SHTF in the cities spreads out to the great north woods.
This is the way hi 5 brother. I don't have a wood stove yet, but have used them in the past and can rip my freestanding furnace out easily if SHTF in the cities spreads out to the great north woods.
This is the way hi 5 brother. I don't have a wood stove yet, but have used them in the past and can rip my freestanding furnace out easily if SHTF in the cities spreads out to the great north woods.
This is the way hi 5 brother. I don't have a wood stove yet, but have used them in the past and can rip my freestanding furnace out easily if SHTF in the cities spreads out to the great north woods.
This is the way hi 5 brother. I don't have a wood stove yet, but have used them in the past and can rip my freestanding furnace out easily if SHTF in the cities spreads out to the great north woods.
This is the way hi 5 brother. I don't have a wood stove yet, but have used them in the past and can rip my freestanding furnace out easily if SHTF in the cities spreads out to the great north woods.
We really do need offline goods and services for what lies ahead.
hopefully not watching Netflix on the couch
Probably no one needs to read this, y'all probably know already, but it is ridiculously easy to learn how to build and fix things now. So if you hesitate to fix an appliance or to repair or replace something in your living space that doesn't look right or work for you, please, try it, at least do some research and see if you can do it yourself. I promise, 9 out of 10 times, you can do it.
For me the most useful thing of the internet is that I can ask "how to" questions and get a slew of answers. Usually one of those answers will make sense to me. When I was a kid and a young man it seemed like knowing how to repair or make something was behind a veil. The older people just seemed to know these things, and it seemed I would never catch up.* I can watch experts reveal their secrets on YT until even I can see how to do it. When I quit NSA, for a while I looked at a lot of PT and FT jobs out there. One was absurd; a position at a library managing their tool lending, but also entailed advising and coaching people how to use the tools and make repairs in their homes. This astounded me that 1) a library is lending out power tools and such, and 2) there are people that don't know about YT? I could see myself sending links to how-to videos all shift long. I actually considered taking on the job just to experience it, but I ran into HR. HR in this case 1) contacted me many months after the job was advertised, 2) announced that several benefits as advertised were not actually part of the deal, and 3) just generally came across as an entitled female troll gatekeeper. So I passed on even doing an interview.
*I see now that this was because I was a TV baby and wasted the time I would have been hanging out with the men soaking up practical knowledge. Before TV, one had to do stuff with one's hands to be amused or diverted. TV for so many of us in the 70s and 80s was a massive detour into profitless diversion. I haven't had TV for at least 25 years, so I don't know what it's like anymore, except that I cannot be in a room where one is on.
I recently repaired the sunroof on my 14-year-old car (it wouldn’t stay closed).
Not only did I save myself hundreds of dollars, I felt EXTREMELY PROUD. That feeling is about as valuable as the money.
There is no feeling like the feeling that comes from successfully doing something real with your hands.
Excelsior!
Interesting observations. There are solutions, but all will be painful and terribly few may be willing to pay the price.
Personally, simply giving up hasn't been an option. Thought about it once or twice. Anyone tells you they haven't wondered if the world might be better off without them is lying. That's just part of being human. These days, agitation, unease, being uncomfortable for any reason, can be addressed by pharmacology. ASK YOUR DOCTOR IF HELPMECOPE IS RIGHT FOR YOU. The side effects might kill you or make you want to kill yourself, but by God, no one should have to suffer through character building episodes, right? The FAIR is in August and they charge admission.
Too much of this is the natural consequence of seeking equal outcome instead of equal opportunity.
I also have stared into the abyss of giving up. It seems to be a thing my brain does.
Fortunately, neither giving up, nor helpmecopewithzac has been an option for me.
Giving up and giving into despair is what the ethnic oligarchs and their mutant woke minions want us to do. Fuck that, stick around, milk the system for whatever you can get and endure to live for a better day.
Our mere presence on the planet annoys them to no end. So sink your fangs into their necks and rend their flesh in any way you can!!!!!!
Bingo.
You are too talented to give up. It would be an unforced error.
I'm not so conceited. It's honestly just sheer bloody-minded stubborn cussedness that keeps me going.
I'd take your side in a foxhole any day!
🤜🤛
I do think there are a lot of people who never have suicidal ideation. They can't conceive of what would cause someone to do that. I can't understand how most people wouldn't have suicidal ideations given the absolute state of things, and a lot of people definitely do, but not everybody.
In chess, giving up is always an option, but it never helps.
You're absolutely right in the respect that these companies and institutions are going to bleed themselves to death on a hundred thousand small inefficiencies. I'm of a school of thought that efficiency at all costs is more harmful than helpful, in many ways, but at the same time, there has to be a base level of functionality in any given system before it falls together entirely, which is exactly what's going to happen to these larger companies and institutions as they accrue more and more dead weight. I think that a big solution will present itself in parallel systems. The more and more people are squeezed out, the more necessity there will be for these parallel economies to form, and there will be more and more incentive for people to engage and propagate them. All in all, this is a pretty disturbing and disheartening article, but, at the same time... you're not wrong when you say there's also plenty of opportunity ahead for those who are willing to reach for it.
Also, I'd be interested to see what the data looks like on demographics and how they hire. In my own experience, white men, as you said, hire who they must, but I've also experienced first hand that, when left to their own devices, women tend to hire women (race notwithstanding), black men tend to hire black people, but black women hire exclusively black women. I've heard other people corroborate that, but if the data exists, I'd like to see if it backs up this experience.
This is exactly my experience. White men tend to prioritize competence, and will work with anyone who can get the job done. Every other group tends to prioritize their group, with the exception of White women who seem to go out of their way to help minorities.
Now, whether there's data for this? I'd be a bit surprised if there was. The last thing anyone wants is for these impressions to be corroborated.
A lot of white females are dumb woke bitches, or Vicious Bitches as I called them in my article. They actively hate white males and empathize with and fetihize minorities.
And then this happens:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12562547/Pava-Marie-LaPere-murdered-Baltimore-apartment-Forbes.html
She looks like a nice person, though. I say that sincerely.
This whole thing is bonkers. I wonder who did it, and why?
Took me most of the article to realize “ecosystem” in this case doesn’t mean plants and trees. Her business seems like part of the problem for sure, but that doesn’t mean she deserved to be brutally murdered.
“According to her social media, LaPere's company 'uses technology to automate the process of digitizing ecosystems, from entrepreneurial communities, to industry sectors, to corporate networks and beyond.
'Our proprietary tech allows us to create platforms that are pre-populated with information about the resources, organizations, businesses, and people within any given community, and keep that information continually up to date.
'Our platforms help answer the question "who is doing what?", enable organizations to engage stakeholders at scale, and provide valuable data on the makeup of any given ecosystem.'”
Great stuff. I wrote along similar lines in my series on teaching. I think it’s going to come down to networks in small towns, an integrated system of education designed to create groups of interconnected elites, decentralized credit systems, alternative methods of credentialing, and control of legal processes on the county level (elected sheriffs).
In Russia you can expect a majority of people in corporations to speak English, so learning Russian is not really required to find a job. Russian culture is basically western, food is great, land is stunningly diverse and beautiful, people are cheerful, safety and quality of living is excellent in major cities like Moscow, Saint Petersburg or Kazan. And we still pay skilled (and not so skilled) expats more than local hires, so they can afford a decent living (medical expenses are usually covered by social package from your job). If you are married and with kids, there are a number of English schools. If you are not, there are caring and honest women looking for a husband.
It is not all sunshine, but Russia is a great place to stay while one is waiting by the river for the body of HR-department to float by.
I've visited Russia, and quite liked it. Considered moving there but was scared off by the opacity of the immigration system. How would you recommend someone find a position in Russia?
I was actually surprised to discover Russia (and Ukraine prior to the war) has a *surplus* of women in their fertile years. Quite interesting, that.
A legacy of “Russian cross” in Wild 90s, when mortality was high and birth rate was low. It was not a good time to stay in Russia, to put it mildly.
But you came out on top. Respect.
This is all true.
Here in the rural mountain west there is a big shortage of workers, especially skilled trades. Electrician, plumber, building trades, well drillers, mechanics and so on. Tradesmen I've talked to say no one wants to work and they can't get anyone anyway. Makes one wonder who is going to fix and build stuff after they retire. Which for some of them isn't that far off.
It takes competence and intelligence to build, operate and maintain complex systems. the diversity hires people will find that out. South Africa and Rhodesia will be the future for most of the United States.
I hear exactly the same thing from tradesmen and contractors here. Part of the problem, I think, is that manual work has been coded as low status, as a result of which the youth have no familiarity with it. That, combined with demoralization - the sense that it doesn't matter, you won't ever get ahead - leads many to prioritize enjoying themselves in the moment over working hard for the future.
Manual work is high-status in Australia. The guys are treated like kings and domestic electricians and plumbers (almost always white) make obscene amounts of money.
As it should be.
I'd say the trades can make a very good but not obscene money
King's Counsel and Surgeons : now that's obscene money
I know it's been ages since this came out and nobody's reading the comment section anymore, but in the meantime absolute evidence confirming all of this article has came to light. IBM and RedHat have been instituting racist policies, including race-based hiring quotas but also more. Here's a summary post: https://conservativenerds.locals.com/post/5035886/the-ibm-red-hat-leaks-what-weve-learned-so-far Probably more will come to light. Good for cross-referencing the statistics with actual cases. :)
Yep. All the deboonkers citing Little Bennie Shapiro's Daily Wire article claiming the Bloomberg study was fake news are revealed for the shills that they are.
Factoring in all of the dead and disabled young/middle aged white guys that had Fortune 500 jobs who were forced into the safe n' effective should be considered too. I know more than 10 in my professional circle.
I actively hire for bleeding edge IT workers for a huge global institution. It's not really DIE that I've seen factor in, that's all garbage lip service. It's that 90% of the resumes I see are from a select few bodyshops that cater almost exclusively to Indian/Asian candidates. Of these candidates, about 10% of the resumes are legit and maybe half of those actually might fit the role. The offshore/onshore brown-people consulting firms have simply dominated large corporation HR departments through aggressive marketing campaigns and outright kickbacks. They have engaged in massive fraud with huge pools of fabricated talent. I'm one of the few hiring directors who will grill you on hard technical tasks the first day in person which were covered during the interview process. I've lost count now of how many outright charlatans I've fired within the first few hours of day 1. The audacity is overwhelming.
I've suspected something very much like this for some time. Ethnocentric minorites achieve positions of leverage due to diversity hiring policies, then turn around and prioritize hiring their coethnics, with the result that non-ethnics are largely locked out. At that point applying for a job becomes a question of who sees your application first.
From my experience in huge companies it's not even minorities in positions of leverage (They are often lily white Karens/Head girls). These offshore/onshore headhunter companies have just absolutely dominated their field due to fraud and graft over the traditional local agencies I used to deal directly with.
Believe me, when I see a name I can pronounce or an address of an actual local real human, they get priority. DIE is bullshit and everyone knows it.
I've stopped pretending to 'treat everyone equally' as this only works in a homogenous society where the average man in the street can be trusted. The various browns et al will conquer by our rules and then rule by their own. I'm racist in favour of the British (the real ones, not our recent guests) in everything that I do: where I shop, whom I offer extra help at work, everything.
I've had lifelong brown friends and will treat everyone with the respect that they earn over time. That being said there is certainly an initial prejudice that I cannot deny.
Friends get treated like friends, and that trumps tribe. When they aren't friends, though....
I'm not friends with anyone out supporting Hamas, wearing Islamic headdress or an illegal immigrant. That deals with most of the foreigners here already.
God bless you, and I wish I could work in your company.
One of the most frustrating things about corporate life is watching stupid people get into positions where they can hire and fire. Stupid people have almost no ability to assess whether a potential hire is smart or not. This can lead to catastrophic mistakes down the line (At my old job, I once spoke to a server administrator who didn’t know how file paths work.)
I've run multiple remote video technical interviews with candidates who seem like amazing and intelligent people. Only in-person under scrutiny is the deceit easily revealed. There's an entire industry on the Indian side for coaching these liars through tough remote interviews. It's given myself and my coworkers an entire book of hysterical stories and characters who were fired.
You're absolutely correct when stupid non-technical managers are hiring these people they have absolutely no idea and will often go to great lengths to cover up their mistakes once the idiots are revealed. Large corporations are being sucked dry by these parasites.
Thanks for this essay. It's personal to me. I wanted to be an English professor but I didn't fit in. I've made a go of it in working class jobs such as caregiving through an agency and wine warehouse work. I've made good friends in the Mexican working class in Napa valley. In the 1980s there was no Mexican wine workforce in Napa. Now there are more than 3,000 descendants of immigrants from one small Mexican town of 500 people (I know or knew several). Now the wine industry depends on more than 50k wine workers a year, some of which are migrants. The parallel economy already exists. So many Spanish speaking Californians already work under the table and barter, it seems like the real economy. And all the corporate stock options and Bankster bubbles appear to me like the false economy to which there is no bottom. Corporate real-estate buyers like Black Rock simply hold up the fake value of real estate and use that lie to leverage more borrowing, resulting in a prohibitive cost of housing. When the corporate system collapses, professionalism will mean nothing. Those who have successfully unincorporated from the evil system will thrive, but how will all the professionals live when the corporate system collapses?
The professionals will either starve, or learn to do something else.
I literally thank God I got in under the wire for buying a cheap cottage outright in northern Michigan. Real estate has tripled up here since Covid which is insane. I figure even with no jerb or social security I can always rip out the propane furnace, put in a wood stove, and live on fish and game, piss on the system.
they'll just ban your right to fish and game or use a wood stove.
LOL, no. I live in an area with 500 sq miles of wilderness, 12,000 people total, and no traffic lights. We can snipe them with deer rifles from hidden positions in the vast forest, they wouldn't stand a chance.
Hubris kills. So do IR drones. Don't get cocky.
Your body heat is a beacon in the forest - even an exposed wrist or around your eyes is enough to drop a grenade.
The Taliban won against muh technocracy with guerilla tactics and so can rednecks, lock and load!
Go suck a throbbing black cock Fed!
I wonder how many will wind up in pods in smart cities eating bugs.