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Post by kungfuzu on Feb 23, 2021 10:18:22 GMT -8
Hasidic Jews commit crimes just like everyone else. If I have told this tale before, forgive me.
In the mid-to-late 1980s, the people I worked for had an office in the Diamond Exchange Bldg. on 47th St. in Manhattan.
They leased all of one floor. To help cover costs, they sub-let part of it to a Hasidic Jew who, as I recall, was in the pearl trade. This dealer had regular visits from one particular man, who was also a Hasidic Jew and apparently a customer.
On one particular day, the customer came for a visit and then left after a few minutes. The elevator was in clear view of our office, so people's comings and goings were open for all to see.
Shortly after this visitor left, the pearl dealer came out of his office covered in blood, holding his throat, and literally screaming blooding murder. It seemed that the "customer" had cut the dealer's throat and stolen a large number of pearls. Luckily for the dealer, the cut was not bad enough to kill him and there were people in our office to help him.
I have no idea what happened to the thief.
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Post by kungfuzu on Feb 23, 2021 11:46:12 GMT -8
I just listened to the Dennis Prager discussion with George Friedman download you sent me. It was very good.
I can honestly say I heard nothing new and nothing which I disagreed with. Friedman and I are on the same frequency here.
I especially liked his saying that China was having plenty of problems of its own and that Biden could continue to put pressure on China.
He also mentioned his belief that China would not invade Taiwan. His reasons for his conclusion are much the same as mine. (I have had several people in Asia ask my about this subject and I told them the things Friedman mentioned. I was also explicit is saying that if the USA did not support Taiwan then the whole network of alliances we have built across Asia would dissolve. The US's commitment would be worth less than zero.)
Understanding that China must be corralled before it gets too strong is an important point for our policy makers to internalize.
I am beginning to think that we should not only open our political consultancy group, but that it should be expanded and include our international intelligence department.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Feb 23, 2021 13:45:43 GMT -8
You wonder how much of that was virtue-signaling. “See. I really do love these little yellow slant-eyed fellows.” For the record, I hate what the Japanese did in WWII but have come to respect and admire their culture since then. Thanks to MacArthur and the bomb. Whatever. But they’re not lazy dirtbags, although I’ve read reports (and from you) that says the much of Japanese yute are infected with Progressive nonsense as well.
So, to sum-up…no culture whose state religion is Progressivism can be a threat to us (at least when measuring externaly...internally they're a killer). It is a religious movement that simply weakens any culture it touches until it has no defense against invaders. It's exported threat is cultural malaise, disbelief, and destruction of norms and institutions. Our best weapon against China isn’t nuclear deterrence. We should ship over a 1000 cross-dressers and let them spread the faith. Hell, China will be closing factories and farming out work to 3rd-word countries in no time.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Feb 23, 2021 13:52:04 GMT -8
I haven’t heard that one. It makes me think of a certain something song…
Warning: Jill St. John is particularly hot. This is like one of those stupid warning you see on TV, YouTube, and what-not about flashing images that might drive some people into a coma or something. Well, similar warnings here. Lubricate your eye sockets and be sitting down.
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Post by artraveler on Feb 23, 2021 16:31:49 GMT -8
I am beginning to think that we should not only open our political consultancy group, but that it should be expanded and include our international intelligence department I'm up for that. I respect Friedman he wrote a book several years ago outlining what he considered the potential hotspots for confrontation the bulk of them are in Asia. His view of Russia is that they have the desire to be a problem, but unlike the CCP are rational. It is a strange world where we view the Russians as rational next to the CCP. Had a discussion with a friend over the weekend. We were talking about Dr. Thomas Sowell. His book the Vision of the Anointed should be required reading for every conservative/libertarian. There is a lot to cover in the book but it sums up to: The conservatives/libertarians views leftists as normal people with bad ideas. On the other hand, leftists view us as bad people with bad ideas. If you listen to their rants, speeches, and writings the attack is always on the personal level. That explains cancel culture, attacks on Trump, Limbaugh and others. With the personal attack they attempt to discredit the ideas, which they know they can not do by argument. It is the same in international affairs.
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Post by kungfuzu on Feb 23, 2021 19:28:47 GMT -8
I believe that can be proven empirically. What damage has Russia caused since 1991? What damage has slithered out of California since that same period?
There is no doubt in my mind that California has been the biggest threat to the USA since 1991, at the very latest, and probably before that.
I would happily say goodbye to the State if it seceded, with the proviso that no more Californians moved to the USA. Wherever they go, Californians bring with them a plague more virulent and deadly than any other we have seen since the 1918-1919 flu pandemic and probably since the Black Death. Even Dennis Prager agrees with me on California secession.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Feb 26, 2021 21:07:14 GMT -8
Here’s how it would work: You tie the prospective (or existing) GOP candidate in a chair and arrange the hot lights and that sort of stuff. I figured you’d be good with the covert (read: slightly dodgy) stuff.
Mr. Kung and I will then berate this guy (playing the “good consultant/bad consultant” routine), sweating out as much namby-pamby as possible and inserting a backbone.
You then hand them a bill for $50.000 and we’ll split it three ways after expenses.
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Post by kungfuzu on Feb 27, 2021 20:37:50 GMT -8
I suspect they will be willing to pay much more than $50,000 after all of that. But if they aren't, we could keep them in for sessions which concentrate on specific insanities pushed by the left and others, For example, we would have classes on de-equalizing gender, a course on the proper use of pronouns and a short film demonstrating the surgical procedures required to correct "nature's mistake" for people such as Dr. Levine who is presently being put up for some under-secretary spot in HHS. To be clear, I am not talking about facial plastic surgery, although Dr. Levine could do with a fair amount of that as well.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Mar 9, 2021 8:53:01 GMT -8
I will lead a class called “Opening a Door for a Lady.” Let me show you one of my graduates:
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Post by kungfuzu on Mar 9, 2021 13:33:50 GMT -8
I have noticed that middle-class blacks and those on the way up the ladder often are the people who most strictly adhere to the virtues which the white middle class promoted and followed 50-60 years back. For some reason, the children of the WWII generation found manners, respect for others and self-control too bourgeois.
The country has certainly suffered for it. I will still open doors for females, but more often than not, I receive not word of thanks, rather I get a funny look.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Mar 11, 2021 12:54:36 GMT -8
I think this whole mask thing has revealed the new American character. And I’m not liking what I see. I’m astonished that most people would acquiesce to such widespread and arbitrary control over every facet of their lives.
It’s difficult to describe the operative word in all this. But part of it is contained in feminism, safetyism, racism (against whites, etc.), sexism (against men), atheism, and especially an overall orientation to feeling entitled to air and have ratified every damn thought or feeling that one has.
To my mind, the reason Jews are so hated throughout history is because they were tasked to change man back to the image-of-god and away from the animal he had become since his creation. Christianity is consistent with this.
But all forces now (despite the veneer of nicey-nice “compassion”) are pushing the reverse. The qualities of restraint, perseverance, understatement, reserve, carefulness, and reasonableness are not thought outdated and non-applicable. We’re reverting back to the animal. The idea of "manners" itself is defunct. Most people now are uncouth slobs.
One sign is how easily the herd masked up for no good reason. The stage is set for true horrors.
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Post by kungfuzu on Mar 11, 2021 13:33:53 GMT -8
To a great extent, this is the result of a propaganda machine that, while similar to previous such machines, has an unprecedented reach across the world.
The Nazis had only been in complete power for six years before they invaded Poland, but these quotes from "Bloodlands" gives the reader an idea of what can be done with effective propaganda in such a short period of time.
And lest anyone think that only the uneducated or lower orders of Germans were infected, note the following about the commanders of the Einsatzgruppen, the infamous special task forces which were at the forefront of eliminating the educated classes of their defeated enemies. Mass shootings was one of their favorite methods of accomplishing this.
As Prof. Snyder writes,
The Soviets were much the same. They exterminated tens of thousands of the Polish intelligensia at Katyn and elsewhere.
Never doubt that we have such people among us. Imagine how these people could justify their rage at people who don't wear masks. Haven't we all been told that wearing a mask is not for yourself, but for the good of others? The logical conclusion which is to be drawn from this is that people who do not wear masks are bad and detrimental to society.
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