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Simon,

You wrote, “All of that’s true. I’m just saying it’s a lot more relaxed to live in the UK right now than the polarised and aggressive USA.

I am not buying the competition and dominance notion.

The reason is that we don’t have a narcissist heading the country winding everything up as hard as he can.

People and groups either coopera…[Read more]

Enco,

Thanks for the Marley link.

Quoting that article, “He had eleven children with seven women, abused his wife, and hated gays.” So doing the lefty calculus being a noble savage and oppressed it means cultural relativism applies and he is an upstanding citizen.

I had a Jamaican gf and have spoken to other women in Jamaica and they confirm…[Read more]

Here is one article from today’s edition of JP. BTW it is also clear to me that Israel can’t trust the USA to sell it weapons if far left takes power again. I think i read other than USA after oct 7 only Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland or Serbia sold weapons to Israel. Other countries cancelled executory contracts. How fucked up is that? Israel…[Read more]

I am only half a moron. Yeah! I am a complete moron in terms of using the computer effectively. But your opening line is a strawman.

I never once boiled down antisemitism to left or right. Seemingly disparate interests can always share in hatred of Jews. When it is not manifest it is latent and liable to boil over as it has in so many…[Read more]

Well said Enco. I like that-the oppression olympics. The cast of characters would be severely chopped by lefties.

I was gonna mention the Aztec, Inca and Maya. Just proves human nature in the impact of consolidation of power. Don’t forget how tough and brutal the Commanche were. I think the Cherokee had a lot of slaves if memory serves. You are…[Read more]

I know a guy who grew up in Utah and while the Mormons were not his friend he never heard any Jew hating rhetoric. Was surprised to learn how prevalent it is.

Here is Seinfeld on some of these issues and how it has touched his life. Interestingly Simon, he attributes extremism to i think he said consensus and the need for agreement as part of…[Read more]

He said it.

Ha ha.

Ok so i have not even read these but quick search and here are a few among many indicating the trajectory.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/02/british-jews-experience-more-antisemitism-as-middle-east-war-escalates

https://www.timesofisrael.com/report-details-terrible-normalized-antisemitism-at-uk-universities/

History of England is immensely oppressive of native peoples. Sun did not set. Exploitation on steroids. Fucked over the Irish to a degree that is shameful. Not much freedom of expression in the star chamber. Ya did beat the Americans in outlawing slavery first. USA gave the vote to women a bit sooner.

Regardless it is a woeful history. A…[Read more]

Enco writes, What Jake has copiously said addresses this as a human condition, not exclusive to the U.S.A. But I might add that the indigenous tribes here warred and enslaved each other for centuries before Europeans arrived and Africans were dragooned along for the ride. And these Europeans and Africans brought along their own tribalist wars and…[Read more]

Strega,

“You’re much more tribal here in America. People really like labels and grouping terms. Maybe it’s because you had to invade the land you live in, and had to manage indigenous peoples, so it’s a Cowboys and Indians mentality. Or Us vs Them

It seems to me that when we feel besieged, frightened, angry or fearful, we seem to enter fight…[Read more]

Strega,

Also grew up in an atheist family. No hiding my ancestry because of my surname or half of my ancestry and the only half that matters. Obama is Black but half White so he is Black. I have been keenly aware of racist mofo all of my life. First really vivid recollection i was a little kid and my dad had a ‘friend’ who we were visiting. I…[Read more]

Strega,

Our biases are always in play and that is part of the trap of confirmation bias. We are all human and to one degree or another vulnerable.

I agree labels can be misleading. I don’t consider you a lets say doctrinaire lefty. If one adopts some aspects of an ideology but rejects others that is commendable. The problem is Ideologies sweep…[Read more]

Just watched Trump and his cabinet of sycophants. What a stable genius! His cognitive decline is accelerating. When he goes on for a few minutes at a time the tangents and non sequiturs are launched and he simply can’t stay cogent. What a jaw dropping spectacle of the movie Idiocracy in real time.

“Extremists care about the one cause more than human welfare.”

Is it true?

Lets agree on a subset of extremists. Nazis? Obviously. Islamic suicide bombers? Obviously. White Christians out on a Sunday afternoon to take in some entertainment so they watch an innocent Black man being lynched. Asked AI for a famous incident. I have read about m…[Read more]

“Pediatrician fired for vile post suggesting Texas flood victims were Trump supporters who got what they voted for. New York Post”

In the comments the following appears.

“Leftists, liberals and Democrats need to be rounded up and put into concentration camps for treason.”

Moving right along singing a song it won’t be long till Murica aint…[Read more]

Simon,

Are you othering Maga-heads? Do you differentiate the far right from far left in those terms? Your terms that follow. If you were socked in a snow storm and without a shovel would a Maga-head be less likely than a lefty moron to help you dig out your car? Are lefties smarter than Magas? Do there political affiliations or ideologies…[Read more]

Yes, values.

Far right values authoritarianism and in murIcA the value of lionizing our fearless cult hero. There and then to encourage a cozy fascist and Christian nation. Democracy was apparently only a brief experiment and was never fully achieved. Immigrants who are for most part peaceful and escaping terror and deprivation are villified.…[Read more]

Imposing values?

Opposing values we value.

Enco,

Israel & jews the world over need to fight back. Produce documentaries that give the history of Israel, history of Jews in the middle east, history of Jew hatred all over the world, history of the Jewish smear by the Soviets, Arab/Muslims, Nazi influence and how those have culminated in modern progressives ideology.

And then a showdown…[Read more]

There was racism in my high school. Only perhaps 8 Black kids who were “shipped” in using the Metco program. Not sure how many Jews. I guess i must have been one of perhaps 20. It was bad for Jewish students and worse for Blacks.

Can’t remember any Blacks in Carlisle or Concord. Just a few Asians. The racism and elitism at that regional high…[Read more]