BurdensomeCount
Apparently "BIPOC" is a racial slur now.
The neighborhood of Hampstead is just at present exercised with a series of events which seem to run on lines parallel to those of what was known to the writers of headlines and "The Kensington Horror," or "The Stabbing Woman," or "The Woman in Black." During the past two or three days several cases have occurred of young children straying from home or neglecting to return from their playing on the Heath. In all these cases the children were too young to give any properly intelligible account of themselves, but the consensus of their excuses is that they had been with a "bloofer lady." It has always been late in the evening when they have been missed, and on two occasions the children have not been found until early in the following morning. It is generally supposed in the neighborhood that, as the first child missed gave as his reason for being away that a "bloofer lady" had asked him to come for a walk, the others had picked up the phrase and used it as occasion served. This is the more natural as the favorite game of the little ones at present is luring each other away by wiles. A correspondent writes us that to see some of the tiny tots pretending to be the"bloofer lady" is supremely funny. Some of our caricaturists might, he says, take a lesson in the irony of grotesque by comparing the reality and the picture. It is only in accordance with general principles of human nature that the "bloofer lady" should be the popular role at these al fresco performances.
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Yes, I am aware it is a rude gesture (dating back to the time just after Agincourt when the English archers stuck up their two fingers at the French to show they would continue to shoot at them; likely the person who made this gesture wouldn't know this, I'd be surprised if they could name even the war in which Agincourt happened), however that doesn't mean it's any less stupid to do this when there is an alternative reasonable interpretation that makes you look very stupid.
After the uprising of the 17th of June
The Secretary of the Writers' Union
Had leaflets distributed on the Stalinallee
Which stated that the people
Had squandered the confidence of the government
And could only win it back
By redoubled work. Would it not in that case
Be simpler for the government
To dissolve the people
And elect another?
The ongoing riots in the UK and the senseless destruction they have caused remind me of Bertold Brecht's famous poem he wrote in response to the 1953 East Germany strikes. While Brecht, himself a communist sympathizer, initially intended his poem to be a satirical polemic about heavy handed work quotas it recently struck me that he might have been more correct than even he had anticipated.
The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines "to dissolve" as "to become dissipated or decomposed". After seeing the behaviour of the rioters right now as well as the rhetoric that has been coming from that class of people over the last few decades one must wonder if the right solution isn't really to dissolve the people. By this I don't mean immersing them in sulphuric acid until dissolution but rather dissipating their population density as a fraction of the whole country until there is no longer enough of a critical proportion of people which can light the fuse so to speak. There's a reason why even though there are far more "natives" in London than Sunderland the violence in the former has been more chickenhearted and more easily put down.
These rioters are generally low human capital people who take out a lot more over the course of their life than they put in. It's not scientists and lawyers you see giving the middle finger to police officers and pushing garbage bins in their general direction. I think it is perfectly fair to say that as a group they are best characterized as failures who have disappointed their betters and what's more don't even think there is anything wrong with their current state and behaviour. They are even confused and disoriented about the flashpoint of the current disorder: unlike what their prejudices told them the person who killed the three girls in Southport was not a fresh off the boat Muslim migrant but rather a black Welsh 17 year old child who had been born in the UK having a schizo moment. The true facts about the stabbing coming out did not placate their desire for an orgy of violence in the least.
Furthermore they live off the tax contributions of people like me and instead of being thankful for what they are given they blame us for making the country worse and want to bleed us even more. I like to quip that if the majority of people want to see a human parasite they would be better served by looking in the mirror instead of the Times Rich List and I think that applies perfectly here.
Another good example of a city that had some riots is Manchester; when the thugs tried their trade there they were met with swift counter protests bigger than what they could muster and were forced to disperse, leading to no public damage. It appears that the violence only really gets out of hand in the minor cities where the concentration of "natives" is too high. To prevent future riots the obvious solution is to reduce this concentration or namely, to dissolve the people.
Whenever there is dissolution there must be a solvent. And what would make the best solvent here? The usual answer provided by the left is something like "integration" where rich and well off people are asked to live amongst the lower classes in the hope that they will have a civilizing effect on the poors. Normally this is done by mandating the building of housing intended for poor people very close to housing occupied by the well off. While this may work at preventing tantrums from being thrown in the first place it won't do very much to quell them if they happen: a bunch of effete button pushers (Note: I count myself as among this group) doesn't put the fear of God into anyone. They would never have the guts to go up to the rioters and do this (choice moment: the rioter responding with 2 fingers when asked how many brain cells he has).
Instead the best solvent you can get is someone who will also stand up to debauchery when it rears its ugly head: migrants who are unafraid of giving it just as good as they get (see above video). And what's more, unlike the low tier "natives" who Great Britain is saddled with because they were born here the non-natives are all people who were either themselves selected by the UK as being positive for the country or descendants of such people which means they still have a portion of the net positive genetics (I'm ignoring refugees here because they make up a very small proportion of total migrants and something tells me the rioters of today wouldn't be happy if illegal migration stopped but legal migration continued at the same levels as today).
In fact a more reasonable word for these migrants would be "elects", since they are the chosen. Each and every single legal migrant in the UK has been collectively chosen as being worthy of being allowed into the country. They should be accorded the respect such an honour deserves instead of being told that they don't belong here. In fact the reason so many of them were chosen in the first place is because the "natives" have continued to disappoint the real decision makers day in day out for the last however many decades where importing so many migrants was the only choice left to keep a stable state going: firstly refusing to take care of older family members and foisting them onto the state and then refusing to have enough children if they're net contributors/having too many children if they aren't net contributors. Any attempt to talk sense to these people about how a welfare state with sub replacement birth rates and no migration is unsustainable was (and is) met with fingers in ears and "na-na-na can't hear you". Is it any surprise that with such a badly behaved lower class the elites decided to do away with them like you do with a bad employee and get someone new?
And we shouldn't forget that many of the migrants had far worse starting conditions than the gentlemen throwing bricks but through industry and positive sum contributions to human flourishing have managed to make something of themselves, only to be looked at enviously by the people who previously have been appropriating the wealth of the successful and now want to get even more at the elects' expense.
So yes, the elite class in the Western world has taken Bertold Brecht's words to heart. When confronted with unruly and disruptive lower classes it really is simpler for them to dissolve the people and elect another. I for one am looking forward to the consummation of this process; we'll probably end up with fewer riots at least.
I used to row in a past life and happen to sort of know one of the Olympic GB female rowers. Despite the fact that she almost the same height as me (height is very important for rowing) and basically the same weight class as me (if not lighter) she had a 15-20 second faster 2K erg than me (this was before she went professional), although the caveat is that I was only training 3x a week while she'd have been doing 7+ sessions a week.
Perhaps boxing isn't like rowing but equally in the other sports where I can do a direct comparison easily (like weightlifting), the Olympic women in my weight class are miles and bounds ahead of me. The lowest score for the snatch was 90kg in the 76-kg category in Tokyo 2021 while I topped out at like a 50kg snatch back when I used to train for rowing.
BurdensomeCount
Apparently "BIPOC" is a racial slur now.
3mo ago
Really? I am a mid 20s decently fit male who knows nothing about boxing and has never been in a ring. I don't think I'd manage to hold a candle against the women competing in my weight class at the olympics.
Avoid pitbulls though. They are called the BIPOCs of dogs for multiple very good reasons.
BurdensomeCount
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3mo ago
A spear on its own may not be optimal in such a situation but a Halberd with a sharp blade allows you to do swinging actions with reach just like a knife as well as the usual pointy stuff. You can cut down your enemy with a knife before he is within two meters of you.
BurdensomeCount
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3mo ago
Was Quilty even real? I think there's a reading of the book where Quilty is Humbert Humbert's own alternate ego.
BurdensomeCount
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3mo ago
He should be punished and has served his punishment. We should move on and treat him like any other rehabilitated criminal at this point.
The girl's parents should also have been punished for gross neglect at letting things get to such a point where their daughter at age 12 was willingly going and having sex with a random from the internet. The big injustice of the story is not that he's been rehabilitated but rather that the piece of shit parents are treated as victims instead of accessories to the crime.
BurdensomeCount
Apparently "BIPOC" is a racial slur now.
3mo ago
Jewish Motters: I am not actually an Ephraimite.
You may not be an Ephraimite but referencing that particular story is a pretty loud dogwhistle for Freemasonry.
BurdensomeCount
Apparently "BIPOC" is a racial slur now.
3mo ago
Israelis killing Palestinians in Gaza is a "dog bites man" tier occurrence now. There's no way it can be a major news story every time it happens.
BurdensomeCount
Apparently "BIPOC" is a racial slur now.
3mo ago
Topping this: https://rdrama.net/post/287384/turn-on-the-olympics-see-this from today will be quite hard.
BurdensomeCount
Apparently "BIPOC" is a racial slur now.
3mo ago
Yawn, the Olympics are old news by now and have been completely borgified. There are hundreds of renditions of the Sorcerer's apprentice on Youtube with better acoustics than whatever the olympics opening ceremony can muster. Plus none of them are going to get cut off (if your adblock is functioning properly that is) halfway in the middle. If that's what you want you can enjoy it there.
I'm waiting for the enhanced games personally, genetics has shown us by now that the advantages some people naturally have are little different to what happens if others take drugs, e.g. some people just naturally have lower myostatin (which restricts muscle growth) than others, meaning they bulk up faster and easier. They can compete in the Olympics just fine but it's a massive scandal if another person not with these mutations takes a myostatin inhibitor to make their body do the exact same things the first person's body is doing.
BurdensomeCount
Apparently "BIPOC" is a racial slur now.
3mo ago
The latter two have significantly easier to understand answers.
BurdensomeCount
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3mo ago
You don't need a car unless you're getting it for other reasons. The UK is very friendly towards biking and your daily trip can probably be seen as a 30-40 minute bike each way which isn't too bad if you're only doing it for 6 months (a total of 120 working days). It substitutes in for your daily exercise too.
BurdensomeCount
Apparently "BIPOC" is a racial slur now.
4mo ago
The cops literally told her to go get the water, and then proceeded to shout at her for holding the water.
I'm normally against credentialism but wouldnt mind a 4 year degree requirement to become a cop, if only to filter out idiots like these from ever having any power over their fellow man.
BurdensomeCount
Apparently "BIPOC" is a racial slur now.
4mo ago
Choice comment on the video you posted:
Notice how the Devil didn't like being rebuked.
Even if she was going to throw the pot of water at them the correct decision for the officers was to move away from her, not towards her like they did.
Regardless she did do something wrong, namely letting cops into her house without a warrant.
BurdensomeCount
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4mo ago
Dems have plenty Black mana but not enough White mana. Unfortunately for them Trump has "indestructible" and all the exile effects available that can handle him require W instead of B.
This ain't it chief. That was a very bad decision to shoot based on the full video and I hope the cops are punished to the fullest extent of the law.
Stuff like this makes me give serious consideration to whether black people in the US have a point when they say the police is systematically biased against them.
BurdensomeCount
Apparently "BIPOC" is a racial slur now.
4mo ago
People are throwing every kind of insult at Kamala to see what sticks.
Cacklin' Kamala has a certain ring to it, don't you think? Isn't sexist or racist either which is another plus.
BurdensomeCount
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4mo ago
It's amazing how unreasonably effective this tactic is, not that I condone it or anything.
BurdensomeCount
Apparently "BIPOC" is a racial slur now.
4mo ago
Fair enough.
Various responses are saying that she's talking to blind people, as if that somehow makes it not weird.
That's a perfectly reasonable thing to say if you're talking to blind people, or at least the sitting at a table wearing a blue suit stuff is reasonable. If I were blind I'd appreciate it as that would give me a better mental model of the space I'm inhabiting.
The difference between this situation and a phone call is that phone calls are symmetric and nobody has info about what the other is wearing etc. while in this case the sighted people will have a more accurate representation of the situation than the blind ones. Her words were just a way to try and equalise the situation a bit more.
A better comparison would be to a Google Meets session where Alice has audio+video of Bob while Bob can only hear her. There's definitely an inherent element of weirdness in this situation caused by the imbalance (as I'm sure everyone who has been involved in such a situation knows) and the way Kamala was talking attempts to at least cut down on how severe it is.
The rest of the quote is just standard left wing greeting rituals.
BurdensomeCount
Apparently "BIPOC" is a racial slur now.
4mo ago
"bios flags" now have two different meanings.
BurdensomeCount
Apparently "BIPOC" is a racial slur now.
4mo ago
The 2010 rioters were gang members and other assorted types. You won't find me defending them at all, they have a honor based culture and the solution with them is public flogging and total humiliation until they become clowns in the eyes of their peers. That rioting was caused by bad selection policies used by the UK in the past labouring under the usual blank slate delusion ("if we just treat them well they'll turn out no different to high tier humans") and I wouldn't recommend electing those sorts of people ever.
Fortunately countries now realize, at least for legal immigration purposes, that all human beings are not equal and are at least making some effort to select the ones likely to contribute vs not. I don't expect this to be an issue for future migration unless the UK degenerates to such a point that high tier migrants themselves pass on the UK for better destinations and we end up left with the dregs of society.
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