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1 hour ago, Ghost of LL said:

 

Unlike most countries in the world, the United States of America is not an ethno-state.  Japan is a nation because that's where the Japanese live.  Ireland is a nation because that's where the Irish live.  Germany is a nation because that's where the Germans live (at least, it's where they live now after they all got kicked out of Czechia, Poland, and elsewhere after WWII).  But the United States of America is different.  It's not a nation because it's where some people called the "Americans" live; it's a nation because a bunch of white Europeans committed genocide on an entire continent of Native American peoples. Then have spent the last few hundred years lying about it and pretending it didnt happen. 

 

 

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1 hour ago, Ghost of LL said:

So I'm on board with the general concept that cultural purity as a concept is rubbish . . . with one big caveat: philosophy.

Unlike most countries in the world, the United States of America is not an ethno-state.  Japan is a nation because that's where the Japanese live.  Ireland is a nation because that's where the Irish live.  Germany is a nation because that's where the Germans live (at least, it's where they live now after they all got kicked out of Czechia, Poland, and elsewhere after WWII).  But the United States of America is different.  It's not a nation because it's where some people called the "Americans" live; it's a nation because that's where a group of people set up a government based on certain self-evident truths, that all men are created equal, and that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.  The United States is not an ethno-state; it's an ideological state.  And it has been from its foundation.

So when the Cubans come in and bring their hot women and their delicious sandwiches and their rockin' music and their curious take on language and their questionable taste in fashion, it doesn't threaten the foundations of the United States.  Because the United States is not an ethno-state.  It doesn't matter whether we're eating hot dish or Cuban sandwiches or pizza or listening to R&B or salsa or country music.  It only matters that we broadly agree on the basic rights and liberties and obligations enshrined in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

So when the Cubans also bring along their love of fascism and try to re-establish the Bautista dictatorship here, then I do object.  And I do have a problem with the importation of that bit of their culture.  And if they are unwilling to adopt our culture on those points and want to import their own ideosyncratic culture of kleptocratic fascism, then I think they absolutely should fuck all the way off and be deported.

I single out the Cubans on this because that's whom the post I'm quoting is about, but that goes for any nationality.  Russians who think Putinism ought to be emulated here; Arabs who think a North American caliphate would be a splendid idea; Chileans who come here thinking we ought to have an American equivalent of the Pinochet dictatorship; or a certain Persian who thinks she shah was just great and we ought to import the absolute monarchy of pre-revolution Iran to the United States--fuck all of them.

Got damn this reminds me.  I had the best Cuban sandwich I've ever had two weekends ago at the campus hotel on the Aggy campus...of all places.  Fresh pulled pork plus all the usual fixings.  Honestly considering roadtripping back for lunch today.  

Posted (edited)
5 hours ago, The Original Greaser Bob said:

Thought this was a pretty interesting podcast about losing touch with red america.

https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/know-your-enemy-how-charles-murray-almost-predicted-the-trump-era/

The PBS questionnaire in the link is hilarious. It’s a “you might be a redneck” checklist. To be clear, I scored fairly high; I have lived in oklahoma and arkansas.

A sampling.

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What? No Springer?

Disappointed there wasn’t one of these.

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6 minutes ago, GenXer said:

The PBS questionnaire in the link is hilarious. It’s a “you might be a redneck” checklist. To be clear, I scored fairly high; I have lived in oklahoma and arkansas.

A sampling.

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What? No Springer?

Disappointed there wasn’t one of these.

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I took that just for shits and this is what I got:
 

Scoring

You got 59 points.

The higher your score, the thinner your bubble. The lower, the more insulated you might be from mainstream American culture.

See below for scores Charles Murray would expect you to get based on the following descriptions.

48–99: A lifelong resident of a working-class neighborhood with average television and movie going habits. Typical: 77.

42–100: A first-generation middle-class person with working-class parents and average television and movie going habits. Typical: 66.

11–80: A first-generation upper-middle-class person with middle-class parents. Typical: 33.

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Who didn’t see this coming?

President Donald Trump is seeking a $230 million payout from the Department of Justice as compensation for the multiple federal investigations into him, The New York Times reported on Tuesday, citing several people familiar with the matter.

And Trump’s own appointees and allies are the ones who will have the power to green-light the potential nine-figure payout.

 
 

“The situation has no parallel in American history,” wrote the Times’ Devlin Barrett and Tyler Pager, “as Mr. Trump, a presidential candidate, was pursued by federal law enforcement and eventually won the election, taking over the very government that must now review his claims. It is also the starkest example yet of potential ethical conflicts created by installing the president’s former lawyers atop the Justice Department.”

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Posted (edited)

Is Jimmie the NASCAR driver or the football coach or do I just put yes?

 

Edit: oh clever of them. 

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3 minutes ago, elfenix said:

Is Jimmie the NASCAR driver or the football coach or do I just put yes?

Gives the option to pick one or the other after you hit yes

Posted
12 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

I took that just for shits and this is what I got:
 

Scoring

You got 59 points.

The higher your score, the thinner your bubble. The lower, the more insulated you might be from mainstream American culture.

See below for scores Charles Murray would expect you to get based on the following descriptions.

48–99: A lifelong resident of a working-class neighborhood with average television and movie going habits. Typical: 77.

42–100: A first-generation middle-class person with working-class parents and average television and movie going habits. Typical: 66.

11–80: A first-generation upper-middle-class person with middle-class parents. Typical: 33.

So their premise is that “mainstream” American culture is poor and working class and those people live in less of a bubble?  That seems…flawed. 

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Fairly accurate as an immigrant family, we were on the lower end of the socioeconomic level till 8th grade, I think. Also lived in the gentrifying part of Oakland for about four years that was a stone's throw away from the poor to working class to your gentrifying Bay-Area elites.

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38.  Unfair.  If they'd asked some more redneck-ish questions, like "how often do you hunt," and "do you eat food from gas stations," and "have you ever fallen off a boat because you were drunk," and shit like that, I'd have scored 100.

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3 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

38.  Unfair.  If they'd asked some more redneck-ish questions, like "how often do you hunt," and "do you eat food from gas stations," and "have you ever fallen off a boat because you were drunk," and shit like that, I'd have scored 100.

I got 39, owned.



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