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2021-07-23 17:57:08 In reading their work, I was reminded of some Robert Putnam/Bowling Alone reasons that could be in play here, i.e., we are social creatures, and when you strip away healthy social interactions you get increased depression and death. Liberalism has done a fine job of stripping, since so many of our social interactions happened in all-white or single-sex groups that are now verboten.

The impact of Covid deaths is bringing this into sharper relief, since so many of them are accompanied by government-forced social isolation.

Leonhardt summarizes in safely liberal territory by pointing to health inequality generally.

But I am absolutely convinced that there has been a precipitous decline in white mental health in the United States. And that the loss of working class jobs is just a small part of the cause. Our demographic displacement/replacement is the bigger driver.

A brave academic should take a look.


https://vdare.com/posts/deaths-of-despair-nyt-s-david-leonhardt-interviews-case-and-deaton-but-skips-past-the-white-suffering Open / Comment

2021-07-23 16:17:49 Ground Zero for monitoring this disease is the Covid-19 Dashboard maintained by Johns Hopkins University. Updated daily, this reports the cumulative number of cases and deaths reported apparently by every country in the world.

On Thursday, China (population 1,408,000,000) had reported a cumulative total of cases of 104, 443 cases, directly below Mozambique (population 32,200,000) at 105,866 cases. China reported total deaths at 4,848, just below Costa Rica (population 5.14 million) at 4,925.

This is absurd.

(Figuring out rankings on the Johns Hopkins site has become much more difficult than it was a few months ago. Maybe China complained.)

I see three possibilities for explaining this bizarre situation

The Chinese are lying. Everyone who knows the Chinese agrees this is possible. But given the personal links between China and the rest of the world nowadays in contrast to a generation ago, if the disease were raging the way it has in India (31,257,720 cases, 418,981 deaths population 1.39 billion) word would surely have leaked out.
The Chinese have an exceptionally effective vaccine but have kept it secret. I used to favor this theory. But since reports are that over 40% of the population (c. 560 million people) remains unvaccinated this concept does not work.
Covid-19 does not strike the Chinese the way it does others.


https://vdare.com/posts/did-china-create-covid-as-a-bioweapon-targeting-non-chinese Open / Comment

2021-07-23 05:41:09 The Racial Reckoning is coming for board games. The problem, evidently, is in historically accurate strategy board games, whites usually win in the end, which is intolerable. We need historically accurate board games in which sub-Saharans conquer England.

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2021-07-23 05:07:51 A West Texas Reader Says The Overton Window Is Moving On Racial Issues, Partly Thanks To South Africa

https://vdare.com/letters/a-west-texas-reader-says-the-overton-window-is-moving-on-racial-issues-partly-thanks-to-south-africa Open / Comment

2021-07-23 04:06:09 William H. Regnery II: A Hero’s Life

"With his departure a noble life, a hero’s life, has ended, but he leaves behind a legacy of courage & loyalty as an inspiration for his comrades in the struggle for the survival, salvation & triumph of European man."
https://vdare.com/articles/william-h-regnery-ii-a-hero-s-life-a-hero-s-death Open / Comment

2021-07-22 23:01:41 When did Ukraine, Belarus and Georgia become our concerns?

Russia's alarm at having the world's largest military alliance, NATO, led by its former Cold War adversary, squatting on its front porch from the Arctic Ocean to the Baltic and Black Sea, is as understandable as is Putin's impulse to push that alliance some distance away.

That is what any Russian nationalist ruler would do.

But when did relations between Belarus, Ukraine and Russia become the concern of the USA, 5,000 miles away?

Is Putin an autocrat? But so what?

When has Russia not been ruled by an autocrat?

From Peter the Great to Catherine the Great to Alexander I, Nicholas I, Alexander II, Alexander III and Nicholas II in 1917, Romanov czars ruled Russia. After 1917 came Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev, Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin.

During his speech at American University, Kennedy mentioned a crucial fact about the long history between Russia and America:

"Almost unique among the major world powers, we have never been at war with each other."

Maintaining that 230-year tradition should be at the apex of our concerns, not how Vladimir Putin rules what is, after all, his country.

https://vdare.com/articles/patrick-j-buchanan-jfk-accept-our-diverse-world-as-it-is Open / Comment

2021-07-22 21:51:45 I think Conor is mistaken in the appeal of Southern California to most Angelenos. It hasn’t been about the future since about 1974, it’s been more about preserving the past. As he writes, the conservative impulse has dominated for over a half century:

… The initial wave of community plans, around 1970, “dramatically rolled back density,” Morrow wrote, “from a planned population of 10 million people down to roughly 4.1 million.” Overnight, the city of Los Angeles planned for a future with 6 million fewer residents.

Angelenos want their part of Southern California to look like it did in Chinatown. I recall when first seeing Chinatown, a landmark 1974 movie set in 1937 that railed against progress, thinking, “Wow, L.A. before smog was beautiful.” By 1974, Angelenos like screenwriter Robert Towne were tired of the Future.

Not surprisingly, Southern California’s biggest accomplishment in recent decades has been rolling back smog to Chinatown levels. (By the 1990s, Towne in his introduction to a published version of his Chinatown script was more unsure that the Dead White Men who built Los Angeles into a great city, such as water engineer William Mulholland and the Otis-Chandler dynasty at the L.A. Times, were quite so bad as he had once depicted them: at minimum, they got big things done, which is becoming increasingly unlikely.)

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2021-07-22 19:24:56 'On the one hand, race does not exist biologically.

On the other, nothing is more significant nor fascinating to black women than the racial distinctiveness of their hair.' - @Steve_Sailer

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2021-07-22 18:05:57 Biden's open borders policy is displacing American workers...

In June:

- Immigrants (legal and illegal) gained 180,000 jobs, a 0.7% increase from May.
- Native-born Americans lost 198,000 positions, a 0.16% decline from May.

https://vdare.com/articles/national-data-yes-the-border-influx-is-disastrous-but-june-jobs-data-shows-american-worker-displacement-immigrant-workforce-population-on-rise-too Open / Comment

2021-07-22 17:51:02 In contrast, the sanctified Racial Reckoning couldn’t possibly have anything to do with the Black Attack increase. Who ever could conceive of such an impossibility? The Soros-funded war on the New Jim Crow couldn’t be altering the cost-benefit tradeoff to encourage more blacks to commit crimes by reducing punishment. It just couldn’t.

Seriously, the pandemic gave the Chesa Boudin-types excuses to suddenly let more vicious criminals out on the street, but Chesa and Company had been planning to do that anyway. https://vdare.com/posts/asians-in-san-francisco-are-angry-that-their-leaders-won-t-protect-them-from-assault Open / Comment