I Want a New Left

Amusing Broadcast on Global Warming

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“Racists”

I keep trying to write up something on what I call the cult of black criminality, but I can’t get it finished. Meanwhile, here is an idiot leftist who urges her fellow idiots who will all be getting together with relatives they haven’t seen in ages to call out the ones who are racist. I’m pretty sure these "racists" are not people who are demanding that blacks ride in the back of the bus or that they should have separate (and inferior) drinking fountains. No, they are probably people who are simply telling her truths she hasn’t heard from the ruling-class media and doesn’t want to hear. Over in Britain, some government commission, staffed almost exclusively by non-whites, decided there was no systemic racism there. Naturally, all the elites howled in agony, calling them Uncle Toms and what not.

As for Minneapolis, it is hopeless. As I said after the nonsense last summer, why move to Minneapolis when you can move to Beirut?

Why Redistributions Don’t Work: BLM Edition

Here is an article about a woman, Patrisse Cullors, who co-founded Black Lives Matter and who describes herself as a “trained Marxist,” but who has just bought a home for $1.4 million. In addition, it is her fourth house (with the total value of all of them being $3.2 million). She can do this because the organization managed to snag $90 million in donations. Whether as a Marxist she should be doing this is another matter, and even if she weren’t a Marxist, it seems problematic because many smaller organizations included under BLM have complained they haven’t received any money at all.

And what has been the response of this woman? She is complaining about being a victim of right-wing propaganda!

These articles practically write themselves, by the way.

To be fair, someone in one of the tweets posted in this article mentioned that people like Angela Davis didn’t do this sort of thing. Still, based on what I’ve seen in academia, Cullors’s response is the more typical one. People who claim to like redistributions often don’t think they are obligated to do them. Maybe they think it’s the government’s job to do that, but that is a strange attitude. In fact, it’s quite callous to wait for the government to step in when you could do so of your own volition. The adjunct situation in academia, as I’ve been saying for ages, shows how those who like redistributions nevertheless feel no obligation to arrange for them.

Albion College: Unbelievably Stupid

At Albion College, a lot of racist graffiti was found in a dorm. There were the predictable wailings about “not feeling safe on campus” and similar nonsense. Finally, the perpetrator was arrested, and it should come as no surprise to anyone that he is black. However, the announcement of his arrest had no effect on the ruckus that the children were making. They just kept right on going with their demonstrations, feelings of insecurity, and cutting classes. See here. As Titania McGrath would probably say, we have to believe in these things so that the next faker will have the courage to commit a fake hate crime. Heh.

The Psychology of Gambling

I avoid gambling, except that I’m told that not betting at all is a bad bet in itself, so I gamble a little in the stock market. Meanwhile, others seem to be addicted to it. For example, consider this Archegos business. As I understand it, the guy who did all this gambled by buying stocks on margin (which I would never do), and then when his stocks went up, instead of doing the safe thing and just selling it all for a nice profit, he bought even more stocks on margin. And then it all crashed.

This is like people who win the lottery, but then go to Vegas to gamble with it. See here and scroll down to Evelyn Adams. In fact, this Evelyn Adams actually won the lottery twice, which means that the first win didn’t quench her thirst for gambling. Incredible.

Not quite as extreme are those people who win big in the stock market or something similar, and instead of just relaxing for the rest of their lives, continue to make risky moves. This happened to John Paulson, who was one of the big winners in the housing crash that began in 2007. According to Wikipedia, he made $4 billion from that bet. You’d think that would be enough to set him up for the rest of his life, but no, he kept making trades and in 2011, he made some bad investments. Sheesh. Likewise, Michael Burry, who also won big back in 2007, has been shorting Tesla, which seems much less wise than what he did back when he shorted the housing market.

By the way, the guy with Archegos, Bill Hwang, used to be with Tiger Management, which sounds like it runs specialized services for zoos and circuses, but which was actually in finance.

Thrasuxenia: A Great Word!

I only just discovered this word, which seems to have been coined by Plato and which means “foreign uppitiness.” We ourselves in America these days suffer, not exactly from this, but from the uppitiness of the sponsors of foreigners, who think that foreigners should all be allowed to come here and become new citizens instantly. I don’t know how you would say that in Greek, though.

Just As I Predicted Nearly a Year Ago, An Airline Goes Woke

See here where I pointed out that we were heading for lowered standards for pilots because of all the nonsense about systemic racism. And now an airline, United, has said they want to increase the numbers of women and minority pilots. See here. Sigh. Yet another company to boycott.

Are Ukraine and Russia Heading for War?

For weeks I’ve been reading (on the Unz report Review) of a coming war between Russia and Ukraine. Everyone there is blaming Biden’s cronies in advance for it, claiming they are hungry to get a war going between Ukraine and Russia, that they may also want U.S. involvement, that they hate Russia and Putin for one reason and another, that our media would blame Russia for any conflict, and so on. If this happens, and if it happens with U.S. involvement, it will be amusing to see the reactions of all the Dems. They have been feeling such relief that Trump is gone, but they have not been expecting a war. That’s something that Trump would do! Yes, it will be amusing, though there will be lots of condemnation of Russia because of course Biden won’t be to blame. No one could think that, could they?

Africa and the Virus

Why has Africa been relatively unscathed by the Wuhan virus, especially compared with black Americans? This post explores some reasons. While they suggest some genetic factors, it seems to come down to three environmental factors. Black Africans are younger on average than black Americans, they are slimmer, and they take a lot of hydroxychloroquine. Also, maybe because they take something called ivermectin (see here).

Some of the commenters noted the mysterious death of John Magafuli, president of Tanzania, supposedly from the virus. He was a skeptic who fooled the experts by sending them samples of papaya fruits and what not to be tested, and sure enough, they tested positive for the virus. But then he died. Of course, there is also the mysterious death of Jeffrey Epstein. Both were inconvenient for the elites.

Lying to the Media

The ruling-class media tells so many lies to us that it is tempting to lie right back to them. This may have been what Volkswagen did recently when it claimed that it was changing its name to Voltswagen. This was in late March, and they apparently assured journalists that they were serious and that it wasn’t an early April Fool’s Day joke. Then they declared that it was. Well, so they lied to the media. Or not. They may have chickened out on this new name change. But still, lying to the media is nothing other than what they deserve.