The DoomYoshi Musings thread

[DoomYoshi]

China is "routinely" America's bitch:
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/militar ... kely-anger

[DoomYoshi]

This is an article about the unkind treatment of the Trash Can on this very site:
https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-a ... s-minority

How did an elite, repressive minority policing speech and culture through political correctness come to browbeat the American democratic majority?

The overwhelming majority of Americans oppose political correctness. A recent survey of 8,000 Americans reveals that people of all ages, races, and educational levels oppose it by lopsided margins. None of the demographic categories presumed to be aligned with it, or to fall within its protective embrace, actually support it. Three out of 4 black people, 2 out of 3 people with postgraduate degrees, and 78 percent of people under the age of 24 all regard political correctness as a problem. While 79 percent of white people oppose political correctness, it is Asians (82 percent), Hispanics (87 percent), and American Indians (88 percent) who are most likely to be resistant to it.

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The study demonstrates that the opponents of political correctness are not primarily the followers of Donald Trump. Nor are they in any significant sense the alt-right, a ragbag of at most a few thousand malcontents in a country of 350 million, who have been falsely magnified into a ludicrous simulacrum of a real social force. They are not predominantly the remnants of a dying white America brainwashed by Fox News. They are not a pitiable collection of angry white males—ruddy, be-Dockered, pale, stale, males left behind by the times—clinging to their dwindling privileges in an ever more vibrant and diverse America.

PC’s opponents are a portrait of rainbow-coalition America itself—people of all ages and all colors protective of their liberties, who sense instinctively who is really at the core of the politically correct movement and oppose the ideas and motives that animate it. This diverse America is of course fundamentally at odds with the Fox News crowd and the Trumpists. But they have no more love for their would-be saviors among the politically correct, who rule through fear inspired by legalistic threats and social media mobs.

The solution is obvious: we should ban all speech rights for the SJWs, so they can no longer spew their anti-racist venom.

All kidding aside, truer words have n'er been spoke:

It is also a measure of how successfully the toxic rhetoric of warring elite cliques has gaslighted you into submitting to a narrative that is brazenly false.

I raised this point many times in many ways in arguments with owenshooter, notyou2, DDS, symmetry, etc. However, I was never quite able to articulate it so eloquently.

Real racism and oppression happens every single day, but people dance to the beat of the drum that is all about words, while ignoring the real problems.

[DoomYoshi]

Something really weird is going on in Europe and it has been going on for a while but I only just noticed.

The far right has become anti-free trade and against austerity measures. Say what?

[DoomYoshi]

You might think this is a hoax... but it's real:
http://www.law.uga.edu/sites/default/fi ... 0Satan.pdf

In related Pennsylvania law news:
the biggest tragedy of 2018

[DoomYoshi]

Clint Eastwood:

[2dimes]

Right turn Clyde.

[DoomYoshi]

https://www.newstatesman.com/2018/11/po ... -john-gray

Men are from Mars, Paradigms are from Pluto. John Gray remains my least favorite and most interesting writer.

[DoomYoshi]

This is a really neat story, with another story sandwiched in the middle:
http://nautil.us/issue/66/clockwork/the ... fic-credit

[DoomYoshi]

Moar Tolkien? No.
https://www.weeklystandard.com/hannah-l ... ddle-earth

[HitRed]

Something really weird is going on in Europe and it has been going on for a while but I only just noticed.

The far right has become anti-free trade and against austerity measures. Say what?

Why are the Germans called Christian Democrats? I thought religion was dead over there

[DoomYoshi]

Something really weird is going on in Europe and it has been going on for a while but I only just noticed.

The far right has become anti-free trade and against austerity measures. Say what?

Why are the Germans called Christian Democrats? I thought religion was dead over there

Germany remains a bastion of Christianity in a sea of Catholicism. Germans actually pay for their tithes right through their government taxes, so German stats on Christianity are the best stats. You get less Christian nominalism there, and the churches are generally better funded.

[DoomYoshi]

I found this cool old new story.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct- ... story.html

Fast forward and the prosecutor won the case.

Therefore, people from Illinois can call you bro, bro.

[DoomYoshi]

Nurture wins, because it is random and therefore better.
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/ob ... ture-wins/

[DoomYoshi]

[Dukasaur]

Looks like Ms. Pac Man's maiden aunt.

[DoomYoshi]

I think this is the best video ever posted on YouTube. I'm addicted to watching it, but more especially to the comments section. There's a good lesson here about mitochondrial DNA, but I don't feel like providing it today.

[2dimes]

Mitochondrial? They almost ruined Star Wars.

[DoomYoshi]

Slate has it wrong, these are the two greatest minds of our era:
https://slate.com/human-interest/2018/1 ... fight.html

No wonder, when the author looks like this:


She's been on a crusade against Zizek for several years now:
https://atravelersnote.wordpress.com/20 ... o-grow-up/

[DoomYoshi]

For pottage and puddings, custards and pies,
Our pumpkins and parsnips are common supplies.
We have pumpkins at morning and pumpkins at noon;
If it were not for pumpkins, we should be undoon.

[DoomYoshi]

Next year ends the dark ages in US&A. 20 years after the famous law case Disney v. everything holy, good and right in which Disney won a landslide victory, the public domain became frozen in the US (and by consequence, in Canada). Next year it is unfrozen, and films from 1923 are entering the public domain. It would have been better to have it at 74 years since this is a major dick-move. For example the local film club is doing (actually it already happened) a 75-years anniversary festival for Safety Last, a famous Harold Lloyd movie (mostly famous because of just one scene where he's dangling from the clock). They brought in a live orchestra to play alongside the silent movie. They had to pay distribution rights for that, whereas if they would have waited 12 months and had a 76-year anniversary party it would have been free, just need to pay the orchestra. I'd rather money go to living, active artists than corporations.

ITS TIME!!! NEW YEARS IS ONLY A WEEK AWAY!!!

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-cul ... 180971016/

[DoomYoshi]

https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/r ... an-culture
This is something that will you think, and also includes education. Usually those are two opposite terms.

[HitRed]

https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/religion/2018/12/how-pelagius-s-philosophy-free-will-shaped-european-culture
This is something that will you think, and also includes education. Usually those are two opposite terms.

God is complex and beyond our understanding. Faith, works, grace, redemption are all in the mix. Finding out the British and Italians disagreed before the invention of Football, priceless.

[DoomYoshi]

mrswdk posted something a while back about how millenials have the least sex of any recent generation, this somewhat ties into that:

In 2014, the Journal of Advertising Research published a study documenting an odd decline in references to love throughout popular music. The word had fallen below phrases such as “good time” and epithets such as the N-word on the list of most commonly sung terms in the chart topping hits of the 2000s.

https://www.theamericanconservative.com ... with-love/

tl;dr - liberals ruined it.

[DoomYoshi]

Nurture wins, because it is random and therefore better.
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/ob ... ture-wins/

Uh-oh, look who is on the tube tonight:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/01/scie ... -race.html

[DoomYoshi]

How many is too many asians?

Five, according to a South Korean court of law:
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/ ... 61408.html