1. An interesting retweet from Richard Harper: testosterone levels for male prisoners serving time for different offenses.
2. The “view tax“. New Hampshire legislators shot down a law that placed a tax premium on properties with “pleasing views”.
3. Slate’s Amanda Hess writing again on hook-up apps. This piece is about an app called Lulu that lets women rate their male Facebook friends on various measures such as trustworthiness, attractiveness, manners, etc. Hess thinks the app is “creepy”, but it is the product of female app creators which is exactly what Hess has previously argued the app world needed. If female programmers are creating apps that play into female hypergamy, then that’s an argument against heterosexual hook-up apps on the grounds that women won’t use them the same way men will.
4. Someone defending pitbulls.
5. The latest outcome gap outrage: why are there so few black comic book writers? The answer that seems most parsimonious but also least popular among progressives is that black kids don’t tend to read many comic books. That’s based on observation; the comic book industry seems to be reluctant to release demographic information. At least one black comic book writer mentions the readership gap though he still laments it and thinks it needs to close.
6. The manifesto of L.A. cop killer Christopher Dorner. He’s being painted as an extreme leftist though I don’t think that accusation fits. He’s loyal to mainstream institutions as well as mainstream cultural icons. He fawns over both Obama and George H.W. Bush and is not a critical of martial institutions – the police or the military. He watches CNN rather than gathering news from extreme leftist news sites. I found the last paragraph of his manifesto praising Bill Cosby to be interesting (even though he doesn’t apply the same thinking to his rant against George Zimmerman):
Mr. Bill Cosby, you are a reasonable and talented man who has spoken the truth of the cultural anomalies within the black communities that need to change now. The black communities’ resentment toward you is because they don’t like hearing the truth or having their clear and evident dirty laundry aired to the nation. The problem is, the country is not blind nor dumb. They believe we are animals. Do not mute your unvarnished truthful speech or moral compass. Blacks must strive for more in life than bling, hoes, and cars. The current culture is an epidemic that leaves them with no discernible future. They’re suffocating and don’t even know it. MLK Jr. Would be mortified at what he worked so hard for in our acceptance as equal beings and how unfortunately we stopped progressing and began digressing. Chicago’s youth violence is a prime example of how our black communities values have declined. We can not address this nation’s intolerant issues until we address our own communities morality issues first. Accountability.”
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That pit bull article is absolutely terrible. It’s not compelling at all. How do these people get published on salon?
Comic Books require a certain amount of abstract thinking to enjoy. Abstraction is not the strong suit of blacks, to say the least.
There will be a lot more of such articulate manifestos to come. Anyone can post something online today; and committing a high-profile crime (which anyone also can do if he’s determined to do so) gets you mass readership at every level. Just twenty years ago Tet Kaczynski had to blackmail the entire country with threats of terrorism just to have NYbT and WP publish his.
Given our society’s general downward mobility, there will be no lack of perceptive and angry people who can write. It won’t just be demented and easily dismissed Colin Ferguson types getting heard.
One of the most valuable parts of Brevik’s manifesto were the excerpts that Moldbug’s posted after the massacre. Where else will a large audience get a well written exposee on the government-sponsored street-level war of genocide against whites in wealthy countries.
Re: Pitbulls – Pitbulls are safe, the emerging SWPL trend. Good to see Salon confirm it. The ‘pitbulls are safe’ posts started to pop up on my SWPL friends’ Faceborg feeds and two who work for state governments did pitbull rescues before the holidays. The media didnt make pitbulls evil. The owners who trained them into vicious killers made them evil and then the media ran with the scare campaign. SWPLs don’t comprehend that the same applies to guns. The danger is not the object, it’s the owner.
Dorner is the typical extreme left winger. Here he is preaching to blacks about bling, hoes, cars, and violence etc and just what does that nutcase “think” he is doing and being. Insane, just insane.
I wouldn’t read too much into Dorner’s support of Bill Cosby. Lots of black people online talk about how much they support Cosby and how the black community needs to get its act together. It’s just a way to appear reasonable. When it comes time to actually do specific things to get said act together, all of a sudden it’s back to blaming the white man.
Still, you’re right that he’s not really a militant leftist. He’s more like a militant MSM fan. Every single opinion in that manifesto is the exact opinion of someone who watches TV all day and considers himself to be a “moderate”. Right down to heaping praise on unfunny gay comedians.
I wonder how Django Unchained will come out, though. Back when Gabby Giffords got shot, they were quick to blame a Sarah Palin ad that the shooter probably never saw. Here, the shooter explicitly talks about how he likes a movie about a black guy running amok on white people. Do you think anyone on the news will point that out?
SOBL1 – I personally hope pits don’t get too popular. If the owner isn’t prepared to provide the training and daily exercise they need, they can be problematic. That’s not to dispute your point, but just to say the average person is better off with a lab.
Harking back to the recent post on the “God made a farmer” commercial, this is a hilarious take-off.
http://www.themorlockrevolt.com/2013/02/so-god-made-liberal.html
Pitbulls aren’t the same thing as guns. Pitbulls were bred for dog aggression, that’s the entire purpose of the breed. Selective breeding is effective, so today’s pitbulls are dog aggressive. They were also bred for effectiveness in fighting other dogs, so they’re very dangerous to the dogs they attack.
Since we all agree that dog fighting is no longer something we want to happen, pitbulls should probably be spayed and neutered out of existence. They don’t have any other purpose that couldn’t be performed more safely by another breed which wasn’t bred for aggression.
So pitbulls are becoming hip with SWPLs? Oh boy, yet another object to fetishize. Seems like just another strategy to project faux authenticity by the most ersatz people on earth.
Fetish, fetish, fetish. It’s just another fetish in an old fetish town.
Yeah, pitbulls are the swpl cause du jour. Pitbull love has been all over my Facebook page as well.
Chris Dorner is like a black version of Michael Douglas in Falling Down.
@Dr. Eric – This is a SWPL fad. It will be done soon enough. They will move onto the more docile and ‘cute’ looking bulldogs. I agree though, that I’d rather see labs and spaniels in my neighborhood when my kid is running around.
I finally read that black comic book article and I was a bit surprised that no one brought up the nerd element. Despite NBA players dressing up as nerds, they dont adopt anything else of nerd culture. It is nerdy even in white, youth culture, therefore it might be ‘acting white’ or even worse gay. If readers arent black, then they won’t turn into comic book writers and artists.
We just need more pit bulls like Seargent Stubby, who was used in WWI to flush out German spies since he could tell the difference between German and English:
http://www.governorsfootguard.com/stubby/
Dorner’s tastes are definitely more moderate. Even though he likes Obama, he leans more to the middle, and said he would have voted for Huntsman if he was nominated this time around. He likes Dave Brubeck, Larry David, quotes DH Lawrence. Not your typical black guy, or typical cop for that matter.
What if what he says is true? That he tried to stand up and report an officer for brutality (we all know the LAPD reputation) and lost his “dream” job as a result of doing the right thing? The father of the kid who was allegedly kicked testified that the kid’s face looked puffy, like he had been in a fight. I’m not justifying Dorner’s actions, but it is feasible that the notoriously corrupt and violent LAPD fucked over the wrong guy.
If it wasn’t for the race stuff, Christopher Dorner’s manifesto reads like a typical SWPL/Democratic Party platform rant. From his thanks and goodbyes at the end, it appears he had both white and black mentors and friends.
He reported the “kick” while he was a probationary officer – apparently he didn’t even wait to get a real badge before he started making trouble. And he reported the kick after a) receiving a bad performance report from the kicker and b) two weeks after the fact. So he’s basically a trouble-maker who was more interested in being a hero than a cop. And a kick? In the normal course of doing cop work, I don’t imagine kicking some guy ranks very high on the list of bad stuff that deserves an investigation.
Donny,
I have a feeling that he was wronged by the LAPD.
bjk, I guess the LAPD sees it your way: kicking someone in the head is no big deal, neither was the Rodney King beatdown apparently, since one of the cops involved is now a Captain.
And here we go: since SWPL nitwits can’t defend against the analogy to dog-breeding when “discussing” biological differences among humans, there is only one solution: deny that there are biologically-based behavioral differences among dog breeds.
If it wasn’t obvious enough that the whole point of the piece is to reinforce the creaking foundations of SWPL reality-denial, the author hits us over the head with it: “doggy racism”, Drudge, flash mobs. It’s like watching a computer in an old sci-fi movie go haywire and start spitting out all this nonsense it’s been programmed with, just before the spaceship rams an asteroid and explodes in million cheap pieces.
Do swaddles themselves like pit bulls now, or are they saying that pit bulls are ok, for those (other proles) who like them ?
Pit bull is not a breed. It once referred specifically to the American Terrier, but now there is ambiguity there. (Experts will clarify this in a hurry.) There are a few or several breeds that are called pits; and in the popular sense it is a mean short dog that can clamp you down and kill ya, or your dog.
dog aggression, that’s the entire purpose of the breed
“dog aggression” is aggression for other dogs, and not people or other animals. Bulls are bred for fighting; but lately, some bad seeds were and are used for other purposes.
A pit is not even a big dog.
Pits may not be big, but they’re strong. I once had one bust through a wooden fence to come after me and my dog. Fortunately, he was a pussy who only wanted to attack from the back, so as long as I turned and confronted him, he’d back off.
Isn’t the original breed a Staffordshire Terrier and that’s what’s been bred into a few varieties?
They are impressively strong; they can run and jump too. I have watched videos of them running thirty mph and jumping and climbing fences three or four feet.
I faced down a German shepherd coming for my shih-tsu, and it was reality check.
The reality was, maybe a second and a half, to get hands on a bowie knife or gun.
No one addressed Link one.
Maybe there is nothing to be made of it. Violent criminals are high t. Drug offenders not so much.
No surprises there.
The thing I’d like to tell comic book guy is this “Whites and other groups save Asians to a degree don’t especially care about each others stories.” thus its hard to write something that will appeal to several of those groups.
Given interest in reading is lower in non White/Asian communities as well its the obvious choice, write for the people who might buy.
Also comic books aren’t as much for kids anymore anyway. Its typically older geeks that buy them in specialty stores. Those geeks are overwhelming White, so comics stay White.
Now Latino focused comics do exist in Mexico and elsewhere. An American version might appeal to some younger Hispanic kids and as that demographic is pretty big but they might not and Whites and Blacks won’t read them, so choose wisely.
“Those lesbian officers in supervising positions who go to work, day in day out, with the sole intent of attempting to prove your misandrist authority (not feminism) to degrade male officers. You are a high value target.” – Dorner
Looks like he would have fit in around here…
Bjk, its almost irrelevent now what the truth is. We have cops beating up and tazing the mentally ill and people who didn’t obey orders because they were having seizures let alone the swat raids killing kids and dogs. There is little credibility left.
On “pleasing views” taxes, who judges whats pleasing? Thats almost as bad as the feminists who promote “eye rape” being a crime. Reminds me of Kramer in Seinfeld suing the topless woman who distracted him.
Pit Bulls have the strongest bite of any dog so even if they weren’t the most aggressive dogs, their aggression is the more likely to cause serious damage.
German Shepherds are the 2nd strongest in terms of bite strength and also have high instances of aggression, which is a consequence of their shepherding instinct to corral. They don’t let other dogs and sometimes people go where they want to go. German Shepherds were the big scary dog in the 80s and early 90s before blacks and Mexicans created an unsocialized, abused Pit Bull epidemic.
I’m confident that most Pit Bulls are probably relatively safe, but the ones that aren’t are more dangerous than various other breeds which have worse reputations for aggressive behavior, but obviously don’t have the physicality to do as much damage. Other Terriers are actually more prone to bad behavior than Pit Bulls, but aren’t anywhere near as capable of doing the damage that a Pit Bull can.
The bigger danger with a potential SWPL Pit Bull trend is that they will only be marginally better masters than blacks, and that they will want to rescue abused or abandoned dogs that are more dangerous and in more need of an expert’s attention than a purpose bred puppy separated from it’s mother early on would.
I was late picking up on i t, but I think this Dorner story is huge and has many multifaceted legs to it.
I do think he’s an emerging prototype among apocalyptic terrorists; he really doesn’t fit the mold in terms of past black zealots and militants.
So, he’s a pro-Cosby, pro-black conservative nutcase; since that doesn’t jibe with the typical black-dem strawman propped up and knocked down here over and over and over, some of you are now saying: “Well, he says he was into Cosby’s criticisms —- but I don’t really believe that’s true, etc.” lol!
How does it not? He’s a boilerplate Democrat basically, and a slightly above average black. He’s not a full-blown Kill Whitey type like the Nigerian college campus shooter who says that his motive in killing 3 white women was because he hated white people just like college taught him.
Everyone here said he is not a radical leftist, but he is basically just a Democrat, and his morality is consistent with that mainstream Democrat morality. Read the unscrubbed manifesto. He thinks that if someone says nigger that justifies violence against their person, which is something he had deeply internalized even as a child.
Only a nigger or a Democrat would think that and only a society that spits out the message that if you hurt a black man’s feelings you deserve to get beat would have reinforced this in the mind of a 6 year old.
Now it’s just metastasized into the belief that the LAPD deserves to die. He believed he was right to beat up another elementary school student for saying nigger, he believes he was right for assaulting another officer for saying nigger, and when he looked to society for confirmation that his beliefs are true, he got it.
He’s by his own description 100% pro-government, deeply invested in pop-culture, pro-gay, pro-gun ban. There is no significant deviation from a boilerplate Democrat view of the world filtered through a 94 IQ black male cop lens. There is no deviation in his morality from what mainstream “culture” teaches and is just a logical extension of that morality. I’ll note that if you go on reddit, or 4chan and probably RevLeft or DailyKos right now you’ll find overwhelming praise for RamBro, including plans to give false tips to the LAPD and DDoS their networks.
If your a nigger and you got your feelings hurt, then go harm people; go kill their families. That’s what he believes, and that’s what he’s been taught his whole life, and that’s what everyone is telling him and each other right now.
Case closed.
My experience with pit bulls is vicarious after their attacks on children. Shredded faces, partially amputated ears and noses. Also the toddler with a canine puncture into her spinal cord. Or was that a Doberman? Mercifully some die at the scene.
Pit and Doberman owners use these as an extension of the owners’ vicious personalities. Have SWPLS become vicious? How will a SWPL respond when their pit bull attacks their toddler?
As to the view tax. If property values are assessed based on their fair market values, then properties with nice views are already paying higher taxes, since, presumably, a place with a nice view is worth more.
If a property tax assessment is in any way related to the actual fair market value of a piece of land, then presumably any beautiful views are already being taxed higher, right? I mean, houses with nice views are worth more, all else being equal.
And this Dorner guy sounds like a moron. I mean, his entire corpus of knowledge about the world seems to be gleaned from watching the evening news and then leaving the same channel on and watching Extra! He’s no Ted Kaczynski, that’s for sure,
I can see the forthcoming Onion headline already:
US Lagging in Mass Murderer Intellect Index:
Senate to Hold Hearings on Improving Caliber of Future Generations’ Psychos
“Read the unscrubbed manifesto. He thinks that if someone says nigger that justifies violence against their person, which is something he had deeply internalized even as a child.”,/i>
here’s my take on such racial justifications: They’re pieties borne out of the ‘genuine’ injustice and hypocrysy of pre-’60s style segregation and discrimination; how that sentiment, has congealed with modern commerical and social pieties and is now presumed by blacks and whites alike of low to even medium intelligence and perception ability.
It’s a horribly pervasive piety that allows only the most objective blacks to rationalize the most selfish and self-serving actions, but to couch said actions in a victim-redemption theme.
Why? I think it’s because we just happen to be living in that historical shadow of the ‘Second Reconstruction’ of the 60s; say what you will about the hokiness of that era, but it was that influential and it’s plausible to believe it the source of said ideological excesses.
That’s my best guess.
nikcrit:
“So, he’s a pro-Cosby, pro-black conservative nutcase; since that doesn’t jibe with the typical black-dem strawman propped up and knocked down here over and over and over, some of you are now saying: ‘Well, he says he was into Cosby’s criticisms —- but I don’t really believe that’s true, etc.’ lol!”
By “some of you”, I assume you mean me, since I was the only one to mention Cosby’s speech.
And it very much IS a black-dem thing to SAY you agree with Cosby’s speech. If you asked black people as a whole, the vast majority of them would say that they agreed with Cosby’s speech. How could they not? It would take truly anti-racist-like levels of denial to say that the black community doesn’t have more than its share of problems. But by and large, the black community still hasn’t gotten its shit together. So what does that tell you?
It’s just basic human nature, isn’t it? If you’re someone who is down and out or sort of a loser, it’s the easiest thing in the world to agree that you need to get your shit together. Actually doing it takes work, which is why the excuses start flying when you tell people the exact steps they need to take to put things in order.
So try to find me any black person anywhere who says “No, I don’t think black parents need to do a better job of parenting.”. You won’t be able to. And yet, they just keep doing the same old shit. That’s why I said I wouldn’t read too much into Dorner simply saying he agrees with Cosby, because nearly everyone SAYS they agree with Cosby.
And in fact, I know he doesn’t. Like Chuck points out, look at his reaction to Trayvon Martin. He talks about how Trayvon Martin somehow had the right to kick George Zimmerman’s ass just for asking him what he was doing. Well, you know, if you’re that concerned about violence in the black community, I think a good first step to take would be to stop encouraging young black men to be violent.
Cosby’s speech was called the “Pound Cake Speech” because it referred to the phenomenon of black people crying and moaning about some kid getting shot over stealing pound cake, without ever blaming the kid for stealing pound cake or paying attention to the kid when he was alive and his life was going downhill in the first place. Trayvon Martin is a comically perfect example of this, except that he was shot while he was beating the shit out of a guy. Black people not only accept the fact that he was beating the shit out of someone, they actually advocate it and say they would do the same thing in his shoes. And they wonder why they keep getting shot.
Christopher Dorner never connected these dots, of course, because nobody on TV ever connected them for him. Like I said, he’s not some crazed ideologue. He’s a guy who has never had an opinion of his own in his life, and just repeats whatever crap he hears people say on TV.
Hammerhead,
I agree that Dorner’s not some idealogue, and his thoughts —— at least those publicized, however accurate, are unremarkable.
My point was that his pro-Cosby-speech remarks, combined with his relatively middle-class-black profile, made him a less-likely type of black male predicated toward creating the kind of mayhem he did. That’s what I was thinking in the moment in which I sensed you were disavowing his approval of Cosby.
But I do agree many blacks blindly compliment Cosby’s pound-cake speech, even if they don’t truly believe in it.
Anyhow, I didn’t really make that remark with heavy and hard criticism in mind. And now that we’ve discussed it, I don’t know if I really feel that way about it now.
To me, what’s interesting about him is that it seems rare that someone that relatively civilized and accomplished (e.g., making it through the academy, holding down a professional job; meeting other social and vocational middle-class benchmarks, etc.) could become disgruntled, and go that far off the deep end, seems so strange and unlikely).
“There is no significant deviation from a boilerplate Democrat view of the world filtered through a 94 IQ black male cop lens.”
After reading Dorner’s manifesto, I’d guess his IQ is around 100. I’d guess as high as 110 if he manages to elude capture for an extended period of time. It’ll be interesting if we see where he scored on the AFQT,
Dorner seems like your typical fat unemployed loser who decided to kill himself (he doesn’t expect to live, based on his writing) and take a few people with him. His thoughts on race don’t seem to be a significant motivation for his crimes. This is a guy who’s still angry at the assistant principal of his high school for supposedly lying about something he said in 1996.
Dorner’s a lefty, he’s a narcissistic megalomaniac and the shout outs to a few white Republicans and the other mildly un-PC remarks are just his version of what he believes is “statesmanship” proper to someone of his exalted talents. (Plus he’s just a plain-assed kook, unable to grasp the idea of consistency.) Here’s an interesting LA Times piece on his police career, complete with constant belly-aching about race. He’s an affirmative action baby who was retained by the LAPD despite the fact that he accidentally shot himself during his course at the police academy. He was whining about suing the department for racism BEFORE he even left the academy.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-dorner-profile-20130207,0,3013535.story?page=1
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