Interesting. We often talk on this forum about “bullshit” jobs. Perhaps Musk has some insight into just what percentage of the Twitter workforce falls into this category. Imagine that instead of making Twitter a neutral forum, Musk makes it profitable! He could make Twitter an asset in his portfolio.

Sorry did not mean to downvote your comment. It seems there is no way to undo it. Weird commenting system.

The prostrate gland is located just below the bladder in men. Er, in Cleveland Clinic wokespeak, “men and people assigned male at birth (AMAB).” https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/body/23965-prostate

Irregardless. Gibber gibber filler gibber

Pronunciation is our otherwise erudite Z Man’s weakness. Whenever I hear him pronounce Gramsci as “Graham-zee” it makes my brain hurt.

Yeah. My thinking is that many people are attempting to use such words/sayings they’ve heard without reading them a few times in context. We don’t much read any more, nor write for that matter (test messages don’t count), so they are using such without true understanding of nuances. So are people “stupid” or “ignorant”?

The unanimity with which the shit-libs cry “Political violence” naturally makes one assume something else. Looks like a couple of shirt-lifters to me. I’m sure Nancy’s $12k fridge comes with a security system that’s captured it all on video.

A California criminal wearing clothes would shock me unfortunately.

Ye is doing great work for the cause. In all likelihood, Ye has done more than any other celebrity, in exposing jewish power, hitherto, in the history of the world.And you don’t wanna accord him respect, cuz personal reasons; or more specifically, you (evidently) don’t like his style?On that point of it, Z shoulda gotten it correct; it was a mistake, and anyone deliberately making mistakes should have a better excuse than “i dont like him.”“i dont like him” is petty. Accord him respect, it’s basic real politic to call someone by his real name, unless u r deliberate insulting, which makes no sense, unless u want mired in mud slinging.

It’s the same as that.Ye himself would INSIST on a proper pronounce, if say he were a guest, on the show. Black people are like that.They will take it personal, if you don’t say their name right, it’s a sign of disrespect.yeah yeah blah blah we don’t like blacks; but if we don’t want to ally with [B]lacks, in calling out jews, we deserve to effing lose, and going by the commentary on this subthread, that’s what the guys here want, is to not work politics, but instead be prideful about their prerogative to call en-words whatever they like.We all it was simply a mistake that Z’s White ass doesn’t know how to black pronounce Ye. I pointed it out and got reamed for it. Thank you, that was great.

* It’s NOT the same as that.

Complexity isn’t the measure of quality in art. It’s a factor, but as relevant this argument: so much of the complexity in classical music is ornamental, to the point where it’s overdone, plodding and tedious.And as far as the rhythms involved, this is a good point worth repeating: classical music fails in this comparison, with “folk” or Renaissance styles: it’s neither as complex nor as well presented.Those who espouse classical music as high art, as opposed to other forms, are limited in their perceptions.Obv “classical music” covers a lot of ground, and the best of it, is a great, but as a category it’s not of a higher quality, and it’s complexity is often enuf uninspired and overdone.It’s also well known to be more or less “played out,” or at least as played out as any other form.The best melodies are not to be found in a complex score.

Suburban_elkI think you are way off here. Western classical music is at entirely different stratosphere of craft, skill and artistic achievement than any other style. That isn’t to denigrate other forms of music, but to acknowledge the difference in craft and skill required to attain mastery in the different art forms. A good analogy would be the difference between a church made in 1982 and a great cathedral made in Europe between 900 AD and now. It is unfair to compare.The rhythms of Western Classical appear square, but the cross rhythms that emerge in any of the polyphonic styles are extraordinary and complex. The polyphony alone is a level of genius and craftsmanship that has no comparison with any other style of music. The techniques and the sublime genius in the economy of material and the motivic development and contrapuntal techniques like (imitation; stretto; cannon; fugue; inversion; retrograde; inverted retrograde) are astounding. Even a simple and ordinary composition from the literature is so far beyond any folk or pop tune it is laughable to compare. If you take the grand works by Palestrina, dePrez, daMilano, Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Wagner, Debussy … … it is a fight as fair as an 8 year old girl versus Connor Macgregor. That is to say, it isn’t fair at all.As we entered the common practice period with the invention of well tempered tuning the harmonic system they developed is a still more complex layer on top of the polyphony of the Renaissance. The craftsmanship is extraordinary. The voice leading where every voice stays perfectly independent and the contrapuntal techniques from the pre-harmonic era are still used are beyond compare. Nearly everything Bach wrote is a treatise on harmony and counterpoint far beyond anything attained in folk, pop, jazz. Every piece is an intentional treatise on one or even multiple aspects of musical technique and expression that is absolutely masterful.The harmonic systems evolved with Beethoven, Schubert and Wagner pushing the envelope on chromaticism and then further flowered in Debussy and Ravel and Brahms. In the Romantic era with the rise of nationalism and the nation state you have each European ethnos using their folk music as thematic material expressing national and ethnic pride. Listen to the melodies say, Bartok took from Hungarian and Balkan folk, but compare his use of them in his grand works. The original folk tunes are cool, but they pale in comparison to what he did with them in even the simplest compositions. The same is true of Chopin and all of the other Romantic guys.The closest that we have today in terms of harmony is jazz, but it is all a very simplified lifting of harmony long before invented by the Western classicists. Most often the jazz lacks much if not all of the sophistication of the voice leading and melodic and motivic coherence present in classical music. There is coloration with substitutions, but never even a simplest of modulations much less the utter genius of those of Schubert, Beethoven, Wagner … Then there is the form. In jazz it is basically a single form with a slightly different feel. The classical has many many forms that are light years more complex and intricate.In rhythm we have very cool things happening in modern progressive metal, but the polyrhythms a) still don’t match the complexity of the cross rhythms of the grand symphonies, Rennaissance choral works, and anything Bach ever did b) rely upon a scalar and melodic content that is almost non-existent. Then there are the harmonic plans and forms of classical music versus folk or blues or jazz. I mean it isn’t even close. Even a sonatina or a simple theme and variations has so much more sophistication than the predictable 12-16 bar blues and the 12-16 bar jazz tune of II-V-I after II-V-I.There is a reason why the Western classical guys enrolled in school at 4 and weren’t journeymen until they were in their mid twenties after studying a minimum of 12 hours per day every day for those years with the great masters and pedagogues. They did years of ear training, harmony, counterpoint, composition, mastering multiple instruments (both performing and repairing) … …I am sorry, I love all kinds of folk, progressive metal, some well written pop, karnatic music (which has some amazing rhythm), but there is just no comparison. Western classical music as a craft and as an art expressing the human soul, like the rest of the West, is an achievement that towers over the rest of the world. Then when you consider that daMilano, Bach and Beethoven and those guys could actually improvise in those styles, it is truly astounding the feats of musicianship required to do that.Even a seemingly simple piece like the first prelude from The Well Tempered Clavier is far richer harmonically and has an advanced implied counterpoint that no other style can touch. There is a reason why, when we were at our apex, and we sent Voyager into the cosmos in search of intelligent life, our proud, educated and intelligent men chose to put Prelude I from the WTC on that space probe to represent the human race. WTC is without peer in terms of human musical achievement.

They got him on the second try and threw him in jail for five years from the “equivalent “of jaywalking

That’s an immediate disqualification for me, as well. Unless he hates his own children (which is unlikely) he will have no choice but to support “diversity”, equity, and “tolerance”.I do have some understanding for guys who married out decades ago. Things were different back then, and frankly it’s not a big deal in a homogenous and stable society. Vance got married in 2014, which even back then was much more sane than today. But today’s demographic age is unforgiving.Oh well. Some of his policies sound like they may be slightly useful for average White people, which is important. We can’t purity spiral on this stuff. I have low expectation for people in office, but voting still matters. We still have to do the heavily lifting on our own.

It rhymes with a lot of things. Seeing almost all of them do an instant 180 on Trump when the TV told them to… I’d always considered black men’s irascibility, criminality, etc., as downsides of their best quality, an instinct to always demand of society, “Says who?” Hypothesis discarded.

Trump and Ric Flair seem to have a special place in the hearts of an entire generation of black men.

Agreed. He was scared to use the dreaded “w” word but clung tightly to any non-whites who came out in support of him. It was nothing more than cowardice. I remember hearing from the multidimensional chessmasters that saying the word “white” meant he was going to lose the support of white people. It was ridiculous.

Yep. Trump jettisoned his ‘16 base in favor of another. Seemed to me it started fairly early in his term, too. Tired of winning, maybe. KAG ≠ MAGA.

Russians are too honest for this world…

“intelligent person lay out the evidence”In an age where a public discussion on defining a women is not ridiculed out of existence I would say those days are long gone.You need simple and effective imagery for the unthinking.I noticed a newish mechanism to get around the censorship in a few places now where the members in a photo of say the Biden admin, or a UN picture, or immigration support org are colored blue like a smurf. this is usually without comment.It seems pretty effective enabling recognition without the usual conditioning filters kicking in (probably due to the level of subconscious visual processing), and has about the same impact as the NPC imagery.

Most antisemites are insane, at least most of the ones I ever see or hear from. I have no idea how this works. But there are so few people who are critical of their power and what they do with this power while not being insane about it. Ryan Faulk is pretty good on this, but he also seems to be moving in that direction. Z, of course is pretty good with it. But outside of those 2, I can’t even think of an example other than them.Either the small hats dindu nuffin or they literally control everything and are responsible for every evil in the world.

It was him repeatedly talking about the tribe for days. I think if he said it just once, they’d slap him on the wrist. But no, he went on any and every show that would have him to talk about the chosen people with no signs of stopping. That’s when they took decisive action.

Defcon 3:“Blacks are the real J*ws!”

Wonderfully clever. Thanks. 🙂

Compsci: Mea culpa except . . . not really. You know by now I don’t give a fig for most people’s opinion or approval. I do fear God, but I never try to pretend to hold beliefs that I don’t either before Him or any man, regardless of his supposed credentials or wisdom or self importance or popularity. I am willing to change my opinion – I have on many things over the years – but I’m no one’s acolyte and the truth is the truth.Most people love little lies – they tell themselves lies about themselves and their motivations and character all the time. I’m no harder on anyone else than I am on myself. If that gets me down vote because I hurt someone’s feelings or ego or inflated self perception, too bad so sad.

Because a lot of people buy into what might best be described as their most frequently implied assertion: that they are morally and intellectually superior to us ordinary sorts.When they’re smug, self-righteous, arrogant, or hectoring someone over some perceived moral failing there is an implied assertion that they’re justified in doing so. They certainly think so, which lends them some force of sincerity. If the target of this doesn’t question this implied assertion it gives the left a status of moral superiority they don’t actually possess.The counter is to reject the implied assertion. Take a look at their track record if you ever find yourself backsliding. Nothing about the mass suffering they cause is moral and the inability to reassess and change direction certainly isn’t intellectually superior.

We are social animals and the nonstop conditioning since birth is that the left has the moral perspective by default. It’s easier to swim with the current than against it. Anyone who goes against that is considered defective and therefore low status, which means it’s open season. The Internet and social media has made it so people get even more pressure to conform. Hence suburban white women used to be as conservative as their husbands but after social media, have become as Democratic as when they were young and single.

1) Stiffed bartenders2) Stiffed Porsche body shop repairmen3) Wine merchant repo teams4) Rogue stock brokers seeking inside information

5: Harry Reid’s brother?

5) Nancy’s passion crazed lover broke in because Nancy had drunkenly told him that Hubby was away for the night.

I sort as agree highly likely as I forgot to add the complete fake as an option. Much like when the Pelosi garage supposedly had graffiti sprayed on it, but the person doing the spraying helpfully used a spray shield to truncate the painting and stop the expensive bricks on the front facade either side of the door getting any spray paint on them,

Yeah, we’ve had enough of these “fakes” to be suspicious. Problem is we will probably never know. I’m betting he was beat up by someone he knew and brought home or allowed in—assuming the physical evidence holds. Some sordid BS deal.

Smollet looks more likely. So the guy named does not appear in any of the online residency records, has a blog that looks like it was written by a student reddit group fantasizing how MAGA voters think and a whois lookup shows it was created in September this year.

The overhead bloat there is pretty incredible. Even keeping everything the same but getting rid of all the departments of “Pots and Pans” would result in a pretty good cash flow. Another thought is that he wants an established social media backend for his other products that cannot “cancel” his customers.

Yes they are. I realize that now. I guess to some extent I’m glad I was exposed to them through Twitter, YouTube, and Joe Rogan. Maybe if those types return to Twitter, it might send more people our way…you can’t deny that all those alt-lite figures were a factor in Trump’s win. And they could be a factor in Red Caesar’s coming. The uncensored internet opened a lot of eyes and our overlords knew it, ergo cancel culture beginning in 2017.But in the past five years, Twitter has become a ridiculous relic. Going back to that cesspool is not “winning”, it’s just acknowledging that all you really want to do is own the Left and belittle Mitt Romney.Gab is an echo chamber, mostly, but people on it are pretty genuine. It says a lot that people like Cernovich and Peinovich refused to use it.

Upon re-reading my comment, I see that I mixed up two separate subjects. First, there is being able to speak the truth freely like Jared Taylor and Peter Brimelow do. Second, is flooding a space with truthful, but pugnacious comments. I always support the former but while the latter is very amusing, I can understand why it should be deployed with restraint.

Zman was a big part of that comments section take-down in 2016. That’s when NRO hurled commenters into the void and moved to Fakebook commenting. We all ganged up on Victor Davis Hanson and he wound up a critic of the regime’s war in Libya. We did this mainly by pointing out that we knew exactly who was lying to us and how we were being lied to.

I was there and remember it quite differently. I am neither a TRS troll or alt-right. What happened essentially was the same as what happened with Nick Fuentes and the Groypers when they hijacked the Charlie Kirk event with the gay black dude. We simply asked the National Review writers straightforward, uncomfortable questions such as the now-cliche “what did you conserve?” They melted down and eventually went the epistemological closure route with closely monitored and curated comments.It really wasn’t trolling since the questions were sincere even if calculated to expose the NR people as the frauds and grifters they have been for decades. NR was cornered and knew it and never recovered.

Was there anything memorable about Korn? Asking as someone who did like their music in the late 90s/early 2000s.

I found out Addidas was German in 1987. Our high school astronomy teacher was German. Horste Brauner. He mention Addidas in passing and the whole class goes, THAT’S NOT HOW YOU SAY IT!Looking back, I can see he was playing a little joke on us. Knowing we arrogant Americans would correct his pronunciation. But he schooled us in the proper way to say it.In Germany and most of Europe it’s pronounced:AH-DEE-dahzNot the American: uh-DEE-dusIf I recall correctly we were in his class when the space shuttle exploded. Or it was the same week. Horste allowed a kid to tell a joke about it. No one laughed. Too soon.

Frip, the comments on this follow-up thread are far more world-wearily-wise & insightful: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4104299/posts One dude related a story about an old man voluntarily giving up his job, during a big round of layoffs, which almost made my eyes a little misty. Also, the Babylon Bee dude nailed it with his wisecrack which was posted to that thread.