Two years ago, “the authorities” dismissed reporters that gangs of Middle-Eastern and North-African migrants roamed the streets of German cities during the New Years celebrations, attacking women in an orgy of depredation Europe hadn’t seen since, well, Europeans were doing it to each other in the thirties and forties.
Dismissals aside, The Authorities” saw fit to staff “women only safe zones” in Berlin for this year’s New Year celebration in Berlin:
Organisers of Berlin’s New Year’s Eve celebrations are to set up a “safe zone” for women for the first time.
The new security measures planned for the Brandenburg Gate party come amid concerns about sexual assaults…Women who have been assaulted or feel harassed will be able to get support at a special “safety zone”, staffed by the German Red Cross, on Ebertstrasse…The city’s police have also issued advice to women, encouraging them to seek help if they feel threatened and to carry a small bag with no valuables.
The “zone” will be staffed by counselors and psychologists.
I’m thinking the Bundeswehr would be a better idea, but then The Authorities never ask me about these things. Still, I’m not the only critic:
Critics say it does not tackle the perpetrators of sexual violence, while some others complain it is discriminatory.
A society that thinks giving refuge from rapists “discriminates” against…rapists may be too far gone to save.
On the other hand, Berlin is, in American terms, a hard-blue city. Which brings us back to “perhaps too far gone to save”.
Why can’t the RINOs, Trump haters, and leftists see that this diversity stuff is a good idea taken way, way, way too far? Western immigration policy = Ruling Class idiocy at the point of a gun.
CBiT, I’d like to understand your notion that this diversity stuff is a good idea. As a side effect of a proper immigration policy, I’d accept it, but not as a goal.
I mostly mean it in the sense of ***as much as is possible*** the USA has done a good job of making the USA more about ideas so we can absorb ***good citizens*** from other countries and people, in general, get to be themselves, here.
This is all going down the drain right now for Democrat and corporatist notions of course.
Google: Mises and nationalism
They over-use “diversity” and “tolerance” to get people to shut their brain off about what they are doing. Those aren’t inherently pejorative or positive, really.
Fed, I think by “diversity” you mean “multiculturalism”. There is absolutely nothing wrong with diversity. As a matter of fact diversity should be celebrated and encouraged because it is the basis for individuality and an antithesis to conformity and collectivism. Multiculturalism on the other hand will bring about death to us all. USA was created as a melting pot, not a multicultural society.
BTW Fed, just curious, did you change your handle or create a sock puppet account?
Right. I agree with all of that.
Yes, I had to change it for a bunch of complicated reasons, including Penigma was pissing me off.
South Africa is a harbinger of what Western immigration policy will bring. Once the uneducated, unproductive class takes power, they will start taking things by force and killing anyone that resists.
Actually, it’s worse for European fools; they’ve disarmed themselves; SA farmers have armed themselves and started to form defensive alliances.
I’m waiting for the self-loathing leftists to install chopping blocks at the Brandenburg gate, the Louvre, The Hague and pitching decks atop Malmo’s Turning Torso, Big Ben and the Eiffel Tower to get the balls rolling.
Swiftee, it is the educated elites who brought us to the brink. Erudition does not equate to intelligence. There are plenty uneducated intelligent people whose thoughts and deeds are worth more than every fucking studiesTM major ever produced by harvard, Yale, Princeton, berkely, etc combined.
I cannot recommend this enough. Google: Mises and nationalism. They are trying to jack up GDP with indiscriminate immigration including illegal immigration. That is completely backwards. Free up the economy, create a disbursed prosperity, THEN you can get looser with it. All they are doing is creating all kinds of social problems. Since 1970.
I get that some in Germany probably still feel guilt about what happened before and during WWII, and are trying to atone for it with the most liberal immigration policies in central Europe, but the nuttiness needs to stop. The safe zone should be the whole country.
By the way, since ISIS has lost some 90+% of its territorial gains in the past year, maybe some of the
rapistsrefugees can safely return home, though I doubt the goat population back in Syria is ready yet.I can’t stand anti Trump-ers that don’t get this and never say or write anything about cultural marxism or why the GDP is low and how to get it back up. Then they judge people about their tolerance or whatever like they have low IQs and and are bad somehow. Victor Davis Hansen is expert on calling this crap out. Excellent youtube speeches. Ruling Class big government Keynesian RINOs and Democrats and religious dimwits.
So many at NRO hate Trump, but they are mostly very good at getting at why he was elected in a constructive way. “Commentary” is terrible in this sense. Just two examples.
It’s ***sort of*** like the difference between Texas and California. http://www.nationalreview.com/article/445621/houstons-multicultural-diversity-david-brookss-fact-fiction
VDH just tears California and their Ruling Class apart in his speeches on this stuff.
IMO, the conservatives that are judgmental about this stuff, are more pro-war moralists that really have no idea how to have a fair and prosperous economy.
That crap is over for now.
JPA, you are exactly right. I know better than that, don’t know what happened there.
I can see welcoming refugees, and even a Biblical argument for it–because of Israel’s sojourn in Egypt, etc..
What I can’t see is refusing to even track things like crimes committed by refugees, and refusing to show the door to guys who commit violent felonies. Something along the lines of “yes, you came here to escape likely death, and now since you’ve exposed U.S. residents and citizens to the same, we’ve decided that you ought to suffer the same thing you intended for your victims here.”
Peter J. Leithart:
By recognizing that globalism is a faith, we can understand the ferocious tenacity of its defenders. People cling to idols even after they’ve been shattered. Every morning, Philistine priests pick up the shards of Dagon and pile him back in place for another day’s worship (1 Sam. 4–6).
In 1989, Russia and Eastern Europe woke up from one of the twentieth century’s global dreams. Twenty years later, that dream’s chief competitor is fraying. The West’s disorientation and dismay are like that of a committed Russian communist circa 1991. But believers shouldn’t be surprised. Babels always fall.
https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2017/12/things-fall-apart
Leithart & I agree that the Bible’s Babylon story is a metaphor for the idea that human institutions can direct history.
“Commentary” is terrible in this sense. Just two examples.
For historical reasons — that predate the 20th century — there are strong currents of anti-populism and pro-immigration sentiment in Jewish intellectual culture.
They can let all of the Jews and genuinely oppressed people in that they want. That isn’t the problem.
Noah Rothman is judgmental as hell. He lashes out at everyone about everything and then ***brags*** about “being allergic to finance”. He dismissively says we might need a more libertarian economy. His problem is he doesn’t understand what is REALLY wrong with this country so he acts out as bad as any Trumper. He has admitted as much. Limited tool kit: war, geopolitics, politics, moralism, Keynesianism. So his bitching is worthless.
Also, Islam is inherently political.
MP, is that a commentary of the large (secular) Jewish presence in leftist American politics?
There is also a strong undercurrent of leftist politics among that community.
Hell, Marx was Jewish.
I can’t stand NROs David French, but you have to give him a ton of credit for sticking it to Cultural Marxism etc. every chance he can. Just one example. I just hate the ones that won’t do or say ***anything*** about the stuff that got Trump elected.
Commentary hates David Horowitz, but here’s my question: what is he ever wrong about?
I think people like Rothman et. al. are just in disbelief that ***experts make so many things worse***, and therefore people don’t give a crap about “moral leadership” or geopolitics or whatever
Rothman is now saying Bannon knows that the Muller probe is ***really*** about pre election Russian money laundering. Trump knows he’s a geopolitical criminal ***AND*** he’s going to get the biggest vetting enema of all time by running for POTUS.
Sure.
WordPress is slowing me down again.
Listen to the Kurt Schlichter Interview on Whisky Politics https://tinyurl.com/ybftbzjx
This guy is very smart. https://twitter.com/FriedrichHayek/status/948693211324727296
He has a bunch of other tweets right now that relate to this one.
Swiftee, Marx’s father converted to Christianity before little Karl’s birth.
I am not going to get into the whole Jews as a separate nation thing. I will only say that people who take sides against the Jews lose. Their is a reason that they have been around for three thousand years.
But I think that for many Jews, on the Left and Right, opposition to Trump and an America with strong borders is a cultural inheritance. It is not rational.
Anti-Trumpers like “experts” and “civil behavior” and in ***their sense*** “norms.” These two things make government “work.”
This has been all garbage for two decades, at least, so they are melting down. Everyone that thinks like this is melting down. i.e. Penigma
If you study Mises.org and Austrian-oriented hedge fund managers you don’t have this problem. “Experts” are sh** and no one at Mises.org wonders why people are “behaving badly.”
So we got Trump.
The Woeful Inadequacy of Never-Trumpism
Max Boot and Eliot Cohen can’t figure out why Trump was elected in the first place.
“As for Boot, to my mind, his ranking among members of the commentariat qualifies as something of a mystery. Even so, I confess to envying (even while finding inexplicable) his ability to publish in all the toniest outlets and to get himself on TV.”
” Could popular unhappiness with the recent course of U.S. foreign policy have contributed to Trump becoming president? The possibility is one they seem unwilling to consider.”
“Might Iraq and its sequelae have had something to do with Trump’s amazing ascent? Boot and Cohen refuse to take the bait. Iraq should be the subject of a “separate podcast,” Cohen insists.
Mark that down as a missed opportunity.
While no single factor explains why Trump won the presidency, it would surely be a mistake to exclude foreign policy. To put it another way, along with whatever dark impulses the masses may harbor, the hubris to which foreign policy elites succumbed after the Cold War played a not-insignificant role. The 2003 invasion of Iraq represents the ultimate expression of that hubris.”
“They credited those charged with formulating and implementing basic U.S. policy with undeserved competence. They overestimated the efficacy of American military power. They wildly underestimated costs. And they failed utterly to anticipate the second- and third-order consequences.”
“Boot once “believed in that Reaganesque vision of America as a city on a shining hill” and he wants to do so again. It’s asking a lot for him to admit that it’s always been a crock of bull.”
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-woeful-inadequacy-of-never-trumpism/
They are sick of never ending low GDP and Cultural Marxism. They crushed the Tea Party so now they are getting Trump good and hard. They want ***their thug*** to commandeer the state and do something for them.
“Government intervention in the economy is a largely unrecognized cause of addiction. Intervention has at least two distinct channels of creating addicts. The first is war. War creates addicts through both painful physical injuries and painful emotional and psychological disorders, such as Post Traumatic Stress Disorders. The second cause is the general impact of widespread government intervention in the economy. Much of government interventionism results in the creation of privileges and monopoly power. For example, licensing requirements provide members of a profession, such as medical doctors, with monopoly profits by restricting the number of practicing physicians. This enriches licensed doctors and impoverishes potential doctors who must find work in another profession. These excess potential doctors thereby suppress wages in other labor markets. Given the pervasiveness of government intervention, this creates two classes in labor markets — the advantaged and the disadvantaged and addiction tends to develop in disadvantaged labor markets where people are more likely to be despondent and lack hope and economic resources.
The three above causes have been around for a long time creating the environment for drug overdoses, but at much lower levels than we see today. The final cause has only been around for a couple of decades, but it is now responsible for the majority of deaths. ”
https://mises.org/blog/real-cause-americas-opioid-epidemic
While I’m waiting for moderation.
What is David Stockman, Mises.org, David Horowitz, and Angelo Codevilla wrong about? Nothing. That’s what.
The GOP and everyone else will figure this out after the bond market collapse.
But I think that for many Jews, on the Left and Right, opposition to Trump and an America with strong borders is a cultural inheritance. It is not rational.
It is really hard to pin down why, though. Because rationally, Jews should be more conservative than anyone. I blame successful brainwashing. Dems had positioned themselves by lying and torturing truth that they are the defenders of the weak and downtrodden, and nobody had been more downtrodden over the millennia than Jews. As MP said it is highly irrational and proof that brainwashing works.
I think they switched left around the Holocaust because they saw the state as the best way to protect people. (Not an expert at all.)
CBIT, significant Jewish influence in liberal politics goes back at least into the 1800s–not only Marx, but a lot of others involved in the 1848 socialist revolution, were at least ethnically Jewish. I would guess that a lot of it has to do with what Sholem Aleichem writes about in “Tevye and his daughters” and is portrayed in “Fiddler on the Roof”; around this time, a lot of Jews started to walk away from the synagogues that had previously been their identity. You also see this in the early 1900s books by Sidney Tailor like “All of a kind family.”
So for large portions of Jews, a faith previously in the Torah was replaced by one in government. JPA, would love to hear your take on this, but it’s all I got. (so be brutal, friend!)
That’s about right, sir. One opiate for the masses replaced by the other.
Fair enough. Same thing I’ve seen in the United Methodists of my youth, really. Abandon faith in God, begin faith in the state. Ick.