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I still plan on posting about sex differences in IQ, but we begin each week with an open thread.
So I hear they’re coming out with another Halloween film this fall. This picks up right after the original 1978 film, ignoring all the sequels and remakes.
Jamie Lee Curtis is reprising her role as the iconic Laurie Strode, 40 years later.
Growing up Halloween was not just a movie, it was a religion.
When I was about 11, my best friend and I watched the original Halloween almost every day for an entire month. I haven’t seen it in decades but can still recite it word for word. My friend and I would put on our Michael Myers masks scaring much older teenager aged girls by standing behind hedges, just like Myers did in this powerful scene:
Pumpkin Person 
Yes robert is right, the ‘new left’ of Blair/Clinton/Renzi et al is basically “conservatism” for jews. I saw yesterday a Rockefeller Foundation piece in the Guardian talking about racism. It made me think that the old elite have probably been convinced to join the racket as symbolised by the DLC and Nafta.
I have no idea if you were a wasp elite why youd be funding this dogshit.
But I suspect the identity politics angle is not a distraction, I actually think its the main aim of Master, not corporate tax rates and ‘free trade’. Its just that economics and social issues tend to buttress each other with immigration.
At the start of the 20th century Jews were poor & racialized so it behooved them to promote both economic liberalism (Marxism) and cultural liberalism
Now they’re rich but still potentially racialized so it behooves them to promote economic conservatism and cultural liberalism.
That’s it, that’s all, as Swank would say.
no, read inner jewish blogs and autobiographies etc, marxist jews hate being jewish.
”economic liberalism [marxism]”
….
Jews WERE all poor in the past, ok.
Jews were ”irrationally” ”racialized”, ok.
USA was a anglo-saxon nation, even germans were treated as different.
”Little more” studies on racial relations in US for you PP.
”They promote…”
And it’s of course was absolutely possible without dominating the communication and government means…
so peepee doesn’t believe that identity politics is in part sponsored by rich gentiles as a distraction from economic issues? it’s all jews?
It could be motivated by rich gentiles as a way of dividing and conquering the non-rich, but I tend to think it’s ethnically motivated because it correlates with the rise of Jewish power. And Kevin MacDonald claims Jews were instrumental in lobbying for more and more immigration from the moment they arrived in the U.S. though MacDonald’s critics claim he’s distorting history.
https://www.cfr.org/article/trump-era-cant-end-soon-enough
A part of the Deep State really doesn’t like Trumpy
“The experience of the 1930s, when tit-for-tat tariff hikes pulled the world into the Depression, appears to have been lost on him.”
I can’t believe he said lack of free trade caused the Great Depression hahahaha.
Half the articles are not even logical. Especially the ones about Russia who ((((they)))) really really hate for no reason other than tribalism.
Well try to imagine an Onion. The outer layers are the often autistic flacks in academia, media, thinktanks and that, the inner layer are officials like DC judges, state department personnel, the inner inner layer are the secret police – CIA, NSA, aspects of the US millitary, editors of the newspapers/tv channels, some business magnates, finally the core of the conspiracy is the CFR, investment bank boards, HNWIs prominent in political bribery and in my opinion, Mossad/Israeli officials.
You can tell who runs america by the Treasury Secreatry choice. Since Reagan picked Brady most of the secs have been Goldman people or jews.
Not everyone needs to know. But there is ‘direction’. Its not blind chaos. There is a reason why the US millitary invades certain countries. Why Russia is now the enemy or why open borders is being legalised. You get rival elites of course. And you get disagreements.
In some cases the children of elites drink the kool aid themselves actually. Ideas are powerful.
There is a ‘deep state’. Just like in China and Russia and Eygpt and so on. These elites probably do talk to each other and tell the politicians and judges and officials what to do.
Democracy is a sham meant only to legitimise the system these elites sit on top of. This is the same in America and Europe.
No, No, don’t listen to your professor…..ITS A COOKBOOK!!!
but what’s the dish?
Such a classic episode.
Another ballpark classic. Very thought provoking.
ballpark classic?
is that what brits call anything american and good?
Very good writing. It would have been great if they got borges to do an episode. Pity.
you know that serling was a jew? don’t you?
Wow and people call me extreme. This is a fascinating documentary from the 1960s on what jim crow was like.
I mean, some of the things people say I would never even say privately or as a joke. These people were raised in a completely different culture… a non jewish one.
Are these people mentally ill afro? Do they need to be ‘educated’? Hahahahaha.
yet blacks as a whole are NOT better off today.
makes you say hmmm.
I bet Afro thinks jim crow existed because people werent educated enough in the South.
I love jewish word games. Theyre all ciricular!
….
And so what is education?
“Education is being educated to respect diversity”.
But why is that an education?
“because its knowledge”
About what?!
“Diversity”.
but SADLY sometimes (most of the time?) jews aren’t self-aware.
they don’t see their own motivations.
Until Santo explains to me why people resent gays and Afro explains why people makes horror movies about blacks taking over america in 1915, I’m not going to stop saying the things I say.
If they respond with “They need to be educated”
I’m going to scream.
and explain why there are HBD blogs and why the news in the US is now 50% “don’t be a racist!”
Economics 101
“Free Trade makes nations rich.”
When has free trade made a nation rich?
“British Empire”
Wasn’t this coerced?
“But there were no tariffs between China, africa or other colonies and Britain”
Why was it coerced though?
“So the British could sell drugs to addicts and establish monopolies in other nations”
And this made them rich?
“Free trade makees EVERYONE RICH. “
chomsky addresses this.
he says that the british opted for “free trade” when they knew this slogan would benefit them…in 1850 the united kingdom was the richest country in the world…and it wasn’t even close…even though its people may’ve been poor…the country was rich.
If someone is coercing you to do something, the absence of tariffs doesnt make it free you numbskulll.
I sometimes saw in books writers saying thank god the british navy forced free trade on people. Hahahahaha. What the hell.
Who writes this stuff hahahahaha.
Theres another marxist dogma I dont agree with, but its nowhere near as dumb.
“Slavery made western nations rich”
Why?
“Capitalists lowered wages as there was no an infinite supply of labour”
Wouldn’t paying lower wages and having 30% of your population be slaves make your country poor?
“But the capitalists were rich”
Whats the difference between society at large and capitalists?
“I don’t know. Please go away. End racism!!!!!!”
The lesson is slavery made non slaves poorer too. Thats one of the reasons it had to end. People bred these people in captivity to serve.
But a smart aleck might say thats what is happening vis autism and wage slavery.
I heavily suspect there are people that get unlimited access to the CB fiat money “printing press” and we actally live on a plantation of sorts but dont know it.
But a smart aleck might say thats what is happening vis autism and wage slavery.
or an astute observer.
“free trade” in the context of rich countries and poor countries MEANS “lower wages”.
not sorta, kinda.
that’s what it MEANS!
suspect? it’s an obvious fact to anyone that’s not retarded. it is a fucking plantation are you blind
“Before the slave trade in Negroes, the colonies supplied the Old World with but very few products and did not visibly change the fact of the world. Slavery is thus an economic category of the highest importance” (Padover, 24).
“Direct slavery is the pivot of our industrialism today as much as machinery, credit, etc. Without slavery you have no cotton, without cotton you have no modern industry. It is slavery that has given value to the colonies; it is the colonies that created world trade; it is world trade that is the necessary condition for large-scale machine industry” (Padover, 24).
“Without slavery, North America, the most progressive country, would be transformed into a primitive country. You have only to erase North America from the map of nations and you will have anarchy, the total decay of commerce and of modern civilization. But to let slavery disappear is to erase North America from the map of nations” (Padover, 24).
I disagree with Marx. Canada didnt have anywhere near the level of slavery or even the northern states. This is because crucially, workers got more access to their surplus, which is what he would have agreed with.
padover? are these translations from marx’s german?
if so here are examples of marx being retarded.
or his point is that slavery was very important to the economy of the new world and thus the whole world.
he might’ve been right about that.
“In addition to insisting upon the abolition of slavery as a means for the proletariat’s emancipation, Marx had warned that if Whites were to try to push Blacks down into a caste within the working class, it would only widen the spectrum to which they could be pushed down. If Marx’s warning went unheeded, writes Anderson, “the result would be a new form of capitalism, openly structured upon racial and ethnic lines, in which immigrant whites would join Blacks at the bottom” (Anderson 90). There was the need to resist the seduction of the illusion of becoming part of the capitalist class, as Anderson writes, quoting Marx:
“This was accomplished by giving the poor whites’ ‘turbulent impulses for action an innocuous direction and, to tame them with the prospect of themselves one day becoming slaveholders.’ Thus, the sectional conflict over slavery operated in an ideological manner to deflect the poor whites from conflict with the dominant classes of the south.” (Anderson 89)
Not only was Marx calling for the White working class to abandon petty bourgeois fantasies; he insisted that they had only two options – allow a victory for the South and thus the expansion of enslavement across racial lines, or align themselves for the emancipation of fellow oppressed human beings to overthrow the Southern ruling class.”
This is my theoretical basis for abolishing slavery.
Abolishing slavery is not quite a moral argument to me. Slavery has always existed, and pseudo exists today in magic money mortgage slavery, but open slavery gives people stupid ideas about being Master as well.
There was a greek philosopher, I think Aristotle who said if a person doesn’t have the cognitive chops to identify if he is a slave or not, he probably deserves to be a slave. Thats pretty harsh. But hes right in the sense if you have the chops youll probably engineer a way out of slavery anyway somehow.
This implies blacks should remain slaves and ‘entrepreneurship spirit’ of smarter blacks will get them off the plantation anyway.
Actually smarter blacks would campaign for ALL slaves to be freed in case one of their family or something ever became entangled in it.
And thats what smarter blacks along with jewish help actually did. Good for them.
MARX YOU RAWWWWKKKK.
Freeing yourself from Master is a fascinating IQ test actually.
And he means intellectual slavery, not just physical bondage.
Back in the old days, people only became slaves after battles and piracy. So he had a spartan attitude to slavery I suppose. Kill or be killed.
all blacks, including afro and oprah, would be better off if they were slaves.
“Is that to say we are against Free Trade? No, we are for Free Trade, because by Free Trade all economical laws, with their most astounding contradictions, will act upon a larger scale, upon the territory of the whole earth; and because from the uniting of all these contradictions in a single group, where they will stand face to face, will result the struggle which will itself eventuate in the emancipation of the proletariat.”
Marx is such an intelligent guy. This is what happens when jews don’t troll and use their minds for good.
give the citation pill.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/index.htm
communism is amazing
One thing I have a more fundamental quesiton about with marxists, and I wish I could speak to David Harvey about this is whether Marx is wrong about ‘preconditions of nature’. I.e. I suspect human being ARE naturally inclined to form pyramid hierarchies like Eygpt no matter where they go and how they legally organise themselves.
I have had a long running suspicion all legel pro forma systems revert to feudalism given enough time.
But Bruno mentions Switzerland.
But Switzerland might be a sham democracy as well. I dunno. I don’t follow that country.
My objection to Bruno initially was that it hasn’t had universal suffrage that long. And before that, it was probably an aristocrat dominated nation.
Marx is kind of utopian in believing that man, shorn of all his bondage would not eventually, naturally, recreate bondages in relations, and that this is natural. Its an interesting question.
To my thinking, Communist USSR and Communist China are in many ways MORE Feudal than the systems they replaced – in some respects. Orwell satirised this with the story, Animal Farm.
But you only have to read stories about commissars, read feudal lords, ordering people around to do absurd things. At least religion was a kind of unspoken limit to what the knights of the round table could do to people.
Western societies are pretty feudal if you entertain my suspicion CBs print magic money to certain ‘lords’ in secret. But Marx would even argue capitalists are like lords. Henry Ford disagreed with this and said the real lords were bankers and moneymen.
I suppose you’d have 5 or 6 criteria for determining how feudal a country is:
1. Social mobility
2. Inequality
3. How brainwashed the rubes are
4. How easy it is for Master to force someone to fight for him
5. Sexual reproductive privelages of Master
6 Whether someone can ‘opt out’ of the system
6 is very important yet has ZERO attention.
QE is “helicopter money” for rich people.
THAT’S WHAT IT IS!
when the next recession hits…which should be within a year…ACTUAL helicopter money…free money for poor people…WILL HAPPEN!
the big problem is the model of how the world works which has sway serves those who have sway and it has become GLARINGLY FALSE over the last 40 years.
ideological earthquake magnitude 10.0 is gonna happen.
the whole OECD can;t be japanified and take it meekly.
not the italians for sure.
7. Civil liberties – privacy, right to not be searched, right to a trial, right to freedom of movement, right to demonstrate, to make a treehouse club etc.
freedom to discriminate is legal for any criteria one can imagine except race, gender, gay-ness, etc.
anthony kennedy is GENUINELY autistic. even npr made this point. https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/citizens-united
Swanky made the only intelligent contribution he ever made when he said that people have to be brainwashed for civilisation to exist. That might be true.
This raises the question about whether some brainwashing is objectively better than other types at inducing surplus production. I suspect Weber is right that Protestantism and Christianity more generally are more amenable to it than Islam. But on the other hand, i believe whites chose to act christian because they wanted to anyway so its moot in a larger sense what brainwashing the people are given.
swank claims to be a northern italian who wishes he was a southern italian and loves Thriller. swank doesn’t exist.
The brainwashing is not conscious. Some ideas just facilitate certain relationships and allow them to run smoothly, so they stick. That’s it.
Everything I say about the world is true, you’ve either come far enough to understand or you haven’t. Marx isn’t profound to anyone who has experienced discrimination and has the ability to think critically.
Being and Time
(1) Know your role
(2) Put your unique stamp on the role and expand the cultural space
Profound.
no they don’t. people have to be enslaved for civilization to exist, brain washing is just a more advanced form of slavery, with religion being a higher level and capitalism the most modern
Freud made the insight that civilisation is basically about restricting sexual mores.
I.e. if we all acted like blacks, we would end up with detroit.
He is RIGHT.
afro thinks he’s “successful” and “smart”. let him try haiti.
Oh Baudrillard. I remember reading a paper of his and thinking, this person is not really a philosopher. He said people use words to construct their inner realities basically. But people always invent gradients in wording to express different degrees or hues of phenomenon independently. So I thought he was wrong. Hes a lot like my old friend Wittgenstein actually but less comically autistic.
never read him.
make THE leap.
heidegger is waiting.
just the first few minutes…
at this point…there is NO question…
those who deny it have autism.
martin heidgger is the greatest philosopher since plato.
Plato is dogshit.
Max Stirner is the greatest “modern” philosopher.
The difference between post modern and linguistic analytical philosophy is razor thin. A lot of basically says it really matters what labels we put on things. So if I called a black person ‘really smart’, he would do better at school.
Im not joking. This is EXACTLY what they say. Look it up. Not making it up.
It probably never enters these peoples heads that other human beings also created labels about things and its kind of remarkable how similar in meaning certain things are across all cultures.
But then the post modernist would blame ‘the legacy of colonialism’ or something daft.
Lingustic philosophy….so bad. Just so bad. I can see the post modernists kind of piggy backing on marx’s legalistic theory of relations and how people act is according to the rules of their relations….but linguistics…jeez….bertrand russel said wittgenstein was the smartest person he ever met. He must have lived in a bunker.
Saul Kripke from what I can tell says NOTHING.
Its not that he says language is important. Its that he writes about NOTHING. How do people get away with careers writing about nothing?! Remarkable.
If I was a philosophy professor I’d go sailing all day.
I can’t understand Zizek sometimes. Hands up. Hes not consistent in his terms. He seems like a super post modernist where we are dealing with phantoms in our heads rather than reality. Fair enough.
Underlying all post modernism and marxism is this utopian idea that if we could just clean the slate of the mind, we would be renewed and ‘free’. In the post modernists case, from ‘racism’. For the higher IQ marxists, ‘Master’.
nothing wrong with anything marx ever actually said.
what liars and autists say he said is another matter.
the last genuine philosopher died in 1976.
and this is NOT a fringe opinion…except in english speaking philosophy depts.
he was a member of the NSDAP.
he died in 1976, yet more commentary/secondary literature has been produced than for any other philosopher…more than aristotle…more than wittgenstein.
i strongly encourage pill to make the effort to read and understand Being and Time.
read ’em and weep…
make sure it’s the Macquarrie and Robinson translation.
“The three lectures that form Naming and Necessity constitute an attack on descriptivist theory of names. Kripke attributes variants of descriptivist theories to Frege, Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein and John Searle, among others. According to descriptivist theories, proper names either are synonymous with descriptions, or have their reference determined by virtue of the name’s being associated with a description or cluster of descriptions that an object uniquely satisfies. Kripke rejects both these kinds of descriptivism. He gives several examples purporting to render descriptivism implausible as a theory of how names get their references determined (e.g., surely Aristotle could have died at age two and so not satisfied any of the descriptions we associate with his name, and yet it would seem wrong to deny that he was Aristotle).”
THIS IS NOT PHILOSOPHY. THIS IS A JOKE.
Chomsky or a psychology professor would know more about this. Even an anthropologist bringing western technology gadgets to hunter gatherers.
The rest of Kripkes wiki page is basically math. Which is fine, but again NOT PHILOSOPHY.
The fact some moron thought making a severely autistic person a philosophy professor at Princeton tells you all you need to know about what Master thinks people studying philosophy should learn.
NOTHING. (And some set theory math)
WTF. Im reading the rest of this:
In his 1975 article “Outline of a Theory of Truth”, Kripke showed that a language can consistently contain its own truth predicate, which was deemed impossible by Alfred Tarski, a pioneer in the area of formal theories of truth. The approach involves letting truth be a partially defined property over the set of grammatically well-formed sentences in the language. Kripke showed how to do this recursively by starting from the set of expressions in a language which do not contain the truth predicate, and defining a truth predicate over just that segment: this action adds new sentences to the language, and truth is in turn defined for all of them. Unlike Tarski’s approach, however, Kripke’s lets “truth” be the union of all of these definition-stages; after a denumerable infinity of steps the language reaches a “fixed point” such that using Kripke’s method to expand the truth-predicate does not change the language any further. Such a fixed point can then be taken as the basic form of a natural language containing its own truth predicate. But this predicate is undefined for any sentences that do not, so to speak, “bottom out” in simpler sentences not containing a truth predicate. That is, ” ‘Snow is white’ is true” is well-defined, as is ” ‘ “Snow is white” is true’ is true,” and so forth, but neither “This sentence is true” nor “This sentence is not true” receive truth-conditions; they are, in Kripke’s terms, “ungrounded.”
Saul Kripke gives a lecture about Gödel at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Nevertheless, it has been shown by Gödel that self-reference cannot be avoided naively, since propositions about seemingly unrelated objects (such as integers) can have an informal self-referential meaning, and this idea – manifested by the diagonal lemma – is the basis for Tarski’s theorem that truth cannot be consistently defined. It has thus been claimed [20] that Kripke’s suggestion does lead to contradiction: while its truth predicate is only partial, it does give truth value (true/false) to propositions such as the one built in Tarski’s proof, and is therefore inconsistent. While there is still a debate on whether Tarski’s proof can be implemented to every variation of such a partial truth system, none have been shown to be consistent by acceptable proving methods used in mathematical logic.
Kripke’s proposal is also problematic in the sense that while the language contains a “truth” predicate of itself (at least a partial one), some of its sentences – such as the liar sentence (“this sentence is false”) – have an undefined truth value, but the language does not contain its own “undefined” predicate. In fact, it cannot, as this will create a new version of the liar paradox , called the strengthened liar paradox (“this sentence is false or undefined”). Thus while the liar sentence is undefined in the language, the language cannot express that it is undefined
This person is confused about the appropriate usage of langauge and math he is so autistic.
Theres a reason why mathematicians dont use words, and philosophers don’t use math to say things you IDIOT.
Again, I REPEAT. ITS A CONSPIRACY TO KEEP HIGH VIQ PEOPLE IGNORANT.
TRUTH IS NOT LABELLING IT YOU MORON. WOW. THIS PERSON IS A ‘PROFESSOR’.
More like BRO-FESSOR.
Afro probably would write better philosophy than this garbage. This is mindless circular garbage that uses its dopey assumption as a debating point.
everyone knows philosophy professors in the english speaking world are autistic morons pill…
except philosophy professors (who are all autists) and autists.
WOW, this is supposed to be the height of modern philosophy ^^^^
WHAT A JOKE.
Philosophy seems to be de facto banned since the 50s from what I can tell.
After Marx they probably thought theyd ban anyone with dangerous ideas.
Funny how psychopath Ayn Rand still got famous for saying Master should be worshipped. Hahaha.
INDEED!
in the english speaking world there is NO philosophy outside a very few roman catholic philosophy depts. but is IS there.
and there has been NO philosophy in the english speaking world outside these depts since bradley.
this may seem to be “inside baseball” to some. but i think it’s very significant. the same thing happened to economics. but that’s understandable. that it has happened to philosophy is…
sacry.
pill’s right.
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a psychopath stomping on an autist, forever.
Mark Crimmins, a philosopher at Stanford wrote “That four of the most admired and discussed essays in 1970s philosophy are here is enough to make this first volume of Saul Kripke’s collected articles a must-have… The reader’s delight will grow as hints are dropped that there is a great deal more to come in this series being prepared by Kripke and an ace team of philosopher-editors at the Saul Kripke Center at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York.”[25]
Scary.
No disrespect to Anime. But Anime’s comments are VERY similar to kripke’s writing. Its just a higher IQ version of it. Thats it.
Reading Kripke is like reading Anime to me. People in asylums are more lucid. I honestly think schizos are less circular than autists.
I don’t have many strong feelings behind what I type.
Explaining things with logic is easier.
Expressing emotions is scary.
Saying the wrong things is scary.
I just hold it all inside.
I only say what is acceptable.
I get no feedback.
I just try to express ideas with no emotion.
It’s safe that way.
Imagine a schizo saying the following:
“God is me, I am god”
BUT
He would never say
“God is me, I am god, only god can define who is god. That is logically me”.
^^^^
HE WOULD NEVER GO TO THIS DEGREE.
Ive said it before, but one thing Ive noticed about autistic people is that they keep using their assumptions as the actual arguments. Its bizarre. Where do the assumptions come from. Im not even sure they know.
all you need to believe is that aesthetic don’t lie.
in the US, at least, there are 2 types of libertarians.
1. the evil paul ryan type
2. the autistic type
there is no 3d type. and the 2d type is 99% of libertarians.
whatever it is.
if it’s good…
white men made it.
afro’s people have made nothing.
jimmy’s people have made nothing.
chinks have made nothing.
japs have copied.
the truth is opposed sometimes PRECISELY because it is the truth. —jean-luc marion
Are Egyptians white, now?
looking at porn i feel sorry for these guys.
they’ve got misshapen dicks.
i am one guy who is perfectly happy with his size, shape, and direction.
and that’s odd for me, because i am one of the few who has actually had peyronie’s disease diagnosed by a urologist.
usually it just stays the same or gets worse.
i’m one of a small percent who actually recovered from it.
my only pathetic advice to men with this affliction is…
1. drink lots of alcohol
2. take atenolol…
my problem was likely caused by clonidine withdrawal.
what happens in the US is the following…
1. black women are much more accomplished than black men.
2. they meet white men at work or through work in some way.
3. the white man and the black woman may be UN-attracted to one another at first but they have too much in common not to fuck.
4. so it’s not very good looking people. just average.
it’s proximity.
people are desperate.
it’s funny that the house of pain is NOT from boston. but not surprising.
in 1960 los angeles was the whitest big city in america.
The PC Philosopher said: June 7, 2018 at 9:36 am
The PC Philosopher said:June 7, 2018 at 2:20 pm
That’s nearly five straight hours of schizobabble.
schizobabble is what you learned in the best french schools afro.
^^ Lol.
is that a real picture? clinton’s left hand is YUGE!