Der Right’s Black Sheep

Right-wing stupidity (doubly superfluous?).

On Gab, I’m being called a “sheep” because of my support of covid vaccination and my criticism of those who spew lies to discourage vaccination among the general population.

The mind-numbed Gab/FOX News crowd, in a classic case of “pot calling the kettle black” projection, aver that their dogmatic spouting of falsehood, following their clueless leaders in lemming-like lockstep, is "independent thinking," and people who are well informed about science, who actually know what mRNA is and how it works, who understand epidemiology and virology, who understand vaccines, and who decide that vaccination is best for both the individual and for society, are “sheep.”

Let us consider together:

On an individual level, the cost-benefit ratio strongly supports vaccination. Whatever risks that exist from the “jab” are greatly outweighed by the risks of getting covid itself.

But, I have no interest in saving these yahoos from covid-related morbidity and mortality. Quite the contrary, I hope that these unvaccinated yahoos, particularly the ones that spread nonsense that discourages societal vaccination protection, do suffer covid-related morbidity and mortality.  They richly deserve it.  Alas, however, there are some negative externalities for the rest of us.

When the yahoos suffer from covid-related morbidity and mortality, they use scarce healthcare resources, leaving others with less (thus, I believe that the willfully unvaccinated should not be treated for covid; if they die, they die, the quicker the better).

Although the vaccines are most effective in preventing severe symptomatology, they do reduce actual infection to some degree. If we had close to 100% vaccination rates, then that partial protection from infection, coupled with social distancing and masking, and whatever short-term protection from natural immunity, may be enough to get the covid R number under 1.0 and end the pandemic.  Thus, large numbers of the unvaccinated do the following;

• Keep the pandemic going, instead of ending it.
• Infecting others, and since we know the vaccines are not 100% effective (the idea that every vaccine must be 100% effective – and 100% safe - is a straw man for the anti-vaxxers), vaccinated people are threatened as well.
• Increasing the probability of generating new covid variants, which could more effectively evade vaccine protection and/or be more virulent.

So, even if I am not bothered if the unvaccinated, as isolated individuals, get sick and die, all of the negative externalities of their decision for the rest of us does bother me.

True, it would be optimal if the vaccines were more effective (and safe). It would be great if they had a very high probability of conferring long-lasting sterilizing immunity. It would be great if they had less side effects. I at no time ever dismissed the real possibility of current, or future, covid vaccine side effects, and I wish I didn't have to take the vaccine to begin with. I’m not really completely satisfied with these vaccines, but they are the tools we currently have, and should be used. The Holy Orientals created the problem; don't blame the vaccine or the vaccinated. Blame the Yellow Devils.

Further, one can wonder if it is at all possible to generate sterilizing immunity, or any kind of long-lasting immunity, against coronaviruses, and whether it is possible to generate any sort of effective immune response against covid without at the same time risking side effects. It's a difficult situation.  The Wuhan lab did their job really well, didn't they?

Indeed, if you don’t like the situation, blame China – don’t act like jackasses, acting as the extended phenotypes of covid-19, and call people who know what they are doing – based on currently available information – “sheep” while you are the ones following leaders who are either clueless or who are just pandering to your stupidity for their own rent-seeking benefit (and this latter group may well be vaccinated themselves).

With respect to the relationship of the Torbas and Carlsons of the world with their sheep followers, this here is appropriate.  The “we’re all God’s children” cuckservatives are getting (mind) screwed by their fearless leaders, most or all of which couldn’t tell you what mRNA is or how vaccines work.

Advice for the yahoos - don't be the black sheep of the Right. Considering how moronic much of the Right is, to be the black sheep of that motley crew is a damning indictment indeed.  Do better.

Further, if these yahoos would invest maybe one-one-hundredth of their time and energy opposing mass immigration and forced racial integration as they do opposing covid vaccination, we'd all be a lot better off.

Grifters and Retards, 3/8/21

In der news. In all cases, emphasis added.

“Movement” lies.

Reality facts.

More reality facts.

We have learned that not only had he recently been diagnosed with COVID-19, he also had underlying health issues, and had been exhibiting symptoms of illness at the time the vaccine was administered. Clinical examination and lab results have determined the COVID-19 vaccine has been ruled out as a contributing factor in the individual's death."

The CDC estimated out of a million people, allergic reactions happened in roughly five, a number within range of what has been reported with other vaccines for the flu, meningitis and shingles.

A recent CDC report found that of the 113 death reports to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System between Dec. 14 and Jan. 13 — a time period which saw 13.8 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines administered — no causal link between vaccination and death was found.

So, I’ll say that there is a much greater health risk for a “movement” "activist” getting strap-on-sodomized by a Chinatrix than there is for a sane person getting the covid-19 mRNA vaccine.

Further, I’m not sure that folks who have – literally – a retard fetish are the best sources for understanding this issue. Ad hominem?  Yes, it is, but nevertheless, why would anyone listen to these people?

…One of Gariepy's oddest aspects is his interest in mentally retarded women with the mental age of children. In fact he makes this a central feature of many of his live shows as he knows this drives traffic to his show. His relationships with these women—there have been at least two—effectively makes him a "virtual child rapist," as these women are incapable of adult consent.

See here for the origin of some of the outrageous lies and scientifically ignorant distortion that the Luddite Retards of Der Right use for their anti-vaxx campaigns.

I’m trying to grasp the underlying motive for Der Right. Just a knee-jerk rejection of anything the System does, even if it is right?  Ignorance?  Rejection of science and technics – after all, there weren’t any vaccines in Tolkien’s hobbit holes and hobbit shires, so, gudummint, we can’t have any here?

I’m also trying to understand what it is they think we should be doing. They oppose lockdowns. They oppose masking. They oppose the vaccines. They oppose virtually any and all measures against covid-19. I suppose they’ll just tell us it’s “just a cold.”  It’s a “DC swamp conspiracy!” So, why are all the Jews of Israel being vaccinated? Why is Putin’s Russia producing their own vaccine and vaccinating their people? What? Are all those foreign vaccinations actually “placebos” – part of the vast conspiracy?

Isn’t it interesting that the same folks that literally worship Trump as The God Emperor think that the vaccines that the Trump administration pushed through at “warp speed,” and for which their lipid-enhanced demigod is eager to take credit for, are “toxic jabs” meant to kill you and/or microchip you and//or alter your genes with a “mRNA operating system?” Trump as part of the Gatesian-Faucian deep state? Say it ain’t so, Don!

Der Right is intellectually, morally, and ethically bankrupt.  It’s full of grifters and paranoid retards.  Then they turn around and call ME “insane” and paranoid.”  Laughter time!

Well, there you have it, straight out of the horse’s mouth (or ass) – the endgame for Der Movement shown at the top. The “White ethnostate” – Dark Ages level of science, technics, medicine, and  political development. But, hey, you’ll be real snug in your hobbit hole, and when you die of an easily preventable disease, your hobbit hole can double as a ready-made instant coffin. Dual use!

On "The International Day of the Woman," we see that the combination of advancing age and progressive decrepitude does not dissuade milady from demonstrating the true and full extent of her talents! After all, we cannot in good conscience dismiss the contributions made to human progress from half the population now, can we?

Carnivore Jef Costello cries over his beefsteaks. Come on now. Those findings are obviously - obviously! - a deep state plot to "jab" your GI tract with toxic fruits and vegetables, a "chlorophyll operating system!"

Odds and Ends, 10/21/19

Some items.

Advice from a Counter-Currents commentator:

Rob Bottom

Posted October 19, 2019 at 8:30 am | Permalink

As mentioned, any attempt to defend oneself will be spun by the media and the authorities as an attack. Not only do we not have the cops on our side, we don’t have the justice system either. I don’t suppose I am suggesting anything new to you.

What we should have at any events are volunteers to film and photograph everything. Guests should arrive at the event with a chaperone / guard(s) who film any altercations or intimidation by the commies, copies of which can be used in court if necessary. Other volunteers should stand outside the event and film everything. These can be put online and used by our army of autists to try to identify specific members of the local antifa group so that they can be held accountable, particularly where they injure someone.

Given the consistency with which these antifa groups disrupt such events, proving they are the aggressors should not be difficult for a half-decent lawyer armed with video documentation of events all around the world. Obviously we can’t expect them to pay much for their crimes, given the state of things, but we can at least defend ourselves from spurious accusations if we take the right precautionary measures.

Of course, those volunteers themselves can be subjects of attack (unless hidden somewhere but still with access to generate photographic evidence), which punts the problem further down the line. Do we need another set of volunteers documenting everything that happens to the first set?  And then a third set to document the second set? 

It’s still a good idea, and worth doing, but, ultimately, we will need people integrated into the System so as to pressure for at least minimal freedom of assembly rights. We need folks running for office, and getting elected at least at the local level. Oh, you ask, what stops these people, the candidates and elected officials, from getting attacked?  In theory, nothing, but if the System actually allows political candidates and/or elected officials to be publicly attacked, with impunity, by leftist thugs, then they may as well close up shop with respect to maintaining any pretense of law and order and “democracy.”  If the System wants things to drop headlong into the abyss of a strife-torn banana republic, with evaporating political legitimacy, then allowing the mainstream political process to be subverted by street violence would be the way to go about doing it. Would they go that far in order to shut down the Right?  In the long run it’s a lose-lose situation for them, but they haven’t been put to the test yet.

Der System is, if anything, even more ludicrously incompetent than is Der Movement. Obviously, any competent “movement” led by a merit-based leadership should have at least a fighting chance against the types of morons who use “admin” as a username and password for sensitive information at a major corporation. What’s next? Username = username and password = password?  That Der Movement keeps on failing, failing miserably, tells you all you need to know about all of the “movement” heroes and “rock stars.”

Another Counter-Currents ethnonationalist infesting the nations of other peoples, taking their women, etc. Once again, Sallis is 100% correct – what these types mean by “ethnonationalism” is actually full-throated, in-your-face ethnoimperialism. What we have here are self-styled racial aristocrats who preach the joys of ethnic homogeneity and sovereignty while blatantly violating the ethnic homogeneity and sovereignty of all groups other than their own.

Pity poor Anton intimidated by all those hulking varsity football player Polish dudes - he needs to commiserate with Deasy, still traumatized by all those Bulgarian faces…in Bulgaria.  Ethnonationalist Johnson, who peddles this hypocritical drivel, either has to be the most majestically self-unaware person on Earth, or he is simply trolling all of us.

Zman the retard:

Now, I do like winter, so the gathering darkness and dropping temperatures is not followed by something I think is awful. In fact, winter is my second favorite month of the year, just behind autumn.

Someone needs to tell this idiot that winter and autumn are seasons, not months.  But what else can you expect from Type I Alt Right Beavis-and-Buttheaders?

I’m always amused by hypocrites who wax poetic about the joys of cold weather and winter, yet live in warmer areas of the country. Granted, Baltimore is not that warm, and does receive the ice that Zman complains about* (so, according to his own standards of behavior, we should all assume an attitude of autumnal schadenfreude over his fear of ice), but, still, it isn’t Maine or North Dakota. That’s similar to all the “movement” heroes and “rock stars” who live in diverse blue state coastal regions, but who regale us about how wonderful all those Mid-Western red state Whitopias are. Those areas are so very, very wonderful that these Type Is do all they can to avoid living there.

*Note to retard: Buy and use microspike shoe/boot crampons, and then walking on ice will be reasonably safe.

Answering Durocher

A response.

The dishonest Durocher writes

I received some interesting comments as well as some pushback for my previous article summarizing a scientific study showing correlations between brain shape/size and regional European ancestry. This is understandable given the sensitivity of the topic. Individual and ethnic amour-propre is a powerful motivator in the face of emotionally hurtful facts and hypotheses. However, as I like to say, the science is coming, ready or not, whether people like it or not, whether these fit with the current ideological fashions or not. I am confident that the progress of science and free discussion on the Internet will lead to an increase in human consciousness and apprehension of the truth.

Yes, indeed, the science is coming, ready or not, and I’m sure that the sweatily obsessed “movement” of which you are a part would be interested in knowing the truth.  Or perhaps not. Genetic archaeology is not going to be kind to Der Movement and its theories, I believe.

Two points. First, the above comment of Durocher comes from a post (at the anti-White Jew Unz blog of course) primarily discussing a paper analyzing cortical geometry among the major racial groups - a more generalized look at the subject of Durocher's previous foray into the subject. Of course, this more generalized paper was also discussed at my original blog post from which Durocher was alerted to the intra-European study.  But, also of course, after my criticisms of him over the last few days, Le Grand Frog this time omits reference to my original post. Injured individual amour-propre perhaps?

Second, Durocher is being typically dishonest in his characterization of his critics. I've read the comments at the Unz blog, and I am or course aware of what I have written here.  None of these people are attacking the actual science. No one - unless I missed a comment among the 100+ there - critiqued the actual original paper and its findings. The conclusions about intra-European brain differences were not substantially challenged. No one, you pathetic weasel, is avoiding truth or dismissing objective scientific facts. Instead people are criticizing Durocher's over-interpretation, hand-waving "spin" to dismiss contrary facts (avoiding truth?), and his overall hyper-Nordicist "take"on the science. That Durocher already has a well-established reputation for being a Nordicist - and also dishonestly denies it in Kempian fashion - adds to the perception of an underlying racio-political agenda, rather than a dispassionate discussion of data. People are not objecting to facts, but to Durocher's tendentious reading of those facts.

By the way, Durocher you won’t find any avoidance of racial and ethnic facts at EGI Notes because as you wrote:

I want to thank Ted Sallis for bringing attention to a fascinating study…

This blog has always been about getting to the facts about race and ethnicity, regardless of what it says about one group or another.  Your post – complete with groundless speculation and a juvenile picture of an anti-WN Austrian playing a fictional barbarian in a Hollywood move – is not “science” or “truth.” If your snide comments are directed at me, then you expose yourself as a fool, having learned about the study in question from my own work.

If the snide comments were instead about those criticizing you at the Jew Unz blog, then the fact that others criticize aspects of your post is not necessarily an indication of “individual and ethnic amour-propre” but instead - who knows? – maybe they look at other information and have their own hypotheses and interpretations that differ from your own. Or are the defensive comments by you quoted above a reflection of your own “individual and ethnic amour-propre?” Are you unable to take criticism without resorting to ad hominem?  

I know that the French have a reputation for being obnoxiously arrogant – related to brain structure, perhaps? – but, maybe, just maybe, your own interpretations and hypotheses are not correct, not reflections of science and reality, and, maybe, just maybe, the opinions of others are not merely “individual and ethnic amour-propre” attempting to avoid your hard truths. Maybe the comments made by others have some degree of validity on their own merits.

Has Greg Johnson Gone Mad?

This is a serious question. 

Laugh at this.

Excerpts, emphasis added, and my replies:

White Nationalists need to understand exactly why I think Andrew Yang is important. 

And White nationalists need to understand exactly why I think Andrew Yang is an enemy of the White race, and why Yang’s supporters are also enemies of the White race.

White Nationalists supported Trump because he supported some policies that we also favor, principally immigration restrictions (including the border wall and the Muslim ban), protectionism, and an America first foreign policy. We think these policies are objectively good for the white majority.

I have no doubt that Trump was sincere about these policies when he announced them. 

Does Johnson really believe this, or is he just covering himself since he declared Trump as “sincere” back in 2016, at the same time I labeled Trump as a fraud?

He could have won the Republican nomination and the presidency without them. 

This is absolutely ludicrous.  Is Johnson really telling us here that if Trump campaigned as a Jeb-like neocon that he would have won the Republican nomination?  So, GOP voters would have voted for an inexperienced vulgar incompetent buffoon neocon over a boring technocrat neocon with executive experience?  And if the GOP electorate was ready for more hardcore conservative red meat, they would have voted for Ted Cruz over a neocon centrist Trump.

No. Trump – with his personal history of supporting Democrats and his own social liberalism – saw a gaping open niche space to Cruz’s right – and not even so much to the right, but to the open space of right-wing populism, with a particular open space for plain-talking, anti-PC, immigration hardline rhetoric. That won him the nomination and the election, and he abandoned all of that when it was politically convenient to do so.  The man is a fraud and always was a fraud.

I wrote my “God Emperor No More” essay on April 8, 2017 after the Syria strike.

Many months after I had already labeled Trump a fraud.

We need immigration restrictions because most immigrants, legal and illegal, are not white…

The ancestors of Andrew Yang?

We have lots of people who are alienated and unemployed. We have lots of people from broken homes, fractured by the drugs, alcohol, and drama of selfish and degenerate parents. We have lots of people with drug and alcohol problems and personality disorders of their own. We have lots of people who are willing to lash out violently against the system that has betrayed them.

Describing Der Movement here?

However, as long as white dispossession continues—as long as whites see their communities declining because of diversity and their living standards destroyed by globalization and immigration, all to a din of anti-white hate coming from the mainstream media and academia—our numbers will only grow. White dispossession due to immigration and globalization is the primary force driving the rise of National Populism in every white country. White Nationalists are not causing this wave. But we are going to surf it to power and influence.

So, let’s all support Yang easing this distress by buying off White anger with his UBI!  Makes sense. 

We also voted, encouraged other people to vote, and worked to counter voter fraud. Trump won by a razor-thin margin: 107,000 votes in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. He knows very well how important our efforts were in the last forty-eight hours of the campaign to flip those states. He won’t win again without us.

This is a level of delusion that requires immediate psychiatric attention. According to Roissy, Trump won because of the caravans of Amish voters descending upon the polling places.  According to Johnson, it was all the WNs flying off from Ultima Thule in their Nazi UFOs to descend upon the polling places and who also "memed" Trump into office.  In reality, it was all the Reagan Democrats - many of them White ethnics - who left the GOP after Bush-Dole-Bush-McCain-Romney but returned, attracted by Trump's phony right-wing populism.

Andrew Yang seems like an intelligent and sincere guy. He is not white, but he is the only Democrat who opposes anti-white identity politics. He is also the only Democrat who has talked about the problems afflicting white America. I will vote for him in the Democratic primary, and I will vote for him as President if he goes up against Trump.

Of course.  Who would have ever guessed that when Counter-Currents threw in its lot with the Amren/VDARE/Unz crowd, that it would be shilling for Asians. I’m shocked, shocked I say!

But generally speaking, White Nationalists find Asians to be the most agreeable non-white group in our society. 

But of course.

This is a movement full of anime fanatics, with a fringe of rice burners. 

Rice burners.  Or as I would say, mustards dippers.

Many of them would welcome our new Asian overlord.

Of course they would. Here Johnson essentially certifies once again that Sallis is correct.  Asians pimp out their women to White men, in order to influence Whites to favor Asian interests. A significant portion of Der Movement "insiders" – particularly the Alt Wrong HBD Race Realist faction – are Yellow Supremacists, and HBD is a political movement whose ultimate outcome would be to enslave Whites to their Asian (and Jewish) overlords. Certainly, Der Movement prefers Asians to White ethnics. Sallis: Always right.

Beyond that, we are genuinely pragmatic. 

Laughable.

We supported Trump despite his obvious faults…

Yes, 20-20 hindsight is always “obvious” – unfortunately, going back to the heyday of the Alt Right, Trump was The God Emperor, the sincere American Caesar who was going to stabilize White demographics. Now that the Pepe-Kek narrative has collapsed, it was “obvious” that Trump had faults. The only person it was obvious to was the person calling Trump a fraud and a huckster even before the election.  And we know what that is, don’t we?

Now that Yang looks like he will advance our interests…

Insane.  Yang wants to pay off Whites to accept their dispossession.  Whose interests are those?  I suppose the Amren/VDARE/Counter-Currents/Unz axis would love to see Whites groveling before their Asiatic Overlords in exchange for $1,000 per month.

Yang might not like us. But here’s the thing. He will still cash our checks…

Sure he will.  Anything for the tin cup shekels, eh?  Until such time that it is decided that White nationalists are “terrorists” and giving them the UBI is “funding terror.”  No worries though. I’m sure illegal aliens will be cashing your checks instead.

…and he can’t prevent us from arguing for the merits of his proposals, voting for him, and encouraging others to vote for him. Whether he likes it or not, White Nationalists might put him in the White House.

White nationalists want to put an anti-White Asian in the White House, so he can buy off White anger over dispossession with a poverty wage.  That’s great.  Attention rank-and-file – this is the sort of insane destructive lack of accountability you’ve produced with your affirmative action program.

8. Are those in the White Nationalist and far-Right movement feeling more emboldened than ever before?

In a word, yes.

Of course.  Failure after failure, humiliation after humiliation, defeat after defeat...but they’re emboldened, don’t you know!  So much winning!

Long-term demographic trends are ominous. As I argue in The White Nationalist Manifesto, if we do nothing—if we do not implement White Nationalist policies—the white race will go extinct. That concentrates the mind wonderfully. That imparts urgency and moral seriousness to our cause. But white extinction is a couple centuries away. 

Always in the future.  Just remember to send your D’Nations today!

Moreover, medium-term demographic and political trends are working in our favor. As Roger Eatwell and Matthew Goodwin argue in National Populism: The Revolt Against Liberal Democracy, the rise of National Populism is being fueled by four deep-seated trends that are not going to abate any time soon: distrust of the establishment, destruction of communities by immigration, the decline of white working class and middle-class living standards due to globalization…

So, you want to short circuit the rise of right-wing populism by supporting Yang’s center-left populism, and Yang’s plan to defuse the anger of the White working class by giving them handouts. These are your “leaders” – the whole bunch of them together would be lucky to have a combined number of brain cells equal to that of a mentally deficient Drosophila.

Eatwell and Goodwin actually argue that the only way we will get beyond National Populism is if established parties adopt National Populist policies. Which means that the days of globalist hegemony are over, and the future belongs to competing forms of National Populism. That is an environment in which White Nationalists will flourish.

Yes, they will flourish with cunning Asiatics buying off White anger with poverty wages.

The primary cause of rising white racial consciousness is not White Nationalists like me.

Truer words never said.

Instead, people are waking up in response to objective events—because diversity causes conflict and globalization causes deprivation. 

So, let’s alleviate the deprivation with Yang’s UBI. Big Daddy Chinaman will give us our allowance.  As long as we beg for it real nice.

And now, with the rise of Andrew Yang, American White Nationalists have a new cause around which to unite our warring tribes. 

Johnson and Spencer, hand-in hand, will joyously dance to the new rising sun of Yangism!  A frog-faced Chinaman will truly Unite the Right!  And if anyone objects, there will be those Japanese schoolgirls prodding with their bamboo spears, and black-booted Chinese girls with guns.  And what looks to be a spurting fountain is the spontaneous ejaculation of the Silkers.

Johnson has "jumped the shark" as badly as his buddy Spencer.  These guys are caricatures of themselves; they have learned nothing from their repeated errors.  It's also interesting that Johnson has seemingly been mocking Yang and the Yang Gang at his Twitter account over the past few weeks, but is now himself part of the Yang Gang. What happened?  Did he get a stern talking to by his Alt Wrong allies?  How dare he criticize a Chinaman!  Doesn't he know they are our masters and betters? 

Some selected comments from that Counter-Currents post:

In fact, what Andrew Yang is worried about is hordes of angry people – why are they going to be angry? Their ability to feed their families ruined by robots. What are these angry people going to do that Andrew Yang is so fearful of? Establish the type of government we want. That is what the $12,000 per year IS MEANT TO FORESTALL – OUR TYPE OF GOVERNMENT!
Duh!
In the real world, no one actually supports Andrew Yang in this movement; it is the “insiders” trying to push it on the rank-and-file. This push, thankfully, is failing.

This person is absolutely correct.  Yang's UBI is designed to forestall radical change by buying off the populace. This person is also correct in that the whole Yang Gang paradigm is being pushed on the rank-and-file by "movement" "insiders."  Whatever my criticism of the rank-and-file, they at least have some sound racial instincts so as to not become UBI slaves to grinning Asiatics.  No, we'll leave that to the Quota Queens and their Asiaphilic fetishes (including self-admitted propensities for "rice burning").

Yang says openly that he wants to enter politics because he is afraid that his fellow Chinese tribesmen will become hated in America as the US-China rivalry will only increase in the future.

Exactly.  And the Alt Wrong sides with Chinese against Whites.  After all, the HBD vision is groveling Whites lorded over by "high-IQ" Jews and Asians, with the more high-IQ Whites submerged within a Jeurasian mongrelization.

To achieve this goal, of ethnically interested self-promotion, he has put forward this “Caesar’s -Free Grain Dole 2.0” which of course it is certain to arouse interest and propel him on the national stage.

Yang's motives are clear.  Ask yourselves why Der Movement's leadership sides with a Chinaman against their own people.

Johnson:

The GOP takes whites for granted as they betray our ethnic interests. The party needs to be destroyed utterly, and a new genuine National Populist party needs to rise from the ashes.

Sounds like the Sallis strategy to me, and it will sound like that to long time readers of EGI Notes as well.  The GOP should be destroyed.  Der Movement should be destroyed as well. We've reached the point where the latter is more of an imperative than the former.

Johnson also states that UBI in our current economy can be funded by simply printing money and that won't be inflationary because....bank bailouts. Err...the bank bailouts were not funded by a Weimar-like money printing press.  And will UBI replenish the Treasury?  If so, how?  Increased sales taxes?

Der Movement is a pathetic joke.

More East Asian/Down’s Syndrome Similarities

Infants. In all cases, emphasis added.

Continuing this line of hypothesis.

First, those Asians.

White babies started to cry more easily, and once they started, they were more difficult to console. Chinese babies adapted to almost any position in which they were placed; for example, when placed face down in their cribs, they tended to keep their faces buried in the sheets rather than immediately turning to one side, as the Caucasian babies did. They briefly pressed the baby’s nose with a cloth, forcing him to breath with his mouth. Most white (and black) babies fight this maneuver by immediately turning away or swiping at the cloth with their hands, and this is reported in Western pediatric textbooks as normal. While the average Chinese baby would simply lay on his back, breathing through the mouth, accepting the cloth without a fight.  

Down’s syndrome.

In addition, lower Negative Emotionality for infants with DS observed in this study supports the idea that lower levels of reactivity, related to decreased noradrenergic and adrenergic activity, may translate into fewer negative emotional responses for infants with DS…In this study children with DS were also described as demonstrating lower levels of Distress to Limitations (i.e., anger/frustration), which may in turn contribute to lowering the risk for behavior problems.

More Down’s.

In an early study, Lind et al. (1970) found that babies with Down syndrome required more stimulation to provoke crying and had diminished visible responses to pain than control babies.

Thus, both East Asian and Down’s syndrome infants share important behavioral traits; traits that are inborn and physiological, centered on a greater passivity and lessened response to stimulus (including stimulation to cry).

See this.

And, more importantly, this.

And, guess, what other infants have problems with bilirubin and jaundice?

Surprise!  Down’s syndrome.

The evidence continues to mount that the evolutionary history of East Asians converged onto a phenotype functionally equivalent to a high-IQ Down’s syndrome “retardate” type.

East Asians = High-IQ Down’s Syndrome Phenotype

The Simian Crease

Down’s and Asians. Native Americans are of course ultimately of Asian origin.

Following up on this, more information; well, well, well…

In humans, a single transverse palmar crease is a single crease that extends across the palm of the hand, formed by the fusion of the two palmar creases (known in palmistry as the "heart line" and the "head line") and is found in people with Down syndrome. It is also found in 1.5% of the general population in at least one hand.

Because it resembles the usual condition of non-human simians, it is also known as a simian crease or simian line, although these terms have widely fallen out of favor due to their pejorative connotation.

…it is more common among Asians and Native Americans than among other populations…

Very interesting.  In a sense, if the original hypothesis (linked to above) is true, East Asians can be considered functionally equivalent to very high functioning Down’s syndrome patients, the oxymoron of “high IQ retardates.” It would be useful to compare gene expression profiles and cell signaling in East Asians to Down’s syndrome patients.

We could also hypothesize that East Asians are a form of semi-autistic highly attenuated idiot savants, with an emphasis on spatial, mathematical intelligence and focused k-selected behaviors, with defects in most other aspects of the human experience - creativity, for example.

Please note that this sort of hypothetical rumination is not meant to be in any way hostile to East Asians.  However, from the standpoint of "human biodiversity" - that the "movement" proclaims it is ever so interested in - one would think that the possibility that a major racial group is akin in many ways to Down's syndrome is something that should be investigated.  From a practical standpoint, any potential findings could possibly be used to devise novel therapies for Down's patients or for others afflicted with cognitive and/or behavioral deficiencies.  If such people can be brought up closer to normal human (or at least East Asian) levels of function that would be a vast improvement in their quality of life.  One could focus on differences in gene expression and cell signaling between Asians and retards that allow East Asians to exhibit a "high IQ" despite the possibility of evolved deficiencies that overlap with Down's phenotypes, and leverage those differences to mimic these Asian patterns in retarded patients.