I fantasise about having a column where commentators are forbidden to use the word “fuck”. They shall have to use more creative language to demean someone or something. Expand the creative use of the English language. Damn someone with faint praise. Stimulate new pathways and byways in degenerative neurons. In school the English teacher forbade us to use the word “nice” to describe anything, especially your recent holiday. That steered me, an Afrikaans kid from the railways, to words like “phantasmagoric” and “quaint”. Linh, you could set the example by substituting your f’s with a more expansive use of the English language, which you both loath and love. Greetings!
There's a qualitative diff between expletive-ridden and judicious-use. Censorship of filth is not the same as cleaning up your act. I trust you are pleading for the latter. Creativity thrives on bounty even booty. I like LD's occasional gutter diction. He's keeping it real w/ those few neurons left.
Good column, if a bit dark or harsh. American cities are probably doomed, but there is life and people still relatively normal in the U.S. countryside. The main problem as I see it is American (or "American") degenerate culture spreading abroad like cancer. Italian and French pop music used to be pretty decent until the late 70s (perhaps some songs a bit corny but innocent, like that Vietnamese lyrics), but now they have degenerated into boring rap about sex and satanism, as everywhere else (although it's still not as bad as "Sacrifice" or Arianna Grande, yet). The "transgender children" craze also seems more pronounced in America than in the rest of the world, but it's spreading too.
One of the weirder things is how little American music and culture is consumed overseas these days. From Portugal to Taiwan, every girl under 25 listens to KPop. Period. No young boy would ever be caught dead in an American baseball or football jersey. Marvel capeshit aside, the top 10 shows on Netflix globally are ALWAYS Korean...I think one of the more hilarious stories of the next ten years will be Americans discovering their almost total irrelevance in the global context...aside from forcing munitions down goatherder's throats. But even that is something the US seems to be failing at.
What few shows and films I watch nowadays in places like Netflix are almost always produced outside the US. I've gotten so used to subtitles that I don't even notice them any more. Production values in places like Korea are every bit as good as the best the US can offer. Unlike most of the US stuff, they still know how to come up with good scripts. And the woke freight is largely absent.
Tho we're quite far gone, for sure, not all of us are ready to give up on America just yet. If we release all the peaceful pot smoking hippies from the gulag then we'll have plenty of space to inter those monsters who have been mutilating "trans kids".
I’m a solid believer in free speech as a constitutional concept. I think a big part of the problem certain people have with it is that they are trying to load it up with a lot of illegitimate baggage that applies to things other than a straightforward limit on government behavior.
Free speech to me means simply that government is not allowed to sanction you for saying whatever you want, and is not allowed to silence or censor you. That’s all. So free speech does NOT give you the right to force others to listen, and does NOT guarantee that you will not suffer any social sanction if others don’t like what you have to say.
The ‘rules’ on speech that apply to the behavior of individual citizens are formally non-existent, but are part of the unwritten social compact each person has with his/her society. The challenge the electronic forum presents to us is that it removes many of those constraints. It’s very easy to abandon civility in online forums. You avoid the unpleasantness of negative reactions to your words, and on top of that, you are often completely anonymous, further insulating you from that unpleasantness. It’s easy to forget yourself with these constraints on your behavior removed; I myself have certainly done so.
I think a good rule for civilizing some of the mob might be “Don’t say anything in an online forum that you wouldn’t say in a face-to-face conversation.” That will get us part of the way, but it would regretfully still leave us with too many stragglers.
You said: “To save Americans from themselves, and the rest of the world from the jewjacked USA, America can’t die soon enough.” Perhaps we can be more generous and look upon most of our founding ideas as good ones, and simply admit that we have lost our way, and are now honoring those ideas “more in the breach than in the observance.” As concepts, I think most of these ideas deserve to survive—it is Americans themselves that need to change. Maybe Emerson hit on it when he observed, “The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops – no, but the kind of man the country turns out.” We just need to figure out how to turn out better men again.
Three months of semi mindless meandering on northern Indiana highways and byways, mostly byways has made me intimately familiar with the perennial American Summer Psychosis. Wired, tired, pretty hungry sometimes it's easy to lose one's patience and join the other psychotics. A whole lot of intoxicated, desperate, scared and angry people out there. I've been one of them at moments and I don't like it. Two recovery quotes from some surviving assholes:
"In your worst moments, just be still." -Simon
"When it's (addiction, rage, psychosis, Jewish thought) on top of you, conduct yourself like a gentleman/lady" -Stephen
CNN is at it again. Last week they had a special on "Anti-Semitism in the United States" hosted by Jew Princess Dana Bash. Now, they have our old favorite, Little Lamb Blitzer, hosting a tour through the Holocaust Museum in NYC.
Israel Behaving Badly? Gin up the Holocaust Industry!!
Who says the Holocaust has nothing to do with Palestine Liberation? Certainly not dedicated Jewish Zionists, that’s for sure. When the world starts to catch on that Jewish supremacism might be good for the Jewish state, but it’s not that beneficial to the rest of us, it’s time to fall back upon “The Trick”*: when Israel’s 75-year assault on the Palestinian population is noted, merely remind the world who the ETERNAL VICTIMS really are.
Now Ken Burns is called to step up to the plate to shake down the US for what it allegedly failed to do to save the eternal victims in their hour of need. Produced by Jewish dominated Public Broadcasting Service, his new 6-hour series: “A history to be reckoned with; the U.S. and the Holocaust”, will re-train the American public beginning September 18. And while they’re at it, they plan to toss a 93-year-old Ursula Haverbeck into prison for violating someone’s sensibilities.
No More Holocaust Movies, Mr. Burns! We’re tired of them.
Bet you can't name five Americans who've turned down Jew money! That's why the country is being flushed like shit in an airplane toilet. There's not even a foreplay of the swirl! It's just, poof, you're gone!
Not sure what Jew money is, but I've heard Cam Smith, who just won the Open at St. Andrews, is being offered upwards of $400 million to quit the PGA Tour & join the LIV Tour, which is funded by Arab billionaires. Crazy shit.
Jews aren't quite so blatant it seems.
Things are fkd up all right, but I think the shit really hits the fan in the summer of 2024.....Tim Dillon had a pretty good rant on the Joe Rogan Show the other day. There are some of us out there. Just not near enough.
Hi Linh...you nailed that with the biff thing.... As for UnZ I still don't know what happened that you got 86ed? But biffer told me to go back and stay...What is his/her/its problem? Some are only happy breaking things.
My impression was that Linh did not get ejected from Unz, but chose self-exile so he wouldn't need to put up with the Unz trolls any more. Although the site has deteriorated in recent years, a few writers I like are still posting there. But the Unz Comments sections are pretty questionable neighborhoods, to be sure.
I fantasise about having a column where commentators are forbidden to use the word “fuck”. They shall have to use more creative language to demean someone or something. Expand the creative use of the English language. Damn someone with faint praise. Stimulate new pathways and byways in degenerative neurons. In school the English teacher forbade us to use the word “nice” to describe anything, especially your recent holiday. That steered me, an Afrikaans kid from the railways, to words like “phantasmagoric” and “quaint”. Linh, you could set the example by substituting your f’s with a more expansive use of the English language, which you both loath and love. Greetings!
There's a qualitative diff between expletive-ridden and judicious-use. Censorship of filth is not the same as cleaning up your act. I trust you are pleading for the latter. Creativity thrives on bounty even booty. I like LD's occasional gutter diction. He's keeping it real w/ those few neurons left.
Good column, if a bit dark or harsh. American cities are probably doomed, but there is life and people still relatively normal in the U.S. countryside. The main problem as I see it is American (or "American") degenerate culture spreading abroad like cancer. Italian and French pop music used to be pretty decent until the late 70s (perhaps some songs a bit corny but innocent, like that Vietnamese lyrics), but now they have degenerated into boring rap about sex and satanism, as everywhere else (although it's still not as bad as "Sacrifice" or Arianna Grande, yet). The "transgender children" craze also seems more pronounced in America than in the rest of the world, but it's spreading too.
One of the weirder things is how little American music and culture is consumed overseas these days. From Portugal to Taiwan, every girl under 25 listens to KPop. Period. No young boy would ever be caught dead in an American baseball or football jersey. Marvel capeshit aside, the top 10 shows on Netflix globally are ALWAYS Korean...I think one of the more hilarious stories of the next ten years will be Americans discovering their almost total irrelevance in the global context...aside from forcing munitions down goatherder's throats. But even that is something the US seems to be failing at.
What few shows and films I watch nowadays in places like Netflix are almost always produced outside the US. I've gotten so used to subtitles that I don't even notice them any more. Production values in places like Korea are every bit as good as the best the US can offer. Unlike most of the US stuff, they still know how to come up with good scripts. And the woke freight is largely absent.
Tho we're quite far gone, for sure, not all of us are ready to give up on America just yet. If we release all the peaceful pot smoking hippies from the gulag then we'll have plenty of space to inter those monsters who have been mutilating "trans kids".
Thanks, Linh. Stuck here in the ol usa but at least I have a farmer husband who loves me and can play music too. Always happy to see you in my inbox!
I’m a solid believer in free speech as a constitutional concept. I think a big part of the problem certain people have with it is that they are trying to load it up with a lot of illegitimate baggage that applies to things other than a straightforward limit on government behavior.
Free speech to me means simply that government is not allowed to sanction you for saying whatever you want, and is not allowed to silence or censor you. That’s all. So free speech does NOT give you the right to force others to listen, and does NOT guarantee that you will not suffer any social sanction if others don’t like what you have to say.
The ‘rules’ on speech that apply to the behavior of individual citizens are formally non-existent, but are part of the unwritten social compact each person has with his/her society. The challenge the electronic forum presents to us is that it removes many of those constraints. It’s very easy to abandon civility in online forums. You avoid the unpleasantness of negative reactions to your words, and on top of that, you are often completely anonymous, further insulating you from that unpleasantness. It’s easy to forget yourself with these constraints on your behavior removed; I myself have certainly done so.
I think a good rule for civilizing some of the mob might be “Don’t say anything in an online forum that you wouldn’t say in a face-to-face conversation.” That will get us part of the way, but it would regretfully still leave us with too many stragglers.
You said: “To save Americans from themselves, and the rest of the world from the jewjacked USA, America can’t die soon enough.” Perhaps we can be more generous and look upon most of our founding ideas as good ones, and simply admit that we have lost our way, and are now honoring those ideas “more in the breach than in the observance.” As concepts, I think most of these ideas deserve to survive—it is Americans themselves that need to change. Maybe Emerson hit on it when he observed, “The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops – no, but the kind of man the country turns out.” We just need to figure out how to turn out better men again.
Three months of semi mindless meandering on northern Indiana highways and byways, mostly byways has made me intimately familiar with the perennial American Summer Psychosis. Wired, tired, pretty hungry sometimes it's easy to lose one's patience and join the other psychotics. A whole lot of intoxicated, desperate, scared and angry people out there. I've been one of them at moments and I don't like it. Two recovery quotes from some surviving assholes:
"In your worst moments, just be still." -Simon
"When it's (addiction, rage, psychosis, Jewish thought) on top of you, conduct yourself like a gentleman/lady" -Stephen
This one was fun to read. Thanks Linh!
Is it really true Japan's 'Jonatahan's is the ultimate American diner?
I think it misses a few things - one 1950's oldies playing on the radio or jukebox (or whatever they use nowadays)
2 - a pretty (or not!) waitress walking around filling up coffee.
Jonathan's is great I will admit but it's more of a hermetic introvert's paradise of a diner.
Linh
CNN is at it again. Last week they had a special on "Anti-Semitism in the United States" hosted by Jew Princess Dana Bash. Now, they have our old favorite, Little Lamb Blitzer, hosting a tour through the Holocaust Museum in NYC.
The propaganda machine is in full swing.
Bill
Hi Bill,
Here's Henry Herskovitz on 8/20/22:
Israel Behaving Badly? Gin up the Holocaust Industry!!
Who says the Holocaust has nothing to do with Palestine Liberation? Certainly not dedicated Jewish Zionists, that’s for sure. When the world starts to catch on that Jewish supremacism might be good for the Jewish state, but it’s not that beneficial to the rest of us, it’s time to fall back upon “The Trick”*: when Israel’s 75-year assault on the Palestinian population is noted, merely remind the world who the ETERNAL VICTIMS really are.
Now Ken Burns is called to step up to the plate to shake down the US for what it allegedly failed to do to save the eternal victims in their hour of need. Produced by Jewish dominated Public Broadcasting Service, his new 6-hour series: “A history to be reckoned with; the U.S. and the Holocaust”, will re-train the American public beginning September 18. And while they’re at it, they plan to toss a 93-year-old Ursula Haverbeck into prison for violating someone’s sensibilities.
No More Holocaust Movies, Mr. Burns! We’re tired of them.
Linh
Thanks for the info. Burns should've quit after his baseball series.
Bill
Yo Bill,
Bet you can't name five Americans who've turned down Jew money! That's why the country is being flushed like shit in an airplane toilet. There's not even a foreplay of the swirl! It's just, poof, you're gone!
Linh
Linh
Not sure what Jew money is, but I've heard Cam Smith, who just won the Open at St. Andrews, is being offered upwards of $400 million to quit the PGA Tour & join the LIV Tour, which is funded by Arab billionaires. Crazy shit.
Jews aren't quite so blatant it seems.
Things are fkd up all right, but I think the shit really hits the fan in the summer of 2024.....Tim Dillon had a pretty good rant on the Joe Rogan Show the other day. There are some of us out there. Just not near enough.
Bill
When some guys rant about the private life of John Derbyshire, and how his wife looks and cooks, that sounds like a frustrated and jealous incel...
Hi Linh...you nailed that with the biff thing.... As for UnZ I still don't know what happened that you got 86ed? But biffer told me to go back and stay...What is his/her/its problem? Some are only happy breaking things.
Z
My impression was that Linh did not get ejected from Unz, but chose self-exile so he wouldn't need to put up with the Unz trolls any more. Although the site has deteriorated in recent years, a few writers I like are still posting there. But the Unz Comments sections are pretty questionable neighborhoods, to be sure.
Linh
In 1971-72, the varsity basketball team was on a bus trip to Ajo, Arizona. All of us were singing "Bye Bye Miss American Pie" to pass the time.
Let me at that juke box. Time for some Cash.
Yippie i ohhhh......Yippie i ayyyyy !
ps.... Is Biden still alive ?
Bill