@shortstories@EvilSandmich@Humpleupagus@HarryNuggets By that logic, if you had the right combination of teaching methods, motivation, and resources you could grab any random small child out of the ghetto, the back alleys of Mumbai, or some backwater village deep in the Congo, and turn that child into a brain surgeon or chess grand master or cutting edge mathematician. And the only thing holding us back from that bright, golden future is that we have yet to find that magical combination of teaching methods, resources, and means of motivating people.
But no one really believes that, not even you. Everyone knows in their gut that intelligence is like physical abilities. You can develop what you have more fully with the proper training, but ultimately we all have hard limits coded into us. If I trained like mad, was trained by the best coach, ate and exorcised exactly as I was supposed to, I could be made to be a better basketball player than I am. But I will never, ever, no matter how hard I train, make it to the NBA, or even a low ranked college team. I am too short, my reflexes too slow. My body isn't made to be a top level basketball player, and no amount of desire and training will over come that.
You can not make a person more intelligent than they are wired to be just like you can't make me a 6'8" power forward. You can help a person develop their intelligence such they can make the most of what they have, but you can't give them more than what they have, not without somehow rewriting their DNA.
People have limits, we are born with them. Life isn't some anime where you can train every day to become some kind of super human. Groups of people, being different, will inevitably have their own average intelligence level, just like average height, skin tone, eye color, speed, etc. You might hate it, but it is what it is.
@white_male@Kalogerosstilitis2RevengeoftheJunta@koropokkur@Eiswald@KarlDahl@sickburnbro Any government with spine enough to cut off the gibs to illegals would also be a government that institutes an E-verify system to block employment for illegals. From there it's a small step to expand that system to apply to housing. No gibs, no jobs, hard to find apartments = the fuckers leave the country.
Current governments desire the current illegal immigration wave. If they desired otherwise, this would all be reversed within a reasonable time frame. Any government that blocked/threw out illegals could count on the popular support of its population, since the vast majority of the population hates this shit. A politician with a spine and the tiniest skill could use that support to quash any backlash from corporations, academia, and other corners.
@sickburnbro "If we don't have a permanent under class of brown, easy to exploit cheap labor brought into this country via sketchy means, who will work the fields, clean the toilets, and do the other shit jobs I think I'm too good for?"
Pick your own damned cotton, mow your own damned yard.
Besides, if all these people couldn't see back then that Biden was beginning to slip into dementia, if they blinded themselves to that fact because they were willing to believe corporate media lies over their own eye balls, that means they are either too stupid or too easily influenced to be trusted with the right to vote. Anyone that's ever had an elderly relative could have seen this coming from years away.
The last 4 years, more than anything else, has proven that democracy is a fool's game, a sham, or at the very least that universal suffrage is an incredibly stupid idea. And now they're coming out and telling you who really rules this country and the West by talking about how the "donor class" is worried, how the "donor class" is demanding Joe get the boot.
Your vote means nothing, and probably hasn't since at least 1912. The promises of democracy have all been a sham. No one is ever held accountable, you get to vote on politicians, but only the politicians the parties, that is to say, the "donor class" approve of. And if somehow some law or person they don't want manages to sneak through, it is destroyed or neutered by a judge, by the bureaucracy, or via lawfare. You are never going to vote your way out of this nightmare because we didn't vote our way into it.
We celebrate each year how we broke free of the rule of a single distant king, but in fact we are ruled by a cabal of invisible men with more money and power than King George ever dreamed of. We are held in bondage with invisible chains, chains we can not break through polite, civilized means.
Maximum kek we can reasonably hope for would be Biden stroking out during the debate, then the media claiming the Bad Orange Man murdered him with his mean words.
@lovelymiss@jb >banksters start war >need soldiers, so draft women >women quickly make up half of armed forces >most women instantly become pregnant to avoid being deployed >war effort grinds to a halt >government collapses because half of the entire budget now goes to supporting military welfare moms and their crotch fruit >collapse of fed-gov leads to blue hive cities burning to the ground >ethno states rise up to fill the gap after the empire's collapse >mfw the white race and the West is saved because some retard believed the girl boss myth and women soldiers being lazy whores
@ainmosni You will never "develop a narrative" that appeals to normal, straight men that your side finds acceptable because one of the cornerstones of leftoid thought is a fundamental hatred of normal masculinity. Normal, healthy straight men will reject you and yours, always, because your side so nakedly and routinely expresses hatred and loathing for them.
It's who you are, it's what you are. Leftist gays hate straights. Leftist gays and women hate straight men. Upper class white leftists hate middle class whites and poor whites. The appeal of modern leftism is it provides those people a socially acceptable way to express their disdain and loathing for those they hate. Your side has vomited out your hatred for people like me, year after year, decade after decade, and then you have the gall to act confused when the inevitable backlash occurs.
Your people have made hatred of me and mine the key component of your identity. To that end you do almost everything imaginable to repel and offend those you designated your enemies. Congratulations, you succeeded. We find you repulsive and offensive. You hate us, really hate us. Congratulations, message received. We are now, finally at this late date, beginning to mirror your sentiment back at you. The universe reflects back at you the things you put out there. Enjoy the monsters you created. This is the world you insisted upon, now choke on it.
@AmonMaritza@Xenophon@Humpleupagus Do you have any idea of what's inside the average "romance" novel? Shit is almost always just one long rape fantasy.
@Wormwood@BowsacNoodle@YeetLibs Yeah, but Mexicans don't suffer from white guilt. That means the locals will often be harder on any blacks that invade their country than any Klansman might have been, and they wont be guilt tripped into stopping and apologizing.
@Starprophet1@Kalogerosstilitis2RevengeoftheJunta It might be more fun to take all those dudes in the 1800's and showing them hours and hours of modern feminists talking and acting out. Feminist college lectures, women cheering their abortions, blue haired, tattooed freaks with rings in their nose screeching about ... well, everything, rants about 'muh patriarchy', ugly half naked lesbians wearing pussy hats marching in the streets, slide after endless slide of land whales with mixed kids, vapid brain cell killing rants by women politicians, show them the ruinous results of no fault divorce, plunging birth and marriage rates, show them all the crap that was passed into law only because women voted for it, modern HR departments, etc.
Show them all the horrors their acquiescence to feminism caused, and do it in front of the entire country at the same time. Make them go through some Clockwork Orange shit for 24 straight hours with an audience watching, then make them defend to that same audience. If they don't break down in tears and recant, the audience would likely pull them limb from limb. If you just kill them, some one else might come along and copy their mistakes. Show the whole world the fruits of their evil, cowardly choices and it might shock some sense into the lot of them.
@epictittus@RanchWifey I was a kid when grocery stores introduced bar code scanners at the check out. Before that ever item had a sticker with the price on it, and the check out girl punched every number in by hand. I remember my mom and grand mother being very skeptical.
Under the old system, they basically memorized the cost of every item they were buying, and they would watch the check out lady like a hawk to make sure she got all the prices right. They were convinced the new bar code/laser scan system was going to be used by the stores to tack on a few extra cents here and there, and because it all happened in the computer instead of out in the open, they wouldn't know about it until they got home and went over the receipt. Big grocery was going to screw over the little guy with their fancy, sneaky new technology, and rake in millions every year via cheating.
@EarlyGirlSC Most white people, especially right leaning white people, are pretty binary when it comes to open expressions of anger. We usually are pretty good at holding that shit in, overlooking the smaller things.
Kind of the opposite of the chimp out phenomena. Ghetto blacks will explode over little stuff in the checkout aisle, then a few hours later be back to normal and about their lives. A lot of whites will hold their frustration in, appear perfectly nice and polite, right up until a certain line is crossed. When that happens, they go from 0 to 100 and stay there until the underlying problem is resolved.
Depending on the problem that could take some time, from hours to days to years. Sometimes it means tearing apart the car and rebuilding it, sometimes it means nuking entire cities.
@jeffcliff@epictittus@Nils The Aboriginals of Australia lived on the island continent for something like 40,000 years, all in blissful isolation. No great wars of religion, no bloody battles inspired by schisms. 40,000 years with no invasions by outside barbarians or crusaders looking to impose their faith. Yet despite that the Aboriginals never advanced beyond the stone age, never grew beyond living in the dirt, eating grubs, and sometimes even eating their own children.
Meanwhile it has been part of Christian dogma from almost the beginning that God is a logical being, and therefore His creation is also logical. That meant that, to the extent our limited intellect is able, we should be able to understand His creation through the application of reason
This is a list of Catholic clergy throughout history who have made contributions to science. This list does not include lay members of religious orders, such as ordinary monks and nuns, brothers and sisters, or anyone in minor orders at such times that those were not considered clergy. It is nearly 300 entries long, including accomplishments ranging from things like inventing a bullet resistant vest in the early 1900's to creating predictive models to figure out the trajectory of hurricanes to various advances in mathematics, chemistry, geology, biology, astronomy, and even mechanics. All this stretching back to nearly the fall of the Roman empire. We are on the verge of reaching the stars precisely because of the scientific advances these deeply religious people made.
@lovelymiss@SlayKween@InvictusManeo@Moddy@Sal_Equis The blow back from the Gaza war has them freaking out. Team B is panicking, and so they're dropping the hammer wherever they can. Long term this will be bad for them. The more ham-fisted the action, the more resentment they inspire.
This matters more with normies than with people already predisposed to disliking Jews and Israel. As we all know, once you start noticing, you only notice more as time goes by. They're giving into their paranoia, hubris, and persecution fantasies instead of trying to win hearts and minds or even just laying low for a bit.
It's kind of funny watching them slowly feed more of their own dick into the meat grinder, but we should probably be extra careful about fed posting for a while. It might be fun watching a pit-bull spaz out to the point it starts eating itself, but you shouldn't get too close while it's doing that.
@Shadowman311@weaf@Umlaut@nugger@DW2 All those amazing looking castles Anglo-Saxon Apu used to post back on Gab, people need to remember that all of those existed because the countryside was so dangerous and chaotic. Each one of those was a military instillation built to help people survive attacks by armies, raiders, and even bandits. The fact that Europe is so heavily sprinkled with the things speaks to just how dangerous life was, from the retreat of Rome right up until WW I.
Imagine if a zombie plague kept breaking out, and to survive the occasional waves of flesh eating undead the living had to build fortifications they could retreat to. Now imagine we finally wipe out the zombies, but the fortifications remained, and our descendants preserved them out of nostalgia. That's what those castles are. They're beautiful and impressive, but their very existence is a reminder that the normal state of man is bloody war. We've forgotten that, and our children will suffer because of that lapse of memory.
@Starprophet1@judgedread They ended up nailing a lot of the Bundy Ranch protesters later on other (mostly bullshit) charges. The American empire is weak and growing weaker, especially on the international stage, but it's still more than powerful enough to crush internal protesters like a hot grape. I'm sure that will change in time as well, although I'm not sure how we in the here and now can imagine what will signal that change.