The NYT runs a "Those We've Lost" feature about all the famous people who have been struck down ... but, on average:
A. They aren't all that famous
B. Most were old and/or sickly and thus well-past their primes:
For example, here's the first name on the NYT's list:
Here's another name on the NYT's "Those We've Lost" list of famous people who have died of COVID:
The NYT tries to put younger people toward the top of its Those We've Lost list of COVID deaths. One obvious pattern is most seem overweight in their photos.
Why has there been no push to get Americans to lower the risk of the virus by losing weight?
If the media scared 50% of Americans into losing 10 pounds to reduce the risk from COVID, that would likely increase life expectancy for the whole country on average more than the virus reduces it.
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Democrats need to realize that they became so egregiously hate-filled toward whites, men, straights etc. during the Great Awokening that they are now paying the price by having a lot of their sinecures and grants taken away by the normally nice people whom they demonized.
Most normies we're tolerant of a moderate amount of discreet affirmative action, useless NGO spending, and soft-major nonsense until beginning in 2013 and peaking in the "racial reckoning" of 2020-2023, the left went nuts with overt racist, sexist, and genderist hatred.
It turned out that a big problem for the left with their controlling the media is that the New York Times wouldn't tell its subscribers that their racist anti-white hate and other vices were getting out of control until it was too late.
@Paracelsus1092 The idea that Sutton Hoo was the burial site of Anglo-Saxon heroes rich from fighting Persia for Byzantium fits with the Pirenne Thesis that the real Dark Ages in northern Europe began with the rise of Islam that cut off Europe from the advanced civilizations of the Near East.
@Paracelsus1092 Shortly after the death of the Prophet in 632 AD, Islam ripped into the exhausted Byzantine and Persian empires who had bankrupted themselves fighting a long war. Perhaps the wealth of Constantinople had been paid out to mercenaries from as far as Sutton Hoo in England?
@Paracelsus1092 The Pirenne Thesis is that Europe would have bumped along after the barbarian invasions without a truly disastrous Dark Ages except that the rise of Islam cut it off from the wealthy lands of Spain, North Africa, and the Near East.
The Good Life in Gov. Wendell Anderson's Minnesota (August 1973)
vs.
The Not So Good Life in Gov. Tim Walz's Minnesota (May 2020):
When I was in high school in the 1970s, Minnesota and Wisconsin competed for the reputation as the most well-ordered state in the Union.
Now, they compete to be the state that generates the most Steve Sailer Content.
From the 1973 "Time" story:
"Some argue that Minnesota works a bit too well and too blandly, that its ... serene population is a decade or two behind the rest of the U.S. The place lacks the fire, urgency and self-accusation of states with massive urban centers and problems."
@alecrogers1968 @amortowles It would be a better argument to contend that "A Gentleman in Moscow," like, say, "The Master and Margarita," has fantasy elements that make it more conducive to historically unrealistic diversity casting than would be, say, "Darkness at Noon" or "First Circle."
@alecrogers1968 @amortowles For example, I didn't object much to the diversity casting in "Wonka," a children's musical set in a vague time and place, than I would be to diversity casting in, say, "Middlemarch" or "Brideshead Revisted."
@alecrogers1968 @amortowles Dear Mr. Towles:
A good defense of unrealistically casting a black in your 1930s Soviet-set "A Gentleman in Moscow" is that your novel has strong imaginative elements, so utter realism in casting isn't artistically necessary in the TV series based on it.
Washington Post: We Had to Destroy the Democracy to Save It.
The Post reports on how in Europe, the secret police are putting under surveillance political parties that are growing by advocating policies popular with voters.
One of the many threats to democracy in Europe, according the Washington Post news section, is that political parties are increasingly debating immigration policy instead of having a gentleman's agreement not to discuss it.
Seriously, these articles would be less comic if they simply admitted their experts are, obviously, anti-democratic. Lots of bright people from Plato onward have been against democracy. But Plato at least didn't argue for rule by philosopher-kings in the name of Saving Democracy.