Excellent WSJ report on the Peak Indian levels of obstruction and amour propre faced by US NTSB personnel trying to help investigate the recent Air India disaster. At one point, a DOT official had to send Embassy Delhi staffers to physically stop NTSB officials from accompanying

an Indian team to a remote facility on Indian military transport; the obstruction had grown so stolid and the trust was so nonexistent that DC feared that our investigative team might meet with an unfortunate ‘accident’ at such a remote location.

White people from Western cities walking around major East Asian cities constantly feel like a woman who escaped an abusive husband, or a rescued shelter dog: you keep waiting for blows that never come, then suddenly you realize ‘They aren’t here..I’m free…They can’t hurt me.’

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You undergo physiological changes in Beijing, Seoul, Tokyo, etc, just on the trains alone…Your brain chemistry changes when, for the first time in your life, you can sit or stand in a train car and genuinely *Relax*, as they say…It’s both exhilarating and radicalizing, as you

Wade on polygamy vs monogamy. “By removing a source of injustice and resentment [younger dudes getting no bitches], monogamy gives every man a stake in the existing order and vastly furthers social cohesion.”

Hmm, perhaps a useful ‘control’ for this theory would be if a vast

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civilizational space were still dominated by polygamy and its habits of mind? In Wade’s theory, such a civilization would have a very short collective fuse; a lot of resentful and surly young men squatted over by self-dealing monarchical or authoritarian elites; and it would

This is a stark point for all the anons—of whom I am happily one ofc—who used to mock Charlie Kirk for one niche RW reason or another. He put himself out there, under his own name, and carved out quite an empire, and genuinely moved the needle, bridging this space and the more

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‘Suited for All Audiences’ constituencies of GOP America (which, whatever ‘DegrelleAvi92’ might say, is still the crack regiment of American RW electoral politics and cultural influence, and always will be.) If Kirk said it, and pushed out a neat clip on FB and IG, your Boomer

NY Times article on ‘MAGA Gays’ in Trump 2.0. I like how the main guy they profile laments how DC gays were previously profiled ‘unfairly’ as a sort of shadow government; then he immediately describes the sort of Gay Gülenist network throughout USG that he helps manage 😅
Trump “once asked a contestant on ‘The Apprentice’ if he was ‘a homosexual.’ When the man said that he was, Mr. Trump replied: ‘I like steak, somebody else likes spaghetti. That’s why they have menus in restaurants. It’s a beautiful world.’” 😭😭

Great Economist obituary for Ed Smylie of Apollo 13 duct tape fame. Like a race of giants passing from the earth.

Had a wrestling coach who made us sit and watch ‘Apollo 13’ one day. Great movie ofc but I sort of wondered why, and he told us that the most underrated facet of
courage was *calm.* So true. As obit notes, the scene where Ed Harris is whiteboarding solutions, full of shouting—that scene happened, but IRL *there was no shouting*, they were all calm. And ofc the mack daddy himself, Jim Lovell: he talked the whole time like the terrifying

A locked friend beat me to a follow up: Anglos, Anglo-Americans will be the worst off in the Third World USA/UK, because they will be the last ons still playing the game as if the Old Rulebook still applied. (And in some ways it *will* still apply to them—that’s basically what

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‘anarcho-tyranny’ actually means in the American and British contexts.) But it won’t simply be because of the ‘selective enforcement’ element of anarcho-tyranny. We simply aren’t very good at Latinate, let alone African and Latin American or Arab or South Asian, corruption and