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Jun 8 50 tweets 24 min read
Thread with excerpts from "The Communist Conquest of China," a 1952 book by a French intelligence officer. I read this because, after reading several books on the diplomatic/political side of things, I wanted a military history of the Chinese Civil War. Image The map as of the end of WWII. Communists had very strong influence in northern China, not much in southern China or Manchuria. Image
Jun 7 5 tweets 2 min read
It was not an "oopsie." There was physically not enough food in Europe and not enough transport to get US food to Europe. This is the single most salient thing about 1945-48 Europe. The delusion that resources are limitless and only denied via malice isn't exclusive to Commies. Image
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Given sharply limited resources, the Allied occupation authorities did not starve Germany, but did put it behind the rest of Europe on the priority list, for obvious reasons.
May 25 5 tweets 2 min read
Science requires a good deal of both honesty (most results will not be replicated) and intelligence, and so does not work well outside of the white world. This does not apply to manufacturing or engineering (easily checkable) and will be lost through Asianizing US STEM. Image This is also why, even from a disembodied abstract "civilizationist" perspective, the common cope that Western civilization can be dragged into the mud but it will be OK because East Asia will keep the torch alive is wrong. Image
May 23 6 tweets 3 min read
This terrible historical analogy gets brought up all the time. A couple of thousand world-class geniuses deliberately recruited (/enslaved for Paperclip) is not remotely comparable to "skilled immigration" in the US today, which is millions of mediocrities. Image
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Apollo and the Manhattan Project both happened while the United States was the most closed to immigration it had ever been in history. Image
Apr 28 14 tweets 8 min read
Some excerpts from a 2013 US Govt report entitled "The Strategic Consequences of Chinese Racism." Image The Chinese see multiculturalism as a sickness in the American body politic destroying a formerly-strong principally Anglo-Protestant US society. Racism keeps Chinese society strong and united against outsiders. Image
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Apr 23 25 tweets 15 min read
Thread with excerpts from "How the War Was Won". Three basic theses:
1) Air-sea battle was more important than land to WWII, with all combatants except USSR focusing on it...
2) ...because it can interdict production before battle.
3) Eastern front was a sideshow, like China. Image Germany, Japan, US, and UK all dedicated 65-80% of their economies to aircraft, ships, and anti-aircraft equipment. Aluminum, crtitical for aircraft production, was thus as or more important than the more famous (Rise and Fall of the Great Powers) steel production. Image
Apr 6 4 tweets 2 min read
Wrong. Also easily checkable, like most wrong hot takes on this site. Unless you think healthy Western civilization started in 1970. Image By the way, since we know contraception/family planning/abortion were not in common use until 1760 (France)/1870 (rest of Europe) and bastardry/cuckoldry rates were both very low, we can be confident this goes back to at least 1300 (less evidence before then). Image
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Mar 15 10 tweets 6 min read
Some excerpts from Russia Under the Bolshevik Regime (Pipes). Key difference between Russia, where the Bolsheviks succeeded, and the rest of Europe, where they failed, is that the masses of the rest of Europe were at least a little bit patriotic. Image
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Of the big Euro socialist parties, the Italians PSI joined the Comintern, but was expelled for not expelling the minority who didn't want to. The German and British Communists were unable to take over SPD/Labour, respectively. Only in France did the major socialist party join. Image
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Feb 26 13 tweets 8 min read
Quick thread on The Rise of Christianity (Rodney Stark, 1996). Stark estimates that Christianity grew ~40% per decade until it made up half the Roman Empire, comparable to Mormonism (up until the 90s, I don't know about today). Image Stark observes that contemporary cults (as distinguished from sects, which split off from conventional religion) overwhelmingly recruit from the religiously-unattached upper stratum of society, and infers that Christianity probably did too. Image
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Jan 22 51 tweets 23 min read
Thread with excerpts from "South Africa's Brave New World." The white establishment gave up gracefully, despite having the military power to fight. The author himself fought apartheid and doesn't regret it, despite his findings. Image
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Immediate capital flight amid massive corruption from the ANC. Chief ambition of much of the new elite: opening casinos, assumed to be a license to print money. Shades of US states doing the same for tax revenue.Image
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Jan 3 5 tweets 2 min read
"It is every migrant’s dream to see the tables turned, to see long lines of Americans and Britons in front of the Bangladeshi or Mexican or Nigerian Embassy, begging for a residence visa." - Suketu Mehta, India-born NYU professor. This in an argument *for* immigration.Image
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From "This Land is Their Land: An Immigrant's Manifesto". Mehta is a professor at New York University. America gave him a far better life than he could have had in India, plus a taxpayer-funded ticket into our cultural elite. And he despises us for it.
Jan 2 8 tweets 3 min read
Some excerpts from the white flight chapter of Jeremy Carl's "The Unprotected Class": The "racial transformation" of urban neighborhoods in the 50s-80s was incredibly rapid, South Shore going from 96% white to 94% black in 30 years. Image I did not know Rosa Parks was attacked in her own home in Detroit (by a black man). Image
Jan 2 8 tweets 3 min read
2024 Dutch version of the famous Danish "It's Complicated" graph. First generation immigrants are net fiscal negatives at all ages - entirely because of "non-western" immigrants. But at least the Netherlands benefits from... there must be something. (new study, short thread) Image This is a very familiar map. Bet you could predict almost all of this with national IQ + selection + obvious adjustment for Afrikaners. Image
Jan 1 4 tweets 3 min read
This dumb meme needs to die. The effects of immigration on population aging are very small, because immigrants age too. China would need literally billions to put a dent in population aging. There are not billions of people as productive as the avg Chinese angling to move there. Image South Korea keeping dependency ratios constant would require about a hundred million immigrants... PER YEAR. Image
Dec 25, 2024 4 tweets 1 min read
Not surprising to those familiar with US immigrant achievement, but about 80% of 21st century Chemistry/Physics/Medicine US immigrant Nobelists are from Europe or the Anglosphere. Of the 10 Asians, 5 are Japanese and 2 are Israeli. As far as national origins: UK dominates. Image
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Nov 12, 2024 4 tweets 2 min read
Wrong as applies to newspapers and television. There's strong evidence media radicalization (Great Awokening) caused the attitude shift in white liberals, not the other way around. From "Explaining Shifts in White Racial Liberalism".Image
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Newspapers that optimize for audience engagement look like the NYPost or the Daily Mail. Think prominent pictures of scary black criminals, rather than burying nonwhite murderer's race like most papers. Image
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Nov 9, 2024 7 tweets 3 min read
Thread on the difference between the history of pre- and post-tax and transfer income inequality in the US. The well-known story is the left earned one, with a U-shaped curve. The right is what it looks like after taxes and transfers - there's no increase post-1970. Image
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So what happened? Short answer is the things described in @charlesmurray's Coming Apart. First, Great Society welfare programs disincentived work among the left half of the productivity Bell Curve - you need to be above average to make real income gains from working harder.Image
Nov 2, 2024 4 tweets 1 min read
It's common knowledge that Asian science is full of fraud. Less common knowledge is that Asian scientists in the US also commit a lot of fraud vs their white peers. For instance, as of 2022 19/29 researchers sanctioned by the ORI are of Asian origin. Image
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This reflects poorly on university plans to attract Asian STEM talent to replace their white faculty. Ability isn't enough - you also need honesty.
Nov 2, 2024 13 tweets 4 min read
Lots of different measurements of impersonal honesty: a thread. The precise rank-ordering of these different measures varies, but the general picture is clear. First one is how many people claim to complete an impossible 5-minute task in 5 minutes. . Image This one is the fraction of people who report a lost wallet, with or without money. A consistent pattern of China doing much worse than other high-IQ countries is clear across these. Image
Jul 7, 2024 6 tweets 2 min read
Very strongly disagree. I don't think class is a very important point of conflict today (race >> sex/age >> class), but to the extent it is, the upper-middle class (say 80th-99th percentile) has a lot to benefit from RW politics. First, Affirmative Action screws this group.
Image Second, Asian immigration. Asian immigrants mostly compete with this group, and have driven an extreme (and much lamented) intensification of the education rat race in the 21st century. Restricting it (needed for political reasons anyways) would greatly benefit the UMC.
Mar 19, 2024 32 tweets 15 min read
Book thread on "Into the Cannibal's Pot", written in 2011 (pre-Great Awokening) on post-apartheid South Africa and its relevance to America, by the daughter of an important anti-apartheid activist. Image Mercer directly compares the ethnic transformation of America via Hart-Celler to the turnover of the state to the ANC in South Africa. Same process, just slower. She is very hostile to both Hart-Celler and Civil Rights.
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