Whom to believe, whom to believe….
(Hint: NYT credibility is not terribly high at the moment… (“At the moment”, he says!))

In other news, I learned a new word: “doomscrolling,”

Probably in certain circles the pressure is strong, but I am disgusted seeing this… cowardice could be the name.
“Buonismo” (good-ism) is the Italian term used when acceptance of evil is masked with sentimentality, in order to avoid difficulties or personal sacrifice.

Au contraire, its shamelessness makes their shamelessness an essential ingredient!

Well, yes, but it certainly helps when you can make up the rules and then change them at whim, while the MSCM cheers your every flip flop as though it’s pure genius and/or the epitome of foresight and morality.

Even so, the Democrats can run into difficulties, for example, the Cuomo-de Blasio soap opera or the Charges of the (“F^%@ You, Trump!”) Lightfoot brigade:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/youre-100-full-hit-fk-you-chicago-alderman-mayor-rage-over-looting-leaked-audio

(So who’s going to win the “Best Democratic Mayor in the Country” Olympics? Lightfoot? de Blasio? Garcetti? Kenney? The competition sure is stiff….)

Perhaps the most irking thing about all this is their sheer ingratitude: one dearly wishes that they acknowledge the debt they owe Trump for enabling them to blame HIM for all their self-induced problems. But who said that life was fair?….

(And perhaps this is the best reason why Trump should be re-elected…)

The panderers who promise everything to any constituency, not just blacks, are in a win-win situation: if they succeed, of course; but if they don’t, then they get to blame oppression by the other party.

Democrats play this game better than Republicans; RINOs play this game against their own party’s conservatives; and Trumpers want to smash the game.

There used to be a lot of Jews living in Europe during the 19th century. During that century there was much political activity on behalf of the Jews, and by the beginning of the 20th century most European countries no longer required them to live only in certain areas, avoid certain occupations, etc. Today we would classify all this as a strong civil-rights movement on behalf of the Jews, who in gratitude became reliable left-wing voters.

When the Great Depression hit Europe in the 1930’s, it led to the rise of the Nazis and eventually to WWII. Although Germany lost WWII, those Jews who survived the death camps ended up mostly in Israel. Europe today has very few Jews compared to the number that were present before the war. In a way, Hitler got his dearest wish despite losing the war and destroying Germany.

During the last half of the 20th century we have seen the development of a vigorous civil-rights movement for black americans, and in gratitude they have become reliable left-wing voters.

I do hope that those who assert that the arc of history bends toward justice are correct. To the unbiased observer, however, history often seems to bend toward the genocide of disliked minorities — the Tutsis in Rwanda, the Jews of 19th century Europe, the Armenians in Turkey, the Aborigines of Australia, the Tasmanians, the Incas, the Aztecs, the Maya, and on and on backward into the past. Probably the list can be extended into pre-history, all the way back to Neanderthals, Denisovans, and so on, where genocide is usually classified as human evolution in action.

The lesson is clear — any government, however enlightened, can fall; severe economic hardship can inspire a search for scapegoats; and nothing is forever. Minority populations should walk softly, always ready at a moment’s notice to pack and leave when the majority turns hostile. To make it worse, the choice between when to fight and when to leave is never obvious.

Compared to the number of Chinese on this planet, all the rest of us could be regarded as minorities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Life

I’ve not tried it myself. However, I’ve read that there is a secret area within “Second Life” which requires an invitation. It is for dominant black men and submissive white women to “live” out that life.

Perhaps an urban legend.

2-kind of lurks below the surface, but one can’t help but wonder what might be going on that’s unseen (and/or ignored) by the MSM. In the world of porn — which is highly sensitive to trends in the culture — a site called Blacked has become hugely popular in the last few years. This features, exclusively, dark-skinned black guys having sex with pretty, young-looking blonde girls. I wondered about who looks at such a site. Apparently it’s very popular with white incels (white males who are “involuntarily celibate.” These males tend to have a great deal of hostility for attractive females they see as out of their reach. See Michael Connelly’s new best-selling crime novel Fair Warning as one illustration. There’s another, similar website called Blacks On Blondes. How many black men look at this stuff? How many white women? Fuel for what kinds of fantasies?

Porn influences sexual fashion, as it did in accomplishing the more or less total disappearance of pubic hair among young sexual active females within a few short years. I can remember, back in the late 1960s, when Black Panthers (or, more often, Black Panther types) pushed their sexual attentions, hard, on young white females, quickly resorting to telling them that “So you’re a racist” if encountering resistance. This mostly wore out its welcome fairly soon. But now?

(I, by the way, investigated the current world of porn when urged to do so by two different literary agents in succession. Both said they believed this could be a hot topic — whereas because I’m an old white man, there’s not much interest otherwise in anything I write these days, even though I have a record of past success. The editors in New York publishing are now almost all young females.) Portland, Oregon has some extremely successful websites these days, whereas in the old days all porn was generated down in L.A.

(But what I found when I looked into the subject just flat-out troubled and disturbed me to such an extent that I kept delaying and putting work on this book aside. I found some interesting material, but it bothered me too much. I abandoned it and the last agent involved in it dropped me as a result.)