Comments on: Open thread 11/10/21 https://thenewneo.com/2021/11/10/open-thread-11-10-21/ A blog about political change, among other things Thu, 11 Nov 2021 12:17:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 By: Zaphod https://thenewneo.com/2021/11/10/open-thread-11-10-21/#comment-2588413 Thu, 11 Nov 2021 12:17:45 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=112041#comment-2588413 No.. I lied. One more.

F W de Klerk who sold out his people to a bunch of savages for half a Nobel Prize and some other baubles and (random guess) a shot at the Ivies for his grandkids is dead. Good Riddance.

]]> By: Zaphod https://thenewneo.com/2021/11/10/open-thread-11-10-21/#comment-2588412 Thu, 11 Nov 2021 12:06:46 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=112041#comment-2588412 One more for the road:

Chinese Ingenuity Makes Entire Arab World Redundant in One Fell Stroke:

https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/environment/article/3155682/chinese-farm-developing-facial-recognition

Facial recognition for goats.

Or am I crediting the Arabs with too much discernment?

]]> By: Zaphod https://thenewneo.com/2021/11/10/open-thread-11-10-21/#comment-2588410 Thu, 11 Nov 2021 11:06:30 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=112041#comment-2588410 @TJ:

I think most people live lives so devoid of meaning that they will batten onto anything that comes along. Covidianism was the Perfect Storm.

]]> By: Zaphod https://thenewneo.com/2021/11/10/open-thread-11-10-21/#comment-2588409 Thu, 11 Nov 2021 11:02:39 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=112041#comment-2588409 Art Deco:

It’s a slow day down at General Tso’s Chicken Ranch.

I’m sure if you put your mind to it you could provide more statistics. How about a Flesch-Kincaid grade level?

Looks like he put away a quantity of the stuff.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zuo_Zongtang

]]> By: Barry Meislin https://thenewneo.com/2021/11/10/open-thread-11-10-21/#comment-2588408 Thu, 11 Nov 2021 10:35:36 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=112041#comment-2588408 TJ, yes.
There’s also this description of totalitarian-creep, which augments/reinforces your link, though perhaps from a more strategic/corporatist direction:
https://unherd.com/2021/11/the-humiliation-of-america/
H/T Powerline blog.

]]> By: TJ https://thenewneo.com/2021/11/10/open-thread-11-10-21/#comment-2588407 Thu, 11 Nov 2021 10:17:28 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=112041#comment-2588407 A psychiatric explanation for the tribal slavishness to the Dangerous Covid! narrative that’s totalitarian: Dr Mattias Desmet, Ghent University lecturer on mass formation.

He sees our situation as a large scale mass-formation event. Very detailed and illuminating. I think he nails it.

Long interview here
https://youtu.be/uLDpZ8daIVM

]]> By: Art Deco https://thenewneo.com/2021/11/10/open-thread-11-10-21/#comment-2588406 Thu, 11 Nov 2021 10:10:45 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=112041#comment-2588406 About 3/4 of the word-count on this thread is attributable to two posters, one of whom has made 19 separate posts.

]]> By: Barry Meislin https://thenewneo.com/2021/11/10/open-thread-11-10-21/#comment-2588405 Thu, 11 Nov 2021 10:05:11 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=112041#comment-2588405 You have a point.
Any country that kills off millions of its own people can most certainly NOT be accused of being frivolous….

(Though maybe we should check first with the Dalai Lama.)

On the other hand, China did make a supreme effort to re-educate the particularly obtuse and resistant—and for all I know China continues dishing out this particular form of altruism…
(CRT pushers—and “Biden”—should take note…)

]]> By: Barry Meislin https://thenewneo.com/2021/11/10/open-thread-11-10-21/#comment-2588402 Thu, 11 Nov 2021 09:52:24 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=112041#comment-2588402 Point well taken…
“71-year-old army vet still in jail over Jan 6”
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/316714

(Well, er, possibly…)

]]> By: Zaphod https://thenewneo.com/2021/11/10/open-thread-11-10-21/#comment-2588401 Thu, 11 Nov 2021 09:48:34 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=112041#comment-2588401 Drollness aside, the fundamental dichotomy appears to me to be Serious Peoples / Frivolous Peoples.

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