Recent content by willdelve4beer

I worry about that potential sometimes. but suspect that our genetics have enough conflicting tradeoffs that trying to engineer 'superior' people will end up working about as well as trying to breed 'the better bloodlines' worked for European nobility, which is to say, very poorly, with...

I think many people often forget how demanding and humbling the experience of diligently and faithfully believing and practicing Christianity is, especially for those who are in positions of wealth and prestige. It is not a comfortable or enjoyable experience for many people to be constantly...

I was referring not just to the most recent outburst, to "most political protests" generally, which are somewhat more likely to take place on weekdays.

Well, the thing about the boomers at the protests is kind of a gimme. I mean, almost every protest I've ever seen outside of union strikes has been dominated by college age kids and retirees. Who else has the time to fuck around the street all day on a workday, or the willingness to take...

Unfortunately, the observed and practiced "common European values" post cold war (and even mid cold war in many cases), as opposed to the proclaimed ones, appear to be as follows: "Western" National identity - yucky, racist Other national identity - wonderful Capitalism - yucky, evil "Western"...

Given that Jill or Hunter used the autopen to pardon Fauci et al, the only way anyone whose child gets cancer from this crap is going to get justice is by hunting the folks from EcoHealth, Pfizer, and Fauci himself down and extracting their pound of flesh extrajudicially. Which, given the the...

" Western Civilization " is a "more inclusive" rebranding of Christendom by the post-Christian heretics who became prevalent among the ruling classes across former Christendom during and after Europe's suicidal self-indulgences in the earlier part of the 20th century. It's just another version...

Trump was an absurd fringe character and comedic relief for the DC cocktail circuit until the Clintonista's elevated him to be an easy foil for Hillary's 'inevitable' ascension to Her Turn in the White House in 2016. Now he's President (again). Fringe vs mainstream in the US is not as stable...

There is a quote from a British politician which seems very appropriate to the moment, and which, slightly edited, captures the essence of the realization which has finally bubbled up from the American people to the American leadership. "[Nations] have no permanent allies, only permanent...

I get the benefit to Canadians of doing this. But what is the upside for America of spending the time and money on this sideshow? Noblesse Oblige is all well and good, but they chose serfdom under a distant, elitist, and dictatorial government, and have consistently reaffirmed that choice...

I would view both the Islamic Jihads of the 8th - 13th centuries and the trope-naming Crusades as meeting the definition. After all, while the Crusaders may (correctly, afaik) have viewed it as liberating conquered regions, by the time they actually reached the Holy Land (even for the first...

A crusade can be best understood as an extended, multinational military campaign by adherents of a specific belief system to forcibly impose that belief system on non-believers. The Russian Civil war, the Soviet invasion and conquest of Eastern Europe, the Soviet crushing of reformers in...

A common mistake people make is to presume that 'Aid to X' is actually focused on helping 'X'. It normally is not. A lot of foreign aid, globally, is about subsidizing third world purchases of goods and services from richer countries. It boils down to a slush fund for the well connected...

Communism strikes me as another Christian heresy. One of the more 'successful' ones, right up there with Islam itself.

Small issue is that arguably most nations around the world were some flavor of fascist in the 1930s and 1940s. Government directing business and labor towards the achievement of national goals, anyone? FDR may have been a friendly, American fascist, but the FDR administration, among many...