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#1
notions / Andrew Johnson vs Andrew Jacks...
Last post by prime - Today at 01:33 PM
The Diversity Cynic:

QuoteHe believed that placing power over whites in the hands of the formerly enslaved would create an intolerable situation.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Andrew-Johnson/The-presidency

The Supply-Sider:

QuoteAs the election of 1832 approached, Jackson's opponents hoped to embarrass him by posing a new dilemma. The charter of the Bank of the United States was due to expire in 1836.

In the summer of 1832, Jackson's opponents rushed through Congress a bill to recharter the bank, thus forcing Jackson either to sign the measure and alienate many of his supporters or to veto it and appear to be a foe of sound banking.

The veto of the bill to recharter the bank was the prelude to a conflict over financial policy that continued through Jackson's second term, which he nevertheless won easily. Efforts to persuade Congress to enact legislation limiting the circulation of bank notes failed, but there was one critical point at which Jackson was free to apply his theories. Nearly all purchasers of public lands paid with bank notes, many of which had to be discounted because of doubts as to the continuing solvency of the banks that issued them. Partly to protect federal revenues against loss and partly to advance his concept of a sound currency, Jackson issued the Specie Circular in July 1836, requiring payment in gold or silver for all public lands. This measure created a demand for specie that many of the banks could not meet; banks began to fail, and the effect of bank failures in the West spread to the East. By the spring of 1837 the entire country was gripped by a financial panic.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Andrew-Jackson/Jacksonian-Democracy
#2
notions / Re: Divorce, cheating, and inf...
Last post by prime - Jun 13, 2025, 08:33 AM
QuoteIn Gyutsova's view, men in general have been treated badly by women, and women are the ones who exert violence on men, namely by not paying them enough respect.

"The idea of equality is like a worm in people's brains that insists men and women should be partners [...] which is so contrary to human nature that it can never work," Gyutsova declared in a long video about her work that was broadcast on Bulgarian National Television.

https://www.dw.com/en/bulgarian-woman-influencer-incites-violence-against-women/a-72897326
#3
notions / Re: DiversityWatch
Last post by prime - Jun 13, 2025, 06:04 AM
DiversityWatch (June 13, 2025): how #diversity -- of any form: #ethnicity, #religion, #culture, #race -- destroys social order.
https://www.amerika.org/politics/diversitywatch-june-13-2025/
#5
notions / Re: DiversityWatch
Last post by prime - Jun 12, 2025, 08:31 AM
Cheap foreign labor drives out domestic labor and makes us unable to be self-sufficient.
https://www.amerika.org/politics/mexican-labor-displaces-white-labor/

DiversityWatch (June 12, 2025): how #diversity -- of any form: #ethnicity, #religion, #culture, #race -- destroys social order.
https://www.amerika.org/politics/diversitywatch-june-12-2025/
#6
motion / Re: Pipe Smoking
Last post by prime - Jun 11, 2025, 03:36 PM
QuoteTobacco smugglers and black market salesmen are increasingly using technologies such as social media and drones to deliver cigarettes to smokers in Europe and avoid law enforcers, a report by consulting group KPMG published on Wednesday found.

In 2024, KPMG found that almost 40 billion illicit cigarettes were consumed across 38 European nations, based in part on a study of empty packs collected in those countries. It also cited interviews with law enforcement.

https://www.reuters.com/world/criminals-turn-drones-social-media-sell-illegal-cigarettes-2025-06-11/

When the taxes get too high, people turn to the black market.
#7
notions / Re: Divorce, cheating, and inf...
Last post by prime - Jun 11, 2025, 09:27 AM
QuoteThe married mom had told the judge that there was "no excuse" for her depraved behavior, which included sex with the vulnerable teen in her office at their prestigious Jesuit school in Cincinnati, where she was supposed to help the most at-risk students.

"I think every day about the impact of my actions. I've lost my husband, my home, my friends. I've caused harm and embarrassment to my children," said the mom, whose husband filed for divorce soon after the scandal broke.

https://nypost.com/2025/06/11/us-news/ex-school-counselor-who-had-sex-with-student-fights-back-tears-as-sent-behind-bars/
#8
motion / Re: Pipe Smoking
Last post by prime - Jun 09, 2025, 08:08 PM
QuoteOfficers from the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) and Victoria Police have seized and destroyed $4.4 million worth of illegally-grown tobacco near Shepparton in Victoria's north.

A community tip-off led to the discovery of a 20-tonne crop of mature tobacco on 2.4 hectares, an area equivalent to more than 450 tennis courts, last Thursday.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-10/shepparton-illicit-tobacco-operation-ocean-ato-victoria-police/105397354
#9
organize / Interesting reading
Last post by prime - Jun 09, 2025, 03:46 PM
Just as unfamiliar food may upset a man's stomach, so unfamiliar notions and manners may upset a man's mind.

https://orthosphere.wordpress.com/2024/12/12/johann-herders-nationalist-doctrine-and-his-cautionary-tale-of-the-jews/

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A nation without a strong State and a secure homeland is,  Herder tells us, doomed to disappear or be mangled like the Jews.

https://orthosphere.wordpress.com/2024/12/12/johann-herders-nationalist-doctrine-and-his-cautionary-tale-of-the-jews/

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A national survey conducted by the Medical University of South Carolina in 2007 found that more than 12 percent of college women had been raped, not just sexually assaulted, which is about the same percentage of women in the one-in-five study who said they were raped.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/education/critics-advocates-alike-doubt-oft-cited-1-5-campus-sexual-assault-stat

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Stephen Leslie and colleagues' genetic map of the UK, based on DNA from Brits with four grandparents from a particular area, closely resembles the 2017 electoral map—and many others before and since.

https://www.aporiamagazine.com/p/ethnic-tribalism-in-politics

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His "Die Aelteste Urkunde des Menschengeschlechts" (Riga, 1774-76)  develops the idea that the oldest Biblical poems—the history of  Creation, of the Flood, and of Moses—are to be considered Oriental  national songs.

https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/7586-herder-johann-gottfried-von

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French national identity was created by incorporating diverse tribes into France, and making them all speak French - in Brittany, for instance, local Celtic names were banned.

https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/1784herder-mankind.asp

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In the US, the Censorship Industrial Complex is funded by billions of taxpayer dollars.

https://censorshipindustrialcomplex.org/

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This is a prediction of the intensity and location of the aurora borealis tonight and tomorrow night over North America. It also shows a 'viewline' that represents the southern-most locations from which you may see the aurora on the northern horizon.

https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/aurora-viewline-tonight-and-tomorrow-night-experimental

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What is the supreme law which we note in all great historical events? In my opinion, it is this: that, in every part of our earth, all possible development is determined in part by the position and the necessities of the locality, in part by circumstances and the opportunities of the age, and in part by the inborn and self-nourishing character of the peoples.... All events in the human sphere, like all productions of nature, are decreed solely by time, locality, and national character, in short by the coordination of all the forces of life in their most positive individuality.

Active human powers are the springs of human history, and, as man originates from and in one race, so his body, education, and mode of thinking are genetic. Hence that striking national character, which, deeply imprinted on the most ancient peoples, is unequivocally displayed in all their operations on the earth. As the mineral water derives its component parts, its operative power, and its flavor from the soil through which it flows, so the ancient character of peoples arose from the family features, the climate, the way of life and education, the early actions and employments, that were peculiar to them. The manners of the fathers took deep root and became the internal prototype of the descendants. The mode of thinking of the Jews, which is best known to us from their writings and actions, may serve as an example: both in the land of their fathers and in the midst of other nations they remain as they were, and even when mixed with other peoples they may be distinguished for some generations onward. It was and is the same with all other peoples of antiquity---Egyptians, Chinese, Arabs, Hindus, etc. The more secluded they lived, nay frequently the more they were oppressed, the more their character was confirmed, so that, if every one of these nations had remained in its place, the earth might have been regarded as a garden where in one plot one human national plant, in another, another, bloomed in its proper form and nature, where in this corner one kind of national animal, in that, another, pursued its course according to its instincts and character....

Has a people anything dearer than the speech of its fathers? In its speech resides its whole thought-domain, its tradition, history, religion, and basis of life, all its heart and soul. To deprive a people of its speech is to deprive it of its one eternal good.... As God tolerates all the different languages in the world, so also should a ruler not only tolerate but honor the various languages of his peoples.... The best culture of a people cannot be expressed through a foreign language; it thrives on the soil of a nation most beautifully, and, I may say, it thrives only by means of the nation's inherited and inheritable dialect. With language is created the heart of a people; and is it not a high concern, amongst so many peoples---Hungarians, Slavs, Rumanians, etc.---to plant seeds of well-being for the far future and in the way that is dearest and most appropriate to them? . . .

https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/1784herder-mankind.asp
#10
notions / Free speech (for the dumb)
Last post by prime - Jun 08, 2025, 05:27 PM
QuoteWent to the site you linked. Read the first page.
Would like to comment on it.
But I don't live in a country that has freedom of expression (I'm in Europe).
I can be legally condemned for citing historical facts.
So ... too bad.
Maybe one day I'll live in the only country that still has freedom of expression, but now it isn't the case.

https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=23713273&cid=65436369