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Icch freue mch vvon Ihnen zu hören!

I guess it’s better than naming them Nero and Caligula, respectively.

I have just quoted Keat’s lines on Ruth but this the source and it is beautiful too.

It has been put better:

Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home,
She stood in tears amid the alien corn.

Keats Ode to a nightingale.

An exemption was carved into the Asian Ezxclusion Zone for Phillipinos in the 1940 Immigration Law.

Thanks for the thoughtful response. I thought I had heard about this case as a hate hoax in multiple places, but it is not exactly being shouted from the rooftops. What I don’t hear is it being defended (unlike the leftist examples).

Regarding

we ought to count that fairly common type of case where a white woman either blames a crime she committed and/or (like “B” woman) falsely claims to have been attacked by “a black man.”

That’s a good point. It’s worth noting that part of the Bayesian assessment is how often the “true positive” occurs compared to the “false positive” though–and it would take a large number of hoaxes to offset the reality.

Remembering My Mother’s Obsession
By Saïd Sayrafiezadeh January 29, 2014 9:30 pm

Of all the troubling events from my childhood, one of the most enduring remains the afternoon I visited a prisoner serving a life sentence for murder. It was 1978 and I was 9 years old, escorted to Western Penitentiary in Pittsburgh by my mother, who, compelled by a lifelong objective of raising her son’s awareness of injustice in the world, no doubt considered this to be a well-suited occasion.

The injustice, in this particular instance, was the framing of a 21-year-old black man named Stanton Story for the killing of a white Pittsburgh police officer. At the time of our visit, three years had passed since Mr. Story’s trial, in which, despite having apparently been in North Carolina on the day of the shooting, he was found guilty by an all-white jury and sentenced to die in the electric chair. Almost three years later, however, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court granted Mr. Story a new trial (on the grounds that prejudicial evidence had been introduced at the first one) and, having recently declared the death penalty unconstitutional, set aside his death sentence. It was during the run-up to this second trial that the Socialist Workers Party, of which my mother was a dedicated member, began advocating on Mr. Story’s behalf.

He found some sucker suffering from white guilt — I mean, some enlightened white person or corporation — to finance him.

Makes me laugh every time.

The Julia who was exiled along with Ovid (though not to the same place) was not Augustus’ daughter, but granddaughter. She’s called Julia Minor (the Younger) to differentiate her from her mother Julia, i.e. Augustus’ daughter.
Augustus wound up disavowing and exiling both women to small desolate islands, though the daughter was eventually allowed to return. The granddaughter died in exile.

“As the spirit of Lord Sandwich I object to the cultural misappropriation of my name.”

That’s the first message our Beyond The Restraining Limits of Portland Honkiness Group got through the brand-new SPLC-approved PC Ouija Board we just invested in.

You might be getting more such messages. If you go back one or two generations from the boomers, they would scarcely believe how bad things have become.

Any earlier and they won’t even communicate via Ouija boards. That’s how bad we’ve become.

A good Bayesian uses priors but updates them when counter evidence is found. I think the prior on right hate hoaxes just increased, but is still far lower than for a leftist hate hoax.

Agreed; in the future I’m not going to be so credulous (as I foolishly was with this guy) about cases where rightists claim to have been violently attacked by unknown assailants, but anatomy and common sense indicate their wounds were self-inflicted. (In my partial defense I think it was more his status as active-duty military than the political angle that caused me to abandon Occam’s Razor).

The right is actually talking about the hoax rather than simply memory holing it.

Is it? Steve hasn’t posted about the hoax revelation and we’re the only ones I’ve seen talking about it in the comments (that I’ve read).
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Come to think of it, I can think of more than two right-wing hate hoaxes. Leftists would say (correctly, IMO, given what we consider to be left-wing hate hoaxes) that we ought to count that fairly common type of case where a white woman either blames a crime she committed and/or (like “B” woman) falsely claims to have been attacked by “a black man.”

That variety of hate hoax makes the national news at least a few times a year, which isn’t nothing, even accounting for the obvious observation that such stories are promoted as loudly as possible, while stories about the more-common reverse variety where a member of the Coalition of the Ascendant falsely accuses “a white man” are quashed ASAP after the hoax is revealed.

Calvin Coolidge and both John Adamses come to mind, although (IMO) they’d never be elected today, and of course they were all one-termers (voluntarily in Coolidge’s case).

As Steve indicated, Caesar wrote books people still read (if he actually wrote them) . Very few people write anything that is still read thousands of years later, let alone two whole books. And we don’t still read them merely because he’s Caesar.

He wasn’t just a great soldier but a great conqueror. That’s uncommon even among great soldiers. He ate up present-day France, Switzerland, Belgium, and Northern Italy. He gave Rome a foothold in Britain and helped consolidate Roman power over Egypt. That all takes a bit of intelligence.

More than that, he was a brilliant politician, though he got himself killed.

Let’s not overlook the fact that Augustus had a HUGE head start by being Caesar’s legal heir and inheritor of his name and fortune. If he was just as smart without those things, he probably wouldn’t have won.

Imagine if Zuck was born a Kennedy. Another sort of usually unpresidential ethnicity, but with a giant leg-up in public perception, political capital, and social cachet. Even the duds in that family get fawning media attention.

+Lot

Very few people in the history of the World were smarter than Julius Caesar in terms of raw intelligence. If we are talking IQ, his IQ was estimated by Anthony Buzan at 178. And that is an adult score, which makes it even freakier. This would put him above the likes of Mozart(IQ 165), Kepler(IQ 170) and Kant(IQ 175), and less than 1SD below the likes of Gallilleo and Newton. According to Plutarch, he was writing poems in both Latin and Greek before turning 5 years old, and by the age of 16 he was considered Rome’s greatest juridical scholar. When in Alexandria, he in his spare time created an entire new calendar based on deductions on astronomy that he made himself. All of this besides his genius as a military strategist, prose stylist and his political savy.

So, yes, in tems of overall intelligence in the way we use the word, he was even smarter than Octavian. But Octavian proved to be an even more shrewed judge of character with even more refined political instincts than his great-uncle. Not that Julius Caesar wasn’t great at understanding and manipulating people: Caesar had extraordinary tact and people skills. Many of his victories in Gaul came by due to his skills as a negotiator. But Octavian was even better at this than his great-uncle. Julius Caesar misread his closest friends and allies once, either due to hubris or because he overestimated human gratitude(humans are usually not very grateful), and that cost him his life. Octavian would never make the same mistake, having a cynical attitude of always assuming the worse from people, and as a result he died of old age at age 76 the unquestioned ruler of the World. Sulla was also like that, and died of heavy drinking having sex with transvestites rather than dying from the blades of his enemies.

I wish I hadn’t already used up my lol. So lol.

Julius Caesar was one of history’s great soldiers. That requires intelligence but is not necessarily the test of an intelligent man.

Based on their biographies and writing, Julius C was smarter than his grandnephew. Augustus’s good luck was to be JC’s closest male relative and heir.

JC repeatedly won battles when outnumbered. Augustus won when it counted, but never so impressively.

There is no real world evidence blacks don’t like Jews when it is voting time. There is a Cohen in a majority black district in TN, he keeps getting primaried by blacks and keeps winning.

Another point is that black voters tend to be practical and want winners. Zuck is the biggest winner in business history, a self made decabillionaire at age 25.

In 00, 04, and 16, blacks went with the moderate establishment Dem who seemed likelier to win, not the more liberal one who promised more goodies. Even in 2008, they stuck with Hillary in polls until Obama started winning Iowa.

I did the opposite, trying to dissuade someone from naming their daughter Rachel.

Me: Do you know Rachel means “ewe”? Are you going to name your daughter “sheep”? “Female sheep”, how can you do that to her?!

The mother wasn’t fazed by this information. She chose the name for its sound, had no idea that it meant anything, and figured (accurately, it appears) that no one else would either know or care.

Nothing wrong with a woman having sheep-like qualities…..provided, of course, that she has a good shepherd……

It’s not surprising that Zuckerberg would be inspired by Octavian. I think the reason for this is not only the kind of similar facial features – except for Zuckerberg’s semitic nose, different from Octavian’s straight nose -, but also because they are quite similar in personal style, both being pupeteers working behind the curtains to gain power, not very “showy” in terms of personal style.

But Zuckerberg’s ambition of being a de facto emperor will never happen. Zuckerberg is an intelligent and capable man, but he is no Octavian. He is not on his level. Very few people in World history are. Octavian was a philosopher as insightful as Plato, a pupeteer of people more skillfull than Machiaveli, a strategist as capable as Charlamagne and Alexander, and an administrator as capable as Charlemagne. In an extremely ruthless selection process for World Kingship, he defeated all rivals and came out on top., becoming the ruler of the then known World. There is a huge difference between being the head of a social network, and being the head of a true World Empire(political, military and cultural)

The inhuman cleverness and cunning of Octavian: even as a small boy, he made everyone around him feel dim-witted:https://youtu.be/HWdtPy4fQ6U

“It would look strange if he made no effort to retrieve his stolen eagle. In fact, losing his eagle is useful to Caesar. Pompey is no deep philosopher. He would take the loss for a real weakness. Caesar doesen’t want to strike the first blow against an old friend. So he wants to lure Pompey into attacking him first. Pompey will only do this if he believes that Caesar is weak. When Julia died, the last bond between them was lost. Caesar has taken the love of the people from Pompey, his most prized possesion. The battle between them is inevitable.”

“…said Robin Ye, a Chinese American recent graduate of the University of Chicago who is now once again in his native Portland. “The issue is that for many white people, they walk into an office meeting or classroom, see no people of color around, and feel like there’s nothing wrong about that.”’

I wouldn’t say that, Robin. You’d have to tell me where. Portland, or Chicago, probably quite a bit still wrong with whites there. Feel free to get rid of as many as you want. Idaho, Wyoming, Texas, probably not.

“Reading all these I Cried Among the Farmland essays of Immigriping, I have to agree with one commenter: They’re not sending their best.”

– Sad thing is, they probably are.

Because no white woman was interested. Perhaps there aren’t as many non-Jewish white women at Harvard the way there used to be.

No different than Romney’s ’12 campaign. And there are similarities between Zuck and Romney. (e.g. both are globalists, don’t come from any one section of the US, both worked in intangible parts of the economy and are easily open to charges of outsourcing, etc).

Ok, uh, after carefully considering your main points regarding Zuck, I have to honestly say that I cannot continue to smoke this pipe dream any longer.

For one thing, Zuckerberg’s being Jewish may not go over so well with black voters. Something to consider though it may not be PC to state it. Many blacks harbor anti-semitic views and may not agree to vote for him in the same vein that they did for Obama, and especially if he chooses a white (or a real light skinned black) to run with him. To black voters, he’s just another whitey.

Another thing to consider, is that Zuckerberg is very much pro-open borders and all of his pubic statements as well as the organizations he’s funded bear this out. Also, I wouldn’t put him in the same category as Trump, who, because of his traditional brick and mortar businesses, can plausibly claim to have directly created hundreds of thousands (if not more) jobs during his forty plus career.

How many US workers does Facebook employ? 50? 100? Perhaps 1,000 at most. So, over a little more than a decade Zuck could lay claim to create about 1,000 US based jobs (at most) and about 50-100 at worst. Doesn’t sound like a businessman who’s looking out for the little guy. In fact, it sounds like someone along the lines of Mitt Romney.

Professionally speaking, and allowing for the quirkiness of both candidates, I see little difference between Zuckerberg and Mitt Romney. Both worked in fields that produce intangible things, have engaged in outsourcing, and don’t particularly give a damn about helping the middle classes.

I fully get WHY the lower middle class white family in OH, MI, WI, PA, IN, IA voted for Trump. I can never imagine them ever getting enthusiastically exited to go and vote for Zuckerberg. Why would they? Cause he likes Augustus Ceasar? I can’t imagine for the second coming before dawn, that Mark Zuckerberg would ever take such a tangible position as “Let’s build a wall on the Southern Border, yeah! Let’s do it!” That’s not in his profile. That might make many of his pals in Silicon Valley upset and they wouldn’t campaign for him. I mean, where is a potential Zuck base for voting for him? Sanders and even Hillary you can see it. Obama’s base was obvious. There’s nothing for Zuck.

Did millions of desperate and disillusioned, out of work white families desperate to stay afloat put their trust in the likes of outsourcer Mitt Romney? That’s right, they didn’t. Same thing with Zuck. He doesn’t register much less relate to ordinary Americans, especially compared with “The People’s Billionaire”.

In some ways, publicly identifying with Augustus and not with Joe and Jane Blow in Ash Cosh WI, Bakersfield,CA Zionsville,IN Butler, PA (the Brexit states) only makes Trump’s case even more. “That guy with the weird cockamamie haircut who wouldn’t know a hammer from nail’s gonna build the wall and clamp down on immigration? Nah, that’s so lame!”

I mean, the top 1% simply doesn’t have that many votes at the actual ballot box. Too much of a pipe dream and I wouldn’t want to wake up from having taken that bad trip.

Assuming they don’t mind increasing the family’s carbon footprint, it will be interesting to see if they have another child – and if it’s a boy or girl. And if it’s another daughter, will they decide to keep having kids in order to have, you know, a son….

Does Larry or Sergey have a son available to marry off to one of the Zuckerberg daughters?

I don’t see it either, I thought they used to have it.

Doesn’t the morning after pill and abortion take of that Praise Allah?

The point is not to make sense.

The point is to use one’s immigration status as a PC orange crate to haul into the public square, whereupon to b!tch, and b!tch loudly and without cease.

It’s a highly feminized form of communication. Trying to figure it out–so that, then, what? you can fix it?–is pointless.

Except where it keeps guys tied up in trying to figure it out and fix it.

Scan this, then substitute “immigrants” for “women.”

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheRedPill/comments/26v17z/do_women_have_an_emotional_need_to_complain/#bottom-comments

Steve will ban this for the Mick slur, but I refuse to remove it!

The taigs are a protected class now?

I know some older women from Italy named Augusta. I think it’s a beautiful name and a great name for a daughter. I prefer Augusta over August, but I still think August is a beautiful girl’s name. I wouldn’t consider it a wrong-gender or mis-gendered name. And even then, I don’t even dislike misgendered names, like naming a girl Charlie. I wouldn’t choose that name myself, but I don’t dislike it.

Sailer makes a reference to Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. He was one of the more benevolent, constructive dictators. He was still a dictator backed my military means, but he seemed to have genuinely positive intentions with free market economics.

I can fault Zuckerberg for other things… Here, I see nothing worthy of criticism.

Why did I waste time answering this seriously?

To make up:

The only citation for the rare modern usage of “August” as a female name is from Margaret Atwood’s “The Robber Bride”, which features as its leads the three traditionally-named female characters Tony, Charis, and Roz.

In the movie the character is named “Augusta” and the wiki citation may well be a typo for all I know.

The typical masculine English form would seem to be Augustus (see Augustus Fink-Nottle for a notable example) but August is as far as I know an acceptable variant.

Edit: In Atwood apparently “August” is used only for the (asexual?) child because “August turned into Augusta” at some point. Perhaps some Atwood fan can help me out here.

Contemporary Germans are not that inspiring.

There is a great Youtube video of some guy who wired an electrical shock device to the seat of this bike, left it lying around in a vibrant neighborhood, and then filmed the hilarious attempts to steal the bike.

This may be it: http://www.cyclingweekly.com/videos/watch/pranksters-give-bike-thieves-a-nasty-shock-video

There’s a higher percentage of Asian women than there used to be in the computing and tech industry, so that’s why they’re marrying nerdy guys. The percentage of Asian women in US colleges has also increased dramatically in the last 40 years, so that means more white guys-Asian women hookups.

Solving all problems with tech won’t appeal to working-class voters. They are the people who end up being replaced by tech, and they know it. They want jobs for themselves, not more technology.

Right-populism was never going to work in California due to the demographics. Latin American populism is always left wing.

In times of instability, countries typically vote for strongmen, not aspy geeks who come across as overly precious and weak when strength is needed to handle a crisis. Name one genuine aspy geek who’s ever been elected US president.

I doubt it has anything to do with give. Likely the Post/Bezos ran a private poll on the popularity of Antifa, and the results told them any more bias and Democratic promotion of Antifa would tank them in the next round of national elections, and it scared the heck out of the Post. If the optics become Antifa=Democrats (which is exactly what is happening), then the Dems will become known as the party of illegal violence, and they’ll be finished as a national party. Mr. and Mrs. Average American are not impressed by adolescent street violence, although aspy and clueless Dems are always overly impressed by it because Democrats suffer from arrested emotional development.

Giving a girl a girl’s name is sexist, dontchaknow?

Naming her after a Chilean dictator, in contrast, is stereotype shattering.

Or, just maybe, it’s idiotic to say a girl’s name isn’t a girl’s name just because it’s not so common (anymore)?
Wiktionary: “August (plural Augusts)

The eighth month of the Roman, Julian, and Gregorian calendars, following July and preceding September.
A female given name derived from the month (rare modern usage).
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In some cases a month name from English. In other cases inspired by the common German given name August, from Latin Augustus.
Proper noun

August

A male given name. ”

August as a male name seems more German than anything else. & since when is Sailer in favour of using German names in the US?

I’ve noticed that ghetto blacks have the same thoughts when it comes to naming their own children. Their kids don’t need any conventional names because they aren’t going to need any stinkin’ jobs, or have to please any boss-man, no way, not with whitey paying for everything via welfare.

“But you can bike in the innercity.”

Any bicycle in an American metro automatically becomes part of the African American Urban Bikeshare Initiative. That bike is not going to be there when you get back.

Look up bait bikes on YouTube. Bike theft is predictable enough that there is an entire genre of YouTube videos dedicated to it.

He’s trying to appear less nerdy to the masses, but he’s going to enrage the left with the optics on this and lost the Democratic primary

Steve will ban this for the Mick slur, but I refuse to remove it!

How would we ever have known? OK, then, Mick it is!

Just don’t try to call anyone a beaner*.

(C’mon, Steve, they’re just LOADED with protein.**)
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What’s it gonna be, Steve, only 999,999 unique site visits or piss off the odd Mexican reader? I’ll give you 2 more days to decide.
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** The beans, not the Mexicans.

Asian women are being practical when they chase after nerds who turn off Anglo women. The Asians are looking at long-term earnings potential.

Gussie’s a little better than Augie.

And their third, ‘Mean’

And their fourth, “Median”.

He’s going to lose the women’s vote. Women take clothes extremely seriously, and they’re freaked out by a man who just wears the same type of grey T-shirt every day. He’s the type that women classify as a brain-damaged freak, and they won’t vote for him. They think that a guy who doesn’t know how to dress for social occasions is someone who doesn’t pick up on or understand social cues at all. Women classify that type of man as a joke. Of course, that’s a perfectly accurate real-life assessment of the Zuck.

Besides, The Fifty Shades of Grey billionaire is supposed to dress better than that, and be more savvy.

Whites possess an externalized form of altruism, not present in any other race. Every race (but whites) has internalized their altruism, directing it inward, primarily to do what is good for their own respective races.
White externalized altruism looks out for the downtrodden, disadvantaged, and others who are perceived to be in need of “help”.
Let’s look at what these evil “privileged” whites have done for the United States (and the world):
1. Well-meaning, but misguided “civil-rights (for some)” laws and statutes that have marginalized whites, while extending “extra” rights–only to people of color”. In fact, these special “civil-rights (for some)” protections, laws and statutes DO NOT APPLY to whites.
2. Prohibiting true “freedom of association”, but only for whites. “People of color” can discriminate and form their own race-exclusive organizations and are, quite often praised for doing so.
3. The institution of race-based “affirmative action” policies which effectively marginalize truly qualified whites, in favor of “people of color” with lesser abilities and skills.
4. Race-based scholarships and grants are looked upon favorably EXCEPT FOR WHITES.
Every other race has downtrodden and disadvantaged types within their own respective race, and still do not offer help to those within their own race, let alone those of other races.
Almost every other race has gotten on to the “blame whitey” bandwagon, assigning blame for their own shortcomings and failures on the backs of whites (who built this society).
It is long overdue for whites to abandon their externalized altruism and turn it inward, just as every other race has done. There is absolutely no shame in looking out for “your own kind” first.
I, for one, am PROUD to be called “racist”. When the name-calling commences, I offer to shake their hands, and state “thank you for noticing”. The bewildered looks on their faces is priceless.

Remember, Augustus also had a daughter named Julia who was a notorious slut and party girl who was exiled by her father along with her pal Ovid (the poet). Being the classicist he is, Markus Zuckus must know this.

<blockquote>In one of the film’s early scenes, Zuckerberg and friends are partying at the Jewish fraternity Alpha Epsilon Pi, on “Caribbean Night,” when they observe a group of Asian-American young women dancing in a cluster.

“There’s an algorithm for the connection between Jewish guys and Asian girls,” one of Zuckerberg’s friends says wryly. “They’re hot, smart, not Jewish and can dance.”

Sorkin would have us believe that in the eyes of some Jewish men — or at least, you know, those run-of-the-mill Harvard scholars — one of the best things about being an Asian woman is that she isn’t a Jewish woman. If this were pure fiction, it might sting a little less, but unfortunately it isn’t: Zuckerberg, who might be the most eligible Jewish bachelor in the world met his current girlfriend, Chinese-American medical student Priscilla Chan on erev Shabbat at an AEPi party during his sophomore year.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/danielle-berrin/the-social-network-mark-z_b_741914.html

Can you please point me to the full history? I see 90 day charts but nothing further back. Perhaps an account is necessary?

Except that was a he (Augustus): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gussie_Fink-Nottle

I handle “immigripers” this way: When they brag about how good life is “in the old country”, while criticizing and condemning their host country, I ask them point-blank: “If life was so good in the old country, why did you come here?” Shuts ’em up, every time.

Whenever I hear the name “Augusta”, I think of this mother:
http://real-life-villains.wikia.com/wiki/Augusta_Gein

I don’t follow it closely. You can get full history on the site.

How do you think Zuck would respond to BLM on his podium? One thing I think people here are missing in the Trump/Zuck comparison is Trump’s decades of experience in manufacturing and promoting his public persona. Perhaps Zuck will be able to make it through the campaign and debates with no major missteps, but I don’t see his previous experience really preparing him for that.

I wonder how the black and SJW voters would react to a candidate who defeats someone they think “deserves” the nomination and is one of them. Their expectations are sky high right now.

Zahir Janmohamed is a grade “A” @ssh0le. Portland is racist??? Give me a F*CKING BREAK! The place is so liberal that they think San Franciscans are literally Hitler. This guy is a creep and just looking to get on the top of the “victimhood” pyramid.

If anything the people he met were trying to show an interest in him and make him feel comfortable in their city. Cry me a river.

There’s a reason that show is called “Portlandia.”

Zahir Janmohamed has to go back. Wouldn’t want him to cry over racist Portland or Ohio.

I did the opposite, trying to dissuade someone from naming their daughter Rachel.

Me: Do you know Rachel means “ewe”? Are you going to name your daughter “sheep”? “Female sheep”, how can you do that to her?!

The mother wasn’t fazed by this information. She chose the name for its sound, had no idea that it meant anything, and figured (accurately, it appears) that no one else would either know or care.

The middle one (feminine) would be Media.

But of course no baby is a middle child at name-giving time.

The Romans sometimes gave ordinal names to boys: Tertius, Quintus, Sextus, Septimus, and Octavus from which is derived Octavianus, the name of the man who became Augustus.

What was up with the high spiking to 65 on August 2nd? Can you get data/charts farther back than 90 days?

Not sure about that. It was absurd and hysterical, but compare the response to graffiti on LeBron’s house and then think about the severity of what happened. You do you remember all those widely disseminated news stories about that graffiti, right?

The differences I see:
– It looks like the hoaxer is actually going to be punished for the hoax.
– The right seems to be OK with that punishment. (though I for one complain about the differing responses to left/right hoaxes, I think the punishment is proper).
– The right is actually talking about the hoax rather than simply memory holing it.

P.S. A good Bayesian uses priors but updates them when counter evidence is found. I think the prior on right hate hoaxes just increased, but is still far lower than for a leftist hate hoax.

Aurelia (Caesar’s mother) is my favorite Roman female name and will be the name of my daughter if I have one.

Does that make Pinochet a White Hispanic, like Zimmerman?

I’m starting to think that Cuckersperg really screwed up.

Ha!
You know, this would actually be quite Roman. One of the most common ways to differentiate between women in the same family with the same name was to use the comparative adjectives Maior (bigger, elder) and Minor (lesser, younger), as we see with the two famous Agrippinas. Maxima and minima are the superlative forms of those adjectives — though I think this would work better with three children. And then, what could the one in the middle be called, the Latin for “most middling”?

And it’s a good chance that the city is about to elect a chocolate mayor, a namesake of the old Jackson Five.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tito_Jackson_(politician)

He seems measurably more intelligent than the dumb Mick who’s the current mayor. The downside is that he’ll immediately start fighting with the cops and firefighters about their unbearable whiteness. The only people in Boston doing any sort of good job are the cops.

Steve will ban this for the Mick slur, but I refuse to remove it!

The generosity of spirit that you say half of the natives lack in no way changes the fact that these very same people give aid and sustenance to these immingrates.

Trump looks more like Schwarzeneggar in Cali every day (one-termer).

You do know that Arnold was re-elected in his own right, correct?

But perhaps you mean that Trump will mirror him in another respect: Arnie tried to govern as a right-populist for a few months after his election in the 2003 recall, but after being stymied by the legislature and in referenda, he decided eff this for a game of soldiers, fired Pete Wilson and all the others who were coaching him in his start, and governed as a bog-standard liberal for the remainder of his six years in office in a ploy for high approval ratings.

Trump doesn’t have that option. The MSM will not allow him to “mellow” into another RINO.

My girlfriend’s hospital in Boston has had a recent influx of Filipino nurses. According to her, they’re marginally less obnoxious than the Haitian and Jamaican staff.

Names going from boy names to girl names is a thing in English (and other languages for all I know). Baby name books sometimes discuss this phenomenon. For example, Archie Bunker’s first name is about the most masculine name that could be imagined. It means manly. It comes from Charlemagne. Etc.

Zuckerberg suffers from a fatal arrogance … probably due to his reflexive assessment of his high IQ as well as what happened to him that magic summer when angel investors launched him into the stratosphere. Zuck once made the comment that he could afford to drop out of Harvard at the end of his sophomore year because he knew he had the resources (and, one assumes, the intelligence) to land on his feet regardless of what he did in life. In a self-assessment, he proved it.

Arrogance also explains Zuck’s plan, as President, to pass out “free” money to the proles so that they have the free time and free money to do what he did … learn to code, design an app to pick up girls, and make billions in Silicon Valley. (We know in our hearts that is not what the proles would do with “free” money.)

Zuck’s message: “I want everyone to have the opportunity to be like me, as I model myself after Augustus, the first Emperor of Rome … Princeps and Pontifex Maximus and lots of other things.” He wants the universe modeled on his eminence.

“No thanks, Zuck, I’ll pass.”

Agree.

That is why I think you will see more attempts at normalizing – like Zuckerberg’s recent declaration at his Harvard Commencement speech that he prays at times of great challenge, his claim that he hunts etc., his sister’s resentful wackiness notwithstanding.

I don’t use Facebook but what this guy did is impressive. He undoubtedly understands the problem you note and is working on it.

In my experience, it’s a Thing with Jewish guys with sisters.

smart Chinese girls keep their virginity until marriage (or at least betrothal). Other races of women could learn a lesson.

Nope, I’ve already had 8 years of a political cipher whose paradigm is to surround himself with harpies.

I guess she wasn’t much of a favorite if you’re saying “last I heard she was…”

Like Gussie Finknottle? I think that was her name. Wodehouse rules.

Good comment, L.H. I must have missed that Ann Coulter remark, which is weird, as I read all her stuff now. She’s come to be a real conservative/constitutionalist, albeit slowly over 10 years or so.

As for those 3 gigolo US Senators, lazy people can’t be bothered to get out of their routines once every 6 years to make this primary vote. The shame of it is that if just the real conservatives came out to give support to, and vote for, a primary challenger, they’d have a lot of pull because the normal establishment gigolos won’t get a lot of people coming out either.

It’s just a cheap trans-aware gesture. The girl will call herself Augusta and everybody knows it. Unisex baby names are probably the fashion now. Giving girls ‘girly’ names will soon be cause for social disapproval in politically correct circles.

Harris, way over rated.

Can’t stand her tinny voice. Sounds like amateur country music to me.

Can no one remember Joni Mitchell?

I disliked her music when it first came out, but it has grown on me. Same thing with early Elton John. Both very talented.

I don’t know why y’all are so certain the girls were named by Daddy. Aren’t any of you married? Don’t you have children? Didn’t your lovely wife look at you that way until you agreed her choice of name was perfect? Am I the only guy here who did that , four times?

He may be nuts, but for certain the wife is more crazy. And ambitious.

I think August could be quite a pretty name, especially if she grows up to be hot. Like April, May, June, Julia, but a bit later in the year.

Augustina might have been an even more feminine alternate choice, then at least you have Tina for a short form. Gussie as a diminutive is a bit reminiscent of ‘gusset’, which you might not want.

If I had another daughter, I would give her the classical Roman name Tipitina.

A classical education isn’t taking Latin and Greek in high school.

I’m with syonredux here. Can you say why you think “August” is more feminine than “Augusta?”

IQ isn’t everything. This is politics not a quiz show. People don’t like being spoken down to. If he doesn’t know how to communicate with people. If he can’t connect with the white working class or blacks he’s not going anywhere. He won’t even win the Dem primary.

Pokémon points if you do … Pokémon points if you don’t.

Virtue signaling offers such grand possibilities. That’s why the Left loves it. Like so much else in their arsenal of “feelz good” adolescent seditives, you can be praised for “doing your own thing”, regardless of what it is … like claiming you are changing your gender, or not; or, bragging about having sought refuge in “safe spaces” to ward off evil White spirits, or not.

The virtue is in advertising your willingness to act … on anything: Nietzsche’s Will to Power, albeit almost always about the most trivial of things. It’s the shallow world of Political Correctness with True Believers feeling a collective empowerment in a world of ever-changing amulets and talismans.

The fact that you are a girl named Carol seems relevant.

Fair enough: I can’t claim priority for using “Sugar Hill” for Mr Zuckerberg.

But unless I’m mistaken, no-one has previously suggested his family be known as “The Sugar Hill Gang” – has he?

Is a question like “Who’s uglier: Zuck or Mrs Zuck?” more unpleasant than it is uninteresting or more uninteresting than it is unpleasant?

Smart ten-year-old boys still like his movies.

It reminds me of a black comedian back in the 80s who riffed on names black people used to give their kids: just name them after the latest Toyota.

And yes, I’ve met TWO guys named Tercel!

Ok, but neither Priscilla nor Mark Cuckerberg are attractive.

How about Trixie ?