Yes, but you remember it!

"Dear C-Suite, brand recognition is up 50% year-on-year. The tireless genius of our Marketing team.

Sabotage, arson and shooting attacks on our offices are also up 50%. Must be antisemitism or transphobia; we propose donating more to evil."

You may be right, and I certainly hope you are.

I have previously mused that if my government blocked access to all but the top 30 foreign websites, 98% of the population here would do nothing except grumble feebly.

The dissident 2% would start growing right away, I trust, but any threat to regime stability would be decades away.

Good article.

I'm actually not convinced that the modern bureaucratic class are as risk-averse as their predecessors. I think revolutionary ideological stupidity in policy-making is here for a generation at least.

Doesn't affect your overall thesis, though.

I want them to try to ban pornography again. And shady Chinese marketplaces. Porno and counterfeit handbags are the stuff from which popular revolutions are made :D

That sounds like a confession, bro.

Well, that's all folks!

Especially since Dear Leader has clearly decided the Russia adventure is a money-loser and a toxic asset that America Inc needed to spin off and sell to Europe.

The last thing he wants is his dead golfing buddy distracting everyone from that sweet sweet Iranian crude...

It did in mine, I'm afraid. 99% White.

Very rural, and the only teachers the govt sent us were those too lazy to be employed anywhere else.

They learned from COVID lockdown that modern Western frogs can't jump

I believe that's called "tempting fate" :p

Maybe buy a boat before posting that!

If you subtract Jewish billionaires from "White", the differences in wealth between White Americans and African-Americans almost disappear.

Kings of the modern world.

I'd be happy to talk about nation-building if you could define it in a way we could compare. I've offered income and life expectancy as measures, what have you got?

Income / material wealth is something we can compare cross-culturally. If you have an accessible and reliable indicator of living standards that isn't income, I'm open to using it as our measure for comparison.

We could also use life expectancy. Man did Industrial-Revolution-era Europe suck.

Average life expectancy in London in the 1700s was about 19. West Africa with all those kings wasn't great either, but from memory it hovered in the mid 20s.

Funny sidenote - Madagascar is visible off the coast from Africa, but Africans didn't settle it.

Stone-age Dayak tribesmen from Borneo did, after finding it by accident, half a world away.

How, you ask? No kings :p

(African kings did later invade Madagascar once they learned those Asians had built stuff worth robbing. Modern Magalasy are mixed African and Asian)

Nigerian-Americans are perhaps the most-highly-paid and successful demographic group in America today. Look it up. Higher median income than Ashkenazim!

But yes, West Africa may have had good reason for wanting some ideas and people gone.

Exhibit A: Haiti