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Patrick says

he introduced me to Thomas Sowell

Film maker David Hoffman, now 81, has been making documentaries about social upheavals for 50 years or more. A recent one on inner city violence during the 60's prompted these exchanges when Thomas Sowell's name was mentioned:

williamkendi4180
21 hours ago
Thomas Sowell is a good recommendation for Dave if he's not already aware of his works.

@solaireofastora8609
Thomas Sowell is a terrible reference.

18 hours ago
@fbaallied why?

9 hours ago
@solaireofastora8609 Why? Because his "theories" about "Black failure" are laughably flawed and contradictory.

@SynthCool
@SynthCool
7 hours ago
Sowell's entire career is going to colleges, debating people, and when people disagree about the gutting the public sector for the private sector, he does his stock "Well what do you know" and then leaves

@olivesama
@olivesama
6 hours ago
@solaireofastora8609 Because Sowell confidently makes claims without establishing the causal basis for those claims.

To give an example: he once noted that labor force participation amongst black Americans between 1880-1950 was slightly higher than that of white Americans. After the passage of minimum wage and union laws, it halved. He blames these laws without once establishing a causal connection.

He fails to account for the fact that, as a result of suburbanization and technological changes, the U.S. economy was becoming increasingly service and white-collar oriented after 1950. Black Americans were systemically locked out of the neighborhoods where much of the white-collar work force was being raised, educated, socialized, and trained into those positions. Black Americans were, therefore, more susceptible to disruptions in heavy industrial and blue collar work. If you have a demographic that is, more than average, clustered around industrial urban areas, and if those industrial jobs disappear as markets evolve, we would expect to see labor participation fall, regardless what is going on with unionization and the minimum wage. But because attacking unions and the minimum wage (and the idea that they create "dependency") are part of Sowell's overall ideology, they feature foremost in his analysis.

@bannedbycommieyoutube5time920
@bannedbycommieyoutube5time920
5 hours ago
@fbaallied not at all. He is spot on. I’d bet a massive amount of money you’ve never read one of his books, listened to more than tiny, edited clips of any of his long form interviews.

@jazztheglass6139
@j

For me, although I always tend to gravitate toward the independent underdog candidates in every election I voted in. I did consider my self a Democrat, as default because I was raised as one. My Dad was a Democrat that called them as he saw them. Although he considered himself a Democrat and nothing more. He cautioned about Liberals, Socialist, and Communist. Which he considered all the same ideology just gradient degrees of it. Communists being the high point, and Liberals being the start of the slippery slope.
I never saw what he meant by these distinctions. I figured Democrats were Democrats, and Commies were commies. It wasn't until 2008 the Obama election that I saw how vile and evil Democrats can be, and that there were full fledged Commies in their ranks, and it was going mainstream.
I was on Washington Square in Miami beach talking with a collogue and a group of friends that he invited, about a project I was working on and looking to partner up with others.
We were sitting there drinking beer, and having a blast talking about tech stuff, shop, and other work related topics. But when politics came up and I told the group I wasn't voting for Obama, that's when all of their demeanor changed. I wanted to vote for Ron Paul if he ran, they demanded I pledge my allegiance to Obama. I told them that I always voted independent, as I saw both parties back then as a Uniparty. I saw no difference between Obama and Bush. I told them I voted for Ralph Nader, and all hell broke lose.

It was as if they personally blamed ME for Al Gore losing to Bush. One wanted to come to blows and had to be held back.

It was that moment, that I realized there's no fucking way my father would have been a part of the new Democrats. I finally knew what he was cautioning me about all of those years. Those fucksticks are single handedly responsible for red pilling against the Democrat party, and I'll never vote Democrat for as long as I live. And if a Trumptonian candidate ever slips into the Democrat party. I will only view him with a skeptic eye, the same way folks tried to warn Trump supporters that Trump was going to pull a bait and switch. Say he's for Make America great again, but get in there and become Benito Mussolini.

As I watched ANTIFA and BLM play out, it was if I was watching those same bastards 8 years earlier on Miami Beach.

What got me the most they weren't even American AMERICAN, one was Indian or Pakistani decent, two were from a Latin Country somewhere, and the guy from work was Israeli. That hurt me the most.

The last paragraph describes most new home buyers in San Diego in my experience. It's hard to see how these fucksticks (I like how you referred to them) are ruining San Diego. They are creating tribes.

GNL says

Patrick says

I was confused for a long time about women and why exactly they behave like they do, so different from men. Then I ran across https://heartiste.org/ (That link is the archive from after it was banned by Wordpress for too much truth-telling.

Can you point out which article?

@GNL Most of it. Just page after page of enlightenment from Heartiste and the from the comments.

https://adambcoleman.substack.com/p/dont-be-a-nice-guy-be-a-polite-guy

Growing up without my father, there were many things that took me decades to figure out as a man. Now that my son is a teenager, I'm passing on a crucial lesson to approach life & relationships:

Don't be a nice guy, be a polite guy. There is a difference.

If there was a phrase that stung the most as a teenager, it was when girls would call me a "nice guy". I used to believe the objective was to be a nice guy and I couldn't comprehend why my nice guy status was a detriment.

I remember one girl looked at me with a semi-revolting look on her face as she told me "you're too nice...", which as a young man was one of the most confusing moments to endure. I was raised to respect women through action & rhetoric. So, why was I being punished for it?

On the other end, I couldn't understand how the guys who were completely indifferent towards women were getting all of them to trip over themselves to get a date with them. I was friends with one of these guys & he gave me a tip: "Act like you don't care".

My younger brain couldn't understand this concept of wanting to date a woman but acting like you don't care. I thought the whole point was to show that you care, so his advice didn't seem applicable to someone like myself who couldn't help but care.

After many failed relationships throughout my 20s and into my early 30s, I would always try to find what I'm doing wrong so I won't repeat it with my next partner. But the one area that I didn't fully change was my nice guy behavior.

So what was my nice guy behavior? Buying flowers for a first or second date. Communicating too much with them too early on. Overextending myself to please them. Providing them unearned praise as an attempt to make them feel better. Avoiding taking the lead in decision-making.

It wasn't until my mid 30s when I fully grasped what I was doing wrong and understood why it was wrong. My nice guy behavior sent all the wrong signals about myself and I completely understand why women were rejecting me now: I appeared desperate.

Women don't want a desperate guy because a desperate man signals that he's low value. Why would a woman want a guy that other women don't want? Women want a man who is confident enough to take the lead. She wants you to plan the date, not hold a conference.

Actions like flowers on a 1st or 2nd date could give a signal of manipulation because she's getting unearned rewards and that's off-putting for them. In her head, this guy is trying too hard to get her to like him, and then she's asking the question "Why?".

The YouTube manosphere talks a lot about male-to-female dynamics but they don't talk enough about the female perception of men's behavior & the social signaling men give off to women.

You can get all the money & lift weights but if your interactions or mannerisms are off-putting to quality women, it won't matter for long-term relationship success. You attract what you put out, so if you put out low-value signal waves, you'll tend to get low-value partners.

Was I desperate? Probably, sometimes. Did I need to work on my confidence? Yes. When my friend said "Don't care", he meant don't pedestalize them and focus on yourself. Focusing on them means you're attempting to trick them when you actually want them to be attracted to you.

So I stopped being a 'nice guy' and became a 'polite guy'. I focused on building myself up, becoming a better man than I was the day before and that attracted my now wife, a quality woman.

Hopefully, my son applies this lesson so won't struggle as I did.

There are many hard truths. Growing up hearing about how most dominant men were assholes and abusers I realized how few of them are out there. By the pareto principle 80% of the relationship dynamics in the network were a cucked man with the woman walking all over him. For the 20% that weren't they were quickly branded as assholes, abusers, regularly beating their wives (lies). Except for that happened maybe in 0.5% of them, the rest were simply red pilled men. 80% of abuse cases are womyn on men (they are also more likely to damage their kids), not vice versa. Be like those red pilled men, don't be afraid to be forceful if really necessary.

Another one: All womynz think their kids can be raised without force yet being taken out to restaurants at earliest ages such as between 1-3 years without annoying everyone else. This is one of the few areas were the French used to get it right. Of course their famous well behaved kids have been romanticized by the storytellers in the US. When you point out that their success is based on one simple basis: early spankings, womynz get all hoes mad at you. But it's the truth. Kids in early ages are instinctive creatures much like animals and if they don't fear their parents a little they will walk all over them, like womynz walk over their men. If you don't want your kid to become a useless antifa tool disrespecting and shitting on everything great men built, show them your force and strength, make them respect their father. No means no and yes means yes. No exceptions. When they are old enough to negotiate and understand danger and reason, law and order and rule of law, then you can relax those rules a bit. They will thank you later.

On the last subject, all womynz in the US (wife included) do that stupid spelling out words they don't want their kids to hear so they don't throw a fit of they can't get it immediately. Whenever I hear them do this crap and I'm at a table with them and their brood, I immediately repeat the "forbidden" word. "Oh you're craving some candy? Why don't you have some?" "Oh I would love to take a bath now". They sometimes get hoes mad, then I explain to them that kids need to grow up knowing they can't always have what they want, or what their parents are having, esp. not right away. You don't bend the world for your kids, you teach them real world instead. Best way to avoid raising leftoids. lol

I used to think the old guys were full of shit when they were like "You gotta tell her to shut up" "Say No almost all the time when she asked"

Looking back on all my STRs, LTRs, FWBs, and one wife, I can say this is universally true.

When you tell them no, if there was a sound effect for a gurgling swamp, you could almost hear it.

Ah Sheri, the gal who shagged my 20 year old ass like a minx in heat, made plates of food, cleaned my place. For a chick to bang a 20 year old guy until his dick is sore and he needs a freakin' cold damp cloth on his Dong is quite a feat. After a few months I was like "I got it good. I like this chick, she Fs me like a Minx, makes me food without me saying a word, even sweeps my floors when she comes over. I'll get her a little something."

And little it was, just a heart-shaped box of chocolates and some gas station flowers. Now that I know what I know, her desire literally ended the moment I said "Wow, you're great, here's a little something from me." you could hear the tumbleweeds in the desert. At the time I figured she had a stomache ache or time of the month or some shit. I didn't buy her something outrageous like jewelry nor did I simp out and get on my knees and profess my love, I didn't even use the word. I got her a F'ing chocolate box. The sex immediately dropped in quantity and quality and in a few weeks it was all over.

Not my first FWB, either, so I knew it wasn't me moving too fast; never has an FWB sexbombed and did ultra love stuff like sweep, clean, cook as well as shag me silly. I think other than some ice cream or sharing a pizza, I never spent a time on her. She just saw me as some kind of bad ass, but the moment I looked even a little like a boyfriend (Whoosh, sound of dry arctic air over the Tundra in Winter).

Womyn.

Years after the fact, I found out my wife was first interested in me when she saw my hot girlfriend. That's some Red Pill proof right there.

Patrick says

Years after the fact, I found out my wife was first interested in me when she saw my hot girlfriend. That's some Red Pill proof right there.

Patrick with the Social Proof.

when cdc said that benefits of protests outweigh covid dangers. instantly knew it was all bullshit

mell says

hoes mad

Learn something new everyday on patnet. From Urban Dictionary:

Hoes Mad
A phrasal meme originating from Famous Dex's 2015 track "Hoes Mad."

It is generally used when females are expressing anger in an irrational manner.
Bro 1: Dude my girlfriends been going crazy for no fucking reason as of late
Bro 2: It's OK dude, hoes mad, now let's go smoke some weed.
by sinmeister2002 May 9, 2019

Onvacation says

mell says

hoes mad

Learn something new everyday on patnet. From Urban Dictionary:

Hoes Mad
A phrasal meme originating from Famous Dex's 2015 track "Hoes Mad."

It is generally used when females are expressing anger in an irrational manner.
Bro 1: Dude my girlfriends been going crazy for no fucking reason as of late
Bro 2: It's OK dude, hoes mad, now let's go smoke some weed.
by sinmeister2002 May 9, 2019

It's actually a quite catchy tune. Some gold YouTube comments suggest famous dex was ahead of his time, foreseeing the abortion and vagina walks/riots, trigglypuff, the "woman" whose eyeballs are coming out in rage on campus, and many more hoes mad incidents ;)

About the permanent effects:

Andrew Torba
@BasedTorba

Once your learn the truth about something you
cannot force your mind to unsee it. This is the
true power of the "red pill." It's not just the
acquisition of a new fact, but the fundamental
rewiring of perception.

You begin to see the patterns everywhere: in the
way history is framed, the way news is spun, the
way language itself is weaponized to obscure
reality. The constant drip of propaganda no
longer hypnotizes you; it reveals its mechanics.
The emperor has no clothes, and once you've
seen it, you can't pretend otherwise.

Patrick says

About the permanent effects:

Andrew Torba
BasedTorba

Once your learn the truth about something you
cannot force your mind to unsee it. This is the
true power of the "red pill." It's not just the
acquisition of a new fact, but the fundamental
rewiring of perception.

You begin to see the patterns everywhere: in the
way history is framed, the way news is spun, the
way language itself is weaponized to obscure
reality. The constant drip of propaganda no
longer hypnotizes you; it reveals its mechanics.
The emperor has no clothes, and once you've
seen it, you can't pretend otherwise.

Very well stated. Once you know the sales pitch, it no longer works.

I've been red pilled so much, they are embedded in my face, my teeth, pelted all over my body.

It's worse than being on a motorcycle on Mayfly day.

Should we have a red pill amnesty day where we are allowed to drop our IQ back to 80 to get some rest?

Red pilled after metoo#

Girls accusing guys of sexual harrsment n getting people fired for comedy, phonecall, just looking at them.

100 plus girls accused weinstein when they fully knew 2 am hotel room.meeting is having sex yet they did it n accused him. It was sex for roles in movies. Its trade not harassment. They were old women who tried to juice the system of $

Red Pill concerning females herewith.
Many moons ago I lived in Martha's Vineyard during the summertime; there were lots of college age females working at hotels, restaurants, etc.
At a bar in Edgartown (drinking age was 18 then!) I was with a girl; I believe we had just met.
A guy sidled up and he showed her cocaine.
She didn't say goodbye, she just left with him.
Moral: it's money or coke they're usually after
Another night I bumped into a girl I had met because her older sister was a college acquaintance.
Note she and many of her type dressed rather preppy and no tattoos, piercings, etc. rather blue jeans and a polo shirt or similar.
She asked me if I could give her a ride from Oak Bluffs to Edgartown.
When we arrived at her rental cottage which she shared with some other college girls, she pulled my pants down and gave me head without a word.
Moral: 1. always give them a ride if they request it. 2. girls deep down are wild animals if they don't feel ashamed about it.

Ceffer says

I've been red pilled so much, they are embedded in my face, my teeth, pelted all over my body.

Wouldn't one only need to be red-pilled once? Maybe those were paint balls you were experiencing.

Ceffer says

It's worse than being on a motorcycle on Mayfly day.

Do not let that stop you from smiling as you ride as you can brush your teeth later.

clambo says

she pulled my pants down and gave me head without a word.

Well, as they say, the best part of getting a BJ is the silence.

Despite being a leftoid enclave, Martha's Vineyard is beautiful. Def worth a visit

mell says

Despite being a leftoid enclave, Martha's Vineyard is beautiful. Def worth a visit

Yes, and no illegals walking around.

The ruling class doesn't put up with the bullshit they impose on the plebes.

HeadSet says

Yes, and no illegals walking around.

I'm sure they have trafficking victims. Earlier this year ICE snagged 40 illegals there.

'Radicalized', or merely acclimated to emerging truths distinguished from the incessant tapestries of lies?

Patrick says

The ruling class doesn't put up with the bullshit they impose on the plebes.

I remember did work back in CA. There was this very manicured little area Westlake Village. Very rich people. During day army of illegals came in to do work. And all were gone later. Locals were all well off, many thought themselves conservative, while hiring illegals for everything.

Redpill moment, self serving attitude, love of self is the problem. Party differences don’t exist in CA. Most Republicans are same as Democrats.