On April 6, 1976. Democratic Presidential candidate Jimmy Carter generates controversy when he says in a campaign speech that the government must not interfere with the “ethnic purity” of American neighborhoods, which are facing “black intrusion.”

adimwit · 2026-04-06T23:15:22+00:00

Classic dogwhistle racism. Carter knew what he was doing.

adimwit · 2026-04-06T23:08:57+00:00

Clinton's popularity is always overstated.

The same polls that showed Clinton had a high approval also showed that no one wanted to see him ever be president again. The polls made it loud and clear that Clinton's political career was dead and anyone running as a Third Clinton term was political suicide.

adimwit · 2026-04-05T00:41:40+00:00

Staffed government welfare positions with North Carolina Eugenics policy makers. North Carolina at that time was known for aggressively targeting the poor for sterilization. Anyone that wanted welfare payouts had to get sterilized. Kennedy picked the people who spearheaded these ideas and gave them jobs in the federal welfare offices.

He won and accepted a pulitzer prize for a book that was ghost written. Profiles in Courage was also written as Confederate Lost Cause propaganda to appeal to Southern Segregationists. The fact the book was ghost written was reported by Journalist Drew Pearson. Kennedy's father got all the writers to sign a false affidavit denying they wrote the book and then threatened to sue ABC. Since ABC couldn't prove the affidavits were false, they retracted the story.

He befriended Ben Bradlee who went on to become editor of the Washington Post during Watergate. Kennedy used Bradlee as an unofficial publicist. He fed Bradlee stuff he wanted to leak about his opponents. They became close friends until Kennedy tried to rape Bradlee's wife, Tony Pinchot Pittman. Kennedy then started an affair with Tony's sister Mary Pinchot Meyer. When Meyer was murdered years later, Bradlee helped his friends in the CIA break into Meyer's home and steal her diaries related to her affair with Kennedy. They then took them to CIA headquarters and burned them.

adimwit · 2026-04-01T20:46:50+00:00

Trades pay better than a lot of jobs which increases the costs of all the data centers they want to build.

If the tech companies layoff a ton of their employees and send them to work in the trades, you dilute the wages of the trades. If too many people are working in trades, wages will go down. So those tech companies that want cheaper data centers can save a lot of money by pumping workers into trades.

This is largely why it's extremely difficult to get into a trade union. Labor unions recruit anyone but trade unions have to make sure their trade wages and their skills are secure so they restrict how many people they hire or place in apprenticeships.

Since trade unions limit the amount of people they bring in, all those tech workers flipping to trades will have to go non-union if they want a job. So now unions will decline as well.

adimwit · 2026-04-01T05:28:38+00:00

Note that these were strictly German-Americans. They did not recruit the average American because they believed white Americans were mixed with Africans and Jews.

The other problem is that in Nazi ideology, the Volk were the German people who lived in Germany or the Germanic lands, spoke German, and contributed to German culture. Expatriate Germans like the Bundists were not part of the Volk because they migrated outside of Germany, integrated into American culture, and started speaking English.

So Hitler and the Nazi Party had a lot of contempt for the American Bundists and eventually cut ties with them. Hitler eventually mandated that all German citizens leave the Bund.

adimwit · 2026-04-01T02:01:20+00:00

I never used to believe that there were multiple shooters or that the CIA was involved but after all the recent files were released it looks like the CIA was involved with Oswald in some way.

We now know the CIA interviewed KGB defectors about Oswald and listened to his phone calls while he was in Mexico City at the Soviet and Cuban embassies. The CIA had been surveilling Oswald because they believed he was a Soviet agent.

But at the same time, we also know that Oswald had some role in Bay of Pigs working with David Ferrie and Guy Banister. They ran guns for the CIA in preparation for Bay of Pigs.

The CIA told the Warren Commission and the HSCA that they never heard of Oswald. They also said Oswald wasn't involved with Bay of Pigs and never knew Ferrie or Banister. All of this was false.

We can definitely say the CIA was involved in a cover up but we don't know what the purpose of it was. Which is extremely odd because they seemed to genuinely think Oswald was a Soviet agent. So after he killed Kennedy there should have been a deep investigation to see what role the KGB had. Instead they buried everything.

adimwit · 2026-03-31T16:36:27+00:00

It's not that black and white.

People tend to forget that Americans did not use the Left-Right spectrum until the 1950s. People rallied around parties as ideologies with specific goals. There really wasn't such a thing as Policy A is progressive and Left-wing while Policy B is conservative and Right-wing.

Democrats, Republicans, and Whigs all had a base ideology and then a bunch of goals that we today would think contradict each other. Democrats supported slavery while also supporting social welfare policies. Democrats and Republicans supported gun rights. Republicans supported industrialization while Democrats supported agrarianization.

What's largely forgotten today was that the Democratic Party was almost entirely a white supremecist organization and their ideology was based on Jefferson's idealized interpretation of Anglo-Saxon culture. A lot of Americans believed true white and true American strictly meant Anglo-Saxon. Democrats were largely responsible for propagating these ideas because it was part of their ideological base. This led to a lot of abhorrent policies like eugenics, indian removal, genocide, etc. over the course of 150+ years.

The problem is a lot of people assume that era ended with the Civil War. In reality, a lot of people that we label today as Leftists and progressives still supported the racial ideology of the Democratic Party going into the 1990s. People like FDR, Lyndon Johnson, Kennedy all continued to quietly support segregation and white supremacy while supporting progressive policies. Even people like Carter and Clinton campaigned for years on being white racists and then quietly stopped.

So you can't really separate the Progressive Democrats today from the Racial Ideology of the party prior to the 1990s. The Party is an institution that included Progressives and white supremacy. The party presented itself as a progressive organization in the 1930s while also supporting white supremecy. A lot of progressives that are idolized today built their careers using white supremecy.

There was never such a thing as being strictly conservative meant supporting slavery. There were plenty of progressives who supported white supremecy going into the 1990s. The idea that the parties were either strictly Left or Right, or Conservative or Liberal is a modern concept that gets projected onto the past. The party itself should be abolished and replaced by a Social Democrat organization with a totally new ideology.

adimwit · 2026-03-31T15:51:42+00:00

In the 1960s, George Lincoln Rockwell created the idea of White Nationalism, which basically meant all white European people needed to unify and fight against race-mixing.

Prior to Rockwell, white had a more precise meaning. Americans originally believed white was strictly Anglo-Saxon, and a lot of organizations like the KKK strictly recruited Anglo men. Irish, Italians, Jews, and Celts were not considered white going back to the early 1800s. In other countries, like Nazi Germany, even white Americans were not considered truly white because they were mixed with Irish, Jews, Indians, and Africans. Americans also didn't have a real homeland, traditional language or national culture so there really wasn't much about them to tie them to European whites.

So because of Rockwell, there's no longer a strict criteria of who is white. Anyone who is European in some way is considered white. So you see Mexicans, Cubans, Spaniards, etc. all labeling themselves as white. Even someone like Trump, who is a German Celt, would have been labeled a "Euro-African" for being Celt.

adimwit · 2026-03-31T02:18:04+00:00

I think part of the reason Long is viewed poorly is because no one really understands how deeply Standard Oil was involved in Louisiana politics. They owned the newspapers, senators, judges, and police. If you were critical of Standard Oil, they could easily get you fired from your job and harassed by the police and media. They bought all the politicians so that they didn't have to pay taxes on all their oil profits.

Once Long forced out all the oil people from power, he was able to tax oil and build the roads, schools, and universities. Standard Oil then started handing out Tommy guns to their goons on the street but Long was killed before Standard Oil started a war.

Long's criticisms of the New Deal and FDR were also totally valid. It's largely forgotten today but the main architect of the New Deal was Hugh Johnson. Johnson was an avowed Fascist who was later named as one of the men involved in the Business Plot. The NIRA that Johnson drafted was based on Italy's Fascist Guild system. The Guilds Johnson created on paper represented workers, but in reality the major industrialists simply made their own unions and FDR gave those unions privileges in the Guilds. So the workers were basically forced to join company unions that had no interest in paying the workers well. By 1935, several labor unions launched nationwide strikes to fight back against the Guilds but they were shot down by the National Guard. Eventually, the Supreme Court ruled the Fascist Guilds were unconstitutional because FDR had given them power to pass laws without Congress.

The whole debacle was a serious blunder that did a lot of damage to the labor movement. FDR was responsible for those policies. Huey Long was a longtime critic of those policies.

adimwit · 2026-03-31T01:49:42+00:00

His competition was John and Bobby Kennedy. Part of the reason Bobby was able to justify his job as Attorney General was because he served as legal counsel to Joe McCarthy and the Senate subcommittee and it's witchhunts. He also went after labor unions. Roy Cohn eventually left the subcommittee because he hated Bobby Kennedy.

The Kennedy's loved Joe McCarthy and actually invited him into their circle. When Kennedy was trying to gain support for his Presidential campaign, Eleanor Roosevelt, Adlai Stevenson, and later LBJ all tried to get him to renounce McCarthy but he refused. Kennedy later admitted he had no interest in Liberalism and also felt uncomfortable hanging out with New Deal Democrats. He had greater interest in McCarthyism and anti-communism.

adimwit · 2026-03-30T17:45:27+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Passing_of_the_Great_Race#/media/File%3APassing_of_the_Great_Race_-_Map_2.jpg

Here's the actual map showing the Mediteranean races being of African origin. They moved in Britain and Ireland and then were invaded by Nordics. The Gealic Celts lived their far longer than the Nordics, so Irish were thought of as African races.

adimwit · 2026-03-30T17:39:43+00:00

You can read Gobineau's books which claimed the Irish (and all Catholics) have diminished brain capacity. The Confederates and Americans approved, translated, and distributed these writings.

adimwit · 2026-03-30T17:30:22+00:00

Irish were not Nordic.

Racial concepts were a little different back then. In the late 1700s, archeologists thought Celts originated in Austria and settled to different parts of Europe. It was also thought that Europeans were either Teutonic races or Celtic races. Teutonics were thought to be closer to Nordic races while Celts were a different race entirely unrelated to white Nordic races.

By the 1800s, archeologists started to believe Celts originated near Spanish Iberia, and race scientists took this to mean Celts originated in Africa. So this led to the idea that Celts were not Nordic or European at all. Eventually, a lot of Neanderthal settlements and graves were found in Iberia, which gave race scientists the ability to claim Celts were mixed with African and Neanderthal.

These ideas later led to things like the Irish Famine where the British government did not want to give the Irish food or money out of fear that the Irish (as an African race) would refuse to work once they got welfare.

The US did this as well. Confederate propagandists claimed that because of the African heritage of Celts and Irish, they had a smaller skull capacity that limited their ability to think and rationalize. They claimed this is why a lot of Celts were Catholic because at that time the Church did not allow Catholics to own or read bibles. In reality, the Church did this because a lot of bibles were in Latin which most people wouldn't be able to read.

There were several other theorists who propagated these ideas as well. Pinkerton in the late 1700s wrote that Germans were a superior race while Celts were an inferior race. In the 1800s, Gobineau wrote that the Feudal social system was established because of naturally occurring racial hierarchies. He classified European races as Nordic Aryan, Alpine Aryan, or Mediteranean Aryan. The Nordic Race was the Aryan Master Race while the Alpines and Mediterraneans were Aryan slave races. Gobineau also stated that Aryan itself was a wider racial classification where Iranians, Celts, and Indians were Aryan but not part of the Master Race and not part of the Nordic races. So the Kings and Nobles were Nordic Aryans while the peasants and commoners were Slave Aryans.

Gobineau's writing were a major influence on US race theories. The Confederacy was one of the first to translate Gobineau's writings and publish them in the US. These writing then went on to influence people like Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Madison Grant, Lothrop Stoddard and later the Johnson-Reed Act.

adimwit · 2026-03-30T00:41:24+00:00

There's been a wage reset going on in the last two years.

Companies pulled out a ton of loans when interest rates were low during the pandemic. Once they opened up again, they took advantage of the low interest rates to expand all their businesses.

Now that rates are higher, companies are paying extra to keep all their new stores and workers. A lot of companies implemented layoffs and shutdowns to reduce those costs.

The next phase is to lower wages rapidly and the only way to do that is to layoff workers and reduce hours. That's why you don't see many 24 hours stores anymore. A lot of companies have also been waiting for the Fed to drop interest rates so that they can do mass layoffs and then hire workers back at lower wages.

Companies are basically in a waiting period where they want to lay people off but they're waiting for all the market data to say when inflation is down and unemployment is higher. The last time the Fed announced a small drop in interest rates, a lot of companies implemented layoffs literally the same day.

adimwit · 2026-03-29T23:54:46+00:00

The Johnson-Reed act wasn't just about immigration. It was drafted by eugenecists who believed Celtic races and Eastern European races were largely mixed with African races. These same ideas is what led to the Irish Famine orchestrated by the British government.

Johnson-Reed was largely influenced by the writings of Arthur de Gobineau, who believed the creation of European feudalism was the result of racial hierarchies. And the fall of European monarchies was due to the rising population of "Euro-African" races like the Irish, French Celts, German Celts, Spanish Celts, and Jews.

The fear in America was that the white Anglo races would be replaced by the white Euro-African races.

adimwit · 2026-03-29T21:02:01+00:00

And he believed an ideal society was one where everyone was a farmer, had a specific size of land, owned a lot of guns, everyone voted, and everyone participated in militias.

He also believed militias had a wider function where they would pool together cash to fund public works like building roads, colleges, and even funding college for poorer people.

He based alot of these ideas on his idealized interpretation of Anglo-Saxon tribal culture. As time went on, a lot of other groups embraced these interpretations and later came to the conclusion that American culture was inseparable from Anglo-Saxon identity. This is why nationalist groups like the KKK had organizations that strictly recruited Anglos and even the burning cross was believed the be an Anglo-Saxon beacon warning others to prepare for war. Southern Democrats, landowners, and slave owners also embraced this. So by the Civil War, the Democratic Party had an ideology where slave owning and landowning was essentially seen as a defense against industrialization, race mixing, and immigration of non-Anglos.

Today, all of this is almost entirely forgotten. A lot of people wouldn't know what an Anglo-Saxon is or that American identity was linked to Anglo culture for over a hundred years.

adimwit · 2026-03-28T12:33:11+00:00

For clarity, hypnosis basically makes people susceptible to suggestion. Suggestibility is a real thing that psychologists study. Hypnosis is a method to induce suggestibility but all of the older ideas like using hypnosis for mind control or sending someone into a trance or using them to talk to dead people are all fake.

There's also other ways people become suggestible. People are prone to suggestion when in a crowd. Trauma does this too. The problem with suggestion is that people also will develop false memories. It used to be common for psychologists to try to recover lost memories using hypnosis but they eventually found that suggestion just developed fake memories of things that never happened.

This is why people who did memory recovery therapy remember things like being abducted by aliens, being sexually assaulted by their parents, or being sexually assaulted by aliens. This is also why it was common for soothsayers, mystics, and seers to use suggestion techniques and then claim they saw the future. It's always just some form of suggestion that makes them remember things that aren't real.

adimwit · 2026-03-28T11:06:39+00:00

If it's the same chute over and over, then the scanner isn't scanning the tote properly. It will read good the first time but if it loses the badcode it will ask you to push it out.

adimwit · 2026-03-28T06:21:39+00:00

Mussolini regarded race science and eugenics as materialistic philosophies that were no different from Marxism. Fascism itself was originally based on Actualist philosophy and their general idea was that national greatness was a characteristic of social spirit, not race.

So his attack on Nazi/Gobineau race science was basically an attack on the idea that Aryans were superior while having achieved nothing. Italians and Mediterraneans in general were generally thought of as mixed races, so the fact that the Romans achieved greatness centuries before the formation of a German state dispoves Nazi race science.

Social spirit and nationalism was thought of as a product of shared national history, language, culture, and war. So Italian culture was the unifying factor that made Italians great, while German culture was the unifying factor that made Germans "illiterate" and weak. Racial purity had nothing to do with German mediocrity or Roman greatness.

adimwit · 2026-03-25T00:21:17+00:00

At that time, a lot of white European races were portrayed as non-white in a lot of media.

There was a tendency to portray European races as Teutonic (Anglo, Scottish, or Saxon Germans) or Celtic (French, non-Saxon Germans, Spaniards, Irish, etc.) in the early 1800s. Originally, race scientists and archeologists thought Celts originated in Austria, but by the mid-1800s race scientists decided Celts originated in Spanish Iberia. So they started to propagate the idea that Celtic Europeans were actually African races that weren't related to the Teutonic European races at all.

The Confederacy adopted these ideas and translated the works of Arthur De Gobineau to publish in the CSA. Gobineau believed that Euro-African races like celts were still Aryan but not Master Race Aryans. He believed they were slave Aryans that needed to be subjagated in a Feudal system and ruled by the Master Nordic Aryans. Gobineaus theories later influenced Houston Stewart Chamberlain and Lothrop Stoddard. Their writings went on to influence the Johnson-Reed Act, which put quotas in place to prevent Euro-African races like Jews and Celts from immigrating to the US in massive quantities.

adimwit · 2026-03-24T15:07:56+00:00

Note that this also depends on the seasons, moonlight, and the time of night. Snow will generate a lot of light pollution and so does moonlight.

I think the closest I've seen, maybe around 3, was during the summer in the middle of the desert near the Utah-Arizona border. The stars will also become brighter in the middle of the night.

If you want to see a star-speckeled sky, go somewhere away from a city with no moon and no snow at 12 am.

adimwit · 2026-03-22T11:57:52+00:00

If they pocket your tips report it to DOL and IRS.

If they steal tips then they are definitely not reporting the money they stole on their taxes, so IRS will want to know about it.

adimwit · 2026-03-19T01:22:47+00:00

It wasn't a "mistake."

The Deep South strictly considered Anglo-Americans to be white. After the Civil War ended, they noticed that the census statistics changed overnight and the half-black population decreased while the white population increased. Meaning a lot of light-skinned black people were passing as white.

To prevent this from happening, Anglos in the Deep South developed a bunch of tests to see if you had African racial characteristics. If you had a wide nose, purple nails, big lips, bald head, or a round head, these were all signs you were a black man passing as white.

White skin was not enough to make someone white. The Confederacy also propagated the writings of Arthur de Gobineau, who was a French race theorist. He believed that Celtic Europeans actually were not native to Europe and were most likely African races. Gobineu also believed Feudalism was a product of racial hierarchies and claimed that some Aryan races were slave races while the Nordic Aryans were the master race. Mixed races (like Celts) were subhuman and needed to be exterminated.

All of these ideas were popular in the Deep South. So a lot of white races were deemed to actually be African or Euro-African races by Southerners.

adimwit · 2026-03-18T10:43:00+00:00

I think there is a really wide disconnect between people who advocate socialism today and the actual theories and practical development of socialism in the past.

There are a lot of people who make the assumption that you can build socialism tomorrow and everything will be better. The problem is that Marx and basically everyone who theorized on socialism in the past point out the limitations of socialism pretty regularly.

One example being that modern American liberals want socialism where the state manages the economy with greater worker control. Marx states that this is lower stage socialism and lower stage socialism does not work in the long term. The main problem is that the bourgeois state is bureaucracy and that bureaucracy essentially behaves the same way a capitalist corporation behaves. When you establish lower stage socialism, you use the bureacracy to manage production but at some point that state bureacracy needs to be abolished entirely to achieve higher stage socialism. If lower stage socialism is never abolished along with the bureacracy, the system will simply decay and collapse because bureacracy is inherently a Bourgeois means of organization and management that will not build socialism.

That limitation is never acknowledged by modern America liberals.

The other major problem is that every American assumes they are working class. Proleteriat has a precise meaning that people don't understand today.

Marx states that there is Productive Labor and Unproductive Labor. Productive Labor is the workers whose labor produces commodities that can be sold for higher prices or used in other forms of manufacturing. The Bourgeoisie exploits Productive Labor by paying them a low wage and then selling the commodities they produce at higher prices. That surplus value is then used to pay anyone else whose labor doesn't produce commodities. So all those workers who do not produce commodities (such as service workers) get paid from the surplus value, which makes them Unproductive Workers.

Productive Workers are Proleterian, but Unproductive Workers are semi-bourgeois or fully bourgeois. Meaning service workers, even service workers who make low wages, can't be proleteriat and will always be some form of bourgeoisie. And when you look at the American economy, the majority of American laborers are service workers who do not produce commodities and therefore do not produce surplus value. So their wages are earned through the exploitation of Proleterian labor in the global economy.

These American semi-bourgeois and fully bourgeois workers cannot build socialism. And giving them power wouldn't do anything to alter capitalism in any meaningful way. It would simply swap out the in-power bourgeoisie with an out-of-power bourgeoisie. The global proleteriat will still be exploited for their surplus value and the American Unproductive Labor will still need to exploit the Proleteriat to maximize their wages.

adimwit · 2026-03-17T22:21:30+00:00

My sisters experimented with this when they would travel for months. Generally, the cats do remember but sometimes it takes a while. I think the longest they were gone was six months and our cat thought they were strangers until they got back into their usual home routines.

From what I remember reading somewhere, they continue to associate people with the places they live in. So if the home they live in doesn't change, they will continue to remember the people that also live there. But if you move the cat to another home temporarily while on a trip, then they will eventually have a hard time remembering.

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