Author: VD

The Dangers of Selling Out

Football Outsiders went from a high-quality and influential site to extinction in barely 12 months thanks to selling out to some Canadian financial pirates:

Football Outsiders was founded in 2003 by Aaron Schatz. What began as his passion project grew into a fully fledged website for advanced football analytics and statistics such as DVOA (Defense-adjusted Value Over Average). Football Outsiders went on to strike partnerships with ESPN and became a popular source for hardcore football nerds and casual fans alike. In 2018, Schatz sold Football Outsiders to a company called EdjSports. He stayed on as editor-in-chief, and, according to longtime Football Outsiders writer Mike Tanier, the site continued to operate as normal.

Then, in September 2021, Champion Gaming, co-founded by Simmonds and Hershman, entered the picture. It acquired EdjSports, and Football Outsiders along with it, in late 2021 as part of a “reverse takeover,” a way for private companies to go public quickly without having to go through an Initial Public Offering. As part of the deal, Champion Gaming merged with a shell company called Prime City One Capital. According to a news report from the time, “the group closed a funding round of $3.65 million (CAD $4.62 million), giving it a roughly $12.3 million post-money valuation, and it is on track to begin trading in a few weeks.”

Champion Gaming had ambitions to expand beyond NFL coverage. It struck a licensing deal with Inpredictable, an NBA analytics website run by Mike Beuoy, and partnered with SharpRank, a sports betting resource. The terms and status of these partnerships are unclear; Beuoy and SharpRank did not respond to queries. Champion Gaming also brought on Chris Spagnuolo to oversee content (for a particular microgeneration of sports media consumers, Spagnuolo is best known as the guy who left Barstool Sports after writing a blog calling Rihanna fat), and hired ESPN’s Katie George to be a brand ambassador and create video content. Spagnuolo declined to comment. Defector was not able to reach George for comment.

By the summer after the takeover, changes at the top of the company were underway. In June 2022, Simmonds took over from Hershman as CEO; Wickham took over as CFO; and the company’s president, Chief Innovation Officer, and director all resigned. The company framed the changes as an exciting new chapter. Of Simmonds’s ascent to CEO, Hershman said in a press release, “Given his previous experience as a public markets CEO and his extensive background in online gambling, the board of directors and I determined that his leadership of the Company would be both ideal and appropriate to steer us going forward as we build a leading sports content and data intelligence business.”

But by the fall there were signs that the company was floundering. According to financial documents filed in November 2022, which are publicly available through Sedar, Canada’s securities filing system, the company had little cash flow and was carrying significant debt, especially relative to its revenues. In the first nine months of 2022, Champion Gaming reported $969,789 in revenue and $5,619,803 in losses. (All monetary figures cited in the filings are in CAD.) As of Sept. 30, 2022, the entire company had only $55,776 in cash, with even less coming in. As of the same date, the accounts receivable, meaning revenue the company accrued, but which they still needed to be paid, was only $13,911. On page six of the same filing, the company wrote: “These material uncertainties cast significant doubt as to the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern.”

We were never going to sell out, but rest assured we have learned our lesson about the importance of staying in your lane and focusing relentlessly on what you do best. My answer now to the people both within and without the community who tell me “you know, you should do X” is very short and unmistakably negative.

No short cuts. No outside assistance. No wild ambitions. Just the slow and organic growth that comes from steadily improving quality and value. Castalia History is the only sort of growth we want; it’s now very nearly as large as the Library subscription and all four of the first books have sold out whereas none of our competitors can say the same of most of their recent books with similar print runs.

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Who Elected Her?

Jill Biden is now running Cabinet meetings:

The New York Post reported that Jill Biden, seated at the head of the Cabinet Room’s board table, “read from a binder about maternal health initiatives for four-and-a-half minutes after her husband spoke for just two minutes off the top of the meeting.”

The president traditionally sits at the center of the table with Cabinet members seated in order of the founding of their departments. The last sitting first lady to attend her husband’s Cabinet meeting appears to be Hillary Clinton.

The amount of influence the first lady has over Joe Biden, and therefore his administration, has been a frequent source of controversy, and numerous commentators took to social media to criticize her presence at the meeting.

The New York Post said that Jill Biden is “considered by insiders to be the most influential first lady since Edith Wilson, who tightly controlled access to her husband, President Woodrow Wilson, after he suffered a debilitating stroke in October 1919.”

Digital strategist Greg Price referenced this comparison, saying, “She’s literally Edith Wilson except right out in the open in a 24/7 news cycle and nobody in the media cares.”

“Wow. A visibly exhausted Joe Biden just held a full Cabinet meeting for the first time in 11 months and immediately turned the mic over to his wife, Jill,” previous adviser to former President Donald Trump Steve Cortes said. He went on to ask, “Who is running the country?”

Political commentator Kate Hyde observed, “Jill Biden is kicking off the first cabinet meeting the White House has had in almost a year and we’re expected to act like this is normal.”

It’s not good, but it could have been worse. At least they were discussing women’s health issues and not the war with Russia or the Middle East.

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New Values in London

Import people from a rape culture, increase the daily incidence of rape. How is this difficult to grasp?

There is one rape reported every hour in London, according to police data published on Friday. Almost 8,800 cases were handled in 2023, which is an average of 24 each day.

The figures, obtained by state broadcaster the BBC through Freedom of Information requests, show a further 11,000 reports of other sexual offences.

The totals increased by 14% over the last five years to almost 20,000 in 2023, which means that sexual violence or rape was reported to police every 26 and a half minutes, on average.

Charities concerned with protecting children and women against sexual violence said the true extent of such incidents is far higher.

One would think women would be the strongest opponents of immigration, given the inevitable consequences. But apparently widespread rape is a small price to pay for the dopamine hit of knowing that you’re a good person because you welcomed the refugees.

Or maybe their pet economists have determined that rape is good for the economy or something. Either way, Clown World is observably pushing it on everyone from Sweden to Japan. And you really have to hate women if you still support mass immigration.

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Team Gaiman Speaks

One of Neil Gaiman’s long-time employees posted this on the Reddit thread NeilGaimanUncovered. He claims to only be speaking for himself – which may or may not be true – but it’s very informative in how it appears to show how Gaiman and his team are more upset by the growing number of people who are pointing out that he was never more than a mediocre writer than they are to the other negative blows to his reputation, including his erstwhile “sensitive and progressive good guy” persona.

Some people are going around talking about how they never liked Gaiman’s writing, or they always thought that it was derivative and poor. I’m not sure what those people are hoping to accomplish with these statements. It’s like, that’s great for you and your big brain, I guess? You are superior to all the rubes who had the wool pulled over their eyes and fell for his allegedly sneaky writer ways? Better than all the critics and Hugo voters who gave him awards? Better than all the fans who bought his books?

Every time I see one of these posts or replies I just want to ask them, what are you saying about his scores of fans? That you’re better than them? What message are you trying to send to the vulnerable people who say that his work saved their lives, who are now struggling to square that fact with the allegations? I guess that those fans are fools? What does that even say about the victims who were fans? That they were gullible, that if they had been as smart or as discriminating at you then the power dynamic would have been slightly less out of whack because they would not have looked up to him as an author?

I’m just saying…. maybe the discussion should be focusing on the victims and supporting them rather than how superior your taste in literature is.

I can answer those questions, though I can’t answer them there since I’m banned from r/NeilGaimanUncovered, though strangely enough, not from r/NeilGaiman. Go figure.

What we’re hoping to accomplish with our statements about the quality of Neil Gaiman’s writing and his stature as a literary figure is to put him in his true and proper place. The man is not a rock star, he is not even a mainstream celebrity, and he is neither a literary genius nor a top-tier fantasy writer. While he is widely reported to be a bestselling author who has sold more than 50 million books, his close ties to Scientology tend to cast some doubt on the legitimacy of those sales, particularly in light of how his fellow Scientologist, L. Ron Hubbard, is reported to have sold more than 130 million books, most of them to Gaiman and other Scientologists.

Although I was acquainted with a few of the members of his inner circle in Minnesota, I saw no reason to pay any attention to Gaiman whatsoever until after the founding of Arkhaven Comics. As I wrote in 2018:

if you think Neil Gaiman is a great novelist, or even a great SF/F novelist, you are simply wrong. He is a successful, talented and much-loved SF/F author, and understandably so, but he is also little more than a very successful stunt writer with two or three tricks in his bag. There is a reason that all of his notable books involve mythology of one sort or another; his true gift is translating ancient myth into a form that pleases postmodern palates. He also has the ability to convey that sense of the numinous that I lack. But Neal Stephenson, William Gibson, Alan Moore, John C. Wright, China Mieville, Nick Cole, and even George R.R. Martin are all better, more original SF/F writers with considerably more to say about the human condition than Gaiman. When I have thought about the writers whose work I would like to be able to emulate or surpass over the years, Neil Gaiman never once entered into the equation, not even for a moment. Consider that American Gods is described as “Neil Gaiman’s best and most ambitious novel yet.” I liked that story considerably better when it was called Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul and On the Road. That being said, of the various comics I have read, Sandman is head-and-shoulders above the rest.

Neil Gaiman is a great comics writer. So is The Legend Chuck Dixon. But writing novels is much, much harder than writing comics, and successful novelists are much better writers than successful comic book scriptors. In the same way that John Scalzi managed to transform his Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer into the perception that he was a Hugo Award-winning novelist, Neil Gaiman transformed his status as a great comics book scriptor into the perception that he was a great novelist. But while Scalzi did eventually win a Hugo Award for best novel, Gaiman never wrote a great or even a very good novel.

Then and now, I would categorize Gaiman as a 4th-tier genre writer. He’s not bad, he’s got a bit of a nice magical veneer, but of the four primary aspects of fiction writing, he has mastered none of them. In none of his works can you give him four stars, let alone five, in any category: Style, Story, Characters, or Creativity. Anyone who is impressed by his works is almost certainly very ill-read indeed; there is a reason his fan base tends to be young and female.

Why does this matter? Because there are those who have actually attempted to excuse and justify his alleged actions on the basis of him being a special literary talent. Setting aside that is no excuse anyhow, it’s also an attempted justification built upon a false foundation. As one Redditor noted:

I was perplexed when I looked online, when the first allegations came out, and several people were saying that Gaiman was an A-tier literary genius (someone said he was objectively in the same league as Woolf and the Brontes) and therefore we should immediately skip to the part where we forgive monumental artists their transgressions, because their writing is truly that transcendentally great.

Perplexed is the correct response. Gaiman not only isn’t in the same league as immortals like the Brontes, he’s not even in the same league as SF/F writers a generation prior who are already being forgotten, writers such as Jack Vance, Tanith Lee, and Ann McCaffrey. One couldn’t possibly compare him to Haruki Murakami, Umberto Eco, or Italo Calvino; even George R. R. Martin is a better and more creative writer. One reason it’s so easy to tell which parts of Good Omens were written by Terry Pratchett and which parts were written by Gaiman is because Pratchett’s contributions, as befitting a 3rd-tier genre writer, are objectively and observably better.

You are superior to all the rubes who had the wool pulled over their eyes and fell for his allegedly sneaky writer ways?

Yes, without question. There is no well-read readers who believe Neil Gaiman is a great writer. It’s not an accident that his most ardent fans are young. They simply don’t know any better. To whom are they comparing him anyhow, JK Rowling?

Better than all the critics and Hugo voters who gave him awards?

Absolutely. The Sad Puppies conclusively proved that the Hugo awards are a popularity contest. NK Jemisin has three Best Novel awards, and even as a genre writer, she’s somewhere around the My Billionaire Dinosaur Boyfriend-level.

Better than all the fans who bought his books?

The clueless and poorly-read fans have already been addressed. The Scientologists who may or may not have been bulk-buying Mr. Gaiman’s books for decades are not exactly known for their literary discernment. Case in point: consider Neil Gaiman’s review of one of the worst science fiction books ever written, Battlefield Earth.

For value for money I have to recommend L. Ron Hubbard’s massive Battlefield Earth – over 1000 pages of thrills, spills, vicious aliens, noble humans. Is mankind an endangered species? Will handsome and heroic Jonny Goodboy Tyler win Earth back from the nine-foot-high Psychlos? A tribute to the days of pulp, I found it unputdownable. And all for 2.95.

“Unputdownable.” Indeed. Of course, since I speak Reviewer, I will grant Mr. Gaiman that at least he recognized how awful Mr. Hubbard’s novel was, since this is the sort of thing that reviewers write when they want to trash a book, but they’re afraid to do so.

That you’re better than them?

Better-read, anyhow. And observably with better taste and more discernment in literature.

What message are you trying to send to the vulnerable people who say that his work saved their lives, who are now struggling to square that fact with the allegations?

His work didn’t save their lives. It couldn’t have. They saved themselves and they don’t need him or his work to serve them as a crutch. They never did.

What does that even say about the victims who were fans?

Don’t get in the tub with Mr. Tubcuddle.

UPDATE: You have to love the meme warriors at r/NeilGaimanMemes.

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DER KNOCHENTHRON

“Wer bist du?”

Ahenobarbus starrte auf das verblichene Gemälde in dem vergoldeten Rahmen vor ihm an der Wand. Die flackernden Kerzen warfen einen unheimlichen Schein auf die Szene: Sechs bewaffnete Männer standen über dem Leichnam eines weiteren Mannes. Ahenobarbus, oder wie andere ihn ehrfürchtig nannten, Seine Heiligkeit Barmherzigkeit IV, konnte den Blick nicht von ihm wenden. Das Opfer war nackt. Sechs Mörder waren auf dem Bild zu sehen, aber der Körper wies sieben Wunden auf. Einer hatte zweimal zugestochen.

“Warum haben sie dich getötet?”

– DER KNOCHENTHRON

Thanks to the intrepid efforts of a gentleman who shall only be noted as H until such time as he wishes to take public credit, we are rapidly approaching the completion of the German translation of A THRONE OF BONES, a vast and mighty endeavor indeed. Hardcover and ebook editions of both it and the German translation of SUMMA ELVETICA will be released in the new year, and we also anticipate a very limited leatherbound print run from Éditions Alpines after the German language HEIDI is finally shipped to backers of the bindery. Finnish editions will also be published in hardcover and ebook.

We have therefore added an Alpines section to the Castalia Library substack for those who wish to keep up to date on the various foreign language leatherbound editions, and as a bonus for those who wish to follow it, we are offering a daily serialization of DER KNOCHENTHRON in that section. Since we don’t wish to bombard English-only speakers with foreign language emails, it is necessary to opt in to the Alpines emails even if you are already a Castalia Library substack subscriber. You can do so in your Subscription Notifications for Castalia Library as shown below:

Now that the bindery is going operational, we’re finally going to start doing some of the things we’ve been planning to do for the last four years. Among them are a) The Iliad and The Odyssey, b) Chinese classics, c) Heidi, Der Knochentron, and other German books, d) French classics, and e) sets and one-offs for modern authors and publishers. We also expect to get completely caught up on the Library subscription as we already are on the History subscription.

In addition to completing the last two books in the Junior Classics next year, we are also contemplating the possibility and practicality of adding two additional volumes to the set.

And if there are any native French or Italian speakers with a flair for literature and a bit of a masochistic streak who happen to be feeling ambitious, we’d certainly welcome any volunteers. Unfortunately, the massive size of the books combined with the smaller markets don’t allow the economics of hiring professional translators to work at this point.

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The End of Awe

The Western militaries are just beginning to understand that asymmetric warfare has not only undermined their historical advantage over their adversaries, but has eliminated it completely.

You just need to be a little bit aware of what the so-called “US air force glory” consists of. And it consists of such specific “feats” that completely explain all the current troubles with the training of Ukrainian pilots on the F-16. The fact is that the US Air Force, as well as all other NATO countries, fought all their previous wars at the end of the 20th – beginning of the 21st centuries in such fabulously comfortable conditions that they could even fly there on brooms, and with a good chance of completing a combat mission. All those countries that they designated as targets for their bombing in the last thirty years were very different. But in one thing they all look the same. All these countries either did not have any air defense at all, or even had it, but in such a quantitative and qualitative state that it was enough for a very short time. And then, after the suppression of this almost symbolic air defense, a real massacre of the innocents began. This happened twice in Iraq, once in Yugoslavia, and finally in the most defenseless Afghanistan. In the latter case, there was absolutely no air defense, which, firstly, allowed bombing this country with absolute impunity. And secondly, sending the newest F-35B carrier-based strike fighters there to test their combat capabilities.

The problem with the US CAS (Close Air Support) on the modern battlefield of the 21st century is that it is not survivable against immediate frontline distributed AD based on a staggering plethora of advanced and networked hardware such as S1 Pantsir, Tor M2, Buk-M2-3 and AD artillery systems such as Tunguska et al. It will also be severely jammed and denied accurate approach in the absence of GPS. The whole idea that the USAF will be defeated even before it even takes off and then defeated before completion of the mission doesn’t sit well with US generals whose combat record even against supremely inferior enemy is dismal. This is not an exaggeration, it is hard cold reality and that is what drives these sore losers like Hodges into the arms of sheer delusion. Then, let it be no surprise in observing Ben Hodges and his “colleagues” such as Keane, Petraeus and others resorting to the name calling and offering military “advice” which no responsible competent military leader would ever give, especially when having no clue about Russia and her historic warfare experience which dwarfs that of the United States. USMA at West Point used to be a decent engineering school. Not anymore…

The US Air Force hasn’t fought any air battles that came anywhere close to peer status since the Battle of Midway in 1942. In the Korean War, the US had 1,172 aircraft in the Pacific to oppose a North Korean People’s Air Force (KPAF) that consisted of only 132 aircraft. While the US and its allies lost 8,540 aircraft during the Vietnam War, almost all of them were lost to anti-aircraft artillery; the North Vietnamese captured four times more South Vietnamese aircraft than they lost during the war: 877 to 159.

The great Israeli general Moshe Dayan attributed the formidable reputation of the Israeli Defense Forces to “fighting Arabs”. In like manner, US military might always relied upon the fact that it was fighting armies without air forces. In 47 years, the US Air Force was never once put to the test by its sole rival, the VVS of the Soviet Union.

So, for 82 years, the US military enjoyed complete air supremacy over the battlefield. But the relentless advancement of air defense technology has now rendered the modern battlefield unflyable and strategic air-to-ground bombing campaigns impossible. If the NATO air force were to attempt to strike the Russian ground forces the way the Israelis are launching air strikes on Lebanon, it would be wiped out. And Israel can’t enter Iranian or Syrian air space anymore without having its jets shot down.

Since their primacy was based on the assumption of permanent air supremacy, the NATO militaries are now as barren strategically as their arsenals are empty. But it is clear that the generals and strategists of Clown World haven’t even begun to think through all the implications of the new military realities that the Chinese and Russian practitioners of the art of war have been gradually bringing about in the 25 years since Unrestricted Warfare was first published.

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Systemic Failure

The ramifications of the vaxx are now beginning to put the hospitals under even worse strain than they were during Covid.

  • An increasingly noticeable number of doctors and nurses and staff have “died suddenly,” “died unexpectedly,” or have become disabled and ill from injuries and/or cancer. The youth and health of these employees have been increasingly remarked on amongst staff (not to mention the deluge of previously healthy and/or young patients they are now presenting with severe and/or atypical (for that age) illnesses. Remember, cancer used to largely be a disease of aging.
  • Consequently, the suspected role of the vaccines in most of the deaths is more of an open secret and of growing concern among staff there. To wit, Ohio State University Medical Center (OSUMC) also recently stopped emailing out obituaries of prominent or veteran employees when they die. Why you ask? Because of both the number of them as well as the comments posted by employees that began openly calling out the likelihood that the vaccines were a cause (i.e. they would point out the dates of the decedents vaccination and their death). Unsurprisingly, she also told me OSUMC would quickly censor any posts of that nature (despite containing no foul language, personal attacks, or threats). From a phone conversation we had: “Yes, this is huge. Lots of internal cases of death and disabilities. They quit posting internal obits for staff. The comments underneath them were showing that people knew why everyone was dropping dead for baffling reasons. So those went away.”
  • A number of physicians (the most noticeable of them being superspecialists who cannot be replaced easily), besides dying, are also leaving due to disability or retiring due to health reasons.
  • She is hearing of a growing number of lawsuits by family members of these physicians against OSUMC for the mandates which led to the deaths or disabilities.
  • One lawsuit was filed by a widow of a physician who dropped dead suddenly. Interestingly, she demanded an autopsy with staining for spike protein and the heart was found “loaded with spike.”
  • Outcomes of organ transplant patients have been plummeting since the mRNA campaign. It got so bad that, in a complete reversal from two years ago where the programs had insisted on both donors and recipients getting jabbed, at OHSUMC they apparently no longer require or recommend mRNA vaccines to recipients and may be prioritizing organs from unvaccinated donors. Whoa. Apparently one of the reasons is that recipients were developing new “systemic” conditions that were not typical or expected in transplant patients previously.
  • Minutes of administrative and policy committee meetings are no longer openly available on the internal OSUMC website and are instead only available if you “sign in” (presumably so they know who is looking up these minutes).
  • Cancers are exploding, causing massive strain on oncology services. Particularly glioblastomas to the brain as well as to the spine. Also, case managers for the large number of cancer patients were stating they were not retiring due to the patient volume in need.

I saw a video in which a nurse stated that she was one of only three unvaccinated heath care workers at employed at the hospital, and talked about the similarly horrific state of affairs she was observing there. Neither the media nor the government is coming clean yet, but it appears we’re rapidly approaching the time when they won’t have any choice but to do so.

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Clown Nose On

Israel appears to be on the verge of openly taking up arms against Russia:

Israel is becoming a “party” to the Ukraine war.

Intelligence Community information indicates Israel is setting-up “Iron Dome-type” missile defenses in and around Kiev and Nikolaev, to fight-off Russian Missiles. Here’s the rub: The systems WILL BE CONTROLLED EXCLUSIVELY BY ISRAEL.

Moreover, Israel will be implementing “mobile radar installations” in support of these missile defenses, and their (very quietly kept) intention is to “gather as much data as possible on Russian missiles because . . . . they expect Iran to have such technology soon, if not already.”

I wouldn’t say I consider the source to be particularly reliable, but things were always bound to reach this point eventually. Clown World revolves around the Tel Aviv – New York – London axis, and so despite the historical ties between the Soviet Union and Israel, Israel was always going to find itself in opposition to Iran’s allies in Russia and China.

Given the Iron Dome’s inability to stop missiles from Gaza, Hezbollah, and Yemen, I very much doubt the Israeli assistance is going to delay the fall of the Kiev regime by so much as a single day. But it would definitely make sense for them to gather as much data on the Russian missile systems as possible before Jerusalem or Tel Aviv are the targets.

One by one, the veils are being removed. It may not be too long now before the gloves start coming off, and the next phase of WWIII begins in earnest.

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Minnesota Noobs

The naive high-trust Scandihoovians of Minneapolis never had a chance against their imported diversity. This huge financial scandal not only isn’t a surprise, it was absolutely inevitable before the first Somali even obtained an official position:

Sharmarke Issa was confirmed by the Minneapolis City Council to chair Minneapolis Public Housing Authority (MPHA). Issa is the first immigrant and first East African to serve as chair of the MPHA Board of Commissioners.

“Having grown up in in Minneapolis public housing after coming to our city as a refugee, Sharmarke’s story of success highlights public housing as vital asset in Minneapolis,” said Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey. “Sharmarke’s life experience and background in urban planning are especially important to MPHA’s mission. At a time when the federal government continues to shortchange housing funding, he will be a skilled steward of our public housing infrastructure who understands and centers the needs of residents.”

Approximately one-third of Minneapolis Public Housing residents are members of the East-African community. One third. 1 in 3 are Somalis. Just one of those little factoids about diversity being our strength. Kinda like Issa’s stewardship.

An Edina man who chaired the board of the Minneapolis Public Housing Authority pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal wire fraud charges for his role in the Feeding Our Future nutrition program fraud scheme. That was a $250 million social welfare fraud to help the Somali community.

Sharmarke Issa, 42, admitted to running entities that laundered federal funding for the scheme, including Wacan Restaurant LLC and a nonprofit called Minnesota’s Somali Community. Issa was responsible for $7.6 million of the $50 million in fraud scheme money that the federal government says it lost.

Look, if you’re dumb enough to not only permit a mass invasion of foreigners, but actually hand those foreigners control of the political offices and the bureaucracies, you’re going to get systematically harvested. Because foreigners always operate according to their own customs and mores, not yours. And if you’re an unusually high-trust society, then literally every single migrant and refugee you welcome is going to be lower-trust than the norm to which you are accustomed.

The movement of peoples is a social and societal catastrophe that could have been very easily avoided. But the Boomers and Gen X were too afraid that someone, somewhere, might call them names, so they meekly allowed the diversification and destruction of their societies. So be it. Soft societies never survive for long. It’s going to be interesting to see what replaces them.

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