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Darwin and the Black Death

As it happens, Genghis Khan is not the only historical proof of the Mathematical Impossibility of The Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection. Another very effective one is the Black Death, which left an observable mark on the genes of the descendants of those Europeans who survived it.

The CCR5-delta32 mutation is a 32-base-pair deletion in the CCR5 gene that, among other effects, confers significant resistance to HIV infection. This mutation is found almost exclusively in European populations, where it currently exists in approximately 10% of the population. Its geographic distribution and the nature of the selective pressure it confers have led scientific researchers to propose that it was positively selected during the Black Death pandemic of 1347-1351.

For our purposes, the precise historical cause of the mutation’s selection is less important than the observed rate of its historical propagation. What we know with certainty is that this mutation currently exists at approximately 10% frequency in European populations after roughly 27-34 generations, depending on the assumed generation length and the precise date of the selective event. Even using the most generous assumptions, using a starting frequency higher than a single individual, and permitting selection pressure from multiple historical events, the mutation remains far from fixation after nearly 700 years.

This means that a mutation providing resistance to a disease that killed between 30% and 60% of the European population, representing one of the strongest selective pressures in recorded human history, has only reached 10% frequency after roughly 30 generations. A linear extrapolation, which would be generous, as the rate of spread typically slows as a mutation approaches fixation due to diminishing selective advantage, shows that a Europe-wide fixation would require approximately 300 generations, or roughly 6,000-7,500 years.

This represents a fixation rate of approximately one mutation per 300 generations under extremely strong selective pressure within a geographically concentrated population. Compare this to the bacterial rate of one fixation per 1,600 generations. The human rate under optimal conditions is roughly five times faster than the bacterial rate, but only within a single continental population facing existential selective pressure. On a species-wide basis, accounting for the global distribution of humans and the dilution effect of populations not subject to the same selective pressure, the effective fixation rate would be considerably slower. Even if we grant the most favorable possible scenario to the Neo-Darwinians and assume:

  1. The highest estimate of dead Europeans at 50 million.
  2. The strongest selection pressure at 60 percent of the European population dead.
  3. The highest European percentage of the smallest global population, at 35.7 percent of the total human population of 350 million.
  4. The application of the same selective pressure on the non-European populations not exposed to the Black Death.

The shift from a European perspective to a global one that accounts for the entire human race increases the number of generations for fixation required to 840 generations and the time required to 16,800 years. Just dropping the estimated number of dead to the lower end of the range at 25 million and increasing the estimated global population to 400 million would push the generations required up to 1,440, and we still haven’t begun to account for the fact that the natural selection pressure would not be applicable to more than three-quarters of the total population.

The CCR5-delta32 example thus provides our first empirical data point: even under the strongest selective pressure ever observed in human history, mutations propagate through human populations at rates slower, not faster, than bacterial fixation in laboratory conditions.

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America is for Everyone

Except Americans and the Europeans who look like them:

There is a peculiar pathology that afflicts white Americans and white Europeans alone among all the peoples of the earth. It is the belief that identity politics is beneath them; that engaging in explicit ethnic advocacy is somehow shameful, distasteful, or morally compromised. They have been taught to believe that the highest virtue is to transcend their own identity, to judge everyone as individuals, to refuse to see patterns or advocate for their own collective interests. Meanwhile, every other group on the planet organizes along ethnic lines, advances ethnic interests, and celebrates ethnic identity without a shred of guilt or hesitation.

This is not a sustainable arrangement. It is, in fact, a formula for extinction.

Let us be clear about what is actually happening in America and throughout the Western world. This is how politics works. It is how it has always worked. Every major demographic group except one practices explicit identity politics. They have advocacy organizations, legal defense funds, congressional caucuses, scholarships, hiring preferences, and media outlets dedicated to advancing their collective interests. They vote as blocs. They network and hire their own. They celebrate their heritage and teach their children to be proud of who they are. None of this is controversial. None of it is condemned. It is understood as natural, healthy, and good.

Black Americans have the NAACP, the Congressional Black Caucus, Black Entertainment Television, historically black colleges, and an entire cultural infrastructure devoted to black advancement. When they advocate for their collective interests, they are celebrated as civil rights heroes continuing a noble legacy. When black politicians openly say they will represent “their people,” no one blinks.

Jewish Americans have the ADL, AIPAC, the American Jewish Committee, and countless other organizations devoted to Jewish identity, Jewish continuity, and Jewish interests. Jewish in-group preference in academia, media, finance, and law is well-documented and openly discussed in Jewish publications. When Jewish groups advocate for Israel or against “antisemitism,” they are exercising ethnic solidarity and no one is permitted to criticize it.

Hispanic Americans have La Raza (now UnidosUS), the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, and an entire political movement built around ethnic identity and ethnic interests. When Hispanic activists openly advocate for more immigration from Latin America to increase Hispanic political power, this is considered legitimate political organizing.

Asian Americans have their own advocacy organizations, their own congressional caucus, their own identity-based scholarships and hiring networks. When Asian parents organize to oppose policies that disadvantage their children, they are exercising ethnic advocacy.

Only one group is forbidden from doing any of this.

I don’t disagree with anything that Torba points out here. But it’s important to remember, and to understand, that the reason this has taken place is because the immigrants – the Germans, the Irish, the Swedes, the Jews – all wanted to be able to feel like they were true blue original Americans no different than the Heritage Americans, the Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution, the Posterity of Plymouth Rock and the Founding Fathers.

And they weren’t. They were never part of the Posterity for whom the Constitution was written and whose rights it guarantees. The Constitution was never intended to protect the rights of every citizen, every resident, every tourist, or every human being on the planet. But since there was plenty of room in the New World, and since everyone didn’t see what harm it would do if everyone pretended to be the same in order to get along, civic nationalism was invented and gradually came to take the place of the real American nationalism.

So, keep in mind that if you’re a non-Posterity American, all that everyone else from Afghanistan to Somalia is doing is the same thing that you, your parents, and your grandparents have been doing for decades, which is pretending that they are Americans. The only real difference is that the cultures, religions, and ethnicities from which you came were similar enough to avoid open and immediate conflict. in the short term.

Even so, these cultural differences between the American nation and immigrants from the European nations were what led to the Civil War and the defeat of the South after the first great wave of immigration. The post-1965 wave is what will lead to what will either be civil war, mass remigration, collapse, or some combination of all three. But regardless of what happens, nothing will ever change the fact that America is a White Anglo-Saxon Protestant nation, and everyone else is just visiting it, or at most, playing tourist while some remnants of it still survive.

There will always be people called “Americans”. After all, Rome still survives as “Romania” to this day. But the modern Romanian is even less related to the Conscript Fathers of the Roman Senate than the average “American” today is related to the Founding Fathers of the American Revolution.

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Don’t Blame the Zoomers

They are right to be angry. They are right to be absolutely furious. GenX may be the first generation in US history to be worse off than its parents, but the Zoomers are considerably worse off and they are still aware of the echoes of peak US prosperity due to a) clueless Boomers booming and b) the evidence provided by television, books, and movies.

I will never own a home. My purpose is to provide value to my employer. I will move thousands of miles away from my family because there are no jobs left. I will become a meaningless cog in an uncaring machine. My income will be eaten up by taxes, rent, and car expenses. One-third of my life will be spent sleeping, the other third will be spent working. The last third will be mostly taken up by chores and errands. I will be too exhausted to do anything meaningful with what little precious free time I have left. I will visit my family once or twice a year, watching them slowly fade away from my life until they perish. I am living in the most prosperous time in human history.

We are rapidly approaching revolutionary times. The weak men of the Boomer era are creating the hard men of the Zoomer era.

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The Count to Zero

An honest review of childhood vaccinations will reduce the US vaccination schedule to zero. But the count to zero has to begin somewhere, and less is observably better than more, so this presidential order is a positive step forward:

In January 2025, the United States recommended vaccinating all children for 18 diseases, including COVID-19, making our country a high outlier in the number of vaccinations recommended for all children. Peer, developed countries recommend fewer childhood vaccinations — Denmark recommends vaccinations for just 10 diseases with serious morbidity or mortality risks; Japan recommends vaccinations for 14 diseases; and Germany recommends vaccinations for 15 diseases. Other current United States childhood vaccine recommendations also depart from policies in the majority of developed countries. Study is warranted to ensure that Americans are receiving the best, scientifically-supported medical advice in the world.

I hereby direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to review best practices from peer, developed countries for core childhood vaccination recommendations — vaccines recommended for all children — and the scientific evidence that informs those best practices, and, if they determine that those best practices are superior to current domestic recommendations, update the United States core childhood vaccine schedule to align with such scientific evidence and best practices from peer, developed countries while preserving access to vaccines currently available to Americans.

The corrupt scientists who are the shock troops of the pharmaceutical industry will fight this tooth and nail, of course. But they will lose, sooner or later, because every single person my age has personally witnessed the increasing amount of harm that the ever-growing number of vaccines given to children have unnecessarily wreaked upon the generations that followed us.

Vaccines are flat-out evil. They are definitely the root cause of “crib death”, SIDS, and autism. I strongly suspect they are also the cause of all the food allergies, gluten problems, and intestinal disorders that have been on the increase over the last few decades. They’re not even remotely necessary and they kill far more children than they save. All of the stories about how they “combat disease” are completely false and have been conclusively proven to be false. They are far more harmful than the diseases they are supposed to prevent.

The optimal way to protect Western societies from infectious disease is to a) invest in sewage and waste disposal systems, b) protect the clean water supply, c) end mass immigration and d) restrict travel from countries that don’t do (a) and (b). That will actually work, because that’s what worked in the early 20th century.

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What Democracies?

The primary Clown World justification for its relentless wars against sovereign nations around the world over the last 200 years doesn’t even exist. The so-called “liberal democracies” are neither liberal nor democratic.

Labour is facing fury today after it emerged more elections are being delayed amid dire polls for Keir Starmer. Four mayoral contests that were due to be held in May are being pushed back by two years, with accusations that the PM is ‘subverting democracy’ to ‘save his skin’.

Some 7.5million residents in Essex, Hampshire and the Solent, Sussex and Brighton, and Norfolk and Suffolk will not vote until 2028.

Ministers argue that more time is needed to finish reorganising local authorities in England.

But critics point out that Sir Keir is braced for a hammering in the local elections, as polls show his party trailing far behind Reform. Even Labour MPs voiced concerns, with former minister Jim McMahon saying the government had to be ‘better than this’. Battles in nine council areas, East Sussex, West Sussex, Essex, Thurrock, Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Norfolk, Suffolk and Surrey have already been postponed from this year to 2026.

Reform’s deputy leader Richard Tice this morning accused Sir Keir of ‘running scared’, swiping that ‘generally it’s dictators that cancel elections. Some 7.5 million people are now going to be denied the opportunity of voting in mayoral elections,’ he said.

‘Funny isn’t it, we’ve just announced our mayoral candidates for all of these areas and all of a sudden the Government, terrified of losing to Reform, are cancelling them.’

He added that a two-year delay ‘is a deliberate dictatorial cancelling of democracy in the United Kingdom and we shouldn’t tolerate it’.

The truth is that the “representative democracy” at which the trained media clowns bark and clap approvingly has always been an inversion of the actual concept of democracy. Everything from the constitutions and elections and judiciary systems are designed to limit democracy, to rein it in, and to prevent the will of the people from being enacted.

It’s a fundamentally dishonest system and it always has been. Now the veil is being torn, in the USA, in Ukraine, and in the UK, which is less a cause of Clown World’s systemic collapse than a consequence of it.

But it was always a lie.

There are a few genuine demi-democracies, where referendums actually consult the will of the entire electorate. But even those are strictly leashed by their “representative” and “judicial” elements, both of which are de facto anti-democratic. But “representative democracy” is no more democracy than “civic nationalism” is nationalism.

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Clown World Historical Fiction

Clown World is a constant source of historical disinformation, when it isn’t outright fiction:

Kaja Kallas, the de facto EU foreign minister already notorious for her chirpy incompetence, has done it again: displayed such elementary ignorance that you have to rub your eyes and double-check before you believe it’s true. But – as always with her – it is. This time, she has informed the world that Russia has not been attacked by anyone for a hundred years.

Those Nazi generals who planned Operation Barbarossa – the 1941 attack on the Soviet Union (and thus very much Russia) that left 27 million Soviet citizens dead – are probably spinning in their graves. Yes, blinded by prejudice and ideology (“values”) they badly underestimated the Russians (sounds familiar?) and lost (catastrophically). But having your whole 3-million-men-150-division operation wiped out Orwell-style?

And what about the many other Europeans who joined the Nazis, either from the beginning or later, with official contingents or as volunteers? The Romanians, Finns, Italians, Spanish, Croatians, Belgians, French, Norwegians, Slovaks, Bulgarians, Hungarians, and, last but not least, Balts, such as from Kallas’s native Estonia?

And let’s not even start about those prickly Japanese! They, too, got a drubbing at the 1939 Nomonhan/Khalkhin Gol clash (and yes, it took place on the edge of Mongolia, a Soviet client state), but, again, pretending they never even tried?

Being historically illiterate to such an extent seems almost pitiable. Where geometry has made former German Foreign Minister Annalena “360 degrees” Baerbock intellectually immortal, it is history where Kallas reaches peak benightedness.

That is especially disturbing because failing so badly, in particular in the history of last century’s great wars, makes Kallas a very dangerous person. The reason is as simple as 1,2,3: Together, the last two World Wars – both caused by Europeans – cost up to over 81 million lives.

To quote Norm McDonald, isn’t it just amazing that the good guys always won?

No one is pretending that the historical Russians, the Soviet Union, modern Russia, or modern China are government by angels in human form who have nothing but the best interests of humanity as a whole in mind.

But the obvious historical fact is that it is Great Britain, it is the USA, it is the nations of Europe, and it is Israel that are the violent aggressors over the course of the last 200 years. The USA didn’t establish the Pax Americana and 750 military bases in over 80 countries because they’re defending America’s borders from invasion. Israel hasn’t repeatedly attacked Gaza, Syria, Iran, Qatar, and Lebanon because they are just defending themselves. And while I do believe that Stalin was preparing to attack the Third Reich, that doesn’t change the fact that Germany invaded the Russian homeland without any actual provocation.

China, meanwhile, has been repeatedly invaded and occupied by everyone from the Mongols and the Japanese to the British and the Americans. Its historical sins, which were particularly great in the 20th century, have for the most part been committed against its own people, not other nations.

Free Tibet? How about free Texas and the rest of the Confederate States of America first.

Binary thinking is bad enough, since most of the time there are no good guys. But binary thinking combined with historical fiction is pure Clown World delusion. And delusion is no basis for debate, diplomacy, or democracy.

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The Industrial Insanity of the Third Reich

For those few historical ignoramuses who still lionize the grand strategery of the German Chancellor during the leadup to WWII, this article by Big Serge will suffice to conclusively prove that he was every bit as irrational and incoherent as his eventual successor, Angela Merkel. And then some.

In many ways, the German surface fleet became something like the perfect black hole for resources. In the prewar years, it began a nominally ambitious building program which was still in its infancy when the war began. Naval planners were explicitly preparing for a mid-century war, with construction programs targeting fulfillment in 1948. Consequentially, the navy was entirely unprepared for war in 1939, and the surface fleet never threatened to fulfill any meaningful strategic function. Yet the scale of the building program was sufficient for the navy to siphon meaningful financial and industrial resources from the ground forces and the Luftwaffe. This was an impressively titrated level of wastage: naval expenditures were large enough to weaken the other arms of the Wehrmacht, but too late and too little to make the navy into a useful arm in its own right…

The picture that emerges is one of absolute strategic schizophrenia, and nearly total disconnect between the naval authorities and Hitler’s foreign policy and war aims.

The real kicker, however, was that in 1939 Hitler – reacting to Raeder’s complaints about shipyard delays – promoted the Z-plan to the highest industrial priority. This made an immediate and material impact on the readiness of the German ground forces for the war that was about to start. Steel rations to army production were cut dramatically, precisely as the ground force was expanding and preparing for action. In 1939, after Hitler pushed the navy to top priority, the German Army was forced to scale down production of the MG34 machine gun (cut by 80%), the 10.5cm field howitzer (by 45%), and the Panzer III and IV tanks (by 50%).

The abrupt priority shift towards naval construction occurred at the worst possible moment on the German strategic timeline. Shipbuilding, with its long timeframes and technological bottlenecks, could yield nothing in the short term – the lone exception being submarines, which could be built faster, but of course Raeder was not focused on U-boats at this time. Thus, despite accelerating the naval program, all the active ships at the start of the war had been laid down in 1935 or earlier. However, the naval program did succeed in cannibalizing the ground forces, siphoning off critical industrial resources. 1939 was the worst time for such a reordering of industrial priority, and it ensured that Germany began the war with hundreds fewer tanks and howitzers, and not a single extra ship to show for it.

In fact, the more that one looks at the Nazi program, the more totally insane its actions appear, and the more one begins to wonder if Hitler, like Zelensky, was merely an actor-puppet who was installed by whatever precursor to modern Clown World was active at the time in order to do what no sane and intelligent military leader would ever even think to do.

Then again, modern Germany’s actions appear no less insane, as it eschews inexpensive Russian oil even as its economy collapses despite the influx of third-world refugees who all the economists and scientists repeatedly vowed were good for it. It’s becoming increasingly obvious why France, Britain, and Germany are so desperate to keep Ukraine in the war it cannot win, as Ukraine is the only customer for the armaments industries that are presently keeping their sinking economies from going straight to the bottom.

No matter what the ideology is, the price of ignoring the rules of objective reality is always incoherency, followed by inevitable failure.

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On Reverse Migration

President Trump is right to “permanently pause” immigration and demand reverse migration, including many of the naturalized foreigners who are now paper citizens of the USA. It’s the only way the various countries that have been subjected to mass immigration in the post-WWII period are going to survive as intact and functional polities going forward.

President Donald Trump says he wants to “permanently pause migration” from poorer nations and is promising to seek to expel millions of immigrants from the United States by revoking their legal status. He is blaming immigrants for problems from crime to housing shortages as part of “social dysfunction” in America and demanding “REVERSE MIGRATION.”

His most severe social media post against immigration since returning to the Oval Office in January came after the shooting Wednesday of two National Guard members who were patrolling the streets of the nation’s capital under his orders. One died and the other is in critical condition.

A 29-year-old Afghan national who worked with the CIA during the Afghanistan War is facing charges. The suspect came to the U.S. as part of a program to resettle those who had helped American troops after U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.

“Only REVERSE MIGRATION can fully cure this situation,” Trump posted on his Truth Social platform. “Other than that, HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL, except those that hate, steal, murder, and destroy everything that America stands for — You won’t be here for long!”

All of the studies and findings and reports and other nonsense attempting to defend mass immigration, some of which are cited in the linked article are nothing more than indictments of academy and irrefutable proof of the intrinsic unreliability of science.

Large-scale immigration can never be justified, because it is instrinsic and fundamental change being imposed in an observably anti-democratic manner upon a native population that never asked for it, never wanted it, and has quite often made it very clear that it is being imposed upon them against their will by a treasonous or foreign elite.

Furthermore, not all immigration is created equal. The further an immigrant’s native culture diverges from the culture of the people he invades, the more strongly an immigrant identifies with his native culture, the worse the results reliably are for the nation he invades.

It won’t take 60 years to restore the demographics of the US population destroyed by the 1965 Immigration and Naturalization Act engineered by foreign interests, it can almost certainly be done in less than a decade. And while it would appear to be politically improbable, it is the only thing that might – possibly – permit the survival of the United States of America as a singular political entity without a violent authoritarian dictatorship that would make the worst totalitarian governments of the 20th century look mild by comparison.

I understand that Somalis would rather live at the expense of the Minnesota taxpayer than be forced to make their own way in Somalia. I am well aware that very few Jews actually want to live in the Jewish state of Israel, surrounded by their own kind. And most Africans have no more desire to go back to Africa than their ancestors wanted to be forcibly brought to the New World. But none of them have any right whatsoever to dwell among Americans, the Posterity for whom the U.S. Constitution was written and the only people whose rights it was intended to protect, particularly when their doing so is observably and inexorably against the national interests and the popular will of the American people.

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Happy Thanksgiving

Today is our annual reminder of two things:

First, to be grateful to God for the many blessings He has bestowed upon us, our families. And indeed, I for one, am very thankful for this community and the incredible opportunities it has provided me.

Second, an annual reminder of the imperative to a) sink the ships and b) never, ever, feed the migrants.

It’s truly astonishing to look back at history and see how many problems various peoples have caused themselves by their inability to understand the inevitable long-term consequences of their actions. And yet, here we are, watching the same obvious mistakes being made again and again in real-time.

Nevertheless, Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

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