standpoint on u.s. racial politics and the end of chimerica

[larvatus]

Mark Falcoff anticipates U.S. blacks repudiating the validity of elections in the event of Obama’s defeat and questioning the motives of any opposition to any of his programs in the event of his victory, even as the whites vote for him in order to prove that they are not “rednecks” or “low class”, but enlightened and progressive snobs. Meanwhile, Niall Ferguson speculates about the relationship between China and America deteriorating as a result of the 10-fold contraction in U.S. bank balance sheets due to be precipitated by their highly leveraged nature responding to the credit crunch. Two thought-provoking articles from a spunky British orphan vying for adoption by the civil union of The New Republic with The Weekly Standard.

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[larvatus.livejournal.com]

To echo J.P. Morgan, the market will fluctuate. As for fundamentalism, not with corporate rescue packages bringing nationalization back into fashion.

[tristes-tigres.livejournal.com]

Privatizing profits while socializing the costs has ever been the unspoken main principle of neoliberal economics.

[larvatus.livejournal.com]

Coming short of relevance is a predictable consequence of clipping your illiberal rants from stale screeds.

[tristes-tigres.livejournal.com]

Don't see much left to discuss after you admitted that Clinton and Bush are war criminals, according to the Nurenberg laws.

[larvatus.livejournal.com]

I admitted no such thing.

[tristes-tigres.livejournal.com]

You do it right here:
In relation to the goals of economic reform, mitigation of ethnic tensions, and broadening of civil society, the difference between actions in Iraq and Kosovo is only a matter of degree. Its elevation to principle takes place at the point where Gaddis relies upon our Founding Fathers seeing themselves as having seized a beachhead for liberty in a world run by tyrants, in the context of Robert Kagan’s emphasis on their knowledge that the beachhead would have to expand if it was to be secure: “This meant dominating the North American continent, so that liberty could align itself with power. It also meant propagating the first international revolutionary ideology, one that called, in a more distant future, for the overthrow of tyranny throughout the world.”

The Nuremberg trial established, that to wage war not in self-defense is the supreme war crime. I welcome your abandonment of pretense that attacking Serbia had anything to do with the problems of Kosovo albanians, and everything to do with installing pro-american government and imposing the policies of the Washington consensus. Now the next step for you is to consider, whether it is wise to support war criminals just because they seem to have an upper hand at the present.

[larvatus.livejournal.com]

You are missing the distinction between motives and excuses. It might be impracticable to dedicate all available law enforcement resources to the eradication of paedophilia. But a conscientious constable could opt to lock up a prominent paedophile distinguished from the rest by his atrocious fashion sense, if not his racialist demagoguery. In this way, law enforcement would foster the collateral benefits of suppressing bad taste and promoting good manners.