I always look forward to your well written and insightful essays. The video of that older man being set upon by that group of “teens” triggered a memory of a similar event in my own life I’ve mentioned before that didn’t turn to violence. We must be resolute and not let any social considerations interfere with our gut instinct to survive. Never should it pass through our mind of “well, I have to be understanding” or “I shouldn’t assume this group means me harm because that would stereotypical.” Our instinct can read people of all stripes in a moment and perceive signs of threats we can’t even articulate.
I brought up my own incident of a group of would be attackers with a colleague who is from a rough background. When he heard it was a group of teens, he said that means they’re actually not too tough. When they have to roll in a click, that tells you they’re not individually “bold.” Tell one of them directly you’ll mess them up and it’ll spook them. Ask one why the hell are you in my zone and he will likely back off. He said the ones you have to worry more about are the lone cats who absolutely do not give two thoughts about walking out on their own and knifing/shooting you over disrespect. He talked of “young heads” who would go to relatively safe neighborhoods to threaten and act tough as they know nobody will really “step to them.” Then they try to go to tougher spots. It’s like an entry level job for the would be hoodlum. Any of us in nicer areas need to be ready for them and give them the right attitude commiserate with their actions or a tough look that reminds them not to mess with locals.
Leftism is all about managing glaring contradictions. Another example being, we're all supposed to agree that humans are the product of evolution, something I absolutely agree with. Well, what's one of the things evolution did? It created instincts. Yet when it comes to Blacks or non-Whites in general, we should never trust our instincts because to do so would be racist. Yet our instincts are, as you said, our first and last line of defense. Once you betray your instincts, that's it. You're completely exposed.
Everything you see in the media is geared towards getting people, Whites specifically, to lower their defenses and to not trust their instincts. It's incredibly insidious. The only conclusion to draw is that they're preparing us to receive a tremendous amount of bloodshed in the years to come.
Recently, I went to Seattle for the weekend. It was really just a stop on the way further north out into the Skagit Valley, but the morning we were there we went walking around downtown. In broad daylight, it's not explicitly dangerous, but you still see a myriad of sketchy characters best avoided, and I always have my head on a swivel and I scrutinize just about everyone I see that even looks slightly questionable. When our group was stopped at a crosswalk, I noticed the visibly indigent man in front of me lean down. It looked like he was tying his shoes , but he was fussing with something in his hand. What it was, I can't say, but what I saw for certain was that he had multiple syringes bounds to his wrist with blue medical gauze. They were all capped, but it made me realize how easy it would be to bump into someone with an uncapped syringe, if they were just wandering around with one out, or even how easy it would be for some deranged individual to prick an unsuspecting bypasser with one if they weren't looking out for, well, visibly deranged people. I made everyone cross the street to get away from him and when I told them why, everyone asked "How did you even notice that?" Well, like you said - noticing. "Don't make it harder on yourself" are some good words to live by, so, with that in mind, I won't be returning to Seattle again in the near future.
More on topic, as standards in America become increasingly third world, I think dashcams will become a necessity. There's a reason that dashcam footage from Russia is so ubiquitous, and it's mostly because car insurance fraud is so rampant and commonplace that, if you can't prove that an accident wasn't your fault, you're screwed. Anecdotally speaking, I know a lot of people who have been in accidents with uninsured, most likely illegal drivers in Texas, and every time it happens the perpetrator always either A) runs or B) tries to harangue the victim into not calling the cops. A friend of mine intervened in one accident where an illegal alien was threatening a woman he had rear-ended. My friend had originally stopped to help because he's car savvy and had the tools in his truck to help get the struck cars running again, if need be, but the perpetrator threatened him, too. He did call the cops and the guys left before the police got to the scene. In a low trust society you'll always need to C.Y.A. in any way possible, so, depending on where you live, I'd say a dash cam would not be a bad investment.
The abundance of dashcam video out of Russia (the entire former Eastern Bloc, really) is a fascinating phenomenon. We think of these countries as high-trust, but they're really not. They're a combination of culturally conservative, strong (but unreliable) enforcement, and low-trust. I often chuckle at those on the Right who think life in the former Eastern Bloc is going to be better than what we have in America. They may not need to wait long before that kind of life shows up here.
The issue of illegals driving and getting into accidents is a serious problem going back years. The system has no answer for it. There's no way to count how many lives have been adversely impacted by illegals driving and getting into collisions. I was involved, over a dozen years ago, in an incident where an off-duty firefighter was killed by a drunk illegal. This was like right before Christmas, too. It was one of the earliest instances where I became radicalized.
I think a lot of the dash cam video from Russia are pretty old. I have been living in St Petersburg, Russia for the past two years and I do drive here. I would say the driving standard is no worse than anywhere else in Europe or any major city in the US. In the US I have seen F150s cruising at 70mph and changing lanes at random - probably a drunk driver. I have seen vehicles spin off dead straight roads in Florida in the rain while everyone else was fine. In the UK I have been in a head-on because the other driver was lighting a cigarette. In Russian, the worst I have seen is people take a late run at a changing traffic light here, so the sensible driver does not rush off when it goes from red to amber, but waits for it to be green. In essence drivers can be bad anywhere. But I will say the worst I have ever witnessed was in India.
Russia is safe. And it is safe at night too. My brother (living in the US) thinks I have been brainwashed and need to reconsider where I live, yet he refuses to leave his house without carrying. I don't even think about it. Ever.
I always look forward to your well written and insightful essays. The video of that older man being set upon by that group of “teens” triggered a memory of a similar event in my own life I’ve mentioned before that didn’t turn to violence. We must be resolute and not let any social considerations interfere with our gut instinct to survive. Never should it pass through our mind of “well, I have to be understanding” or “I shouldn’t assume this group means me harm because that would stereotypical.” Our instinct can read people of all stripes in a moment and perceive signs of threats we can’t even articulate.
I brought up my own incident of a group of would be attackers with a colleague who is from a rough background. When he heard it was a group of teens, he said that means they’re actually not too tough. When they have to roll in a click, that tells you they’re not individually “bold.” Tell one of them directly you’ll mess them up and it’ll spook them. Ask one why the hell are you in my zone and he will likely back off. He said the ones you have to worry more about are the lone cats who absolutely do not give two thoughts about walking out on their own and knifing/shooting you over disrespect. He talked of “young heads” who would go to relatively safe neighborhoods to threaten and act tough as they know nobody will really “step to them.” Then they try to go to tougher spots. It’s like an entry level job for the would be hoodlum. Any of us in nicer areas need to be ready for them and give them the right attitude commiserate with their actions or a tough look that reminds them not to mess with locals.
Leftism is all about managing glaring contradictions. Another example being, we're all supposed to agree that humans are the product of evolution, something I absolutely agree with. Well, what's one of the things evolution did? It created instincts. Yet when it comes to Blacks or non-Whites in general, we should never trust our instincts because to do so would be racist. Yet our instincts are, as you said, our first and last line of defense. Once you betray your instincts, that's it. You're completely exposed.
Everything you see in the media is geared towards getting people, Whites specifically, to lower their defenses and to not trust their instincts. It's incredibly insidious. The only conclusion to draw is that they're preparing us to receive a tremendous amount of bloodshed in the years to come.
Recently, I went to Seattle for the weekend. It was really just a stop on the way further north out into the Skagit Valley, but the morning we were there we went walking around downtown. In broad daylight, it's not explicitly dangerous, but you still see a myriad of sketchy characters best avoided, and I always have my head on a swivel and I scrutinize just about everyone I see that even looks slightly questionable. When our group was stopped at a crosswalk, I noticed the visibly indigent man in front of me lean down. It looked like he was tying his shoes , but he was fussing with something in his hand. What it was, I can't say, but what I saw for certain was that he had multiple syringes bounds to his wrist with blue medical gauze. They were all capped, but it made me realize how easy it would be to bump into someone with an uncapped syringe, if they were just wandering around with one out, or even how easy it would be for some deranged individual to prick an unsuspecting bypasser with one if they weren't looking out for, well, visibly deranged people. I made everyone cross the street to get away from him and when I told them why, everyone asked "How did you even notice that?" Well, like you said - noticing. "Don't make it harder on yourself" are some good words to live by, so, with that in mind, I won't be returning to Seattle again in the near future.
More on topic, as standards in America become increasingly third world, I think dashcams will become a necessity. There's a reason that dashcam footage from Russia is so ubiquitous, and it's mostly because car insurance fraud is so rampant and commonplace that, if you can't prove that an accident wasn't your fault, you're screwed. Anecdotally speaking, I know a lot of people who have been in accidents with uninsured, most likely illegal drivers in Texas, and every time it happens the perpetrator always either A) runs or B) tries to harangue the victim into not calling the cops. A friend of mine intervened in one accident where an illegal alien was threatening a woman he had rear-ended. My friend had originally stopped to help because he's car savvy and had the tools in his truck to help get the struck cars running again, if need be, but the perpetrator threatened him, too. He did call the cops and the guys left before the police got to the scene. In a low trust society you'll always need to C.Y.A. in any way possible, so, depending on where you live, I'd say a dash cam would not be a bad investment.
The abundance of dashcam video out of Russia (the entire former Eastern Bloc, really) is a fascinating phenomenon. We think of these countries as high-trust, but they're really not. They're a combination of culturally conservative, strong (but unreliable) enforcement, and low-trust. I often chuckle at those on the Right who think life in the former Eastern Bloc is going to be better than what we have in America. They may not need to wait long before that kind of life shows up here.
The issue of illegals driving and getting into accidents is a serious problem going back years. The system has no answer for it. There's no way to count how many lives have been adversely impacted by illegals driving and getting into collisions. I was involved, over a dozen years ago, in an incident where an off-duty firefighter was killed by a drunk illegal. This was like right before Christmas, too. It was one of the earliest instances where I became radicalized.
I think a lot of the dash cam video from Russia are pretty old. I have been living in St Petersburg, Russia for the past two years and I do drive here. I would say the driving standard is no worse than anywhere else in Europe or any major city in the US. In the US I have seen F150s cruising at 70mph and changing lanes at random - probably a drunk driver. I have seen vehicles spin off dead straight roads in Florida in the rain while everyone else was fine. In the UK I have been in a head-on because the other driver was lighting a cigarette. In Russian, the worst I have seen is people take a late run at a changing traffic light here, so the sensible driver does not rush off when it goes from red to amber, but waits for it to be green. In essence drivers can be bad anywhere. But I will say the worst I have ever witnessed was in India.
Russia is safe. And it is safe at night too. My brother (living in the US) thinks I have been brainwashed and need to reconsider where I live, yet he refuses to leave his house without carrying. I don't even think about it. Ever.