I mean, good. Or whatever.
Can somebody explain why the travails of the Daarood clan should be of this momentous importance to Minneapolis?
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Can somebody explain why the travails of the Daarood clan should be of this momentous importance to Minneapolis?
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For exactly the same reason that jewish interests are of momentous importance to america. All ethnic groups lobby for their own interests.
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Was going to send you this, guess there’s no need now.
Turns out magic soil doesn’t make people drop all the bs from their home countries. Who knew!
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Actually, from what I have seen, the assimilation problem is not so much ethnicity as it is cultural. If the cultures are somewhat similar, the kids will intermarry creating family.
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Thanking cliff arroyo in the comments to the previous post for bringing this to my notice:
https://x.com/ECLJ_Official/status/1986097037222224198
https://x.com/RoisinMichaux/status/1986166185202008228
The religion of Human Rights is undermining Western civilization at its very foundations.
Liberal democracy will give illiberal societies the very means through which the latter will take over the former and abolish “human rights” for good!
We Westerners deserve it. Disfrute de lo votado, as they say in Spain.
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lol at least Somalis limit themselves to mickey mouse stuff like welfare and immigration fraud. They gotta learn from the pros.
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American Samoa won the South Pacific track and field games in 1968. In 1969, having changed the team selection method, so instead of sending the three top finishers in the local tryouts, a committee selected the participants, it finished nearly last.
In Samoan culture, aiga, or extended family is always first. The committee members chose the best athletes in their clan, not the best overall, with predictablly embarassing consequences.
This cultural attitude is so deeply ingrained, that America, having conquered Samoa in 1900, was wise enough not to utilize jury trials in establishing the court system, knowing full well that each juror would ignore the facts and favor whoever was most closely related to their clan. I know, because I complied, edited and wrote the headnotes for volumes 1-4 of the American Samoa Reports, publishing all reported decisions of the High Court of American Samoa.
Although initially difficult for Western minds to comprehend, this pre-Renaissance clan loyalty is not unique to the Somalis or the Samoans.
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“difficult for Western minds to comprehend, this pre-Renaissance clan loyalty is not unique”
It’s the default state of humanity…. large extended families (sometimes expanding to clans or tribes) with two sets of morality – treat insiders fairly and anything you do to outsiders is okay.
Western style individualism is a rare innovation and while it’s wonderful and has many virtues, it runs the danger of tunnel vision (not being able to comprehend how Somalis and Samoans understand the world). Instead western individuals project their subjectivity onto people who want no part of it and actively reject it and misunderstand that rejection as something they (western individuals) have done wrong.
Vicious circle….
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Not unique to anybody.
When I was in fifth grade, in our PE class, we often played kickball. Started with the same ritual every time: coach would pick two team captains, team captains would then take turns selecting players, you pick, I pick, you pick, I pick. Then the teams would play each other.
Teams captained by girls always lost against teams captained by guys. Not because of leadership, but because girls had to pick their friends over better players to avoid hurt feelings.
Not my team. Every time I was team captain, ever, my team won. I have zero leadership skill, and I suck at sports. I just picked the best players. It wasn’t hard: we all knew who they were.
Took at least another twenty years to figure out that this was the wrong answer. I was winning at the wrong game.
Western Culture is the marginal ability we have carved out, to resist the default tribe/clan/loyalty settings in favor of some other ideal: merit, competence, virtue, religious fervor, self-sacrifice, fashion, wit, talent… makes meritocracy and world-conquering, global organizing and empire, rule of law, fairly impartial justice, capitalism and representative democratic systems possible. That’s the upside. We are starting to see the downside now– only works if most everybody is onboard. As soon as a significant number are playing some other game, the wheels come off.
At the top, everybody’s back to playing the nepo clan game: grab everything you can, for your relatives. At the bottom: Somalis doing the same thing but for a fraction of the payoff. Anybody in the middle who still thinks the game is kickball gets shredded.
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There is an added wrinkle. 100% of the people who voted to defund a colleague because he is white were white. This was such a reflexive,snap judgment for them that it merited no thinking and discussion. The dislike of their own group has been ingrained on the level of pure instinct. While everybody reverts to clannish behavior, there’s one group that does the exact opposite and sets out to sabotage itself.
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Yeah. There are serious vulnerabilities and downsides to it. It was great while it lasted, but the scaffolding that held it up is cracking, and I think the sooner we figure this out and adapt to the old human default, the better off we’ll be.
Those without a tribe will get steamrolled.
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Clarissa
“…there’s one group that…sets out to sabotage itself.”
Kid, let’s be fair, actually about half of that group strongly disagrees — those being sabotaged ;-D
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Sadly, no, “we are not starting to see the downside now”, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 has been studiously ignored from the day that it was first enacted. And even the Supreme Court has routinely pretended that Affirmative Action is somehow not actually open discrimination ;-D
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Poorly phrased.
The downsides are becoming visible to absolutely everyone now, not just people who live in low-rent districts and can’t afford to get their kids out of the public schools.
better?
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That is one thing that Trump did get absolutely correct:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/ending-illegal-discrimination-and-restoring-merit-based-opportunity/
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Why can’t we just have this Trump instead of “eager to try any socialistic gimmick instead of putting in the effort” Trump?
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Don’t know, it may be his advisors, or it might be just how he speaks. Remember him talking loose about controlling/diverting a Canadian river, basically pissing everybody off. Well, he was referring to the Columbia, an international river with tributaries fed by both countries — and one with a series of treaties to protect salmon runs in both countries. Had any of his advisors bothered to explain that to him, hell, would they have even known ;-D
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Is it enforceable, or is it just another “medical pricing transparency” EO? Like, we had that, and then… they just didn’t actually do it.
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