The Left is going to wreck the economy in the name of equity before (or perhaps causing) the race war

One of the interesting things to read about WWII history was just how much economic damage the Nazis did to Germany by exterminating the Jews.

This was something covered a bit in Ordinary Men too, how factory mangers in occupied counties had a hard time complying with the Final Solution because of the number critical of skilled workers who were Jews who were being eliminated.

For centuries, because various European countries limited Jewish ownership of land, Jew were forced into professions where knowledge and skill was more important than real estate.  Today we’d call the the knowledge economy.

When Germany exterminated Europe’s Jews, it exterminated scientists, doctors, academics, entrepreneurs, artisan craftsmen, and people critical in the knowledge economy.

We’ll, the Left is recycling the worst ideas of Leftist totalitarian regimes.

Now what they are doing is driving white people out of the knowledge economy.

First story:

New York public schools to end gifted and talented program

New York City will phase out its program for gifted and talented students that critics say favors whites and Asian American students, while enrolling disproportionately few Black and Latino children, in the nation’s largest school system.

Starting in the next school year, the city will stop giving 4-year-olds a screening test used to identify gifted and talented students, according to an outline of the plan released by the city’s education department on Friday.

Too many white kids test into a program for advanced academics so it must be eliminated.

Gifted and talented programs are the foundation for a skilled professional class.  A large percentage of these kids are the ones who go to college for medicine, engineering, business,  etc.

The wealthiest parents will send their kids to private schools.  The rest will pull out of NYC and head for the suburbs or another state.  Those kids will grow up and not want to work in NYC.

Next is this story:

Art Institute of Chicago fires docents because there are too many white women in their ranks.

For more than 60 years, crews of volunteer and beloved docents have faithfully, skillfully and happily introduced a million school children, museum members, donors and other groups to the treasures of the Art Institute of Chicago.

The visitors, of all backgrounds from all over America and foreign countries, were elevated by docents’ knowledge and love of the museum’s 300,000 works of art. The docents’ contribution to the museum’s world-class reputation is incalculable As is the expansion of the horizons of busloads of inner city school children.

And now the docents been fired.

Unexpectedly, rudely, immediately and for the flimsiest and most insulting of reasons: Because most are white.

They will be eventually replaced by a “limited number of paid educators,” less experienced and knowledgable part-timers who will receive a munificent $25 dollars an hour. The current 82 volunteer docents could reapply to be among the much fewer volunteer “educators” who will be chosen on the basis of “an income equity-focused lens.” Whatever that means. How well do you think that will work?

In a nutshell, the docents have to go through a lot of training in art to be able to teach and give tours.

They don’t get paid.

So the demographic that has the free time to do all the work to become a docent without say financial reward is the wives of successful business men who don’t have jobs and can volunteer.

You’ll notice that lots of charities and volunteer organizations are filled with the wives of wealthy businessmen who want something productive and edifying to do during the day, especially something that increases their social status like being a docent at a museum or supporting a symphony or something like that.

It goes without saying, most of these people are middle-aged or older white women.

But that’s note equitable so they must be eliminated.

As a result, there will be fewer docents to give tours and fewer school kids and patrons will be educated in art.

But that is a small price to pat to have fewer white women in the museum.

In the name of equity, quality education is being eliminated.  They would rather have ignorance and mediocrity than too many white people around.

Never is the answer to help others get better, only eliminate the successful.

I just don’t think these people understand that for many middle-class white professionals, a good education for their children is the hill they will die on.

Tell some successful professional family that their kids are not going to get a gifted education and tours of the art museum and they will not be happy.

This is where people who want to be left alone decide to take action, when you threaten their kids’ academic future.

I said it in one of my last posts and I’ll say it again, these people are pushing for a race war and I don’t think they understand what that means.

 

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What do you guys think? (Future rifle acquisition)

My In Laws are strongly hinting about taking me hunting. The only thing I have that looks like a hunting Rifle is the 1964 Winchester Model 70 National Match Rifle I bought some years ago. It comes with match sights and with my eyesight, I simply can’t shoot that thing comfortably. Rather than invest in modifications that would change the rifle or invest on expensive stuff to make it comfortable to shoot, I decided to sell it and get me some modern bolt action which hopefully will also be lighter that this bastard.

Old Pic without the Lyman sights

 

Now, this is what I have “learned” reading articles and blogs out there: I should go for something in the 30 caliber region because you can take most US game with it.  Something bigger is overkill and something smaller may not take game humanely. Then we have the issue of ammo availability for hunting rifles which seems to be somewhat disappeared or very frigging expensive. And lastly but most importantly, get a reliable rifle from a good company.

Till yesterday, I was still debating between .30-06 and .308 mostly because the latter ammo seems to be crawling back into shelves. But then I bumped into this video:

First the question I had of ammo availability: No issue there. Y’all remember my first rifle was a WASR-10 and I bought it when Cheaper Than Dirt was not yet ScumbagDotCom and their price for 7.62 Russian was in the $100/1K range. Basically I have plenty of ammo to hunt (game) for decades.  Then the caliber itself being in the metric side of the 30 caliber should be good enough to take your average deer, but I would like shooter among the readers to confirm/deny/advice on it.

And then it is Ruger and I have not heard bad things about their American Rifle series, but then again I do not keep my ear grounded on this particular type of weapons.

And the last thing: There are a couple of these rifles in stores not-so-nearby and at a decent price ($500+/-) so it would be just to show up with the cash and I go home with it rather than hunt and wait for one to show up somewhere or pay exaggerated prices in Gunbroker.

The Winchester will be put up for sale later today or tomorrow. So while I wait for the transaction to occur, I figured I ask you for your opinions and advice on the Rusky Ruger before committing the coin to it.

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Having ruined everything else, California decides to ruin small business yard maintenance

From the article in the Tweet:

California will outlaw the sale of new gas-powered lawn mowers, leaf blowers and chain saws as early as 2024 under a new law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Saturday.

The law requires all newly sold small-motor equipment primarily used for landscaping to be zero-emission — essentially to be battery operated or plug-in — by that target date or as soon as the California Air Resources Board determined it is feasible. New portable gas-powered generators also must be zero-emissions by 2028, which also could be delayed at the discretion of the state agency.

Machinery with so-called small off-road engines also includes chain saws, weed trimmers and golf carts, all of which create as much smog-causing pollution in California as light-duty passenger cars, and reducing those emissions is pivotal to improving air quality and combating climate change, proponents of the law said.

Quick side question: I’m just a simple engineer so how does one make a zero emissions gas powered generator?

I have a whole bunch of Dewalt Li-ion tools.  They are great.  But they are expensive.  It takes a couple of 5 amp hour batteries to string trim my yard.  Those things take a while to charge and they are not cheap.

I want want of the 60v Flexvolt chainsaws.  They are nice but also not cheap, and the batteries will set you back a pretty penny.  They are $150 per battery.

So imagine a lawn service person with a chainsaw, string trimmer, leaf blowers, etc that are all twice as expensive as the equivalent gas model and running a few thousand in batteries that have to be repeatedly charged in between jobs on a zero emissions generator.

Andrew Bray, vice president of government relations for the National Assn. of Landscape Professionals said the zero-emission commercial grade equipment landscapers use is also prohibitively expensive and less efficient than the existing gas-powered lawn mowers, leaf blowers and other small machinery. For example, a gas-powered commercial riding lawn mower costs between $7,000 and $11,000, while its zero-emissions equivalent costs more than twice that amount, he said.

Another major expense will be batteries. Bray said a three-person landscaping crew will need to carry 30 to 40 fully charged batteries to power its equipment during a full day’s work.

“These companies are going to have to completely retrofit their entire workshops to be able to handle this massive change in voltage so they’re going to be charged every day,” Bray said.

Costs will go up.

Just for good measure, let’s throw in HOA rules that require yard maintenance.

The home owner will now pay double or more for the same yard service to be done zero emissions.

Will home owners respond by cutting back on service?  Bi-weekly instead of weekly?

How many jobs will this cost?

Why not harm an entire industry with this law?  California has ruined just about everything else, ruin yard men too.

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California on its path to darkness

California took another step toward its goal of ridding the state of all gas-powered engines thanks to a new bill signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Saturday.
The new law will ban the sale of all off-road, gas-powered engines, including generators, lawn equipment, pressure washers, chainsaws, weed trimmers, and even golf carts. Under the new law, these machines must be zero-emissions, meaning they will have to be either battery-powered or plug-in, according to the Los Angeles Times.

California law bans small off-road gas engines, including lawnmowers and chainsaws (msn.com)

After more than two decades in a Hurricane zone, I still can’t shake the idea of living without a generator. In fact, it was one of the first things that went inside the container while we were packing.  And here is the thing: I moved from a location with a pretty stable power supply to another with also a stable power supply. Regions of California has been suffering blackouts for years and years now without any real investment on eliminating them and a bunch of political mandates to depend on unreliable sources of power.

The new law is expected to affect nearly 50,000 small businesses. California’s budget includes $30 million to help professional landscapers and gardeners quit using gas-powered equipment, but even then, the budget is still not capable of bearing the full financial burden.

That comes to $600 per small business using gas powered small engines. Truthfully not enough to buy a good gas-powered lawnmower and trimmer combo and probably insufficient down payment for the Glorious Greta Approved EcoBullshit products

The Green Dumb giants in California are actually pushing for something like this which curiously appeared in my YouTube feed for some strange reason.

It intrigued me, so I watched it and realized something funny: It is not a generator, Sparky. It is a frigging rechargeable battery!

Generator by definition makes its own electricity but the contraption above needs to be connected to a source of electricity to obtain the power it will be used later. And the cost?

A brand name generator running on gas and providing the same amount of power are running less than half the price and have the enormous advantage of just needed to add gas when they stop and then get back to generate electricity. What the flock are you gonna do with an “Eco generator” once the battery is spent and there are no other sources to recharge it?

In a few years we will see California mandating that all candles be made from natural sources and not paraffin.  That way no hydrocarbon-based light pollutes the shithole the state and thus reducing the only other choice they had to have some illumination when it gets dark and after the mandatory 2 hour use of eco-lightbulbs per night is over.

Dark ages indeed.

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I have a question for this school board

https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1446583046929625090

Do the white kids feel “safe and affirmed in who they are” when the next line talks about dismantling whiteness?

Do these people honestly believe society will be better off alienating white kids?

All I see down this path is Balkanization

If you haven’t studied the history of the Balkan Wars, the death toll was in the hundreds of thousands.

Ethno-conflicts are long and bloody.

I can’t imagine that’s what these people want but it sure is what they are going to get.

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This mom will probably suffer the worst experience a parent can, I wonder if she will regret this?

https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1446294161464909827

The mom is clearly hell bent for leather on transitioning her son.

I wonder what the over/under chances are that the poor child “unalives” himself because of a social contagion transition or permanent damage from puberty blockers vs. committing suicide due to actual gender dysphoria?

I believe every trans child should be taken from their parents and put in the home of a conservative, church going family without social media and attend a parochial school for a year before being allowed to do any transitioning at all.  Just to rule out the influence of the parents attempting to sexually mutilate their child for social media likes.

 

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