I have a progressive friend who lives in Minneapolis. He believed the riots were started by right-wingers who nipped into town just long enough to smash windows and start fires, after which local blacks engaged in opportunistic looting. He is a high functioning individual whose delusions are confined to the political realm.
One of the unsolved mysteries of the 2020 rioting is Umbrella Man. Masked, dressed in black, and holding a black umbrella, he walked along the front of an Auto Zone store smashing the windows and inviting onlookers to loot. Presumably he was Antifa, but an ABC News article said police had identified him as a 32-year-old member of the Aryan Cowboys prison gang, "that aimed to stir racial tensions amid largely peaceful Black Lives Matter protests."
In a desperate cope, Frey tweeted on May 30, "We are now confronting white supremacists, members of organized crime, out of state instigators, and possibly even foreign actors [seeking] to destroy and destabilize our city and our region."
The individual identified as Umbrella Man was never arrested.
It’s a shame that blacks are born without a will of their own. Once Umbrella Man hammered those windows, black zombies had no choice but to burn down the city
It's quite likely "agents provocateur" were scattered around BLM protests. But if it takes one random person to ignite out-of-control rioting and looting then it doesn't speak well to the "peaceful protesters."
Things could get interesting in US politics soon..... if the Black vote starts to turn away from the Fund-Mayhem-Defund-Law&order Democratic race grifters and the Islam vote starts to turn on the Democratic Gender-wooers.
If the self-described liberals are willing to allow themselves to be gaslit about the "accomplishments" of Kumala, they are certainly capable of remembering the BLM riots as "mostly peaceful".
I’m confused. Were the protests mostly peaceful or were they riots and looting instigated by “white supremacists”? Reminds me of the story of the man who borrowed his neighbors pot and returned it cracked. When confronted, he explained that it wasn’t his fault because he didn’t borrow it to begin with and it was already broken when he got it.
Exactly. And I'd wager it's not even a matter of caring, but of remembering. Within about 24 hours, normies went from not knowing who Kamala was to "knowing that they always knew" she was the most awesome, most accomplished, totally not a DEI-hire VP and that the $80 gorillion dollars she raised overnight was totally legit political donations pouring in due to her awesome personality and resume. You think they'll remember 4 years ago? These people believe men can get pregnant. I.e., they have no critical thinking ability, memory, and/or intellectual honesty, and so they will parrot whatever the MSM tells them to parrot, and vote however the MSM tells them to vote.
These are good points. It's remarkable how my lefty FB friends have all become, within just a few short hours, assured, confident art historians who instruct their intellectual inferiors about depictions of Bacchanalian and Dionysian festive banquets throughout the western tradition -- all in response to what they've been told to say about the Olympic opening ceremony blasphemy.
He assumed dictatorial powers for two years during covid, and got a taste for it. The first two things he did with triumvirate power after 2022, was make MN a Trans refuge state, and abortion on demand for any reason even after birth (murder). He wants to make MN a migrant refuge state, and make it possible for the state to encourage suicide, like Canada. He is everything down-home about the decline and collapse of civilzation.
Walz also developed a strong hatred of rural whites. I could easily see him talking to big city power players in the Democratic Party and reinforcing their loathing and hatred of middle and working class whites. He is maybe only second to Fauci in how the power he had to control people's lives during Covid went to his head.
It sounds like Tim Walz, and others, are really overstretching whatever political mandate there is for the Democratic Party in Minnesota.
That's even weighing Ilhan-Omar-like migrants, and other ethnocultural-ethnopolitical marginals and transients, on an equal weighted basis with the whole: alongside those descended from the state's 19th-century settler stock or close kindred thereto.
If counting only the core, it's really illegitimate what they're up to. But that's the Regime for you, and its mid-tier provincial loyalist-enthusiasts.
They have driven a good 50k out of the state since the 2020 census. Others migrating in are going to mostly be on board with what he is doing. He was reelected in 2022 when he had a decent Republican against him.
I think probably few Minnesotans are aware we are a Trans refuge state, sterilizing and mutilating kids with reckless abandon. I know most are not aware that the State will not even acknowledge a custody order from another state if someone, not even necessarily a parent, brings a kid here to be transitioned.
They changed the flag with near zero input from the people or Republicans and conservatives. Everything they do is like they truly believe they are the most evolved people in the world and so can not even imagine being seriously questioned. Walz is at once like a puppy dog when meeting corporate elite, and a bulldog when he is on MSM talking about the right.
There is a not inconsequential amount of Minneapolis that has yet to be rebuilt in the four years since the riots. Most, but not all of the burned buildings have been torn down, but remain empty lots.
In fact, not only are businessmen unwilling to risk their capital in a city run by lunatics, many (most) of the businesses that anchored the downtowns of both Minneapolis and St. Paul have packed up and left.
In addition, Minnesota has become the locus of large scale federal funding fraud, involving the theft of hundreds of millions of dollars through scams targeting social services.
The culprits are primarily Somali immigrants, whose only concessions to integration with American society has been to jump on board the leftist grift industry.
The state government, under the leadership of Walz completely ignored the blatant theft until the feds stepped in.
Of course they consider "2020" a success (I read this here to mean the mid-2020 anti-White-Racism riots after the "illegal and cruel murder of peaceful Black man George Floyd".
The whole thing was _mostly_ a case of the Regime celebrating itself. Bringing its coalition out into a kind of huge block-party, similar to summer music-festivals or the like.
The riots were also an indirect product of the lockdowns and the Corona-Panic, which immediately preceded the riots. In the days prior to the first of the George Floyd riots, a number of Big-Blue leaders (including in Minnesota) began to signal they would ease lockdowns.
Big-Blue experts had consulted the proper tea-leaves and read the proper astrological charts to pronounce that lockdowns could be eased by x-%, and political leaders Followed The Science and start signaling as much. The "end of lockdowns is approaching" signals were an opening, which provided sufficient space and helped allow what followed. An outlet for millions frustrated by lockdowns, allowing people to assemble and have fun, in the name of the noble-and-eternal crusade against White-Racism.
(By analogy, it was similar to late-1980s Soviet-bloc reform- and 'opening'-signals, which provided the groundwork for anti-Soviet protest-movements to galvanize in a way that had never quite happened, at any scale, over the previous few decades.)
The mid-2020 riots were in all ways, short-term, medium-term, and long-term -- short-term (Kamala and others saying she supported the riots and that they "should never stop"; and Big-Blue figures paying for bail for 'protestors' arrested), medium-term (lockdowns and signals related thereto), and long-term (ideology) -- all engineered by the Regime.
Will Stancil, hiding in his bedroom in Minneapolis on May 30, 2020, added this:
“Also, the national conversation is continuing to focus on George Floyd and racial injustice. Let me be clear: that’s important but it isn’t what Minnesotans are talking about right now. They’re wondering why white men with Wisconsin plates are setting fires in residential areas.
“This isn’t “infiltration.” It’s invasion. Unlike previous nights, there are virtually no reports at all of locals involved in violence last night. I mean almost nothing. But hundreds of reports of out-of-staters.
“Remember that the Twin Cities are a progressive and diverse place surrounded by a vast white hinterland stretching hundreds of miles in one direction and thousands of miles in the other. It’s an outpost.
“What’s happening in Minneapolis at this moment doesn’t seem to be Ferguson 2 or Baltimore 2.
Will Stancil is good at: (1.) getting memos, (2.) following those memos, (3.) translating normal thinking into something histrionic and ridiculous, (4.) allowing the Internet to control his psychology, as a kind of self-imposed mind-control.
Will Stancil's bizarre personal-crusade against Steve Sailer of a few months ago is some semi-randomized mix of some of the above recombining.
Will Stancil probably was particularly angry at Sailer because he assumed Sailer had gotten the same memos but that Sailer had chosen to flagrantly ignore those memos. A form of political-blasphemy.
Will Stancil would not have gone on such a long vendetta against someone of obviously lower cognitive abilities. He certainly would not have gone on any twitter-vendetta against someone from, say, Kyrgyzstan who expressed Sailerite views;.Will Stancil would assume the Kyrgyz commentator had just not gotten the proper memos. Such a person could be ignored or even forgiven. But Steve Sailer? No forgiveness!
Stancil proceeded to run for district 61A which constitutes Lowry Hill, Brynn Mawr, and other posh Minneapolis neighborhoods with around 85% white population. Has he moved back to his extremely 80% white North Carolina neighborhood?
Someone is just so off-putting about white liberals engaged in various racial politics from the safety of very very white neighborhoods blaming everything that ever happens on other groups of white people.
St. Paul is the capital city. Minneapolis is its twin.
I live in the latter. I know someone (who actually worked for the Minneapolis PD) who believes that the "Boogaloo Boys" were the ones who set fire to the Third Precinct house.
St. Paul is very close to Minneapolis and also tends to be a depressed area people don't want to go to; in the Big-Blue City tradition post-1960s or so, much of St Paul was steadily ceded to dysfunctional elements.
The city of St Paul dropped below 50%-white sometime in the late-2010s. Most of Minneapolis is considerably Whiter, even if far below what it was in the 1970s-80s).
St. Paul is a main center of "Hmong" immigrants, with the number resident in St. Paul itself in the tens of thousands and many others having social ties there.
A post-Westernization, post-Americanization process is far advanced in many ways thereabouts, and the worst places to be on public-transportation in the region tend to be in St. Paul. There is minimal enforcement of laws or even basic White-Western norms.
So why does St. Paul "didn't seem to get much damage"? It's because people wanted to rally against White-racism in good areas, not in downtrodden and depressing St. Paul. The same pattern was repeated in all the cities hit by riots and looting.
What makes you think the corporate media would ever hold him responsible? No one will know about it it will be memory-holed. And since the white-guilt people in MN have the memory of goldfish they will cheer for him.
For crying out loud, Hillary's VP Tim Kaine had a son who literally became an Antifa terrorist, and nobody brought it up and it didn't hurt him---the creepy dude is still elected to this day.
Steve really is hopeful that people will remember and hold politicians accountable for the things they did. Against all the evidence of his own lifetime.
It is worth noting that every Democratic candidate for both president and vice president since 1984 has attended law school. If Kamala selects Walz, the streak will be broken.
Walz wiki page says he’s “Lutheran.” Upper Midwest Germanic-Scandanavian Lutherans have a self-destructive and naive Liberal streak. Somehow they think their Liberal Democratic Socialist utopian beliefs and structures won’t be exploited in a heterogeneous culture. From Malmo to Cologne to Madison to Minneapolis, the same outcome when other lower-trust outsider cultures enter those systems set up by high-trust Northern Euro Protestants.
Tim Walz is from Nebraska, not Minnesota. Where he grew up -- as usual with most of the land-area of the USA -- there were no Blacks or 'Hispanics' in any appreciable number at all. He is a German-Lutheran by ethnocultural origin and affiliation.
The settlement-pattern in Tim Walz' native region of Nebraska is not only all-"White" (some Amerindians excluded), it was primarily German-Protestant. The balance was mostly other NW-European-Protestant elements.
His entire part of the state of Nebraska was one of the many regions in the USA in that swung against Al Smith in 1928, the first Catholic candidate for U.S. president, many ordinarily-D-voters swinging to vote for Hoover instead. People were serious in their commitment to traditional White-Protestant nationalism back then (Tim Walz' great-grandparents' time).
In many important ways, the country and region he grew up in is not so dissimilar ca. 2020 as it was ca. 1890. So one can excuse Tim Walz (and so many others) from not quite taking aggressive anti-White, anti-Male Wokeness too seriously, because their mental-model is still that a Real America survives intact, always has and always will, and they don't need to think too much about it. In other words, the Tim Walzes out there are not big-city, big-money Jews of the Mark-Potok type, who rub their hands in glee and track the declining White-% like sports-fans track the latest league standings.
Tim Walz only moved to Minnesota, incidentally, in his early thirties (the mid-1990s), so-persuaded by his wife who is a native of that state.
Thanks. So are you still in somewhat agreement with my original assertion? His naivety in general due to similar insulation in a Nebraska upbringing, likely also influenced by a MN wife who thinks in a similar fashion to what I’ve outlined? They really just don’t get it?
I agree: the "high-trust" ethnocultural-coding is really important. It's also important to our entire civilization project.
People like Tim Walz are, ironically?, upholders of our great tradition; they are aboard our ship on the civilizational-historical "open sea." They believe in this ship's mission, and always have. They cannot easily be talked into mutiny by the grumblings of scruffy-seeming men below decks, even if those men have a point. I'd go so far as to say that Tim Walz would be a positive-good in a society with a different sort of regime type.
To continue a seafaring metaphor, the problem with our "ship" is that there is not much ballast, or poor-quality and inadequate ballast. People like Tim Walz in the 21st-century USA could analogized to a sound, seaworthy ship that lacks ballast. They are not balanced-out by actual conditions. They are the products of all-White, all-Christian environments (no low-trust Middle-Easterners, for example; no practitioners of diasporic ethics; no AIPAC or similar aggressive ethnic-networking to puppetize the society around them for foreign goals).
It's hard for the Tim Walzes to even IMAGINE low-trust strategies, nepotism, corruption, petty crime, attacks on the culture by an outside group and puppetization of politics, or any sort of undermining of norms at scale -- it's hard for them to imagine it because such strategies would be totally alien to their own NW-European families and cultures. No one in small-town Nebraska would behave the way certain groups I could name behave. The default human behaves as a high-trust NW-European(-origin person). And in their lives, it was always basically true.
It may be hard to believe that they "just don't get it." These are not "stupid" people, and in a sense of course they are aware of certain things. They could even be convinced "x behavior, by y group, is wrong" in certain cases. (Although as we know, the usual instinct is to do a "Not All X Are Like That, the NAXALT strategy; but that's just programmed instinct, and would indeed apply as a principle, anyway, to cases of deviant behavior back home in rural Nebraska.)
It -is- fair to say that the Tim Walzes psychologically don't understand what the USA today is, or don't accept it. They fall back to their default that the USA has an inexhaustible supply of high-trust White-Christians; the USA will always be a NW-European-oriented society defined by those norms, because that is their own family tradition and it's seemed to hold true for four centuries, so why not? They are optimists and true-believers in their own civilization.
This kind of "White liberal" lives in the past. Not in denial, but within a frame that prevents them from the necessary embrace of a White-ethnonationalist counter-balance to the political-cultural pathologies of today. Biden, in certain ways, is in the same boat. Biden is certainly a demagogue but he at least reflects the views of the "Tim Walz type." There are many others of this type out there, even now.
It reminds me of the Heinlein book about Western European peoples being “WEIRD,” Waltz embodies that viewpoint. But he is anachronistic given the realities on the ground with low-trust heterogeneity in say, Minneapolis.
“The WEIRDest people” is kind of funny given how Democrats this week are running around saying “weird” every 15 seconds.
Steve:
Stop giving Democrats food for thought. Let them make these mistakes.
Don’t assume Joe Schmoe will ever hear of it.
I have a progressive friend who lives in Minneapolis. He believed the riots were started by right-wingers who nipped into town just long enough to smash windows and start fires, after which local blacks engaged in opportunistic looting. He is a high functioning individual whose delusions are confined to the political realm.
One of the unsolved mysteries of the 2020 rioting is Umbrella Man. Masked, dressed in black, and holding a black umbrella, he walked along the front of an Auto Zone store smashing the windows and inviting onlookers to loot. Presumably he was Antifa, but an ABC News article said police had identified him as a 32-year-old member of the Aryan Cowboys prison gang, "that aimed to stir racial tensions amid largely peaceful Black Lives Matter protests."
In a desperate cope, Frey tweeted on May 30, "We are now confronting white supremacists, members of organized crime, out of state instigators, and possibly even foreign actors [seeking] to destroy and destabilize our city and our region."
The individual identified as Umbrella Man was never arrested.
It’s a shame that blacks are born without a will of their own. Once Umbrella Man hammered those windows, black zombies had no choice but to burn down the city
Just when they thought they were out, wipipul pulled them back in.
I just finally got over my teenage girl fears of Slenderman. Did you have to supply them with Umbrellaman? Will the bogeys never leave??
They eventually came to blame a member of the Minneapolis charter of the Hells Angels M/C. I happen to know they thought it was hilarious.
The WaPo article repeatedly mentions white nationalists (Steve didn’t quote them all). Pathetic.
"a high functioning individual whose delusions are confined to the political realm"
The correct way to see (or say) this is not that he is "delusional" but that he is highly "ideologized." It's the Regime; it's Regime-ideology.
It's quite likely "agents provocateur" were scattered around BLM protests. But if it takes one random person to ignite out-of-control rioting and looting then it doesn't speak well to the "peaceful protesters."
Things could get interesting in US politics soon..... if the Black vote starts to turn away from the Fund-Mayhem-Defund-Law&order Democratic race grifters and the Islam vote starts to turn on the Democratic Gender-wooers.
It’s unlikely. Every election it’s predicted and never happens.
It Walz had the slightest decency, he would pardon Derek Chauvin
If the self-described liberals are willing to allow themselves to be gaslit about the "accomplishments" of Kumala, they are certainly capable of remembering the BLM riots as "mostly peaceful".
I’m confused. Were the protests mostly peaceful or were they riots and looting instigated by “white supremacists”? Reminds me of the story of the man who borrowed his neighbors pot and returned it cracked. When confronted, he explained that it wasn’t his fault because he didn’t borrow it to begin with and it was already broken when he got it.
I think you are overestimating how much anyone cares about the Mostly Peaceful Protests of 2020
Exactly. And I'd wager it's not even a matter of caring, but of remembering. Within about 24 hours, normies went from not knowing who Kamala was to "knowing that they always knew" she was the most awesome, most accomplished, totally not a DEI-hire VP and that the $80 gorillion dollars she raised overnight was totally legit political donations pouring in due to her awesome personality and resume. You think they'll remember 4 years ago? These people believe men can get pregnant. I.e., they have no critical thinking ability, memory, and/or intellectual honesty, and so they will parrot whatever the MSM tells them to parrot, and vote however the MSM tells them to vote.
These are good points. It's remarkable how my lefty FB friends have all become, within just a few short hours, assured, confident art historians who instruct their intellectual inferiors about depictions of Bacchanalian and Dionysian festive banquets throughout the western tradition -- all in response to what they've been told to say about the Olympic opening ceremony blasphemy.
He assumed dictatorial powers for two years during covid, and got a taste for it. The first two things he did with triumvirate power after 2022, was make MN a Trans refuge state, and abortion on demand for any reason even after birth (murder). He wants to make MN a migrant refuge state, and make it possible for the state to encourage suicide, like Canada. He is everything down-home about the decline and collapse of civilzation.
Walz also developed a strong hatred of rural whites. I could easily see him talking to big city power players in the Democratic Party and reinforcing their loathing and hatred of middle and working class whites. He is maybe only second to Fauci in how the power he had to control people's lives during Covid went to his head.
His treatment of rural MN and the people here during covid was despicable. I had some fun with him here: https://williamhunterduncan.substack.com/p/minnesota-one-party-blue-rule?utm_source=publication-search
It sounds like Tim Walz, and others, are really overstretching whatever political mandate there is for the Democratic Party in Minnesota.
That's even weighing Ilhan-Omar-like migrants, and other ethnocultural-ethnopolitical marginals and transients, on an equal weighted basis with the whole: alongside those descended from the state's 19th-century settler stock or close kindred thereto.
If counting only the core, it's really illegitimate what they're up to. But that's the Regime for you, and its mid-tier provincial loyalist-enthusiasts.
They have driven a good 50k out of the state since the 2020 census. Others migrating in are going to mostly be on board with what he is doing. He was reelected in 2022 when he had a decent Republican against him.
I think probably few Minnesotans are aware we are a Trans refuge state, sterilizing and mutilating kids with reckless abandon. I know most are not aware that the State will not even acknowledge a custody order from another state if someone, not even necessarily a parent, brings a kid here to be transitioned.
They changed the flag with near zero input from the people or Republicans and conservatives. Everything they do is like they truly believe they are the most evolved people in the world and so can not even imagine being seriously questioned. Walz is at once like a puppy dog when meeting corporate elite, and a bulldog when he is on MSM talking about the right.
There is a not inconsequential amount of Minneapolis that has yet to be rebuilt in the four years since the riots. Most, but not all of the burned buildings have been torn down, but remain empty lots.
In fact, not only are businessmen unwilling to risk their capital in a city run by lunatics, many (most) of the businesses that anchored the downtowns of both Minneapolis and St. Paul have packed up and left.
In addition, Minnesota has become the locus of large scale federal funding fraud, involving the theft of hundreds of millions of dollars through scams targeting social services.
The culprits are primarily Somali immigrants, whose only concessions to integration with American society has been to jump on board the leftist grift industry.
The state government, under the leadership of Walz completely ignored the blatant theft until the feds stepped in.
Kamala and her people may consider 2020 a success.
Of course they consider "2020" a success (I read this here to mean the mid-2020 anti-White-Racism riots after the "illegal and cruel murder of peaceful Black man George Floyd".
The whole thing was _mostly_ a case of the Regime celebrating itself. Bringing its coalition out into a kind of huge block-party, similar to summer music-festivals or the like.
The riots were also an indirect product of the lockdowns and the Corona-Panic, which immediately preceded the riots. In the days prior to the first of the George Floyd riots, a number of Big-Blue leaders (including in Minnesota) began to signal they would ease lockdowns.
Big-Blue experts had consulted the proper tea-leaves and read the proper astrological charts to pronounce that lockdowns could be eased by x-%, and political leaders Followed The Science and start signaling as much. The "end of lockdowns is approaching" signals were an opening, which provided sufficient space and helped allow what followed. An outlet for millions frustrated by lockdowns, allowing people to assemble and have fun, in the name of the noble-and-eternal crusade against White-Racism.
(By analogy, it was similar to late-1980s Soviet-bloc reform- and 'opening'-signals, which provided the groundwork for anti-Soviet protest-movements to galvanize in a way that had never quite happened, at any scale, over the previous few decades.)
The mid-2020 riots were in all ways, short-term, medium-term, and long-term -- short-term (Kamala and others saying she supported the riots and that they "should never stop"; and Big-Blue figures paying for bail for 'protestors' arrested), medium-term (lockdowns and signals related thereto), and long-term (ideology) -- all engineered by the Regime.
Will Stancil, hiding in his bedroom in Minneapolis on May 30, 2020, added this:
“Also, the national conversation is continuing to focus on George Floyd and racial injustice. Let me be clear: that’s important but it isn’t what Minnesotans are talking about right now. They’re wondering why white men with Wisconsin plates are setting fires in residential areas.
“This isn’t “infiltration.” It’s invasion. Unlike previous nights, there are virtually no reports at all of locals involved in violence last night. I mean almost nothing. But hundreds of reports of out-of-staters.
“Remember that the Twin Cities are a progressive and diverse place surrounded by a vast white hinterland stretching hundreds of miles in one direction and thousands of miles in the other. It’s an outpost.
“What’s happening in Minneapolis at this moment doesn’t seem to be Ferguson 2 or Baltimore 2.
“It’s Charlottesville 2.”
https://x.com/whstancil/status/1266753055028101120
Will Stancil is good at: (1.) getting memos, (2.) following those memos, (3.) translating normal thinking into something histrionic and ridiculous, (4.) allowing the Internet to control his psychology, as a kind of self-imposed mind-control.
Will Stancil's bizarre personal-crusade against Steve Sailer of a few months ago is some semi-randomized mix of some of the above recombining.
Will Stancil probably was particularly angry at Sailer because he assumed Sailer had gotten the same memos but that Sailer had chosen to flagrantly ignore those memos. A form of political-blasphemy.
Will Stancil would not have gone on such a long vendetta against someone of obviously lower cognitive abilities. He certainly would not have gone on any twitter-vendetta against someone from, say, Kyrgyzstan who expressed Sailerite views;.Will Stancil would assume the Kyrgyz commentator had just not gotten the proper memos. Such a person could be ignored or even forgiven. But Steve Sailer? No forgiveness!
Stancil proceeded to run for district 61A which constitutes Lowry Hill, Brynn Mawr, and other posh Minneapolis neighborhoods with around 85% white population. Has he moved back to his extremely 80% white North Carolina neighborhood?
Someone is just so off-putting about white liberals engaged in various racial politics from the safety of very very white neighborhoods blaming everything that ever happens on other groups of white people.
It’s infuriating
Stancil's election is not for another two weeks
St. Paul is the capital city. Minneapolis is its twin.
I live in the latter. I know someone (who actually worked for the Minneapolis PD) who believes that the "Boogaloo Boys" were the ones who set fire to the Third Precinct house.
How does such a person make sense of why the supposed White-racist ringleaders of the riots were not arrested and put on trial?
Apparently one of them actually was.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-mn/pr/self-described-member-boogaloo-bois-sentenced-prison-riot-conviction
But this still says nothing about who set the actual fire.
Minneapolis is not the capital of Minnesota
The governor's mansion isnot there.
Interesting that the actual capital city didn't seem to get much damage
St. Paul is very close to Minneapolis and also tends to be a depressed area people don't want to go to; in the Big-Blue City tradition post-1960s or so, much of St Paul was steadily ceded to dysfunctional elements.
The city of St Paul dropped below 50%-white sometime in the late-2010s. Most of Minneapolis is considerably Whiter, even if far below what it was in the 1970s-80s).
St. Paul is a main center of "Hmong" immigrants, with the number resident in St. Paul itself in the tens of thousands and many others having social ties there.
A post-Westernization, post-Americanization process is far advanced in many ways thereabouts, and the worst places to be on public-transportation in the region tend to be in St. Paul. There is minimal enforcement of laws or even basic White-Western norms.
So why does St. Paul "didn't seem to get much damage"? It's because people wanted to rally against White-racism in good areas, not in downtrodden and depressing St. Paul. The same pattern was repeated in all the cities hit by riots and looting.
Thanks. I'll fix it.
It’s close enough
What makes you think the corporate media would ever hold him responsible? No one will know about it it will be memory-holed. And since the white-guilt people in MN have the memory of goldfish they will cheer for him.
For crying out loud, Hillary's VP Tim Kaine had a son who literally became an Antifa terrorist, and nobody brought it up and it didn't hurt him---the creepy dude is still elected to this day.
Steve really is hopeful that people will remember and hold politicians accountable for the things they did. Against all the evidence of his own lifetime.
It is worth noting that every Democratic candidate for both president and vice president since 1984 has attended law school. If Kamala selects Walz, the streak will be broken.
Walz wiki page says he’s “Lutheran.” Upper Midwest Germanic-Scandanavian Lutherans have a self-destructive and naive Liberal streak. Somehow they think their Liberal Democratic Socialist utopian beliefs and structures won’t be exploited in a heterogeneous culture. From Malmo to Cologne to Madison to Minneapolis, the same outcome when other lower-trust outsider cultures enter those systems set up by high-trust Northern Euro Protestants.
Tim Walz is from Nebraska, not Minnesota. Where he grew up -- as usual with most of the land-area of the USA -- there were no Blacks or 'Hispanics' in any appreciable number at all. He is a German-Lutheran by ethnocultural origin and affiliation.
The settlement-pattern in Tim Walz' native region of Nebraska is not only all-"White" (some Amerindians excluded), it was primarily German-Protestant. The balance was mostly other NW-European-Protestant elements.
His entire part of the state of Nebraska was one of the many regions in the USA in that swung against Al Smith in 1928, the first Catholic candidate for U.S. president, many ordinarily-D-voters swinging to vote for Hoover instead. People were serious in their commitment to traditional White-Protestant nationalism back then (Tim Walz' great-grandparents' time).
In many important ways, the country and region he grew up in is not so dissimilar ca. 2020 as it was ca. 1890. So one can excuse Tim Walz (and so many others) from not quite taking aggressive anti-White, anti-Male Wokeness too seriously, because their mental-model is still that a Real America survives intact, always has and always will, and they don't need to think too much about it. In other words, the Tim Walzes out there are not big-city, big-money Jews of the Mark-Potok type, who rub their hands in glee and track the declining White-% like sports-fans track the latest league standings.
Tim Walz only moved to Minnesota, incidentally, in his early thirties (the mid-1990s), so-persuaded by his wife who is a native of that state.
Thanks. So are you still in somewhat agreement with my original assertion? His naivety in general due to similar insulation in a Nebraska upbringing, likely also influenced by a MN wife who thinks in a similar fashion to what I’ve outlined? They really just don’t get it?
I agree: the "high-trust" ethnocultural-coding is really important. It's also important to our entire civilization project.
People like Tim Walz are, ironically?, upholders of our great tradition; they are aboard our ship on the civilizational-historical "open sea." They believe in this ship's mission, and always have. They cannot easily be talked into mutiny by the grumblings of scruffy-seeming men below decks, even if those men have a point. I'd go so far as to say that Tim Walz would be a positive-good in a society with a different sort of regime type.
To continue a seafaring metaphor, the problem with our "ship" is that there is not much ballast, or poor-quality and inadequate ballast. People like Tim Walz in the 21st-century USA could analogized to a sound, seaworthy ship that lacks ballast. They are not balanced-out by actual conditions. They are the products of all-White, all-Christian environments (no low-trust Middle-Easterners, for example; no practitioners of diasporic ethics; no AIPAC or similar aggressive ethnic-networking to puppetize the society around them for foreign goals).
It's hard for the Tim Walzes to even IMAGINE low-trust strategies, nepotism, corruption, petty crime, attacks on the culture by an outside group and puppetization of politics, or any sort of undermining of norms at scale -- it's hard for them to imagine it because such strategies would be totally alien to their own NW-European families and cultures. No one in small-town Nebraska would behave the way certain groups I could name behave. The default human behaves as a high-trust NW-European(-origin person). And in their lives, it was always basically true.
It may be hard to believe that they "just don't get it." These are not "stupid" people, and in a sense of course they are aware of certain things. They could even be convinced "x behavior, by y group, is wrong" in certain cases. (Although as we know, the usual instinct is to do a "Not All X Are Like That, the NAXALT strategy; but that's just programmed instinct, and would indeed apply as a principle, anyway, to cases of deviant behavior back home in rural Nebraska.)
It -is- fair to say that the Tim Walzes psychologically don't understand what the USA today is, or don't accept it. They fall back to their default that the USA has an inexhaustible supply of high-trust White-Christians; the USA will always be a NW-European-oriented society defined by those norms, because that is their own family tradition and it's seemed to hold true for four centuries, so why not? They are optimists and true-believers in their own civilization.
This kind of "White liberal" lives in the past. Not in denial, but within a frame that prevents them from the necessary embrace of a White-ethnonationalist counter-balance to the political-cultural pathologies of today. Biden, in certain ways, is in the same boat. Biden is certainly a demagogue but he at least reflects the views of the "Tim Walz type." There are many others of this type out there, even now.
It reminds me of the Heinlein book about Western European peoples being “WEIRD,” Waltz embodies that viewpoint. But he is anachronistic given the realities on the ground with low-trust heterogeneity in say, Minneapolis.
“The WEIRDest people” is kind of funny given how Democrats this week are running around saying “weird” every 15 seconds.
Yes, it's a great Sailerian riposte:
Democrats: white Republicans are "weird";
Sailer: white Democrats are WEIRD.