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Trump Does An Inadvertent Anti-Semitism And Claims Jews And Israel 'literally used to own' the American Congress And Laments They Don't Anymore. Calls Israeli Influence 'Rightful'. MAGA! by literalotherkin in debatealtright

[–]Sapphire 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Hmm, as someone who's been active (on and off) in alt-right/dissident-right/WN circles since 2013, I remember a lot of cautious optimism and skepticism about Trump in 2015/most of 2016. It was during the few months before he was elected and when he was President-Elect that people got intoxicated by him and swept up in the excitement.

I felt his rhetoric was too good to be true, personally. He was a mainstream celebrity, billionaire, reality TV persona and an NYC Baby Boomer with Jewish connections to boot.

Trump was always something like a human Rorschach Test. People saw what they wanted to see in him. The left, Ben Shapiro tier neocons, and the dissident right saw a crypto-white nationalist/fascist, sure, but don't forget the legions of normie boomer conservatives who saw him as Ronald Reagan 2.0 (not Hitler 2.0) who was going to bring economic prosperity, stand up to the ChiComs and do wonderful things for the black community, helping to get them off that "Democrat plantation."

The immigration dogwhistles? As far as they're concerned, that's not really about race... it's about illegal immigration.

An HBD question: What difference in appearance would you say, exist between British, German, and French peoples? by casparvoneverec in debatealtright

[–]Sapphire 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

How mixed are White Americans outside of the major coastal states/cities?

It seems (to me, as someone not from the US) that there's an obvious Germanic/Nordic look in many white Americans from states like the Dakotas, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Tennessee etc.

I was in TN and remember seeing a lot of white mothers with blond(e)-haired kids somewhere outside of Nashville.

My understanding of US immigration history (between the 1840s - 1920s or thereabouts) is that the Irish, Italians, Polish, Jews, etc tended to congregate in ethnic neighbourhoods in NYC, NJ, Philly and Chicago, whereas immigrants from Scandinavia and Germany were more inclined to move out West and spread out. I know there were cohesive German communities, where German was spoken etc, but WW1 sort of killed that off.

I used to be under the impression that it was trendy in the US to be of Irish or Italian stock, but apparently that's mainly just a NYC/NJ/Boston thing that's been overemphasized in popular culture due to things like The Sopranos, Jersey Shore, and so on. At least according to /r/AskAnAmerican on Reddit.

An HBD question: What difference in appearance would you say, exist between British, German, and French peoples? by casparvoneverec in debatealtright

[–]Sapphire 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Just an observation: British women from middle-class backgrounds are often quite beautiful and feminine, but the working-class ones tend to be rough looking. It doesn't help that obesity is pretty prolific among working-class Brits.

Go to popular holiday resorts in Spain during the summer, you will see a lot of genetic trash from the UK (to be brutally honest), male and female alike. If you didn't believe in physiognomy, you'll definitely believe in it after.

Keep in mind that class in the UK is different to the US, it's not just an economic construct, but largely based on heritage.

What is the counter-argument against blacks/minorities getting sentenced more harshly than whites for the same crime?

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