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@CQV,
Have you seen this short video? I was very impressed with it.
https://youtu.be/0mNehtnbdGo?si=mirYchjZMFiCsfGQ
I love the perspective of the anthropologist. What was the ” American perspective” of the 1860s? What was the American perspective of the 1960s? What is it now? Good breakdown.
If I had the money to travel, and the citizens of other countries thought I loved Donald Trump simple because I’m American I would crack up. Same if they thought I supported Dems.
Which way, eastern man?
https://x.com/kangminjlee/status/1867683667763777659
The left is of course from an HBCU (Historically black college and university), though not the same one as the sorority rush link I posted a while ago. I’m starting to wonder if HBCUs are composed solely of Heffalumps?
(I actually don’t find that Korean girl attractive, but at least she doesn’t look like she downs an entire hotel breakfast buffet every morning.)
Reading “ASU” gave me pause because Arizona State is one of the premier party school of the United States and videos of their cheerleaders often go viral. I cannot quite put my finger on it, but it seems there is a subtle difference between their dance performances and the ASU girls in the video posted. Of course, that ASU is Alabama State University.
Hah! Yeah, something seems to register as subtly different for me as well, though I can’t quite see what it is… 🙂
Funny enough, they seem to actually have a token urban lady in the video (check around 1:10, standing almost level with the base of the field goal. Even at that distance, you can notice a quality difference with the rest of the ladies in terms of face and figure.
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Apparently Alabama State actually has a normal-sized squad as well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B20-SPb0VoE
And still you can see a quality difference in face, figure, vigor of the performance, and even the choreography.
I speak, of course, of the differences between individuals. We are all unique, and nobody is any better than anyone else. And if they were to be better than someone else, then race would play no part in the difference.
(Race is just a social construct anyway, which is why we can detect and differentiate race instantly with the naked eye.)
@Aaron,
Fucking LOL! My cousin’s wife went to Arizona state. It’s known that the SoCal hotties who can’t get into the unis here, go to ASU. She still has a smokin body. She flirts
with me all of the time LOL.
Once a Sun Devil, always a Sun Devil I guess. My poor Cuck cousin. And NO, I have not gone “there.” It’s just good for the ego 😜
I left out an important detail……..she was indeed a cheerleader at ASU.
As we all know, white people have no culture, unlike the urban ladies and gentlemen of America. Perhaps if we only learned from them we’d finally be able to produce some real culture, like music:
https://x.com/YellowFlashGuy/status/1867065536808620037
Thanks for posting this. I had to laugh heartily — at the bigoted whites who think that their obsolete Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms and whomever else they may have are “artists”. Not only is the composition of this young and highly sophisticated woman at a level the white race just cannot reach, her lyrics are also of a quality that is simply incomprehensible for the white mind. Putting her lyrics next to a poem by Schiller would be blasphemy. Move out of the way, whitey! The time of the urban ladies and gentlemen is here.
No sweat.
Your mention of great classical composers made me think of a line from Anne Rice’s The Vampire Lestat, where a character speaks of:
“those long nineteenth-century decades when the peacock colors of the ancient regime died out and the lovely music of Mozart and Haydn gave way to the bombast of Beethoven, which could sound at times too remarkably like the clang of my imaginary Hell’s Bells.”
I wonder what he would have thought of that song. 😀
Her music is so heavenly pure. Not even one word being redundant.
There is no doubt that this female musician has attained an unimaginable level of mastery.
She revolutionized music to the point where it breaks decisively with 18-19th century tradition. Her music calls for a return to simplicity. The richness of melody has been completely replaced by disharmonious elements, a breakthrough we have not seen since the start of our century.
She will definitely leave an indelible mark upon contemporary music.
She is a woman of all ages.
Lol, CQV. You’ve been hanging out with Aaron too much 😉
I can’t figure out what the point of this movie is. All I know for certain is that Nicole Kidman has hit several walls. And that it seems nefarious. Fitting that it comes out on Christmas day, eh?
https://youtu.be/9XXoNB0lVGo?si=SrhMwNsFVrZyLhKS
I stopped watching this trailer at 0:16 as I am not going to expose myself to a story that involves a woman in her 60s seducing a young guy. This is beyond ridiculous. The production company, A24, is known for putting out subversive movies and TV shows. Among others, they are behind the TV show Euphoria, which glorifies drugs and sexual degeneracy.
From what I’ve read it’s just about an older woman cheating on her husband (Antonio Banderas) with a young dude. Honestly, I think most women, regardless of age, would choose an older Antonio over this young dude based on looks alone.
Actually this DOES happen in real life. If the guys wants a promotion, a place to stay, use her car, her swimming pool etc. Women tend to do better on average economically today, in the US at least. More gigolos than ever today, and who can blame them? Well, I sure as shit wouldn’t do it 😆
But if that’s the point of the movie, it is culturally significant. But I digress, it is almost certainly NOT the message.
Well, I guess men statistically make more still today. But I’ve seen so many cases of men mooching off semi-successful females. Way more than in the past.
This is an interesting discussion. I have collected some of my thoughts on this topic in a separate article.
Another big win, another sign of the cultural shift:
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/disney-pulls-transgender-storyline-win-or-lose-1236088172/
Even Disney, long one of the worst offenders when it comes to putting out woke trash, is now pulling a transgender storyline from a new show:
“A spokesperson for Disney confirmed that the story arc was removed and provided the following statement to THR: “When it comes to animated content for a younger audience, we recognize that many parents would prefer to discuss certain subjects with their children on their own terms and timeline.”“