Half of African leaders are AIDS/HIV denialists or cranks. Seems many seem to feel the same way about Ebola too!

https://text.npr.org/2026/05/29/g-s1-124359/ebola-outbreak-t...

https://time.com/article/2026/07/22/angry-mobs-are-attacking...

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2026-07-18/at-lea...

Diamond makes broad genetic/intelligence claims about whole populations, rankes societies as "advanced/backward" constantly and describes conquest as inevitable

"in mental ability New Guineans are probably genetically superior to Westerners"

"modern "Stone Age" peoples are on the average probably more intelligent"

"some societies seem hopelessly conservative, inward looking, and hostile to change."

Actual quotes from this so called bastion of liberalism

"China’s connectedness eventually became a disadvantage" [because] "a decision by one despot could and repeatedly did halt innovation."

China = monolithic, obedient, centralized, despotic, stagnant; Europe = pluralistic, competitive, innovative.

Diamond turns "Chinese authoritarianism" into a transhistorical condition produced by the land itself. I'm all about the LVT and Georgism and all but this is doing too much service for land.

In other words, the old Orientalist story survives perfectly well after the race science has been supposedly removed from the chassis. Better still, Diamond treats Ming maritime policy, imperial bureaucracy, and Mao’s Cultural Revolution as variations on the same ancient geographical bug, as though two thousand years of Chinese politics were basically the Yangtze River repeatedly pressing the "authoritarianism" button with it's floods!!!

That first sentence "attempts were largely unsuccessful" is a cope from wikipedia editors who are mad that it keeps being brought up by race realists who are using this blurb to justify their own racism. Consider that it was a literal Rothschild who did the most recent almost-domestication. 4chan is on this like fly's are on horses (but not Zebra's, or horses painted like Zebras - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-22333-7)

The part I quoted without the unnecessary pre-thinking done with that first sentence is all I need. It was quite possible to get most of the way there over short periods of time with money and effort.

Also lol to it's explanation for no beasts of burden in Africa. Sorry, folks have actually mostly domesticated the zebra. The explanations for why Zebra's were not domesticated after all this time are a massive cope. Even worse copes are the non recognition/misunderstandings of Elephant usage in large numbers for warfare / burden from Africa to India,

"It is possible that having evolved under pressure from the many large predators of Africa, including early humans, they became more aggressive, thus making domestication more difficult.[104] However, zebras have been trained throughout history. In Rome, zebras are recorded to have pulled chariots during amphitheatre games starting in the reign of Caracalla (198 to 217 AD).[105] In the late 19th century, the zoologist Walter Rothschild trained some zebras to draw a carriage in England, which he drove to Buckingham Palace to demonstrate that it can be done. However, he did not ride on them knowing that they were too small and aggressive.[106] In the early 20th century, German colonial officers in East Africa tried to use zebras for both driving and riding, with limited success."

Oh and also Africa had cattle and donkies and the donkey was actually domesticated in Africa.

West African empires like Mali, Songhai, and the Oyo Empire famously maintained massive cavalry units. They adapted horses to tropical conditions, using them for state-building and warfare long before the arrival of Europeans.

Also uhh Camels!

Environmental Determinism is the ultimate racism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicameral_mentality

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Origin_of_Consciousness_in...

"a bicameral mentality was the "normal and ubiquitous state" of the human mind as recently as 3,000 years ago, at the end of the Bronze Age"

It’s the same reason men buy Rolexes.

Also don’t even question it since economic inequality going up means most of the good high end bags or watches out pace inflation!!!

People from India, thailand, Myanmar etc have not and probably won’t for a very long time abandon a strong preference for natural diamonds, regardless of how much “better” the lab grown ones are.

This is a textbook case of “worse is better”.

Chicken/Fish produce an order of magnitude or in some cases two orders of magnitude less pollution than cows do.

Trying to gaslight me on this topic even though I'm right on the part that matters. the "or" stands in for the context of the fact that Chicken/fish are an order of magnitude healthier for the planet, and frankly, for individuals.

Why have horror movies when real life is all I need? Unironically!

Fuck the US medical system and specifically fuck medical ethics researchers who make the american medical system so morally bankrupt.

In the UK, the things valued and required of their soldiers are far less focused on "breaking them down and building them up again", there's an order of magnitude less yelling, there's more liberty, and there's less of an "ethos to kill".

Yet the Royal Marines, having gone through this kind of training, can still regularly mog our own special forces troops and has proven that in the Fakland wars, a war they may very well be having a rd 2 in soon.

For context, US Marine basic training

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjDHoNcH5o4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9gnRQaXH38

Compare this to Royal Marine (officer) basic training:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv-pxrUNhmw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ime0t2I_eKE

Strict vegan diets would objectively massively help reduce climate change.