Carbon Based Greg

Remember when France was pretty? When Paris was magical? Now it’s called The Islamic Country of France. Or at least it should be, if we’re being honest. France has fallen. After years of fighting the deadly disease of radical Islam, the country has given in. Time of death: 2026.

Since I've had a few Indians in the comments trying to argue that spelling bees and science olympiads are "meritocracy," I think it's relevant to point out once again the problem with that argument, which is that both of these types of events rely on more or less rote memorisation, rather than actual knowledge, creativity, or even genuine comprehension of the material. Indian kids win spelling bees because they are forced by their parents to spend ten hours a day memorising lists of words provided by Scripps. We are told that this is "merit" and that "Indians are bringing great value to America!!!" Exactly what value is generated by memorising lists of words to spell? The answer is "none." There is no value in this. Spelling bees conducted along these lines are dumb and completely undiagnostic. These kids don't read (how would they have the time?). They know how to spell words, but not what the words mean or how to properly use them in ways that make either denotative or connotative sense. These kids don't know words because they read a lot and learn how to use them while also learning how to think and be creative. The Indian kids who win these spelling bees are functionally no different than dogs at a dog show who win by being able to climb a ramp the fastest because they've done it 5000 times and have a pavlovian reflex for it now. Essentially the same is the case for "science olympiad winners." They memorise enough about a particular subject to be able to present it. Indeed, I've seen this first hand. Early in my biotech career, the company I was working for at the time hired in a new hire, an Indian guy who was supposed to be hot stuff because he had just graduated from the chemistry program of a top tier school in our state and had previously, during high school, been...drum roll please...a science olympiad winner for his regional part of our state. This guy wasn't on a visa, he had actually been born here (IIRC, his family had immigrated in the early 1980s before the visas were that much of a thing). Anywise, after he'd been there a few weeks, I started chatting with him a bit, lunch room convos and the like. I asked him about his science olympiad project and he lit up like I'd asked him if I could give him the winning numbers to the powerball or something. He even printouts of his slides and presentation papers in his desk (?) and showed them to me one time. His project was about bromelain and its effects on blood coagulation, platelets, etc. Ok. I'm kind of interested in that area not just because of the protein chemistry aspect of what our company did, but also because I'm interested in the biochemical aspects of nutrition, etc. just as a personal interest. So I started asking him some questions about it, stuff like enzymatic rates, effects of procoagulant concentrations, etc. The guy had no clue what I was talking about, even though it was directly relevant to what he'd done his project on. He literally didn't grok what I was getting at, even though some of the stuff was deal with directly on his slides. It was then that I realised that just because someone wins a science olympaid, this doesn't mean they know the science. And indeed, over the next couple of years I was there until making a "vertical transition" to another company, we were always cleaning up metaphorical messes this guy made. This was well before I "became redpilled" and definitely before I started to realise just how detrimental visa holders can be to our country in general

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