'super talented weirdos'- Dominic Cummings wants your cv

[equationgirl]

I'd certainly feel less anxious if I had my own tiger ready and waiting to rip out the throats of my enemies.

See! It would be great

 

[Edie]

Holy fucking shit! I’m just raising my head to say that my initial take on was this really, really fucking wrong

 

[Proper Tidy]

There's weirdos and weirdos, treelover.

I think most of urban is probably weird in real life to one degree or another, including myself. Turing was a genius mathematician who was persecuted for being gay. This guy just sounds like a tool.

There's weirdos and then there are right wing weirdos

 

[brogdale]

Jess Phillips doesn't want to believe that her right-wing, weirdo pals would hire a right-wing weirdo advisor.

 

[ska invita]

There's weirdos and then there are right wing weirdos

and then theres weirdos who would want to work for Johnson and Cummings

 

[Lurdan]

I thought the name Andrew Sabisky was vaguely familiar. Here he is back in 2016 at Quillette giving his view on the causes of 'White Genocide' (or as he terms it "White Death"). It's quite short and pulling quotes out wouldn't really do it justice.

The White Death (archived version - I'm not linking to Quillette).

The funniest thing I've read today is fellow right-wing 'intellectual' Benjamin Sixsmith defending him at his blog
In Defence of Andrew Sabisky… (also archived)

It disgusts me, then, that dull-minded journalists are attempting to ruin this talented young man’s career. Hit-pieces in the Times and the Mail on Sunday are filled with quotes wrenched from their proper context and presented as being more inflammatory than they are

(...)

Or take Sabisky’s alleged support for “eugenics”. Reading the article the quote was taken from, one can easily tell that Sabisky was talking about embryo selection. One can definitely disagree with embryo selection – and the article actually leaves it quite ambiguous to whether Sabisky himself was endorsing it – but one cannot equate it with Hitlerianism.

(...)

The Times reported that Sabisky compared women’s sports with the Paralympics, as if he was denigrating either.

ROFL. Absolute comedy gold.

 

[ska invita]

It would be interesting to see a list of any other recent appointments made in this vein. Do they not have to be published somewhere, anyone know?

 

[Athos]

It would be interesting to see a list of any other recent appointments made in this vein. Do they not have to be published somewhere, anyone know?

Here's the latest annual report, with them listed at 5.

 

[ska invita]

Here's the latest annual report, with them listed at 5.

thanks/.i now realise im only interested if someone else goes through the list and digs up more dirt.

Sabisky isnt on that list btw.

 

[Athos]

thanks/.i now realise im only interested if someone else goes through the list and digs up more dirt.

Sabisky isnt on that list btw.

No, I think he was appointed post publication; it's dated 20/12/2019.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Seeing a lot of "eugenics is back" type comments on social today.

Eugenics never went away; neither did race science, IQ fetishism, and general skull measuring (the former being a practical policy aspect of the latter). They've been boosted recently as part of "right wing intellectualism", they're in the US government already, and it was completely foregone that this would end up happening after Cummings basically asked for them to send him a CV. And as usual liberals are dealing with it all completely shittily, not half because many actually agree with quite a bit of the theory. Today this morning was basically half "eugenics, is there a point here?"

 

[ska invita]

No, I think he was appointed post publication; it's dated 20/12/2019.

likewise there'll be fresh weirdos in the treasury list

 

[Athos]

Seeing a lot of "eugenics is back" type comments on social today.

Eugenics never went away; neither did race science, IQ fetishism, and general skull measuring (the former being a practical policy aspect of the latter). They've been boosted recently as part of "right wing intellectualism", they're in the US government already, and it was completely foregone that this would end up happening after Cummings basically asked for them to send him a CV. And as usual liberals are dealing with it all completely shittily, not half because many actually agree with quite a bit of the theory. Today this morning was basically half "eugenics, is there a point here?"

Yeah, eugenics never disappeared; it was always there amongst cunts. It's more accurate to say that cunts are (more openly) back. At the heart of government.

 

[SpookyFrank]

The game now is will these lunatics destroy each other before they destroy everything else.

 

[Jeff Robinson]

Yeah, eugenics never disappeared; it was always there amongst cunts. It's more accurate to say that cunts are (more openly) back. At the heart of government.

Worth remembering that the racist lying scum PM has been dabbling in it himself for years: Boris Johnson's IQ comments met with outrage

 

[Jeff Robinson]

I thought the name Andrew Sabisky was vaguely familiar. Here he is back in 2016 at Quillette giving his view on the causes of 'White Genocide' (or as he terms it "White Death"). It's quite short and pulling quotes out wouldn't really do it justice.

The White Death (archived version - I'm not linking to Quillette).

"I hypothesize also that the White Death sits on a throne of ethnic diversity. As Robert Putnam documented in Bowling Alone, a consequence of increased diversity is often decreased social trust and lowered participation in the exact same community social networks that constitute a healthy ritual ecology. Similar results have been subsequently found in European nations. White flight may accentuate the effect, as the whites most able to depart to a new enclave are precisely those most vital to the maintenance of the old community and its support structures."

Fucking white nationalist prick.

 

[Supine]

Nasty piece of work, but should remember that plenty of 'assorted weirdos' saved our bacon at Bletchely Park, decoding enigma, etc.

Yeah but last time the Nazis were on the other side

 

[treelover]

There's weirdos and weirdos, treelover.

I think most of urban is probably weird in real life to one degree or another, including myself. Turing was a genius mathematician who was persecuted for being gay. This guy just sounds like a tool.

of course, I wasn't defending him at all, and was going to reply mentioning Turing, lots of the others were communists, etc!

 

[treelover]

Seeing a lot of "eugenics is back" type comments on social today.

Eugenics never went away; neither did race science, IQ fetishism, and general skull measuring (the former being a practical policy aspect of the latter). They've been boosted recently as part of "right wing intellectualism", they're in the US government already, and it was completely foregone that this would end up happening after Cummings basically asked for them to send him a CV. And as usual liberals are dealing with it all completely shittily, not half because many actually agree with quite a bit of the theory. Today this morning was basically half "eugenics, is there a point here?"

plenty of comments on social media, wc brexiters, thick, shouln't have a vote,. etc,

lost happening like the 30's again, though the welfare systems similarities/attitudes to sick and disabled don't get as much attention as others.

 

[Pickman's model]

Seeing a lot of "eugenics is back" type comments on social today.

Eugenics never went away; neither did race science, IQ fetishism, and general skull measuring (the former being a practical policy aspect of the latter). They've been boosted recently as part of "right wing intellectualism", they're in the US government already, and it was completely foregone that this would end up happening after Cummings basically asked for them to send him a CV. And as usual liberals are dealing with it all completely shittily, not half because many actually agree with quite a bit of the theory. Today this morning was basically half "eugenics, is there a point here?"

Tbh the way all manner of disabilities are seen as defects eg blindness, deafness, etc things to be genetically designed out where possible, shows that eugenics frankly in the mainstream. It's just that most people who believe in eugenics and propose such things savvy enough not to use the word. Was talking to someone who works at ucl recently, and they've a report into the college's links to eugenics (galton etc) coming out at the end of the month and it seems the rooms and buildings named after classical eugenicists only so named well after WW2.

 

[Pickman's model]

plenty of comments on social media, wc brexiters, thick, shouln't have a vote,. etc,

lost happening like the 30's again, though the welfare systems similarities/attitudes to sick and disabled don't get as much attention as others.

So iyo the benefits system predicated on eugenics. I don't suppose you'd like to back that up.

 

[Proper Tidy]

Interestingly this sabisky is the son of ed sabisky, finance director of Unite

 

[Treacle Toes]

Interestingly this sabisky is the son of ed sabisky, finance director of Unite

Oh....

 

[eoin_k]

If there are any lessons to learn from the Second World War, one should be high up the list: watch out for the dodgy eugenicists with political influence.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Tbh the way all manner of disabilities are seen as defects eg blindness, deafness, etc things to be genetically designed out where possible, shows that eugenics frankly in the mainstream. It's just that most people who believe in eugenics and propose such things savvy enough not to use the word. Was talking to someone who works at ucl recently, and they've a report into the college's links to eugenics (galton etc) coming out at the end of the month and it seems the rooms and buildings named after classical eugenicists only so named well after WW2.

There was somebody on Today in one of the "eugenics is it really bad" segments who did indeed say "well, I wouldn't use that word, it has such bad associations, but...".

 

[Treacle Toes]

 

[Lurdan]

Interestingly this sabisky is the son of ed sabisky, finance director of Unite

But as Sabisky (Junior) said :

“I also want people to know that demography is not destiny. Social background is not even as important as people think it is.”

(...)

Like many of his five siblings, he was mostly home-educated by his mother (punctuated only by two spells at private schools).

More of his great thoughts :

Here is his 2014 presentation `Nature and Nurture - the Genetics of Education’ at a researchED conference.

In 2016 he reviewed Adam Perkins’s ‘The Welfare Trait’ for the Adam Smith Institute (archived).
He was impressed with it. (Urban wasn't).

A large body of evidence, which Perkins reviews, supports the intuitive idea that habitual welfare claimants tend to be less conscientious and agreeable than the average person. Such habitual claimants also tend to reproduce at higher rates than the general population, a pattern found across nations and time periods. They also seem to adjust their fertility in response to changes in the generosity of welfare provision, having fewer children in times of austerity and more when governments turn on the spigot marked “spending”.

Over time, therefore, the work motivation of the general population is lowered. This occurs through both genetic and environmental channels. Personality traits are substantially heritable (meaning that a decent percentage of the variation in these traits is due to naturally occurring genetic variation). Given this fact, habitual welfare claimants with employment-resistant personalities are likely to have offspring with similar personalities.

(...)

With praiseworthy boldness, Perkins gets off the fence and recommends concrete policy solutions for the problems that he identifies, arguing that governments should try to adjust the generosity of welfare payments to the point where habitual claimants do not have greater fertility than those customarily employed. The book no doubt went to press before the Chancellor announced plans to limit child tax credits to a household’s first two children, but such a measure is very much in the spirit of this bullet-biting book. The explicit targeting of fertility as a goal of welfare policy, however, goes beyond current government policy. Perkins perhaps should also have argued for measures to boost the fertility of those with pro-social personalities, such as deregulation of the childcare and housing markets to cut the costs of sustainable family formation.

 

[agricola]

How does someone in their twenties, with no discernable job history and who is so clever he signs up to be a contractor rather than an employee at HMG come out with "habitual welfare claimants tend to be less conscientious and agreeable than the average person".

 

[Lurdan]

If I had my time over again being a habitual welfare claimant with an employment-resistant personality sounds ok to me. Not too sure about the requirement to breed lots of offspring though.

 

[treelover]

Tried to post image of Shelley, but didn't work..