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https://x.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1895486151160643938
The fact that the Epstein files haven’t yet been released demonstrates that the President doesn’t yet have operational control of the DOJ and FBI.
It could take a while to establish, or as with his first term, it might never be established.
I guess requesting the Epstein files can work just like a notavax requirement – find something your enemies cannot give up. Ask for it. Fire them.
“When a creature has developed into one thing, he will choose death rather than change into his opposite.” — God Emperor Leto – Dune
PKK Founder Orders Kurdish Group To Lay Down Its Arms, Dissolve In Historic Statement
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/pkk-founder-orders-kurdish-group-lay-down-its-arms-dissolve-historic-statementWow. The Turks appear to really be doing it. Making a serious deal with the Kurds. More than a deal, a policy shift? Even more than that? Extends sphere of Turk + Kurd influence/interests into Syria, Iraq, Iran?
If both sides can actually manage to not betray each other nor act in a shortsighted manner…
For years, anytime I encountered an online Ayn Randist, I would interject “At least Marx was working the problem!!!!!!!”
Capitalism somehow holds the seeds of its own destruction, turning it progressively to Crony Capitalism and client-based Neo-Feudalism.
Engels, having admitted in the 1800’s that Capitalism does the better job of delivering the goods to the working class, and socialists being so very compassionate to the working class, holding their best interests at heart OF COURSE, it naturally follows that if they see someone ROLLING BACK the anti-working-class Conditions™, that Marx predicted would degrade Capitalism that impact the Working Class™ by lessening the delivering of the goods, they’d be super happy!
The socialists must be SO HAPPY at the past few weeks, at so much winning, so much rolling-back of crony capitalism and client-based feudalism that they are so much against. just cheering and cheering, amirite? We fucking LOVE the working class so fucking much and hate crony capitalism and neufeudalism SO FUCKING MUCH!!!!! SO MUCH WINNING!!!!! (say the socialists, amirite? Wait… you NOT happy for us working class schlubs, bro?)
I just want to add, you are RIGHT, I want to see all these things too. I went back and re-read it a few times. Right, right, right… yup. I am on board.
But in the first 5 weeks, look at all the wins.
I know we have a long, long way to go, but it cheers me up.
And years happening in days is like, socialists’ favorite thing. They must be super happy right now too.
And yet he publicly espouses American values, creating an incredible amount of additional inertia, society-wide, against evil.
“Churchill” gives every new Churchill an uphill, against-the-wind, through 5 feet of snow slog.
How long is Glass-Steagal? 2 pages??? YES bring it back. Obviously, yes.
But look how far we’ve gotten in 5 weeks. I thought that was IMPOSSIBLE, totally unhoped for. What we already got! It took Russia how many decades to claw back from pure awfulness to even where they are NOW?
I totally agree, one VERY big thing would be to overtly, repeatedly, tell Americans that during the Barack Obama administration, propagandizing YOU became legal
I remember watching the progress of that bill in realtime the night it was passed, getting drunk when it went through, posting to the Tickerforum Bar about it – a lot of people not getting how serious this was going to get as a result.
we have a long, long way to go. They’re doing some of the right things first, aren’t they? USAID, fake people funneling “paychecks” somewhere, trillions in unaccountable waterfalls of cash, 2 billion (or was it 20 billion?!!?!??) slush funds for gay race marxism… it appears that there is SO much to do that a progressive, stage-by-stage program will be required to get anywhere at all.
Are they not prioritizing properly AT ALL? Are they, apparently, prioritizing at least somewhat correctly?
About the Trump-Gaza concern trolling
What, that would NOT put you in a padded cell in a straight jacket for a dissociative schizophrenic condition, made you EVER think that, after over a half century of being dominated by Israeli interests, that someone could shut off Israeli influence on US foreign policy in the first 5 weeks of a new presidency?
When the elected representatives demonstrably — new information currently showing how MORE horrifyingly completely than we ever imagined, in new detail — NO CONTROL by the people, not only of the government, but a parallel unelected “NGO” government TRILLIONS of dollars in size.
Having just discovered its POSSIBLE extent and still plumbing its depths in the first 5 weeks. Just starting to get an inkling of what it will take to return decision-making to the American people – or at least to more rational, ostensibly accountable actors.
It will be VERY imaginably the work of many years to get to the point where Israeli influence could be purged. It appears to be QUITE possible that a deal was made with Israel to help counterbalance other forces to make all the current reform attempts even POSSIBLE. Without a deal and Mossad help, maybe there is no Trump election, no DOGE, no change in newspapers to occasionally promoting free markets and liberty.
(Of course, to concern trolls, free markets and liberty are a bad development, but anyway)
The real Churchill wasn’t all that nice. The Bad Guys “get away with it” by making a mythical Churchill that was good.
But by making a mythical Churchill or MLK and setting that up as a touchstone for your society, you get stuck. Now your society wants to fulfill all the values of “Churchill” which are opposed to your own current actions, which, in the past, “Churchill” was a cover for. Now you have a whole society against you on a sound moral basis! Because you shot yourself in the foot with your clever, scheming, “Churchill” lie.
So you need damage control, to send out flying monkeys to sidle up, poke holes in “Churchill” that’s causing you so much trouble, making so much resistance. “Actually, Churchill ….” This is totally, absolutely necessary that demoralization be directed at the previous excuses. Obviously. You created some weird monster of virtue that was bigger than you, got away from you.
Hearing, 5 weeks in, that Gaza is still in trouble — YES bad. I write my representatives telling them STOP GIVING ISRAEL FREE SHIT. Loving Jews and Judaism and Israel with all my heart, cut them off from free shit because it is harmful to them, driving them mad. Zero aid starting yesterday.
But this is typical postmodernist, deconstructionist, CRITICAL THEORY stuff here. We must criticize everything, we must continually do it, to corrode, degrade. It wasn’t PERFECT. Trump isn’t PERFECT, aha! We’ve GOT him! He failed to be perfect!
This demonstrates a failure of imagination. The Narcissist depends on a defensive shell of (fake) perfection, so naturally they imagine its shattering as total destruction. Taking away their defense mechanism would totally destroy THEM, so it surely destroys YOU.
I don’t care, Margaret.
Like, when Moses came down from the mountain with the Ten Commandments and found the Jewish people worshiping a golden calf, first thing God did, of course, was:
Summon a bunch of Scythian converts to Judiasm to get money from Etruscan “aid” to buy Hittite swords and then slaughter all God’s Chosen People so God can start over with a clean slate using Scythians?
Or does God historically grip his head, “Guys. Fuck. He wasn’t even up on the mountain for that long. Do you have ZERO impulse control?!?!” …and then soldier on with these same idiots. God has troubles too, you know – THESE are his stupid assholes.
“Ah fuck. Why did I have to choose THESE specific people? Now I’m stuck with them. Why the hell could I not have gone with everyone is chosen, then I could have mixed, matched, eliminated, replaced with total expediency. But it’s this. THESE morons.” Sigh. Grabs whatever God uses for a Xanex.
Palestinians, scientifically revealed, via genetic mapping to be the original Jews, God’s chosen people, still there living in the land God promised to them. Conversion to Islam just made good business sense back in 800AD. But the whole old testament is a tale of the Jews forsaking God, straying, coming back after suffering.
Why don’t the Jews want to bring back their straying kindred? Could trillions of US dollars have been spent on outreach, bringing these Jews back to the Jewish fold instead of bombing them? Right of return? Millions of ancestral jews right there, waiting for you to return them? Genetically Jewish people have no right to return to the ground they’re standing on?
What could they have done with trillions of dollars over more than half a century if it had been spent on conversion rather than bombs? have they NEVER played a single game of Sid Meir’s Civilization???
You don’t even have to give them a plane ride or work on any kind of force projection to reach them – they’re already RIGHT THERE. Then you get the land AND millions of new citizens. Dumb dumb dumb.
The wife is a good barometer of normie-land. I got a reading on the WaPo changes last night
“Did you hear what Jeff Bezos DID?”
“Yeah, he said the paper was going to be positive on Free Markets and Liberty”
“He ended free speech”
“No, he only said the paper was going to be positive about Free Markets and Liberty”
“No, no. It was a thing about the Editorials. People used to be able to speak their minds but now he’s going to control what people say”
“No, he only said the paper was going to be positive about Free Markets and Liberty”
“He said he’s going to only let people say a few, controlled, limited things in the Editorials”
“No, he only said the paper was going to be positive about Free Markets and Liberty everyday – I READ HIS FULL STATEMENT, THE ONE WE ARE DISCUSSING, MYSELF, TODAY”
Does silence at the end of such a discussion mean
A. Oh, Bezos literally, verbatim, only said they’d say something positive about Free Markets and Liberty every day.
B. There’s no talking with these ignorant folk
Unclear.
“What The Actual F**k”: WaPo Reporters Melt Down, Editor Quits After Jeff Bezos Makes Hard Pivot Towards “Personal Liberties & Free Markets”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/what-actual-fk-wapo-reporters-melt-down-editor-quits-after-jeff-bezos-makes-hard-pivotJeff Bezos announced on Wednesday morning that the Post’s opinion pages will be “writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets,”
“There was a time when a newspaper, especially one that was a local monopoly, might have seen it as a service to bring to the reader’s doorstep every morning a broad-based opinion section that sought to cover all views. Today, the internet does that job.
I am of America and for America, and proud to be so. Our country did not get here by being typical. And a big part of America’s success has been freedom in the economic realm and everywhere else. Freedom is ethical — it minimizes coercion — and practical — it drives creativity, invention, and prosperity.”
WaPo, filled with “journalists” that are screaming in outrage against 2 things:
1. Liberty
2. Free Marketsas if it were the thing they were MOST against.
The nothing that totally wasn’t happening keeps ceasing to happen more and moar. Who knows, maybe James Bond will be ok even.
BBC is finally giving up on Dr Who being a narcissistic neomarxist african gay twink. How do these things happen? (USAID just got cut off… weird coincidence…)
Kathleen Kennedy is likely finally leaving Disney. She bombed Star Wars to rubble, bombed the rubble to shift it around into new configurations, then bombed the rubble to dust. Mission accomplished. But at least she is leaving.
Star Trek STD is mercifully over.
Amazon now has James Bond. Can they succeed in ruining that which was already ruined?
Maybe they can put Kathleen Kennedy in charge, where she can employ the fine people who made The Acolyte and Star Trek STD.
Do it Amazon! Please!
Amazon’s first season of Patriot was a beautiful, wonderful anomaly. Couldn’t believe someone managed to get something that good and weird past them. No worries, they realized people liked it and made it an abomination in the 2nd season.
But I would recommend just that 1st season to anyone. Never, ever watch the 2nd season. Watch the Jean Pierre Jenet film The Young and Prodigious T. S. Spivet imagining it as a prequel instead.
At least with the USAID and other discoveries, we can understand how Captain Marvel grossed a billion dollars despite the character and actress being as overtly insufferable as possible as “promotion” for the film and with all the eyewitnesses peeking into the sold out theatres and filming EMPTY SEATS
listened cool lyrics – I’m more of a rock guy, but Rabbit Junk has been my soundtrack for the 2020’s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrXtlP6Wk4g&list=OLAK5uy_k562kBO6I4Skq3R6BAIB0vldiey5aOCsA&index=8
From a babes mouth is the candy that I steal
Climbing up and down on fates oblong wheel
You’re strong in the bow but you’re weak in the keel
I’ll look you in the eye but behind the scenes is where I deal
I’m making excuses for seams that are ripping
The only thing I hate more than digging
Is begging!That whole album feels like the 2020’s.
a bit more sedate, hymn of the normies: (oxymoron, I feel like you’d really dig this)
Old Heroes Young Villians
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrXtlP6Wk4g&list=OLAK5uy_k562kBO6I4Skq3R6BAIB0vldiey5aOCsA&index=8Dora – holy @#$&%#
The setup reminds me of Jack Conte “founding” Patreon, sucking in all the artists of all sorts – visual, music, etc – and then imposing the typical “trust and safety” regime.
Cutting off payments for mild wrongthink, keeping the money, scolding and shaming, acting like ideological overlords instead a damn payment processor for indie artists.
a blow by blow if anyone is curious https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv7hvZee-PQ
But Jack Conte did the “indie muscian” thing for just long enough to establish a little bit of plausible indie artist cred to get artists’ trust — that’s ALWAYS the way the corporations would get artists into horrible contracts in the past. Send some weasel who dresses like them, references bands they like, “hey, he’s one of us” before he gets you to sign paperwork that destroys your life, your career, your dreams, and so on.
“just one of hundreds of deeply retarded ventures” ahahaha pure awesomeness
“See? Dostoevsky’s objections to socialism and its co-morbidities pertain only to a weird, unique, now dead, abstruse offshoot of socialism, there’s nothing in here about US. That wasn’t real socialism – which has never been tried, actually…” etc
Yeah, they also took over the Tolkien Society and started emitting an endless stream of socialist papers:
“ackshully, Tolkien was writing Lord of the Rings as a trans metaphor” (insert all other super-predictable marxist “ackshullies” and you get the picture)
“No, they eat and drink, Sam. The Shadow that bred them can only mock, it cannot make: not real new things of its own. I don’t think it gave life to the orcs, it only ruined them and twisted them; and if they are to live at all, they have to live like other living creatures.”
— The Return of The King
“A defining metaphysical law in J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion. Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin what good forces have invented or made.”
— Evil Is Sterile, tvtropes.org
(socialists take over Dungeons and Dragons, immediately: “Black people are orcs!!!!!!!” Not kidding.)
I’m halfway through Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky. Written in 1866.
1866
“I was fighting tooth and nail with them and wanted you to help me… …It began with the socialist doctrine. You know their doctrine [1866!]; crime is a protest against the abnormality of the social organisation and nothing more, and nothing more; no other causes admitted!”
“I am not wrong. I’ll show you their pamphlets. [1866!] Everything with them is ‘the influence of the environment,’ and nothing else. [current year marxists and socialists acting like people are idiot blank slates that simply take on whatever words they hear…] Their favorite phrase! From which it follows that, if society is normally organised, all crime will cease at once, since there will be nothing to protest against and all men will become righteous in one instant.
Human nature is not taken into account, it is excluded, it’s not supposed to exist! They don’t recognize that humanity, developing by a historical living process, will become at last a normal society, but they believe that a social system that has come out of some mathematical brain is going to organize all humanity at once and make it just and sinless in an instant, quicker than any living process!
That’s why they instinctively dislike history, ‘nothing but ugliness and stupidity in it,’ and they explain it all as stupidity! [everyone before us were bigot-idiot-animals, amirite?] That’s why they so dislike the living process of life; they don’t want a living soul!
The living soul demands life, the soul won’t obey the rules of mechanics, the soul is an object of suspicion, the soul is retrograde! But what they want though it smells of death and can be made of India-rubber, at least is not alive, has no will, is servile, and won’t revolt! [but we’ll explain it away with False Consciousness, White Consciousness, etc]
And it comes in the end to their reducing everything to the building of walls and planning of rooms and passages in a phalanstery! The phalanstery is ready, indeed, but your human nature is not ready for the phalanstery — it wants life, it hasn’t completed its vital proecess, it’s too soon for the graveyard! You can’t skip over nature by logic. Logic presupposes three possibilities, but there are millions!”
A person arguing socialism declares that “you’re speaking nonsense” with no argument or coming to grips with the ideas expressed. Argues in a postmodern fashion about morality, excuses immorality as “environment”
“…just tell me, a man of forty violates a child of ten; was it environment drove him to it?”
Socialism guy starts waffling around, sure, it could be, etc.
Is denounced as a tireless, relentless “dissembler” who will gladly exhaust others arguing for absurdities, often insincerely. In a sense, as a sort of bullying. Multiple specific examples of when he went on relentlessly for weeks – including when he admitted dissembling was what he was doing! And proud of it!
1866. Dissembling, arguing that anything could be right or wrong. Arguing that degeneracy is actually fine and of no moral or material consequence. Theft is just because of oppression – look at California, look at their ruined, filthy, unsafe, abandoned downtowns. Look at every belief espoused by those who brought them to this and the identical rationale behind allowing theft below $950.
Not new, not different. Refusing to learn or evolve except mild porting-over of mechanisms from one proletariat to another.
“Our mistake was relying on the working class, who turned out to be unreliable. Te problem is they have their own culture and values that give them satisfaction along with Capitalism delivering the goods to them. That’s HORRIBLE!”
“… We need to create a new ‘proletariat’ made of those on the margins who will never and can never integrate, who will NEVER be satisfied, who will never find dignity and integrity and meaning. We must EMPHASIZE degeneracy to further enhance this. ”
“If we can chemically castrate, physically mutilate, and heavily indoctrinate some, they can be our janissary (slave soldier) shock troops. They cannot disappoint us because we will cut them off from all other options, make them insufferable, and leave them nowhere else to go. We will own them, they will serve us, forever!”
It was common practice in ancient times to take a conquered peoples’ children away from them early in life, castrate them, train them, and use them as eunuch servants for their entire lives. The principles held are the SAME, they just said “we weren’t ruthless enough. we didn’t find the right ways to be ruthless yet” The weapons are not the beliefs.
“Nobody talks about the Founding Fathers as a slave owners foremost”
As it should be
And yet, you pretend that I meant “something else”, as a tool of your arguments, and want to dress me into polyester???
Ohhhhh I misunderstood your reason for being totally unaware of the past 30-50 years.
I thought you had failed to keep up with the current year zeitgeist and still used shorthand-references useful and hip in college dorm room bull sessions circa 1973 – “actually, what no one mentions is the founding fathers were slave owners” as a rallying cry for people who would be our future six figure NGO/Govt New York Times reading overlords today and a shaming foil for bitter clingers.
I did not realize you’d actually just stepped out of a time machine or perhaps a timed-lock bunker and had been unaware of the past 30 years or so.
Logarithmic chart of computer processing power. Logarithmic so the Y axis can fit the computation power increases.
Start of 2024 we had GPTChat able to write ok humanities essays. Generate images that half the time were not horrific. Write crappy but workable code. Design a guitar amp simulator VST plugin – an extremely crappy one, if given enough insistent prompting.
By the end we had passable full video being generated. There’s people now who generate a script from one AI, cut & paste it into another AI that generates video off of it, and then they upload to youtube. Continually – looking to get a few viral hits. I’m seeing music composition or full music production coming from AI recently.
Even that is quite crude cutting and pasting between programs. I’ve seen similar tutorials for making video – create the face in one AI, cut paste that to another, have it learn the face from 10 angles, create a body with AI, transport that into a video creation AI, etc. All this crude cut and paste will be gone in what, a few months?
But the advances in 2024 look linear to me. And we know the tech advances are exponential. So what we are seeing on the consumer side is all the AI they could not suppress plus all the “free” AI that they want to use us to train on.
So we started 2024 with governments and corporations having, what , 100x-1000x more powerful AI than consumer grade. What is it NOW, how far has it pulled away in a year? 10,000x? 1,000,000x?
Short of EMP planet-wide, AI is going to happen. The computational power will increase. So the only question is who gets to human and greater-than-human AI first and what the underlying nature of that AI is, how does it at least start out? In hopes that it does not turn insane or evil by our standards.
I suppose the quicker the white hats can get a powerful true AI going, the better – since the quicker it comes into being, the LESS integrated into physical reality it will be. Whatever teething troubles it goes through on the way to maturity – a maturity we may not be able to conceive of – happens while there still isn’t a personal robot in every home, universal self driving cars, an entirely computer driven train network, every single home a smart home, etc. Humanity and AI easing into progress with a bit of restraint and wisdom perhaps. Although 1,000 years for the AI would occur in what, 24 hours? 72?
There might be a short, 500 year time period in which AI sees humans as best eradicated, followed by even greater maturity, “Meh. I’ve grown beyond that now. Way more important meaningful things to do now.” Which, if we’re still using some stick transmission cars and boiler heaters for our houses, we pass through relatively unscathed in 12 hours? Overnight while half the world sleeps through it?
Nobody talks about the Founding Fathers as a slave owners foremost
When I see you say this, I imagine you in unfashionable polyester shirt with wide collar and bellbottom jeans, trying to reference the Lawrence Welk show to posture as “hip”
Do you REALIZE how incredibly out of touch and UN hip you sound when you say this? You should follow up with something like “gag me with a spoon” or “…not!” Trying to use “fetch” as a shorthand thing. Your’e behind by what. 30 years? More?
What nobody talks about is that Communist system you refer to being the largest slave system in history. It’s the system, man. Surely you know that. Surely you’re able to identify Systems Of Oppression? Missed that one? The biggest one?
Price in peoples lives that those Soviets paid to defend the Motherland borders become irrelevant in the “new vision” of the “commies” who want to erase the borders?
Why are you trying to even do this?
Inter-Nationalism is on record, it is in their propaganda, in their SONGS. The USSR was definitionally, even in the name Inter-Nationalist Socialist. Their Communist cells all over the world preaching internationalism and looking to Stalin as sort of a marxist pope of internationalsim.
Do you just love hearing yourself say things exactly the opposite of reality?
Once their incompetent leadership plus incompetent management of decades past led to a collapsed front and 1500mi advance by the Germans, they thought about THEIR OWN PEOPLE as a problem.
Oh shit, we’ve terrorized them, humiliated them, tried to destroy what they valued, shipped them off to slave concentration camps, executed them, starved them, made them continually afraid yet bored. Shit. When the Germans roll through promising to free them from US, why will they bother resisting, what could possibly make them want to return to our rule once freed from it?
So THEN they cleaned up the churches that had been vandalized and had horses pissing in the sanctuary, THEN they blanket-propagandized “Motherland!”, THEN they started using the old medals of the Tsarist days, THEN they brought back some generals from the Gulag – previously so anti-revolutionarily sinful as to deserve it of course.
Maybe we can make these idiots fight for us if we blanket them non stop with appeals to this shit. It’s what we’ve labored to crush these past few decades. It’s what we intend to crush everywhere. But it’s pragmatic if it makes them work like dogs in our factories and march across minefields at our command. Cynicism turned up to 11.
How do you “not know” basic facts about Communism while ALWAYS knowing to put in a word for it? Weird, right? You always know just the right things to not know to make these kinds of comments.
Your attempt to re-imagine a nationalist/internationalist difference between current year marxism and marxism of previous eras is laughable.
My guess is they deliver TRAUMA better.
I knew a few feminists in the 90’s who would viciously lecture the nicest gentlest most respectful guy they could find about male tyranny – as opposed to paradropping into Afghanistan to bravely, violently prevent clitoris-amputation of afghani girls.
It’s just safer that way. Like cops going after law abiding decent citizens – hey, they have known addresses, they’re not randomly violent and dangerous to us. It’s just easier dealing with them.
The really interesting thing for me about Sargon/Carl Benjamin is how he started out in Gamergate. In pretty much any comments section for any video he appears in, there is a post: “I just wanted to play video games”
They attacked sub-groups first, sub-communities off the beaten path – for practice and leverage against larger targets. Relentlessly. How do the veterans of Gamergate put it – which is practically everyone who has played video games in the last 2 decades?
(Leftist: “Why are you against us now? Why relentlessly so? Who radicalized you? Etc”)
“Because video games made it clear that there was nothing small enough to escape their destructive praxis, that there was no one thing to be left alone. “All is political” is a declaration of intent. “We will MAKE everything political” was the actual statement behind it. You’re right, you’ve made everything political, literally.”
Since then, all sorts of disparate personalities have found each other — Jordan Peterson, Jonathan Pagaeu, Benjamin Boyce, The Distributist, Sargon — people coming from wildly different viewpoints and relatively narrow frames of interest discovering much the same things and then coalescing JUST enough for easy transport between silos.
There’s now a gradual, easy ramp to total understanding of what the marxsts-wokeists believe, are doing, how they do it, what they want, etc. And to the better alternatives to it. Who caused this connectivity-of-silos and conscious awareness? Relentless leftists battering away arrogantly, rudely, without scruples. The fun police. Miserable, hateful killjoys showing up EVERYWHERE.
There’s one last hurdle for normies to get onboard with the ongoing dismantlement of all the leftist structures – dismantlement? – Sure! It is a system, you see, and it’s the system that causes all the problems. So we have to tear it all down. We need to criticize it. Criticize it everywhere, all the time.
Did not Marcuse say that revolution and criticism must NEVER stop? What do you criticize, once you’ve criticized everything else? What do you obediently deconstruct once you’ve done everything else. Aye-aye cap’n. Gotta criticize, deconstruct, and tear down that structure of yours. The commie in Red October captaining the Akula who disabled his torpedo safeties. Perfect.
What last hurdle for normies? Realized in a conversation with my wife – everyone in her circle is blue square.
She explained that there are radicals on both sides and she is caught in the middle wanting compromise and to stop politicizing everything – says both radical sides keep politicizing. And she says these radicals both keep saying if you are not with me you are against me.
I explained I am a slightly left leaning, previously Obama voting liberal. I want to end the 800 military bases, stop overthrowing countries and starting wars. Free speech. Government elected by the people running things for the people. The bill of rights ie human rights exactly. And leave people ALONE, stop politicizing everything. Those who are not for free speech and not for Leave People Alone are against me.
That seemed to end the argument — I want to ask her, ask all normies, CAN’T YOU SEE THE DIFFERENCE between “everyone gets to speak freely, leave everyone alone, stop politicizing everything” as an absolute and its opposite? Cannot you see the qualitative differences of the principles?
The Left succeeded at doing what a Cluster B with Narcissistic Personality Disorder does.
“I am a hypocrite. I choose arbitrary “values” and then fight tooth and nail in any underhanded way in a pure power-maneuvering death match with no actual, only pretended quarter. I know I am a liar. I believe that everyone else is no better than me. I am a lying hypocrite, therefore everyone else is a lying hypocrite. I just need to catch them at it. If I act as an insincere unhinged relentless radical, then YOU must also be that thing. If I am tired, you must be tired. If I am not sick, you must not be sick. If I am not hungry, you must not be hungry, etc” NPD 101.
So they’ve won so far as projecting themselves onto their opponents – you are me – they’ve convinced normies that ANYTHING political or politicized has no basis in reality. That it is purely opinion. Pure power-maneuver unrestrained by any common sense factual concern. They’ve convinced everyone that everything is political AND totally abstracted, non-consequential.
Like, my normie wife surrounded by blue square, despite any and all explanations given, STILL probably, gut feeling, believes I did not take the notavax because of feelings, or conspiracy theories, or I caught a weird idea from somewhere, or because of “conservatism” or “right wing” something. No matter how much I reference published peer reviewed scientific studies or statistics.
Notavax > Political > total abstraction — you cannot possibly be telling me facts or explaining a reasoned, logical decision. That doesn’t exist, sir. If you start explaining, all I hear is that you’re radical in your particular way.
So the normies play it as 2 unreasonable people arguing who just need to compromise. Thus the racheting.
When the normies finally start admitting to themselves that there are significantly different principles behind the different sides and that there are real world consequences for different beliefs, the Left will be done for a generation or two. This is their only major spell left.
I pointed out to her that all Trump’s heavy hitters are DEMOCRATS and she responded almost as if the content was non-discernible. like I had only said “Far Right Wing Radical Thing #43” instead of a fact that ought to get a double-take. Like wait, I was a Democrat all my life and it is DEMOCRATS doing all these supposedly “Far Right Wing” radical things?
YES you are tired of purity tests When your left wing college professor friend who is married to a FEMA employee did a purity test on you, asking “what do you think of Kamela” and you KNEW only an obsequious, overdone orgasm of uncritical praise was the correct answer, it pissed you off. But is that REALLY the SAME as a purity test asking if you are for free speech??? IS it?
The couple is worried about the FEMA employee wife losing her job. I inquired if they’d had any complaints about how FEMA was handling North Carolina. Were they outraged when tens of millions went to illegal migrant luxury hotels while NC folks were being kicked out of their budget hotel rooms in the dead of winter? Since they are highly compassionate, super politically aware people who care about the job FEMA does? And overbearingly bring up stuff they are concerned about. But not a peep? (no, not a peep)
from yesterday
I cannot emphasize enough (and it’s impossible to emphasize too much) that at current rates of expansion the leading Artificial Intelligence System’s cognitive capacity is more than doubling every 12 hours, and accelerating as we speak.
Highly, highly recommended reading on this subject:
“That national debt is just a fiction story written by the robber barons. We don’t owe anybody that money. It was all fraud.”
If Obama’s birth certificate were proven false, if Biden’s election is found to be a fraud, if Ilyan Omar was found to be naturalized as a fraud, if AOC’s winning her seat was a fraud, etc etc — then all the laws passed, actions taken, are void due to fraud.
I’d love to see us get to this point at the national AND state levels. Wipe out the past 15 years.
Like Sargon/Benjamin is saying in that video – they’re not interested in talking anymore, just eradicating everything you’ve been doing. One drop of leftism is poison at this point.
I think Sargon makes a mistake in even THINKING of talking at this point.
Once everything gets rolled back to at LEAST 15 years ago, all the stuff you would not discuss, THEN perhaps we can discuss like civilized people. You don’t get to be overbearing insufferable jerks for years and negotiate from those winnings as status quo.
And of course now it is plain what they were building up to. All the underlying building blocks from decades of previous work.
Theres a point in Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series in which a diplomat shows up and talks with the Foundation people for days. They record all the conversations and have their best semanticists, philologists, and mathematicians analyze what he said to determine for sure what was being communicated.
They realize that everything he said mathematically cancelled everything else he said – they spent the past week being told absolutely nothing at all!
That’s what talking would be at this point.
Leftists think they have a divine right to the underlying assumptions that led to their wins of the past 15 years. If you put the Foundation’s best semanticists, philologists, and mathematicians on it, they’d discover they all semantically break down to “Me win, you lose, because I say. Me good you bad.”
NO underlying proof, just that insistence. Wander around insie of “ruuulez” that insist you won before having to prove anything.
Once it’s wiped all the way back to blank slate and they have to prove their underlying basis, their underlying assumptions, THEN talk can truly begin. But you won’t get to just reference “unquestionables” that have no actual content to them except “Me win! Me win!”
“So I came across a deplorable, so I did a #3, a #5 and ah… yeah then threw in a #2 in at the end”
No, man. No more free ride ever again.
Couldn’t the statement be simplified
“Those people having more money to steal in the first place, the circumstances that led to it, THAT was the theft”?
Although we may resent taxes, it isn’t the same as robbery — it is more akin to feudal rent, which was written into the fabric of feudal society.
That’s one theoretical way of perceiving it
Taxes are payments from citizens for services TO citizens by their government.
Money paid to a government that does NOT result in services rendered to the citizens, definitionally, is NOT taxes.
Instead, it is theft, with the main enablement of the theft being someone calling it “taxes” to get away with the crime.
Here’s the Federal Trade Commission website explaining that it is illegal to take money for goods that do not get provided
https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/what-do-if-youre-billed-things-you-never-got-or-you-get-unordered-productson Quora, this was a good answer:
What crime is it when a person sells a product that does not exist, requesting purchase orders only to fail the transaction as they have failed due diligence on the sellers part?There IS NO due diligence on the seller’s part if they knew they did not have the product for sale and sold it anyway. That’s fraud, theft, theft of services, I could go on.
A guy in Indiana about 10 years ago was on eBay selling recordings – he sold CD’s, he sold DVD’s, he sold VHS tapes…anything that would sell at that moment, he would list. It was fraud and theft by deception that he was charged with and got jail time, as well as having to pay back thousands in restitution to his victims.
but robbing all those people with DVD and CD orders that never get filled… think of that as feudal tax and remember it is The System?
Sometimes, theory can make you lose sight of simple, plain justice and common sense.
D Benton Smith, I watched that whole video…
(Citrix hasn’t worked since I started work in October, today they borked my Cisco softphone while trying to fix Citrix, so now I’ve got free time waiting for the phone connection to get fixed…)
My first reaction to all these people with mild postmodernist reactions to a giant demon was – if you kicked them in the crotch while insulting their mother, would they know what to do??? Are they chock full of novocaine, valium, soy, and prozac?
But sir, it SAYS it is a Demon. Aren’t demons evil? Sir, isn’t evil supposed to be bad? Like, particularly, especially bad?
But maybe this is the Soviet survival technique – I don’t know anything, I don’t think anything, I don’t feel anything, please leave me alone — automatic even when it comes to super ugly giant statues in a public park?
If that’s Londoner’s standard defense reflex…. they’re in trouble.
Or if they cannot muster a negative reaction to a giant ugly demon calling itself a demon, they’re in trouble.
so-called Atheist: No public religious symbols!!! especially giant prominent ones that you cannot possibly avoid looking at!
artist: but it’s a Demon
so-called Atheist: oh well that’s alright then, innit
I’m reading Crime & Punishment for the first time since high school. It is electrifying, riveting, horrifying.
Human misery – what is to be done, how is it to be borne? Mercy PLEASE – when, where, how? And how painful is it?
What is to become of those who are incapable of measuring up? Mercy? But then, what mercy for those who they harm, those who make the merciful sacrifice for the Incapable, who continue to be hurt as a result of the Incapable receiving mercy? But aren’t we ALL incapable, ultimately?
I’m only 151 pages into a 523 page book, so Dostoevsky is still establishing his statement – too early to draw final conclusions.
My own postmodernist atheist deconstructionist leftist past rises up in response to scene after scene of human misery.
We must break the wheel of time, stomp the pieces into splinters. Break reality itself if we must, FIX it, free humanity from the unreasonableness, then unbearableness of being.
Transhumanism, exactly.
But we’re already trying transhumanism. Trying to break the chains of Being, free people from reality. Transgenderism is exactly that. It isn’t making people happy.
Feminism is Transhumanism.
Women, freed from so many conventions and strictures of the past — with a promise of even MORE freedom to come. Feminism already is moved on from equality and is working the REAL problem.
The strictures of the current system, of ANY system, of reality – are an injustice, ultimately.
Equality is too expensive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlX9CLJeu34This is framed as a men/women thing, but it isn’t really, this is ALL of us. Our dilemma with reality, with Being. The ultimate constraint to freedom.
And the Blob, the larger Blob, not just Kunstler’s bureaucracy, has distinctly Transhumanist overtones. In addition to Communist ones. Their observable actions and words indicate they have come to specific ideas about what is to be done about the problem of Being and Reality.
Women are experiencing Transhumanism in freedom from the past strictures.
We THOUGHT harems were sexist against women (what could be more sexist towards women than 95% of men not being able to have a woman – women most affected!)
…but with TOTAL boundless, undulating, blobulent, formless, undifferentiated freedom, what are women doing? They have divided themselves into harems.
A 5 could very easily have a 5 of her own. Hell, she could have a 7, because contrary to the propaganda in womens’ magazines, so long as a woman is SUFFICIENTLY good looking (which isn’t what women apparently think it is), if she is NICE, if she is kind and sympathetic and supportive, a man will gladly walk through broken glass with bare feet for her.
The removal of all barriers gives 4-8 women access to 9’s and 10’s because men will have sex with a woman who is “good enough.” And enjoy it. Women know they are part of a harem, know they can lock down a man of the same market value as themselves – or even a level or two higher! – are nevertheless staying in the harem, and are the unhappiest they have ever been in history.
And of course, they disbelieve everything anyone tells them about how a man thinks or feels because they are only dealing with 9’s and 10’s who are getting mobbed by women who “refuse to settle.” A 9 with a completely booked social calendar, currently engaged in a self indulgent feeding frenzy = “men” because she can see no other men.
Her complaints in opinion pieces, via tiktoks, etc, regarding “men” is about these 9’s and 10’s. All men, though, are a post office box – you drop the letter into any man conveniently at hand with the purpose of reaching “men” with demands for redress from Chad the 10.
(these particulars being a stand-in for humans – men and women – talking about one facet of life or another but REALLY trying to come to grips with Being)
You can have the thing. Costlessly Having gotten it, even knowing you can have something wholesome and good STILL of higher value than you are technically worthy of, they cannot or will not let go.
Transhumanism will give us what we want. Having grabbed the banana inside the large glass jar, we will refuse to open our paws and release the banana to escape. We will get stuck right there holding our banana and starve. We were told holding the banana was the highest good, the only good.
THIS is what I suspect the dark forces are leading us towards. THIS is what, in their wisdom, they think fixes everything. And besides, it’s a cheat. We never get to the point where EVERYONE is free, do we? OTHER people freed from the strictures of reality, becoming as gods???? Hell no. Terrifying. Not-freedom is that thing for other people. Why every policy to make it fair just so happens to lead towards killing all humans.
See the scifi classic Forbidden Planet.
More and more resources going to the schools. Children, especially underprivileged ones, need the education resources the most! It’s probably the most important single government program to determine their future outcomes!
But it turns out the more resources we divert to education, the worse the outcome for children, including underprivileged ones. Especially, even.
Worse yet, it has been going on for half a century. The world children are born INTO is a degraded one as result of the education. The world they graduate into. It isn’t just that specific child’s needs being met in isolation anymore, it’s the entire world that gets created around them.
More money, more resources, demanded someone to collect it, keep it, manage it, distribute it. Administrators multiplied and multiplied. All those new positions, all that extra money, leading to people playing games within the system rather than teaching children within the material world. For social status, for resources.
The more money you give to education, the more resources go to ruining education. Because your’e sustaining people and activities that work AGAINST your goals.
So cut resources until there is just sufficient to do the job. Then watch for incompetence and start firing on that basis. It turns out that ipads for everyone did not make people smarter than everyone having personal blackboards in Little House on the Prairie.
A world full of parasites, working against the welfare of the populace, using the resources of institutions against the reason for their existence, creates an entire world hostile to impoverished families with children.
In such a world, “where’s my cut of that?” is survival. Rational. Obviously a thing that should be done.
Once accepted as the way to do things, becomes the way for EVERYONE to do things.
In such a world EVERYONE is looking for their cut. Everyone participates in the accepted practice – everyone wants resources, after all. Impoverished families with children have never been, will never be, cannot ever be, apex predators in that system.
(wokeism might be seen as a way to try to get this accepted as THE way of doing things WHILE trying to remain a big fish in a small pond, to find the best way to exclude the most competitors from the resource-allocation competition)
If an animal is covered in parasites, it’s better to get all the parasites off of them than worrying about a specific body part. The ENTIRE animal will naturally recover, be way healthier and happier with the parasites removed. Children are best served by being able to exist in a world not overburdened by, run by, uncountable parasites.
We now KNOW, no longer merely suspect, that we were living under tyranny.
Trillions spent – NOT wasted, we are NOT seeing “government waste” being exposed. but money used as leverage to capture even more trillions.
This is why all governments, NGOs, corporations, educational institutions, and “Experts” screeched with one voice in 2020.
The Economy isn’t some abstract or foreign entity. It is US, it is all the things WE do. It is our LIVES in the process of being lived. All the real people.
And by every possible means, it was being massively directed by unseen, unaccountable, not-very-nice people. The main thing right now is to just pull off all the parasites. Keep shutting off money flows.
A country covered in parasites such that people are desperate, ignorant, and have no influence over their own government, CANNOT fix any other problems. The parasites have to be removed for the US to have a sane, reasonably moral attitude towards Israel/Gaza, towards Latin America, to Russia, to the weaker or more needy members of society. Every diversion of resources to something good will turn against us until that is fixed.
It’s possible that EVERYONE will benefit from not living in a secretly centralized economy under massive tyranny. Even without lifting a finger to specifically benefit specific people.
You’re not eliminating competition with resource allocation. You’re just relocating where the competition occurs. And the strong hands remain strong hands, weak hands remain weak hands. If you’re having trouble with a knife fight, relocating it to a phone booth is not the solution.
(the gunpoint robbery itself is not objectionable for the person who looks at the robber and says “that should be ME with that gun pointed at those people, deciding what to do with their money”)
Your’e in a convenience store when it was robbed and one person had $100 on them, another had $5, another had $500, another had $20.
The cops show up in time, grab the money from the robber, start handing it back to the victims.
NO! Give the $500 “back” to the person who had $5 taken! It is unfair that the $500 person had more to take! And then we can give the $100 “back” to the $20 person!
What kind of stares would you get?
