thing is, i've read my english history and all the hell that broke loose when gutenberg printed the bible and then irrepressible minds got the idea to translate and print it in english. roast heretic, anyone?
we are not in dreadful new times. we are in the usual times. look what they did to poor ignaz semmelweis when he came up against Idiots of Science.
our founders were right. eternal vigilance, which means don't get fat and lazy and stop paying attention until somebody ate all the freedom.
Jefferson says somewhere that a frequent return to basic principles is essential for a republic to survive. Not the same thing as his line about the tree of liberty being watered by the blood of tyrants.
Those smart guys were observant, and realized several facts of human cultures: Power corrupts and so contain the damage by distributing power. The also realized that change was necessary and incumbent power opposes change. They knew from experience when there is no peaceful way to mitigate corruption in government and affect change, the result would be carnage (bloodshed).
Some felt that the very real possibility of violent overthrow was necessary to keep government from seizing power beyond what was the will of the people. Some asserted that words on paper were not enough to restrict governments and protect liberty. These folks had just participated in a violent overthrow of the previous government, and so sought to preserve the tools they believed necessary to both affect peaceful change and "checks and balances", but also all the tools to organize an overthrow when necessary. You can trace most of the core restrictions on federal government to specific tactics used by King George to suppress the fight for independence from King George's control.
This is largely forgotten because it's not taught in public school. That omission is intentional. The government that controls education obviously doesn't teach kids how to resist it's control, right? That's the way power works. That is what "authority" begets. This too is as old as human societies.
it makes it really hard to talk about terrorists and insurgencies when our nation was founded by terrorists insurrectioning as hard as they could.
that eye-of-the-beholder effect, it's real.
and this proves the importance of a decisive victory if you're going to start a war.
what made us uniquely fortunate as a nation was the quality of our foundational documents that legitimized our rebellion and laid out durable principles for governance. schmucks in leadership may come and go, and do as much damage as they can manage before they leave, but we have something of enduring value to return to.
Not really terrorists, though. Not by terror, but by tactics. The revolutionary army used tactics that later we would describe as "gorilla warfare" in the jungles of south east Asia. Ambushes and surprise attacks, and flanking maneuvers that enabled a much smaller force in numbers to prevail in battle. One could make a case that today's special operations units has some of their roots in the tactics and culture of the revolutionary army of committed individuals.
"terrorist" is a modern construct of course but to be unoriginal, one man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist, which is pretty normal in human history.
i do think it's unfair how the loyalists are portrayed in american history. they didn't ask for the rug to be pulled out from under them.
Exactly, except that everything is weighted by partisanship.... so vigilance by Liberals is fair and just , but vigilance by non liberals ( see what I did there) is extreme, facist and clearly the death knell for “ our Democracy.”
i would like to see a massive protest movement arising spontaneously of people screaming (reminiscent of the concierge who wasn't no madam) "i ain't no jam jar and i don't wear labels!"
At a recent neighborhood get together, I made the innocuous statement “ I m saddened that it’s Colorado Democrats trying to keep RFK Jr off the ballot ( Primary)… Neighbor: “ Oh you’re one of those”…..
Democrats keeping parties off the ballot has been a problem for a long time (mostly the Green party, but they sabotage anybody who could pull votes away from them).
I had so many delicious responses but decided to act my age. I’m not an anti vaxxer but do not hesitate now when someone calls RFK Jr a “ nut.” My measured response is “ so you agree with the CDC pediatric inoculation schedule of 90 shots between birth and 18? “ No one is aware of this .
On behalf of my wife: can you explain what exactly is appropriately acting "my age" at a social gathering? Apparently, I have not yet learned that ;-).
Yep, ‘tis nothing new. Just the same old, very old, dance of social parasites and host societies; one inexorably sucking the other dry of its wealth, energy to create and will until the host is dead leaving the parasites to scramble around for new hosts but, likely as not, dying with the society it helped kill. All together, parasites and victim cultures, become the fertilizer to start the cycle over again.
Reference Chinese theory of Dynastic Cycles (They should know.) and the various Western concepts of cyclic rises and falls. Perhaps Frederic Brown was on to something when he wrote his sci-fi short story, Letters to a Phoenix in 1949, when the Cold War and I were brand new ironically enough. Anyway, personally, “My fuck fuse has been blown.”
i'll repeat for the gazillionth time--all of life is power and resources, who's got 'em, who wants 'em, who doles them out to henchguys. this is true of every organized society, starting with bug colonies and any animal that doesn't have a mostly solitary lifecycle. we never learn that we just ain't that special.
It’s 5 O clock somewhere.... right here in Colorado... I’ll fire off my diatribe tomorrow! COVID was man made.... NO effing DUH!! What’s next? People with penises are not women??
I admire and thank people like Jon Stewart who one, have enough self respect to not join the circling of wagons and two, braves his standing with his liberal fan base by calling out the obvious. COVID was man made. Maybe it’s time to stop labeling people as “ conspiracy whackos.” Too bad the msm is owned by Big Pharma... Al Roker damn near died twice from blood clots and yet he remains a Pfizer stooge.
That is the stated foundation of the Constitution of the United States of America. This was the key deviation from prior constitutional forms of government - a reversal of the flow of power (from god to the people, from the people to the state, from the state to the federal). BTW this is no longer part of the government approved curricula in public schools. And "accredited" private schools, at least in my state (CA) use the state approved curricula and textbooks.
This notion, that law dictates what is disallowed and thus the people otherwise have the power to decide for themselves what is allowed, was quite controversial 250 years ago. It was so much so that King George declared it "misinformation" :-).
It always amazes me how leftist totalitarians use words that are the opposite of who they are or what they believe to tells us who they are and what they believe. Examples; The use of the term “human rights” by entities such as UNESCO or countries such as The Peoples Democratic Republic of some communist he’ll hole.
It's like they understand how badly these things would undermine human rights, so they think if they say "we pinky promise to be super careful about speech" that people will just let it slide.
Yes, "our democracy" is the anti-democratic leftist regime now controlling the US government and the big institutions, which we are not allowed to oppose. Because democracy.
This is the tactic of false equivalences. Submission to the proper authorities is equated to "liberty" while speaking out against The Party is insurrection. The opposite of what those words actually mean ;-)
"The funny (funny peculiar, not funny ha-ha) thing about this video is that the college officials are actually correct about when speech turns into threats — at least from a First Amendment/free speech perspective. The problem is that they’re obviously quite full of shit because they’ve been calling all manner of completely legal speech on campus a threat for the last decade or so — it’s only on this particular question that they see the need for ‘context’."
Yep, this is the epitome of authoritarian-on-authoritarian verbal violence. Unfortunately, any schadenfreude emanating therefrom is at best diluted to homeopathic levels; this is not a Greek tragedy, and the Wokish Ivy League enforcers of translunacy, maximal COVID policies, and anti-white racism on Iby League campuses are not the only people who will be punished or the ones who will be punished the most.
All of this antisemitism-oriented censorship -- white certainly a product in part of the outsized influence of AIPAC and the ADL -- is just a means of widening censorship generally. Elise Stefanik no more cares about everyday Jewish people than she does about any other commoners, just as elitist de facto androgynous cyborgs like Doctor Gay of Harvard couldn't care less about the growing plight of low-income minorities.
I think the current apotheosis of the blunt-force stupidity is flooding the populace about the civilization-ending potential of a second Trump presidency at the very same time the current demonstrably senile, undeniably corrupt president -- having just in effect lost one "sure bet" war -- yammers about potentially sacrificing American lives and courts nuclear brinksmanship.
I can't wait for the weeping and nashing of teeth part, I'm really good at both. Also "apotheosis of the blunt-force stupidity" is so great. I'm filing this away for future use. Thank you KB
The question from Stefanick was not about the First Amendment it was about the university’s own “hate speech” policies. Magill and the other two were simply unable to process the fact that the obvious contradiction in their response to blatant acts of antisemitism versus their response to not calling a man with a dick a woman was made apparent for all to see.
You would think that the universities might have been astute enough to not have all three clearly under qualified female Presidents not read and recite the same carefully crafted verbiage provided to them by a paid “consultant.”
No, and OMG….SNL has been on self destruct for years. They’re just really not all that… and their intellectual arrogance that filters through all this skits is offensive as you know what.
Both the "real" hearing clip and the SNL skit were hard to watch. When a performer doesn't do a great job of preparing and asininely insists on a yes or no answer rather than phrasing the questions to get to in-depth responses/explanations that would more directly expose the reality of the situation at the universities, I have no sympathy or support for either. Yes, I understand there are time limitations but a coordinated effort on the part of those running the hearing could ensure a complete answer is obtained. To me they are both just bad television shows but the hearing itself was worse.
I agree that they're obvious hypocrites and no one involved is a sympathetic character. If the entire "leadership" of the Ivies is toppled, outstanding!
My concern is that Stefanik was being disingenous by implying people were calling for the genocide of Jews on campuses. As I understand "antifada," it's directed against the govermnent of Israel.
That's kind of a digression, though, because IF these places insist on having policies to protect against the boogeyman "trans genocide" and other obvious Wokish bullshit-puckey, then OF COURSE they should ban anything smacking of targeted hatred toward Jews from the outset, not to mention even the faintest hints of derision of Catholics, Mennonites, hobbits, hipsters, etc.
The question for ne is whether a consistently applied policy of censorship in these unraveling institutions and mask-and-jab factories is preferable to consistently applied 1A standards. In a free-speech environment already in the shitter...
Whatever the case, just consider that the meatheads being processed through these schools and their graduate schools -- with the same afoot at Stanford and that tier of forced-acculturation centers -- will in 5 to 20 years dominate the media, the business world, and the U.S. Government. Oh, and the judiciary branch.
I can't wait! Any new psychedelics in the pipeline you know of?
Funny anecdote: I’m a banking regulatory expert. I’ve been seeing this going on in banking regulations since the beginning of 2020. Also I’ve pinpointed several occasions where certain agencies have went around the Administrative Procedures Act by issuing “pseudo regulations” in the form of “guidance”.
Everything we’ve seen from health regulatory bamboozles to this censorship is in fact in our banking system as well.
I’m in a similar position. It hasn’t been so many years since the regulators were caught blackmailing banks into depriving gun stores of all banking services. (By making us designate them as high risk accounts, subject to enhanced monitoring.)
They were hoping that by depriving them of banking services, the stores would go out of business.
When Congress told them to stop, they said of course they would stop. It must have been a big misunderstanding.
They didn’t stop.
Bank regulators have no respect for the laws that govern their actions, yet they expect us to dance on their pin heads.
SC - "regulate free speech under the guise of fighting misinformation" then every single practicing attorney and politician would be gagged. As the authorities say, these rules are for thee, not for me Mr. Mulder.
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Bioethics. The field engages in the same sort of high-minded declarations of protecting individual freedom, rights. But paints itself enough outs in any situation to declare a collective public health risk demands overriding individual freedom. Patting themselves on the back for being so benevolent, "good stewards."
Christine Grady, aka Mrs. Anthony Fauci is the NIH's Chief Bioethicist. And her husband had many emails back and forth with Jeremy Farrar, then head of Wellcome Trust. Wellcome Trust underwrites the Nuffield Council on Bioethics. Which published this guide way back in 2007. That explores a host of issues. Including infectious disease, obesity, alcoholism and water fluoridation.
Public health: ethical issues The Nuffield Council on Bioethics, 2007
More of that mental masturbatory stuff you describe coming out of universities today found in their censorship guidelines.
Chief Bioethicists like Mrs. Fauci blew right through the guidelines and guardrails that planning documents declared were necessary in our free societies. They left those outs. And notice how they were already pulling in notions of "equity" in setting public health policy in 2007. Their recommendation for dealing with inequity contemplates making everyone share in the misery of subgroups that could be discriminated against if they were facing health challenges. Basically, if one person could get sick all needed to take precautions, if one person needed to face quarantine, all needed to be quarantined. So because the elderly and obese are most at risk of infectious disease in order to not discriminate against them even healthy people had to be subjected to the same precautions. "Equity" is synonymous with Communism. Churchill was right when he said that the only thing that socialism/communism shares equally is misery. Case and point these past three years guided by the ethics found in these plans.
Also, the section on water fluoridation is instructive as to mask mandates. It acknowledges that even after 60 years (now 75) no evidence exists that fluoridated water prevents cavities. And that there's evidence fluoridated water causes health harms like increased cancers. But that local authorities are acting ethically fluoridating their water because they still say they hope it *may* help prevent cavities and opponents bear the burden of producing evidence that fluoridated water causes harms to the satisfaction of the same local authorities saying they hope it prevents cavities. Heads we win, Tails you lose. Bioethical/ethical censorship. Sames.
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"Our best-intentioned, our best-laid plans aren't working because people aren't following them properly; our benevolent plans aren't flawed, the people are. And we can fix them. We don't mistakes, they do."
Many-fold millions more died under Stalin and Mao because their same "experts" with best-intentioned, best-laid plans declared the same thing about agriculture and industry than who perished from a bullet or rope. Tens of millions of people starved to death because their "betters" who don't make mistakes were hell-bent on fixing the people, for their own good, instead of fixing their flawed, murderous plans. Unless they weren't really so flawed after all, and worked exactly as designed. But that would be the stuff of conspiracy theories
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They're doing it again with energy and food, same exact thinking as under Stalin and Mao. Climate alarmism mandating EV's, fifteen-minute cities and lab-made food. They know better. If not for the disobedient, asocial individualists their plans for paradise would be realized. "Must eliminate the selfish, bad people who are messing up our plans for utopia!" If we don't get ahead of them their body count will be in the billions, not just tens or hundreds of millions.
Democide is a feature, not a flaw of totalitarian central-planned governance by "experts." Totalitarian governance has the largest body count throughout all of history of all forms of government. Disease. War. Famine. Cold. Which result from the acts of man, not acts of God.
This presentation of Death by Government regime types was compiled by researchers in 1994. Just needs updating for the past thirty years., especially the past three. The further government goes towards totalitarianism, the higher the deaths by government. Central planning, the best-laid plans of the best-intentioned "experts" who know better for lesser people what's good for them always results in democide. Predictable. And predicted. Which makes it intentional.
Totally agree. The coordinated action in this case is attacking farmers/food. If you control food, you control everything (just like money -- and if you control the money, sooner or later you'll control the food!)
SC - Obummer often said that his party needed to educate better, explain better because their message was not being accepted/understood ... it was such an interesting way to phrase his manipulation tactics (protege of ol’ Saul ... as in Alinsky)
Ask a bio-ethicist this (and the bio- part is redundant and a shield against analysis/criticism; ethics is ethics, and prefixes/suffixes don't change that):
"Which is more ethical? Staying put with a severly injured person unable to care for themselves and by doing so deplete the resources of the group so much the entire group will die if the injured person doesn't reciver fast enough? Or gently kill the injured person? Or leave them there to die alone and of exposure? Or split the group, dividing resources and thereby maximise the risk of death for both groups?"
The question is of course a trap: neither alternative is more or less ethical than any other, instead the alternative chosen reveals the ethics of the one answering.
Bit don't tell the bio-ethicist that; if they actually studied ethics and philosophy beyond middle school-levels, they should know that already.
Oh they study ethics and philosophy alright. They study all of the types of ethics and philosophies. And then choose to practice the type that suits them. Namely the philosophy of ethics that supports the totalitarianism, centralized authority that knows better for the masses than they know for themselves: Utilitarianism:
The ethics most of us commoners think of are known as Virtue Ethics or Kantian Ethics when we hear and use the word. Utilitarianism is the ethics conceived of by those who believe they are cut from a finer cloth of man. Blue bloods. Who believe themselves wise, dispassionate, calm, cool, capable of making the tough decisions required of leaders/rulers. The ethics of conceit and privilege.
All's ethical in service to a declared greater good. The "Sometimes you have to break a few eggs to make an omelet" thinking. Considered "ethical" under utilitarian ethics. To harm so many and still live with oneself requires a sincere belief that they are performing a greater good. Very few sociopaths are full-on sadists who get off on inflicting harm for the sake of harming.
Whereas We, the People think of Virtue or Kantian ethics when we hear the word, "ethics." Very different ethics.
Ends justifies the means, is what is taught as the highest form of ethics in the Ivy's, the Rhodes Scholars, Oxford's, etc, to 'future leaders.' That leadership requires the cool, unemotional, level-headed ability to make difficult decisions that imperil some for a greater good. Human sentimentality has no place in leadership to them.
Lies are necessary to govern, they believe, the population too stupid or emotional to know what's good for them. And if caught in a lie then deflect by claiming benevolent intent, like Fauci and masking. They are taught this. The Fauci's set and follow their own ethics. Their own estimation of what a "greater good" is.
We'd be well-advised to educate ourselves on the subject of ethics so we learn that what we think the word "ethics" means is often quite different than what those in positions of authority think it means.
To declare that governments haven't been acting ethically isn't sufficient; they believe they have been and have their own system of ethics they maintain. We must attack their *system* of ethics itself if we are to regain our freedom and liberty, our rights we are endowed with by our creator. A system of Utilitarian ethics where sociopaths and psychopaths decide what constitutes a "greater good" is the surest path to death, misery and slavery. Utilitarianism is the ethics of eugenics. Hitler adhered to utilitarian ethics, he was considered a very ethical leader by the eugenics movement. Supported even by leaders in the US, many of whom publicly supported and admired eugenics justified by utilitarianism pre-WWII. And stealthily ever since.
I don't remember which early utilitarian (or if it was utilist) who stated that no matter how much you stacked on the "plus" side of the balance sheet, any one evil act on the "minus" side meant you wound up with a net loss.
He stated it to point out that utilitarianism as an idea wasn't intended as and couldn't be used as a rationalisation for evil acts.
You can see the error of thought of "one evil minus two good equals net positive" all over pop-culture and 20th century american entertainment media, especially in gaming where so-called "karma points" or "alignment scores" are common, creating a system of thought about ethics that turn it all into a shop-keeper's balance-sheet instead of [moral absolutes vs moral relatives] vs [empirical fact vs theoretical principles].
For an industrialist capitalist society (or a communist or fascist one) it makes perfect sense to turn ethics and morality into a sliding scale-game: net positive equal good, net negative equals bad, and if you're the one controlling where the cut-offs and threshold are placed, you can /always/ create a net positive for yourself.
I kind of feel like leaders of all countries are friends when there off stage. If they weren’t coordinating with each other it wouldn’t be working. I think they all sit down together and go through the play book. At the end of the day there objective is the same, to keep the citizens in check so they can continue doing what they want. Covid really did do a great deal to show that they do in fact work together. It’s funny during Covid they all stopped fighting to work on a cure, a vaccine etc.. as soon as they were happy with that, poof back to disagreeing with each other oh , and war!! It says a lot if you read between the lines. Covid was all governments working together to maintain there leverage over mankind, and continue with there retarded plan to kill everyone. Maybe I’m wrong, but I’ve really have always felt like this.
They can call us crackers all day long. Ok, I’m white like a chicken, like a saltine cracker, but the other insinuation is, I’m a cracker like the whip guys on the plantation. Like most black folks, I’m tired of being pigeonholed, just leave me be, I love pretty much everone that doesn’t proclaim their victimhood. Leave us to work out our issues. Government is there to incite this crap.
By government I’ll assume that you mean the politicians and their corporate puppet masters. And yes they divide us by race,color, religion,economic status, etc. But the fact is there are struggling middle class Black Americans, Native Americans,Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans & White Americans. If we, the struggling middle class,the backbone of this country put aside our differences the game is over for the ruling class. That is the very reason they work so diligently to keep us separated.
Yep, those are the guys. They fly their private jets to climate conferences. Indulge in steaks and hookers but want us too ride our donkeys and eat bugs. If you look at the big picture, the end game, that’s what it’s all about. They started with the jab, that alone killed millions. We’re over populated according to them, so they feel it’s their responsibility to thin the herd. While we’re sitting around cow paddy fires because there’s no heating fuel, I bet they will be nice and warm. Peasants and pitchforks come to mind.
And that's what they thrive on: "Pushing" us against each other; not pulling us apart. As they sit in their ivory towers watching the peasants scramble for "arrows", all the while the "bullseye" peer down laughing in sublime peace at us.
Also, Israel and AIPAC are some of the biggest forces pushing censorship online to silence any form of criticism of Israeli policy, and label anyone who dares criticize Israeli policy as an anti-Semite.
As somebody who still sees no upside to getting involved, it's quite something watching the whole thing play out. Remember when they canceled Gina Corarro (?) for saying the way they were talking about the unvaxxed was the exactly the way people started talking about the Jews?
And, also anyone who questions the propaganda being put out by Israel, for which they provide no evidence for, like the 40 behead babies, and widespread rape on Oct 7th, are called anti-Semites as well. The widespread rape allegation is the latest fake news making the rounds, despite there being no actual evidence of anyone being raped on Oct 7th other than the folks who said there were 40 beheaded babies said that was the case. I think it is quite obvious that this latest rape allegation is propaganda being put out to shine Palestinians in a negative light and give justification for Israel's bombing and killing of thousands of innocent civilians and kids.
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I agree we should GTFO, and while we are at it, we should stop sending Israel several Billion of our tax dollars per year. We need that money more than they do.
No doubt Hamas “resistance” fighters hang-glided into the music festival to prove they could behave like perfect gentlemen. What other motive could they have had?
I don't believe the Hamas militants knew the music festival was taking place. My understanding is that their objective was to take hostages to trade for the thousands of Palestinians being held, many with any official charges, in military confinement in Israel.
“their objective was to take hostages to trade”. But when they stumbled across the hundreds of unarmed young people they just couldn’t help themselves from slaughtering them. I get it, like kids in a candy store. GTFOH
Yes, and the majority of people who are in the age group of those who were at the concert were in the Israeli military considering that being in the military is mandatory in Israel for those over age 18. So, it is like Israel killing off-duty Hamas soldiers while they are at a concert, which I don't think anyone would argue would be legitimate targets.
Rape is more likely to have happened than not. For confirmation see the history of human behavior during war. It’s just as appalling to me to see innocent Israelis hurt as it is to see innocent Palestinians hurt. Compassion doesn’t minimize injury in order to judge one side just.
Are the 40 behead babies that Israel lied about more likely to have happened than not? I'm surprised at how gullible so many people are, and susceptible to Israeli propaganda.
The adage “actions speak louder than words” is an adage for a reason. Leftist loons are also huge on projection: every bad thing they say the other side is doing (e.g. destroying our democracy!) is EXACTLY what they themselves are really doing. So one simply has to ignore the word salad & watch was is actually happening.
Ahem. Most people outside the West /support/ governement censorship of media, and support severly restricted speech and expression of thought.
As long as their governement is nationalist in some degree, and obeys tradition and religion as it pertains to these matters, anywhere between half and virtually everyone supports way harshes measures than any western nation employes.
The ideal of free speech (and later, free press) that grew and flourished in all european cultures from ancient greeks and roman and celts and teutons well before christianity and survived despite it, and which the US, taking its cue from Britain and France and others incorporated in its founding principles, is unique to western civilisation (hence that ideal always clashing with christianity down the ages, since christianity is semitic in its origins and from one of the root-cultures most in approval of densorship qand controlled-compelled speech and expression - to this day, even).
As a side note from soneone who's already seen all this happen live during his lifetime, I cannot but help keep suspecting that we here have been the trial-run for some nefarious conspiracy (because that feels a lot better to think than acknowledging that the truth is our politicians post-WW2 have always had a puritan apple-polishing lickspittle streak to their personalities).
My advice is as obvious as the sky - fight it and not in a reactive manner. Go on the offensive. You all know instinctively the rules of grammar et c of your own language, and you all know which words are actual slurs and which ones aren't - and technical/descriptive terms are not slurs. If "hillbilly" or "white trash" or "cracker" is okay, so is "wetback", "slant" and "negro" and "Red Sea pedestrian".
As I told an obnoxious teenaged arab student once, after he'd called me "svenne" (it's a race-based insult, the etymology is a bit complex so I'll skip it for now): "You call me that again, I'll call you 'sandneger' for the rest of the semester." Obviously, he was upset, not the least because arabs loath negros and don't want to be associated with them. "You give yourself the right to talk to me that way, then you give me the right to respond the same way! You don't do that, I won't do that - deal?"
as hard as christians have tried to wash the jew out of jesus, the religion remains a middle-eastern blood sacrifice cult at its core and its essential ceremonies betray that, no matter how much greek philosophical thought got stitched in afterwards to make it palatable to those from colder climates.
Something which has fascinated me for years is the similarities between parts of the Ugarit faith and their gods, and parts of what is today the Abrahamic religions. The whole pre-Bronze Age collapse era really, especially the "sea peoples".
Especially how Abrahamites uniquely among religions refuse to acknowledge and accept that their religions are based on a pick'n'mix of what went before them, plus "victor's justice" meaning those who remained got to describe those that were no longer around.
And denying truths is never healthy, nor is confusing faith as in personal held beliefs with factual and causal reality (and even worse is perceiving that there must be conflict between faith and fact).
you ought to read some of the rabbinic explanations for why one of the months of the jewish calendar is named for a babylonian god...and i particularly enjoy how jews and christians both turn the fertility poem "song of songs" into a sad chaste deflated "it's really about god and his people" absurdity.
back to my best mantra. people keep shrinking god to fit.
I ended an undergraduate paper once by saying that I saw no inherent conflict between science and religion as long as religion didn’t try to set limits on what constitutes reality. Thanks for making me remember that.
how would you know what another guy is thinking and especially one off in the Wherever for so many years? he might be too busy with the Big Pinochle Game in the Sky to be looking anywhere else.
Do we have a chance?😡 I’m an optimist, but it gets harder everyday, is this the end, according to the Bible? If it is, I suggest we all get right with out God, if it isn’t, still a good idea.
Yes, and our odds get better every day. I'm much more optimistic now than I was at this time last year, and I was much more optimistic at this time last year than I was the year before that.
Take Randi Weingarten -- she's trying to gaslight the entire country about closing schools because she knows the truth about the damage caused by school closures. Lockdowners are doing the same thing as the costs of lockdowns become more apparent.
We're not going anywhere, and neither are our receipts.
I hate and I mean HATE Randi Weingarten. What a heinous shill. Her shrieking is that of a desperate person who know they are in the wrong. I will applaud her “Fall” from Grace and not give a damn when she “can’t get up.”
They can't just outright demand the censorship, so they have to create all these little channels that enact the tyranny for them -- just like the WHO and covid.
unesco gangsters. they declared Petra world heritage and forced the people who lived in it out of their houses. They promised to build a town a bit further, but only made housing for half the people. Building block houses. I don't know if it is any better now, the film was a few years old. Unesco is probably the 'reserve' for the elite, who want us all dead.
unesco is like a museum curator for the global 1% who run the planet. They will need something to remind them that there actually were billions of human beings who existed and eventually needed to be exterminated for their own good.
plus ca change. comin' round again. etc. etc.
thing is, i've read my english history and all the hell that broke loose when gutenberg printed the bible and then irrepressible minds got the idea to translate and print it in english. roast heretic, anyone?
we are not in dreadful new times. we are in the usual times. look what they did to poor ignaz semmelweis when he came up against Idiots of Science.
our founders were right. eternal vigilance, which means don't get fat and lazy and stop paying attention until somebody ate all the freedom.
Exactly.
"...somebody ate all the freedom..."
I guess that's how the US government got so fat and ugly. It eats freedom and pisses leftism.
I thought the leftism came out the back side, not the front. 🤔
Government is a dirty bird meaning we get pissed and shit on all at the same. See seagulls. 😆
That sounds about right. ☹😢
All orifices.
Jefferson says somewhere that a frequent return to basic principles is essential for a republic to survive. Not the same thing as his line about the tree of liberty being watered by the blood of tyrants.
absolutely. i wasn't thinking about carnage but a basic understanding of what the founders crafted and why they were so smart.
Those smart guys were observant, and realized several facts of human cultures: Power corrupts and so contain the damage by distributing power. The also realized that change was necessary and incumbent power opposes change. They knew from experience when there is no peaceful way to mitigate corruption in government and affect change, the result would be carnage (bloodshed).
Some felt that the very real possibility of violent overthrow was necessary to keep government from seizing power beyond what was the will of the people. Some asserted that words on paper were not enough to restrict governments and protect liberty. These folks had just participated in a violent overthrow of the previous government, and so sought to preserve the tools they believed necessary to both affect peaceful change and "checks and balances", but also all the tools to organize an overthrow when necessary. You can trace most of the core restrictions on federal government to specific tactics used by King George to suppress the fight for independence from King George's control.
This is largely forgotten because it's not taught in public school. That omission is intentional. The government that controls education obviously doesn't teach kids how to resist it's control, right? That's the way power works. That is what "authority" begets. This too is as old as human societies.
it makes it really hard to talk about terrorists and insurgencies when our nation was founded by terrorists insurrectioning as hard as they could.
that eye-of-the-beholder effect, it's real.
and this proves the importance of a decisive victory if you're going to start a war.
what made us uniquely fortunate as a nation was the quality of our foundational documents that legitimized our rebellion and laid out durable principles for governance. schmucks in leadership may come and go, and do as much damage as they can manage before they leave, but we have something of enduring value to return to.
Not really terrorists, though. Not by terror, but by tactics. The revolutionary army used tactics that later we would describe as "gorilla warfare" in the jungles of south east Asia. Ambushes and surprise attacks, and flanking maneuvers that enabled a much smaller force in numbers to prevail in battle. One could make a case that today's special operations units has some of their roots in the tactics and culture of the revolutionary army of committed individuals.
"terrorist" is a modern construct of course but to be unoriginal, one man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist, which is pretty normal in human history.
i do think it's unfair how the loyalists are portrayed in american history. they didn't ask for the rug to be pulled out from under them.
The blood part is more fun though.
Not when it's yours :-(
Exactly, except that everything is weighted by partisanship.... so vigilance by Liberals is fair and just , but vigilance by non liberals ( see what I did there) is extreme, facist and clearly the death knell for “ our Democracy.”
i would like to see a massive protest movement arising spontaneously of people screaming (reminiscent of the concierge who wasn't no madam) "i ain't no jam jar and i don't wear labels!"
At a recent neighborhood get together, I made the innocuous statement “ I m saddened that it’s Colorado Democrats trying to keep RFK Jr off the ballot ( Primary)… Neighbor: “ Oh you’re one of those”…..
WTF is "one of those"?
Democrats keeping parties off the ballot has been a problem for a long time (mostly the Green party, but they sabotage anybody who could pull votes away from them).
I had so many delicious responses but decided to act my age. I’m not an anti vaxxer but do not hesitate now when someone calls RFK Jr a “ nut.” My measured response is “ so you agree with the CDC pediatric inoculation schedule of 90 shots between birth and 18? “ No one is aware of this .
you have my deepest sympathy.
but it ain't a new situation.
Carthaginian: We didn't actually kebab babies, you know.
Roman: Oh, you're one of those....
On behalf of my wife: can you explain what exactly is appropriately acting "my age" at a social gathering? Apparently, I have not yet learned that ;-).
Yep, ‘tis nothing new. Just the same old, very old, dance of social parasites and host societies; one inexorably sucking the other dry of its wealth, energy to create and will until the host is dead leaving the parasites to scramble around for new hosts but, likely as not, dying with the society it helped kill. All together, parasites and victim cultures, become the fertilizer to start the cycle over again.
Reference Chinese theory of Dynastic Cycles (They should know.) and the various Western concepts of cyclic rises and falls. Perhaps Frederic Brown was on to something when he wrote his sci-fi short story, Letters to a Phoenix in 1949, when the Cold War and I were brand new ironically enough. Anyway, personally, “My fuck fuse has been blown.”
i'll repeat for the gazillionth time--all of life is power and resources, who's got 'em, who wants 'em, who doles them out to henchguys. this is true of every organized society, starting with bug colonies and any animal that doesn't have a mostly solitary lifecycle. we never learn that we just ain't that special.
Quit pontificating then, that’s my job. 😜 Heard your well stated point the first dozen times.
oh heck. who can resist a nice clean empty comments box?
Yes! Same as it ever was, including the need not to let the idiots win.
idiots ye shall always have with you.
That’s why they hate free speech. When they open their mouths they self identify.
no one actually really loves free speech. and even in jefferson's time everyone hated journalists.
i don't think there's ever been a time in history when the haranguers weren't really screaming into the mirror.
It’s 5 O clock somewhere.... right here in Colorado... I’ll fire off my diatribe tomorrow! COVID was man made.... NO effing DUH!! What’s next? People with penises are not women??
I originally had Jon Stewart's rant about it in here, but it didn't flow with the rest of the piece :(
I admire and thank people like Jon Stewart who one, have enough self respect to not join the circling of wagons and two, braves his standing with his liberal fan base by calling out the obvious. COVID was man made. Maybe it’s time to stop labeling people as “ conspiracy whackos.” Too bad the msm is owned by Big Pharma... Al Roker damn near died twice from blood clots and yet he remains a Pfizer stooge.
Time to look that up. Thanks for the heads up.
Viv la Deference! 😜
Fuck 'em.
We have God-given rights, not permissions temporarily granted by the laptop class.
My thoughts exactly.
That is the stated foundation of the Constitution of the United States of America. This was the key deviation from prior constitutional forms of government - a reversal of the flow of power (from god to the people, from the people to the state, from the state to the federal). BTW this is no longer part of the government approved curricula in public schools. And "accredited" private schools, at least in my state (CA) use the state approved curricula and textbooks.
This notion, that law dictates what is disallowed and thus the people otherwise have the power to decide for themselves what is allowed, was quite controversial 250 years ago. It was so much so that King George declared it "misinformation" :-).
It always amazes me how leftist totalitarians use words that are the opposite of who they are or what they believe to tells us who they are and what they believe. Examples; The use of the term “human rights” by entities such as UNESCO or countries such as The Peoples Democratic Republic of some communist he’ll hole.
It's like they understand how badly these things would undermine human rights, so they think if they say "we pinky promise to be super careful about speech" that people will just let it slide.
Yes, "our democracy" is the anti-democratic leftist regime now controlling the US government and the big institutions, which we are not allowed to oppose. Because democracy.
This ceased to amaze me about the time I read Orwell’s 1984 as a teenager. My stint in Army MI (I’ve heard all the jokes thank you very much!)
This is the tactic of false equivalences. Submission to the proper authorities is equated to "liberty" while speaking out against The Party is insurrection. The opposite of what those words actually mean ;-)
"The funny (funny peculiar, not funny ha-ha) thing about this video is that the college officials are actually correct about when speech turns into threats — at least from a First Amendment/free speech perspective. The problem is that they’re obviously quite full of shit because they’ve been calling all manner of completely legal speech on campus a threat for the last decade or so — it’s only on this particular question that they see the need for ‘context’."
Yep, this is the epitome of authoritarian-on-authoritarian verbal violence. Unfortunately, any schadenfreude emanating therefrom is at best diluted to homeopathic levels; this is not a Greek tragedy, and the Wokish Ivy League enforcers of translunacy, maximal COVID policies, and anti-white racism on Iby League campuses are not the only people who will be punished or the ones who will be punished the most.
All of this antisemitism-oriented censorship -- white certainly a product in part of the outsized influence of AIPAC and the ADL -- is just a means of widening censorship generally. Elise Stefanik no more cares about everyday Jewish people than she does about any other commoners, just as elitist de facto androgynous cyborgs like Doctor Gay of Harvard couldn't care less about the growing plight of low-income minorities.
Control of the narrative is so powerful that they will use any excuse to get there.
I think the current apotheosis of the blunt-force stupidity is flooding the populace about the civilization-ending potential of a second Trump presidency at the very same time the current demonstrably senile, undeniably corrupt president -- having just in effect lost one "sure bet" war -- yammers about potentially sacrificing American lives and courts nuclear brinksmanship.
Top that.
I can't wait for the weeping and nashing of teeth part, I'm really good at both. Also "apotheosis of the blunt-force stupidity" is so great. I'm filing this away for future use. Thank you KB
The question from Stefanick was not about the First Amendment it was about the university’s own “hate speech” policies. Magill and the other two were simply unable to process the fact that the obvious contradiction in their response to blatant acts of antisemitism versus their response to not calling a man with a dick a woman was made apparent for all to see.
You would think that the universities might have been astute enough to not have all three clearly under qualified female Presidents not read and recite the same carefully crafted verbiage provided to them by a paid “consultant.”
Did you see the horrendous SNL clip mocking the hearing?
https://twitter.com/MarlowNYC/status/1733711916441202889
No, and OMG….SNL has been on self destruct for years. They’re just really not all that… and their intellectual arrogance that filters through all this skits is offensive as you know what.
I'm struggling to even identify the parts that are supposed to be funny.
Because it’s almost all moral ridicule.
Both the "real" hearing clip and the SNL skit were hard to watch. When a performer doesn't do a great job of preparing and asininely insists on a yes or no answer rather than phrasing the questions to get to in-depth responses/explanations that would more directly expose the reality of the situation at the universities, I have no sympathy or support for either. Yes, I understand there are time limitations but a coordinated effort on the part of those running the hearing could ensure a complete answer is obtained. To me they are both just bad television shows but the hearing itself was worse.
I agree that they're obvious hypocrites and no one involved is a sympathetic character. If the entire "leadership" of the Ivies is toppled, outstanding!
My concern is that Stefanik was being disingenous by implying people were calling for the genocide of Jews on campuses. As I understand "antifada," it's directed against the govermnent of Israel.
That's kind of a digression, though, because IF these places insist on having policies to protect against the boogeyman "trans genocide" and other obvious Wokish bullshit-puckey, then OF COURSE they should ban anything smacking of targeted hatred toward Jews from the outset, not to mention even the faintest hints of derision of Catholics, Mennonites, hobbits, hipsters, etc.
The question for ne is whether a consistently applied policy of censorship in these unraveling institutions and mask-and-jab factories is preferable to consistently applied 1A standards. In a free-speech environment already in the shitter...
Whatever the case, just consider that the meatheads being processed through these schools and their graduate schools -- with the same afoot at Stanford and that tier of forced-acculturation centers -- will in 5 to 20 years dominate the media, the business world, and the U.S. Government. Oh, and the judiciary branch.
I can't wait! Any new psychedelics in the pipeline you know of?
Shrooms for all. We’re going to need them.
Surely we can grant an exception for the derision of hipsters
Funny anecdote: I’m a banking regulatory expert. I’ve been seeing this going on in banking regulations since the beginning of 2020. Also I’ve pinpointed several occasions where certain agencies have went around the Administrative Procedures Act by issuing “pseudo regulations” in the form of “guidance”.
Everything we’ve seen from health regulatory bamboozles to this censorship is in fact in our banking system as well.
I’m in a similar position. It hasn’t been so many years since the regulators were caught blackmailing banks into depriving gun stores of all banking services. (By making us designate them as high risk accounts, subject to enhanced monitoring.)
They were hoping that by depriving them of banking services, the stores would go out of business.
When Congress told them to stop, they said of course they would stop. It must have been a big misunderstanding.
They didn’t stop.
Bank regulators have no respect for the laws that govern their actions, yet they expect us to dance on their pin heads.
And it's not just gun purchases, as online poker players know too well.
It’s way worse now than the Obama era “Operation Chokepoint” stuff.
Did you ever think you'd see the day that bank's demand you wear a mask?
SC - "regulate free speech under the guise of fighting misinformation" then every single practicing attorney and politician would be gagged. As the authorities say, these rules are for thee, not for me Mr. Mulder.
That's why they have carve-outs for themselves. Like, it's literally in the bills.
SC - and I will refer to back to this... https://simulationcommander.substack.com/p/yet-another-article-about-free-speech/comment/45047710
Bioethics. The field engages in the same sort of high-minded declarations of protecting individual freedom, rights. But paints itself enough outs in any situation to declare a collective public health risk demands overriding individual freedom. Patting themselves on the back for being so benevolent, "good stewards."
Christine Grady, aka Mrs. Anthony Fauci is the NIH's Chief Bioethicist. And her husband had many emails back and forth with Jeremy Farrar, then head of Wellcome Trust. Wellcome Trust underwrites the Nuffield Council on Bioethics. Which published this guide way back in 2007. That explores a host of issues. Including infectious disease, obesity, alcoholism and water fluoridation.
Public health: ethical issues The Nuffield Council on Bioethics, 2007
https://www.nuffieldbioethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Public-health-ethical-issues.pdf
More of that mental masturbatory stuff you describe coming out of universities today found in their censorship guidelines.
Chief Bioethicists like Mrs. Fauci blew right through the guidelines and guardrails that planning documents declared were necessary in our free societies. They left those outs. And notice how they were already pulling in notions of "equity" in setting public health policy in 2007. Their recommendation for dealing with inequity contemplates making everyone share in the misery of subgroups that could be discriminated against if they were facing health challenges. Basically, if one person could get sick all needed to take precautions, if one person needed to face quarantine, all needed to be quarantined. So because the elderly and obese are most at risk of infectious disease in order to not discriminate against them even healthy people had to be subjected to the same precautions. "Equity" is synonymous with Communism. Churchill was right when he said that the only thing that socialism/communism shares equally is misery. Case and point these past three years guided by the ethics found in these plans.
Also, the section on water fluoridation is instructive as to mask mandates. It acknowledges that even after 60 years (now 75) no evidence exists that fluoridated water prevents cavities. And that there's evidence fluoridated water causes health harms like increased cancers. But that local authorities are acting ethically fluoridating their water because they still say they hope it *may* help prevent cavities and opponents bear the burden of producing evidence that fluoridated water causes harms to the satisfaction of the same local authorities saying they hope it prevents cavities. Heads we win, Tails you lose. Bioethical/ethical censorship. Sames.
Never ever trust those who think people are the problem.
"Our best-intentioned, our best-laid plans aren't working because people aren't following them properly; our benevolent plans aren't flawed, the people are. And we can fix them. We don't mistakes, they do."
Many-fold millions more died under Stalin and Mao because their same "experts" with best-intentioned, best-laid plans declared the same thing about agriculture and industry than who perished from a bullet or rope. Tens of millions of people starved to death because their "betters" who don't make mistakes were hell-bent on fixing the people, for their own good, instead of fixing their flawed, murderous plans. Unless they weren't really so flawed after all, and worked exactly as designed. But that would be the stuff of conspiracy theories
Exactly what we saw during covid. "We know the plan is good, so if the plan is failing it must be the fault of the people."
They're doing it again with energy and food, same exact thinking as under Stalin and Mao. Climate alarmism mandating EV's, fifteen-minute cities and lab-made food. They know better. If not for the disobedient, asocial individualists their plans for paradise would be realized. "Must eliminate the selfish, bad people who are messing up our plans for utopia!" If we don't get ahead of them their body count will be in the billions, not just tens or hundreds of millions.
Democide is a feature, not a flaw of totalitarian central-planned governance by "experts." Totalitarian governance has the largest body count throughout all of history of all forms of government. Disease. War. Famine. Cold. Which result from the acts of man, not acts of God.
This presentation of Death by Government regime types was compiled by researchers in 1994. Just needs updating for the past thirty years., especially the past three. The further government goes towards totalitarianism, the higher the deaths by government. Central planning, the best-laid plans of the best-intentioned "experts" who know better for lesser people what's good for them always results in democide. Predictable. And predicted. Which makes it intentional.
Death by Government
By R.J. Rummel, 1994
Index:
https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/NOTE1.HTM
Deaths by Regime Type (Democratic, Authoritarian, Totalitarian):
https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/DBG.TAB1.6.GIF
Power curve of Total Deaths by Regime Type:
https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/DBG.FIG1.7.GIF
Another comment for an article you may like:
https://simulationcommander.substack.com/p/this-is-not-a-drill
Read that when you wrote it!
Totally agree. The coordinated action in this case is attacking farmers/food. If you control food, you control everything (just like money -- and if you control the money, sooner or later you'll control the food!)
SC - Obummer often said that his party needed to educate better, explain better because their message was not being accepted/understood ... it was such an interesting way to phrase his manipulation tactics (protege of ol’ Saul ... as in Alinsky)
Ask a bio-ethicist this (and the bio- part is redundant and a shield against analysis/criticism; ethics is ethics, and prefixes/suffixes don't change that):
"Which is more ethical? Staying put with a severly injured person unable to care for themselves and by doing so deplete the resources of the group so much the entire group will die if the injured person doesn't reciver fast enough? Or gently kill the injured person? Or leave them there to die alone and of exposure? Or split the group, dividing resources and thereby maximise the risk of death for both groups?"
The question is of course a trap: neither alternative is more or less ethical than any other, instead the alternative chosen reveals the ethics of the one answering.
Bit don't tell the bio-ethicist that; if they actually studied ethics and philosophy beyond middle school-levels, they should know that already.
Oh they study ethics and philosophy alright. They study all of the types of ethics and philosophies. And then choose to practice the type that suits them. Namely the philosophy of ethics that supports the totalitarianism, centralized authority that knows better for the masses than they know for themselves: Utilitarianism:
https://open.library.okstate.edu/introphilosophy/chapter/an-introduction-to-western-ethical-thought-aristotle-kant-utilitarianism
https://justweighing.com/blogs/wisdoms-many-facets/virtue-utilitarianism-deontological-ethics-what-are-the-differences
https://www.microblife.in/what-is-the-opposite-of-utilitarianism
The ethics most of us commoners think of are known as Virtue Ethics or Kantian Ethics when we hear and use the word. Utilitarianism is the ethics conceived of by those who believe they are cut from a finer cloth of man. Blue bloods. Who believe themselves wise, dispassionate, calm, cool, capable of making the tough decisions required of leaders/rulers. The ethics of conceit and privilege.
All's ethical in service to a declared greater good. The "Sometimes you have to break a few eggs to make an omelet" thinking. Considered "ethical" under utilitarian ethics. To harm so many and still live with oneself requires a sincere belief that they are performing a greater good. Very few sociopaths are full-on sadists who get off on inflicting harm for the sake of harming.
Whereas We, the People think of Virtue or Kantian ethics when we hear the word, "ethics." Very different ethics.
Ends justifies the means, is what is taught as the highest form of ethics in the Ivy's, the Rhodes Scholars, Oxford's, etc, to 'future leaders.' That leadership requires the cool, unemotional, level-headed ability to make difficult decisions that imperil some for a greater good. Human sentimentality has no place in leadership to them.
Lies are necessary to govern, they believe, the population too stupid or emotional to know what's good for them. And if caught in a lie then deflect by claiming benevolent intent, like Fauci and masking. They are taught this. The Fauci's set and follow their own ethics. Their own estimation of what a "greater good" is.
We'd be well-advised to educate ourselves on the subject of ethics so we learn that what we think the word "ethics" means is often quite different than what those in positions of authority think it means.
To declare that governments haven't been acting ethically isn't sufficient; they believe they have been and have their own system of ethics they maintain. We must attack their *system* of ethics itself if we are to regain our freedom and liberty, our rights we are endowed with by our creator. A system of Utilitarian ethics where sociopaths and psychopaths decide what constitutes a "greater good" is the surest path to death, misery and slavery. Utilitarianism is the ethics of eugenics. Hitler adhered to utilitarian ethics, he was considered a very ethical leader by the eugenics movement. Supported even by leaders in the US, many of whom publicly supported and admired eugenics justified by utilitarianism pre-WWII. And stealthily ever since.
Freedom - thank you for your comment & info here
I don't remember which early utilitarian (or if it was utilist) who stated that no matter how much you stacked on the "plus" side of the balance sheet, any one evil act on the "minus" side meant you wound up with a net loss.
He stated it to point out that utilitarianism as an idea wasn't intended as and couldn't be used as a rationalisation for evil acts.
You can see the error of thought of "one evil minus two good equals net positive" all over pop-culture and 20th century american entertainment media, especially in gaming where so-called "karma points" or "alignment scores" are common, creating a system of thought about ethics that turn it all into a shop-keeper's balance-sheet instead of [moral absolutes vs moral relatives] vs [empirical fact vs theoretical principles].
For an industrialist capitalist society (or a communist or fascist one) it makes perfect sense to turn ethics and morality into a sliding scale-game: net positive equal good, net negative equals bad, and if you're the one controlling where the cut-offs and threshold are placed, you can /always/ create a net positive for yourself.
Good exchange. Thank you.
Freedom - thank you for your comment & info here
I kind of feel like leaders of all countries are friends when there off stage. If they weren’t coordinating with each other it wouldn’t be working. I think they all sit down together and go through the play book. At the end of the day there objective is the same, to keep the citizens in check so they can continue doing what they want. Covid really did do a great deal to show that they do in fact work together. It’s funny during Covid they all stopped fighting to work on a cure, a vaccine etc.. as soon as they were happy with that, poof back to disagreeing with each other oh , and war!! It says a lot if you read between the lines. Covid was all governments working together to maintain there leverage over mankind, and continue with there retarded plan to kill everyone. Maybe I’m wrong, but I’ve really have always felt like this.
When white people can the n word again I will know progress has been made.
LOL these days we have a better chance of locking up black people who say it.
🤨 Really?
They can call us crackers all day long. Ok, I’m white like a chicken, like a saltine cracker, but the other insinuation is, I’m a cracker like the whip guys on the plantation. Like most black folks, I’m tired of being pigeonholed, just leave me be, I love pretty much everone that doesn’t proclaim their victimhood. Leave us to work out our issues. Government is there to incite this crap.
By government I’ll assume that you mean the politicians and their corporate puppet masters. And yes they divide us by race,color, religion,economic status, etc. But the fact is there are struggling middle class Black Americans, Native Americans,Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans & White Americans. If we, the struggling middle class,the backbone of this country put aside our differences the game is over for the ruling class. That is the very reason they work so diligently to keep us separated.
Yep, those are the guys. They fly their private jets to climate conferences. Indulge in steaks and hookers but want us too ride our donkeys and eat bugs. If you look at the big picture, the end game, that’s what it’s all about. They started with the jab, that alone killed millions. We’re over populated according to them, so they feel it’s their responsibility to thin the herd. While we’re sitting around cow paddy fires because there’s no heating fuel, I bet they will be nice and warm. Peasants and pitchforks come to mind.
Build a man a fire, and he's warm for an evening.
Light a man on fire, and he's warm for the rest of his life.
Boy is this true.
And that's what they thrive on: "Pushing" us against each other; not pulling us apart. As they sit in their ivory towers watching the peasants scramble for "arrows", all the while the "bullseye" peer down laughing in sublime peace at us.
Also, Israel and AIPAC are some of the biggest forces pushing censorship online to silence any form of criticism of Israeli policy, and label anyone who dares criticize Israeli policy as an anti-Semite.
As somebody who still sees no upside to getting involved, it's quite something watching the whole thing play out. Remember when they canceled Gina Corarro (?) for saying the way they were talking about the unvaxxed was the exactly the way people started talking about the Jews?
BANNED FOR ANTI SEMITISM
Like......what the actual fuck?
Edit: Apologies it's Gina Carano
And, also anyone who questions the propaganda being put out by Israel, for which they provide no evidence for, like the 40 behead babies, and widespread rape on Oct 7th, are called anti-Semites as well. The widespread rape allegation is the latest fake news making the rounds, despite there being no actual evidence of anyone being raped on Oct 7th other than the folks who said there were 40 beheaded babies said that was the case. I think it is quite obvious that this latest rape allegation is propaganda being put out to shine Palestinians in a negative light and give justification for Israel's bombing and killing of thousands of innocent civilians and kids.
I assume everybody's lying about everything in the region. All the more reason to GTFO and worry about our own borders.
I agree we should GTFO, and while we are at it, we should stop sending Israel several Billion of our tax dollars per year. We need that money more than they do.
We balance it out by also funding Hamas.....and then triple dip by funding the cleanup!
Yes, the US gives approximately $600 million in aid to Palestinians per year, while it gives Israel approximately 3.8 billion per year.
No doubt Hamas “resistance” fighters hang-glided into the music festival to prove they could behave like perfect gentlemen. What other motive could they have had?
I don't believe the Hamas militants knew the music festival was taking place. My understanding is that their objective was to take hostages to trade for the thousands of Palestinians being held, many with any official charges, in military confinement in Israel.
“their objective was to take hostages to trade”. But when they stumbled across the hundreds of unarmed young people they just couldn’t help themselves from slaughtering them. I get it, like kids in a candy store. GTFOH
Yes, and the majority of people who are in the age group of those who were at the concert were in the Israeli military considering that being in the military is mandatory in Israel for those over age 18. So, it is like Israel killing off-duty Hamas soldiers while they are at a concert, which I don't think anyone would argue would be legitimate targets.
Rape is more likely to have happened than not. For confirmation see the history of human behavior during war. It’s just as appalling to me to see innocent Israelis hurt as it is to see innocent Palestinians hurt. Compassion doesn’t minimize injury in order to judge one side just.
Are the 40 behead babies that Israel lied about more likely to have happened than not? I'm surprised at how gullible so many people are, and susceptible to Israeli propaganda.
The adage “actions speak louder than words” is an adage for a reason. Leftist loons are also huge on projection: every bad thing they say the other side is doing (e.g. destroying our democracy!) is EXACTLY what they themselves are really doing. So one simply has to ignore the word salad & watch was is actually happening.
Ahem. Most people outside the West /support/ governement censorship of media, and support severly restricted speech and expression of thought.
As long as their governement is nationalist in some degree, and obeys tradition and religion as it pertains to these matters, anywhere between half and virtually everyone supports way harshes measures than any western nation employes.
The ideal of free speech (and later, free press) that grew and flourished in all european cultures from ancient greeks and roman and celts and teutons well before christianity and survived despite it, and which the US, taking its cue from Britain and France and others incorporated in its founding principles, is unique to western civilisation (hence that ideal always clashing with christianity down the ages, since christianity is semitic in its origins and from one of the root-cultures most in approval of densorship qand controlled-compelled speech and expression - to this day, even).
As a side note from soneone who's already seen all this happen live during his lifetime, I cannot but help keep suspecting that we here have been the trial-run for some nefarious conspiracy (because that feels a lot better to think than acknowledging that the truth is our politicians post-WW2 have always had a puritan apple-polishing lickspittle streak to their personalities).
My advice is as obvious as the sky - fight it and not in a reactive manner. Go on the offensive. You all know instinctively the rules of grammar et c of your own language, and you all know which words are actual slurs and which ones aren't - and technical/descriptive terms are not slurs. If "hillbilly" or "white trash" or "cracker" is okay, so is "wetback", "slant" and "negro" and "Red Sea pedestrian".
As I told an obnoxious teenaged arab student once, after he'd called me "svenne" (it's a race-based insult, the etymology is a bit complex so I'll skip it for now): "You call me that again, I'll call you 'sandneger' for the rest of the semester." Obviously, he was upset, not the least because arabs loath negros and don't want to be associated with them. "You give yourself the right to talk to me that way, then you give me the right to respond the same way! You don't do that, I won't do that - deal?"
Deal.
as hard as christians have tried to wash the jew out of jesus, the religion remains a middle-eastern blood sacrifice cult at its core and its essential ceremonies betray that, no matter how much greek philosophical thought got stitched in afterwards to make it palatable to those from colder climates.
Something which has fascinated me for years is the similarities between parts of the Ugarit faith and their gods, and parts of what is today the Abrahamic religions. The whole pre-Bronze Age collapse era really, especially the "sea peoples".
Especially how Abrahamites uniquely among religions refuse to acknowledge and accept that their religions are based on a pick'n'mix of what went before them, plus "victor's justice" meaning those who remained got to describe those that were no longer around.
And denying truths is never healthy, nor is confusing faith as in personal held beliefs with factual and causal reality (and even worse is perceiving that there must be conflict between faith and fact).
you ought to read some of the rabbinic explanations for why one of the months of the jewish calendar is named for a babylonian god...and i particularly enjoy how jews and christians both turn the fertility poem "song of songs" into a sad chaste deflated "it's really about god and his people" absurdity.
back to my best mantra. people keep shrinking god to fit.
I ended an undergraduate paper once by saying that I saw no inherent conflict between science and religion as long as religion didn’t try to set limits on what constitutes reality. Thanks for making me remember that.
Jesus Loves You SCA, no matter how much greek philosophy is mixed in...
how would you know what another guy is thinking and especially one off in the Wherever for so many years? he might be too busy with the Big Pinochle Game in the Sky to be looking anywhere else.
haha, I'm just joking around.
I do love to play Pinochle tho...
and just like that you made me like you. words on the interwebs is magic.
Do we have a chance?😡 I’m an optimist, but it gets harder everyday, is this the end, according to the Bible? If it is, I suggest we all get right with out God, if it isn’t, still a good idea.
Yes, and our odds get better every day. I'm much more optimistic now than I was at this time last year, and I was much more optimistic at this time last year than I was the year before that.
Take Randi Weingarten -- she's trying to gaslight the entire country about closing schools because she knows the truth about the damage caused by school closures. Lockdowners are doing the same thing as the costs of lockdowns become more apparent.
We're not going anywhere, and neither are our receipts.
I hate and I mean HATE Randi Weingarten. What a heinous shill. Her shrieking is that of a desperate person who know they are in the wrong. I will applaud her “Fall” from Grace and not give a damn when she “can’t get up.”
Exactly. She's just one of the first of many.
SC - yes... you do have the “receipts”
Bravo!
Preach!!
Bobbie - repentance toward God is a marvelous thing - come what may - have never, ever regretted placing my faith & trust in the living Christ
Romans 8:38,39
The slimy hand of the WEF and Emperor Ghates....
They can't just outright demand the censorship, so they have to create all these little channels that enact the tyranny for them -- just like the WHO and covid.
unesco gangsters. they declared Petra world heritage and forced the people who lived in it out of their houses. They promised to build a town a bit further, but only made housing for half the people. Building block houses. I don't know if it is any better now, the film was a few years old. Unesco is probably the 'reserve' for the elite, who want us all dead.
I was unsurprised to find the organization also at the forefront of the censorship campaign.
unesco is like a museum curator for the global 1% who run the planet. They will need something to remind them that there actually were billions of human beings who existed and eventually needed to be exterminated for their own good.
Like the brave people of the Tuskegee experiment, who gave the ultimate sacrifice...