Wow, over a year. Your substack has one of those really great finds, with great writing and great commentators. I'm glad you've gotten more paying subscribers so you have more time to do this.
Indeed. I saw it before YT withdrew it. It's a good movie but has a distinct bias. Sadly in today's new world bias seems standard. The complexities between Ukraine and Russia require a lot of study.
I agree it does have a bias. Among other things, it glosses over / skips a number of important historical events that would provide more context for (non-Nazi) Ukrainian nationalism. That said, it provides an important counter-balance to the narrative we've been fed.
The truth always wins in the end. But it gets really messy first. I'm a bit hopeful lately, as way more people than the monsters planned have awoken to what's really going on in the world. For the first time in my life, the average people I talk with are not falling for war propaganda and actually do know that gas prices were sky high way before Brandon tried to blame Putin for everything the US Guv has done to our country over the last two years. It's incredibly exciting to see. I think we have a lot of work and hellishness ahead of us, but I like to believe liberty's torch will rise from the ashes and our children may have a shot at a better world. As long as we don't give up! No matter what!
By that logic, that the labs aren't US bio(weapon?)labs because the actual labs are in Ukraine, Majdanek, Auschwitz, Mauthausen and many more weren't german concentration camps, since they weren't located in Germany.
And "clacker balls"? Really? What's the hazard? That you might realise that it's heaps more fun to make a pair of bolas from them?
Living in a country that once had a special govenement agency set up to ensure that toys were suitable for children (not actual health hazards but pedadogically and psycho-socially, meaning politically correct), I really don't get what the big idea was other than either something personal against the importer, or hysteria.
As a kid, we used to make slingshots with a piece of the inner hose from a bicycle tire and a sturdy piece of cardboard tube or a pipe. Loaded with birdshot or ball bearings (my favourite was using a single 1.1/4" steel ball bearing) and extended to maximum length you could shoot through armatured glass even.
Or making home-made ombs from Klorex (a cleaning agent) and sugar. Trick was getting the mix right so it didn't blow in your hands...
Around here they do, seeing as fixing old cars is a common hobby. American cars from the 1950s up through the early 1970s are firm favourite and are often inherited or willed.
I'm told "greaser" is a slur nowadays in the US, but if you think 50s and 60s greasers, biker jackets or denim everything, hydraulics, cars tinkered and tampered with until they are either 100% original parts only or so converted you can't even tell the brand - well there you are. Or try an image search for "raggare + Sweden Sverige", might be NSFW though.
Yeah, that’s one of my major issues with “income inequality” as a focus rather than “bringing up the bottom end regardless of how the top end is doing.”
A simple thought experiment shows how useless the focus on income inequality is -- would you rather have a world where everyone made $50k/year or a world where 95% of people made $100k/year (in constant dollars for purposes of this hypothetical) and 5% of people made $50k/year? Obviously the second scenario is better, but it also has greater income inequality. So the focus on income inequality as a substitute for bringing up the bottom end of the income spectrum (which I believe is best accomplished through generally free markets, except where you have obvious market failures like tragedies of the commons, free rider problems, some kinds of monopolies and oligopolies, etc.) is completely misplaced.
They want "equality" alright; they want everyone to be equally as poor, downtrodden and enslaved as everyone else (except them of course, hence the private jets to "climate emergency meetings", etc).
You're completely correct, but even worse is that the 'solution' is to give money to the government and their cronies -- making the inequality gap larger. It's not the poor and downtrodden getting the bulk of that new $1.5 trillion in spending.
"You will cease to exist and be much happier!" "Take that anthropogenic global warming!" "We ended racism forever!" [unless you include human race-ism of course]
Thanks for the rather long story. Another causality of the dual system of justice. Lock people up until they plead guilty. Much like the abuse of many J6 offenders awaiting trial.
You know, it's a funny thing. When I was young I had a friend who was a gifted shoplifter and I admired her talents. (We were both nice middle-class Jewish girls.) I could never equal her specialties so found my own niche, which was grocery store price label switching and magazine pilfering, and I was pretty good; only caught once by a register clerk who was unfortunately quite knowledgeable about what stuff ought to cost, and I said indignantly that if that's what it ought to be marked, I don't want it! But anyway. After awhile, despite how good I was at this low-level criminality, I began to feel that even if I was getting away with it, there was a Higher Authority who knew what I was doing and that It Was Not the Right Thing to Do, and I came to the painful conclusion that if I couldn't quite afford to pay for brie, I'd better just resign myself to NYS Extra Sharp Cheddar.
And with me not being able to live with myself as such a minor little chiseler, I've never understood how anyone can live with themselves, and face their children, when they lie about everything that affects the lives of people and nations and the world, 'n all. I ain't no great moral philosopher. I just believe that what goes around comes around, eventually.
I met a really hot kleptomaniac at a bar once. She asked me if we could go back to my place. For the first time in my life I declined the advances of a beautiful woman, I wanted my stuff to still be there in the morning!
Well, not to get technical--but that might have just been practical criminality for a (nefarious) purpose, rather than the uncontrollable obsession that's kleptomania. Still a problem, of course, since either way your possessions were at serious risk...
I didn't know you had a substack. Thank you for sharing a link on Berenson's substack.
Wow I randomly found the day that you found the 'Stack!
Wow, over a year. Your substack has one of those really great finds, with great writing and great commentators. I'm glad you've gotten more paying subscribers so you have more time to do this.
Me too!!!
Started it up when I got thrown off Twitter. Thanks for stopping by :)
An Oliver Stone movie...really?
https://twitter.com/kylenabecker/status/1502085373941493765
"Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance." - W. Clement Stone
I had never heard of "Ukraine on Fire" until the word got around that YT had yanked it. Quick search: Bitchute: Yup. Rumble: Yup. Vimeo: Yup.
Hey YT, are you guys at all aware of a thing called the "Streisand Effect"?
Indeed. I saw it before YT withdrew it. It's a good movie but has a distinct bias. Sadly in today's new world bias seems standard. The complexities between Ukraine and Russia require a lot of study.
I agree it does have a bias. Among other things, it glosses over / skips a number of important historical events that would provide more context for (non-Nazi) Ukrainian nationalism. That said, it provides an important counter-balance to the narrative we've been fed.
The truth always wins in the end. But it gets really messy first. I'm a bit hopeful lately, as way more people than the monsters planned have awoken to what's really going on in the world. For the first time in my life, the average people I talk with are not falling for war propaganda and actually do know that gas prices were sky high way before Brandon tried to blame Putin for everything the US Guv has done to our country over the last two years. It's incredibly exciting to see. I think we have a lot of work and hellishness ahead of us, but I like to believe liberty's torch will rise from the ashes and our children may have a shot at a better world. As long as we don't give up! No matter what!
Bruh... Epic post. Love it.
By that logic, that the labs aren't US bio(weapon?)labs because the actual labs are in Ukraine, Majdanek, Auschwitz, Mauthausen and many more weren't german concentration camps, since they weren't located in Germany.
And "clacker balls"? Really? What's the hazard? That you might realise that it's heaps more fun to make a pair of bolas from them?
Living in a country that once had a special govenement agency set up to ensure that toys were suitable for children (not actual health hazards but pedadogically and psycho-socially, meaning politically correct), I really don't get what the big idea was other than either something personal against the importer, or hysteria.
As a kid, we used to make slingshots with a piece of the inner hose from a bicycle tire and a sturdy piece of cardboard tube or a pipe. Loaded with birdshot or ball bearings (my favourite was using a single 1.1/4" steel ball bearing) and extended to maximum length you could shoot through armatured glass even.
Or making home-made ombs from Klorex (a cleaning agent) and sugar. Trick was getting the mix right so it didn't blow in your hands...
Wonder if kids know about ball bearings anymore, or slingshots. I guarded my steelie carefully in my bag of marbles.
Around here they do, seeing as fixing old cars is a common hobby. American cars from the 1950s up through the early 1970s are firm favourite and are often inherited or willed.
I'm told "greaser" is a slur nowadays in the US, but if you think 50s and 60s greasers, biker jackets or denim everything, hydraulics, cars tinkered and tampered with until they are either 100% original parts only or so converted you can't even tell the brand - well there you are. Or try an image search for "raggare + Sweden Sverige", might be NSFW though.
Oh yes. Low riders are revered here in NM. Sunday's are a treat as they parade downtown. Even the police got one built for them.
"Strangely, “Didn’t vote” isn’t included, despite likely winning every county"
Imagine not voting Giant Meteor at this point.
https://vimeo.com/187921978
Smash inequality flat! Clobber unemployment to zero!
Yeah, that’s one of my major issues with “income inequality” as a focus rather than “bringing up the bottom end regardless of how the top end is doing.”
A simple thought experiment shows how useless the focus on income inequality is -- would you rather have a world where everyone made $50k/year or a world where 95% of people made $100k/year (in constant dollars for purposes of this hypothetical) and 5% of people made $50k/year? Obviously the second scenario is better, but it also has greater income inequality. So the focus on income inequality as a substitute for bringing up the bottom end of the income spectrum (which I believe is best accomplished through generally free markets, except where you have obvious market failures like tragedies of the commons, free rider problems, some kinds of monopolies and oligopolies, etc.) is completely misplaced.
They want "equality" alright; they want everyone to be equally as poor, downtrodden and enslaved as everyone else (except them of course, hence the private jets to "climate emergency meetings", etc).
You're completely correct, but even worse is that the 'solution' is to give money to the government and their cronies -- making the inequality gap larger. It's not the poor and downtrodden getting the bulk of that new $1.5 trillion in spending.
"You will cease to exist and be much happier!" "Take that anthropogenic global warming!" "We ended racism forever!" [unless you include human race-ism of course]
Here is another one for the circus.
https://newrepublic.com/article/153036/maria-butina-profile-wasnt-russian-spy
Thanks for the rather long story. Another causality of the dual system of justice. Lock people up until they plead guilty. Much like the abuse of many J6 offenders awaiting trial.
You know, it's a funny thing. When I was young I had a friend who was a gifted shoplifter and I admired her talents. (We were both nice middle-class Jewish girls.) I could never equal her specialties so found my own niche, which was grocery store price label switching and magazine pilfering, and I was pretty good; only caught once by a register clerk who was unfortunately quite knowledgeable about what stuff ought to cost, and I said indignantly that if that's what it ought to be marked, I don't want it! But anyway. After awhile, despite how good I was at this low-level criminality, I began to feel that even if I was getting away with it, there was a Higher Authority who knew what I was doing and that It Was Not the Right Thing to Do, and I came to the painful conclusion that if I couldn't quite afford to pay for brie, I'd better just resign myself to NYS Extra Sharp Cheddar.
And with me not being able to live with myself as such a minor little chiseler, I've never understood how anyone can live with themselves, and face their children, when they lie about everything that affects the lives of people and nations and the world, 'n all. I ain't no great moral philosopher. I just believe that what goes around comes around, eventually.
Might be the best comment I've ever seen on Substack. This made my year. Thank you for your service. 🤣 So good, really.
And it's my criminal past rather than elegant wordsmithing what earns me regard. Never mind; I'll take it...
I met a really hot kleptomaniac at a bar once. She asked me if we could go back to my place. For the first time in my life I declined the advances of a beautiful woman, I wanted my stuff to still be there in the morning!
How did you know about her proclivities?
She was stuffing plates, cutlery and many other items owned by the bar into her handbag.
In hindsight and in the heat of the moment, telling her to "take it all" may not have been such a wise move.
Well, not to get technical--but that might have just been practical criminality for a (nefarious) purpose, rather than the uncontrollable obsession that's kleptomania. Still a problem, of course, since either way your possessions were at serious risk...
Strap on your clown shoes? I'm still trying to get out of this damn circus!
The circus music in my head hasn't stopped for years now...
We are living in a Potemkin Reality