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Patrick says

ukrainian army does that too. then we read “omg they bombed a hospital”

Patrick says

This account is hilarious.

She also has this linked:
https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1500076163691171840?s=20&t=8td14G3fC-gDspOqR_iPhQ&source=patrick.net

"Why are a bunch of people carrying plastic bags full of junk from out from under a bridge." Seriously, they are coming out from the ruins of a bridge with various bags full of stuff. Did they live under the bridge with all that stuff? For people who just climbed out from under the wreckage of the bridge (supposed to be homes), their jackets are clean, no dust, no obvious wounds, carrying bags of random junk and the old ladies have new clean purses.

Whole thing is staged.

richwicks says

I would have been considered by most to be "a leftist" in 2002. But I'm not a conservative.

Why does everyone have to be something? Why not be yourself without any labels?

AmericanKulak says

This account is hilarious.

She also has this linked:
https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1500076163691171840?s=20&t=8td14G3fC-gDspOqR_iPhQ&source=patrick.net

"Why are a bunch of people carrying plastic bags full of junk from out from under a bridge." Seriously, they are coming out from the ruins of a bridge with various bags full of stuff. Did they live under the bridge with all that stuff? For people who just climbed out from under the wreckage of the bridge (supposed to be homes), their jackets are clean, no dust, no obvious wounds, carrying bags of random junk and the old ladies have new clean purses.

Whole thing is staged.

I think I even saw someone carrying a Subway Samich bag.

Onvacation says

African American? Negro? Mullato? What race is Obama?

JIG

https://tobyrogers.substack.com/p/announcing-a-hostile-takeover-of?s=r&source=patrick.net

Apparently it never occurred to anyone on the left that perhaps they could be wrong.

The intellectual and moral collapse of the left accelerated and became complete in response to the pandemic. The left was handed a straightforward problem — a rogue federal bureaucrat, in cahoots with the pharmaceutical industry, engineered a gain-of-function virus in collaboration with a Chinese bioweapons lab that got out and started killing millions of people.

To use a baseball analogy, this was a languid fastball right over the middle of the plate. The left should have been able to crush this pitch into the outfield bleachers. Arrest Fauci; distribute safe, cheap, and effective antiviral and antibacterial treatments that the CDC already knew would work against coronaviruses; nationalize Pharma; suspend trade relations with China; problem solved. ...

Handed a golden opportunity to show that the meritocratic, progressive, regulatory state could effectively govern when it actually matters, the left went full Pharma fascist instead. All logic, reason, and principles went out the window in an instant. The party became all lizard brain all the time and rushed to set up Pharma Jim Crow, Pharma Apartheid, and Pharma Fascism in any jurisdiction under their control. The Democratic Party became the point of the spear for the most deadly and corrupt industry on earth in violation of all of their anti-corporate principles.

Nothing they tried worked because nothing they did was based on actual science.

It was not just the Democratic politicians who succumbed to Pharma junk science and propaganda. The brightest scholars on the left, one by one, announced their hatred for logic and reason and their love for Pharma Fascism.

komputodo says

richwicks says

I would have been considered by most to be "a leftist" in 2002. But I'm not a conservative.

Why does everyone have to be something? Why not be yourself without any labels?

I'm NOT labeling myself.

I would have been considered to be on the left by most people because I was against the Iraq War, and was right to be against it, because the war wasn't justified - we had to be lied into it and I knew the Bush administration was lying about it.

I would have been considered to be "conservative" when was against the bombing of Libya and Syria, because, again, we needed to be lied into it and we were.

Most people can only think in terms of left and right. A government that needs to constantly deceive its population is an illegitimate government, but I'm no anarchist either.

I can tell you what I'm not and it might sound pretty goddamned arrogant to self appoint a label of what I think I might be, or at least aspire to be.

Now, war is supported by both parties and most especially by the Left.
What a dirty game politics is!

https://spectatorworld.com/topic/we-are-all-still-prisoners-of-the-sixties/?source=patrick.net

In a nation pledged to equality and freedom, until a dozen or so years ago, inequalities of intelligence, wealth and talent were almost universally accepted as the human condition. Equity envisions something else. Differences in individual achievement stem from racism, prejudice and social injustice. Identities are unrestricted and self-defined, including male and female.

A fantastic, cartoonish vision of social improvement tangles into whites-only gun control, defunding the police, gender neutrality, and perhaps pet therapy for the criminally insane. Each progressive cause and craziness seems backed up by well-staffed office, a pro bono legal staff, and 501(c)(3) tax exemptions. Any effort to contain or reverse organized lunacies meets legal and judicial resistance.

What was formerly outré or unimaginable — even after the almost anything-goes Sixties — is vogue, and to resist is to court ridicule or ruin. The insensate and fantasists are not just a few sociopaths living in shadows. They might include the local junior high school principal or Episcopal minister. ...

Contemporary anomie’s most disturbing symptom is trans-mania, brought to life with Obama directives extending anti-discrimination rules in the federal workforce to cover transgender employees. The idea has been sustained through an orchestrated, well-funded political crusade, one that the NCAA and other organizations dare not negate. The “trans” narrative and what it demands take the US into neverland.

If advocates and officials can compel the nation’s institutions, legal system, agencies of culture, and common folk to resituate collectively against male and female, persuading or forcing a critical mass to abandon binary sexuality, then Americans can be made to do or believe anything. ...

What was that all about, some will ask, as if awakening from a bad dream. Others will be tidily amnesiac, and a few surgically damaged for life. The judges and lawyers, doctors and admirals, entertainers and academics who promoted the madness will do their best to sustain — if not their malevolent narrative — their power and reputations. ...

As with leech cures and lobotomies, gender re-assignment will someday be repudiated, joining other discredited, can-you-believe-it medico-social adventures. Human instinct will win. It might not be tomorrow, but whatever the narrative, defying nature and cellular science are not good bets in the long run.

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/your-top-priority-is-the-emotional?s=r&source=patrick.net

Your Top Priority is The Emotional Comfort of the Most Powerful Elites, Which You Fulfill by Never Criticizing Them.
Corporate journalists have license to use their huge platforms to malign, expose and destroy anyone they want. Your moral duty: sit in respectful silence and never object.

Did some civil rights activism yesterday by trying to get into a concert requiring proof of recent vaccination. I asked why I as an unvaccinated person couldn’t get in, that this was discrimination on the basis of medical condition which is illegal as per the Americans With Disabilities Act.

The staff at the door said it was my personal choice but I’d have to live with the consequences, I said if an interracial couple wanted to stay at a hotel in 1963 Alabama they could would be kept out just because of their “personal choice.” Was that right? Or did the venue have the right to keep a gay man out for being gay — his choice but he’d have to live with the consequences?

The gatekeepers were stumped. As were an elderly couple on a bench who I assume had been supporters of the civil rights movement back in the day. I really don’t think they understood the moral logic in the first place. Most people who pass themselves off as liberals have always just memorized which people are good and which are bad and never think about the liberalist principle that forms the basis for our civil rights laws.

https://thegoodcitizen.substack.com/p/new-religions-and-old-heretics?s=r&source=patrick.net

At some point in the past decade, the pendulum began to swing back in the other direction. People like Jordan Peterson began to speak out and gained popularity rather quickly in his fight against the Canadian Parliament legislating compelled speech. A conservatism that absorbed politically homeless marooned liberals and even religious conservatism to some degree has risen to become the counterculture.

I recently observed in a piece that in the absence of religion or religious beliefs something was always going to fill that void. The obvious example often proffered here is the replacement with communism as a new religion that was just as deadly as ancient religions and led to massive human suffering in just the last century alone, and yet doesn't appear to be finished with its mission.

Today we have the resurgence of something similar with leftist totalitarian tinged functionaries that view the managerial state as its new (old/communism) religion (support, guidance, control, power) that can further its other tenets such as wokeism, the various identity movements (DIE) rooted in progressive and Marxist critical studies that explicitly undermine basic science, and even what I would call the cult of climate change or the green cult.

What they all appear to have in common (other than ideological aims to remake the world) is they claim to be rooted in academic research, even if much of it is made up or fabricated to benefit an ideological agenda, yet still peer-reviewed and published as if to merely reinforce that agenda at the level of information dissemination. I’m thinking of the "Grievance Studies Affair” here as just one event that exposed this academic corruption but as someone who has been around academia (probably for too long) I’ve seen it up close and first hand in the social sciences. The EU is particularly insidious in this regard, funding projects that tend to reinforce the dominant neoliberal views of Brussels bureaucrats, or popular beliefs of far-left activists, and any study that might challenge or undermine the social and political engineering agendas of this tribe is simply not funded.

porkchopexpress says

I've seen Left-wingers go Right wing, but I've never seen the reverse except in rare cases when someone leaves oppressive religion and swings the pendulum too far the other way.

If you are young and conservative, you have no heart.
If you are old and liberal, you have no brain.

Natural transition is overwhelmingly left to right with time, not the other way around.

I once was young and liberal. Then I got older, wiser, and more experienced. My views then changed.

Patrick says

https://thegoodcitizen.substack.com/p/new-religions-and-old-heretics?s=r&source=patrick.net

A conservatism that absorbed politically homeless marooned liberals and even religious conservatism to some degree has risen to become the counterculture.

Ah yes, the original definition of “alt-right”: a marvelous term describing the hip, diverse, freedom-loving, liberal-in-spirit coalition with true respect for traditional social values and acceptance of innate differences between men and women, yet championing a society with equal opportunity for all, no special privileges based on sex, race, religion, color, or creed, and with consenting adults able to do as they please.

Of course this powerful term and the movement that it so succinctly described had to be destroyed.

https://spectatorworld.com/topic/why-david-mamet-went-right/?source=patrick.net

There are two kinds of liberal apostates: those who claim to be a fixed point in a changed world. It’s not me it’s them, claims this sort. And those who undergo a thoroughgoing conversion. Mamet is the latter. He’s a defector.

His break from the left was decisive. “Why I Am No Longer a ‘Brain-Dead Liberal,’” read the headline of a piece by Mamet in the Village Voice announcing his departure in 2008. That title — not his choice — still annoys Mamet. “It just threw me out of the left,” he says. “I think [the Voice] is gone now. Rest in peace,” he adds with a little relish. Not that the headline really misrepresented Mamet’s position: “I took the liberal view for many decades, but I believe I have changed my mind,” he wrote in the article.

“I didn’t know any conservatives,” says Mamet of his younger self. “You never met a single conservative.” Coming up in theater at his age and living in big cities was to be safely cocooned in a liberal bubble. A place where, he says, bemoaning the right’s latest move was like talking about “terrible weather”: “Did you see what that son of a bitch Nixon, or Reagan, or Thatcher did today?”

And so the conservatism he would grow into was self-taught. “I started reading. I came across The Road to Serfdom,” he says. After Friedrich Hayek came Milton Friedman and Thomas Sowell. (Sowell, a prominent black conservative economist and, like Mamet, a man who started his political journey on the left, is the person cited more than any other during our conversation.) “My reading got broader and broader and I thought, I’ve got to take this down to the bare paint.” Next came Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill, Tom Paine and the Founding Fathers. Out of that came a realization of the “extraordinary brilliance of the American experience.” ...

Mamet’s view of Washington is as unsentimental as his view of Hollywood: “People go into these professions to get power, and power to get sex, or sex to get power, money to get sex or power, and power to get money. That’s what these protected professions are all about… Trump was a countervailing force.”

Patrick says

https://spectatorworld.com/topic/why-david-mamet-went-right/?source=patrick.net

There are two kinds of liberal apostates: those who claim to be a fixed point in a changed world. It’s not me it’s them, claims this sort. And those who undergo a thoroughgoing conversion. Mamet is the latter. He’s a defector.

Joe Rogan happened to interview Mamet last week, did you know?

Official link:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0EGUBSTWebFwgzfr96q2Ci?si=8g82hqhwRUycV41XdaK1ZQ&source=patrick.net

Clips from the interview on Rumble:
https://rumble.com/search/video?q=mamet+rogan&source=patrick.net

Haven’t listened to any of it yet.

https://www.eugyppius.com/p/on-the-failure-of-conservatives-to

The conservative is an instinctive defender of traditional, organic structures, “which function precisely because of their organic nature, that is to say because nobody planned them consciously or with intent” (p. 15f). The leftist, meanwhile, is an innovator, who deploys his theories and utopian hopes against the received tradition. Like many organic things, our traditional institutions have an intuitive appeal that is nevertheless difficult to articulate and entirely foreign to leftist theory. Things like marriage and the family, religious communities, and even the human immune system, are organic solutions to ancient problems, worked out over millennia of cultural and biological evolution. Not even their most ardent defenders understand their purposes or functions fully. Conservatives are therefore rhetorically disadvantaged: “The only conclusive proof that these structures are irreplaceable comes when one has destroyed them, and realised that no replacements are in sight. But then it is too late.” The leftist critique of traditional institutions, meanwhile, undermines the functioning of traditional society. ...

The problem is that we live in an inverted order. The leftist opposition has taken charge; the conservative conformists have been driven into the opposition. The left sustains this inversion through its permanent revolution, its constant and ever-renewed assaults on the stability of society. The conservative, who remembers only his former position in the ruling class and remains fixated on returning to the halls of power, neglects populist solutions and seeks only to ingratiate himself with the leftists who hold the keys. ...

This “three-fold own goal – to fail to advocate for your own position, to make yourself responsible for it nevertheless, and to vilify it on top of that” is central to a broader cultural process, via which traditionalist political positions are condemned as heresy by left- and right-wing parties alike, banished from polite company, and finally censored and even criminalised. ...

MKH sees this broken approach as a misbegotten attempt to appropriate the left’s Gramscian march through the institutions. “[T]o learn from one’s opponents does not mean, necessarily, that it is a good idea to copy them” (p. 51); the ideological asymmetries of left and right confound conservative hopes of reverse infiltration. To begin with, leftists got into power by playing to the sense of fairness that prevailed within the twentieth-century liberal establishment. This older guard of elites were prepared to concede access and even power to their political opponents; in their minds this largesse confirmed their own legitimacy. The left knows no such fairness; as soon as they took charge, they set about bricking up all the passages via which they came to power themselves. Today, the establishment left demands nothing so much as absolute conformity to its views, and admits mostly yes-men and careerists to its circles. There will be no equivalent institutional march for the right. ...

For centuries, liberal European polities fended off all manner of political opponents, and if the states themselves did not always survive, liberalism itself demonstrated remarkable stability. It was a great filter that excluded all rivals, until it found one it could not sort out. Marxism and its successor movements proliferated as the one disease that liberalism could not defeat, in much the same way that antibiotic-resistant MRSA emerges from the antiseptic environments of hospitals. It is an opposition politics uniquely suited to liberalism, for it exploits the liberal impulses for equality and freedom in favour of a quite different, and far more terrible, project. ...

The leftist system is not meant to produce political stability or prosperity, and it feels a lot like it’s entering a death spiral. Getting these lunatics out of power, before they crash the entire West with no survivors, is the most urgent problem we face. Here MKH has the right idea: Respectable conservative politicians have failed above all, in neglecting those people who have suffered the most at the hands of globalisation, renewable energy, immigration, lockdowns and all the rest of it. We must defeat the leftist elite, not win them over; and to do this we must deprive them steadily of popular support, beginning among the lower classes and at the periphery, where the greatest gains are to be made, and working inwards.

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The trucker protest in Canada gave us a glimpse of the power of the people. The indignation and disgust heaped on them, and the emergency law enacted to stop them showed how scary this was for both sides of the political spectrum. This is the only possible hope, populism - and that is why both populism and freedom are now ultra-right-wing horrible dirty words that you cannot even utter in mixed company without fear of retribution.

you only have to look at the strange forces brought to bear on the protesters – asset seizures, etc – to see what an enormous threat they were

Populism transcends left-right binaries, for example, temperamentally right wing people wanted Amazon broken up because it destroys small indigenous businesses, those on the left because its not fair to the workers.

There's also a strange tension between the "democracy is a sham, protests don't work" and the needs of the regime to constantly manage public opinion. If they really were indifferent to public opinion the wouldn't expend so much time and resources doing so.

The truckers were in effect a kind of revolution without the guns. Starting with some 20% approval as the strike evolved approval climbed into the > 60%. Polling has been nearly impossible to find anymore. We understand why.

Ironically, given the striking similarities between the cognitive styles and left and right and the cognitive styles of the left and right hemispheres of the brain, these terms may be more apt than we'd expected.

I suspect confidence is the determining factor. The leftists lack the confidence to let it all happen. They are control freaks. Hence the reason all they touch is destroyed.

The BBC routinely show women with young kids on boats in the English channel making a dangerous journey. The reality is some 99% are young men.

Women are famously easier to manipulate in this way.

Which is why no sane society lets them within a mile of politics.

... for the last few decades in the US, the only immigrants it was hard to get into the country for even a visit were mail-order brides, especially those from Eastern Europe and Asia. The excuse was always that they were trying to protect them from being exploited, of course, but oddly enough that never applied to brown fruit-pickers working for below minimum wage.

"He went to Washington to do good. He did very well, indeed." ...Unknown.

Plus lifetime, gold plated health insurance. Lst checked under Obama - MoC family plan with vision, dental, drug-alcohol rehab, mental health and zero deductible was $50/year. Who knows with inflation it may have doubled to 100 bucks yearly.. thank goodness Congress were able to vote themselves pay raises to absorb the impact.

Don't know about NZ, but here in the mother country I've often wondered if a truly balls to the wall traditional party would clean up. I mean, ending mass immigration, cutting all the bullshit and focusing on nuts and bolts things, including reducing the size of government.

I can't help thinking it would be massively popular. Especially if they just bluntly stated all the woke stuff is bullshit. I'd vote for them.

Like you my main memory from the Merkel’s Great Replacement will be the following: A video of Syrian “refugees” stepping out of a train at the Vienna main train station. While Austrians are welcoming them with flowers and open arms as a warm welcome, two Syrian teenagers give a hateful look at the camera and both make the “throat slicing” gesture with their right hand. And the apologizing comments from the journalist were even more scary: “You have to understand these kids have seen too much destruction and suffered from much deprivation.”

https://thuletide.wordpress.com/2022/02/05/how-elites-control-the-masses-foucaults-four-modes-of-power-simplified-explanation/

The vast majority of Leftist political “theory” consists of pointing at objectively good or natural things and then pathologizing them as immoral and bigoted. The basic formula is as follows:

Point out a societal disparity.
Claim that this disparity is caused by “oppression.”
Demand that the “oppressor” cedes power and/or resources to the “oppressed.”

If you ignore all of their stupid rationalizations and solutions (so, everything except their observations), then a lot of what they’re saying is true. Here are a few examples:

Earnings gap between sexes: True.
Why? Because women have babies and due to differences in male/female behavior (e.g. men are more aggressive).

Black overrepresentation in the prison system: True.
Why? Because they commit more crimes, largely due to racial differences in behavior (e.g. lower impulse control).

Jews are a historically “persecuted” race: True.
Why? [Your account has been suspended].

Patrick says

Black overrepresentation in the prison system: True.
Why? Because they commit more crimes, largely due to racial differences in behavior (e.g. lower impulse control).

Jews are a historically “persecuted” race: True.
Why? [Your account has been suspended].

HBD: "Black short term preferences and impulse control, probably related to 4-season food availability in Afrtica. It's Not oppression, we need to stop trying to equalize nature through laws"

Also many HBD: "40% Jewish Billionaires though, that's a Great Telepathic Conspiracy, not the quantifiable result of having a 115IQ with the same rate of 3SD prevalence to the right of the chart as the White Population. That's Oppression! We need to equalize nature here, immediately, by law!"

Basically, WokeRight in a nutshell.