Note: I am posting regularly behind the green door on more casual topics like movies and personal topics. The latest is a review of the 2012 movie Dredd. This week’s Taki post is up and somewhat related to this post.
In a modern prison, the prisoners are quickly conditioned to have a reason for everything when asked by a guard. They are prisoners and they have no freedom, so they need permission for everything. On the other hand, prisoners have a lot of time to work the system, so they get good at the rules. With the help of lawyers on the outside they hold the prison system to their own rules. As a result, everyone working in the system knows they need a reason for everything they do.
The prison is the ultimate expression of a world without choice. This is a thing to keep in mind when looking at what is happening in America. It is no longer acceptable to say “because I want to” when asked about a preference or choice. You have to have a reason for your choices. The sources of authority are the prevailing dogma on human relations or science, which is just another word for the dogma. Science has become a deity of sorts for the true believers of the modern age.
One example of how this played out was the homosexual marriage debate. The people pushing it flipped the debate by demanding to know why homosexuals could not get marriage licenses. All of a sudden, everyone was scrambling around for a reason to standby the default position of humanity. Since the official dogma asserted that anyone opposing the homosexual agenda was a bigot and therefore dismissed from the debate, there was no acceptable reason to defend natural reality.
The important part of that debate in regards to the permission society is how quickly normal people went along with it. Once the Left framed the issue as a question, normal people scratched their heads searching for an answer. They just assumed they needed a reason to defend biological reality. Critically, public opinion was no longer justification for maintaining normal marriage. A majority preferring to keep the old ways was not a good reason. Group preference was no longer acceptable.
Public policy is not the only area where choice is being stripped from us. In fact, having a preference is immoral. White women can no longer say they prefer to date white men, for example. That violates the official dogma. They need to find some other reason to not date outside their race. Something similar is being pushed with homosexuals and transvestites. Even the most intimate and personal of choices are subject to examination and you better have a good reason for them.
What kicked this off, of course, was the war on free association. In the quest for racial equality, white people were stripped of their freedom to associate with whom they wanted in daily life. If a white person chooses not to hire a nonwhite, they know they need to record an acceptable reason. If asked, they must provide this reason. The same is true of renting an apartment or asking about the schools. In the permission state, you are guilty until you provide your permission slip.
In this conversation between Christopher Caldwell and Andrew Sullivan, they discuss why many people oppose what they call globalism. Caldwell thinks it is because these people are not capable of competing, while Sullivan assumes these people are ignorant of the glories of diversity. There is an assumed lack of agency. The possibility that people simply prefer to live in more traditional communities is alien to them. There must be some reason that fits within the prevailing orthodoxy.
The prohibition on personal preference is a paradox of liberal democracy. In theory, the system is supposed to reflect the accumulated preferences of the people. That is the point of having an election. The people vote their choices, and the preference of the majority carries the day. The people do not need a reason to make their choices, because in a democracy the will of the people is the finale authority. That is the point of democracy, but now we are at the exact opposite position.
This is another great parallel between communism and liberal democracy. In the former, the dictatorship of the proletariat was supposed to result in the full expression of the public will but ended up with a dictatorship of a tiny minority. In liberal democracy, the election process and open debate are supposed to get consensual government, but in reality, it is something closer to a theocracy. In both cases, the ruling minority appears to despise those they rule but cloak themselves in moral authority.
It turns out that preferences and moral authority are conjoined. When moral authority resides with the people, in their traditions and customs, they maintain the freedom to choose within the broad outlines of those customs and traditions. Once moral authority shifts to some arbitrary ideology, then moral authority shifts to a tiny elite. A similar process happened with the Catholic Church in the middle ages. Church dogma replaced tradition and culture as the moral authority of the people.
That suggests the remedy for liberal democracy is a reformation. In this context, the reformation was about restoring moral authority to the people, by rooting their faith in their local customs and traditions. Lutheranism reflected the nature of the Germanic people, while Anglicanism reflected the sensibilities of the English. For liberal democracy, this means restoring national sovereignty, so that the will of the people can be expressed in politics and public policy.
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A New Tomorrow (cont)
Be aware and beware.
When the house of cards begins its collapse, DC will be desperate for a new clan of Bad Guys upon which to deflect the blame. As such, the Stasi will be tasked with manufacturing scapegoats who can take the fall (hello PagePapadapolus redux ad infinitum) and these sad sacks will receive a spectacular & theatrical hanging ceremony in the public square. Hollywood is already writing the scripts and all that is needed are the stooges to be cast in leading roles. The only real defense against this form of duplicitous entrapment is to disappear utterly or never, ever take the bait. Stay frosty out there!
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CNN and the rest of them have already unveiled the script, or at least the rough outline. The villain is White Supremacy. Now they just need to put the real life face to the name.
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Was Trump our Martin Luther or do we need one?
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More like John Huss or any of the other precursors to the reformation. Not well thought out, somewhat reactionary, mostly snuffed out by the Church.
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O I love a good historical analogy! Luther has several predecessors who were snuffed out before he came along. I think Trump is more like one of those. See the Albigensian Crusade for example. Granted today the authorities mostly co-opt rather than outright slaughter. For centuries before Luther, here was a popular and revolutionary question floated in medieval, dissident circles: “When Adam dwelled and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?” I think this is where we are at. Trump tapped into that sentiment, but he is not our Luther and not “our guy”.
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If memory serves, even Luther had the backing and protection of powerful aristocracy that want out from under the thumb of the corrupt and too powerful Catholic Church.
Few movements succeed Ex Nilo. Whatever Trump was, he was definitely on his own without aid from any insiders.
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President Trump’s popularity with Orthodox Jews was north of 95%. That counts as inside support.
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“delved” — dug
We used to be strongly tethered to our traditions and customs, as were pretty much all sovereign nations. But over the past few decades, they’ve been eroding away and if this erosion isn’t halted, those traditions and customs we all took for granted will fade away. We’ll then truly be at the mercy of 2% of the population. I don’t know if that iceberg can be avoided.
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Two per cent? Of course it can be avoided as long as the popular will is there to do it, a question that once would have been rhetorical but now…
Maybe we somewhat reflect the English revolution of the 1640’s?
Our puritans have taken over the Parliment and the culture, this time with wokeness as their religion without bothering with a Christ. The new Puritanism fits the internationalism and mecural nature of the usual suspects who have also risen into the elite class in our civilization.
What fixes it?
Maybe it fixes itself?
It did kinda in the 1640’s.
Political normality was returned to England in the glorious revolution.
But we are a much larger nation made up now of much more dissimilar peoples.
We shall see.
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G. Lordon Giddy asks “What fixes it?”
This is what will fix it:
2020 Federal Budget breakdown shows that 62% of government spending goes to Mandatory programs, i.e. Medicare/Medicaid, Social Security, and Military. Eight percent goes to interest on the Federal debt.
These can’t be touched because they are all “3rd rail” programs. They all have increases in spending baked into the cake.
All other spending, 30%, is Discretionary, in which each and every program has an entrenched and combative constituency that will fight any proposed decrease in spending tooth and nail.
Total Revenue: $3.863 T
Total Spending: $4.829 T
We don’t know exactly when, but eventually Uncle Sam’s checks will bounce. He is already having trouble selling his I.O.U.s to the Chinese and Japanese, so we are a lot closer to the “eventually” moment than just a few years ago.
When the checks bounce, promises will be broken and with them, widespread faith in the Federals.
That is the beginning of “What fixes it”.
Power will devolve to those who now are downstream from the money flows: state and local governments. The successful ones will rise to meet the challenge (which will be huge), the unsuccessful ones will look like Beirut or Portland Oregon last summer.
I think it will happen in our lifetimes, but then, I never thought they could kick the can down the road this far, so I am hedging my bets.
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“Caldwell thinks it is because these people are not capable of competing, while Sullivan assumes these people are ignorant of the glories of diversity. There is an assumed lack of agency.”
Do you think that these two actually believe this? Of course, it is highly probably that they do. It is also an indicator of the ‘high minded’ refusing to acknowledge simple reasons for the phenomena they observe.
My simple reason for hating – with righteous fury, I might add – globalism is that is crushes local culture. Whether you choose to define local culture as a state sized thing, a county size thing, or a hamlet size thing. It must surely crush it. Even benefits that it may provide always act to de-stabilize what was there before. Naturally, things are not quite so simple. I would very much like the ability to import some superior US product but at the same time don’t want a high street littered with Starbucks, MacDonalds and more recently Taco Bell. A balance is required.
But my stock rebuttal of ‘globalism crushes the existing culture’ I have always found to be succinct and direct enough to be effective. I usually deliver it with a hint of anger whilst staring into the soulless, depraved eyes of a GloboHome True Believer.
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Local diversity destroys global diversity.
When everyone mixes, you have no diversity. Every town, every city start to look alike.
I’m in favor of diversity, which is why I’m in favor of ethnic nationalism. A globalist by definition wants to destroy ethnic (and thus) cultural diversity.
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You know, Citizen, this was readily seen by me on my frequent trips throughout Europe. Many European capitals looked just the same as London. Multi-coloured residents and modern architecture… that same ‘progressive’ vibe. Destruction indeed.
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Many parts of cities in europe simply felt like baltimore or detroit, with nicer cathedrals (and more armed soldiers keeping guard). Paris and italy were particularly bad. I was in for a shock in milan when I got off the train and was greeted by a sea of black faces.
Might as well have driven 45 to buffalo ny instead of flying to europe.
And if anybody here believes the official statistics that italy is 90% *italian* I have a bridge to sell you lol.
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If you which to find out just how bad Italy has become – particularly in the cities, as well as a state level – then you can read Oriana Fallaci’s works. She led a rather interesting life.
Having said that, you already know how bad it is anyway!
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Don’t need to do no book readin’ when I can see with my own two eyes.
Even worse was the joggers were spread out everywhere. Every town and small city had africans riding around on bikes or hanging out at the bus station. No escape. Not like america where they’re somewhat segregated, at least outside the South.
Haven’t been to Europe in a very long time. Might be interesting – and sad – to see how it’s changed.
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It’s sad yet rage inducing. I’m not even french or italian. It was one of the major redpilling moments in my life.
I’d already been on /pol/ and Unz at that point and considered myself a race realist, but to see it firsthand is a real slap in the face.
The rage I felt there is well managed and coolly flows through my veins – I’ll never forget it. And it serves as a reminder about what we’re fighting for, and to never give up.
“When everyone mixes, you have no diversity. Every town, every city start to look alike.”
Don’t worry, j*us only care about race mixing only when it comes to white countries, africa can stay black
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Caldwell and Sullivan did mention that there were many communities that used to thrive because there was so much business in these towns. The business elites would live in these towns and interact with the people back then instead of the situation now where they’re all concentrated in the huge cities, cut off from regular folks. I would have liked to hear them go further on that topic, for example showing how easy it is for the NYC hedge fund managers to destroy a little town in Nebraska, where they have no empathy to the everyday people there. (Sidney/Cabela’s issue that was featured on Tucker several months ago.)
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The globalists paint their opponents as cave men, but they’re unable to point to any tangible benefit of their idiotic plans. We have a real life example of this in Colorado (of all places) with their rules for the liquor licenses where no one can own more than one (I believe is how it goes). The result is a bunch of stores of varying sizes selling products geared to the local populace and generally more variety than I see elsewhere where it’s the same three stores selling the same selection of products at every location they have in the nation. The kicker is the price is the same as I see it anywhere else (apart from Oregon with their conspicuous lack of alcohol taxes).
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What was the actual goal of this scheme in the first place?
The globohomo response, of course, is that they agree re ‘indigenous culture’ which is why they are anti-Western capitalism. Whites, however, do not have a ‘culture’ per globohomo rules (other than one of racism, colonialism, and misogyny) so there’s nothing to crush. Local traditions or customs are just phantasms of your White imagination – besides, Shaniqua was there toiling in the fields with your great-great-great-great-great grandparents and you never acknowledged her central role in building your country. And buying and trading with your neighbors perpetuates White privilege, when Fang Fang Shui needs you to buy what she produces because her historic poverty is all your fault.
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I you look, it was Science Fiction that first portrayed global governments but I do not see that as any sort of social statement. Looking back at guys such as Heinlein, E.E. Smith and the others from back in the “golden age” those were not guys who would be considered “woke” by any stretch of the imagination. I saw/see their depiction of a single world government as simply the natural evolution of human societies into ever larger units.
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Bill – look again. Do human societies truly naturally evolve ‘into ever larger units’? Or does social theory (Marxism, Benthamism, Managerialism) pertaining to economic productivity (multinational capitalism and ever-expanding markets) demand those ever larger units? You’re also ignoring the Dunbar number.
Freedom of association was killed off by the Civil Rights Act in 1964, resulting in no more discrimination, which would in theory, lift up blacks. The problem is, race differences in outcomes still persisted and continue to persist and will always persist. So more needs to be done to correct the problem that can’t be corrected, so more drastic measures will come, and on and on it’ll go…..The next step will be reparations. Maybe that’ll get normie White’s attention.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 put the stamp of “guilty as charged” on the forehead of every white person, whether they agreed or not. It was the excuse our enemies sought in order to begin the process of dispossessing European Americans. The hour is late.
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“It turns out that preferences and moral authority are conjoined. When moral authority resides with the people, in their traditions and customs, they maintain the freedom to choose within the broad outlines of those customs and traditions.”
This is why building community – in areas that are amenable to it – does matter. However, as a precursor helping people to develop a healthy distrust in state authority, particularly the police force and internal security services, is also highly useful. After enough awful stories perhaps a people’s faith will begin to fade and they’ll start seeing the traditional methods for what they were – bloody useful.
This morning a female co-worker and I were discussing the awful case of what became known as ‘The Soham Murders’ in England. I said that the perpetrator, Ian Huntley, should have at the very least been hanged. She agreed wholeheartedly; many normal people still want that justice. They still see that some crimes are so horrific that the perp should be destroyed. I then pointed out that Huntley will likely be released in our lifetimes.
May I ask as to the nature of a system that would ever permit such evil to walk amongst the public again? It is itself evil, surely.
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Comment on the Taki article:
This is the true reason behind the campaign against “misinformation” and “conspiracy theories”. It’s not that someone is bothered by a kook talking about alien lizards. But the private truths are often hitting too close to actual reality and are effective at undermining the lying public truth. The anti-misinformation campaign is a reactive and preemptive method to quarantine bad thoughts.
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The immediate switch from Feb 28 “Blackitey Black Black History Month” to March 1 “We soo sorrrryyy, Stop being bad to Asians” month was pretty eye opening merely for the whiplash effects.
(Seriously. The only coordinated racism against Asians is by elite education by whites. How do people not see this for the thin gruel it is?”
OTOH, I’m excited to learn who the next aggrieved minority is come April.
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Pride months are coming!
“””…Like the Soviet empire…”””
After Stalin, Soviet propaganda was much more moderate that Western one. Our guys knew that they must maintain at least minimum credibility. So there were limits for lies. Modern West is much worse than old Soviets.
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I think this is a critical distinction. Much of what the regime did under Brezhnev was ignore things. Anything that reflected poorly on the regime was ignored. American media is aggressively creating alternative reality.
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The problem is “alternative PERCEPTIONS of reality.” Whatever is real is pretty much immutable. When a person’s, a group’s, or a nation’s general model of the real world gets too far out of what, disappointing results are sure to follow 🙁
Their ability to narrate things into existence would be magical if the narratives they push weren’t completely inhuman.
I read somewhere that in the old Soviet Union there were 2 national newspapers, Pravda (meaning “Truth”) and Izvestia (meaning “News”). Supposedly the saying among the people was, ” In Pravda there is no Izvestia and in Izvestia there is no Pravda.” Damned little of either in any national media these days.
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My ancestors have been on these shores for 400 years. All of that time-honored tradition and custom has been summarily dismissed by persons whose ancestry barely extends 100 years, if even a single generation. If America is now merely an “idea,” it is a bad one.
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Largely dismissed the MSM and court system that has been at the fore of reshaping American society often at the barrel of gun and media vilification.
When you look at the numbers of people pushing various toxic ideas and values, it’s a small group who have access to the courts and media and that gives them the ability to ram their agenda down our collective throats.
The new Hobbesian Choice “You can choose any beliefs, as long as they’re “woke” beliefs.”
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Z: “You have to have a reason for your choices. The sources of authority are the prevailing dogma on human relations…”
Dated a Lefty once. We’re watching TV and the narrator’s voice was fruity as hell. (I think it was that PBS tour guide of Europe). I said, “I hate this guy’s voice.” She snapped, “WHY!” In a tone that conveyed: “You’d better have an explanation and it better not involve his preferences.”
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I’m misophonic, and as such the effeminate soy-boy accent drives me up the fucking wall.
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“Misophonia”, new word for me but it sounds like an outstanding dodge for anyone like frip above. Misophonia is a.recognized disorder and should qualify one for the proper level of victimhood. 😉
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I suppose I could describe myself as mildly misophonic. Turn on the t.v. and it becomes raging misophonia.
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You should have replied, “Because he sounds like a bed-wetting faggot. That’s why. Now get the fuck out, you stupid bitch.”
Of course, that may have cut back the odds of you getting any leg that night…
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This runs along the lines of what Z has mentioned in the past, which is putting onus on the other side by asking why they are imposing their values on me.
When they demand that you explain “why” you want something, they are demanding that you accept their values. Freedom of association is wrong (according to them) so now you need to explain how your choice fits into their values, which, of course, is impossible because it doesn’t.
When I used to try and argue with Progressives, I’d do a similar thing by asking why they were “intolerant” of my views. (They really hate being called intolerant.) This worked to shake them up a bit, but never slowed them down. The dumb ones just reverted to it’s “wrong.”
However, the smarter ones would say that my choices – wanting to live around white people – magically “hurt” minorities by denying them access to various good things. Thus, they again turned everything around. It’s similar to the systemic racism, white priviledge or silence is violence.
That was about when I realized that talking to these people was pointless. They were motivated by hatred of Badwhites and their religious belief in white racism, nothing more. All of their arguments were just cover for that hatred and moral preening. Pointing out logical inconsistencies and hypocrisy didn’t matter.
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It’s been a learning curve. We’ve blown past pointing out inconsistencies and hypocrisy. Normie-con is still there.
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Exactly. There is a good reason we don’t get into long academic exchanges with street people about alien cannibalism.
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You have some valid points. I’d still say that, if after weighing possible detriment to your own status (job, society, etc.), why not just be bluntly honest. If someone asks (say) Why I avoid Blacks, I can honestly point out their dysfunction (crime, low intelligence, etc.) and say I just don’t want to open myself to being another victim. I’ll inevitably be called “racist” in some form. I will gladly accept the epithet and follow up with something like “Well, these racial differences exist. Frankly, if noticing that this group has six or more times the violent crime rate that mine does, is ‘racist’ then by all means call me a racist!” This gambit of course must label you as a “racist,” but if you can show (or pretend) that the label doesn’t affect you, and you can switch attention to the serious underlying issues, it short-circuits the SJW brain and you can walk away with a smug smile upon your face while they flop around on the floor turning blue. 😀
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Ben – You’re still rationalizing your choice. Sure, many of us avoid blacks because of crime and social dysfunction, but even without that most White and blacks would never become close friends. We have evolved to have different social patterns and preferences. Whites prefer more privacy, more quiet. Whites have hobbies and abstract interests. Black people are not merely Whites with more melanin, they are a different subspecies. One does not have to fear crime to choose not to associate with them. One could just as easily specify their smell, or their appearance. The mere fact of personal preference is sufficient in a society of free association, which none of us have experienced.
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And stop with the damned emoticons already. For someone who likes to pose as a geeky intellectual libertarian atheist, your posts look like a 12 year old girl’s.
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Agree on both points. Ben, stop justifying. You don’t need a reason outside of your own preference to want to live among your own people. It’s what people have been doing for tens of thousands of years.
Also, stop with the emoticons.
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I am honest with them. I just don’t argue anymore. I simply say that I prefer to live around my own people. And when they ask, what I mean by my own people, I just tell them “Whites.”
They call me racist. I tell them that I don’t hate any group because of their race, but that I prefer to live with my own. And it kind of ends there. They’re not sure what to say. I don’t care that they think that I’m a racist, so there’s no discussion there. They can’t tell me what to prefer so there’s no discussion there.
The conversation just kind of ends.
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Yeah, that’s exactly what I say too. Just be careful that you’re not on film.
I also don’t even bother talking to non whites about this kind of stuff anymore. My message is directly only towards white people, who are in various stages of redpill from total cucks to moderately redpilled civnat.
One other card they play is trying to confuse you about who’s white. “Well italians aren’t white”. I usually just saying something like if you’re white you’re white.
Re: gay marriage. It wouldn’t have been possible if marriage hadn’t first been redefined as love instead of family.
Homosexual couples don’t make babies, therefore gay marriage is a non sequitur. The fact that obvious comeback was lost on so many shows how deep in the shit we are.
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Counterpoint. Marriage had been redefined as love, so gay marriage was the logical end. Its not a coincidence that gay marriage was imposed on us after divorce was normalized if not encouraged and birth rates were collapsing.
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Absolutely. Love equality, or whatever catchphrase they used. People were disarmed.
Spot on! Our society went from viewing marriage as a boon to the species at large (by promoting the perpetuation of that species) to conceiving of it as little more than a vehicle for satisfying individual self-indulgence. That’s how divorce became widely accepted. If a marital arrangement no longer satisfies one’s self-indulgence, the arrangement has outlived its purpose and should end. By the time that gay marriage went through, the institution was so utterly corrupted that it no longer mattered if homosexuals were eligible for it.
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Often increased women’s rights is blamed for the decline of the institution of marriage. While I’m never going to advocate that wife-beating is ever OK, it’s a fact that over many decades, the woman gained the right to vote, either sex an easier right to divorce (it was nearly impossible until early 20th century; in many States the only allowable grounds was adultery WITH witnesses or other evidence.) Alas, giving the women more equality by necessity took from the traditional superior status of the Male. Throw in welfare in 1960s onward, and the worth of a married man was even less. It’s a wry joke today (I think I heard it from Z) that rather than marry today, you might as well just find a woman who hates you and give her your house. The awful truth today is that at least in the USA, chosing to marry is a very risky option for the man, and perhaps the woman too. The divorce attorney is the only one who wins. You will observe that buggery or carpet munching does not enter into the above concepts in the least.
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“While I’m never going to advocate that wife-beating is ever OK,”
NEVER?
I can think of a couple of situations where I deem it more than OK.
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Wife beating should be like nuclear deterrence on the MAD principle: credible threat, but nobody’s crazy enough to use it— or are they 🙂
And just for so I’d add that women who use sex against men are no better than men who beat women.
This was considered perfectly fine not all that long ago:
https://youtu.be/P2f3k8COM0E
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If you don’t beat them one a week, they lose all respect for you. 😉
Even defining marriage as ‘family’ was no protection against the pederasts, because the entire definition of a ‘family’ was altered to become meaningless. We’re shown a black baby mama and her numerous children by various fathers, along with her own half siblings and their various spawn, and told we must celebrate this as a family. The entire Western tradition of the nuclear family (which developed over centuries and even in the 20th century often included the grandparent generation in the same home or extremely close by) was denigrated as something labeled ‘the patriarchy’ and the non-White model of multiple siblings and generations sharing one home was pushed as superior.
Add in obscene and amoral science and you get wombs for rent, egg harvesting, etc., and anyone can be a ‘biological’ parent. Even the purportedly compassionate rationale behind artificial insemination laid the ground work for this (and, from what I’ve read, it appears the vast majority of doctors who provided this service also had God complexes and provided their own sperm as well, thinking, as the super-smart Gods they were, they’d never be found out). In this vein, I offer an absolutely stomach-turning article found linked at The American Sun – Israelis are hard at work on artificial wombs and creating embryos in the lab to serve as parts-factories. Read it and hate: https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/03/17/1020969/mouse-embryo-grown-in-a-jar-humans-next/
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How does one fit the sizeable nose of an Israeli embryo in a jar?
In all seriousness, just the title of the article fills me with dread. Perhaps I’ll read it. Interesting point about the God complex that some scientists have. May they be judged harshly indeed.
On the subject of ‘gay marriage’, I never really discussed it. I would just grimace when it came up and walk off.
Just a quick word in defense of Science. It is unfair to call it “obscene” but I will concede it’s “amoral.” Science is just the quest for knowledge. It does not, and indeed cannot, possibly make any moral judgement on its own. To impute a moral quality to it would be as ludicrous as calling a kitchen knife “evil” just because it was — or could be — used to harm or kill a person. Not the knife’s fault.
Agree with many of your other points. I’d add birth control to that list. Again, like the knife, good and bad points. But it gave women never-before-seen choicess, and these have had profound influence on society. Not all for the better.
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You first paragraph has made me want to do a study of scientists 200 years ago, versus today. I would imagine that the men of old would have been far more knowledgeable about a far greater number of things. Perhaps religious too. At some point, the study of science appears to have become separate from the study the philosophy that surrounds it.
Perhaps our modern scientists are so obsessed with the truth finding, that they fail to properly consider the implications of their research. Perhaps this stems from the immense specialism required of today’s Professor Ranjeet.
Unfortunately today “Science” barely exists. What we have is “Scientism”. Many have written on this but “The Magician’s Twin” by C.S. Lewis is a very insightful and prophetic analysis.
In a vacuum you’re right – science could be viewed as amoral. Read the linked article and the Israeli scientist specifically says his ‘rabbi’ is the International Society for Stem Cell Research. He argues he can rationalize growing and altering and harvesting human embryos because “we can learn so much.” Totally ignoring the moral dimension of humanity is not amoral, it is obscene. It is on par with PETA and a cockroach is a dog is a boy. Whether one is an atheist (you) or a Christian (me), to view human life as merely a biological construct is just as faulty as globalism viewing man as an economic unit. Either humanity (and human consciousness and the human soul) matters or it doesn’t. Choose.
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Universal suffrage and the birth control pill got us to this point. Arguably the two worst inventions in the history of mankind.
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It comes down to putting feelings before biological reality.
For some reason, the Supreme Court never asked me my opinion about gay marriage. This should serve as a lesson: authoritarian forms of government are just as likely to betray you as libertine ones.
I am the father of a married lesbian. What I say may be biased that way. I will take my lumps.
Back then the average normie didn’t care. Most just wanted the queers to get a fair shake. But given the subject matter, they didn’t want to look too closely at it. If they did, they saw things. Or noticed things. Can’t have that! Civility was paramount. “Hey – who’s gonna win The Big Game tonight?” We all had to get along, right?
The gays got their right to marry. It didn’t change anything though. They were unhappy, mean people. They were angry at everyone and hated everybody. They hated Normie, Christians, conservatives, whites, white men… and hated themselves most of all. What can you do about that…? “Errr… didjya hear about James LeBoon? He might get traded to Detroit!!!”
The queers wanted redemption, legitimacy and respect. But those things only come from within, you have to have what it takes to earn them. We and pretty much all the Dissidents know You have to want those things and be willing to earn them through discipline, dedication, faith and sacrifice. Most queers don’t have any of those things or the means to develop them. When we call them ‘marginal people’… there is a reason for it.
Lefty tells them those things are rights, and if they don’t have them, it is because they are being oppressed. When their parodies of marriage failed – that was the oppressor’s fault too. And He Must Pay. They tell the blacks the same thing. And today, we don’t get sportzball, we have niggered millionaire morons that kneel for the national anthem, and normie is tuning out because he has to think about what it means to be ‘too white’.
Without redemption and respect, the queers got even more toxic. 72 genders, complete with pronouns were invented but it wasn’t enough. They started mutilating themselves. In women’s sportzball, male trannies cracked the skulls and broke the bones of biological females they competed against. But nobody watches female sportzball these days either, except to laugh at it. They are even worse than the “male” athletes.
Just like the major leagues faced with disappearing sportzball fans and viewers, the queers are in the same pickle. They’ve alienated their audience, and the fans are leaving in droves. Without an audience, they are nothing. The only way forward for them is down. More perversion, more outrage, more degenerate militancy, more lies, more deceit.
I got chewed up and spat out by Clown World before any of you guys even knew what it was or could explain it. In some ways I am a Yesterday Man, an obsolete left over from better days. On others, I may be a few half steps ahead of the average Dissident. I am not in debt. My rifles are cleaned, oiled and ready to go. My debts are paid. I am stockpiling ammo and supplies. I am not rich, but I am free. My gov’t can legislate anything it wants – I am no longer bound by it and if my choice is submission or death – I will take some with me. Not to fed-poast… but everything in life is a choice, right up to and including slavery. Our blog host often opines that the best way forward is to make Lefty’s victories expensive and costly to maintain. It’s a good strategy – and an excellent hobby. Be of good cheer and light heart. It will be over soon.
In the meantime, have a great Monday fellas.
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Lol @ James LeBoon. These kind of names get me every time.
I remember when the toronto raptors went to the finals, suddenly every bar in every corner of ontario was full of die hard Boomer raptors fans. Where they came from, I have no clue. Of course totally oblivious to the media narrative that the Raptors should be celebrated BECAUSE it represents the new “Canada”… anybody hear about hockey anymore? I don’t.
Dumb herd animals mooing for their own replacement and demise. Of course the young arab and african and punjabi vibrants were very excited in Toronto about this shift. So excited that a shooting happened during the victory parade LoL.
SCOTUS imposed it on society at the barrel of a gun against the wishes of the people who clearly opposed it,
You got to understand most of cultural s**t show happening in our country is a result of the Left controlling the legal system and MSM which they use to make end runs around the people.
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This is an interesting analogy. Much of Luther’s impact is widely attributed by historians to the invention of the printing press. The implication being that his ideas and criticisms were compelling and only needed the improvement of information technology to create a revolution challenging the legitimacy of the Catholic Church in its occupation of the 1st Estate. I’ve read more about how this played out in England and my understanding is that the Anglican movement was mostly about replacing the hierarchy of authority and less about challenging the fundamentals of the religious moral framework provided by the Catholic faith. This didn’t go far enough for a lot of English people and they joined more radical Protestant sects which created a second, more bloody and destructive ideological revolution in England which rose and fell eventually.
My point being that at least in England, the reformation as ideology was a failure in the end if the goal was taken to be a replacement of the moral framework of society. It was a success in the sense that helped justify replacing the hierarchy of authority within that existing moral framework to one which terminated ultimately with the Monarch rather than the Pope.
If a liberal democracy is driven by the lash of moral imperatives does the internet revolution provide a similar opportunity to proselytize a compelling moral framework to challenge the one defined now by people who hate us and want us dead? That same internet is a double edged sword in that it is also the tool of oppression in its capacity as an enabler of surveillance. It’s an Eye of Sauron that sees in every direction and records everything.
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I would argue that we live in a mandarin-ocracy, not a theocracy (and yeah, definitely need a better term than that). I often say that Lefties are Hollow Men, after the TS Eliot poem — “paralyzed force, shade without color,” etc. In this case they’re moralizers without morality, since their “deepest personal convictions” can change at any time without warning, school of fish-style, and the thought of they themselves following any of the rules they impose on the rest of us never once crossed their tiny little minds. Instead, they live according to The One Right Answer on the standardized test (which is of course randomized to prevent cheating), and the sum of the rest of their “education” is learning to write eight-legged essays with copious citations from the Five Books to back it up, whatever it happens to be.
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The lockdown showed they need no real justification to impose arbitrary laws upon the proles outside of having some sadistic white men with badges enforcing their dictatorial fatwas.
For all intents we’ve already regressed to a form of rule by warlords when local pols can do this stuff without fear of the Feds, courts or voters slapping them down hard.
This refusal of whites to not even lift a finger in protest will only make things worse.For silence is seen as approval by the budding tyrants.
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I constantly see endless disavowals of the use of violence in the right.
I tried to tell them, to no avail, that all they were doing was advertising to their enemies that anything could be done to them with out fear of reprisal.
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Much of the right has very changeable personal convictions as well. The conservative movement has, per the clichés about it, followed the left the whole way on homosexuality: once condemning it, then accepting it, then seeking the approval and support of homosexuals.
And yet the right somehow still tries to make noise about “degeneracy,” “values” and “morals.”
Yep. When I started out in University, homosexuality was still listed in the American Psychological Disorders manual as a psychopathology. Today I am scolded and considered an extremist—in conservative groups no less—when I state bluntly that “trannies” are “demented” and psychologically disordered and should not be allow in positions of authority or influence (such as public schools).
Indeed, I have been challenged to explain why the Public Health Director of Pennsylvania can not give good public health advice while wearing a wig, makeup, dress, and demanding to be referred to as “her”. I don’t take the bait. I simply repeat that “he” is a mentally disordered person and should be under professional care for his disorder—not treating others.
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and yeah, definitely need a better term than that
Kakistocracy?
Is it true if you live in a neighborhood with a home owners association and they prohibit you from displaying the American flag?
I don’t understand how a non-governmental organization can over-rule your Constitutional freedom of speech and/or expression.
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We haven’t had a functioning constitution since approximately 1865.
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The Constitution has been replaced by the Civil Rights Acts.
Free speech is dead. Especially for whites.
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Has nothing to do with that. It’s a lack of guts and collective action by whites in the neighborhood to tell some wannabe jackboot to FOAD and making his or her life if they refuse to step down.
Whites are basically atomized sheep.
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Btw Ostei, been meaning to tell you lol
But the last thread did not allow me to reply directly to you going back to a cooking discussion a few days ago
But yiu can find a cheap bottle of Barolo for $8-$14 at Trader Joe’s or places like that. Not the greatest of course but fine enough for cooking.
Bon appetit !
My understanding is that if the HOA is deed mandated then membership is compulsory and it is effectively another layer of government. The only power busybodies like that have is civil suits and that is wholly dependent upon the local courts. I was a member of the local HOA right up until it decided it was going to spend my annual membership dues to fight the city of San Antonio’s intent to annex us. I tried to tell the hot headed nitwits that if the Dominion (i.e. the area where multi-multi-millionaires like George Strait, Tommy Lee Jones and David Robinson live and where there are homes worth more than our ENTIRE SUBDIVISION) couldn’t stop it from happening what chance did we have? I told them they were welcome to piss on a forest fire if they wanted to but all they were going to do was get their peckers singed. Note: Under Texas law a municipality does not need the request – or even the permission – of a majority of property owners in an area to annex it. All it takes is a.simple majority of the town council.
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Note: Under Texas law a municipality does not need the request – or even the permission – of a majority of property owners in an area to annex it. All it takes is a.simple majority of the town council.
Sounds like the fight should start with that law.
Sounds like the better option is not to live in a neighborhood with a home owners association.
Or is that no longer possible? Only asking as nothing like that exists here.
Yes, it’s easy to do. I don’t have an HOA, but the law I was talking about wasn’t about HOAs, it was about cities annexing neighboring territory without even requiring the consent of the people to be annexed.
It is difficult in many areas. The local authorities, city or county—sometimes State—have the final power to authorize/approve the building of communities/neighborhoods on newly platted lands. They require the builder to establish an HOA before building starts and that HOA is binding upon you simply due to fact it’s attached to your deed! So many of the so called “rights” you think you have under the Constitution are in essence waved or not applicable under a voluntary non-governmental association.
That being said, not all HOA’s are the same wrt rules and here most HOA’s expire in a decode or two and require a vote of the residents to extend them. I have yet to live free of them, but the experience is varied—from obtrusive to lost non-existent.
For a different take on the Reformation period, see the works by Hilarie Belloc. The problem today is, although the Catholic Church is the last to maintain not just abortion but contraception are mortal sins, it doesn’t enforce those dogmas. So the birth rate for all but the most conservative/orthodox Christians keeps dropping at the same rate as secularists, now well below replacement.
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The Reformation was a bloody affair that gutted Europe. And we won’t break the elites death grip on society without a fight. A fight that most Whites will not do. The Lock downs have shown that Whites are basically sheep when local mayors can pull arbitrary laws out of their asses and have their White thugs impose them at gun point.
From here on out it will only get worse for straight Whitey and the family. What has happened in Canada and Britain will happen here. As there is no one here to stop it. Whites have ceded everything to the elite. Again the Lockdowns have shown you can take White peoples jobs, homes, and livelihoods and they won’t even protest.
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Right?
You’d think people in the restaurant, hospitality, and performing arts would be in the streets constantly.
Instead, nothing.
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“Whites have ceded everything to the elite. Again the Lockdowns have shown you can take White peoples jobs, homes, and livelihoods and they won’t even protest.”
this is a positive thing in its own twisted way
if the elites kept the whites fat they would have wiped us out without a fight
desperate whites will have to fight back eventually, they just need to experience pain and hunger first
a human manifests differently when he realizes he has no future on this floating crap we call planet
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Right now alot of young white guys have given up. Many of my peers are living in their parents basement working a minimum wage job. Alot of older white boomers shrug their shoulders.
So far our response is largely despair or willful ignorance. Not all of us, mind you, but most.
when those parents die & whitey is left with nothing but debt then what?
three options
1.suicide
2.some joggers fuck him up while he sleeps on the sidewalk
3.whitey becomes violent
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“What has happened in Canada and Britain will happen here.”
The US seems much worse than either of those countries-America is the vanguard for post Western collapse. Critical Race Theory, Political Correctness, Disparate Impact, Eradicating Whiteness, all sprung from the US.
If you look at social metrics like suicide,drug addiction,self harming, or mental health, the US is generally the worst performing in the OECD.
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Much as I’d like to believe when Johnny Law comes for the guns of white people – then the caca will really hit the fan. However, I suspect no small portion of the +/- 350 M in existence will be surrendered, with the vast majority remaning holstered and/or safely locked away – all whilst a trillion rounds of ammo collects dust.
I was never worried about the whole “gay marriage” thing. Mind you, when all that nonsense started I was a dyed-in-the-wool, born-again, every-time-the-doors-are-open Christian in a very conservative non-denomination. I just could not, for the life of me see how it hurt me. If two adult males or two adult females wanted to have a ceremony and declare themselves “married” who the hell was I to naysay them? To paraphrase Jefferson, I could not see how it either broke my leg or picked my pocket. But then I am your basic “live and let live” kind of guy. You do your thing in your back yard and I’ll do my thing in my back yard and so long as what you do in your backyard doesn’t slop over into mine we’re golden. Unfortunately, these days it is increasingly apparent that I am committing some sort of heinous offense simply by virtue of being alive and HAVING A BACKYARD AT ALL!!! I’m with Rodney King. Can’t we all just get along?
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This is the essence of the failure of libertarianism. In principle, “live and let live” is a great code of conduct in any civil society, but in practice, authoritarian rule cannot coexist with live and let live. It must, in order to survive, impose its will upon the masses, no matter how insane the current dogma becomes. Nor does live and let live work when the authoritarian rule inevitably evolves into tyranny; simply because standing on the sidelines just gets you dead quicker. And whining is almost always the first reflex reaction of the stupid, and this malady should actually get your DNA purged ASAP in a healthy ecosystem.
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Live and let live might be OK as your personal moral guide, but it is no way to run a nation. “Live and let live” also assumes there is some set of agreed upon rules which the other will (is) follow(ing).
Live and let live is the cry of the freak who is alone and isolated. But he will only say “live and let live” so long as saying it is furthering his cause. Notice how they NEVER say “live and let live” about us. It is the Taquia of the progressive.
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They didn’t want to break your leg or pick your pocket, but they did want to groom your kids. And now we are all compelled to call them stunning and brave while they do so.
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That’s the lie about these kinds of things. “What do I care what two men do in their bedroom, doesn’t affect me!”
But it does. It means fewer kids, that husband and wife raising kids is no more important than two men playing house, a dying society, more diseases, an uglification of the world around you, less happiness around you, etc etc. and one can go on and on and find example after example.
I’m saying “you” rhetorically btw.
Same goes for anything where people say “not my business what people do in private”. Yes, it might be nice if life worked like that. But it doesn’t.
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It never fails. Anytime you hear the line, “Why should it be illegal? It’s nobody’s business but mine!”, you can be pretty damn sure that if you assent to legalization, their business is going to become your business in a big, big way, whether you want it to be or not.
These days, my response is, “I agree it’s nobody’s business but yours. And in the interest of making sure it stays that way, I support keeping it illegal!”.
Z via Taki: “It could be true but is most likely false. The game is to figure out what the lies mean.”
If it’s ever slowly dawned on you that someone in your life is a liar & conniver, that quote perfectly sums up how you end up having to deal with them. Problems arise when you’re the only one who realizes the guy is a bad-faith actor. (Or at best has no credibility). Then everyone thinks you’re an asshole because you doubt him, or won’t go along with his program.
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I just read Dostoevsky’s _Demons_. There’s this famous scene in the book where the cell of nihilists gets together and one guy, Shigalyov, pulls out his political treatise on how to fix everything. It involves enslaving almost everyone.
“I got entangled in my own data, and my conclusion directly contradicts the original idea from which I start. Starting from unlimited freedom, I conclude with unlimited despotism. I will add, however, that apart from my solution of the social formula, there can be no other.”
Big solutions work like that, and America is a big-solution, utopian place these days. We’re not voting our way out of this.
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Let us preserve in any institution the “defects” that the modern mentality denounces. They are the last air holes. –Dávila
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Z said….
“One example of how this played out was the homosexual marriage debate. The people pushing it flipped the debate by demanding to know why homosexuals could not get marriage licenses. All of a sudden, everyone was scrambling around for a reason to standby the default position of humanity. Since the official dogma asserted that anyone opposing the homosexual agenda was a bigot and therefore dismissed from the debate, there was no acceptable reason to defend natural reality.”
The “debate” was never really about marriage. The debate was whether or not homosexuals had a right to openly exist among us. Once that “debate” was lost by the cucks who never bothered fighting it, the gay marriage thing and ‘my two dads’ “adoption” was only a matter of time.
The same is true of trannies today. There is no use debating whether or not they can play sports on the women’s teams or even pronouns. This “debate” has already been lost and it was lost the moment we decided trannies had a right to openly exist and walk among us. It is only a matter of time before “conservatives” are defending the rights of adult men to play sports with little girls.
Our grandparents were correct when they made this stuff outright illegal. Now we have made it a serious felony to commit a crime against them allegedly motivated by “hate”
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That women don’t see the tranny thing as the ultimate expression of misogyny really baffles me
I’m always hearing from feminists and even normal women “don’t objectify us, we are people not objects”
Well, here is a man who is basically saying that to be a woman is nothing more than to wear a dress. It reduces them to a mannequin one dresses up at the department store. And with trannies competing against girls in sports, that is the ultimate humiliation. Essentially it’s men mocking them for their physical inferiority. But not a peep from the womyn.
I guess if “misogyny” is not boldfaced and obvious like with Andrew dice clay they don’t see it.
Yes, they really are not very bright.
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I’m sensing some intersectionality here. It was already a failure of public will to create and enforce “hate laws”. Prior to our “modern” age, the public would have never considered adjusting penalty based of unknowable “inner thoughts” of the perpetrator, nor particularly give great deference to the victim’s “feelings” regarding the crime.
An objective justice system depends upon observe criteria and equal punishment.
I started to see much of this happening years ago, even among smart people on our side, where every opinion had to be backed up by facts as if life were a college term paper. It was an effect of so many people going to college and, I think, a way to separate themselves from the non-collegian. It was prevalent on the “far right”:where if you didn’t like ((())) you had to buttress your reasons with references to K Macdonald. And if you had a problem with blacks, you had to recite the endless FBI crime statistics.
People who know me know I have always had a problem with this way of thinking. If you believe something, just say it and have the confidence in yourself to not have to find some quasi academic justification for it.
I know and I understand the desire to always come across as a person who is formally educated, but as Z wisely notes, it’s a prisoner’s way of thinking.
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I was supremely guilty of this. It’s one of the things you’ll notice on the comments board for Steve Sailer. No one can just say, “Because this is how I want to live.”
A similar thing is when you decide that you have a people and you want what’s best for that people. No need for explanation. I mess with commenters on Sailer with the simple question: Who are your people?
They won’t answer. Try it sometime. CivNats have no people, just relationships. (The Jewish commenters at Sailer won’t answer because it forces that to admit that they’re playing the others for fools.)
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“The prohibition on personal preference is a paradox of liberal democracy. In theory, the system is supposed to reflect the accumulated preferences of the people. That is the point of having an election. The people vote their choices, and the preference of the majority carries the day. The people do not need a reason to make their choices, because in a democracy the will of the people is the finale authority. That is the point of democracy, but now we are at the exact opposite position.”
Folks on the Right who like to point out “muh religion” as the answer to what ails us should note that this is essentially the Christian position. How many, from De Maistre onward, have bemoaned letting “the will of the people” have any role in society. The people’s will is depraved! It is iniquity! You must turn from your will and accept God’s will! Otherwise that voice inside you is Satan!
Wokism is simply Christianity without God. “Liberal democracy” was a brief island of sanity and Progress btw Puritanism and Wokism.
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Woke:
“What’s your justification for opposing homosexual marriage?”
Christian:
“Is your will justified?”
James, I agree that there is a utopian, totalitarian aspect of some Christianity that could conceivably be a problem.
But do you want to live in a world where all is permitted? If not, how are you, in principle, different from the Christians you criticize? Perhaps you would allow a broader range of personal choice?
Z’s observation that the “ruling minority appears to despise those they rule but cloak themselves in moral authority” fits nicely with Gregory Hood’s piece today.
https://www.amren.com/commentary/2021/03/why-i-dont-care-about-americas-geopolitical-decline/
‘…what I call the “American Paradox” may doom this “empire.” It is run by people who seem to care nothing for the country; the empire is built on sand.’
It’s not our country anymore. Why should we care what happens to it, outside of how its decline impact our people and our goals.
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The more the usa declines, the happier I am for the world. I feel bad for illiterate villagers getting bombed in afghanistan, then the opium trade flourishes and they get forced to accept trannies and women’s rights. Lets the sand savages do their own thing, personally I couldn’t care less what they do over there.
They fuck over the whole world (including working and middle (and upper middle- they don’t know it yet) white americans). Perhaps the only beneficiaries of globohomo are upper caste indians coming on h1B and the general chinese population. I suppose the welfare sucking aliens too, but they get that welfare at the cost of their culture and traditional heritage; look at Cardi B for instance. They’d all be happier in their latin shitholes.
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A good example of this will be the Media focuses on an issue to create a narrative. Say they focus on 2 or 3 incidents with a Black man dies and they make sure it is a White cop although with Zimmerman they turn a Hispanic into Whitey to justify their hate. They say it seems now an avalanche of Black death is occurring due to cops. Washington Post itself show more Blacks death by cops back in 2015 than in 2020 when Floyd died. So the numbers facts are not that it increased in 2020 it decreased but the media focuses on it and brings it to the attention of the masses more which leaves the impression it happens more. Similar to the Asian attacks they blame on Trump now and tie it to the Flu rhetoric. Who says it happens more now it is just as Zman said they dont want that Chinese Bioweapon lab issues to be found out so they do what they media does find a new narrative for the day and focus on it like it is happening all the time now. Car crashes happen a lot more frequently than Plane crashes but around 9/11 how many people would have believed that? The media cannot even be trusted when it claims an event is happening more frequently now. Even the White supremacy hate is done by the ADL a notorious Anti White group that says Its Ok to be White fliers are considered hate symbols.
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