Note: The weekly Taki post is up. The topic this week is something I hope to dive into on the podcast this week. The revolution from above will be a new favorite phrase. There is also the Sunday podcast up behind the green door.
One of the distinguishing features of conservatism is the habit of attacking its own side during conflicts with the Left. In fact, these self-criticism sessions are usually triggered by left-wing criticism of the Right or in anticipation of such criticism. Somewhere in the middle of the fight, usually when things are looking up for the good guys, conservatives will attack their own team over some small issue. The claim is that the people in error are undermining the fight against the left with their bad ideas.
A recent example is Heather MacDonald taking to the pages of a center-left platform to criticize vaccine skeptics as knuckle-dragging primitives. You see, there are people opposed to the Left who do not hold the same opinions as Heather MacDonald with regards to the vaccines, so those people must be corrected. Sure, things are going badly for the Left on the Covid issue but removing that fly from a friend’s face with a hatchet is too important to wait until after the fight.
There is no question that many people opposed to the strip-mining of what is left of our liberties over the Covid issue are wrong about a lot of things. Some think the vaccine changes your DNA. Some think the vaccines are entirely fake, part of some plot to control society. If you look hard enough, you can probably find people who think the vaccines are an alien technology developed at Area 51. Covid is a ruse to experiment on the public with this new extraterrestrial technology.
America is a big country, so you can find just about every crazy idea imaginable if you look long enough. Why does Mx. MacDonald think these people are worthy of a public tongue lashing? The stated reason is those vaccine skeptics are acting as irrationally as the people they oppose. Some of them think vaccines in general may not be all that safe and are refusing this vaccine. Imagine that? People in the middle of a heated partisan fight putting aside reason to score points against the enemy?
Presumably, Mx. MacDonald thinks these people are harming the cause in some way, so they must be silenced. The claim appears to be reason. You see, by tolerating the unreasonable on her side, it would harm her claims to being the most reasonable person in the room. Therefore, reason compels her to root around the ranks of the people opposed to the Covid madness, looking for the unreasonable. Tone police the unreasonable and then reason will triumph!
Of course, the question is, unreasonable to whom? Politics is always a partisan business, so the central questions are who? and whom? Only unreasonable people think politics can be a right answer business. In most cases, there are many possible right answers, as right is determined by preference. In a democracy, right is determined by convincing the people wielding power behind the scenes that the mobs will be sated with one approach or another. All politics is partisan.
Mx. MacDonald thinks these knuckle-dragging anti-vaxxers are making her look bad to someone, so who is it? That is the key to understanding conservative perfidy and failure over the last half century. What matters most to them is the people in the managerial class and their place in it. It is very important to someone like Mx. MacDonald to never be associated with someone like Alex Jones, who thinks vaccines are making frogs gay and lowering the sperm count of American males.
What reason tells us is that defeating the forces of darkness that have launched the revolution from above is the only concern. If that means siding with people who line their clothes with aluminum foil, so be it. Nothing can come before the destruction of radicalisms in all its forms. This is what reason demands. Otherwise, if the radicals get their way, these people fetishizing their rationality will be keeping the rest of us company in the reeducation camps.
Politics is an ugly business under ideal conditions, because people inevitably assume that the other side of the fight is filled with bad people. After all, they have the wrong opinions and refuse to change them. That means things are said that are not true and not very nice about the other side, but that’s just the nature of it. This is something the people who never stop talking about their rationality should know by now. Reasonable people understand the reality of the human condition.
In the case of the Covid war, there are people making wild claims about the vaccine, mostly to get attention for themselves. That is an argument against social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook. These platforms made it easy for stupid people to get on-line and have an opinion. This drew in the sorts of people who look to exploit the mob for their own benefit. This is also the argument against democracy, as laid out in Federalist Papers 10, but here we are anyway.
The thing is, Alex Jones claiming the vaccine will alter your DNA is no nuttier than much of what is in the mass media. In fact, a ridiculous claim is far less harmful than the plausible, but inaccurate claim. Few people will think the vaccine will turn you into Big Foot, but most people will believe we need to make kids wear masks. Far more people have been harmed by official lies than by goofballs on the internet. Again, this is something the “rational conservatives” should understand.
None of this is to say that there can never be criticism of allies or even a break with people who harm the cause. This has always been the problem with outsider politics, which tends to get overrun with weirdos. The issue is timing and intent. Privately chastising an ally for screwing up is reasonable. Dismissing wackos who are harming the cause is prudent. These are exceptions to partisanship that are required in politics, but conservative have made them their purpose.
This is why conservatives always lose. The main principle of the conservative is to conserve their reputation at all costs. No cause is ever so dear as to lead them to spend a penny of their reputation on it. Put another way, for the conservative, there is never anything worth fighting for, so they are always willing to cede the battle to the other side, no matter the cost. The Left sends thugs carrying bats and knives, while the Right sends out dandies dressed like interior decorators.
The test in these matters is this. Is the world better or worse with a small group of people who think vaccines alter your DNA? The obvious answer is the world is not affected in the least by people with crackpot ideas. Is the word made better or worse by allowing the evil of progressivism triumph? The answer is obvious. People fetishizing their rationality should be able to grasp this. Instead, for generations they have come to the opposite conclusion and lost every fight.
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I don’t know the backstory, but she does the Pretentious Scotswoman thing of putting a space in the punctuation of her surname, “Mac Donald.” Perhaps she is honoring her ancestors who were the producers of “Mac and Me”
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> It is very important to someone like Mx. MacDonald to never be associated with someone like Alex Jones, who thinks vaccines are making frogs gay and lowering the sperm count of American males.
Most people who pride themselves on being a purely reasonable commentator would rather be respected than be right. The “Conservative Pundit” account took this to hilarious extremes, then the parody became real so fast it became impossible to keep up.
The problem is, these people have an effect on keeping midwits in the right on the plantation at a more personal level, and murders any solidarity that could develop. Everyone reading this forum has probably dealt with a harpy like Ms Macdonald in their day to day life who would gleefully stab you in the back while pontificating on being on your side. Demoralizing as hell.
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Submitted for your approval. Peggy Noonan.
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It’s obvious that, politics aside, some of these people are just sh*t-terrified of Covid, to an unreasonable degree. You can give a pass to some of the older people with health problems (naming no names here, but we all know who we mean), and for younger guys like Yarvin who have or had family members who had serious health problems (I had no idea how sick his poor wife was until she passed recently*) but for young, healthy people like Soave, MacDonald, and Balko, it’s just absurd. If you want to get vaccinated, get vaccinated; but don’t suddenly go all communitarian on us after a lifetime of “Muh Freedomz” preaching just because the bad pictures on the TV scared you.
*By the way, props to Yarvin/Moldbug for not even mentioning his wife’s illness until she passed. I disagree with CY about lots, but that was admirable and old school of him. You know that, if this happened to Dreher or George Will, you would be hearing “As I was saying to my brave, terminally ill wife last night” every damned column.
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I have what I still believe is an eminently rational case against the “vaccine.” It has nothing to do with “Teh Science ™,” because I didn’t get my Twitter MD last spring, and anyway “Teh Science” changes daily. Instead, I based it on two things that can be observed by anyone, and about which there can be no reasonable doubt, given that we all experience both multiple times a day: the behavior of the government, and the behavior of The Media.
Fascinating, isn’t it, that the kind of people who derided Obamacare as “putting the DMV in charge of your health” are now the truest of true believers re: government health care. Also The Media. Remember when government health care’s newest BFFs were against it, so every day The Media ran stories about those eeeeeeeevil Big Pharma companies, and how they’d cackle with glee every time a child died because Single Mom didn’t get free antibiotics like they have in Canada?
I swear, both of those things happened. Multiple times a day. For years. And yet, out of the blue, both sides do a complete 180, instantly, totally, like a school of bait fish. And they’re still doing it, every time The Narrative changes.
Knowing all that – and again, everyone sees this, all the time, every day – why would I risk it? Seems to me there’s only one *reasonable* course of action.
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The fact that the people urging us to get this are the same people who have been wrong about damned near everything for the last two decades would be enough to make me hesitant.
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I know. Covid is the new WMD
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Yeah, there’s no getting around it. You simply look at the average twunt who wishes to become either a politician or a journalist, couple this with knowledge of all lies past, and you’re an instant skeptic.
And that’s the thing; the more you look into it, the more you see they lie every single day. Every single hour.
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As the kids these days say, everything is now fake and gay. The “vaccine,” and all discourse around the “vaccine,” are part of everything. Ergo, by modus ponens or something like that, the “vaccine” is both fake and gay.
See, not just reasonable, ironclad logical.
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We give vaccines to children based on known risks. We stopped giving the smallpox vaccine because there is zero risk of getting smallpox. I’ve never had a flu shot, because I have had the flu a few times in my life and it was a minor inconvenience. Since 95% of people have little to fear from Covid, mandatory vaccination is not warranted. Making it optional an encouraging people to consider it is reasonable.
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That’s the issue: Risk.
What are the risks of the vaccine versus the risks of getting Covid?
Obviously, some of the potential risks – such as some long-term side effect that no one could have predicted – of the vaccine are unknown, but it’s been in the equivalent of a stage three trial, a massive stage three trial, for around eight months so we’re probably getting a decent idea of its pros and cons.
For someone over 60 or 70, the risks of Covid seem to dramatically outweigh the risks of the vaccine. For a health person under 25, it’s likely the other way around. (The chance of heart issues, though extremely rare, seem to much higher than the chance of hospitalization from Covid, which is astonishingly rare for that age group.)
If the medical establishment was honest about these facts, and a few are such as Marty Makary, people might trust them. The problem is that the media, the government and the medical establishment have exaggerated or flat out lied throughout this whole thing so no one believes them anymore.
Regardless, the vaccine should be voluntary. If it has any efficacy at all, the vaccinated will be protected so they shouldn’t care if some people choose to not get it.
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The other issue is we know something about the arc of coronaviruses. The Russian flu a century ago was a coronavirus. Nasty at first, then progressively les nasty. It is still with us today, as the common cold. We are seeing this now, so the need for the vaccine declines with each mutation.
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When I was a kid the well-established futility of vaccinating against coronaviruses was the “hook” for our introductory lesson in viral evolution. Every child knew the cliché “no cure for the common cold,” and our eighth grade biology class explained why.
Women, as the local volunteer force of globohomo, get extremely angry at you if you remember this, especially as it becomes clear that the “jab” can’t do much (good).
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Exactly. The Delta variant is more contagious but less deadly, which is what you’d expect.
Granted, the lower deaths are partially explained by the first wave taking out a lot of the vulnerable, the vaccines reducing the symptoms and doctors knowing how to treat the virus better. But still, the deaths relative to the case is dramatically lower.
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Certainly “making it optional and encouraging people to consider it” is reasonable. But that’s not what they did. First it was “vaccines are totally unsafe because Drumpf and his Big Pharma buddies etc.” Then, once the election was successfully stol…err, I mean, normalized, Climate Science-style, it became “vaccines are great; they’re 100% safe and 100% effective.” And when that narrative was rendered inoperative, it became “the only reason vaccines aren’t 100% safe and effective is because of all the mouth-breathing conspiracy theorists who refuse to take them.” And now, soon enough, it will be mandatory.
It has all been completely binary, right from the get go. Clown World is Borderline Nation. Given all that, it’s quite reasonable to doubt the truth of anything they say, about anything. Imagine if a consumer product, a new cell phone say, was marketed that way. Oh, the New and Improved Samsung Whatever is the best cell phone in the world! Why no, it doesn’t suddenly explode in your pocket, and all those cases of people coming into the ER with scorched crotches are just misinformation pushed by Alex Jones types. Meanwhile, for completely unrelated reasons that we’re not going to explain, many countries are issuing totally innocuous recalls of all of those phones. Meanwhile, be sure to get your new phone! It’s great!
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Making it optional will not work because wherever the plebs perceive the risk to be low, take up of vaccine will be low and it can have no effect on infection rates, (it may have no effect whatever the vaccination rate.) . If they try to scare us into being vaccinated that just exacerbates the panic, which is the last thing the idiots want. On the other hand any attempt at coercion generates massive pushback. All in all I’m loving watching our halfwit PM Johnson, all the other political clowns, media numpties and assorted experts make complete arses of themselves.
In no way are these vaccines in any conventional sense. Therapeutics are a far more accurate description. And the side effect profile that we are seeing in Israel and Iceland demonstrates that these so-called vaccines need far more study before any mass application. I’m actually surprised you are buying into any of this pro vaccine nonsense at this point. You have a blindspot here. The critics of these vaccines occupy the intellectual high ground at this point. Very high ground
The “libertarians” have just been appalling on the whole Covid issue. For a bunch of people who allegedly value freedom above everything else, they sure have been OK with supporting the most coercive government intrusions on personal freedom that we have seen in my lifetime. Not all libertarians have been like this but certainly most of the high-profile ones like Soave, MacDonald, and Balko (who, after a lifetime of ranting about abuse of police power, now wants them to be able to arrest you for not wearing a mask.). A lot of people have shown their true colors during this “crisis” and I for one will not forget.
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Indeed. The Virus Tomfoolery has most certainly made me aware of who hates their own freedom. Escape from Freedom for all!
I say ‘freedom’, but perhaps ‘freedoms’ is better.
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Don’t like needing the vaccine passport to buy groceries?
Just build your own Walmart, Walgreens, Amazon, Kroger, and Target, bro.
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There’s always another option. After all, do you think the minimum wage document checker at the Walmart door is going to be looking up everyone’s jab status? I know a doctor I can trust.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2HTHPtoNJLk&t=16s
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Do not lie unless you are forced to.
The sooner you lie, the harder it will be for you to remember what you lied about.
IE: the mandatory back to the office/ mandatory jab in order to work at Globocorp was just postponed, again. No need for a vax card, no need to lie, no need to quit or be fired.
McDonald showed her true colors years ago. She did an interview with Lana from Red Ice not realizing her and Henrick were “NotSees”. If memory serves she publicly disavowed them and tried to get them to take down the interview. She’s not an ally.
Off topic, for anyone who’s interested there is a particularly fine comment on Friday’s post made by Not My Usual Pen Name about the Holy Spirit which will probably go unseen since it was posted late. Worth the effort to hunt it down for anyone interested in the topic. And not entirely off topic since it involves the consequences of dishonoring The Truth, which we have been bathing in for the last 80 years.
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“The main principle of the conservative is to conserve their reputation at all costs.”
Finally! We’ve found what it does conserve!
On the subject of Alex Jones… how ought he to know? In the last year (and before, naturally) we’ve seen immense whoppers told to us by those in power. And by those in science. I suppose Mr Jones could avail himself of a book on the technology behind the vaccine; but what are the prerequisites for him to even understand this? In short, I find Jones highly amusing and am glad he makes such noises, because it is another person saying “Balls to the ‘science’, I don’t want your jab!”.
For me, it is enough to just say I don’t want it and I don’t need it. But how could I ever know what’s in it? How much do I trust official documentation of such a vaccine? Best to focus my intellect elsewhere. It’s also worth repeating that, as you’ve mentioned with MacDonald, to them, we’re all Alex Jone’s. We may as well be, doesn’t matter if you give the most ‘reasonable’ answer on Planet Earth; they don’t want to know us.
As for science? I recently began reading a textbook on Geology, which is a fascinating field. But, as one would expect, it is packed with terms like ‘probably’, ‘it is possible that’, ‘quite certain’, ‘it may have been the case that’, ‘the evidence suggests that’… and so on. When you add the need for certainty that the MSM craves, and how many talentless sell-outs there are in science; the ground starts looking pretty shaky.
That was always the hallmark of a great scientist; a humble, curious man burning with creativity. Willing to go against convention. The mass professionalization of science has turned it into one big exercise in credential accrual. A bit like the record protecting of professional boxing: “Can’t face him, he may damage my neat little unbeaten run”.
Anyway, to the point of the post, this snobbery between certain parts of what I guess we could call ‘The Right’ is very problematic. Ivory Tower Conservative Professor (ITCP) knows there is a problem. The problem can be remedied with fists. Bob talks highly of fists and organised action as a mechanism. Therefore, ITCP distances himself from Bob the bigot – and probably writes an Atlantic piece about his brush with extremism.
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A great example of Z’s point from this weekend: Rod Dreher ran away screaming from Derb and VDare.
https://vdare.com/posts/rod-dreher-tweets-derb-gets-beaten-now-loves-big-brother
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This is a classic, along the same lines of the article he wrote about when he talked to a reactionary who he admitted was probably right about everything, and quickly purged the conversation from his memory because, while the reactionary was probably correct, his thoughts were BAD.
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Crikey. I’m pretty sure that Dreher’s backbone jumped out of my monitor a number of times, looking for a new home.
Great example, indeed. If one must be such a coward, can one just not do it in private? Mind you, in this most inverted of times, cowardice is probably celebrated as a virtue.
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The message must be bad, not because, well, because the message is bad, but because the messenger is bad.
An evil clockmaker can’t even be correct once, twice a day.
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Dreher has pulled this crap before. For him to act like he barely knows Derb’s writing and hasn’t read him at all since Dreher left National Review 20 years ago is ridiculous. I believe Dreher joined the pile on against Derb for “The Talk” also. There is no way he didn’t know about Unz Review. He has admitted to reading Steve Sailer’s stuff. I have made comments about VDare and Peter Brimelow in his comment section before, he knows what the site is about and that it isn’t “white nationalist.” The idea that this loser would be able to offer serious resistance to a totalitarian anti-Christian state is laughable. All they have to do his threaten to label him with the scarlet R and he will prostrate himself at their feet.
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Well isn’t that his schtick? Offer no resistance to globohomo and try to have Christian communities? This is a subject I’m very interested in. I’m an Orthodox Christian (as is Dreher) and we have preserved monasticism and the life of the Faith since the beginning. But what’s missing is the martial aspect that conquered and maintained vast empires. What happened to all that? Did it ever exist or did Christendom conquer Europe despite the Church? Even the based clergy and laymen never talk about it; only monasticism.
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Dreher had an insane, hysterical post about Covid in February at The American Conservative and from what I can tell hasn’t mentioned it on their website since. His comments section ripped into him for it. I wonder if they banned him from writing posts about it after that. I wonder if his readership was starting to decline and that is part of the reason for the Orban fangirl posting.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/another-year-of-covid/
Every time I am tempted to agree with something he writes, Dreher is soon courteous enough to remind me what a piece of crap he is
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I know our side uses the physiognomy line a lot but look at photos of Dreher, French and even Williamson and tell me you are surprised by anything from these limp noodles.
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Bwahaha. You’re right. Just took a peek, and I’d rate these lads like the sort who would gladly watch their children beaten because rayccissssms.
I don’t know if you read the linked article, but it was pretty funny when it detailed excerpts from Dreher’s account of how blacks threatened to kick his ‘jew ass’. Not even sure if he is one – but it’s comedy gold nonetheless.
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Dreher is like the soy-faced wojack meme come alive. It’s creepy.
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Our enemies never fail to remind us that they are our enemies.
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“…there is never anything worth fighting for, so they are always willing to cede the battle to the other side, no matter the cost. The Left sends thugs carrying bats and knives, while the Right sends out dandies dressed like interior decorators…”.
Insert photo of my very own US Senator Lindsay Graham here—–>
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From the Taki column: “The dominant theory for why revolutions always end in a bloodbath…”
This gets said a lot — a whole lot. But is it true? Sure, revolutions *sometimes* end in bloodbaths, but *always*? Really? There was a revolution in Portugal in the ’70s. It didn’t end in a bloodbath. There were a few revolutions in Brazil in the late 19th and
early through mid 20th centuries and none of them were spectacularly bloody.
I am by no means a student of the history of revolution, but I bet there are dozens of counter examples to the “always ends in a bloodbath” claim.
But there frequently seems to be this urge to paint revolution in terms of worst-case scenarios.
There have also been fairly peaceful secessions from and dissolutions of empires.
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I think it is how we use the term revolution. When I use it, I mean a new ruling system in addition to a new ruling elite. Latic revolutions tend to just replace the old rulers with some new ones. The system itself remains unchanged.
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True revolutions don’t always end in bloodbaths, but that is most certainly the way to bet, especially if the Left is involved.
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does anyone find the blue check MDs to be a fun trolling target?
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One thing is certain:
If the vaccine is eventually proven to change DNA, the narrative will quickly switch to
1. Well, yes, it changes DNA, but not in any meaningful amount
2. Well, yes, it changes DNA a meaningful amount, but it’s actually BETTER DNA now
3. Any further complaints about your changed DNA is racist.
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Heather MacDonald walks on water up here in Canada as far as the legacy media slobs are concerned. Most of your conservative journalists up here are rejects from the pro-team over at the NRO.
They are similar to the Sirens encountered by Jason and the Argonauts. The best way to handle them is to stuff your ears with cotton, tie yourself to the mast, and try to shut them out. If you make the mistake and listen to them you will go mad, and try and hurl yourself into the sea to drown yourself and escape the shrieking lunacy… 🙂
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From what I understand of it, the mRNA tech does reprogram cells— like a virus will. That doesn’t mean it alters every cell in your body. Some people will take a kernel of truth and run away with it, others will hear it and assume you’re making an unreasonable statement. C’est la vie.
I’m interested to know about vaccine shedding. If the wonder shot only reprograms cells to produce part of the virus (the spike protein), I’d think it wouldn’t be an issue except, perhaps, for the vaxxed or unvaxxed massively exposed. If it reprograms cells to produce an entire virus, well, then the wonder shot is effectively a synthetic virus and therefore might as well be a bioweapon. If I understand the Science!
Don’t hear too much about any of that. Eventually, maybe. In the meantime I’m staying the hell away from it.
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The way to think of it is this way. The vaccine kills a group of your cells, but in the process of these cells dying, they trigger an immune response to a specific protein, one associated with this coronavirus. That’s not a precise explanation, but good enough for our purposes. As with everything you put in your body, there is some risk to these injections.
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The vaxx was initially sold as staying very close to the injection site but now even The Experts(tm) have admitted it goes all over the body, including the brain and lungs. There are other little details like that which the officials will admit.
I’d say you’re underselling the risk of these things. There are plenty of credible smart people ringing the alarm bells and one doesn’t need to be a microbiologist to understand the concepts. But forget all that, the most important thing is that this is a new technology that hasn’t been extensively tested on humans and the animal tests for this sort of thing didn’t go well; in fact they skipped animal testing for these covid shots. It should be the normal and reasonable position to say these shots are an extreme risk especially on such a scale.
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Yes, and a traditional vaccine would introduce dead or attenuated virus that won’t in theory make you sick but still allow your immune system to develop antibodies.
Why the mRNA tech, I wonder. What is it about a coronavirus that a traditional vaccine was never developed? Do they mutate too quickly, or are they so common your immune system would go nuclear? And how would this tech, which sounds to me to be mimicking a virus, be an improvement?
Idk, rhetorical questions. Something about it all doesn’t sit right.
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All the information has now been buried, but before this all started you could look up the history of developing a vaccine for coronaviruses like SARS. They spent a decade trying to develop vaccines for SARS and MERS with no luck. In agriculture they had more success, but the requirements and risk tolerance are different with livestock.
Frankly, I think the drug companies just saw a chance to make billions fast tracking technology that they never could make work, but now they get paid billions to figure it out on the population. The pols like it because it advances their agenda to reengineer society, so everyone is happy.
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Your salient last paragraph here is pretty much how I see it. Pols look compassionate (Look! We battled Covid and survived!), big business gets the dosh.
John Smith’s freedoms get shat on. Oh well.
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Pretty insane, but I agree that’s one of likeliest explanations.
Science! for profit.
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I think that the purpose of the vaccine was to get the populace back to work before the Country was bankrupted by the panic. The government and experts couldn’t simply tell everyone to stop worrying, that the actual risk was far lower than initally believed because that would suggest they were wrong, one thing weak leaders cannot possibly ever admit to. Their problem is that having whipped up mass hysteria they now find they have no way of calming things down. On the whole watching the great and good floundering, and clearly out of their depth is most gratifying, not unlike watching one of the better episodes of Faulty Towers except the main characters are less sympathetic.
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Have to admit though, I lean towards Cull the Herd simply because reality has outdone my worst-case scenarios the last 18 months or so.
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My understanding is there have never been corona virus vaccines because there are too many of them and they mutate too fast. These jabs aren’t traditional vaccines, it’d be much more honest to call them treatments. The jab pushers don’t even claim the shots prevent infection, they just lesson symptoms.
Some of the shots are attenuated virus, such as Sinovac and Sputnik I believe, which for me really suggests there’s something to the claim that there is no virus. If coronavirus vaccines have never worked because they mutate so fast, what’s different about this one? And why are we in the west playing about with mRNA and micro-lipids are whatever when we just use the trusty attenuated virus? None of this makes sense and truly many of the more out there conspiracy theories make more sense than the scraps of official narrative we’re given.
On one side you have known liars trying to “sell” a product and on the other many people who have nothing to gain or lose but their credibility. Faucci can’t lose credibility because his is made up by the media and he has contradicted himself plenty of times and has a long record of seriously botching things, therefor it makes no sense to trust anything he or his friends say.
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These vaccines are always chasing last year’s problems
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In March, Fauci won a $1,000,000 prize from Israel for defending science.
I agree it’s possible that there is some harmful component of the vaccine. Either on purpose (conspiracy), or by accident (negligence).
For normies though, I try and stay away from the conspiratorial aspects and focus on more concrete things. I might say something like “these companies told us that Oxy is ‘safe and not addictive’ back in the 90s. Why would I trust them now?” Or bring up thalidomide.
I also talk about how I don’t trust a rushed vaccine, or mention that things were supposed to go back to normal after they got vaccinated – why are there new measures coming back?
It’s easy to lose normies when you get into the tinfoil hat territory. And frankly those are much more solid arguments.
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“Some people will take a kernel of truth and run away with it, others will hear it and assume you’re making an unreasonable statement.”
Such is the inevitable consequence when a person MUST have an opinion about such a specialized knowledge field as the intersection of experimental genetics with immunology.
Fortunately, the question *in context* is simple. Does the government get to forcibly inject you with something you don’t understand? A government that believes there are too many humans alive on the planet and those who don’t trust it should be starved of food and human contact? To ask THAT question is to answer it.
No medical degree needed.
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“Fortunately, the question *in context* is simple. Does the government get to forcibly inject you with something you don’t understand?”
That’s it in a nutshell. And a government that has proven incompetent for too long a time now, at that.
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If you accept the lab release conjecture, the original virus is almost certainly a synthetic virus, a product of gain of function or other types of investigation. Prior (published) research included making the SARS (or related) virus more infectious to humans, and to resist certain types of treatment. The preceding is established fact, years of published academic research including at Wuhan (WIV). Beyond that, it of necessity rapidly descends into the murk of unknowns and we only have circumstantial evidence. At the very least, SARS-CoV-2 (if a lab product) is almost certainly a nasty engineered research project that slipped the lead. A (hopefully) more remote possibility is that China was working on illegal bio-weapons. Especially based upon their continuing stonewalling of any outside investigation, this latter case cannot be dismissed. 🙁
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That reflects the lack of seriousness too. For “The Worst Virus Ever”, the nation responsible for propagating it has faced zero consequences.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend. I’ll ally with anybody (within reason) if they are promoting my agenda. When they are no longer aligned in my direction, I’ll cut them off and find a new ally.
I was at some of the anti lockdown / anti vax protests. There really were a mix of people.
– There were the tinfoil hatters handing out all kinds of pamphlets and buttons, ranging from information about how the vaccine turns you into Big Foot, to the dangers of international Zionism (Joos), to 5G nanoparticles.
– There were the granola, hippy Boomers who don’t want to inject chemicals into their body.
– There were the younger libertarian potheads, who had the annoying habit of smoking joints during the marches (but at least they’re on the right side here).
– There were the pissed off small business owners, and eastern euro immigrants/descendants who don’t want a return to communism.
– There were the normal people who just want a normal life. There were also random people who seem angry and like walking around yelling at things.
Anyways, the organizers stuck to the core message of no forced vaccines, and no more lockdowns. Went great, a diverse group of people but the message was very clear. There are not our guys and probably cucked on race, but this particular movement is aligned with our interests at this time.
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Where is Mac Donald’s inconsistency? She’s made a living, maybe, apologizing for the corrupt police state, the same guys that heroically defended the US Capitol and will soon be slapping cuffs on un-masked grocery shoppers while guys in hoodies and ski masks are running wild carjacking and stealing cell phones.
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First, the article by Heather McDonald is probably just a simple case of opportunism greed. The editors at Science & Tech likely went looking for a shill at Conservative Inc. in order to craft a anti-vaxxer putdown piece that “appears” bipartisan. And my guess is that she whored herself out for a quick buck, and neither idealistic principle nor rationality had anything to do with it. I wonder what she charges for a BJ, or if you get a discount for taking the jab.
But to the more important issue addressed in today’s post. Conservative Inc. is not going to save us, no matter how much yakking they do on the internet or whether that yakking is optimized in some form or fashion. We can only save ourselves, and in a real world, that requires tangible action. Words alone are insufficient.
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It is discomforting when some of the more wild claims of the mRNA vax side effects turn out to be plausible. There is indeed a danger that the vaccine can encode the spike protein into DNA, at least if this vaccine journal is to be believed.
https://ijvtpr.com/index.php/IJVTPR/article/view/23/51
See page 62.
“Permanent Incorporation of Spike Protein Gene into human DNA
It has been claimed that mRNA-based vaccines are safer than DNA-vectored vaccines that work by incorporating the genetic code for the target antigenic protein into a DNA virus, because the RNA cannot become inadvertently incorporated into the human genome. However, it is not at all clear that this is true. The classic model of DNA → RNA → protein is now known to be false. It is now indisputable that there is a large class of viruses called retroviruses that carry genes that reverse transcribe RNA back into complementary DNA (cDNA). In 1975, Howard Temin, Renato Dulbecco, and David Baltimore shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1975 for their discovery of reverse transcriptase and its synthesis by retroviruses (such as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)) toderive DNA from RNA (Temin and Mizutani, 1970, Baltimore, 1970)”
This entire paper is well worth a read. It feature sober rational discussions of the vaccine risks, including ADE, clots and more.
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This is why it’s perfectly rational to take a pass on the vaccine. First, it’s a cold that happens to take out the old and fat at a disproportionate level, but not much beyond the common flu (which disappeared from society for now). This isn’t smallpox. Second, if your government has proven its incompetence on issues A through X, why would we assume their competence on issues Y and Z? This is important because they gave the pharma companies immunity from their vaccine products. So we depend on government scientists, who probably now have to be 30% African bone-rollers, to call the shots on our health. I would much prefer taking a vaccine where if Moderna knows that if it messes up, they’ll get (((class actions))) that would make their heads spin. I don’t even like flying anymore because of government incompetence. But at least Boeing is still open to lawsuits, which means they can’t mess up too bad.
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If you’re a reasonably healthy person in good physical condition, which includes almost all young people, you should have no fear of covid. Rely on your own immune system. If not, you should assess the risks of serious illness via the jab versus serious illness via the virus. Not an easy choice for many.
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It really is incredible how all these supposedly educated, intelligent, skeptical people that question the corporations and government in every other respect are falling all over themselves to line up for the jab and spread the jab gospel far and wide.
Same energy as Jonestown.
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The liability shield is not only Big Pharma. Vaccine makers are protected by a specific law. Under the PREP Act of 2005, as long as a product is Emergency Use Authorization AND/OR a declaration of emergency (e.g. pandemic) remains in effect, there is near-total immunity to liability for the entire spectrum of service providers, I’d guess that shield extends from the truck driver who hauls the vaccines from the manufacturer, to the scarcely-trained clerk at the drug store or the drive-through that administers the jabs.
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The Pro-vax aggression from on high was evident last December, when they started making claims that pregnant women should take it as it was being rolled out with zero long term studies. This is the height of irresponsibility. This quickly became a classist flashpoint. The coastal “elites” (who are far from elite) are always looking for an issue in which they can compare themselves to the inland “mouth breathers.” This was the perfect virtue signaling issue that goes far beyond the virus. This goes to the “We believe in The Science” part of their Nicene creed. To refuse the vaccine, you’re in reality a terrible selfish person. And now that we’re finding out that these vaccines are failing they quickly switched it up with “my vaccine won’t work unless you take your vaccine.” The mental gymnastics are amazing. The vaccine mandates aren’t about the virus, they’re about a segment of society that has such a visceral hatred for the inlanders in their jacked up trucks that they fantasize about holding them down and injecting them. Only they want it to be potassium chloride. They imagine each and every January 6th “terrorist” being anti-vax. They’re dirty people. Pay no attention to the dirty people running across the border, they have clean souls and intentions, so they’re fine. Of course the neo-cons have the most insulting, demeaning comments of all about anti-vaxers, because they see them as cannon fodder that got uppity.
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“To refuse the vaccine, you’re in reality a terrible selfish person.”
This stance, delivered by anyone other than those in my close circle, effectively has me thinking: “Why would I want to take some hastily prepped, mystery jab to keep this sissy safe”. Quite honestly, such people may as well be dead to me – I am sick of the guilt tripping and moralizing.
The relentless pushing and propagandizing behind it has been phenomenal.
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If the worst case scenarios for ADE materialize, I don’t think I’m going to miss the fearmongering flunatic fascists.
On the upside, there are going to be tons of cool cars and houses around that one can just pick up for free.
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There does only seem to be three possibilities (alas, they are not mutually exclusive):
1) Vax does nothing (optimistic)
2) Unvaxxed kill the vaxxed (ADE)
3) Vaxxed kill the unvaxxed (Marek) with the added benefit of everyone needing the vax forever.
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My money is on the not-vaxx doing nothing but line the pockets of some cloud people and kill a couple dozen thousand dirt people (which no one will hear about).
“The answer is obvious. People fetishizing their rationality should be able to grasp this. Instead, for generations they have come to the opposite conclusion and lost every fight.”
No, they didn’t come to any conclusion and lost every fight. They are told what to say and paid to throw the fight. Heather MacDonald and others of her ilk make a very comfortable living doing that.
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When she changed her hairdo and began getting professional make-up for her TV appearances, I knew something was up.
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Yep, you can’t hold her unfashionable views AND be a star on the boob tube
One or the other
She made her choice.
Needless to say I was never on her bandwagon, and among my earlier posts here was my take not to get too excited over; she was an also-ran with nothing highly original or thoughtful to offer. But she may have had her usefulness in getting normie to our side, but looks like that was wishful thinking.
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“Boob tube” is UK for our “tube top.” I would much rather view that content than what’s on TV. 😎
The elites:
– lied from the beginning about the COVID situation, first it was racist to admit it exists, masks don’t work, virus isn’t made in a lab, etc…..
– openly celebrate the destruction of white communities, our declining numbers, and our ultimate replacement and demise.
– teach our children that they are genetically evil just because they look a certain way
– promote open borders and crime. Legalize drugs and homelessness. Flood the poorest white communities with opiates.
– send all jobs overseas; the ones that can’t be outsourced are filled with low wage scab labour, either H1B or illegal alien.
You’ll have to pardon me for being a bit skeptical when they’re now saying “trust us. Take this jab”. Whether or not the tinfoil hat part is true, I don’t know. Certainly possible. Either way I don’t trust them one bit. That’s putting it very mildly
Not to go all Boomercon here, but they can “jab” my dead body.
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The plant for my MIC firm now has a ginormous, “NOW HIRING” banner on the top of the main entrance. This banner is easily visible from the four-lane thoroughfare that passes by the plant.
It is almost as if the C-suite and HR morons can’t figure out that competent, hard-working people aren’t eager to wear face panties for 8+ hours a day and get pumped full of the gene juice.
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Or listen to anti white sermons from arrogant and spiteful little coloured pricks all day. I’ll be well off for early retirement with that compounding interest but it’ll take a few more decades at least. Assuming the system doesn’t collapse lol.
At my office though, the white people are quite eager to get vaccinated and make being vaxxed part of their personality. The non whites are quiet about it, either they’re quietly going unvaxxed or they don’t care either way.
C suite are morons through and through.
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We don’t need to know the actual truth to know that every last word out of their mouths is a lie, including “the” and “and.”
Huh?
” “Some of them think vaccines in general may not be all that safe and are refusing this vaccine. Imagine that? People in the middle of a heated partisan fight putting aside reason to score points against the enemy?
How is that ‘putting aside reason ‘? If the ‘reasonable- sounding’ stories about the problems with the vaccines are just that (reasonable sounding), then reason is not being put aside.
McDonald has cucked.
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If the Sputnik V was offered here I would probably take it. I would love to tell my MSNBC viewing neighbors and associates in my deep blue area that “I just think Putin does things right. I trust his competence allot more than what we’ve got going on.”
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Putin, unlike the oligarchs and politicians running the West, doesn’t openly despise wide swaths of the population, therefore his concoction is more trustworthy.
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Well, I’d probably trust Putin more than I would trust our PTB right now, plus Sputnik is an adenovirus vaccine, not mRNA, just like J&J, so there’s that. Whether or not it works or not I don’t know, but I am pretty sure that it was at least designed to work, as opposed to simply making ash*t-ton of money of Big Pharma. Putin is a former KGB thug, but at least he doesn’t seem to hate his own people, like some “leaders” one could name
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This is exactly the kind of thing I’m talking about, and I agree with you. Isn’t Big Pharma eeeeevil? I could swear I heard that somewhere…. ah yes, it was from “every single fucking Liberal in America, for as long as I’ve been alive, right up until the morning of January 20, 2021.” And now, just like that, Big Pharma is great! Can’t wait to get those Big Pharma shots! Those have to be made mandatory asap!
Or the other side: Isn’t “government health care” bad? I could swear I head that somewhere… ah yes, it was from “everyone on the Right, since at least the Hillarycare debacle, right up until the middle of March 2020.” I’m pretty sure I could search Steve Sailer’s archives and find plenty of skepticism, to put it no more strongly, about government meddling in the healthcare sector… and yet, here we are. Can’t wait to get those government goop shots! We love Big Brother.
Those two facts alone, in my view, justify some very hefty skepticism about any so-called vaccine. If we were all back in high school together, talking about girls, we’d say that lots of folks are thinking with the wrong head. That never works out well.
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TBH, I’m still pretty skeptical of government health care – that creepy “Protect the NHS” thing over in Britain is beyond belief.
But yeah, even a stopped clock is right twice a day, and the Left was more right than wrong about Big Pharma, I’ll grit my teeth and admit it…
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It really reminds me of the left’s reactions to molotov-ribbentropp. You can literally divide the vituperous “anti” opinion from the glowing friendship by a matter of hours. Nothing has truthvalue for these people, only the Party Line is or can be True.
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I’m not familiar with Alex Jones. I read enough fringe opinion as it is (viz, the present forum 😀 ) But seriously, allow me to briefly address his claim that the jabs may alter DNA. I’m just a layman, but I believe that it is at least POSSIBLE that that could be true! Consider the following arguments: some viruses are known to be able to insert part of their data into human DNA. In fact, it’s estimated that a significant fraction of the human genome are fragments of ancient viruses. Since the mRNA jabs are, in simplest terms, a fragment of viral RNA/DNA, it therefore is at least conceivable that mRNA jabs could, in fact, modify a cell’s DNA.
Since today’s essay deals at the least indirectly with the controversy over the safety of the jabs, here are some more facts (opinion) about it. Like many, I am deeply distrustful of government and the pandemic has not increased my confidence in the WHO, FDA, NIH; quite the opposite in fact. I’m not skeptical of the jabs because of a remote (in my estimation) chance of some evil re-writing of my DNA, but for more fundamental, broader reasons. These are primarily the urgency, the discarding of traditional protocols, the many inconsistencies in the official narrative. Rushing an experimental series of treatments, throwing away many standards of safety, against a virus, even if an escaped lab experiment, that really isn’t all that dangerous to most people, raises a lot of eyebrows. It should.
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We’re in the middle of the largest clinical trial in history.
I’ve read a decent amount on the vaccine. A lot of stuff out there is nonsense. But what’s not nonsense is that it simply hasn’t had enough time to confirm whether or not it has long-term side effects. There’s a reason you do usually wait awhile before offering a drug or vaccine to the general public.
I understand why they made it available quickly to the elderly or for those with comorbidities, but for the general population, they should have waited to see what the clinical trials were showing.
It’s all about risk. The risk to the elderly was high enough to take a vaccine with no long-term data. The risk to 20-year-old wasn’t and isn’t.
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Well Ms. MacDonald can have the not-vax herself. If fact she can take it and have 10 buster shots a month for all I care. The point is there is quite a bit of evidence that the not-vax is not good.
I will take the word of Dr. Malone, who invented the mRNA brew. He says that mass vaxing people with a non-sterilizing vaccine while the infection is in the environment is very dangerous. We are seeing evidence of ADE already.
So whether this not-vax alters your DNA or not is a side issue. Does it do what the pushers say it does? It looks like it does not. Does it cause harm? In many it already has. Is it safe in the long term? No one knows.
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It’s a livestock shot, which is telling since that’s pretty much how we’re viewed. Z and others have brought this up before (including in today’s post) but the people pushing the vax hate you. Maybe the vax does nothing or maybe (doubtful) it’s a benefit, but it’s hard to not consider the source on this when so many unknowns are in play.
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Regarding Z’s Taki column and whether the revolution will end in bloodshed, who knows, but it is a fact that the morality tale underpinning of this revolution have no brakes to stop that from happening.
The revolution is based on the idea that all groups are equally capable and, therefore, all groups should achieve equally. Obviously, that slams into the reality of the human condition as Z put it.
There’s nothing in the fundamental beliefs of this revolution to allow differences in outcomes to exist. It would mean admitting that the revolution is wrong. They have no wiggle room.
Normally, this would almost guarantee bloodshed; however, there is a wild card in this case. The revolution is organized, promoted and paid for by a group that isn’t actually revolutionaries. They created the revolution to promote their interests and to settle an old grudge, but they have no great belief in the ideals of the revolution and likely have no great desire to see society completely overturns, if for no other reason than they more or less run the current society.
The real question is whether this group can control the revolutionaries? Can they deftly change the ideals of the revolution enough to keep the revolutionaries under control?
If they can, things will continue to get crappier for whites, but there likely won’t be any serious bloodshed. If they can’t, things could get ugly.
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> The revolution is based on the idea that all groups are equally capable and, therefore, all groups should achieve equally.
This is just a sales pitch used to recruit a segment of the population.
You can be sure that the real revolutionaries do not believe in equality, nor equality of outcome. They consider themselves chosen. They are competing for total ownership and control.
There are a range of sales pitches to cover most all demographic groups. You got your share and care, your 1776 libertarian let free enterprise ring. Etc. Coke and Pepsi and Dr Pepper; all ADM high fructose. .
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> The real question is whether this group can control the revolutionaries? Can they deftly change the ideals of the revolution enough to keep the revolutionaries under control?
I doubt the masterminds can retain full control of their pet revolutionaries because many of the latter are true believers and the ideals of the revolution are bound to come into conflict with the interests of the true elite. Additionally, the revolutionaries are generally low quality people. We’re already seeing examples of poor execution and the social capital is quickly being spent. It won’t be long until the masses have zero trust in the institutions and nothing but disdain for the owners and their retarded managers.
I think there will be a ton of bloodshed however. At the core of all this is simple metaphysical evil. The point is to destroy civilization and make people suffer. The control grid will get off the ground and soon after sputter then crash and burn, and many of use will be caught in the wreck. But then the strong men phase begins so there’s that!
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maybe alex jones is wrong, vaccines are safe, they don’t kill you over time & maybe they don’t inflict any physical harm, with a few exceptions here & there, it’s all fine & dandy, but that’s not the part that worries me.
digital id & sterilization is what it’s all about, a world in which very few white kids exist, a world where they end up completely under the control of a zionist technocratic-globalist dictatorship sounds worse than what alex jones is preaching, to me at least.
Anyhow, it’ll be interesting to see if huge import of migrants will make it easier for the globalists to control the population cause of their low iqs, or if it will backfire & the regime gets overwhelmed by the chaos.
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It should be pretty clear that the Coudenhove-Kalergi plan is definitely in play with the ridiculous jab double-standards being applied to Heritage Americans that want to enter Canada or go on a cruise versus the illegal immivaders that are getting red carpet busing and flights all over the US thanks to the illegitimate DC regime.
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We talk a lot about not accepting the left’s moral framework. For the mRNA shots, we should also not accept calling them “vaccines” or calling those opposed “anti-vaxxers.” Many who are opposed to these shots are not opposed to vaccines. This is something different. The “not-vaccine”, or the “clot shot” or “frankenshot” are better names for it.
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“Frankinshot” makes me thing of some Pfizer exec in that Al Franken picture, groping the sleeping journalist.
But yes, the partisan approach is to to attack their golden calf. The not-vaxx doesn’t alter the test subject’s dna? Ok, prove that assertion with long-term clinical trials. Oh, yeah, they dont exist.
Gee, how did that multi-billion global corporation get us to pay for their first-round clinical trials? I thought drugs were supposed to be proven safe before being allowed to the public, guess those ppl pushing the Clot Shot want to repeal the new deal consumer protection laws.
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Their bitching about this stuff is ironic. The “Establishment” were the first to politicize Covid and they did it right from the beginning, before the lock-downs even started. Nancy Pelosi said we be racist if we didn’t go shopping and out to eat in Chinatown. Hug an Asian. “Wuhan Flu” be racist. “Protests are killing grandma,” then the next day, widespread mass riots were “mostly peaceful” and “essential to health.” There have been many other examples. This is all their fault. Why would anyone believe a word they say?
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It’s a clique to point this out, but the pictures from the Obama birthday bash shows that no one was wearing a mask.
Just like with the BML riots, where few wore masks, the authorities say nothing and shut down those who notice.
You’d think, if the authorities really believed what they say about Covid, then they would be hysterical over the risk to which their beloved Obama and BML rioters were exposed.
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My current general impression is that authorities know they wear “no clothes”. Locally here, the fight seems to be visceral—they fight to enact/enforce rules to simply demonstrate and maintain their power. To cede control at this point is to be defeated, and admit to such.
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If you really want to give yourself liver failure, you can play my favorite drinking game, called “If They Were Serious.” First you think of some big public issue. Then you make a list of what a real, serious government that took its mandate seriously would do. Then you make a list of all the things the “government” clowns of Clown World are doing. Then you compare the lists, drinking one beer for each item on the “currently doing” list that’s completely irrelevant to the issue, and one shot for every item that is completely opposite of what any sane, rational society would do.
For instance, the magic masks. We are informed that The Virus (move over, HIV, Corona gets the capital letters now) lingers on surfaces for… what are we up to now? Weeks? Months? Whatever, point is, if it survives at all outside the body, all masks should be disposable, and there should be dudes in Hazmat suits in front of every place people are still allowed to go, ready to incinerate those disposables with extreme prejudice the minute they’re off the face. Instead, you can’t walk down a city street without stepping on fifteen of them, and if you spend just five minutes watching the behavior of people wearing those “I obviously haven’t washed this in three weeks” cloth versions…
Note: This was for rhetorical purposes only. You don’t want to actually try this, unless you’re determined to go out like Dylan Thomas.
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Z-man’s said this again and again in so many ways. Second verse, same as the first. Leave your virtues at the door, go inside, beat the shit out of your enemies. Win at all cost. When leaving, pick up your virtues at the door. Continue on with your life. Your virtues remain intact and will serve you and your people well in the future. As for anyone else, they were never meant for them anyway.
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Great comment. Allow me to add some nuance.
Virtue is important in the big picture sense of leading a life well lived, i.e. it’s comes into play most of the time and over the long haul. But if your hiking in the woods and a bear attacks you, virtue has no useful purpose in the instant. You are fighting for your life and you do what you must.
A time will come when most people comprehend the existential nature of the societal cancer that is killing us in slow motion at present. When that happens, people WILL fight back tangibly (not just delude themselves about voting, messiahs, and the cavalry coming over the hill to save them).
And I would argue that our obligation is to fight back smarter rather than harder. In simplest terms, this means focusing on the core of the problem, and then acting only on terms & timing that are favorable to your success. Intelligence, creativity, stealth, and spontaneity can be extremely useful in this endeavor. Opportunism is your friend. Ideally, leave them asking . . . what the fuck just happened?
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I can only add “reciprocity.” Virtue is only virtuous when it is shared with those who reciprocate. Otherwise, gloves are off and we win at all costs. This is “who we are.”
You wanna be nice and lose and maybe dead or mean and win and alive?
Don Quixote, “Love and war are all one . . . It is lawful to use sleights and stratagems to . . . attain the wished end.”
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Dandies… Never heard of them. Living in a mud hut, but got to have dem clothes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W27PnUuXR_A
Conspicuous consumption… In Africa, of course.
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“[W]e describe evidence that SARS-CoV-2 RNAs can be reverse transcribed in human cells by reverse transcriptase (RT) from LINE-1 elements or by HIV-1 RT, and that these DNA sequences can be integrated into the cell genome and subsequently be transcribed.” — https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33330870/
Sometimes you just try too hard to be reasonable.
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“Alex Jones claiming the vaccine will alter your DNA is no nuttier than much of what is in the mass media. In fact, a ridiculous claim is far less harmful than the plausible, but inaccurate claim.”
True and important, though most people (seem like they) don’t get it. Buckley famously said he’d rather be ruled by the first 500 names in the Boston phone book (remember them?) than the faculty of Harvard. Point being that common sense was better than “smarts”. Sort of like owning the “stupid party” label.
I recently thought of an updated version, after one of those stories about some 3rd world pilot deliberately crashing an airliner: who would you prefer as an airline pilot: a dumb guy, or a crazy guy? No matter how dumb the White nationalist is, he’s not TRYING to kill you, so you’d be better off taking your chances with him.
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Heather MacDonald has done a lot of good work vis-a-vis black crime rates and such. She appears on Tucker and is quite strong in her views and doesn’t back down. I would guess she’s opened a lot of normie eyes in her writing and tv appearances. But, I did notice the change in hairdoo and the pink glasses and pink shaded lip gloss — which make her look rather clownish. Honestly, I was shocked by her take in that article that Z references.
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The circle of acceptable ideas is getting narrower and narrower.
Although freedom of speech still technically exists, in polite company you can only go so far.
There used to be room for eccentrics to spout their craziness; now the eccentrics are being shut down (viz. Alex Jones). Eccentrics perform a vital role in mass society. They define informal limits to conversation. When the perimeter of speech is pushed back toward the politically-middle center there is a corresponding drop in men willing to speak their minds freely. It’s just too risky.
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The militant vaxers are the same people who would have supported prohibition in 1920. This issue is flipped but these are the same people who would have taken away your bottle of whiskey because they know what’s good for you. And just like the prohibition era, there needs to be a strong cohort of people who say, who the hell are you anyway? GTFO of my life. Can there be any doubt that nut bag Carrie Nation would have been one of these crazed vaxer women in 2021?
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