Note: The Monday Taki post is up. After sending it off I thought about the idea of world building, so I addressed than a bit today. The Sunday podcast is up behind the green door and it is mostly about the usual stuff.
The old paleo-conservative gag about the demand for Nazis exceeding the available supply has become something of an iron law of the universe. Each generation discovers that the American Left is obsessed with fascists, white supremacists, the Klan and so on, despite these things no longer being real. Other than some cartoonish play-acting by those desperate for attention, these things are no longer real. They certainly play no role in politics or the general culture.
The lack of supply, however, has been no deterrence, especially now that the internet allows people to create these reality from thin air. The intensively on-line far-left invests all of its time finding someone they can label as the bogeyman or one the many members of the bogeyman army. The Antifa subculture, for example, is organized around the hunt for fascists and white supremacists. They spend all day looking for new baddies and obsessing over the prior baddies.
This being America, this means there is a subgenre of fringe-left media that caters to this subculture with ghost stories about Nazis. Hoffer said that all mass movements in America become a corporation, a racket or a business. The world of on-line hate-hunters is a racket that supplies world building materials to the intensively on-line Left so they can maintain their fantasy space. The witch hunters need witches, so there are people supplying them with witches.
This obsession with imaginary fascists is written off as the work of the mentally unstable, which is true, but it is more than that. What these people are doing is world-building within the alternative reality of their own creation. They live in a reality that says they are the guardians of the future utopia, keeping the world safe from its enemies, which come in many styles and guises. In order to keep this fantasy going, they have to find characters that fit the role of the villain.
In a way, this subculture has become something like the massive on-line role playing games that sprang up a dozen years ago. People can join, but they have to assume a character and then join a band on-line. This band is a set of social media accounts that support one another in their imaginary struggle. Doxing is both a weapon and a world building tool. The revelation of someone in league with the Dark One helps perpetuate the fantasy by supplying social proof to the members.
This is why these people look so outlandishly weird when they turn up in public to riot with other fantasy groups or hold what amounts to a street convention. They take their on-line character out into the real world, but the real world does not have these sorts of people or the bogeymen they are chasing. Antifa, BLM, furries, cosplayers, the alt-right and so on are normal in the alternative reality of their subculture, because the rules of that subculture have been created to normalize this stuff.
That is how to view the now defunct alt-right. Like the intensely on-line far-left, the alt-right formed up on-line as a form of escapism. They quickly became a foil for the intensely on-line far-left, because the interaction with that subculture shaped them into the much needed opponent. The intensely on-line libertarians became intensely on-line fascists because that gave them an enemy, the intensely on-line antifascists, who were happy to have the new villain in their version of reality.
It is not just the intensely on-line far-left that lives in an alternative reality. The anti-Trump movement quickly evolved into an alternative reality. Of course, its was the existing alternative realties of neoconservatives, the intensely on-line far-left and others that coalesced around this new boss introduced to the game. Trump allowed these alternative realties to align against a commonly imagined enemy. It is why they cannot stop talking about him, even after he has been defeated.
Eric Hoffer famously said that mass movements can survive without a god but they must always have a devil. This seems to be true of these alternative realities that are shaping the reality of the modern age. The inherent conflict with reality is masked by the obsession with imaginary adversaries. This has now become a form of world building where the players invest their time inventing new bosses to fight, always based on the general archetype required of their alternative reality.
While this phenomenon is mostly a product of the internet, it is jumping from the virtual into the physical world. The ridiculous Spotify story is a good example. The people running this company are responding to a fictional controversy, when they could easily ignore it. This is because many of the people who work at the firm are also deep into one of these alternative realities where Joe Rogan is the devil. In other words, the alterative realty is spilling into the reality of the CEO.
Of course, the people occupying the C-suites at these companies are not exactly living in reality either. Theirs is a world that is as alien to the daily reality of normal people as the reality of the intensely on-line far-left. In their world, the gesture counts for more than an action. If the Spotify CEO were to tell these loons to bleep-off, that would be viewed as a bad gesture in his reality. It would suggest he is not sensitive to their perspectives and in that reality, insensitivity is a mortal sin.
Much like the intensely on-line far-left, our ruling class is now increasingly occupied with world building in order to make their reality more realistic. The Covid panic is a great example, where a whole industry grew up to feed materials to the world builders of this fantasy game of pandemic. A bizarre aspect of the mass media age is that the ruling class now has an unquenchable thirst for crises. In the absence of real problems, they busy themselves creating them.
Of course, there are real problems, but those problems are boring. Like the kid who has played the game so many times he no longer finds it interesting, the ruling elite no longer has an interest in fixing roads or addressing the issues of society. As Pete Buttigieg made clear the other day, fixing potholes is boring. Instead, he will focus on make traffic fatalities more equitable. This new quest will allow him to have much more fun and feel much more important.
Diverging realities is not exactly new. The French Revolution featured at least two alternative realities. There was the reality of the Old Regime that had lost contact with reality in the late middle-ages. Then there was the new reality of the radicals, forming up in salons and public houses. When the reality of the Old Regime was no longer sustainable in the face of reality, it collapsed. Into the void rushed the new false reality of the Jacobins, which soon foundered on reality.
What is unique about this age is both the novelty of these alternative realities and the proliferation of them on-line. America is becoming a balkanized collection of alternative realties increasingly disconnected from actual reality. The tech giants are now promising to strap VR goggles on every face, which will only accelerate this phenomenon. Instead of people taking soma and living in a dream state, the drug of this brave new world will be the virtual reality and the world building it requires.
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Reagan famously observed: “I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world.”
This is clearly not true, for if aliens were to land, they would be the ultimate “other” and thus the beau ideal of the left’s constituency. But let’s say the aliens were an obvious existential threat, that they exsanguinated our brains through the tops of our heads through proboscises. Might the left finally admit that this “other” was a bit too other? I could see them saying that because of the proliferation of satellites in space/planting an American flag on the moon, we deserve to have our brains sucked out.
I guess our current reality proves that, contra all the internet badasses with their analogies, most people prefer the blue pill. Real supply chain problems/hyperinflation, can interrupt their daily intake, though. What happens then? Do the people’s atrophied limbs come back to life, or do they curl up into fetal balls and wait to be overtaken by the orcs streaming in from south of the Border and the Southern Hemisphere? Europe’s got one and a half billion problems headed its way, and everyone’s staring at their screens. It reminds me of the biker in the original “Dawn of the Dead” who was surrounded by zombies but set down his Thompson to check his blood pressure in the mall’s machine.
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I’m not sure I want to lump all of this at the feet of the Left. You see this on the civi-nat Right as well. Here is something on the civ-nat site Conservative Treehouse. Note the use of the phrase “color revolution”. It is going to become another moral signifier for these people, like “crony capitalism” or “deep state”. Soon the phrase “color revolution” will just mean “bad people”.
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The term “Color Revolution” actually minimizes what Graham is doing here: trying to feather his nest with a proxy war against Russia (all neocons are on this crazy train). It has been interesting that the populations of both America and Europe are so bitterly opposed to this proxy war against Russia. Hell, even Ukraine is telling the Biden Administration this is psychotic. The scariest part is Graham even could be elected to a school board let alone the Senate, although he is far from an outlier in the World’s Greatest Deliberative Body and Whorehouse.
A war with Russia might be the one time the somewhat less clueless Civ Nats would revolt against a Forever War for Fun and Profit.
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You can go ahead and lump in a large amount of normiecons in with the left, or, to paraphrase the old chestnut, the shadow that follows the left. Some will “break the conditioning,” to quote even-tempered stoic philosopher Alex Jones, while others won’t. I watched a football game with some normies yesterday, and while the adpersons are obviously saving their big ammo for the Super Bowl (weird, mixed race people with orange spirochete hair and freckles) there was enough nonsense in the playoff for all of the normies to share their honest opinion about the weirdness of it all. They began slowly, tentatively, not sure everyone was on the same page. But once they were sure, the dam broke. They’d have hidden under their beds if I mentioned the Wonderlic test or asked why quarterbacks were usually white and running backs black, but you know what? I think Sailerism is not only a nonstarter, but a dead end. We don’t need more pie charts. We need to have more kids.
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Once upon a time, the term “color revolution” was a closely held internal reference used almost exclusively within CIA field OPs divisions. It somehow got expropriated about a half dozen years ago (probably by a retired spook) and soon became fashionable jargon within the DC cocktail circuit. Now every wannabe black OP LARPer uses it like gang motto. How far we have fallen.
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Spotify signs Rogan to a $100M or so contract, then still manages to kowtow to an extent to a couple of irrelevant old goat hippies. Neither Young or Mitchell were all that great in their prime and as for now, the vast majority could give a s*** what they think or have to say about anything. It’d be so refreshing for a CEO or politician to just say F off to some of these whiny assed bastards, but good luck with that happening anytime soon. Our reality is obviously not theirs.
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The best meme I’ve seen on Spotify and Neil Young is:
People under 30 Years Old: Who is Neil Young?
People 30 – 60 Years Old: Wait, Neil Young is still alive?
People over 60 Years Old: What the F–k is Spotify?!?
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They should have released the total number of times any song in Young’s entire catalog has been streamed on Spotify. I doubt it equals the total from Rogan’s worst single podcast.
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Old Neil missed a key point of ultimatums:
You don’t make one unless you’re prepared to lose and walk away.
So I guess we can say I’ve seen the Neil and the damage done. 😏
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I hope Neil Young will remember
A Southern man don’t need him around anyhow.
I’m pretty sure Lynyrd Skynyrd, a band that ended in 1977, routinely crushes that caterwauling old asshole’s popularity on Spotify or any other platform today.
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Young is such a stud that he initially blamed his wife for what happened. That’s Boomerism writ large.
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What I find amusing about the Neil Young controversy is I was sure he was dead. When I saw the initial story, I thought it was some sort of publicity stunt. Maybe have a computer generated version of him condemn Joe Rogan. Then I saw a recent photo and he looks like he did twenty years ago, like a homeless guy on his last legs. Wow.
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I should be beyond surprise, but Young’s a guy who played guitar on “For What It’s Worth”, who wrote “Ohio”, and now he’s a goose-stepping foot soldier for the oligarchy? It must have been a lot more fun to be a hippie rabble rouser before the left took control of every institution in the world.
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Come on, watching old ’60s hippies shill for big pharma and big government is something just amazing to see.
It’s right up there with seeing the Pepe honk honk meme come to life. We are truly living in prophetic times
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That is another interesting aspect to this. You have people on-line, claiming to be communists, while operating freely on corporate platforms, often subsidized by billionaires. The typical Antifa protest has most of them livestreaming each other using their iPhones and carrying their Apple laptop in a fashionable backpack. Corporate communism is now a thing that seems real to people.
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Antifa terrorist Linwood Michael Kaine is the son of Senator Tim Kaine and was reared in a life of luxury. Sixty years ago hippies would have called him, with justification, a “pig.” Now they laud him.
Kaine is the rule and not the exception.
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Nah, 50-60 years ago most of the hippies were from comfortable middle or upper class families, too. The more things change….
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It’s all one manufactured “crisis” after another. Covid, Ukraine, story-of-the-day Spotify crap, etc. to keep the proles distracted.
Meanwhile, the ultra rich take their inflated stock gains and cheap money to buy up all the real assets left.
So they can rent them back to the dirt people at a tidy profit. Package them up in huge batches of CDO’s so they can never lose, instantly becoming “too big to fail” with the taxpayer on the hook.
Forget neo-feudalism; the “You’ll own nothing and be happy” crowd is crowing from the rooftops that you WILL be their serfs, and you’d better be happy about it.
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I guess the free world he was rocking in doesn’t apply to bad thing podcasters?!!!
Utter separation from physical reality – or the constraints of thermodynamics or genetics – is the hallmark of today’s Elite. Pete Buttigieg, the Sec of Transportation, is the pluperfect example: he goes on paternity/maternity leave to “nurse” with a manboob while ships pile up in the offing outside the port of LA and the shelves go bare in American groceries.
Veblen observed in The Theory of the Leisure Class that the elite eschewing of physical labor drove fashion for centuries. This phenomenon maps perfectly onto today’s VR-based Elite, except they now eschew physical reality in its entirety! The insides of their minds in a cooler space than the outside of an oil rig or a truck.
It’s gone far beyond the “diverging reality” Zman describes. The Elite now force the plebes and rubes to ignore reality and embrace their unreality: a dude with a full ball sac in a dress is a “woman”; an guy with a manboob is on paternity leave; ships unload themselves; we can run a modern economy on unicorn urine and wind energy, etc. The old emperor had no clothes but the new emperor insists he’s a woman.
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> a dude with a full ball sac in a dress is a “woman”; an guy with a manboob is on paternity leave; ships unload themselves; we can run a modern economy on unicorn urine and wind energy, etc. The old emperor had no clothes but the new emperor insists he’s a woman.
A cousin came out as a lesbian and got “married” to a bulldyke. Got lots of lectures from people about ‘leaving open communication’ and ‘compassion’. Screw that. They’re out of my life. We don’t associate with them for the same reason we don’t associate with the schizophrenic street preachers.
We used to understand you isolated crazy people until they could stop being crazy. Looks where it’s gotten us.
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I said that to my 78 year old mother the other day, regarding the freak on Jeopardy. If he showed up on the show dressed like a rabbit and insisted he actually was a rabbit, we’d say he’s mentally ill (for the time being, at least). The same holds true if he came out wearing a diaper and sucking a binkie and insisted he’s really 6 months old. But if he puts on a dress and lipstick and says he’s a woman now, everyone has to play along. He should be under the care of a qualified professionals not on the cover of supermarket magazines.
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That ship has sailed. I saw a clip of a school board meeting, I think in Northern Virginia, where a mother was complaining that the school had litter boxes in the bathrooms for kids who identified as cats. It sounded like they dress up like cats and the school tolerates it.
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In the blind pig finds an acorn category, I actually found an excellent piece on freaking National Review about this phenomenon, Michael Brendan Doughtery’s THE NEW WHITE FLIGHT. It is now behind a paywall because it was one of those rare NR pieces worth reading not due to the parody value.
Doughtery essentially posits the White Upper Middle Class, the elite adjacent and sometimes the actual elite, are tFUBAR (true) and are responsible for the madness gripping the United States. I certainly would not spend a cent on behalf of NR, but if that piece gets flushed out for free again it is highly recommended. The comments, of course, were quite hostile at times and this writer probably is not long for it there.
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Michael Brendan Doughtery?
The uncuckening must be happening at breakneck speed if a guy like that is starting to see the light.
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I read it twice before it went behind the paywall precisely because it was unbelievable. Again, the comments were hilarious: either cucks outraged, outraged that such appeared (one actually whined the Kevin Williamson “gets it”), and a surprising number who agreed and even went so far as to rightly blame women for most of it.
Some in that space read dissident content, but most refer their reality.
“Of course, there are real problems, but those problems are boring.”
Many of those real problems, particularly the societal and cultural, are irreparable. This drives the demand for pseudo-problems, which can be remedied with pseudo-fixes and realities. The evil economic and public oppression of the White working class, very much a real thing in recent decades, requires the pseudo-reality that they are evil, and by implication, deserve to be hounded to extinction. China’s eclipse of the United States, either pending or already here, requires a demon to be conjured and Vladimir Putin is the designated devil. Otherwise, the people in charge would have to put their livelihoods in jeopardy (this is somewhat true with the genocide of the White working class).
A society built on fantasy and reality avoidance will collapse, and this is already well underway throughout the West. This is why we need pockets scattered far and wide to one day reconstitute a semblance of Western culture.
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Speaking of China, Poso (controlled op/limited hangout, I know) has a pretty good opinion piece that we were sold to China and the upcoming Olympics are Xi’s imperial coronation:
https://www.newsweek.com/this-years-olympics-will-double-xi-jinpings-coronation-opinion-1673952
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That’s quite good. Frankly, the PRC his paydirt when grifting trash like Biden and McConnell and Cook and Bezos achieved prominence and showed profound willingness to shake their moneymakers for bribe money.
Xi should publicly announce he intends to maintain good relations with his vassal, the United States, and welcome it to the Greater Economic Prosperity Hemisphere. Of course, as a student of history, Xi has both a revulsion and appreciation of what the Japanese did in Manchuria and is implementing his version here via bribery and biological warfare.
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The problem with VR is even when they advertise it, they can’t help but make it look dystopian. Notice the part with the lady in VR, ignoring her significant other eating breakfast next to her. Even for the extremely online, there’s something very unsettling about it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmrozxDGtVU
There is also a significant percentage of the population that gets motion sickness at your typical 3-D shooter on your standard screen.
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Today’s VR doesn’t look much better than what was available in the ’90s.
They tried having a rave in Metaverse. It sucked.
https://youtu.be/XkwQ6EjLdMQ
Talk about missing the point.
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Second Life has been around for close to twenty years. It has a following, but for most people, the novelty wears off and they drop it, because it is not unreal enough for them. Like so much of what comes out of Silicon Valley now, the Metaverse is just a reboot of an old idea with some new marketing and gadgets.
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Wrong YouTube link, hold the Whammyburger!
Here is the correct one:
https://youtu.be/ETRZPxbQfMs
Holy smokes, that’s lame.
What sort of bugmen live such interesting and cowardly lives that this is an appealing substitute?
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Nice job! They couldn’t even give the avitars LEGS! 🤦♂️
How can you miss the fact people stand upright on limbs that end in feet?!?
You fail, and fail BIGLY guys.
Right?
Avatars without legs immediately up the creep factor.
Nevermind the PS2 tier graphics.
And the goggles.
The goggles didn’t look cool in the 90s.
They’ll never look cool.
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Augmented reality will condition normal people to this sort of thing.
Remember “Google Glass”? How much it was hated? How everyone was hostile to a perceived loss of privacy with a camera on them constantly?
That’s long gone. “Apple Glass” with AR is coming; fitness apps, navigation tools, messaging, instant picture/video taking….people are going to eat this up….we’ve been doing it on smart phones for a decade, and this just makes it easier.
This will be the normalizing people will need to get into the VR headset, as will streamlining the actual hardware and software for the vertigo.
Personally, I’m in the E Musk camp: “Sure, you can go through life with a tv on your nose, I guess.”
What’s it going to be? Space colonization and Mars? Or endless trash entertainment and porn with a computer attached to the head?
(Depressingly, I think we all know the answer).
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“Eric Hoffer famously said that mass movements can survive without a god but they must always have a devil.”
Trump was and is the Emmanuel Goldstein for the Left’s 24 Hours of Hate. And it shows as people seal themselves in their perfectly hermetically closed bubbles, they cannot possibly believe there are other opinions or attitudes out there. “Hillary was going to WIN damnit! Everyone I know was going to vote for her! She MUST have been cheated!”
It’s like your post a while back on Electric Cars: “I don’t care that electric cars don’t meet most people’s needs and we’ll need to massively upgrade our electrical grid and generating capability I WANT IT! NOW!”
As Captain Willard posted: Utter separation from physical reality is the hallmark of today’s Elite. And they want what they want, now, and if they don’t get it SOMEBODY is gonna catch Hell!
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In a cruel twist of irony, computer-based simulation of societal & cultural trends has been a mature science for about three decades now and the best of these models are generating predictions that are being validated in real time. Kinda of scary in that as we devolve into a metaverse societal simulation, the only real tool we have for forecasting where this leads is simulation modeling. So where are we headed?
For most of our history, our ancestors evolved in a natural environment of hardship & existential threat, and this gauntlet took us to the top of the life pyramid. We are now living in a largely artificial environment devoid of real hardship & culling in which change is occurring at hyperspeed. As such, our natural robustness in disappearing faster than medical science can offset and we are fast becoming both mentally & physically fragile. So where does this fragility lead?
Colony collapse. Either natural (disease) or artificial (manufactured mortality, typically war but who knows what novelty will spring up next). The best way to survive a colony collapse is to be as far from cities as feasible, and develop the means to feed and defend yourself. We are descended from those who overcame extreme adversity. The future belongs to those who will fight for it.
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The future belongs to those who will kill for it.
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Re: modeling, I’ve long suspected there’s quite a bit influencing events involved. Not talking observer effect hocus pocus, either. To build an accurate model you need an understanding of the rules, the internal logic, or whatever you want to call it, of whatever system. If power is the ability to impose one’s will, and knowledge is power, the implications are potentially enormous.
Whether consciously or not, I think nerds see it this way. Hence the preoccupation with hoovering up data, the delusions of apotheosis via tech, the metaverse proto-matrix, etc. Outsmart God, become gods lol.
But seriously, there’s something ancient and fundamental about it, going back to the naming of things, at least. Something tied up in language and meaning that people today have become fixated on to exclusion of the physical and mysterious aspects of existence. And the strangest part is that it began as materialism— yet here we are with a new religion and a new pantheon, and it *almost* works!
To get back to the original point, there’s something about describing phenomena that gives people some power over them, but not total power, and forgetting that (as people are always tempted to do) will keep the pendulum swinging forever. Idk, deep issues I wish I had the time to put more thought to.
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OT (but semi related) field report from the Freedom Convoy 2022 (Canadian Trucker Strike). This has been an incredibly whitepilling weekend. Amazing turnout, great energy, great community spirit. They are staying through the week, with the stated intent of not leaving until all COVID mandates are lifted. I predicted a while back that it would just be some Boomers making noise for a while then leaving. The bulk of the truckers and supporters are still there today on Monday morning. They said they’re not leaving. We’ll see.
Some good things:
– Incredible turnout. Thousands of people, hundreds of semi trucks. The City of Ottawa is crawling with pickup trucks with Canadian flags and “F*CK TRUDEAU” flags. Honking in the downtown area is at an unbearable pitch at all hours of the day/night. Leftists/redditors freaking out and basically calling for genocide.
– City of Ottawa downtown area (basically like Washington DC) is fully under siege. 3/5 bridges entering downtown from the North are fully closed, a 4th is severely clogged, and a 5th quite a ways West is also badly jammed. The main highway connector into the core is also blocked – and so is a main East-West parkway. It’s costing the city $800,000 per day just in police costs. Police regiments from at least 3 other cities 5-7 hours away (Toronto, London, and Durham) have been dispatched to Ottawa.
– Trudeau has fled the city. He first announced he “came into contact” with a COVID positive person and had to go into quarantine despite a negative test. Then he fled anyways. Today he announced he tested positive for COVID.
– Crowd has ignored the media narrative. The media has been pissing themselves lately. This Convoy “has ties to white nationalists” and even Nazis. Somebody got a photo of a Confederate flag and the media has been talking about that one photo non stop. Despite all the media hysteria, White people are coming out anyways. It’s broken, nobody is listening.
– Great cross-country unity. Quebecois and Albertans are protesting side by side. More Mohawk and Native flags than I expected. Trudeau has united the old stock of the country, but not in the way you’d think. Saw some full blooded Injuns in semis which is really rare.
– White pilling event in general. Lots of serious working men have showed up. Lots of white families, young white guys, rednecks. Great to see young white guys looking good and healthy. Everybody is having fun, grilling burgers in their truck beds, passing out food to truckers, blasting music. Burnouts in intersections, people riding in truck beds. The women from the local area, accustomed to soy nu-males, are getting the tingles from these testosterone fuelled males, probably adding to their psychosis. Saw it many times as they walked past, fully masked – they can’t help but take many second looks.
-Demonstrations fully peaceful other than civil disobediance. People on high alert for false flags and bad actors after Jan 6.
Bad things:
– As usual, many of the White people there are so eager to tell you how they’re not racist. Talked so multiple people who immediately said they’re not racist and that race doesn’t matter.
– Relating to the first point, the number of Chinese, Indians, and Arabs protesting was approaching 0. They don’t seem to mind the tyranny. Or just don’t want to disrupt the status quo. This weekend thousands of aliens from India and China have become “citizens” with voting rights. Demographics are still destiny.
– Lots of support from white collar people who are afraid to go due to the risk of being photographed.
This is a major happening though. There’s a reason the media, and collective Western governments are shitting themselves in fear over copy cat movements in other countries.
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Another down side: lots of Back the Blue bootlicking shit. People are saying the cops are on our side. They’re fistbumping them, thanking them for their “service”, etc. They’re in for a rude awakening when the cops eventually fuck everyone over as usual.
Cops aren’t necessarily pro Vax but they’re always on their own side. Globohomo pays their salary.
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I figure the cops are going around on foot gathering as much licensing and registration information as possible for later issuance of fines, suspension of licenses, canceled registrations, etc.
Not much to be done about that at this point, I just hope the truckers are ready to face that eventuality.
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I’ve been watching livestreams and compilation videos for a week now and much of what you report tracks well with footage from the ground. The normie-instinct to hug a minority is on full display and makes me question the wherewithal of the protestors, but this appears to be an exclusively white protest, so the opportunities to virtue signal are almost non-existent.
I saw a clip on CTV with the mayor of Ottawa. He was near tears because protestors had draped a Canadian flag over a Terry Fox statue. On Youtube the video clip was titled “Protestors deface statue”. It’s astounding how tone deaf the pols and the media are. The mayor went on to whine about how businesses in downtown Ottawa had to shut down due to the protests and that some people had been unable to leave their homes. Is this man for real? Is he possibly so ensconced in his bubble that he doesn’t realize the protests are because for two years businesses have been shut down and people have been unable to leave their homes?
There’s certainly a lot of energy and now the question becomes how long it can be sustained? Trudeau’s announcement that he’s got the coof just adds to the chaos. It’s reasonable to believe he’s actually lying as a way to stay out of public for a period of time. But on the other hand it raises the question of why he’s aggressively pushing the jabs when they didn’t stop him from catching Covid. Ideally, he develops a serious case and needs to be hospitalized, perhaps even dies. Still, the stories in the media would be along the lines of “Sure he died drowning from fluid in his lungs but at least he was vaccinated. Otherwise, he would died drowning from fluid in his lungs and…he would have been unvaccinated!”
I dug my Canadian flag out of a box in my closet — a relic of my college days when I still played a lot of beer league hockey and listened to The Hip — and hung it from the front of my house in support. A fruitless gesture, I suppose, but I’m a sucker for hope. I want these protestors to tear the whole damn thing down.
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The Canadian Truck Convoy, and Trudeau fleeing like a silly rabbit, is actually very white-pilling yes. Concrete walls around the White House, Canadian PM fleeing, we are not exactly up against Stalin or other tough guys, are we? They are incredibly afraid and cowardly.
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This use of the word ‘reality’ irks me because it adds to the confusion. This might get a little tedious but strikes me as important: As a first assumption if not axiom of modern Western thought, there is an objective, observable or deducible reality. To establish and delineate this is the fundamental objective and purpose of science as done correctly. There may be reality not accessible to science but the assumption is that that is primarily a matter of technology. There may also be areas where this (physically true) reality becomes fuzzy. Famously this happens with the Heisenberg principle, less famously I believe it happens in relativity theory as well. So it is true that science eventually runs into some trouble here.
However, and importantly, that is not relevant to the ‘realities’ discussed in the article here. These other ‘realities’ are the intellectual equivalent of 2+2=5. Examples are fluid genders, the denial of race (and simultaneous insistence on ‘white guilt’ proving that the most basic principles of logical consistency are being trampled), denial of intelligence and all these other ‘woke’ things.
Just like you cannot appeal to Goedel’s incompleteness theorems to save your bacon if you say 2+2=5 these esoteric fringes of physics and such where ‘reality’ is no longer simply defined in science do not mean that you are not either correct or incorrect in far more mundane questions of physical reality.
It is intellectually offensive to use the word ‘reality’ about these ‘alternative realities’ because they are NOT realities in the factual sense. They are not true. We have two terms for them, neither of which includes ‘reality’ unsurprisingly. In med school I learned that a psychosis is when your ‘perception of the world no longer bears any connection with observable reality’ or something like that. That is exactly what is going on when you believe your gender is your choice. So psychosis is one of those words, because woke postulates meet the (old, I am sure they are updating the definitions in the American Psychiatric Association in a way that would shock even Stalin) definitions of a psychosis. If they don’t truly believe what they’re saying then it is possibly (by pre-woke, ie sane, medical standards) a simulated psychosis. Something you would normally only be advised to do if you had committed murder in Texas and the DA was waving a ticket to the electric chair in front of you. The other word is ‘delusion’ which is related and is sort of the slightly milder term instead of psychosis.
I belabor this point because just like we should not concede the moral high ground, we should not concede the factual, intellectual high ground. One of the problems with our universities is that they have not only become academically sloppy but outright anti-scholastic and certainly anti-scientific. Science is not in the slightest democratic. 500 scholars telling Galilei he was wrong did not remodel the (true) reality of the universe. And therefore we should not humor the insane, just because they happen to have overwhelming political power these days, and call their DELUSIONS ‘alternative realities.’ Because that is playing into their postmodern delusion that words outrank (physical) reality. Instead I am tempted to say we should invite the ‘wokeist’ of the bunch to prove that gravity is just a ‘social construct’, from the top of the Empire State Building.
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” I am sure they are updating the definitions in the American Psychiatric Association in a way that would shock even Stalin”
Tangential, but the APA lost roughly half its membership a few years back when the updated DSM discovered new mental illnesses that correspond with every crime: shoplifters suffer from a new psychosis they discovered that applies only to them, for example. Something similar happened to the ABA about twenty years ago when it decided to take political stands in favor of affirmative action rather than discuss the legal problems with it.
The Woke Revolution has been wildly successful on the one hand but it also has discredited entire professions and institutions. Eggs, omelets, essentially. Public health has joined the ranks of the discredited now. Long term this makes society dysfunctional beyond repair.
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The only thing surprising there is that so many psychiatrists had the backbone to not go along with this. Medicine is one field hard-struck by postmodernism, no doubt about it. And this WILL lead, actually is already leading, to decreased life expectancies. Such a F-ing mess!!!
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” … we should invite the ‘wokeist’ of the bunch to prove that gravity is just a ‘social construct’, from the top of the Empire State Building.”
Wow. I’d stand in line for that!
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My kids and I have been reading about the muckrakers who exposed the dismal conditions of the tenements. Nothing of this sort of journalism could exist today. The blatant corruption of our elites is in our faces and yet it’s likely just the tip of the iceberg.
The plight of poor Appalachians and poor White Americans is utterly ignored. In many cases, it is celebrated.
They have been exporting their jobs, destroying their livelihoods, and pumping them full of OxyContin. They have been teaching their kids to despise their Whiteness/heritage and to become homo trannies with 49 genders. They have been importing millions of third worlders. We are experiencing “Camp of the Saints.” All this is an effort to decimate the middle class.
Do our rulers truly believe in magic dirt theory? Do they truly believe that the dirt colored “refugees” will have the wherewithal to shoulder the burden that middle class Whites have been carrying?
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“Do our rulers truly believe in magic dirt theory?”
Probably some do; some don’t. But that’s not the point.
We are now living in a James Bond movie because there really *is* a cabal of evil people trying to take over the world. And the only thing standing between them and their mad goal is the white population of the US. And not even all of them.
Anyway, white America has gotta go. That’s what it’s all about.
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Its definitely interesting how some people cannot wrap their minds around the fact Bond Villains are actually real and living among (above) us. Easier to focus on a virus because they’ve been sick before and understand the concept more concretely I suppose.
The elite is extensively using sophistry to confuse everything. They ARE celebrating the decay of rural white communities, they ARE persecuting whites, the ARE leading policies that WILL end in white minority status, they are selectively enforcing the laws that makes it highly dangerous for whites to defend themselves.
The other day I saw a youtube video of Hitler’s plans for the eastern territories if he had won the war. Most Poles, Russians, Ukraineans etc would be starved to death or just have their jobs, land taken, inferior status, discouraged from reproducing, slowly removed from the land between Germany and the Urals. EVERYONE would recognize this as genocide.
Except for the planned famine part, and Hitler being Hitler maybe a few firing squads but I digress, except for these, how is that policy materially different from what is happening to whites in the West today. I realize the ‘G word’ is inflammatory, in fact radioactively nuclear. But how is it not the proper word for what is happening in the West today? It walks like a duck, it quacks like a duck. It takes a postmodernist to say it is not a duck with a straight face. ‘Words over reality….’
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” If the Spotify CEO were to tell these loons to bleep-off, that would be viewed as a bad gesture in his reality. It would suggest he is not sensitive to their perspectives and in that reality, insensitivity is a mortal sin.”
If Spotify management had an ounce of sense, they would use this opportunity of the SJWs identifying themselves and fire them and have them escorted out of the building.
Responding to them in any way other than viciousness and pink slips is begging for a new round of complaints. They smell blood in the water.
I’m an old guy and Joni Mitchel and Neil Young haven’t been relevant since I was in a crib. According to Ramzpaul, Young doesn’t even own the rights to his shitty music anyway.
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“Left is obsessed with fascists, white supremacists, the Klan and so on, despite these things no longer being real.”
Let me throw something out there: those things were never “real.” Not real in the sense of the narrative we’ve all grown up with.
They were simply normal/traditional people who the Left decided to smear and destroy. Those words are simply used to label a normal person a subhuman who opposes against the madness and tyranny of the Left.
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And while they ignore reality, reality doesn’t ignore them. That major bridge in Pittsburgh had been unsafe for years – fully rusted out beams, etc, and was ignored by the bureaucracy and politicos in favor of false reality.
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