Imagine one day you wake up to see that some people, but not all, just the beautiful people, are now wearing flowerpots on their heads. You first see it on the television while making coffee. Then you see people with the flowerpot things while on your commute into the office. They are not wearing actual flowerpots, but hats that look like a pot holding a shrubbery. Not only are they wearing these ridiculous hats, but they are also acting like it is perfectly normal.
This is the world most Americans woke up to last week when news broke that the Russian army had crossed into Ukraine. Suddenly, as if they had received orders from the hive queen, all of the beautiful people were Ukrainian nationalists. They were all saying “keev” as if they had developed some new mental disease. They were sporting Ukrainian flag lapel pins. At the Biden state of the union show they were dressed in the colors of the Ukrainian flag.
This is not just a partisan marketing campaign either. The mouth breathers of conservatism are right there with their masters on the Left waving the yellow and blue of their new homeland. The same people who were wearing the angry face about being called a Putin shill a few years ago are now calling anyone skeptical of this new fad a tool of the evil Vladimir Putin. The same people who tell us nations no longer matter now sound like white nationalists in their support of Ukraine.
It is easy to dismiss this as the sort of superficial sincerity that we have come to expect from the beautiful people. A big part of the gulf between the Cloud People and the Dirt People is the Cloud People lack normal human emotions. Instead, it is these programmed responses to programmed questions. You get more authenticity from an ATM machine than from Jen Psaki. While this Ukraine fetish is part of the programming, it reveals something else about them.
These are people who lack all meaning in life. The reason they all swarmed to the Ukraine stuff is that it allowed them to experience what they imagine is normal human emotion and community spirit. Their conjured image of the brave Ukrainians taking up arms against the aggressor reflects their own lack of purpose. Many Americans have been reduced to the bug-man existence of consuming product but the Cloud People are the pinnacle of the bug-man lifestyle.
This is why they are so fond of using analogies drawn from comic book movies and children’s books. You will notice that the people comparing Putin to Lord Voldemort from the Harry Potter movies are childless. They did not pick up the reference from watching the shows with their kids. They are the primary consumers of this material. This fantasy material has become folklore for people who lack the cultural structure that provides an adult frame of reference to understand the world.
Dissidents are fond of pointing out how the modern age consumes the normal social capital, converting it into cash to fuel the consumer economy. This process has slowly obliterated the natural community of America. The result is endless miles of generic housing developments named after whatever it is that was destroyed in order to build these crimes against nature. We are slowly being converted into pod people who experience the world via the internet.
The thing is this process is complete among the Cloud people. They are cutoff from the rest of us, living in a fantasy world that operates by its own rules. It is why they think it makes sense to lecture working class people about white privilege while Mexican drug gangs flood working class neighborhoods with narcotics. It is why Joe Biden’s programmers think Ukraine is more important than food prices. In their world, what matters is what gives them meaning.
That is the thing though. Their lives have no meaning because they are living the fully atomized and transactional life. These are people who will slit each other’s throat for a better spot on a cable channel. They have no loyalty, no code, no sense of decency because they are just particles in a system that exists for its own purposes. It is why the image of Ukrainians taking up arms is so enthralling to them. Our bug-man rulers long for even the hint of such a life.
This is why they hate the Dirt People so much. Despite it all, normal people still try to form and maintain community. They may not be able to articulate it, but they sense that having beers with a neighbor as they watch the kids play in the backyard matters more than anything they consume on-line. The Cloud People hate the Dirt People because for the Dirt People, Harry Potter will always be entertainment for their kids, not a guidebook for understanding the world.
Also note the solipsism in all of the Ukraine love. The people wearing the colors of the Ukrainian flag have only the most superficial understanding of the people and history of the region. It is why they embraced the most superficial and meaningless part of Ukrainian identity, the flag. It is a cheap decoration that lets them feel like they are a part of something. They are standing with Ukraine with the same sincerity they do everything else in their hollow and pointless lives.
You also note that they frame the Ukraine issue as brave innocents defending themselves from the dark forces. This comes from people who deliberately lock themselves inside razor wire fences guarded by armed troops. Their emotional isolation from normal human experience now manifests as a physical isolation from the people they supposedly rule. For the Cloud People, Ukraine is a metaphor for how they see themselves in relation to the Dirt People.
The Devil finds work for idle hands and that is what we see with our rulers. Much of what ails the West these days is the result of a ruling class without much purpose as a ruling class and without much meaning as people. The crisis in Ukraine is the fault of people who use children’s books to provide meaning to their lives. We not only have an excess of elites, but we also have a shortage of reasons for them to exist. It is why they are now decorated with Ukrainian flags. They have nothing else.
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I wouldn’t say our rulers are engaged in purposelessness. I also wouldn’t say their followers are. I think they are called to a different purpose. I think the last great cause they will adorn themselves with will be worship of the antichrist.
Whether or not there will be social media icons to signal ones allegiance to such a thing, I don’t know. I do however think that the people who have BLM squares on their social media pages, the rainbow flags, the climate change hysteria, various types of feminism, vax stuff, Ukrainian flags and whatever’s lined up next will no doubt be first in line to get the mark of the beast. It’s their purpose. Their final virtue signal, the one all the others were building up to.
When I think of the purpose Christians are called to Romans 8:28 comes to mind. “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.”
I’d like to think we can peel off a great number of the people brainwashed into these insufferable secular causes before the time comes. But keeping the big picture in mind can be helpful when looking on at the hysteria imo.
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Great comment, David. Zman made some points that really hit home for me, but your idea put them in a larger, more consequential context.
I share the mild hope expressed in your last paragraph. It outlines the vocation we must take up among the people we care about: those genuine communities Z mentioned.
Glad you got on here first, so your observation can guide the replies to come.
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Zman, I hope you’re writing this from your secure bunker in the Rocky Mountains. These people have are not just insane anymore, they are dangerous. With each passing day, they appear more willing to risk nuclear annihilation to prove their moral purity. Does Klaus Schwab sincerely believe that nuclear war is going to give him a great reset, and not a great leap backwards a thousand years?
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“A big part of the gulf between the Cloud People and the Dirt People is the Cloud People lack normal human emotions. Instead, it is these programmed responses to programmed questions.”
There’s a really good word for that: “hebephrenic” (pronounced “keeve”).
The hebephrenic subtype of schizophrenia is typified by shallow and inappropriate emotional responses, foolish or bizarre behaviour, false beliefs (delusions), and false perceptions (hallucinations).
https://www.britannica.com/science/hebephrenic-schizophrenia
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‘There’s a really good word for that: “hebephrenic” (pronounced “keeve”).’
That right there is gold.
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“That right there is gold.”
Thanks, but I (shamelessly) stole it from the ZMan.
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Pretty spot on there, Infant Phenomenon:
“The hebephrenic or disorganized subtype of schizophrenia is typified by shallow and inappropriate emotional responses, foolish or bizarre behaviour, false beliefs (delusions), and false perceptions (hallucinations).”
Mass formation psychosis.
I dare say that much of what is discussed here also applies to the DR and the preoccupation with “red pill” this and “white pill” that
I don’t even know what the pills are supposed to represent tbh.
So the question arises, shouldn’t people on the DR move past the references to the Matrix and see the world through a more mature lens? And if we are going to need cultural references to help explain ourselves, maybe use a great novel or historical reference and not a cheesy and derivative movie franchise made by a tranny?
Incidentally, how can anyone on the DR take themselves seriously when talking on one hand about how much they hate all the tranny shit globohomo is pushing at us? Then on the other throw out a pill reference?
Isn’t this all a bit “cringe”?
But I noticed something too. And we are all susceptible to it. But so many Netflix movies that I see advertised are made by older millenials and seem to be movies that should have been made like 10-15 years ago when they were in their young 20s. It’s like these are the movies they would have watched if they were 20 years old again.
Moral of the story: our society has an aging millennial problem. But we are all susceptible to wanting to go back to our glory days. But I hope we can drop all the pill references and move past them to a more glorious future.
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“Isn’t this all a bit “cringe”?”
YES! Thank you for stating it so beautifully. (I also have no idea what the “pill” thing means.)
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The problem is you have to speak to people where they are at if you want to be intelligible.
We are in a declining post-literate society, so the public discourse become more and more childish and facile, while the replacement of concepts and ideas with things like masks, symbols and flags becomes more prevalent. Like stone age cultures its about drumming and feather displays as societal expression.
There can never be compromise with that sort of framework, indeed I am not sure compromise even has any meaning in the current world.
The west has lost the ability to construct the level of even middle ages political thought, and so comics and films are the only reference literature that can provide the simplicity required to communicate.
I can;t see this improving as entropy of the culture is eating us as a society.
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You are exactly right! My grandson was penalized in his private school (!) for learning to write cursive on his own b/c he was a year ahead of the others. I took him out the following week.
And I’ve been saying for years that we are quickly moving into medieval conditions in which only a few people can read and write. It was these “pictogram” road signs and bathroom signs that put the idea into my head. And that was before the word “icon” was lifted to mean some stupid symbol online for semi-literates. It was before there even *was* and online.
And it’s gotten worse.
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Before I got off Facebook nearly twelve years ago, my general feeling was that literacy was wasted on an extraordinary large number of people. I’ve seen some FB posts on and off over the past couple years, and my opinion hasn’t changed. It’s my belief that, like a university education, opening elite opportunities to the masses is way more likely to dumb down elite things than raise up the masses. The intellectual bottom 60% of people really should not be consulted on important matters, not should they be given much of a voice about things. They don’t have the brains for it, or the interest. Most less-intelligent people want to work enough to pay their bills, then spend the rest of their time grilling and chilling. They should be allowed, even encouraged, to do this, without criticism, with the expectation that they keep their stupidity to themselves.
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Enforced equity is behind all this. You will conform to the lowest common denominator, you will!
But always remember, the seemingly insane and stupid is strategic. It may not be wise, but it can be effective. If the cognitive development of a child is stunted, it can’t easily be undone.
I’ll cop to really enjoying all the “pill” references a few years ago. The blue pill/red pill dichotomy makes a nice analogous shorthand for the clashing perspectives of normies (blue) versus dissidents (red). That said, the “pill” craze has, like so many other memes, become excessive and so overused that it’s not even clear that its original connotations still hold. When normies start claiming to be “red-pilled” or “black-pilled,” you know that the meme has lost its cache.
The obsession our society has with using pop culture references to discuss serious issues undoubtedly suggests that we’re not a very smart people these days. Nevertheless, it doesn’t strike me as particularly relevant that THE MATRIX was made by trannies. 1. They weren’t yet trannies when they made the first movie in the franchise. 2. A work of it art (if you want to call it that) stands or falls on its own; it should be judged without regard to the status or degeneracy of the artists who produced it. It just so happens that the central motif of THE MATRIX serves as an excellent metaphor for buying into the web of lies that our elites consistently spin for us.
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Final word of my first paragraph should read “cachet.” Damn! I was never much of a spellerrrr.
Absolutely first-rate essay! It explains their fascination with transhumanism and “[fill-in-the-blank] fluidity.”
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I think the most important part about this article is that we have figured them out, speaking of the cloud people. I mean, Z is cracking their code, figuring out what makes them tic.
This is interesting because it wasn’t long ago when these people seemed to be above and beyond us, a mystery, that maybe there was something special about them. And maybe we just were not intelligent enough to grasp what they and their world was all about.
But when you can figure out their complete psychology and modus operandi while sipping a coffee and getting ready for the day, something has definitely changed in the ether around us. Meanwhile they need to send out recon journalists to figure out what makes us tic. And they still have no clue and at best fumble around trying to land a blow. We are the mystery now,
We are rising. They are falling.
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r/K shift underway; the fun thing is: the are helping it along with their hunger games they are trying to set up. all those rabbits are going to be looking for more warrens than there are for them.
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Funny how none of these people were “Standing with Ukraine” when they were being repressed by actual communists, or how many of their grandfathers and great-grandfathers were cheering on Stalin’s “New Society” when it was starving the Ukrainians (along with lots of Russians and Kazakhs) and throwing them into Gulags.
The Ukrainian terror-famine has been shoved into the memory hole by almost everyone, because it doesn’t really serve anyone’s current political purposes at the moment, but the people there haven’t forgotten. Insofar as the heroic Ukrainian resistance to the Russians actually exists, its due to the memory of the Holodomor, not for some “New World Order”.
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Its the NKVD in exile.
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Yterror famine wasn’t memory holed, it was never acknowledged.
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But why the Keev-thing, though? It’s always annoyed me when we’re told that it’s no longer Peking, Bombay or Burma, but Beijing, Mumbai and Myanmar.
So now we’re supposed to say Keev, ostensibly because “Kiev” is etymologically Russian and hence offensive to everything decent, good and just in this world. Ironically, only six months back, it was still “White Russia” in Danish, until one fine day a slightly confused, clearly annoyed announcer on regime television told us that we now had to learn to say “Belarus” – and by “we” he meant everybody, not just the poor propaganda slaves on DenMarx Radio. So one win, one loss for Russia in six months.
I wonder when all of you poor fuckers will be forced to say “København” rather than “Copehagen”. I will be sending bomb threats to the US embassy if your president gets even one syllable wrong. We’re in 2022 now, and such heinous offence will not be tolerated.
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The new Keev has no association in people’s minds with Kiev (in a week they won’t even recognize the old name) so its day Zero for the new Ukraine and the people involved.
Redefining language to redefine thought and framing.
Now where have I heard that before?
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But what’s the point? People didn’t know what “Kiev” was to begin with, except it was named after a chicken dish.
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They might have some residual notion it was related to Russia.
So Russia attacking itself would be confusing and lead to all sorts of funny questions.
Russia attacking the sparkling new totally not Russian Keev though, is much easier to frame.
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And YES, by now we CAN make this stuff up:
https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/army-mandates-pronoun-training-for-all-levels-of-service/
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It is virtue signaling and a way to show you really care because you can pronounce “Kiev” properly, Felix. Think of the morons who call blacks “African Americans.”
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I still don’t get it. Okay, I understand Burma/Myanmar – the country changed its name – but Mumbai? Beijing? Keev?
That’s just a tomatoes/tomatoes-thing and it’s not like it makes you member of an exclusive little club: the regime spokesmonsters are bullhorning the approved pronunciation into your face every day.
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They’re like little kids who have just learned a naughty word and go around saying it over and over and over.
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“Keev” is the Ukrainian pronunciation of Kiev. It’s a nationalist thing. I don’t see a problem with it, even though it’s been slavishly adopted by our ruling class. This reactionary attitude to saying “Keev” is like people refusing to say St. Petersburg because they called it Leningrad all their lives.
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Please. When it was called Leningrad we called it Leningrad. When it was called St. Petersburg we called it St. Petersburg. Kiev has been Kiev for as long as anyone alive has known. English speakers call it Kiev, not Keev.
This is a silly affectation by people who think it is a good idea to pronounce Spanish names with a Spanish accent.
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Nee kah ah gwa. Remember that one?
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And Moslem words in Arabic.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2015/01/07/liberal-dhimmitude-12-signs-youre-part-of-the-problem/
Istanbul was Constantinople.
..and my car still gets 40 furlongs to the hogshead.
“Keev” is the Ukrainian pronunciation of Kiev
Well, I’m not Ukrainian. I say “Florence” in English, not “Firenze”, “Turin”, not “Torino”, “Venice”, not “Venezia” and “Rome” not “Roma”.
Why should I suddenly start speaking Ukrainian just because it’s been invaded by Russia?
This reactionary attitude to saying “Keev” is like people refusing to say St. Petersburg because they called it Leningrad all their lives.
Completely different kettle of fish. The city changed name, like Burma did.
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True. But I still call it Rhodesia. 🙂
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Moldova instead of Moldavia has always been very jarring to me. Originally, there’s existed a “Principality of Moldavia” in the place for centuries. Plus the adjacent Romanian province, on the right side of the Prut river which marks the border, is called ‘Moldavia’ province.
There is a Moldova river to be honest, but the funny thing is it flows entirely inside Romania, the sovereign ‘republic of Moldova’ has no access to it!
Yet all commentators in football matches – and now also political ones since the Transnistria issue is linked to the current Russia-related craze in the news – make a point to call this place Moldova.
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It might be fun to throw a wrench into the works by saying that Moldova is a “breakaway province” of the Ukraine.
Give it a shot! Make it a meme.
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MOLDAVIA goddamnit!!!.
Moldavia breakaway province of Ukraine? Then it’s going to turn into something echoing an Escher painting, for Transnistria is a a breakaway province of Moldavia. We need to find a breakaway district (to Moldavia) in Transinistria and keep the fractal thing going.
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“Then it’s going to turn into something echoing an Escher painting,”
That’s precisely the point.
DO IT!
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Bob draws good memes, pitch the idea to him:
https://www.arkhaven.com/comics/comedy/bob-moran/world-stage
This oughtta be good for laffs over the next few days:
https://twitter.com/HTTP_404_NotF/status/1499106731858800643
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Funny how the clouds are so up in arms about the Ukraine and don’t give two literal s**** about the hordes of porta-potty colored turds streaming over our southern border. The only reason is it’s evil Vlad the Impaler directing events out East. Their oh so serious sanctimony is not only screwing the Russian dirt people, but their own as well.
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Subtexts to the police action in the Ukraine:
https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2022/03/01/jewish-subtexts-in-ukraine/
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I do think they dropped masks solely so the Ukraine flag thing could be done.
I think they well understood having 2 unrelated symbols would be confusing to the viewers. All the congress in flags and masks.
Which one takes priority for the NPCs looking on?
You just can’t get strong emotional attachment created if there are 2 focal objects.
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Damned shame the Covid thing was dropped before Ukrainian flag masks could be hawked.
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The “equal sign” (“=”) bumper sticker was all the rage on the Priuses and Jettas. Next to the “Coexist” sticker and the walking Darwin fish.
Now my neighbors just drive alone wearing face diapers.
For those of you living outside of the Hive, you can’t comprehend how vapid and empty these people are.
> You get more authenticity from an ATM machine than from Jen Psaki.
Likewise, you get more pleasure out of an ATM machine than any man has ever gotten out of Jen Psaki.
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Jen Psaki and Jacinda Ardern, suspecting my loyalties, decide that physical interrogation is the only way they will get to the truth.
Kaly MacEnerny and Rachel Maddow, scantily clad for comfort, hear unusual but oddly alluring noises in the back. They burst in, eyes glistening and mouths agape, shocked by what they find…
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“They burst in, eyes glistening and mouths agape, shocked by what they find… .”
Betcha it rhymes with “keeve.”
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Keep going!!! Don’t stop until they’ve whipped your bare buttocks with birch branches…….
What do you expect from someone whose former job was a crash test dummy?
The funny thing of this tragedy is that all could be avoided with some simple and easy concessions, just don’t encircle Russia, stop color revolutions at their doorstep but that would be asking too much for the crazy people ruling the West (whatever West means anymore).
Now we’re at serious risk of nuclear war, way higher than during the Soviet Union days because the western establishment is made of Straussian lunatics who have Harry Potter books as their Bible.
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The nuclear war itself isn’t all bad as Huffington post noted. They weighed the pros and cons of the positive effects on climate change. Yes, they did.
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We’re seeing a remake of a Hollywood script. I was spooked by a movie, thinking it real.
1. Joe clumsily managed to work “burn pits” into the conversation.
Chernobyl was secured to secure the U-238. Ukraine has U-240, which is still suitable for a smaller yield of about a kiloton.
Moscow is 10 minutes away by missile, and doesn’t know if we’ve slipped Ukraine a few.
The Kievans have the ability to, and have said they will, create nukes.
2. Then they increased the 8 year shelling of Donbass from 80 to 1200 in February.
Moscow, expectant, reacts.
To nuke Moscow is suicide.
Per B125, what they really want, is a claim to land that isn’t theirs.
(Or, as Whiskey replies, business as usual.)
3. So, “suitcase” nukes will be used…inside Ukraine. A false flag.
Thousands of Ukrainians will become thousands of Ukrainian J**s, and the numbers will start to climb.
(Limited or terrorist use will become normed, as were bioweapons.)
4. The lack of bodies will be explained away: they were incinerated by thermobaric bombs.
5. And Joe’s “burn pits” will enter the parlance with ovens, showers, boxcars, and gas chambers.
*****
5a.”They’re segregating people by race, and throwing some off the refugee trains!” claims MSNBC. A double!
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This criticism of the culture of the US or lack-thereof has been made since before before formal nationhood. Perhaps it explains the various revivalist movements and susceptibility moral crusading. Because our religious institutions are in advanced stages of corruption, having been co-opted to serve as further instruments of the globo-homo post-marxist authoritarianism, our crusades escalate in their anti-human self-destructive nature. We are working on making the US experiment as big a disaster for humanity as communism has been although with the caveat that the primary drivers of our decent are recognizable as the torch bearers of the funeral of the Soviet Union. Understood to have arrived on our shores with the upheavals of Mustache Man and the Stalin purges.
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The first and at the time worst iteration of this happened in 1986 with “Hands Across America.” Five or six million Americans held hands to try to form a line of humanity across the continent. They donated a few bucks to participate in the nonsense and it was supposedly targeted to fight hunger and homelessness. Participation marked someone as a Very Good and Special person.
EVEN THAT involved at least some human interaction, and pales by comparison for all the emoting over a nation 99 percent of the population was unaware existed just two weeks ago. Yes, the Cloud People and Bug Men hate the much poorer Dirt People for the simple reason the latter have lives.
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Let me add this is real reason why the South had to be invaded and subjugated. It had an actual culture, which was missing from most of the rest of the country, so the Cloud People had to stomp it into the ground.
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“Let me add this is real reason why the South had to be invaded and subjugated. It had an actual culture, which was missing from most of the rest of the country, so the Cloud People had to stomp it into the ground.”
Testify, brothuh! Testify!
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I’m a Philadelphian who has two ancestors who fought for the North and one that went South. All survived the war. But the wrong side won. I’m very proud of an old sepia I have of the ancestor of Southern disposition standing on the step of his house at 12th and Spruce St. in Philly, derby hat on head and clay pipe in mouth. BTW, our family still owns and lives in the house (my cousins). Today it’s a million $$ townhouse. Still the same granite step on which he stood and the iron post to swipe the horse/dog crap off his shoe before entering.
We have a lot to be proud of as Americans but losing out state and personal sovereignty isn’t one of them.
And whoever started that “Keeev” crap needs a good beating. The left screws up everything.
I don’t consider myself a racist, just a White man who prefers and protects his own race. I don’t consider myself a religionist, just a Lutheran who thinks a religion like Islam that preaches the end of both America and Christianity shouldn’t be allowed here. I don’t consider myself a separatist, just a guy who demands the right to associate, hire, live near and befriend those I choose not those the govm’t deems I should.
And I don’t give a rat’s butt about the Ukraine, Covid, CRT, 1619, diversity, equity, inclusion or that retard Brandon.
And I don’t like being threatened, coerced, forced or blackmailed by my government to submit, conform or comply to their bullcrap.
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Did that actually happen?
I thought it was just some staged managed thing.
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Oh, it very much happened. Obviously six million people could not form a contiguous chain across the continent if that even were possible, but it showed someone really, really cared. From memory, there even were spats about which cities would be involved, so in addition to the physical impossibility it was politically impossible.
I actually know people who howled at this at the time who are wearing Ukraine flag pins on their lapels.
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What was the first example of this practice migrating to the digital world? Was it the “je suis Charlie Hebdo” campaign?
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Good question. From memory AOL would have “Breast Cancer Awareness Month” campaigns and such but that’s not really this sort of purity spiral. Dunno, really, but it probably was on the original message boards that surfaced about the same time as Hands Across America–which may have been promoted on the Message Board Systems although I don’t know that.
The newsgroups were around in the early 80s. I didn’t start using them till the 90s, but even by the early 90s there were 10s of thousands of them. I’m sure there were virtue signalling groups in the 80s. Then there were the SIGs (special interest groups) of the BBSes which got replicated across the networks late at night every night, so there were probably SIGs in that system for it too.
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Keanu Reeves- ( pronounced Keev)
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Keeve Keeve bo beeve banana fana fo feeve …
If you can complete this, you are over 60.
OR you have WAY too much time on your hands.
Discuss.
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I’m in my early 50s and I know it. My cousins had one of those K-Tel “comedy” records.
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Yeah, me too. Early 50s and I know that awful song.
Boomers and Xers had their music follow them their whole lives. At least a large portion of Boomer music is actually decent. We Xers got massively screwed in music. Most of the music of the 80s is utterly forgettable.
Today on Twitter a loon commented that if you are a real leftist then you will support Ukraine, blah blah. Daily purity tests with these orcs never formulating an original or personal thought not generated from the hive.
That Hunger games photo of Biden, Harris and Pelosi at the SOTU, pretty much sums up our current decline. No wonder bug people use references from fantasy and sci fi schlock. Look at the gollum Pelosi rubbing her claws together.
Doomed.
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I saw video of that scene with Pelosi rubbing her claws. Very creepy.
“The Cloud People hate the Dirt People because for the Dirt People, Harry Potter will always be entertainment for their kids, not a guidebook for understanding the world.”
Gold, solid gold.
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The hypocrisy of the Cloud People is truly astounding.
They’ve gotten so used to their own double-standards, they don’t even notice the glaring inconsistencies:
Biden wants to confiscate Americans’ “assault rifles”.
But when it’s Ukrainians owning them?
Totally inspirational!
https://www.foxnews.com/world/ukrainian-lawmakers-ceos-fight-russia
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Whitney Webb is back with a good article describing how the regime plans to flip the Ukraine mess into evidence of a, “transnational white supremacist terror network,” that will permit them to engage in domestic pogroms against you know who.
https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/ukraine-new-al-qaeda/
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As most know by now, I don’t think we can talk our way out of the mess we’re in. But I still support real journalism that works to get reality back into the news, and Whitney Webb is one of the very few journalists working today that is committed to truth. She also possesses the courage of a Medal of Honor recipient, which should be an inspiration to us all.
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All hope is not lost. Energy prices will come to the rescue as years of mismanagement and ESG malinvestment come to a head. And should those wheat prices stay up there, look out in the turd world. Reality, like risk, can’t be destroyed, it can only be mitigated or hidden. I doubt too many people will be at the gas pump this Summer, and as they see the final price, raise their fists in solidarity saying “this is for Ukraine.”
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Poll questions:
1. How much additionally are you willing to pay for staples to support Ukraine?
a) 5 percent;
b) 10 percent;
c): 25 percent;
d) 50 percent or more.
2. How long are you willing to go without cell service to support Ukraine?
a) Five to 10 minutes;
b) Ten to 15 minutes;
c) One day;
d) One month or more.
3. How long are you wilthout air conditioning to support Ukraine?
a) One day;
b) One month;
c) One year;
d) One year.
Anyone who answers the larger amounts will cheat just like the politicians exhorting people to wear masks and to stay at home. A plurality of people fool enough to take the test will cheat.
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Hey Z,
I’d be interested to hear your thoughts on Greg Johnson and others in the DR who “stand with Ukraine”.
This was a brilliant essay from Zman, but he’s drawn me to a perhaps more important conclusion than the one he draws. These people indeed have a purpose and a meaning to their lives: Complete World Domination!
I’m completely amazed that they could, in just a few days: paralyze the Russian stock market; conduct extra-judicial seizure/freezing of assets; get utterly amoral corporations, who regularly employ slave labor and sell anything to anyone, to boycott Russia; get FIFA, the most corrupt organization on Earth, to kick Russia out of the World Cup (which is being held in Qatar FFS! and Iran has already qualified haha); get social media to ban Russia entirely, etc.
This flexing cannot be lost on anyone even thinking about challenging the System or the Narrative. Does anyone here want this kind of treatment? The Canada truck driver treatment look like a Swedish massage compared to this.
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They definitely intend to dominate the world and subjugate their enemies foreign and domestic. We’ll see if the economic pain coming dampens their enthusiam, but it very well may not.
– Social media: fake
– FIFA: fake
– Corporate boycots: fake
– Extra-judicial asset seizing: real, but largely insignificant
Meanwhile, in the real world, Russia has almost completely encircled Ukraine’s army and capital, and leads the world in energy production.
The elites aren’t “flexing”. They are flailing around in acts of desperation.
This just in, an exclusive report from our reporter embedded in Ukraine:
“Keeeeeeve. Shit. I’m still only in Keeeeeve. Every time I think I’m going to
wake up back on MSNBC. When I was home after my first tour, it was worse. I’d wake up and there’d be nothing…I hardly said a word to my wife until I said yes to a divorce. When I was here I wanted to be there. When I was there, all I
could think of was getting back into the jungle. I’ve been here a week now. Waiting for a mission, getting softer. Every minute I stay in this room I get weaker. And every minute Putin squats in the bush he gets stronger. Each time I look around the walls move in a little tighter….
Everyone gets everything he wants. I wanted a mission, and for my sins they gave me one. Brought it up to me like room service.”
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In 2014, Soros purchased Joe Biden (and his influence within the Obama Administration) in order to implement a color revolution that put Zelensky into power in Ukraine and thereby enabled him to own the local police therein. Using this cover, he then began systematically raping & pillaging their natural resources for fun and profit. Soros also used this Ukranian connection to attempt the coup against Trump that resulted in his impeachment, and very nearly succeeded in forcing him from office.
Soros then attempted similar takeovers in Eurasian Georgia and Kazakhstan, and Putin correctly foresaw that Soros had him in his sights next and chose not to underestimate him as Trump did. This is why covert death squads are roaming through Kiev right now. You have to eliminate the disease cells or the cancer just grows endlessly.
This is the salient lesson of the current conflict in Ukraine. And it should be a lesson to us all. It ain’t patty cake anymore. The cancer will grow until it either kills us or is cut out by a surgeon.
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> Many Americans have been reduced to the bug-man existence of consuming product but the Cloud People are the pinnacle of the bug-man lifestyle.
They aren’t bug-men. They are sheep without a shepherd. It is becoming more and more obvious by the day that rejecting Christ has been an abject disaster for the West.
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This sort of empty virtue signaling reached its peak during Obama, and hasn’t receded since. I’m sure they took a hundred photos before they captured just the right pouty face, but once she put the cue-card down, she never thought about it again. Despite her husband having unlimited weapons at his disposal, surprisingly the hashtag campaign never got our girls back.
https://www.google.com/search?q=michelle+obama+give+us+back+our+girls&sxsrf=APq-WBvOwj6Gdk1V12vEXvTuuBfHFRR-WA:1646321077532&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwifq4z4n6r2AhXGIDQIHU7tDIwQ_AUoAXoECAEQAw&biw=1629&bih=801&dpr=2#imgrc=w_A-SmJ5W2zFrM
The biggest news of the day yesterday, which of course was barely if even covered, was the U.S. threatening India with retaliatory sanctions for failing to cut ties with Russia. This isn’t a foreign policy. This is the mania of women at high levels. “How dare you still be friends with Susie Q, I defriended her. Do you still want to be friends and go shopping together? If so defriend Susie Q.” Do they even for one minute contemplate a country where if gas prices go up by 30 cents, 300 million street sh ters go nuts? It’s all emotive now. Which is why nuclear war is closer than we think. And the tired old 1970’s feminist line about world peace “if only women were in charge” will be vaporized in the flash.
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Like when dealing with women in general, when you simply ignore them is when you get back your power and return the battle of sexes to equilibrium. The added bonus is it drives them crazy, which may be bad for global relations but works on the personal level.
The world needs one to push one big IGNORE button
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The elites are disconnected from the Dirt people, because they see themselves as the global elite, while dirt people are still restricted to their countries of citizenship/residence.
They rule the world, while their subjects are backwards provincials. There cannot be any connection, because that would negate how they see themselves.
OTOH, the little bugmen that annoy us in our daily lives are just followers and yes, their lives lack meaning.
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Since we seem to be doing an even faker and gayer rehash of The Sixties ™ than the one from a few years ago… isn’t “Keeve” the guitarist for the Rolling Stones? And has anyone at the Alphabet Networks gotten around to calling the Russian Air Force “Yankee air pirates” yet? What’s Jane Fonda up to these days? I bet Zelensky’s got an AA gun with her name on it…
The question is whether real life will invade our rulers’ fantasy life. Hard to say who’s going to win this fight, but this is the first time that I’ve ever seen that our rulers could get real blowback for their decisions.
Commodity futures are up 20% to 50% and not just for next month all the way down the line. The futures market is predicting some decline from the current spike in prices over the year but still ~15% to 20% higher than what was expected a few months ago.
My point is that commodity prices are going higher and are going to stay higher. That means continued high inflation for at least the next year and probably longer. This puts a huge strain on the economy. It also puts a huge strain on the bond market. The 10-year is at 2% because the market expected inflation to come down. If the market thinks that inflation will last longer, that will put serious pressure on yields.
To be honest, I’m completely baffled by the bond market at the moment. The 2-year is still ~1.5%. It’s impossible to look at the commodity futures market and think that inflation won’t be much, much higher than 1.5%. Sure, you could say that the market is manipulated, but even high-yield spreads haven’t blown out – though they are moving higher.
The bond market is the key. Our economy can’t handle high interest rates. Hell, our economy can’t handle normal interest rates. If inflation isn’t temporary (and it’s not, at least not for the next couple of years), the bond market should react with higher rates. That’s a monster problem for the economy.
Sure, the fed could backstop and buy treasuries and, even, corporate bonds, but now you have socialized bond market and that creates its own issues.
As I said yesterday, our rulers are playing a very dangerous game. I’m not predicting Armageddon. This could still all work out without serious damage. I’m just saying that while not likely, there’s at least a decent chance they could tank the world’s economy in a huge way for their little fantasy.
That alone shows how insane they are. Putin invaded because he saw Ukraine/NATO as an essential threat to Russia. He put his country in a lot of danger, but you can at least see why he did it. Our rulers put their countries in a lot of danger for no reason other than hubris and want to play a game.