I am resurrecting my QUICK TAKES feature which, for those not aware, is a hat trick of things I’d like to comment on, but don’t really see them developing into full-blown essays of their own right. As a sample, here are two (randomly selected) of my prior entries in this category:
Quick Takes – Hat Trick – Granite Grok
Quick Takes – Hat Trick – Granite Grok
This will be infrequent but occasioned by my seeing things I want to comment on that don’t really “shoehorn” into my current meme or Survival Sunday postings.
DEPOPULATION
That there is a worldwide active-measure drive at depopulation has been a very bitter and difficult pill for me to swallow. I mentioned them in my first two Thought Splinters (Part 1, Part 2) and, in parallel, in four essays:
The 7.3 Billion Dollar, er, Person Question – Liberty’s Torch (libertystorch.info)
Proverbs 16:18… and What’s Coming? – Granite Grok
Dark Thoughts in the Small Hours – Granite Grok
Borrowing from a Dog Food Ad – Urban Scoop
Remember, to the Socialist, you are only worthy of life if you are active in service to The State.
Remember, in socialist societies, an individual’s worth is measured, not by being a unique person made in the image of God, but by that person’s utility to the state. If you’re no longer useful and, worse, if are an economic drain on society, you’ve got to go.
Fear for your children. Fear for your older loved ones. But especially your children and your posterity yet-to-be.
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The Left’s anthem, their wish list, is John Lennon’s IMAGINE. Among them are no countries, no borders, no heaven or hell. Thus they see themselves at war with all countries, all borders, and all religion. Look at the obvious love of country and nation and people in this video – utter anathema to the Left. So now consider this POS illegal thinking that people standing and putting their hands on their hearts for the Star Spangled Banner is “terrorism” (bolding added):
A TikTok user named Paulina was recently terrorized beyond imagining while at the Rainbow Oaks Country Market, in Fallbrook, California. No, she wasn’t shot at by an illegal alien with an illegal gun. Nor was she beaten by screaming men claiming to be women. This was even worse than being misgendered. The National Anthem played on the restaurant’s television and sound system, and diners stopped eating, stood up, and placed their hands over their hearts. For Paulina, this triggered fear and, on her part, racism. That’s depressing. Even more depressing is that the most popular commenters shared her fear, outrage, and disgust.
She got comments supporting her.
Why? Because it’s a people loving their country which the Left hates. A country has secure borders, a common language, and a dominant monoculture. In the Left’s quest to eliminate poverty, war, etc., is the core of attempting to eliminate being right (underlining replaced italics):
What I discovered is that the Modern Liberal looks back on 50,000 years, 100,000 years of human civilization, and knows only one thing for sure: that none of the ideas that mankind has come up with–none of the religions, none of the philosophies, none of the ideologies, none of the forms of government–have succeeded in creating a world devoid of war, poverty, crime, and injustice. So they’re convinced that since all of these ideas of man have proved to be wrong, the real cause of war, poverty, crime, and injustice must be found–can only be found–in the attempt to be right.
If nobody ever thought they were right, what would we disagree about? If we didn’t disagree, surely we wouldn’t fight. If we didn’t fight, of course we wouldn’t go to war. Without war, there would be no poverty; without poverty, there would be no crime; without crime, there would be no injustice. It’s a utopian vision, and all that’s required to usher in this utopia is the rejection of all fact, reason, evidence, logic, truth, morality, and decency–all the tools that you and I use in our attempts to be better people, to make the world more right by trying to be right, by siding with right, by recognizing what is right and moving toward it.
And if there are no borders, language, culture, religion, etc., there is no being right. And how do you eliminate these things from our society? Borders, The Potato is working on that. We already have “Press 2 for Spanish” and I’ve heard some places with even other options (who remembers the scene from one of the Beverly Hills Cop movies where Axel Foley hears language option after language option). Our culture is being debased, slowly-slowly, by every perversion imaginable. Child sacrifice, er, abortion on demand up to – and some have proposed even after – birth. Openly displaying your religion is mocked (I wear a kippa; I was told to not wear it when networking or interviewing because people who are too religious are suspect here in the northeast).
People loving their country, in particular, are a threat to the Socialists. These people are chasing a utopia, a vision of diversity, equity, and inclusion that will not result in the paradise they think they’ll get – but rather hell on earth. Meanwhile, this Nigerian woman in Germany does a reaction video to a video about the origin of the Star Spangled Banner. Just look at her reaction.
First Time ever Hearing The Star Spangled Banner as you never heard it | reaction
More of this sentiment, please. And apparently there are a slew of such videos reacting to this song.
Pride in your country? They hate you. Love your culture? They hate you. Love your race? They hate you. Love your G-d, not Marx? They hate you. If you are not a fellow traveler. They hate you and want you dead.
And to that illegal at the restaurant, and all the ungrateful people hating it here? I’ll help you pack. I hear Cuba has excellent health care and universal literacy.
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First, specifically, in a somewhat-recent Survival Sunday – Thursday SITREP Edition post I had an entry about the new DNA meeting between Canada, the USA, and Mexico. A yuuuuuuge step towards what’s been rumored and hinted at: a unified North America.
This has been the grist of many a “foil hat” site. And always dismissed… even by me, at least until recently. In my view the cultures, never mind races and other factors, are too different to survive as an entity for any length of time (Canada and the US as a combined entity, in normal times, I might consider possible – but not with Mexico thrown in).
Consider my wife’s birth country, the USSR, which really was just the Russian empire made Socialist. The culture of Kazakhstan, the other ‘stans, and others, are vastly different cultures than that of the European-focused Russians. Such an amalgam of different ethnicities / cultures forced together was bound to fail, and eventually did. So too will this fail. Most amalgam countries do. Eventually. I fear, though, that it will take a while… and that the actual death throws will be calamitous. Power is never relinquished willingly.
But second, it brings up a broader point, to wit the fact that these people are missionaries locked on a utopian dystopian vision: a one-world Socialist government. As stated in the second part, above, as well.
Just look at the whole Covid crisis.
Remember something critical here, summing up. The Socialists have, through multiple attempts, been willing to murder over 100 million civilians. With the brass ring of their end goal seemingly within their grasp, how many will they be willing to sacrifice to achieve Socialistopia?
Go back up and click through to the answer to the 7.3 billion person question, if you haven’t already.
