They’re flying so thick and fast it is amazing. Take heart – there will be a Meme Overflow and almost certainly a Friday Meme Overflow-Overflow. Last week’s Overflow-Overflow.
Remember, ridicule and mockery are effective weapons:
- Ridicule cannot easily be fought
- Ridicule makes the enemy angry, and angry people make mistakes
- For those in the “squishy middle” a Thought Splinter (and Part II and Part III and Part IV) can often be hidden inside humor.
Now, let the mockery and mayhem begin.
*** Warning, a few possibly off-color ones, in case tender eyes are about ***
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Neil Oliver: Whatever happened to government BY the people OF the people & FOR the people?
I still believe in the principle that The People are sovereign. The longer I live though, the more I read and see, the less I believe we’ve been living in that kind of society for a very long time. Likely, from before I was born. It’s betrayal trauma as I start to truly realize that the country I believed I lived in, isn’t. And hasn’t been for a long time. I know I’m not alone in this.
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Excellent data presentation. Also see this from Surak (dated info; he’s gone dark but still good stuff). Here’s the problem:
People will not see “proof” because to see that proof would mean that they were fooled. Admitting they were fooled, and more, admitting their superior intellects were fooled when those they despise and deride as “conspiracy nutjobs” saw, is too much for their egos.
(Link to AZQuotes per their policy.)
To learn, as I read in an excellent book about reading crowds, requires humility. For it’s only in humility that we have the ability to realize what we knew and believed and that which has made us feel good about ourselves has been supplanted and superseded. Learning means letting go of a belief, sometimes a central belief. Surprisingly few have this ability to make this leap.
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Are ovaries (and by extension, also testes) turning into DEADVARIES? Remember what the guy in a video says here about “prevent them from giving birth”.
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PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA
Celebrate Juneteenth! No, no, not THAT one. THIS one:
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I have often have “We just want people to pay their fair share” thrown at me, to which I reply with what I believe is a terribly simple question: “OK, what’s a fair share beyond merely ‘more than they’re paying now’”?
The looks I get… 🙂
Very often my hammer strikes again: “Now, please, what’s a fair share? Define it! Give me the percentage, the amount, the formula that defines fair share… and what if I disagree? What makes your fair share more fair than mine”?
“But it’s only asking people to pay ‘A little bit more’…”
To which my reply is immediate. “Asking? Can they say no? Then it’s asking in the same way a woman with a knife at her throat is asked to participate in a back-alley romantic interlude”.
The looks I get top the first set of looks I get… 😀
They will never define it. Ever. Because if they define it, at some point, they will bump up to that limit and never be able to come back to the well again.
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On this last one, broadly true… but I am sure that there were transmissions.
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We must remember: the Left exhibits herdbeast collective behaviors. An early essay of mine (italics replaced by underlining, but bolding and links are in the original):
The Right Way: The Leftist Sense of Self (obamasez.blogspot.com)
In the days when I debated in the local paper’s comment section I was one of the few regularly-posting people from the Right. One day a Leftist sneeringly replied to one of my comments “Do you realize nobody ever ‘likes’ your comments?” My reply was something to the effect of “I didn’t realize we were in a high school popularity contest.”
But that got me thinking that Leftists are herd-beasts (I started keeping track – all the good little Leftists would like-swarm each others’ comments). They move together. They think together. They studiously avoid thoughts that are not of The Collective. A former co-worker was, one day, ranting about eeeeeevil Conservative attacks on Planned Parenthood; he then commented “I don’t know anyone who is against abortion.” I raised my hand, and he sneered and dismissed me outright. That reprises the apocryphal quote “I can’t believe Nixon won. I don’t know anyone who voted for him.”
Liberals are constantly checking their views against those of their fellows because, deep down, they’re not sure of their own. I think that it’s one reason they slide to further and further extremes. It also simply explains, as in Occam’s Razor, why they can turn on each other so readily when one strays off the reservation. But consider this essay, which makes me think that these people actually get a high off the rush of approvals by their fellow liberals. So what happens with drug addicts? They constantly have to increase the dose. So, liberals constantly go further and further in being SJWs to exceed the last person who got adulation.
Ultimately, for the Leftist, it’s not about what they think, it’s about what others think about them. Read this essay by a psychologist whose work and essays I really like; alas, she’s gone dark after Obama’s re-election. And then READ IT AGAIN – it’s that good. They’re not strong enough to stand on their own convictions.
Know your enemy. Also know your side. They act in lockstep unison. We go more independently. That’s why we get people like this – whatever their motives:
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Look at the date. June 20-f*cking-20. Fatality rate estimates were known before The Jab came out. This is one of the big reasons why I started to question The Jab, even before it was available.
Understand that if this had been, say, an Infection Fatality Rate approaching Ebola or Marburg or Smallpox? Yes, civilization-threatening real pandemic. But this wasn’t it – fear was the real plague. Based on THAT plague, people rushed for salvation.
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I’m seeing a bunch of – likely specifically selected – quotes by this guy come out. Definitely intrigued. Also:
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Is religion necessary for morality? – The New Neo
I was an atheist for 25 years or so, during which time a good Catholic friend once told me that in how I treated people I was more “Christian” than a lot of the actual Christians he knew. A high compliment. But I used to believe that morality can be empirically developed, inspired by my readings as an atheist. Now, I’m not so sure.
I still believe, both then and now, that if the only reason you behave is because of fear of punishment – i.e., the afterlife – you’re not really a good person.
More broadly, as Founding Father John Adams once said:
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
Before The People can govern themselves as a society, people must govern – i.e., control – themselves as individuals. That comes from internal self-restraint, created by – not threat by but love of – a higher power:
Clay Christensen on Religious Freedom
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Pick of the post:
Not as imaginative as some, but chosen because – unless you’re absolutely blind – its blunt truth provokes a nod of agreement.
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Monday Musical Memory:
AC/DC – Who Made Who (Official HD Video)
I first heard this song in a movie about a roboticist turned evil, Runaway, and in light of the current and rising debate about AI, appropriate. Speaking of AI, this gives me the creeps:
One of the myriad aspects of this that disturbs me is the fear of death that this manifests. Yesterday was Father’s Day. I miss the man terribly. (Same with my mother, and others in my life who have passed on.) Yet to have an AI-driven continuation of them would not just not be them, it seems almost ghoulish.
And a further thought building off the disappearing island thing and a conversation on Telegram with the person who sent this to me: Imagine if they start to pick off Rightward-leaning “influencers” but, through this program, their social media accounts continue. Not only would this be a way to disappear someone on the QT but it would sow enormous division. Consider two people, A and B, who are mutual friends/contacts of activist C.
A: Did you know that C has disappeared?
B: Nonsense, they posted this morning.
A: I know, which is weird, because they’re not answering their phone. Haven’t for days. (Note: With this AI and voice imitation software out there now, I’m sure that fly in the ointment is only a matter of time before that’s handled… and what about deep fake imitations of people on, say, a Zoom call? Unless you know the person live-and-in-person, and can go by their place, how could you possibly know for sure they’ve been disappeared when – on the phone / Zoom – they’re conversing, you see them, they sound like the person you know…)
B: I’m sure they’re just busy – how could they be gone if they’re still posting on (social media of choice)?
Absent knowing about the above AI program, what would happen? C would be gone, and A & B fall into bickering and are divided, rather than being concerned about C’s absence and possible liquidation. Disappearances, and division. Check.
Dark, indeed.
Speaking of disappearing, I should note that while I’m planning to go dark for several weeks soon… recharging as it were… I WILL be back (or something’s happened to me) by the end of July, and understand that not only am I not suicidal, suicide is a mortal crime in Judaism. 😀 But I am “on” 24/7″ and even in the wee hours wake up thinking about this cr*p. I have to disconnect for a while.
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Palate Cleansers:
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