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tl;dr: What would constitute a meaningful counter-nihilism, a response that doesn't start with the emptiness of the non-thing being responded to?

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When I despair of anything ever making sense again...I disappear into my workshop. I take a cylinder off an engine and overhaul the valves. I sort a bucket of orphaned hardware. I disassemble a broken appliance with no intention of ever putting it back together again. More and more often there is a strong cocktail at my elbow and Warren Zevon blasting on the Bluetooth speakers. They can fight over the scraps of this civilization all they like. When they’re done I’ll still have an internal combustion engine and a tank of fuel. I did not envision myself riding into the sunset as a 65-year-old female Mad Max. Yet here we are.

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Gavin is Xi's court eunuch. I bet his driver and mistress are CCP spies, just like his fellow Commiefornians Feinstein and Swalwell. The CCP didn't need to fire a shot to take over the West Coast.

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To paraphrase Andy Weir: We are pretty much eff’d. That’s my considered opinion. Eff’d.

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Oct 24, 2023Liked by Chris Bray

This is what a psyops is all about. Destroying sanity. Behaving insanely for no good reason ther than that it makes you crazy and making you crazy is the point. It incapacitates you and that makes it all the easier to do whatever the perps want. Inject you. Shoot you. Imprison you. Move you out of your home. Whatever. So long as you can’t think straight you are easy pickings. Note the insanity and try to ignore it. Work around it. Continue to counter what they are doing as best you can.

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Oct 24, 2023Liked by Chris Bray

They do know that Hamas throws gay people off the top of buildings, right? Or did they leave that chapter out of their "outrage and triggered" manual?

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It’s the end of the West. If we cannot figure out how to expunge this Marxist cancer and stand up to Evil the it’s all over. When I read yesterday that Hollywood A listers are pressurising Biden into dialling back his support I honestly wanted to cry. I am glad my father was killed in the Nice terror attack in 2016. A huge fan of America this would just break him.

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Oct 24, 2023Liked by Chris Bray

Nope Chris, you can’t be speechless because you are one of the voices that sees reality for what it is rather than Fantasyland. So a short break is all we can allow you while you gather the thoughts needed to keep voicing reality in an upside down society. 😵‍💫

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Oct 24, 2023Liked by Chris Bray

When children are titillated by screens that depict winged terrorists slaughtering innocents, we must come to grips with the fact that for us here at home “murder is just a shot away.”

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I’m old enough to remember back in 2008 when another politician promised that his nomination marked the moment the rise of the oceans began to slow and the planet began to heal. As long as the words sound nice the results don’t matter.

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Oct 24, 2023·edited Oct 24, 2023Liked by Chris Bray

Remember Times Square before Gulliana.

Remember the gold prices and crime in the 80s.

So you can think things can turn around or we haven't hit the bottom yet.

It only took Trump two years.

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Oct 24, 2023Liked by Chris Bray

I posted this yesterday on Don Surber’s substack.

“Over on CJ Hopkins’ substack, where people promoting “peace” go to share their sensitive insights, the conversation looks like this. I asked people what they thought Israel should do in response to the attacks.

Somebody named Phillip Badger objecting to my support for Israel and Zionism in general. As soon as I told him I was a Zionist I got this:

“Thank you for stop attempting to be a human being and showing all of us here that you really are -- a monstrous, hateful racist and utterly evil piece of garbage who can't turn into rotten stinking lifeless meat soon enough. Good luck with your disgusting existence as an aberrant, ugly, inhuman skin-wrapped bag of feces.”

Because he’s all about love and peace.

Several others with similar choice comments surfaced.

You can support Palestinian causes without endorsing torture and murder. These people expose themselves for what they really are: insane and full of hatred. And this is what these same people teach the “best and the brightest” at ultra expensive, formerly excellent universities.”

Newsome is such a f-g tool. Hands on his hips, strutting around like a Brylcreem dandy. The Chinese own him too. But daddy was JP Getty’s lawyer...

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Oct 24, 2023Liked by Chris Bray

"Oh my gosh, how could Nazi Germany ever happen!?" "If I was in Nazi Germany, no way I would be a Nazi." Scary to see these bubbles which may potentially lead to something greater. Human beings have learned nothing.

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Oct 24, 2023·edited Oct 24, 2023Liked by Chris Bray

"China and California boldly marching arm-in-arm into the bold future that they have the boldness to build together, boldly.....Real things, move to the back. Queers for Gaza! Reproductive justice means free Palestine!....The point is just to vomit anti-stories, to be against......And then your position becomes so bizarrely nonsensical that you risk being elected to public office in California."

Never mind about Speechless Chris...you've only gone and explained the entire Woke Utopian dreamscape to to me...and in less than 100 words total. Pure poetry. Suddenly it's all clear somehow! Thank you.

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Oct 24, 2023Liked by Chris Bray

Like me and many others, you're not speechless - not really.

It's just that you and many others (myself included) still cleave to some vague notion of archaic white supremacist patriarchal things like...

Decorum. Trying to discern and understand events sans emotional baggage without being uncaring. Not conflating [to understand] with [being understanding].

Outmoded concepts and ideas no doubt, to the double-X chromosome-having moral elité that's always right, never wrong and to whom truth is what they speak. The unmales of various sexes and genders for whom reality is their way or no way.

That's even before touching upon such primitively atavistic notions such as family being mother, father, child(ren) or marriage being man and woman, or fidelity or keeping promises or doing your best and going above and beyond.

No doubt the Newsoms and Alexandria Occasional Cortex-es and their ilk would call such things "white supremacism" before gleefully cheering on a people and army so religiously fundamentalist and culturally conservative they make their surrounding arab groups look positievely progressive in contrast.

Any-who:

Let [culture/religion] into your nation: see your nation turn into [culture/religion]'s nation.

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The emperor has no clothes.

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