Reading the ADL report is not unlike watching a famously sober man soil his trousers. Horrifying and embarrassing in the moment, but . . . very funny later on.
But maybe that isn't the right analogy.
Reading the ADL report is a bit like watching a notorious drunkard soil his trousers and trying to pass it off as some kind of act of God. Very funny in the moment, but . . . horrifying and embarrassing later on.
But maybe that isn't the right analogy, either.
Reading the ADL report is funny, horrifying, and embarrassing. Not necessarily in that order.
The ADL, ACLU, SPLC, et al, have all become parodies of themselves. They just aren’t serious organizations honestly advocating for a cause and/or a peoples but just shills for the monied interests standing in the wings.
We have lost the ability (interest?) to engage in honest, respectful dialogue and debate.
I am increasingly curious in regards to the “Trans” community why their immediate go to seems to be violence as their reasonable form of argument. Is it perhaps because, at their core, they know they are living a lie and there is no intellectually way to support their position?
On another note, I am wondering what the “over/under” is on the release of the Nashville shooters “manifesto”?
"they are living a lie and there is no intellectually way to support their position" . . . It's not so much that they're living a lie. I can buy that there are women and transwomen (being men who choose to live as women). If that is your truth, that you're a man that wants to live as a woman, that's not a lie. I can accept that some men might want to. However, if your "truth" is that by making cosmetic changes to your body you are actually a woman and have a right to be in women's spaces and that children should be allowed to make those irreversible cosmetic changes before they understand the costs (infertility and compromised health), well, now we've got a problem, because that isn't "truth." That's dogma unsupported by science and empirical experience and no intellectually honest person can defend that dogma.
But these days calling the latter "dogma" is considered "genocide" because you refuse to "validate" these people's feelings and kiss their behinds. Acceptance isn't enough. They demand elevation.
As for the manifesto, the odds of its release are roughly those of Michael Moore winning the Boston Marathon.
The left has always gone straight to violence when they don't get their way... Sadly, in my humble opinion, only greater violence will stop this run away train.
The corrupted left desperately wants the right to "assault back." DESPERATELY. Unfortunately, the corrupted left also holds all the government power bases right now--and are looking for any excuse to "shut down" the right for fighting back. Just look at how they've treated J6 prisoners compared to the BLM riots...the "violent" and "destructive" ones are not the people rotting in jail for years without formal charges, only the truly peaceful protestors. Conversely, what has the "right" done to rectify that injustice? Oh yeah, nothing. Again.
Sadly, I fully agree with your assessment. Because when/if they are met with return volley violence, it will have to be both widespread and unforgiving to succeed. They desperately want a civil war--hell, any war (like WW3)--to feed the real insatiable beast: the Uniparty's military industrial complex. They don't give a damn who is fighting, or why, because they profit wildly from selling arms to both sides.
yes, indeed. they are living in a fantasy world and any whiff of logic or reality will crash their delusions. you can repeat "trans women are women" from here to eternity but they will still be men
Dang. It's like Greenpeace I guess, Randy. After all the lawyers took over the guy that founded it quit in disgust and walked away with his hands in the air. The whole mission was basically hijacked. Same happened to the Sierra Club many decades ago after the lawyers took over. Not saying all lawyers are bad, but .... they've got a way of showing up when 'stuff happens'.
I've seen Jewish-themed substacks, Christian, pro vax, ultra left wing, right wing, men's issues, women's issues, political, non political. Who knew I was reading so many different viewpoints so that I could be narrow minded and misinformed.
I myself am a peddler of hate. For example, I thought it was a bad idea when the FDA lifted restrictions on the antidiabetic drug Avandia, and I supported the wild-eyed conspiracy theory that GlaxoSmithKline faked its trial data.
There is one substack that I frequent that is (since I don’t seek out such things) the most resolutely Jew-hating thing I have ever encountered outside of the standard examples you see in history books. Since I’m Jewish, along with my family and many of my friends, this isn’t really an endearing feature of the blog.
However, the writer of the stack is also a useful source for perspectives from inside Russia on the war in Ukraine. I’m not going to plug it here because, well, fuck him, and he’s not likely to get me to spring for his paywalled stuff, but I nevertheless don’t want it to be removed at the behest of the ADL or anyone else.
When I first read the standard Western liberal texts on freedom of speech (Milton, Mill, Madison, et al.) many years ago, the consensus seemed so secure in their favor that I never had to interrogate myself too closely on where I stood – it just seemed a largely academic question, at least outside of really tough cases.
But now we’re here; it’s an extremely pressing and real question, and the contested zone isn’t in the far-off realm of obscenity and direct incitement, but rather anything outside of a monolithic, and increasingly all-encompassing consensus.
It’s a bad time, but there’s a kind of invigorating energy in realizing these issues aren’t just academic but very vital and present, and finding that I genuinely believe in free speech.
If you're talking about Rolo Slavskyy, I would agree with what you say, and though I strongly disagree with his antisemitism, his substack has some content that's worth reading in spite of that fault. That said, I get the sense that his worldview, while distorted, is rooted in something that makes some sense from his own view (in the same way that I don't support dogs that are hyper-aggressive to the point of being dangerous to others, but from the dog's perspective, given its history and abusive training, it's a natural, albeit pathological, response). People with takes like his are responding to a world in which anyone can demonize and shit all over ethnic Russians and blame them for just about everything wrong with the world, and members of demographics that have far more cultural and economic power in the West than ethnic Russians will happily join in the anti-Russian scapegoating, while acting as if their own group is above reproach and using "hate speech" policies to shut down any criticism (no matter how good faith) of their own group. Obviously, you're not doing that, and many Jews are not --quite the opposite, many Jews are vocal advocates of free speech, even when that speech is directed against them. But there are some highly influential and very visible Jews (like those running the ADL) who demonize and undermine other groups for political and financial gain, but then use cries of "antisemitism" to shut down any counterattack or even any good-faith defense. So if Rolo has been on the receiving end of that (which it appears that he has from his own statements), then while I disagree with him, I think it's understandable why he would make the ideological mistakes he appears to have made.
🤣Your secret is safe with me. On a more serious note, though, I do hope that he comes around and outgrows his antisemitism. From other things he's written, I believe he is a relatively open-minded genuine seeker who is, like all of us, a work in progress. As he encounters Jews who defy the stereotypes, I'm hoping he takes a more nuanced view and sees the daylight between Jewishness, per se, and cultural trends that may incidentally overlap with Jewishness in some times and places. For example, I would bet money that if he hung out with Michael Malice and Lex Fridman long enough, they could get him at least to see them for who they are as people, rather than just emblems of what he believes Jewishness is.
As long as we’re on this, do you know his background and situation? I thought I’ve seen him imply he’s currently outside Russia, and not by choice. True? Is he in fact Russian? A couple of weeks ago in a comment reply he said his people are Albanians. Was that a joke?
I only know what I've picked up from reading his stuff. I got the sense he is ethnically Russian but was born in Ukraine and grew up in the West before going back as an adult, meaning he has Ukrainian citizenship. At least I think that's his status, though I may have mixed up the details of that. I do recall him saying that he had to leave Russia, so not sure where he is now.
Yeah, basically fair points. I don’t really know what Rolo’s deal is, but I take what I can out of his sometimes bizarre and frequently distasteful posts. With my long-ago high-school Russian not up to reading what’s going on there in the original, and with Anti-Empire’s Marko (who really is great) having gone to ground (hopefully temporarily), I appreciate Rolo’s stack.
guys, this was such an interesting discussion. and the fact that you both read this man and are able to take some value from his writings speaks volumes about both of you. if you were to call out for him to be censored, you would corroborate his prejudices against jews. but you don't and that may, in the future, have more of an effect on him.
i've never heard of him but i did listen to TWIV for two years during the pandemic. i disagree with them a lot but i also learned a lot about virology and by the time things like the lab leak had surfaced i had heard interviews with Daszak, Anderson, Koopmans. i knew all the players.
after the vaccine roll out, they got so arrogant and did basically what the ADL is doing here- anyone who doesn't take the vaccine voted for Trump, is a redneck, hillbilly, high school drop out, bigot, etc. since i am none of those things and really can't tolerate being insulted by people who don't even know me, i pretty much stopped listening. occasionally i catch a podcast when there is a special guest on- i LOVE listening to Paul Offit knock the boosters. who would ever have thought that Mr. Vaccine himself would join the ranks of the anti-vaxxers, at least according to the pandemic update in the dictionary.
It was an off the cuff observation, but I’m not necessarily knocking Falun Gong. I know they have deep mutual hatred with the Chinese government, but that’s not enough for me to rank them with either the angels or the demons.
However there’s at least a superficial echo insofar as it’s another niche-filling, conservative U.S. newspaper published by a personality-driven Asian religious group.
Drives me apoplectic with rage this Woke disingenuous mis-categorisation of open discussion and truth seeking through discourse and real journalism as misinformation and racism. How tired is this? Surely people are now wise to this PsyOps method of thought control? Surely people are outraged at the nefarious stupidity of the Woke agenda and the likely guiding hand behind the Woke “useful idiots” that is anything but socialist? Evidently not or the mainstream wouldn’t still be churning it out. How does it end? Either a widespread wake up (a la Sweden, Finland and Italy, alas not yet in Brexit Britain - AKA Fake Brexit) or total subservience to the WEF elites crack pot agenda...
It was indeed as Verhofstadt implied, a worse deal than Versailles. Complete subjugation and vassalage. Our armed forces are subsumed into EU’s One army. This way Germany has a way around not having WMD and sending out armed forces without NATO or UN.
Now imagine if the Brexit party was still the largest group in the EU Parliament. None of this would have gone forward as the Conservative lobby that included Visegrad nations had the loudest voices.
So in the end rather than becoming anti Globalist we’ve been sold out to anyone and everyone. Illumina (German war links), CCP, WEF, WHO, UN, IMF etc. don’t forget sign up to UN Migration pact. No such thing as refugees from war zones vs economic migrants. All equal.
FYI last year 1 million legal.
Since 2000 when pop was <45 million. Now 68 million. Indigenous not having babies!
Great summation, Chris. Neatly points to where this leads.
Identity politics is a tool wielded like a weapon. One of many Trojaned into our camp. Ultimately an acid, eating away at the morals of a people. Like abortion.
For a nation to kill tens of millions of its most vulnerable, there is a price paid for that bargain. It makes any other crime acceptable.
Once, our nations offered reason and debate. And progress. There were outliers, of course.
Our nations stood apart in that regard. People didn't lose hands or other body parts - or their lives - from a disagreement or debate.
Not like large tracts of Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, etc. We have imported some of that, in recent decades, and blood has been spilled.
While things had been going downhill for decades, the TDS, Plandemonium and all that followed really highlighted how far we had fallen as societies.
When the 'othering' that had been wielded against terrorists was aimed at our own dissidents with all the empathy of an MQ-9 Reaper pilot, our majorities cheered. Still cheer. Cheer their own poisoning.
A generational effort, of which the ADL has been a part, has reached its endgame.
Everything is inverted. Per that psychopath William Casey's quote, their mission is complete;
“We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.”
The same trend is evident in the Climate Change Psyop. A cursory analysis of any statement related to it will show that.
The Totalitarian Handbook gets a lot of use these days.
So the ADL hit piece comes out, in which they demand that Substack be deplatformed from Twitter. A few days later, Substack gets deplatformed from Twitter.
In the background, Substack is apparently trying to raise funding, and approached writers to become shareholders. Interesting move, one possible explanation of which being that they're having trouble getting funding from more conventional sources. Backroom pressure from the ADL?
If the pattern holds, we can expect Stripe to stop processing Substack payments in the near future.
Any donations I make now, I do by check. I had made a donation to the Canadian truckers through GiveSendGo but Doug Ford and Trudeau stopped that. My brother makes a monthly recurring donation to the Highwire but twice now he’s had to change the system he uses. Surely you heard the PayPal scandal. Suddenly everyone is your mother!
For instance, only a MD can type about health. I shouldn't be able to post an article that leads people to believe eating healthy food is healthy for people.
But anyone can post an article about health? Perhaps they're more likely to be considered credible if they have an MD, but that's cultural credentialism bias, not Substack policy.
Most times those who, um, in a way take issue with/admonish my comments& posts are most times those with letters behind their names. So its just a hunch, if its a verification process, on what criteria will they use? How this plays out I really don't know, just what I think.
You can agree or disagree (and I will respect your position either way) but I think Jason Whitlock is one of the braver people in the public square these days. He did a spot on Tucker the other night, link below, that I found very thought provoking. Interestingly enough, Fox cut him off in mid sentence but he did get over four minutes in before they did.
Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness? What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever? What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said:“I will live with them and walk among them,and I will be their God,and they will be my people.” Therefore, “Come out from them and be separate,says the Lord.Touch no unclean thing,and I will receive you.” And, “I will be a Father to you,and you will be my sons and daughters,says the Lord Almighty.”
We had dvr’d that episode of Tucker because we were having our Seder on Wednesday. We watched it last night. We couldn’t figure out what happened to Jason Whitlock and thought our recording just failed. What he was saying was gripping. Tucker looked somewhat flummoxed or disheveled when they brought him back for the last few seconds. Wow. Thanks for explaining that Fox cut him off.
I was watching my dvr’ed version as well and also thought there was something wrong with my recording. That’s why I went to YouTube to see what I had missed 🤣.
That was the link I put in my original comment. They just cut away from him in mid sentence. The next thing I know Mike Rowe popped up on the screen. Don’t get me wrong, I like Mike Rowe, but I would’ve liked to hear the rest of what Jason had to say.
As I noted elsewhere, Substack allowed me to maintain my sanity during Covid. I am not particularly sad that it is driving a few others insane. They deserve it.
Violence is exactly how this ends, and that is likely their plan along. The violence committed by one side toward the other is tolerable and just(the attack on Riley Gaines and others if her ilk) while they try to provoke violence from the opposing side that won’t be tolerable and will allow them to use such violence as a power grab(Jan6 riots). How this ends is not good for individualism or anyone not part of their club. What the idiots from groups like the LGBTQ mob and BLM mob don’t realize is that once these monsters get the power they want, they will go after them too. That’s how Marxism works. They use the proletariat to help them gain power through revolution, then they murder just about anyone including the proletariat to keep that power. It’s all there in black and white if people just read once in awhile.
The shotgun marriage of the global corporate state and the Social Justice cult has established a Church/State ruling coalition, and one of their primary goals is to gain complete control of all major forms of communication and have their propaganda blasting out of every loudspeaker.
You can see how one hand washes the other here: the global corporate state needs its enemies vanquished but needs to stay within US Civil Rights and 1st Amendment laws (at least until they can be gutted), and the ADL of course are first-class grifters who need both a constant stream of funds plus a pretext (the eternal battle against Hate™!) to keep the gravy train running smoothly.
So the global corporate state (which of course includes the progressive oligarchy that own and operate the Democratic Party, the NGOocracy, Big Tech, Hollywood and academia etc) zeroes in on a target, in this case the Substack swamp where that ragtag band of rebels Taibbi Shellenberger & Weiss et al. have dared to oppose the regime, and the job of eliminating that target goes to its "Hate & Disinformation" wing (in this case the ADL, but many others soon to follow).
The ADL of course like every gangster operation knows how to isolate its target, apply some muscle and the usual extortion threats: "Hey, nice platform you got there, but I'm afraid you have a problem with harmful content." ("Harmful" of course being the euphemism du jour for blasphemy and heresy.) Then they station themselves outside while pointing their superweapon at you: the Bigotry Accusation. "Do what we tell you or every person or entity you know or do business with, from your grandma to your internet provider to that cute barista will know that you are fascist racist Jew-hating Nazis".
This strategy has been enormously successful (ideological fanaticism plus the promiscuous use of Bigotry Accusations is how the Left conquered academia), and if it doesn't work this time, other more intense strongarm tactics will be coming soon.
In other news, I'm way behind on my inbox. If you've sent me an email message, hang in there.
Reading the ADL report is not unlike watching a famously sober man soil his trousers. Horrifying and embarrassing in the moment, but . . . very funny later on.
But maybe that isn't the right analogy.
Reading the ADL report is a bit like watching a notorious drunkard soil his trousers and trying to pass it off as some kind of act of God. Very funny in the moment, but . . . horrifying and embarrassing later on.
But maybe that isn't the right analogy, either.
Reading the ADL report is funny, horrifying, and embarrassing. Not necessarily in that order.
The ADL, ACLU, SPLC, et al, have all become parodies of themselves. They just aren’t serious organizations honestly advocating for a cause and/or a peoples but just shills for the monied interests standing in the wings.
We have lost the ability (interest?) to engage in honest, respectful dialogue and debate.
I am increasingly curious in regards to the “Trans” community why their immediate go to seems to be violence as their reasonable form of argument. Is it perhaps because, at their core, they know they are living a lie and there is no intellectually way to support their position?
On another note, I am wondering what the “over/under” is on the release of the Nashville shooters “manifesto”?
"they are living a lie and there is no intellectually way to support their position" . . . It's not so much that they're living a lie. I can buy that there are women and transwomen (being men who choose to live as women). If that is your truth, that you're a man that wants to live as a woman, that's not a lie. I can accept that some men might want to. However, if your "truth" is that by making cosmetic changes to your body you are actually a woman and have a right to be in women's spaces and that children should be allowed to make those irreversible cosmetic changes before they understand the costs (infertility and compromised health), well, now we've got a problem, because that isn't "truth." That's dogma unsupported by science and empirical experience and no intellectually honest person can defend that dogma.
But these days calling the latter "dogma" is considered "genocide" because you refuse to "validate" these people's feelings and kiss their behinds. Acceptance isn't enough. They demand elevation.
As for the manifesto, the odds of its release are roughly those of Michael Moore winning the Boston Marathon.
The left has always gone straight to violence when they don't get their way... Sadly, in my humble opinion, only greater violence will stop this run away train.
The corrupted left desperately wants the right to "assault back." DESPERATELY. Unfortunately, the corrupted left also holds all the government power bases right now--and are looking for any excuse to "shut down" the right for fighting back. Just look at how they've treated J6 prisoners compared to the BLM riots...the "violent" and "destructive" ones are not the people rotting in jail for years without formal charges, only the truly peaceful protestors. Conversely, what has the "right" done to rectify that injustice? Oh yeah, nothing. Again.
Sadly, I fully agree with your assessment. Because when/if they are met with return volley violence, it will have to be both widespread and unforgiving to succeed. They desperately want a civil war--hell, any war (like WW3)--to feed the real insatiable beast: the Uniparty's military industrial complex. They don't give a damn who is fighting, or why, because they profit wildly from selling arms to both sides.
If the left doesn’t want to allow people to have opposing is there any other choice? Look what they just did to Riley Gaines for having an opinion.
The communist can only dissuaded from their desired course by one thing: pain.
yes, indeed. they are living in a fantasy world and any whiff of logic or reality will crash their delusions. you can repeat "trans women are women" from here to eternity but they will still be men
Dang. It's like Greenpeace I guess, Randy. After all the lawyers took over the guy that founded it quit in disgust and walked away with his hands in the air. The whole mission was basically hijacked. Same happened to the Sierra Club many decades ago after the lawyers took over. Not saying all lawyers are bad, but .... they've got a way of showing up when 'stuff happens'.
That used to refer to a style of shotgun, but in Clownworld it could mean something very different.
I've seen Jewish-themed substacks, Christian, pro vax, ultra left wing, right wing, men's issues, women's issues, political, non political. Who knew I was reading so many different viewpoints so that I could be narrow minded and misinformed.
"But if They haven't told you which ones are to be trusted, how do you know?"
I myself am a peddler of hate. For example, I thought it was a bad idea when the FDA lifted restrictions on the antidiabetic drug Avandia, and I supported the wild-eyed conspiracy theory that GlaxoSmithKline faked its trial data.
**literally shaking**
My microaggression has turned macro!
Excellent.
**strokes a white Persian cat**
Confession - I am a consumer of hate. I have read your stack.
There is one substack that I frequent that is (since I don’t seek out such things) the most resolutely Jew-hating thing I have ever encountered outside of the standard examples you see in history books. Since I’m Jewish, along with my family and many of my friends, this isn’t really an endearing feature of the blog.
However, the writer of the stack is also a useful source for perspectives from inside Russia on the war in Ukraine. I’m not going to plug it here because, well, fuck him, and he’s not likely to get me to spring for his paywalled stuff, but I nevertheless don’t want it to be removed at the behest of the ADL or anyone else.
When I first read the standard Western liberal texts on freedom of speech (Milton, Mill, Madison, et al.) many years ago, the consensus seemed so secure in their favor that I never had to interrogate myself too closely on where I stood – it just seemed a largely academic question, at least outside of really tough cases.
But now we’re here; it’s an extremely pressing and real question, and the contested zone isn’t in the far-off realm of obscenity and direct incitement, but rather anything outside of a monolithic, and increasingly all-encompassing consensus.
It’s a bad time, but there’s a kind of invigorating energy in realizing these issues aren’t just academic but very vital and present, and finding that I genuinely believe in free speech.
I actually typed a question to the guy asking if we really have to go that route again, after that he calmed down a little.
The claim of anti-semite no longer has meaning having been used too much for unrelated accusations. Same thing for nazism.
And racism ?
If you're talking about Rolo Slavskyy, I would agree with what you say, and though I strongly disagree with his antisemitism, his substack has some content that's worth reading in spite of that fault. That said, I get the sense that his worldview, while distorted, is rooted in something that makes some sense from his own view (in the same way that I don't support dogs that are hyper-aggressive to the point of being dangerous to others, but from the dog's perspective, given its history and abusive training, it's a natural, albeit pathological, response). People with takes like his are responding to a world in which anyone can demonize and shit all over ethnic Russians and blame them for just about everything wrong with the world, and members of demographics that have far more cultural and economic power in the West than ethnic Russians will happily join in the anti-Russian scapegoating, while acting as if their own group is above reproach and using "hate speech" policies to shut down any criticism (no matter how good faith) of their own group. Obviously, you're not doing that, and many Jews are not --quite the opposite, many Jews are vocal advocates of free speech, even when that speech is directed against them. But there are some highly influential and very visible Jews (like those running the ADL) who demonize and undermine other groups for political and financial gain, but then use cries of "antisemitism" to shut down any counterattack or even any good-faith defense. So if Rolo has been on the receiving end of that (which it appears that he has from his own statements), then while I disagree with him, I think it's understandable why he would make the ideological mistakes he appears to have made.
Just don’t tell Rolo a hook-nosed genetic neo-con values his work (sort of). It’d probably ruin his day.
🤣Your secret is safe with me. On a more serious note, though, I do hope that he comes around and outgrows his antisemitism. From other things he's written, I believe he is a relatively open-minded genuine seeker who is, like all of us, a work in progress. As he encounters Jews who defy the stereotypes, I'm hoping he takes a more nuanced view and sees the daylight between Jewishness, per se, and cultural trends that may incidentally overlap with Jewishness in some times and places. For example, I would bet money that if he hung out with Michael Malice and Lex Fridman long enough, they could get him at least to see them for who they are as people, rather than just emblems of what he believes Jewishness is.
As long as we’re on this, do you know his background and situation? I thought I’ve seen him imply he’s currently outside Russia, and not by choice. True? Is he in fact Russian? A couple of weeks ago in a comment reply he said his people are Albanians. Was that a joke?
I only know what I've picked up from reading his stuff. I got the sense he is ethnically Russian but was born in Ukraine and grew up in the West before going back as an adult, meaning he has Ukrainian citizenship. At least I think that's his status, though I may have mixed up the details of that. I do recall him saying that he had to leave Russia, so not sure where he is now.
Interesting. Well, the bigger question is whether he’s right about a big Ukrainian offensive coming later this month. We shall see.
Yeah, basically fair points. I don’t really know what Rolo’s deal is, but I take what I can out of his sometimes bizarre and frequently distasteful posts. With my long-ago high-school Russian not up to reading what’s going on there in the original, and with Anti-Empire’s Marko (who really is great) having gone to ground (hopefully temporarily), I appreciate Rolo’s stack.
guys, this was such an interesting discussion. and the fact that you both read this man and are able to take some value from his writings speaks volumes about both of you. if you were to call out for him to be censored, you would corroborate his prejudices against jews. but you don't and that may, in the future, have more of an effect on him.
i've never heard of him but i did listen to TWIV for two years during the pandemic. i disagree with them a lot but i also learned a lot about virology and by the time things like the lab leak had surfaced i had heard interviews with Daszak, Anderson, Koopmans. i knew all the players.
after the vaccine roll out, they got so arrogant and did basically what the ADL is doing here- anyone who doesn't take the vaccine voted for Trump, is a redneck, hillbilly, high school drop out, bigot, etc. since i am none of those things and really can't tolerate being insulted by people who don't even know me, i pretty much stopped listening. occasionally i catch a podcast when there is a special guest on- i LOVE listening to Paul Offit knock the boosters. who would ever have thought that Mr. Vaccine himself would join the ranks of the anti-vaxxers, at least according to the pandemic update in the dictionary.
so kudos to you both
back in the 90s the washington times was THE place to go to get dirt on the clintons.
i'm not a moonie and i think they're kooks, but sometimes kooks get their facts right when they venture beyond the kook space. .
The Epoch Times is Falun Gong, right? So far I’ve only read a few print issues at the house of a friend who subscribes, but I liked it.
I don’t want to antagonize any Falun Gong devotees, but arguably there’s a parallel there.
Is it? I like the Epoch times but not enough to give them money. And is Falun Gong worse than any other religion? Really asking
It was an off the cuff observation, but I’m not necessarily knocking Falun Gong. I know they have deep mutual hatred with the Chinese government, but that’s not enough for me to rank them with either the angels or the demons.
However there’s at least a superficial echo insofar as it’s another niche-filling, conservative U.S. newspaper published by a personality-driven Asian religious group.
I enjoy the Epoch Times but I filter for their known biases.
when they have no argument all they have left is name calling
And as Margaret Thatcher famously said, if you resort to calling names, you have already lost the argument.
Drives me apoplectic with rage this Woke disingenuous mis-categorisation of open discussion and truth seeking through discourse and real journalism as misinformation and racism. How tired is this? Surely people are now wise to this PsyOps method of thought control? Surely people are outraged at the nefarious stupidity of the Woke agenda and the likely guiding hand behind the Woke “useful idiots” that is anything but socialist? Evidently not or the mainstream wouldn’t still be churning it out. How does it end? Either a widespread wake up (a la Sweden, Finland and Italy, alas not yet in Brexit Britain - AKA Fake Brexit) or total subservience to the WEF elites crack pot agenda...
Thank you for confirming it was a fake Brexit.
It was indeed as Verhofstadt implied, a worse deal than Versailles. Complete subjugation and vassalage. Our armed forces are subsumed into EU’s One army. This way Germany has a way around not having WMD and sending out armed forces without NATO or UN.
Now imagine if the Brexit party was still the largest group in the EU Parliament. None of this would have gone forward as the Conservative lobby that included Visegrad nations had the loudest voices.
So in the end rather than becoming anti Globalist we’ve been sold out to anyone and everyone. Illumina (German war links), CCP, WEF, WHO, UN, IMF etc. don’t forget sign up to UN Migration pact. No such thing as refugees from war zones vs economic migrants. All equal.
FYI last year 1 million legal.
Since 2000 when pop was <45 million. Now 68 million. Indigenous not having babies!
Where’s (a) Churchill when you need him.
If not for that indefinite article I would have worried you had misplaced him... :D
I think BoXi Johnson thought he was his reincarnation but in reality was a poor imitation of Chamberlain.
ADL involvement is a tell.
Great summation, Chris. Neatly points to where this leads.
Identity politics is a tool wielded like a weapon. One of many Trojaned into our camp. Ultimately an acid, eating away at the morals of a people. Like abortion.
For a nation to kill tens of millions of its most vulnerable, there is a price paid for that bargain. It makes any other crime acceptable.
Once, our nations offered reason and debate. And progress. There were outliers, of course.
Our nations stood apart in that regard. People didn't lose hands or other body parts - or their lives - from a disagreement or debate.
Not like large tracts of Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, etc. We have imported some of that, in recent decades, and blood has been spilled.
While things had been going downhill for decades, the TDS, Plandemonium and all that followed really highlighted how far we had fallen as societies.
When the 'othering' that had been wielded against terrorists was aimed at our own dissidents with all the empathy of an MQ-9 Reaper pilot, our majorities cheered. Still cheer. Cheer their own poisoning.
A generational effort, of which the ADL has been a part, has reached its endgame.
Everything is inverted. Per that psychopath William Casey's quote, their mission is complete;
“We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.”
The same trend is evident in the Climate Change Psyop. A cursory analysis of any statement related to it will show that.
The Totalitarian Handbook gets a lot of use these days.
Peace.
So the ADL hit piece comes out, in which they demand that Substack be deplatformed from Twitter. A few days later, Substack gets deplatformed from Twitter.
In the background, Substack is apparently trying to raise funding, and approached writers to become shareholders. Interesting move, one possible explanation of which being that they're having trouble getting funding from more conventional sources. Backroom pressure from the ADL?
If the pattern holds, we can expect Stripe to stop processing Substack payments in the near future.
My credit card is now being declined on Substack. But maybe my wife did it, I'm trying to figure this out.
i still send checks
To the author or Substack?
Any donations I make now, I do by check. I had made a donation to the Canadian truckers through GiveSendGo but Doug Ford and Trudeau stopped that. My brother makes a monthly recurring donation to the Highwire but twice now he’s had to change the system he uses. Surely you heard the PayPal scandal. Suddenly everyone is your mother!
Oh, and I think soon Stack will be monopolized by those with academic credentials. That's when I will delete the platform from my computer.
Interesting hypothesis. What do you base that on?
approached writers to become shareholders.
Ok but what's the connection to academic credentials?
For instance, only a MD can type about health. I shouldn't be able to post an article that leads people to believe eating healthy food is healthy for people.
But anyone can post an article about health? Perhaps they're more likely to be considered credible if they have an MD, but that's cultural credentialism bias, not Substack policy.
Most times those who, um, in a way take issue with/admonish my comments& posts are most times those with letters behind their names. So its just a hunch, if its a verification process, on what criteria will they use? How this plays out I really don't know, just what I think.
You can agree or disagree (and I will respect your position either way) but I think Jason Whitlock is one of the braver people in the public square these days. He did a spot on Tucker the other night, link below, that I found very thought provoking. Interestingly enough, Fox cut him off in mid sentence but he did get over four minutes in before they did.
https://youtu.be/JSQJ8dNFtIU
Here are the verses he quotes from:
Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness? What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever? What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said:“I will live with them and walk among them,and I will be their God,and they will be my people.” Therefore, “Come out from them and be separate,says the Lord.Touch no unclean thing,and I will receive you.” And, “I will be a Father to you,and you will be my sons and daughters,says the Lord Almighty.”
Second Corinthians 6:14-18
Jason Whitlock posted this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fsz0QDflOF8
Interesting, thanks for sharing that.
We had dvr’d that episode of Tucker because we were having our Seder on Wednesday. We watched it last night. We couldn’t figure out what happened to Jason Whitlock and thought our recording just failed. What he was saying was gripping. Tucker looked somewhat flummoxed or disheveled when they brought him back for the last few seconds. Wow. Thanks for explaining that Fox cut him off.
I was watching my dvr’ed version as well and also thought there was something wrong with my recording. That’s why I went to YouTube to see what I had missed 🤣.
At least they let him go for four plus minutes.
I’ll go look for it on Youtube. Thanks.
That was the link I put in my original comment. They just cut away from him in mid sentence. The next thing I know Mike Rowe popped up on the screen. Don’t get me wrong, I like Mike Rowe, but I would’ve liked to hear the rest of what Jason had to say.
As I noted elsewhere, Substack allowed me to maintain my sanity during Covid. I am not particularly sad that it is driving a few others insane. They deserve it.
I thought skepticism, collaboration and research was science. Oh wait, the science is settled.
They’re coming for Substack
Brettsky, they are and they have a ton of methods they can use. I hope our beloved Substack is prepared for the onslaught.
Well we are "advertising".
Let them come after us.
Truth is bait.
Violence is exactly how this ends, and that is likely their plan along. The violence committed by one side toward the other is tolerable and just(the attack on Riley Gaines and others if her ilk) while they try to provoke violence from the opposing side that won’t be tolerable and will allow them to use such violence as a power grab(Jan6 riots). How this ends is not good for individualism or anyone not part of their club. What the idiots from groups like the LGBTQ mob and BLM mob don’t realize is that once these monsters get the power they want, they will go after them too. That’s how Marxism works. They use the proletariat to help them gain power through revolution, then they murder just about anyone including the proletariat to keep that power. It’s all there in black and white if people just read once in awhile.
The shotgun marriage of the global corporate state and the Social Justice cult has established a Church/State ruling coalition, and one of their primary goals is to gain complete control of all major forms of communication and have their propaganda blasting out of every loudspeaker.
You can see how one hand washes the other here: the global corporate state needs its enemies vanquished but needs to stay within US Civil Rights and 1st Amendment laws (at least until they can be gutted), and the ADL of course are first-class grifters who need both a constant stream of funds plus a pretext (the eternal battle against Hate™!) to keep the gravy train running smoothly.
So the global corporate state (which of course includes the progressive oligarchy that own and operate the Democratic Party, the NGOocracy, Big Tech, Hollywood and academia etc) zeroes in on a target, in this case the Substack swamp where that ragtag band of rebels Taibbi Shellenberger & Weiss et al. have dared to oppose the regime, and the job of eliminating that target goes to its "Hate & Disinformation" wing (in this case the ADL, but many others soon to follow).
The ADL of course like every gangster operation knows how to isolate its target, apply some muscle and the usual extortion threats: "Hey, nice platform you got there, but I'm afraid you have a problem with harmful content." ("Harmful" of course being the euphemism du jour for blasphemy and heresy.) Then they station themselves outside while pointing their superweapon at you: the Bigotry Accusation. "Do what we tell you or every person or entity you know or do business with, from your grandma to your internet provider to that cute barista will know that you are fascist racist Jew-hating Nazis".
This strategy has been enormously successful (ideological fanaticism plus the promiscuous use of Bigotry Accusations is how the Left conquered academia), and if it doesn't work this time, other more intense strongarm tactics will be coming soon.
Repressive Tolerance
Yes.
https://chrisbray.substack.com/p/the-problem-of-the-narrative