The amazing thing to me right now is that once you get people to believe absurdities, then you can get them to believe a never-ending chain of new and more absurd absurdities. It's like once you're lost in the woods, each step just makes you more lost.
Apr 13, 2023·edited Apr 13, 2023Liked by Chris Bray
And the thing is, the social scientists who've studied history, the most evil regimes of the 20th century, the psychologists who did experiments like Stanford Prison and Asch Conformity *know* this happens. And they do it anyways. Even those who know but aren't doing it remain silent, afraid of the consequences that come with speaking out The ones who know better than anyone are doing it, or allowing it to happen.
“An educated citizenry is a vital requisite for our survival as a free people.”
- Thomas Jefferson
We fund public education, university studies, invested billions and billions and billions of dollars at institution after institution after institution of education, kindergarten through higher learning over the years to protect freedom. That quote of Jefferson's is the actual basis of public education funding in this country. Those words used to justify the establishment of public education at every level in this nation, in every jurisdiction, and the taxation to fund it - for that reason, our survival as a free people. Not to make expert workers to fill each cog in the wheel of production and business enterprise. Which is what public education has been hijacked and repurposed to produce.
Public education is to teach and learn, reason, so we don't believe absurdities as spun by a King's sorcerer treated as an "expert." And become subjects of a ruler again. Jefferson's vision was to have us immunized to absurdities by teaching us how to learn and think for ourselves, become our own experts. We tax and spend all of the money we tax for and spend on education to prevent what's happened and is continuing to happen. Today we live with the evidence that it hasn't worked. Those who seek to rule over subjects have used the money we spend on education to learn how to rule us, not to ensure we remain free; the opposite of Jefferson's vision. Because they know. They surely know. And impose absurdity after absurdity upon us, the public mind. Knowing that it becomes a never-ending chain of absurdities, making once-free people lose their way and step into their servitude.
So we do our best to educate. Freedom has called upon us to be the educators.
"Apart from the massacres, deaths and famines for which communism was responsible, the worst thing about the system was the official lying: that is to say the lying in which everyone was forced to take part, by repetition, assent or failure to contradict. I came to the conclusion that the purpose of propaganda in communist countries was not to persuade, much less to inform, but to humiliate and emasculate. In this sense, the less true it was, the less it corresponded in any way to reality, the better; the more it contradicted the experience of the persons to whom it was directed, the more docile, self-despising for their failure to protest, and impotent they became."
The point is to convince you youre lost (definitely don't look at the obvious road signs) and once you Believe it, we'll swoop in and lead you astray to places no sane person would ever go.
Apr 12, 2023·edited Apr 12, 2023Liked by Chris Bray
I think you are right to see that the issue is more general than the specific things, vaccines, pharma, trans, family etc. Indeed it's the squabbling over each thing that distracts us from the underlying cause.
I think it's even more general than control, or at least has more elements. Greed and fear work alongside control to keep the system churning along. And the accelerating rate of change turbo charges everything.
I wouldn't want to use the vague and misunderstood term "postmodernism" crisis. But it's a crisis of "the way modern societies are run" whatever the word is for that.
I had just commented on his Gettr post saying it was the same as the vax, now using mob violence, even supporting a school shooter. Been hearing stories about confused kids being pressured (and now they’ll be locked up in Calif., to be sure they get “care”) and of gay kids being told they are trans so that they can be monetized. Women don’t exist, races must be segregated. A new group of oligarch-funded hypercolonizers is here. I do not blame trans people, most of whom just live their lives and did not ask for this—it’s the ones pushing this movement for profit and power who are evil.
The trans people I knew prior this transmania were not at all like the current crop of ideological trans activists. But I think some of them are being persuaded by the hyperventilating “trans genocide” language pushed by the activists and media. I feel bad for them. They were just quietly living their lives in a difficult subculture
Yes, the trans genocide. Latest numbers I can find show 37 trans people killed in 2022, some by their partners so not all are “hate crimes” out of a claimed 1.6m people who id as trans. In other words .002% of the trans population. Stated another way if you are trans there is a 99.998% you won’t be killed. An inner city black kid is far more likely to be murdered than a trans person. Where’s the protest over that?
The damage of the activists & media go even further. Notice how it's always put out there "LGBTQIA+" [blah, blah, to nearly every letter imaginable, but I digress]. AS IF all the various "colors of the rainbow" operate of "one mind," with a single intent: screw up the children. This bastardizing the truth has lots of unintended consequences.
What I've witnessed is that most all of the L's, the G's and the B's are comfortable in their own skin and are not looking to "transition" anyone into anything. They don't have issues with pronouns--and find the tantrums just as insane as straight people do. Many are in long term relationships and just want to live their lives peacefully without trouble. But these folks are also being blamed for this certifiable crazy that starts with the T's--then gets steadily more insane the farther right you work your way through that Alphabet Mafia activist jumbo-acronym wielded to try to legitimize its very small minority championing the insanity.
Apparently Twitter, Goober, FB and the rest of social media immediately shut down and canceled posts using #GaysAgainstGroomers and #LGBnotT. All is not well under that proverbial "rainbow." We have a crisis all right--a bunch of f'n lunatics control the media/social media and therefore, the conversation.
I am starting to get crisis fatigue. For my part, I am ready for the pricks to just come out and say "you don't matter , shut up and comply or we will kill you" rather than pissing in my ear and telling my it's raining. This pussyfooting around their ego-driven desire to control every aspect our lives through poorly executed finesse (LYING) and mind control is getting older than Brandon.
Yeah, but if they actually said that straight up, then you (and me and oh so many others!) would have due cause to break out the bug spray and wipe them out, even according to their own logic.
They can't say that, think it or even allow themselves to feel it. They must remain victims and victimised so as to pre-emptively legitimise everything they do.
I'm sick of the slack jawed, drooling, bobble headed masses who insist it is indeed raining because a credible source said it is. And accuse you of being crazy.
As Lenin said, "More chaos". All of these policies and programs are as you point out, meant to destroy Christian and other religions through destroying any semblance of rational, traditional, or religious beliefs. And it's applied totally unfairly. If you, Chris, and I, were to show up at an elementary or junior high school and start passing out bottles of whiskey and wine, cases of beer, boxes of cigars and cigarettes and tins of snuff, keys to all the cars in the parking lot, and guns and ammo to the children in said schools, we would be arrested, prosecuted, and sentenced to 99 years in the electric chair. But compared to what these anarchists and Stalinists are doing to children and our culture and society on a massive scale, our activities are relatively tame and could be easily and quickly ameliorated. Not so with the destruction your state's legislature,, and the vast majority of Democrats, are doing to humans. Lastly, it's sad but the voters put these people in power. "Toute nationale gouvernement qu'elle merite". Joseph De Maistre'.
It's like Napoleon raising the puppies. Is anyone surprised this play is still being trotted out from the playbook? It works. My own personal approach to talking about anything like this is to distinguish between ownership and stewardship, to talk about duties of care, etc. In the end, though, corporations want to sell directly to kids, with funding by their parents funneled through the apparatus of the state (taxation), and I can't remember the last time a corporation didn't get what it wanted in this country. <sigh>
It has become commonplace for our politicians and compliant media to manipulate us by projecting their sins onto us. They lie and distort the truth, while their “disinformation experts” attempt to cancel our freedom of speech. They “never let a crisis go to waste” as a chance to take away our freedom, while labeling their political enemies a threat to democracy. They ask us to be tolerant of their ideas, while their mob shouts down and intimidates anyone with an opposing idea. However, the most insidious method of manipulation is by eliminating and changing the meaning of words from the English Language. As we learned from George Orwell, 1984, the purpose of their “Newspeak” is to limit our ability to think and prevent us from engaging in a rational debate. Their goal is simple: join their mob and conform to its alternate reality or commit social suicide and be canceled.
I chose not to join their mob. I choose to search for a truth that corresponds to reality.
“We can take bets on how many years it takes to see the first ‘we should have an amnesty for the proponents of transgender surgery for children’ article.”
He also here links to his own piece from March, 2022 (“every crisis is the same crisis”), wherein he wrote:
“Show of hands: Who thinks it’s a mystery what we’ll be saying about the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines for Covid-19 in ten years?”
Well, it took, not ten years, but less than a year from then for Fauci and Bill Gates to number among those calling the mRNA shots a failure – albeit not in the context of admission of error, but because the agenda has shifted to developing the next generation of mandatory wondergoo, and admitting the current stuff is useless helps with that.
So I don’t think it’s going to be a long wait before the class that knows everything about everything, and makes sure we conform to every iota of it, starts changing its tune about shattering children’s and youths’ healthy bodies in the name of gender expression. But once again there will be at most a few calls for amnesty (“Who could have known?”), and no accountability or broader lessons learned.
Because the power of the Party … the *Inner* Party, that is … to command us “to reject the evidence of [our] eyes and ears” is the actual point of it all.
I am a bit more pessimistic there will ever be an accounting for this. Unlike the vax, which was forced upon over a billion people, the number of children being subjected to this madness is a minuscule percentage of the population. When these children reach their late teens/early twenties and the horror of what was done to them rears its ugly head, they will be ignored, compounding their misery. The people pushing this are in the grips of the demonic.
I think the "guy behind the guy" is just pharma (hormone replacement for life? sounds like a golden paycheck to me), with some quack doctors desperate for a buck thrown into the mix, so this particular thing will go away (as it is already on the way out in the UK and Scandinavia), to be replaced by the next moneymaker. I can't remember where I read this observation first: It's no coincidence that the idea of trans-ing kids took off at the same time it became obvious that menopausal women were no longer buying pharma's pregnant mare urine.
I wonder what it would take to get trans drugs and surgeries to be treated by the law the way breast augmentation or tattoos are treated. I suppose Chris can let us know if 12-year-olds can have boob jobs in Cali without parental knowledge or consent, and what the legal age is for tats in Cali.
I think the relevant comparison here is lobotomies. Hailed as a wonder treatment for over a decade and then everyone all at once said "WTF were we thinking?" and dropped the concept like a hot rock, never to be spoken of again. Nor, of course, to be apologized for.
Hahaha... It reminds me of how people were like, "Pot is illegal, but you can get basically smack from your dentist," and the response wasn't to stop dentists from handing out oxy like candy, but to set up pot dispensaries on every corner. I'm sure the PTB read your Substack, and are already approaching Richard Pan with no-consent laws for tats, boob jobs, and various other body mods.
Wait, really? That's what I mean. This trans stuff has to be put in the category of body-modifications-some-grownups-choose-to-do instead of the-only-loving-choice-for-your-10-year-old. The state doesn't kidnap kids to give them tats or boob jobs.
I just looked up the current law, and it's still 18. If your parent or guardian is with you, the lowest allowable age is 8. I wasn't in the state with my parent or guardian, and don't know if the parent/guardian rule was the same back then.
This link has the age laws for all kinds of piercings ... for most you need to at least be 14, some 18, even with a parent or guardian.
Thank you for looking it up. I really do think this is the right way to win all these battles: Get this stuff recognized as the profiteering cosmetic surgery that it is, so it can't hide by pretending to be medical care. Ditto for putting 12-year-olds on the Pill; fertility is not a disease, and hormonal birth control is a lifestyle convenience (with blood clot risks), not medicine. Those of us who chose Trojans didn't get our health insurance to pay for them.
Rikard, I’m not so pessimistic that I believe moslem colonists will gain political power in the former United States. However, I can foresee U.S. imams recruiting trannies and forming an elite military unit to terrorize the trannies’ former enablers. This would echo the Sultan’s 14th century Janissaries, the elite military unit comprised of formerly Christian boys who were enslaved, circumcised, molested in the rainbow fashion, and then violently turned loose on Christian enclaves. Hell hath no fury….
"By the time of the Times report, three children, including Williams, had died in homes with the Pearls’ book on the shelves."
Counter would be to ask how many kids have been raped in homes with a rainbow-flag or sticker on display.
It's trick, it's cheap and ugly and easily countered in a real debate, which is why people like the wamyn writing this never engage for real. They know in their deepest darkest that they'd lose, every time, and lose big.
To hammer the sterotype home: when women lack factual arguments, bring on the crying. Now, since I'm allfor equal treatment of equal behaviour, I look upon such women the way I look upon a man behaving like that.
Real women, you need to get on top of this and kick the feminists off their perch.
I imagine that, by now, reasonable human beings who spot my handle in the comments will automatically blanche thinking, omigawd, here he is again, the ultra-realist, dragging "over-the-top" responses from an absolutist and violent philosophy. Sorry, no apology. Words are fine for communication but they just do not cut it when it comes to modifying the behavior of sociopaths and psychopths, which is what we are up against.
Every time we endulge in the futility of appealing to these monsters to repent for the suffering they caused, the more this excites them and turns them on to new frenzies of torture and death. Likewise, our firm demands that we use the courts to impose stern justice on these twisted individuals and groups, is invariably an exercise in pissing into the wind. The odds are all with the other side.
Sooner or later, we are going to have to reconcile ourselves with the reality that "somebody", as in "It's time somebody put an end to these crimes", is us. It has always been only us. And the only word that adequately describes the primary characteristic of our action is "force". Nothing else will catch their attention.
We regard ourselves as superior to our medieval forebears, yet they would long ago have marched to the castle brandishing flaming torches and sickles, clubs and hay forks and, within the hour, would have hurled the demons off the battlements onto the rocks below.
It seems to me, they had it right and we are just too chickenshit to do what is right for our children's survival.
Apr 12, 2023·edited Apr 12, 2023Liked by Chris Bray
Chris -
I disagree with Ed Dowd. And here's why:
The goal is to reMOVE the "needle", so there is no reference point between truth and lies; indeed between reality and the imaginary.
An entropic phantasmagoria, designed to manipulate reality and warp the fabric of existence so that the individual voluntarily (but unwittingly) gives over agency to atomization.
To CONTROL the population by progressive steps that annihilate an individuals front-line defense of internal controls, rendering the two most important; prevention and detection inert.
Preach, preach, preach, brother!
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."
- Voltaire
And so the atrocities continue to pile up, each becoming more vile than the ones before.
The amazing thing to me right now is that once you get people to believe absurdities, then you can get them to believe a never-ending chain of new and more absurd absurdities. It's like once you're lost in the woods, each step just makes you more lost.
And the thing is, the social scientists who've studied history, the most evil regimes of the 20th century, the psychologists who did experiments like Stanford Prison and Asch Conformity *know* this happens. And they do it anyways. Even those who know but aren't doing it remain silent, afraid of the consequences that come with speaking out The ones who know better than anyone are doing it, or allowing it to happen.
“An educated citizenry is a vital requisite for our survival as a free people.”
- Thomas Jefferson
We fund public education, university studies, invested billions and billions and billions of dollars at institution after institution after institution of education, kindergarten through higher learning over the years to protect freedom. That quote of Jefferson's is the actual basis of public education funding in this country. Those words used to justify the establishment of public education at every level in this nation, in every jurisdiction, and the taxation to fund it - for that reason, our survival as a free people. Not to make expert workers to fill each cog in the wheel of production and business enterprise. Which is what public education has been hijacked and repurposed to produce.
Public education is to teach and learn, reason, so we don't believe absurdities as spun by a King's sorcerer treated as an "expert." And become subjects of a ruler again. Jefferson's vision was to have us immunized to absurdities by teaching us how to learn and think for ourselves, become our own experts. We tax and spend all of the money we tax for and spend on education to prevent what's happened and is continuing to happen. Today we live with the evidence that it hasn't worked. Those who seek to rule over subjects have used the money we spend on education to learn how to rule us, not to ensure we remain free; the opposite of Jefferson's vision. Because they know. They surely know. And impose absurdity after absurdity upon us, the public mind. Knowing that it becomes a never-ending chain of absurdities, making once-free people lose their way and step into their servitude.
So we do our best to educate. Freedom has called upon us to be the educators.
"Apart from the massacres, deaths and famines for which communism was responsible, the worst thing about the system was the official lying: that is to say the lying in which everyone was forced to take part, by repetition, assent or failure to contradict. I came to the conclusion that the purpose of propaganda in communist countries was not to persuade, much less to inform, but to humiliate and emasculate. In this sense, the less true it was, the less it corresponded in any way to reality, the better; the more it contradicted the experience of the persons to whom it was directed, the more docile, self-despising for their failure to protest, and impotent they became."
- Theodore Dalrymple
The point is to convince you youre lost (definitely don't look at the obvious road signs) and once you Believe it, we'll swoop in and lead you astray to places no sane person would ever go.
Yes.....gosh, I wonder how the holocaust happened right in front of the German people's eyes.
Such a mystery...
I think the end goal is to make hate a "stable" emotion.
https://filiperafaeli.substack.com/p/the-day-i-understood-the-good-german?utm_source=cross-post&publication_id=238808&post_id=49318563&isFreemail=true&utm_campaign=705029&utm_medium=email
Thanks a bunch! I enjoyed that. Right up my alley.
got to know ...
I call it the control crisis.
"The covid portion of the control crisis, the climate portion of the control crisis."
I think you are right to see that the issue is more general than the specific things, vaccines, pharma, trans, family etc. Indeed it's the squabbling over each thing that distracts us from the underlying cause.
I think it's even more general than control, or at least has more elements. Greed and fear work alongside control to keep the system churning along. And the accelerating rate of change turbo charges everything.
I wouldn't want to use the vague and misunderstood term "postmodernism" crisis. But it's a crisis of "the way modern societies are run" whatever the word is for that.
I like "the control crisis." It's accurate.
SOS! A uniquely dangerous extreme right-wing theory called 'family' is now getting back to mainstream! 😱🤯
I had just commented on his Gettr post saying it was the same as the vax, now using mob violence, even supporting a school shooter. Been hearing stories about confused kids being pressured (and now they’ll be locked up in Calif., to be sure they get “care”) and of gay kids being told they are trans so that they can be monetized. Women don’t exist, races must be segregated. A new group of oligarch-funded hypercolonizers is here. I do not blame trans people, most of whom just live their lives and did not ask for this—it’s the ones pushing this movement for profit and power who are evil.
The trans people I knew prior this transmania were not at all like the current crop of ideological trans activists. But I think some of them are being persuaded by the hyperventilating “trans genocide” language pushed by the activists and media. I feel bad for them. They were just quietly living their lives in a difficult subculture
Yes, the trans genocide. Latest numbers I can find show 37 trans people killed in 2022, some by their partners so not all are “hate crimes” out of a claimed 1.6m people who id as trans. In other words .002% of the trans population. Stated another way if you are trans there is a 99.998% you won’t be killed. An inner city black kid is far more likely to be murdered than a trans person. Where’s the protest over that?
Most of the murdered trans are prostitutes, so not exactly working in a safe environment in the first place.
The damage of the activists & media go even further. Notice how it's always put out there "LGBTQIA+" [blah, blah, to nearly every letter imaginable, but I digress]. AS IF all the various "colors of the rainbow" operate of "one mind," with a single intent: screw up the children. This bastardizing the truth has lots of unintended consequences.
What I've witnessed is that most all of the L's, the G's and the B's are comfortable in their own skin and are not looking to "transition" anyone into anything. They don't have issues with pronouns--and find the tantrums just as insane as straight people do. Many are in long term relationships and just want to live their lives peacefully without trouble. But these folks are also being blamed for this certifiable crazy that starts with the T's--then gets steadily more insane the farther right you work your way through that Alphabet Mafia activist jumbo-acronym wielded to try to legitimize its very small minority championing the insanity.
Apparently Twitter, Goober, FB and the rest of social media immediately shut down and canceled posts using #GaysAgainstGroomers and #LGBnotT. All is not well under that proverbial "rainbow." We have a crisis all right--a bunch of f'n lunatics control the media/social media and therefore, the conversation.
#LGBWithoutTheTQ at least is still alive and well on Twitter. https://twitter.com/search?q=%23LGBWithoutTheTQ&src=trend_click&f=live&vertical=trends
If you told me these would be the issues my children have to grow up with, I would not have believed it. Great article - thanks for sharing
I'm a parent, and I wouldn't have believed it even five years ago.
I am starting to get crisis fatigue. For my part, I am ready for the pricks to just come out and say "you don't matter , shut up and comply or we will kill you" rather than pissing in my ear and telling my it's raining. This pussyfooting around their ego-driven desire to control every aspect our lives through poorly executed finesse (LYING) and mind control is getting older than Brandon.
Yeah, but if they actually said that straight up, then you (and me and oh so many others!) would have due cause to break out the bug spray and wipe them out, even according to their own logic.
They can't say that, think it or even allow themselves to feel it. They must remain victims and victimised so as to pre-emptively legitimise everything they do.
I'm sick of the slack jawed, drooling, bobble headed masses who insist it is indeed raining because a credible source said it is. And accuse you of being crazy.
As Lenin said, "More chaos". All of these policies and programs are as you point out, meant to destroy Christian and other religions through destroying any semblance of rational, traditional, or religious beliefs. And it's applied totally unfairly. If you, Chris, and I, were to show up at an elementary or junior high school and start passing out bottles of whiskey and wine, cases of beer, boxes of cigars and cigarettes and tins of snuff, keys to all the cars in the parking lot, and guns and ammo to the children in said schools, we would be arrested, prosecuted, and sentenced to 99 years in the electric chair. But compared to what these anarchists and Stalinists are doing to children and our culture and society on a massive scale, our activities are relatively tame and could be easily and quickly ameliorated. Not so with the destruction your state's legislature,, and the vast majority of Democrats, are doing to humans. Lastly, it's sad but the voters put these people in power. "Toute nationale gouvernement qu'elle merite". Joseph De Maistre'.
Pray for the Republic.
Danny Huckabee
It's like Napoleon raising the puppies. Is anyone surprised this play is still being trotted out from the playbook? It works. My own personal approach to talking about anything like this is to distinguish between ownership and stewardship, to talk about duties of care, etc. In the end, though, corporations want to sell directly to kids, with funding by their parents funneled through the apparatus of the state (taxation), and I can't remember the last time a corporation didn't get what it wanted in this country. <sigh>
It has become commonplace for our politicians and compliant media to manipulate us by projecting their sins onto us. They lie and distort the truth, while their “disinformation experts” attempt to cancel our freedom of speech. They “never let a crisis go to waste” as a chance to take away our freedom, while labeling their political enemies a threat to democracy. They ask us to be tolerant of their ideas, while their mob shouts down and intimidates anyone with an opposing idea. However, the most insidious method of manipulation is by eliminating and changing the meaning of words from the English Language. As we learned from George Orwell, 1984, the purpose of their “Newspeak” is to limit our ability to think and prevent us from engaging in a rational debate. Their goal is simple: join their mob and conform to its alternate reality or commit social suicide and be canceled.
I chose not to join their mob. I choose to search for a truth that corresponds to reality.
“Reality and Perfection are synonymous.”
Spinoza
It’s just crisis, crisis, crisis! with these people. They just want to use every crisis, manufactured or not, to gain more power for the government.
I’m so sick of how it’s always one thing after the other.
It’s their “Never let a crisis go to waste”
I’d like them to just leave us alone
As would we all.
Chris writes above:
“We can take bets on how many years it takes to see the first ‘we should have an amnesty for the proponents of transgender surgery for children’ article.”
He also here links to his own piece from March, 2022 (“every crisis is the same crisis”), wherein he wrote:
“Show of hands: Who thinks it’s a mystery what we’ll be saying about the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines for Covid-19 in ten years?”
Well, it took, not ten years, but less than a year from then for Fauci and Bill Gates to number among those calling the mRNA shots a failure – albeit not in the context of admission of error, but because the agenda has shifted to developing the next generation of mandatory wondergoo, and admitting the current stuff is useless helps with that.
So I don’t think it’s going to be a long wait before the class that knows everything about everything, and makes sure we conform to every iota of it, starts changing its tune about shattering children’s and youths’ healthy bodies in the name of gender expression. But once again there will be at most a few calls for amnesty (“Who could have known?”), and no accountability or broader lessons learned.
Because the power of the Party … the *Inner* Party, that is … to command us “to reject the evidence of [our] eyes and ears” is the actual point of it all.
I am a bit more pessimistic there will ever be an accounting for this. Unlike the vax, which was forced upon over a billion people, the number of children being subjected to this madness is a minuscule percentage of the population. When these children reach their late teens/early twenties and the horror of what was done to them rears its ugly head, they will be ignored, compounding their misery. The people pushing this are in the grips of the demonic.
I think the "guy behind the guy" is just pharma (hormone replacement for life? sounds like a golden paycheck to me), with some quack doctors desperate for a buck thrown into the mix, so this particular thing will go away (as it is already on the way out in the UK and Scandinavia), to be replaced by the next moneymaker. I can't remember where I read this observation first: It's no coincidence that the idea of trans-ing kids took off at the same time it became obvious that menopausal women were no longer buying pharma's pregnant mare urine.
I wonder what it would take to get trans drugs and surgeries to be treated by the law the way breast augmentation or tattoos are treated. I suppose Chris can let us know if 12-year-olds can have boob jobs in Cali without parental knowledge or consent, and what the legal age is for tats in Cali.
I think the relevant comparison here is lobotomies. Hailed as a wonder treatment for over a decade and then everyone all at once said "WTF were we thinking?" and dropped the concept like a hot rock, never to be spoken of again. Nor, of course, to be apologized for.
Let's not give the California legislature any ideas.
Hahaha... It reminds me of how people were like, "Pot is illegal, but you can get basically smack from your dentist," and the response wasn't to stop dentists from handing out oxy like candy, but to set up pot dispensaries on every corner. I'm sure the PTB read your Substack, and are already approaching Richard Pan with no-consent laws for tats, boob jobs, and various other body mods.
I remember eagerly awaiting my 18th birthday, during a visit to California, so I could legally get my ears pierced there.
Wait, really? That's what I mean. This trans stuff has to be put in the category of body-modifications-some-grownups-choose-to-do instead of the-only-loving-choice-for-your-10-year-old. The state doesn't kidnap kids to give them tats or boob jobs.
Yes. This was quite a number of years ago (ahem).
I just looked up the current law, and it's still 18. If your parent or guardian is with you, the lowest allowable age is 8. I wasn't in the state with my parent or guardian, and don't know if the parent/guardian rule was the same back then.
This link has the age laws for all kinds of piercings ... for most you need to at least be 14, some 18, even with a parent or guardian.
https://www.mrinkwells.com/blogs/news/how-old-do-you-have-to-be-to-get-a-piercing-in-california-plus-other-common-questions-about-getting-pierced-in-ca
Thank you for looking it up. I really do think this is the right way to win all these battles: Get this stuff recognized as the profiteering cosmetic surgery that it is, so it can't hide by pretending to be medical care. Ditto for putting 12-year-olds on the Pill; fertility is not a disease, and hormonal birth control is a lifestyle convenience (with blood clot risks), not medicine. Those of us who chose Trojans didn't get our health insurance to pay for them.
There will be a reckoning, oh yes by crikey it will.
USA and Europe both have a rapidly growing population of moslem colonists.
Guess what they do with the rainbow-coloured groomers?
Rikard, I’m not so pessimistic that I believe moslem colonists will gain political power in the former United States. However, I can foresee U.S. imams recruiting trannies and forming an elite military unit to terrorize the trannies’ former enablers. This would echo the Sultan’s 14th century Janissaries, the elite military unit comprised of formerly Christian boys who were enslaved, circumcised, molested in the rainbow fashion, and then violently turned loose on Christian enclaves. Hell hath no fury….
Any percentage of moslems inan area means that eventually, that area become all-moslem.
Islam does not adapt or integrate.
We did that mistake in the 1970s, that you (the US) is doing now.
"By the time of the Times report, three children, including Williams, had died in homes with the Pearls’ book on the shelves."
Counter would be to ask how many kids have been raped in homes with a rainbow-flag or sticker on display.
It's trick, it's cheap and ugly and easily countered in a real debate, which is why people like the wamyn writing this never engage for real. They know in their deepest darkest that they'd lose, every time, and lose big.
To hammer the sterotype home: when women lack factual arguments, bring on the crying. Now, since I'm allfor equal treatment of equal behaviour, I look upon such women the way I look upon a man behaving like that.
Real women, you need to get on top of this and kick the feminists off their perch.
I imagine that, by now, reasonable human beings who spot my handle in the comments will automatically blanche thinking, omigawd, here he is again, the ultra-realist, dragging "over-the-top" responses from an absolutist and violent philosophy. Sorry, no apology. Words are fine for communication but they just do not cut it when it comes to modifying the behavior of sociopaths and psychopths, which is what we are up against.
Every time we endulge in the futility of appealing to these monsters to repent for the suffering they caused, the more this excites them and turns them on to new frenzies of torture and death. Likewise, our firm demands that we use the courts to impose stern justice on these twisted individuals and groups, is invariably an exercise in pissing into the wind. The odds are all with the other side.
Sooner or later, we are going to have to reconcile ourselves with the reality that "somebody", as in "It's time somebody put an end to these crimes", is us. It has always been only us. And the only word that adequately describes the primary characteristic of our action is "force". Nothing else will catch their attention.
We regard ourselves as superior to our medieval forebears, yet they would long ago have marched to the castle brandishing flaming torches and sickles, clubs and hay forks and, within the hour, would have hurled the demons off the battlements onto the rocks below.
It seems to me, they had it right and we are just too chickenshit to do what is right for our children's survival.
Dude, I already hate them all. You don't have to sell me. :-D
Chris -
I disagree with Ed Dowd. And here's why:
The goal is to reMOVE the "needle", so there is no reference point between truth and lies; indeed between reality and the imaginary.
An entropic phantasmagoria, designed to manipulate reality and warp the fabric of existence so that the individual voluntarily (but unwittingly) gives over agency to atomization.
To CONTROL the population by progressive steps that annihilate an individuals front-line defense of internal controls, rendering the two most important; prevention and detection inert.
Remember when the hippy families were fighting for vegan school lunches and the right NOT to vax? What happened to those people?