Seriously, we need to drop the outrage and understand that we are dealing with people who are evil to their core. Destroying families and molesting children would be part of their mission statement if they had one. A few months ago, they spun a slaughter of Christans at the hands of a sexual deviant into a call to protect sexual deviants from backlash and criticism.
Mock it if you will, but we are struggling not with flesh and blood, but with powers and principalities. Period.
Oh, and when things go wildly wrong in the child's future: When they have post surgical infections, necrosis, need corrective surgeries, have awful mood swings and depression from hormonal imbalances, soul searing regrets because they can't have children, and on and on...
Will Rob Bonta be there to help them? Scott Wiener? The school teacher that hid the truth from the kid's family?
No.
Most likely, the parents will still be there, trying to help pick up the pieces of their child's destroyed life.
I am sure they will want to install euthanasia clinics in schools. "Hey, little Bobby, you look sad. I know how to fix that. Tee hee!" And if the parents try to stop this, it will be "Cruel far-right parents want to make little Bobby sad! That's very real harm! Lock up the Fascists!"
Haidt's research shows that lefties have a strong moral sense of harm and fairness, but are weak in other moral senses that conservatives have like unity and authority.
What he seems to be missing is credulity, which is very strong on the left. They're so easily played by Marxists that deliberately harm kids (and replace unifying symbols of patriotism, etc with symbols of deviancy, which Marxists and credulous lefties then unify around as their holy symbols).
It's constant gaslighting, and it's making me very angry and reactionary because well meaning lefties do so much damage to kids and to communities while thinking they are doing the opposite, yet they can't let go of these movements because that would be an admission that they are causing harm.
I honestly have no idea how to fix any of this other than using the tools of the left to cause harm to well meaning lefties. Nothing else works. Reason sure doesn't.
Maybe the Marxist postmodern left is correct - power is what matters. If these credulous lefties lived in fear of repercussion of their own ideology, they'd create their own justification for going against it. Otherwise they don't seem to care, because their only incentive today is to feel good about themselves.
It's gets pretty damn discouraging these days when the truth doesn't seem to matter to anyone with these idiotic progressive views and the corporate world that lies so shamelessly- thanks Chris for keeping us so well informed, don't let the bastards get you down!
The logic of their ideology compels them to push further and further. It can have no end and will have no end. As I've said before, following the lead of wiser men than I, (Deneen, Legutko), liberalism, in any iteration, centers on the conquest of nature and the liberation of humanity from restraints, natural, social, spiritual- all restraints. Bonds and identities not freely chosen are oppression. The destruction of the family is the point. The destruction of the sex binary is the point. The destruction of moral prohibitions on physical relationships between adults and children is the point. To these people, this is freedom. They see you as the enemy of their most closely held values and will not hesitate to use the full powers of the state to drive you from public life, to impoverish you, to imprison you, and to kidnap your children. Everyone knows this; the fault line in our society is between those who think it is a good thing and those who see it as evil, bound up with other issues. The silver lining in this (silverpill) is that they seem to be so arrogant and so deranged that they have thrown caution to the wind and believe their revolution is so far advanced that they can no longer be resisted. When they are bold enough to come after people's children, they have stopped fearing backlash. I don't think they really grasp, in their solipsistic perversion, the emotions they are stoking.
Three years from now you’ll have to put “love has no age” on your LinkIn profile or you’ll be denounced as a pedophobe. That, or this stops, and more importantly, is reversed and continues to reverse.
As a former tepid libertarian (now essentially a reactionary), this post made a bunch of sense to me. "Freedom", as I understood it, was freedom to be myself, to say what I mean, to be able to defend myself, to not be locked up by a government that may disagree...
But it was accompanied by an understanding of human nature and natural boundaries of freedom because I am, at the end of the day, a material body and material mind, and there are other people around me who also need freedom to be as they are.
But to these people, who insist on living in imagination land, all constraints are arbitrary, and they will destroy literally everything, even kids, in a quixotic - and obviously doomed - mission to be God.
Because their sense of self is profoundly unnatural, the people behind this require constant external validation. Thus, to the degree they are able, they require that the state enforce upon others a compulsion to validate them. This has progressed insofar as others accept the basic logic of their premises without being willing to follow that logic to its conclusion. “I don’t care what consenting adults do,” leads, by the reasoning I described, to your being forced to consent as well, with the threat of poverty or prison as incentive.
To which I would add this: to the mentally ill, the knowledge that other people don’t see/believe what they do is often interpreted as an unbearable threat that must be destroyed.
As long as the voting public tolerates these scumbag politicians... they have no one to blame except themselves. Wake up California! They had a change to recall Newsome for Larry Elder and failed to beat the cheat.
“We live in a thicket of idiotic propaganda, promoted by sociopathic people-shaped human garbage who have no capacity for shame or the fear of being caught. Disgusting.”
Chris, your milquetoast, rudderless conclusions are very disappointing. It’s impossible to tell where you stand. 🎯
The Marxist Lie Machine is working overtime. The people have to pull the plug. Until we remove these people from office, put their media/propaganda businesses out of business, and do the right things, none of this craziness will stop. The reason it’s getting crazier is because they always keep pushing. A definitive rejection and reversal is what needs to happen. Trite but true.
Public education is clearly the source of many of our problems now, and yet working families are dependent on it for childcare. That common dependency is permitting these outrages. Schools this corrupt won't be reformed. How many hours of a child's life is spent in school vulnerable to the propaganda of strangers? No formal education is beginning to seem better than this. The whole grade school, high school, college propaganda train is off the rails. Maybe we should simply be trying to defund it, destroy it, instead of pretending it can be reformed?
In twelve years of "education" I had two classes that were transformational. One teacher taught me to love Shakespeare and another taught me to enjoy geometry. On my own dime I've spent a lifetime reading, mostly literature and history, but everything else as well. Late in life I went back for a Masters. What is the relation of this kind of "education" to the kind you get lugging a lunchbox to school each day?
In theory people could organize their own alternative schools, but it doesn't seem to happen at scale. The fact that we no longer have a high-trust society must be a factor in that.
My sister, who I used to talk with, was a teacher and it was evident in conversation with her that teachers basically have zero respect for parents in general. And if you think about it, of course, it's true. The other I learned was that there were often four to six others languages in a classroom and students with all levels of disability such that the amount of time devoted to a simple lesson plan was often radically curtailed. My idea is that almost anything would better. Or almost nothing.
As Jesus said, people who abuse children should have millstones tied around their necks and thrown into the deepest part of the ocean. As the Swedish study, done over 30 years and covering thousands of people verified, those who are transitioned are 20 times more likely to commit suicide than those who accept counseling. These politicians and media types you, the Chino people and others are fighting are the worst sorts of humans, as what they are promoting will destroy these children, and their families.
There's a British comedy duo, Mitchell and Webb, who made a comedy sketch out of a WWII SS Division preparing to wipe their Russian enemy. One of the men, having noted with distaste the ghoulish silver skulls on their caps, approaches his superior and cravenly asks "Hans... are we the baddies?"
Do you suppose Wiener ever similarly approached Bonta, and how do you suppose it went down?
"We're writing and enforcing laws to take away parents' rights to raise their children. Worse we're stripping the children down and selling them for parts. Rob... are we the baddies?"
[Beat, then together]: "Nah!"
What's sicker, that they know they're the baddies or that they don't? And did you like that slick Nazi comparison that almost wasn't? Slick and subtle.
If you have humility, you can have a world view that is fact-based, but allows that it can be wrong if new facts contradict that view. (This used to be called “science,” but that term now denotes a secular religion.)
See also:
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/02/republican-parental-rights-push-harms-kids.html
Hi Chris, I think you will find this entertaining about how corrupt left wing politicians really are https://www.wsj.com/articles/stacy-davis-gates-chicago-teachers-union-catholic-school-school-choice-128f01c0?st=u94b3h8usmhvbaw&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Seriously, we need to drop the outrage and understand that we are dealing with people who are evil to their core. Destroying families and molesting children would be part of their mission statement if they had one. A few months ago, they spun a slaughter of Christans at the hands of a sexual deviant into a call to protect sexual deviants from backlash and criticism.
Mock it if you will, but we are struggling not with flesh and blood, but with powers and principalities. Period.
100%
Statistically speaking, all this shit is being pushed (by majority) by the following:
1) male perverts that don’t have kids.
2) young female wokesters recently graduated from Marxist indoctrination centres who don’t have kids.
3) mothers with personality disorders.
And the common thread between all those 3?…They’re all far left “democrats” (communist scum).
“sociopathic people-shaped human garbage who have no capacity for shame or the fear of being caught”. Oof that’s it right there.
I know! Really appreciated reading it!
Oh, and when things go wildly wrong in the child's future: When they have post surgical infections, necrosis, need corrective surgeries, have awful mood swings and depression from hormonal imbalances, soul searing regrets because they can't have children, and on and on...
Will Rob Bonta be there to help them? Scott Wiener? The school teacher that hid the truth from the kid's family?
No.
Most likely, the parents will still be there, trying to help pick up the pieces of their child's destroyed life.
The hit and run political class.
Bingo!!
I'm sure Rob and Scott are working on a euthanasia bill.
I am sure they will want to install euthanasia clinics in schools. "Hey, little Bobby, you look sad. I know how to fix that. Tee hee!" And if the parents try to stop this, it will be "Cruel far-right parents want to make little Bobby sad! That's very real harm! Lock up the Fascists!"
Bobby do you want to go to the happy room ?
Haidt's research shows that lefties have a strong moral sense of harm and fairness, but are weak in other moral senses that conservatives have like unity and authority.
What he seems to be missing is credulity, which is very strong on the left. They're so easily played by Marxists that deliberately harm kids (and replace unifying symbols of patriotism, etc with symbols of deviancy, which Marxists and credulous lefties then unify around as their holy symbols).
It's constant gaslighting, and it's making me very angry and reactionary because well meaning lefties do so much damage to kids and to communities while thinking they are doing the opposite, yet they can't let go of these movements because that would be an admission that they are causing harm.
I honestly have no idea how to fix any of this other than using the tools of the left to cause harm to well meaning lefties. Nothing else works. Reason sure doesn't.
Maybe the Marxist postmodern left is correct - power is what matters. If these credulous lefties lived in fear of repercussion of their own ideology, they'd create their own justification for going against it. Otherwise they don't seem to care, because their only incentive today is to feel good about themselves.
"...but are weak in other moral senses that conservatives have like unity and authority."
Oh, I don't know. The left seems awfully authoritarian (to put it mildly) these days.
It's gets pretty damn discouraging these days when the truth doesn't seem to matter to anyone with these idiotic progressive views and the corporate world that lies so shamelessly- thanks Chris for keeping us so well informed, don't let the bastards get you down!
That was my late husbands motto...don’t let the bastards get you down...I had forgotten, thanks for reminding me, I need to remember it!
I prefer the mock-Latin: Illegitimi Non Carborundum 🤣
Oh, wow, I’ve found that written in his notes, thank you.
👍
The logic of their ideology compels them to push further and further. It can have no end and will have no end. As I've said before, following the lead of wiser men than I, (Deneen, Legutko), liberalism, in any iteration, centers on the conquest of nature and the liberation of humanity from restraints, natural, social, spiritual- all restraints. Bonds and identities not freely chosen are oppression. The destruction of the family is the point. The destruction of the sex binary is the point. The destruction of moral prohibitions on physical relationships between adults and children is the point. To these people, this is freedom. They see you as the enemy of their most closely held values and will not hesitate to use the full powers of the state to drive you from public life, to impoverish you, to imprison you, and to kidnap your children. Everyone knows this; the fault line in our society is between those who think it is a good thing and those who see it as evil, bound up with other issues. The silver lining in this (silverpill) is that they seem to be so arrogant and so deranged that they have thrown caution to the wind and believe their revolution is so far advanced that they can no longer be resisted. When they are bold enough to come after people's children, they have stopped fearing backlash. I don't think they really grasp, in their solipsistic perversion, the emotions they are stoking.
Yes, and the thought that it MUST go farther even after this moment is an interesting one. Structurally, they can't stop. They have to be stopped.
Three years from now you’ll have to put “love has no age” on your LinkIn profile or you’ll be denounced as a pedophobe. That, or this stops, and more importantly, is reversed and continues to reverse.
As a former tepid libertarian (now essentially a reactionary), this post made a bunch of sense to me. "Freedom", as I understood it, was freedom to be myself, to say what I mean, to be able to defend myself, to not be locked up by a government that may disagree...
But it was accompanied by an understanding of human nature and natural boundaries of freedom because I am, at the end of the day, a material body and material mind, and there are other people around me who also need freedom to be as they are.
But to these people, who insist on living in imagination land, all constraints are arbitrary, and they will destroy literally everything, even kids, in a quixotic - and obviously doomed - mission to be God.
Because their sense of self is profoundly unnatural, the people behind this require constant external validation. Thus, to the degree they are able, they require that the state enforce upon others a compulsion to validate them. This has progressed insofar as others accept the basic logic of their premises without being willing to follow that logic to its conclusion. “I don’t care what consenting adults do,” leads, by the reasoning I described, to your being forced to consent as well, with the threat of poverty or prison as incentive.
I'm not that far along yet, but I'm heading in that direction.
To which I would add this: to the mentally ill, the knowledge that other people don’t see/believe what they do is often interpreted as an unbearable threat that must be destroyed.
Excellent comment.
As long as the voting public tolerates these scumbag politicians... they have no one to blame except themselves. Wake up California! They had a change to recall Newsome for Larry Elder and failed to beat the cheat.
Or Micheal Shellenberger. He actually came in third in the recall behind a no-name Republican
That poor child is not being allowed by his parents to live her true self.
The only thing to do is castrate her and put him on testosterone blockers and get her a set of silicone breast.
Castration is the healthiest and most empowering thing a person can do, and it breaks my heart that the Nazis can't understand that.
All of the affirming care is reversible.
You can just sew on a new one. Obvo.
At some point, they’ll start using zippers to accommodate the gender fluid.
it will have seemed obvious in hindsight
“We live in a thicket of idiotic propaganda, promoted by sociopathic people-shaped human garbage who have no capacity for shame or the fear of being caught. Disgusting.”
Chris, your milquetoast, rudderless conclusions are very disappointing. It’s impossible to tell where you stand. 🎯
I struggle with shyness
The Marxist Lie Machine is working overtime. The people have to pull the plug. Until we remove these people from office, put their media/propaganda businesses out of business, and do the right things, none of this craziness will stop. The reason it’s getting crazier is because they always keep pushing. A definitive rejection and reversal is what needs to happen. Trite but true.
Public education is clearly the source of many of our problems now, and yet working families are dependent on it for childcare. That common dependency is permitting these outrages. Schools this corrupt won't be reformed. How many hours of a child's life is spent in school vulnerable to the propaganda of strangers? No formal education is beginning to seem better than this. The whole grade school, high school, college propaganda train is off the rails. Maybe we should simply be trying to defund it, destroy it, instead of pretending it can be reformed?
In twelve years of "education" I had two classes that were transformational. One teacher taught me to love Shakespeare and another taught me to enjoy geometry. On my own dime I've spent a lifetime reading, mostly literature and history, but everything else as well. Late in life I went back for a Masters. What is the relation of this kind of "education" to the kind you get lugging a lunchbox to school each day?
In theory people could organize their own alternative schools, but it doesn't seem to happen at scale. The fact that we no longer have a high-trust society must be a factor in that.
My sister, who I used to talk with, was a teacher and it was evident in conversation with her that teachers basically have zero respect for parents in general. And if you think about it, of course, it's true. The other I learned was that there were often four to six others languages in a classroom and students with all levels of disability such that the amount of time devoted to a simple lesson plan was often radically curtailed. My idea is that almost anything would better. Or almost nothing.
As Jesus said, people who abuse children should have millstones tied around their necks and thrown into the deepest part of the ocean. As the Swedish study, done over 30 years and covering thousands of people verified, those who are transitioned are 20 times more likely to commit suicide than those who accept counseling. These politicians and media types you, the Chino people and others are fighting are the worst sorts of humans, as what they are promoting will destroy these children, and their families.
Danny Huckabee
But schools will absolutely tell the parents if the child doesn’t come to school at all. Even though the child will be punished. Weird.
There's a British comedy duo, Mitchell and Webb, who made a comedy sketch out of a WWII SS Division preparing to wipe their Russian enemy. One of the men, having noted with distaste the ghoulish silver skulls on their caps, approaches his superior and cravenly asks "Hans... are we the baddies?"
Do you suppose Wiener ever similarly approached Bonta, and how do you suppose it went down?
"We're writing and enforcing laws to take away parents' rights to raise their children. Worse we're stripping the children down and selling them for parts. Rob... are we the baddies?"
[Beat, then together]: "Nah!"
What's sicker, that they know they're the baddies or that they don't? And did you like that slick Nazi comparison that almost wasn't? Slick and subtle.
Acceptance of a world view will blind a person to alternative points of view. Only a jarring realization can change them.
If you have humility, you can have a world view that is fact-based, but allows that it can be wrong if new facts contradict that view. (This used to be called “science,” but that term now denotes a secular religion.)