On October 5, 1941, a Soviet bomber pilot reported the presence of a German armored column on a highway eighty miles outside Moscow, racing toward the city’s outer line of defense. He was arrested, because Soviet authorities didn’t tolerate defeatism, alarmism, and absurd conspiracy theories. I’d tell you where that German column actually turned out to be, but you already know.
Another irony here or at least another clue to our bizarre and stupid moment (perhaps unprecedently stupid) is that these "professional information barriers" and/or "dimwitted parasitical human garbage" aren't a cadre of soldiers or union bosses or hired mercenaries—these are the proud products of our most prestigious learning and cultural institutions, the next generation of academic and media elites, our Best and Brightest! LOL
All the facts and events of modern America point to the same ineluctable conclusion: our progressive aristocracy hates America and its citizens, its history and traditions and culture and founding documents. We are being colonized in the same way as any foreign power conquers and controls an enemy territory, except this time the colonizers are our own people.
It’s a badge of honor to the well-heeled ideologue to ignore information that doesn’t fit their worldview. They’ve been running this country and all of its major institutions for a while now.
America turned a blind eye to the postmodern academy for at least 2 generations and now the colonization is complete (not even a single shot fired!). We have created a credentialed intellectual elite that despises and floridly denounces our country and its people more vehemently than any enemy we've ever had—not even Krushchev hated America with such passionate intensity as an academic Leftist.
Our best hope at this point is that their hateful and stupid project collapses quickly with minimal damage, however unlikely that seems at the moment.
Gramsci would be proud of the reach of his work. Our elite (and non-elite) institutions train for compliance, in the 60's they trained for defiance. We have come a long (and the wrong) way.
you preach defiance when you have no power; you preach compliance when you have total power. leftism always starts with Who/Whom and then proceeds from there.
Leftist have always promised that, when given power, they would make everything better. Marx turned socialism into communism: A promise that if workers violently overthrow the current system and give the communists totalitarian power, then they will institute socialist collectivism. They are still using the same lie today, and people still believe it.
When the Marxists of the Frankfurt School (history's least grateful refugees) arrived in America, they discovered a society with strong middle and working classes, blessed with abundance and opportunity, living in freedom and prosperity. (Though to be fair and accurate, this didn't quite take shape till after the War and the Depression.)
But you would think from their prior writings and professed principles that they would have wept with joy at discovering their Promised Land, a place where the "working man" no longer had to beg for scraps or suffer in squalor, but had at last achieved real rights and dignity.
Instead their reaction was the exact opposite—they raged against the bourgeoisie who still held backwards beliefs like devotion to family, God and country, and who liked things like sports and comedy instead of Bach and Schiller. (It's both odd and funny how much contempt Leftists have for "the people" they claim to serve.)
Their basic claim and plaint was: "We wanted liberation, just not this kind of liberation!" meaning that unless Americans accepted a vanguard ruling class of enlightened philosopher-kings who would bless us all with their "critical consciousness", they would continue their campaign to denounce and dismantle.
Moral to the story: the only freedom the Leftist Permanent Revolution has ever cherished or fought for is the freedom for them to rule and for us to obey. And of course the same goes today...
The colonization... has only just been noticed. Which is a change, and frankly given that deceit was the method and essence of the plan, very foolish to expose themselves, they have.
"We’ll be ignoring these people for the rest of our lives."
A teacher asks Jordan Peterson about pushing back on the woke agenda, saying she's tired of it. He tells her that there are probably 50 thousand times she could have pushed back already and did not, so the fight is lost. How it ends? It's not going to end unless those 50 thousand acts happen.
1) Western white middle-class women with an education have been the principal drivers of what is today called "woke" (used to be called political correctness).
2) Because of how women function in women-dominated groups, all work places where women are at least 30% become emasculated and feminised, meaning that wokeness grows faster there.
3) In any ideological or faith-driven movement, being slightly more fervent and passionate in seeing the creed made real is a career move. That means that for every generation-change inside a movement (which is not the same as normal generational change, the turn-over is much faster) it grows more extreme unless actively counter-manded. If the movement gains tractions and effects real change in society, this process intesifies even further.
Now look at the school system, from the 1950s to today. You can draw rather exact correlating curves for number of women in administartion and personnel/staffing, and for political correctness and escalating social problems (in classrooms f.e.).
This is not due to women being inferior, whch they aren't, but because men are more prone to create hierarchies based and centered around an actual function rather than social connections and empathetic/sympathetic emotions. The original societal system in formal settings was male, meaning function and facts trumped emtions and feeling: thus detention, discipline and expuslion plus youth-prison and forced labour as penalties as well as public humilation ("go stand in the corner"), all penalties that help boys grow the self-discipline a man needs.
Now, the system is feminie but tires to achieve the same function and results and with the same demands as the older male system, which plainly doesn't work. Adherence to group consensus is prioritised as is making everyone part of the group (i.e. the family/tribal unit), since that is where women are vastly superior than men: manipulating social groups.
And if we men think it may be difficult and scary to oppose the pack-leader, that feeling is nothing compared to how utterly horrible and difficultit is for a woman to oppose the matron and therefore the group-truth. A man may gain status and stature in a male hierarchy precisely because he challenges the leader; a woman is ostracised, bullied and made an example of.
Sorry for a bit of a ramble, but the wife was in gender studies way before it was cool as the kids say, and this subtle yet fundamental difference between the sexes in how we organise and prioritise is rather important, yet very difficult to be brief on.
Exactly! You’ve outlined a very fundamental problem extremely well.
What works in the home, when there is the balance and strength of a mother and father dynamic, goes horribly awry when quite deliberately unbalanced and them imposed into other spheres. It’s why the hysteria mind virus of men = stupid/bad has been amplified to ear-splitting levels. Chaos naturally ensues.
While I agree it will likely get worse before it gets better, I’m still trusting that God will have His way before all hope is gone.
Not acknowledging that we are different and that it is good that we are different means we lose the ability to take those differences into account proper, and cannot decide when they do matter and doesn't do so.
Equality before the law and one law for all is the only way to get even close to anything fair.
Consider racial quotas giving blacks bonus to their SATs. What does that say in reality?
That blacks, despite all other societal efforts and investments, simply cannot measure up to whites no matter how much they apply themselves.
Can you be more racist than affirmative action and such stuff? Or sexist, if based on sex instead.
I can chop firewood with an axe my wife can barely swing in a controlled manner, and she's not weak, the axe head weighs about 20 pounds and is mounted on a three foot handle. She can knit, embroider and do crichet as well as sew and fix ripped clothes and so on - I can't, too fiddly for my gnarly fingers.
Different and complimentary. As it should be, what's the point of being the same?
It seems to me that things are going to have to get a lot worse before enough people wake up and push back. On the other hand, by the time that happens, will TPTB have cemented their control to the point that it's impossible to push back? There are days when I think we will end up with a totalitarian society and a fringe band of free people living off the grid a la The Matrix.
The talk fight, law fight, vote fight, peaceful fight is over.
They won.
If it stays peace, law, talk, then its over for a thousand years.
Fortunately they are chaotic, frightened, employ violence indirectly as they are cowards, have lost the fighting stock which means army, veterans, police (same people same families) and the workers and doers. They love war and its money, so there’s hope yet.
Conformity is a feature of all socialist societies. Your point about the Soviets and their similar reaction to their fellow socialists invasion and our own media, academia, business, and government reaction to an invasion by a different type of virus from a lab built by the French, payed for by the U.S., and run by the Chinese facists is well-put and accurate. The facist virus lost for the same reason the Soviets suffered so egregiously: no one could explain to the leader that his strategies were wrong and going to be disastrous, because they, too, would end up in a bad way for doing so. We are in much the same situation, with socialists in control of most of our institutions and none of them able to stop their leaders from assuming ever more power, and therefore aggression, against those who disagree with them, no matter how much evidence there is that they are wrong. As you ask, how is this going to end? Not well for many.
This is off-topic, but synchronous with the Biden regime efforts to shut down or ignore anything contrary to the official narrative. The American people are largely unaware of what the regime is doing in the name of the American people in Ukraine. The regime provoked the war, has dangerously depleted the stock of U.S. and NATO military assets to fight a losing proxy war against Russia for political purposes, unnecessarily sending hundreds of thousands of Ukraine youth to their deaths.
The regime’s incompetence has exposed to Russia (and the world) that the U.S. military doctrine is woefully inadequate to counter, let alone go on the offensive, against the Russian military doctrine. What is unfolding in Ukraine is perhaps the biggest geo-political blunder in history, brought to us courtesy of the Biden regime.
Just as with Covid lockdowns, vaccines and the origin of Covid, anyone who questions the official narrative that Ukraine is kicking the Russian army’s butt is ignored or mocked as a Putin apologist.
The US State Department has been a massive failure for decades, mismanaging everything it gets its hands on. There is not one area where they have been successful in doing anything but undermining our national interests and advancing the interests of various cartels and dictators that either mean us harm or seek to profit off the taxpayer.
It's like playoff basketball. Two good teams confront each other and the results are ugly. Neither side fares well, but one fares well enough to beat the other. The Russians have plenty of people inside Russia who don't like how their side is doing, either.
Good point. Propaganda is fyi g from all sides. After this weekend, I don’t think a rational observer could call it anything but a disaster for the Ukrainian side.
Chris this analogy is superb. I have been struggling with how to understand what happened to some of the intelligent people I formerly respected before the Great Psyop. One family member graduated first in her college class, has a Masters in Education and teaches high school earth science. She took all the shots and boosters, wore masks until only recently, and actually carried around a personal battery-operated air purifier for two years. Those of us who resisted the scorn from the collective groupthink masters working in the "industry of professional information barriers" are being vindicated. I had an interesting conversation with a pastor who was a missionary in Haiti for many years. Because of the witch doctor influence there, the battle between good and evil is much more obvious. He believes the recognition of truth during the throes of the pandemic was spiritually discerned. I'm beginning to believe he is on to something.
IQ (and broader smarty-pants-ness as well) is largely irrelevant here. Counterproductive even. We humans are intricate tangles of idiosyncratic perceptions, rationalisations and motivations, with our busy psyches often erring on the side of overprotection ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
🗨 [the majority of folks] do hear your data and proofs. But in order to accept those as truth they must also accept that their docs are liars and their governments are monsters, which means their parents and teachers were wrong, and that science can't be trusted anymore, including those proofs and truths, and that this has been going on for a long time.
↑↑ proves way too much for too many to absorb and make peace with 😟
🗨 So, be kind. Be very grateful that you can see more truth than most.[...] And if you can handle that, be grateful for that as well. And patient and non-judgemental for those who can't. You, and others like you, are an anomaly in the overall human condition.
That is the path I strive to walk each day as well. I’ll love those people God gifted me with through thick and thin as best I can and trust in His grace for areas where I have no sway.
Ellsberg died a hero while Assange rots in an English jail, soon to vanish in the American gulag. Those who attended the mostly peaceful protests on Jan. 6 likewise languish in solitary confinement while Hunter Biden lives the infamous line of Bill Ayers: “guilty as sin and free as a bird”. Obama builds a shrine to his magnificence on Chicago public parkland (on a 99 year lease for ten bucks), while Trump is busted for storing personal documents in his bathroom. No disputing any of this. They see it as justice, we see it as rancid corruption.
Here in the PRWS (People’s Republic of Washington State), we narrowly avoided the legislation of a State AG-led “Ministry of Truth”. AG Bob Ferguson (D) sponsored the bill that would allow his current office to staff that body with the people of the AG’s choosing. Imagine the largest sponsor of mis/dis/malinformation to review and decide on the same.
Yet, after all we’ve been subjected to these past 3 + years, the number of prominent elected officials that are endorsing the creature’s candidacy for Governor is stunning. What makes him most frightening is he has all the malignancy of a Jay Inslee, but with a brain.
If the Covid plandemic taught us nothing else, the terms "mis/dis/malinformation" almost always means the mis/dis/mal-labeled statement is TRUE or based on contradictions in the official narrative. And if not completely true, making that statement is consistently an exercise in critical thinking. This ridiculous virtue-signaling game by self-appointed "verity squads" is the new academic common core version of "SHUT UP. YOU ARE NOT WORTHY TO QUESTION US."
Moreover, takeovers by fascist/socialist/marxist regimes absolutely cannot happen without the unquestioning assistance of their most useful idiots. (And they're usually on the payroll.)
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Matt Taibbi put up a resonant post, https://www.racket.news/p/from-the-anthology-of-funny, on this theme this morning. Goncharov, Gogol, Lermontov, Saltykov-Shchedrin: they had a great way of describing the blinkered clerks and ranking officials in Russia's government in say the 1820-1850 time frame. And, we know how the tsarist regime ended.
"To me this is mostly just a hilarious tale about how the world tends to bend toward jackasses, who seem always to end up in charge even if they can’t find their backsides with a map."
Puts me in mind of the Marquis de Custine's rather acidic observations of Tsarist Russian officialdom: "A wealth of unnecessary and petty precautions here engenders a whole army of clerks, each of whom carries out his task with a degree of pedantry and inflexibility, and a self-important air solely designed to add significance to the least significant employment." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Russie_en_1839
The West has degenerated into mindless bureaucratic uniformity.
My husband is observing this every day at his job in corporate America. All Chiefs, with very few Indians. The sheer mind-numbing insanity of how processes (and now virtue-signaling creeds) trump actually getting things done with a minimum of fuss is very hard on him. That he’s old enough to remember when it didn’t use to be this way is salt on the wound.
A ripped from the headlines case in point is the tragic tale unfolding with this Titanic tour sub. I’m praying those aboard will somehow get rescued. But a couple of articles I read on this event today really highlighted the brokenness of our minds and systems. One was about the head of the company, who deliberately chose NOT to hire retired submariners to pilot the subs because they were all “too white” and thus were “not inspiring” enough.
The other about how there is an elite team trained in rescue scenarios like this ready and standing by on a dock, who haven’t been sent yet because of bureaucratic paperwork.
Can’t argue with that. It’s happened before and will happen again, ‘til worlds end. I’m just surprised how slowly, then all at once plays out in real time. Never occurred to me until about the last 7 years that I’d be a participant in such a thing.
Stalin was quite the character. A nasty bastard and not even Russian at that, perhaps that was why he was so willing to burn lives later in the war. Oddly enough the very border guards that you mention, Chris, were some of the first organized resistance against the Nazis and managed to hold the Nazis back until the Army got their stuff together. Sadly it does not appear anyone will be organized enough to give us time to shore up a defense. This does not end well at all. My only hope is that we can recover. Consider China from mid 1800s to now.
The First Amendment of the constitution, Bill of Rights: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
No so-called emergency orders should be able to set a side anything in the Bill of Rights. Zip, Zero, Nada! If any stupid politician can come along and declare an "emergency" and take away everyone's rights, then those rights don't matter and might as well not exist. We must resist these emergency orders, and every state, municipality, and federal government should pass laws to keep said politicians from ever passing another emergency order.
Churches should have resisted! It is clearly written that the government shall not prohibit the free exercise thereof. It is so simple even a politician should be able to understand it. All they need to do is to instill fear. Hopefully more people will see thru it next time, and there will be a next time.
Hitler was not Bavarian but Austrian. Tut-tut! Don't make this mistake when in Bavaria. You will hear the Bavarians (of Germany, one country) lovingly refer to Austrians (of Austria, quite another country) as "ravine sh*tters". Or, like a colleague from Berlin, who, upon witnessing an Austrian colleague's hapless behaviour, leaned over and whispered in my ear "Isn't it high time we annexed them again?"
Meanwhile, the Ukrainian counteroffensive has unfolded into a ghastly (and entirely predictable) mockery of all sense and reason. Our news-idiots can't even be bothered to notice. They're still muttering about how Ukraine may make only moderate gains in the coming weeks.
Our perception becomes our reality. This happens due to disinformation, a constant bombardment of a media narrative or our inability to research/critically think through information that is provided. The covid pandemic was the perfect firestorm. This will end when people value liberty, it must be advanced and defended.
"professional information barriers, dimwitted parasitical human garbage whose sole function in life is to prevent understanding by pasting “disinformation” stickers on things that you’re not supposed to know." Love "dimwitted parasitical human garbage"! I wish I could just ignore them, but they continue to actively harms us. Are they, perhaps, Spiteful Mutants?
The only way to survive all of the reactionary craziness following these "conspiracy theories" is for the masses to personally think for themselves. Thank you , Chris, for always magnifying that potential in a way that's memorable—even for the mediocre among us!
As for the masses, be careful what you wish for, the difference between Pinochet (killed 3000) and Hitler (kills 11 million) is Democracy, the masses if promised 🩸 want their taste.
Wait until you see young men in war taste first 🩸, they want more... human nature.
You may be right — but I have more faith in humanity. Besides, if mankind begins thinking before blood is shed, we have a better chance that none will be.
See also:
https://public.substack.com/p/wall-street-journal-credits-public
Another irony here or at least another clue to our bizarre and stupid moment (perhaps unprecedently stupid) is that these "professional information barriers" and/or "dimwitted parasitical human garbage" aren't a cadre of soldiers or union bosses or hired mercenaries—these are the proud products of our most prestigious learning and cultural institutions, the next generation of academic and media elites, our Best and Brightest! LOL
All the facts and events of modern America point to the same ineluctable conclusion: our progressive aristocracy hates America and its citizens, its history and traditions and culture and founding documents. We are being colonized in the same way as any foreign power conquers and controls an enemy territory, except this time the colonizers are our own people.
It’s a badge of honor to the well-heeled ideologue to ignore information that doesn’t fit their worldview. They’ve been running this country and all of its major institutions for a while now.
This is a profound observation. Thank you.
Hey thanks!
America turned a blind eye to the postmodern academy for at least 2 generations and now the colonization is complete (not even a single shot fired!). We have created a credentialed intellectual elite that despises and floridly denounces our country and its people more vehemently than any enemy we've ever had—not even Krushchev hated America with such passionate intensity as an academic Leftist.
Our best hope at this point is that their hateful and stupid project collapses quickly with minimal damage, however unlikely that seems at the moment.
Gramsci would be proud of the reach of his work. Our elite (and non-elite) institutions train for compliance, in the 60's they trained for defiance. We have come a long (and the wrong) way.
you preach defiance when you have no power; you preach compliance when you have total power. leftism always starts with Who/Whom and then proceeds from there.
Exactly!
Leftist have always promised that, when given power, they would make everything better. Marx turned socialism into communism: A promise that if workers violently overthrow the current system and give the communists totalitarian power, then they will institute socialist collectivism. They are still using the same lie today, and people still believe it.
When the Marxists of the Frankfurt School (history's least grateful refugees) arrived in America, they discovered a society with strong middle and working classes, blessed with abundance and opportunity, living in freedom and prosperity. (Though to be fair and accurate, this didn't quite take shape till after the War and the Depression.)
But you would think from their prior writings and professed principles that they would have wept with joy at discovering their Promised Land, a place where the "working man" no longer had to beg for scraps or suffer in squalor, but had at last achieved real rights and dignity.
Instead their reaction was the exact opposite—they raged against the bourgeoisie who still held backwards beliefs like devotion to family, God and country, and who liked things like sports and comedy instead of Bach and Schiller. (It's both odd and funny how much contempt Leftists have for "the people" they claim to serve.)
Their basic claim and plaint was: "We wanted liberation, just not this kind of liberation!" meaning that unless Americans accepted a vanguard ruling class of enlightened philosopher-kings who would bless us all with their "critical consciousness", they would continue their campaign to denounce and dismantle.
Moral to the story: the only freedom the Leftist Permanent Revolution has ever cherished or fought for is the freedom for them to rule and for us to obey. And of course the same goes today...
The colonization... has only just been noticed. Which is a change, and frankly given that deceit was the method and essence of the plan, very foolish to expose themselves, they have.
Also check out Lorenzo Warby on Helen Dale's substack. Similar "colonising" analysis. Astute.
A very poignant statement. The US government is now foreign to the "governed."
🗨 May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen. ~~Samuel Adams, Founding Father
That's not irony so much as design I'm coming to conclude. But point made.
Irony by design 😏
Even better.
fair enough
Well, a number of them are our own people, but probably not even most of them. They may have citizenship but they sure aren't Americans.
"We’ll be ignoring these people for the rest of our lives."
A teacher asks Jordan Peterson about pushing back on the woke agenda, saying she's tired of it. He tells her that there are probably 50 thousand times she could have pushed back already and did not, so the fight is lost. How it ends? It's not going to end unless those 50 thousand acts happen.
As a retired teacher, I can say this:
1) Western white middle-class women with an education have been the principal drivers of what is today called "woke" (used to be called political correctness).
2) Because of how women function in women-dominated groups, all work places where women are at least 30% become emasculated and feminised, meaning that wokeness grows faster there.
3) In any ideological or faith-driven movement, being slightly more fervent and passionate in seeing the creed made real is a career move. That means that for every generation-change inside a movement (which is not the same as normal generational change, the turn-over is much faster) it grows more extreme unless actively counter-manded. If the movement gains tractions and effects real change in society, this process intesifies even further.
Now look at the school system, from the 1950s to today. You can draw rather exact correlating curves for number of women in administartion and personnel/staffing, and for political correctness and escalating social problems (in classrooms f.e.).
This is not due to women being inferior, whch they aren't, but because men are more prone to create hierarchies based and centered around an actual function rather than social connections and empathetic/sympathetic emotions. The original societal system in formal settings was male, meaning function and facts trumped emtions and feeling: thus detention, discipline and expuslion plus youth-prison and forced labour as penalties as well as public humilation ("go stand in the corner"), all penalties that help boys grow the self-discipline a man needs.
Now, the system is feminie but tires to achieve the same function and results and with the same demands as the older male system, which plainly doesn't work. Adherence to group consensus is prioritised as is making everyone part of the group (i.e. the family/tribal unit), since that is where women are vastly superior than men: manipulating social groups.
And if we men think it may be difficult and scary to oppose the pack-leader, that feeling is nothing compared to how utterly horrible and difficultit is for a woman to oppose the matron and therefore the group-truth. A man may gain status and stature in a male hierarchy precisely because he challenges the leader; a woman is ostracised, bullied and made an example of.
Sorry for a bit of a ramble, but the wife was in gender studies way before it was cool as the kids say, and this subtle yet fundamental difference between the sexes in how we organise and prioritise is rather important, yet very difficult to be brief on.
I just have to mention all those women teaching in one room, school houses across America for a couple hundred years. They did a pretty good job.
💬 yet very difficult to be brief on.
Doncha dare give up tryin'! Difficulties are to be surmounted 😇
Exactly! You’ve outlined a very fundamental problem extremely well.
What works in the home, when there is the balance and strength of a mother and father dynamic, goes horribly awry when quite deliberately unbalanced and them imposed into other spheres. It’s why the hysteria mind virus of men = stupid/bad has been amplified to ear-splitting levels. Chaos naturally ensues.
While I agree it will likely get worse before it gets better, I’m still trusting that God will have His way before all hope is gone.
Very interesting. If true this explains a lot. Thanks for taking the time to write this.
No problem, and thank you.
Not acknowledging that we are different and that it is good that we are different means we lose the ability to take those differences into account proper, and cannot decide when they do matter and doesn't do so.
Equality before the law and one law for all is the only way to get even close to anything fair.
Consider racial quotas giving blacks bonus to their SATs. What does that say in reality?
That blacks, despite all other societal efforts and investments, simply cannot measure up to whites no matter how much they apply themselves.
Can you be more racist than affirmative action and such stuff? Or sexist, if based on sex instead.
I can chop firewood with an axe my wife can barely swing in a controlled manner, and she's not weak, the axe head weighs about 20 pounds and is mounted on a three foot handle. She can knit, embroider and do crichet as well as sew and fix ripped clothes and so on - I can't, too fiddly for my gnarly fingers.
Different and complimentary. As it should be, what's the point of being the same?
"the fight is lost"
It seems to me that things are going to have to get a lot worse before enough people wake up and push back. On the other hand, by the time that happens, will TPTB have cemented their control to the point that it's impossible to push back? There are days when I think we will end up with a totalitarian society and a fringe band of free people living off the grid a la The Matrix.
Or like the Hunger Games
Positive thinking:
If the fight is lost, the enemy lets his/her guard down and demobs.
The talk fight, law fight, vote fight, peaceful fight is over.
They won.
If it stays peace, law, talk, then its over for a thousand years.
Fortunately they are chaotic, frightened, employ violence indirectly as they are cowards, have lost the fighting stock which means army, veterans, police (same people same families) and the workers and doers. They love war and its money, so there’s hope yet.
Hope.
In war.
Nothing else.
Excellent comment.
It's this simple imo.
Conformity is a feature of all socialist societies. Your point about the Soviets and their similar reaction to their fellow socialists invasion and our own media, academia, business, and government reaction to an invasion by a different type of virus from a lab built by the French, payed for by the U.S., and run by the Chinese facists is well-put and accurate. The facist virus lost for the same reason the Soviets suffered so egregiously: no one could explain to the leader that his strategies were wrong and going to be disastrous, because they, too, would end up in a bad way for doing so. We are in much the same situation, with socialists in control of most of our institutions and none of them able to stop their leaders from assuming ever more power, and therefore aggression, against those who disagree with them, no matter how much evidence there is that they are wrong. As you ask, how is this going to end? Not well for many.
Danny Huckabee
This is off-topic, but synchronous with the Biden regime efforts to shut down or ignore anything contrary to the official narrative. The American people are largely unaware of what the regime is doing in the name of the American people in Ukraine. The regime provoked the war, has dangerously depleted the stock of U.S. and NATO military assets to fight a losing proxy war against Russia for political purposes, unnecessarily sending hundreds of thousands of Ukraine youth to their deaths.
The regime’s incompetence has exposed to Russia (and the world) that the U.S. military doctrine is woefully inadequate to counter, let alone go on the offensive, against the Russian military doctrine. What is unfolding in Ukraine is perhaps the biggest geo-political blunder in history, brought to us courtesy of the Biden regime.
Just as with Covid lockdowns, vaccines and the origin of Covid, anyone who questions the official narrative that Ukraine is kicking the Russian army’s butt is ignored or mocked as a Putin apologist.
The US State Department has been a massive failure for decades, mismanaging everything it gets its hands on. There is not one area where they have been successful in doing anything but undermining our national interests and advancing the interests of various cartels and dictators that either mean us harm or seek to profit off the taxpayer.
And why is that? Could it be because they can just spread money around the globe willy-nilly wherever they think it’s in our best interest to do so?
There are no more checks and balances.
It's like playoff basketball. Two good teams confront each other and the results are ugly. Neither side fares well, but one fares well enough to beat the other. The Russians have plenty of people inside Russia who don't like how their side is doing, either.
Good point. Propaganda is fyi g from all sides. After this weekend, I don’t think a rational observer could call it anything but a disaster for the Ukrainian side.
Chris this analogy is superb. I have been struggling with how to understand what happened to some of the intelligent people I formerly respected before the Great Psyop. One family member graduated first in her college class, has a Masters in Education and teaches high school earth science. She took all the shots and boosters, wore masks until only recently, and actually carried around a personal battery-operated air purifier for two years. Those of us who resisted the scorn from the collective groupthink masters working in the "industry of professional information barriers" are being vindicated. I had an interesting conversation with a pastor who was a missionary in Haiti for many years. Because of the witch doctor influence there, the battle between good and evil is much more obvious. He believes the recognition of truth during the throes of the pandemic was spiritually discerned. I'm beginning to believe he is on to something.
IQ (and broader smarty-pants-ness as well) is largely irrelevant here. Counterproductive even. We humans are intricate tangles of idiosyncratic perceptions, rationalisations and motivations, with our busy psyches often erring on the side of overprotection ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
🗨 [the majority of folks] do hear your data and proofs. But in order to accept those as truth they must also accept that their docs are liars and their governments are monsters, which means their parents and teachers were wrong, and that science can't be trusted anymore, including those proofs and truths, and that this has been going on for a long time.
↑↑ proves way too much for too many to absorb and make peace with 😟
🗨 So, be kind. Be very grateful that you can see more truth than most.[...] And if you can handle that, be grateful for that as well. And patient and non-judgemental for those who can't. You, and others like you, are an anomaly in the overall human condition.
h/t @ForestDi56 🤩 --> cjhopkins.substack.com/p/news-from-cj-hopkins-and-consent-2fd/comment/11451522 👌
Very interesting. Thanks for this. I have been kind as I have placed family relationships above being “right.” I am learning to let it go.
That is the path I strive to walk each day as well. I’ll love those people God gifted me with through thick and thin as best I can and trust in His grace for areas where I have no sway.
Amen Nana! I trust God as well for His mercy and grace. It is a beautiful place to be.
Ellsberg died a hero while Assange rots in an English jail, soon to vanish in the American gulag. Those who attended the mostly peaceful protests on Jan. 6 likewise languish in solitary confinement while Hunter Biden lives the infamous line of Bill Ayers: “guilty as sin and free as a bird”. Obama builds a shrine to his magnificence on Chicago public parkland (on a 99 year lease for ten bucks), while Trump is busted for storing personal documents in his bathroom. No disputing any of this. They see it as justice, we see it as rancid corruption.
And most if not all of the charges against Sam Bankman Fried has been dropped as a fart in an elevator.
Hear, here!
Here in the PRWS (People’s Republic of Washington State), we narrowly avoided the legislation of a State AG-led “Ministry of Truth”. AG Bob Ferguson (D) sponsored the bill that would allow his current office to staff that body with the people of the AG’s choosing. Imagine the largest sponsor of mis/dis/malinformation to review and decide on the same.
Yet, after all we’ve been subjected to these past 3 + years, the number of prominent elected officials that are endorsing the creature’s candidacy for Governor is stunning. What makes him most frightening is he has all the malignancy of a Jay Inslee, but with a brain.
If the Covid plandemic taught us nothing else, the terms "mis/dis/malinformation" almost always means the mis/dis/mal-labeled statement is TRUE or based on contradictions in the official narrative. And if not completely true, making that statement is consistently an exercise in critical thinking. This ridiculous virtue-signaling game by self-appointed "verity squads" is the new academic common core version of "SHUT UP. YOU ARE NOT WORTHY TO QUESTION US."
Moreover, takeovers by fascist/socialist/marxist regimes absolutely cannot happen without the unquestioning assistance of their most useful idiots. (And they're usually on the payroll.)
I am honored to see the pedigree of the Disinformation title. We are in good company. Those Russians who spoke out were heroes, just as we are today.
Matt Taibbi put up a resonant post, https://www.racket.news/p/from-the-anthology-of-funny, on this theme this morning. Goncharov, Gogol, Lermontov, Saltykov-Shchedrin: they had a great way of describing the blinkered clerks and ranking officials in Russia's government in say the 1820-1850 time frame. And, we know how the tsarist regime ended.
"To me this is mostly just a hilarious tale about how the world tends to bend toward jackasses, who seem always to end up in charge even if they can’t find their backsides with a map."
YES
Yes it been true for centuries. Jackasses about. But someone has to feed them.
"...pea-brained pseudo-people."
Excellent. Thank you for this.
Puts me in mind of the Marquis de Custine's rather acidic observations of Tsarist Russian officialdom: "A wealth of unnecessary and petty precautions here engenders a whole army of clerks, each of whom carries out his task with a degree of pedantry and inflexibility, and a self-important air solely designed to add significance to the least significant employment." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Russie_en_1839
The West has degenerated into mindless bureaucratic uniformity.
Hear, hear!
My husband is observing this every day at his job in corporate America. All Chiefs, with very few Indians. The sheer mind-numbing insanity of how processes (and now virtue-signaling creeds) trump actually getting things done with a minimum of fuss is very hard on him. That he’s old enough to remember when it didn’t use to be this way is salt on the wound.
A ripped from the headlines case in point is the tragic tale unfolding with this Titanic tour sub. I’m praying those aboard will somehow get rescued. But a couple of articles I read on this event today really highlighted the brokenness of our minds and systems. One was about the head of the company, who deliberately chose NOT to hire retired submariners to pilot the subs because they were all “too white” and thus were “not inspiring” enough.
The other about how there is an elite team trained in rescue scenarios like this ready and standing by on a dock, who haven’t been sent yet because of bureaucratic paperwork.
As Chris recently put it so well, “I can’t even.”
This is the way civilisations die.
Can’t argue with that. It’s happened before and will happen again, ‘til worlds end. I’m just surprised how slowly, then all at once plays out in real time. Never occurred to me until about the last 7 years that I’d be a participant in such a thing.
Stalin was quite the character. A nasty bastard and not even Russian at that, perhaps that was why he was so willing to burn lives later in the war. Oddly enough the very border guards that you mention, Chris, were some of the first organized resistance against the Nazis and managed to hold the Nazis back until the Army got their stuff together. Sadly it does not appear anyone will be organized enough to give us time to shore up a defense. This does not end well at all. My only hope is that we can recover. Consider China from mid 1800s to now.
🇺🇸 now exactly china as the Qing/Manchu fell in 1911 with many Old Buddhas.
The winner is the American Mao, the most fit warlord. Nothing to do with ideology, just most fit warlord.
Fortunately we are geographically isolated.
Hopefully nukes foreign or domestic are avoided, although that asks a lot of human nature in war.
The First Amendment of the constitution, Bill of Rights: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
No so-called emergency orders should be able to set a side anything in the Bill of Rights. Zip, Zero, Nada! If any stupid politician can come along and declare an "emergency" and take away everyone's rights, then those rights don't matter and might as well not exist. We must resist these emergency orders, and every state, municipality, and federal government should pass laws to keep said politicians from ever passing another emergency order.
Churches should have resisted! It is clearly written that the government shall not prohibit the free exercise thereof. It is so simple even a politician should be able to understand it. All they need to do is to instill fear. Hopefully more people will see thru it next time, and there will be a next time.
Hitler was not Bavarian but Austrian. Tut-tut! Don't make this mistake when in Bavaria. You will hear the Bavarians (of Germany, one country) lovingly refer to Austrians (of Austria, quite another country) as "ravine sh*tters". Or, like a colleague from Berlin, who, upon witnessing an Austrian colleague's hapless behaviour, leaned over and whispered in my ear "Isn't it high time we annexed them again?"
The hell of it is, I knew that. But my brain mixed up later events. I will punish my brain with whiskey.
Meanwhile, the Ukrainian counteroffensive has unfolded into a ghastly (and entirely predictable) mockery of all sense and reason. Our news-idiots can't even be bothered to notice. They're still muttering about how Ukraine may make only moderate gains in the coming weeks.
Our perception becomes our reality. This happens due to disinformation, a constant bombardment of a media narrative or our inability to research/critically think through information that is provided. The covid pandemic was the perfect firestorm. This will end when people value liberty, it must be advanced and defended.
Liberty must always be taken.
Not by words, that never happened.
What happened to us 🇺🇸 is we were bought 💵 and sold, and listened to nonsense.
If would live, never mind free, then the Old Way or Die 💀
"professional information barriers, dimwitted parasitical human garbage whose sole function in life is to prevent understanding by pasting “disinformation” stickers on things that you’re not supposed to know." Love "dimwitted parasitical human garbage"! I wish I could just ignore them, but they continue to actively harms us. Are they, perhaps, Spiteful Mutants?
The only way to survive all of the reactionary craziness following these "conspiracy theories" is for the masses to personally think for themselves. Thank you , Chris, for always magnifying that potential in a way that's memorable—even for the mediocre among us!
The who do what?
???
What matters is who ACTS
Or does not
As for the masses, be careful what you wish for, the difference between Pinochet (killed 3000) and Hitler (kills 11 million) is Democracy, the masses if promised 🩸 want their taste.
Wait until you see young men in war taste first 🩸, they want more... human nature.
You may be right — but I have more faith in humanity. Besides, if mankind begins thinking before blood is shed, we have a better chance that none will be.
I think you misinterpret me, and misunderstand men.