So a bunch of gullible saps donated to an organization that just used their money to bail a racist terrorist and would-be assassin out of jail. The best possible result of this would be for the terrorist in question to attempt to run, get caught just across state lines, and that bail money to go *poof.* If that happens, my response would be almost *exactly* the same as the first 16 seconds of this video:
It seems that the Freedom Convoy/Protest in Canada is so successful tha tthe Canadian government is workign overtime to prove the protestors point:
In short, the Canadian government can freeze your bank account based on… well, not a whole lot.
The order says that banks and other financial entities (like credit unions, co-ops, loan companies, trusts and cryptocurrency platforms) must stop “providing any financial or related services” to people associated with the protests — a move that will result in frozen accounts, stranded money and cancelled credit cards. … There are questions about how widely this policy will be applied — whether, for example, the thousands of donors to the GoFundMe and GiveSendGo fundraising campaigns in support of this anti-mandate movement are also considered “designated persons” under the law.
The regulation’s definition of a “designated person” also includes people who “provide property to facilitate or participate in any assembly.” In other words, under these regulations, anyone sending funds to support these protests could be facing a shaky financial future.
Say, that’s neat. Thousands, hundreds of thousands of Canadians who have done far less violence than your average Mostly Peaceful Protestors could find their life savings, businesses, homes all wiped out at the stroke of a bureaucrats pen. If you suspect that you might be net on the financial chopping block, what would your next action be? Hmmm…
Ayup, people are trying to get their money out now while they can, and of course they’re finding that banks are instituting strict withdrawal limits. Seems to me what this might end up doing is driving more and more people to “alternative economics” like crypto.
While these measures might help to bust up a protest that has severely disrupted the nation’s capital, Davis said they could also further “radicalize” a group that is already concerned about government overreach.
Gee, ya think??? Every *actually* peaceful protestor who finds his ability to bank or even be employed *ever* *again* ruined will almost certainly be radicalized. What the hell else are they going to do? Especially when they see violent rioters *not* getting de-banked.
Recent events in Canada make more sense now…
So CNN decides to cover the recent assassination attempt of a Louisville, Kentucky, mayoral candidate. But… take a look, and see if there are any details that seem lacking in the story:
Compare that detail-lean story to this one:
Little things missing in the CNN piece include:
Brown is a BLM activist and black nationalist who was praised by former President Barack Obama, MSNBC host Joy Ann Reid, and was a writer for the Courier Journal.
He was a Louisville Youth Voices Against Violence Fellow at the Youth Violence Prevention Research Center, a former intern and editorial columnist for The Courier Journal, and was selected to participate in an Obama Foundation program in which he met the former president.
In 2019, Brown wrote an article saying that an open-carry gun law in Kentucky “shows your life doesn’t matter to gun-loving Republicans.”
“We need a common sense government reform, get rid of assault rifles,” said Brown at the time.
Kinda interesting the things that get memory-holed.
Yesterday, someone entered the campaign offices of Louisville, Kentucky, mayoral candidate Craig Greenberg and took several shots at him. The would-be assassin missed, though he came close enough that a bullet grazed the candidates sweater. Greenberg is a Democrat and Louisville is not a small town, so this *should* be Big News. Details are here:
Now, here is why this might end up *not* being Big News:
His Twitter profile, @tez4liberation, says, “We have one scientific and correct solution, Pan-Africanism: the total liberation and unification of Africa under scientific socialism ❤️🖤💚.”
Ruh-roh, Raggy…
Amazingly, his Twitter stuff is still available.
Brown is a student at the University of Louisville and is set to graduate in 2022, according to his LinkedIn profile. He graduated from Louisville’s DuPont Manual High School. According to WPFL, he is a, “U of L Woodford R. Porter scholar ━ a designation for Black students who achieve academic excellence and show a commitment to strengthening and serving their communities.”
Whoopsie. Maybe they can get their money back.
Brown said, “As dialectical materialists, we do not believe that life will somehow change in the future, but rather we objectively understand that life is always in a constant state of change, transformation, and flux. Accepting this premise, we move in the present moment to rid ourselves of outdated programs and modalities that lead to our self-destruction and begin to help the masses define their needs, realize their strength, and go into action along a variety of lines which they must choose for themselves.”
He concluded, “My call to action is simple. Voting and petitioning will not be sufficient for our liberation, but in the current moment it will be strategically used to reach the masses. I do not want to speak of a long road ahead of us because no such road exists. We are already here and it begins with you. Secure your number amongst the billion and commit yourself to win a new world side by side with a united left front. ‘From all according to ability.’ Radicalize your natural environment, organize the people around you, and watch our numbers grow.”
Doesn’t exactly sound like one of them skerry Right Wingers, does he. But he does remind me of this:
But by all means, let’s have more Congressional hyperventilating over Little People milling about the Capitol or parents PO’ed about children being terrorized over a pandemic, force fed lunatic political ideologies, plied with perverts and perversion.
If this was a sane world and this is what it is portrayed as – rather than some TikTokers simply taking the opportunity to gain some clout using books that were being weeded out for normal reasons anyway – these leftist nuts would be:
High school students throw out dozens of books written by white authors to “decolonize” the school library pic.twitter.com/MqYTrPwQ7D
— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) February 14, 2022
And even if these are books that were being discarded for conventional non-political reasons (note that one of the books has a red “DISCARD” stamp on the cover), what we still have here are lunatics who think that making a show out of destroying history books is a good idea. They are normalizing book burning… if it wasn’t already normalized by these walking, talking, semi-sentient meat puppets. Note that at least one of the “colonizer” authors they gleefully three away was a black feller, an expert on the history of slavery.
At first…
The claim is made that Henry Sampson invented the cell phone. But then…
Henry Sampson is interviewed and points out that he *didn’t* invent the cell phone. He invented the “gamma electric cell,” which is to gamma rays what a photoelectric cell is to sunlight. That’s certainly not nothing, and is a useful device that is doubtless beyond the ability of the vast majority of people to invent… but despite the fact that it has “cell” in the name, it has nothing to do with cell phones. But the internet is *filled* with sites touting Sampson as the inventor of cell phone technology.
This points out how widely a rather simple misunderstanding can spread to become “truth,” even though the actual facts are *easily* discovered. I don’t doubt that sometime several years ago someone saw “gamma-electric cell” and mistakenly *assumed* a link to cell phones. But at some point an honest mistake based on ignorance becomes a lie, even if those repeating it actually believe it. That point is when the facts are easily available to anyone who wants to find them… but they refuse to do so. This puts it in the same category as the “wage gap,” “pink tax” and Creationism.
Starting off, they determine that the audience for “far right” content online is vastly greater than “far left:”
In terms of audience size, Hard Core Right illiberal sites averaged about 186 million visits monthly. That’s about 31 percent the size of the audience for sites representing the mainstream Right and 19 percent the size of the audience of mainstream Left sites. … Unlike the Hard Core Right illiberal sites, the audience for Left illiberal sites is miniscule. Left illiberal sites received a monthly average of about 2.5 million visits.
Which is about 1.3 percent the size of the Hard Core Right illiberal audience.
Let’s just assume for the sake of argument that their data is accurate, *and* that the size of the far right vs. far left can be accurately assessed based on the visits to public and clearly acknowledged extremist websites. Based on that, their judgement is that the far right is something like 76 times bigger/more dangerous than the far left. Their final conclusion:
Those of us who seek to conserve and defend American liberalism should act accordingly, which involves recognizing that the illiberal threat comes overwhelmingly from the right.
The threat comes “overwhelmingly from the right.”
Uh-huh.
Look at the last couple of years. The left can point to one single “riot” by right wingers that largely involved people milling about harmlessly in the halls of power, with a vanishingly small number of knuckleheads busting windows and acting the fool. But on the other hand… the left gave us summers of cities in flames, cops assassinated, Trump supporters ambushed and murdered, cities occupied, books burned, death, destruction, fire and filth.
If there are fifty times more far right types than far left, but the far left actually carries out fifty times more actual violence, doesn’t mean that the lefties are 2,500 times more dangerous per capita? Couple that with this:
The summary *here* is that Antifa showing up is a clear indicator that a protest is going to involve violence, destruction, arrests and injuries… while far right groups showing up statistically does nothing to make a protest more or less violent. It’s almost like people visiting “far right” websites doesn’t actually say anything about whether or not they’re going to be actually violent. I’m reminded of all the moral panics about how Dungeons and Dragons is going to make kids into Satan worshippers, and how video games will make kids into violent psychopaths. Rather than basing the level of threat on what people read, how about basing it on what they *do*?
Plus, their methodology may well not be very good. Do their “far left” websites include Facebook and Twitter? The far right (the *real* far right) has to go to Daily Stormer and such because they’ll get kicked off FB and Twitter and the like. The far left, on the other hand, is welcome there.
“Masterclass in political propaganda.”
The BBC seems determined to lie to the British people about British history. The fact that they are doing it seems pretty well undeniable. The real question is “why?”
Someday, someday probably quite soon, Enoch Powell will be revered as a prophet. But not by very many.
For the most part, I’m satisfied to let people be who they want to be. Do whatever you like in the privacy of your own home, so long as you’re hurting nobody else. But the fact is, some things (and people) really are nuts. Mental illness is a reality. And being mentally ill in one area could well mean you are not likely to make good judgements in another.
Behold who the Biden administration is hiring to help plan for the future of nuclear waste.
Tolerance goes just so far. And then it gets pushed *too* far and it snaps back. Are we at that point? near that point? beyond that point? I dunno, but if I was *kinda* like this person, but nowhere near as nutty as this person, I’d be *real* worried about the inevitable pendulum swing in the other direction. I would post the photos that this person happily and willingly puts out onto the internet, but I at least *kinda* try to keep this as a safe for work, safe for family and safe for life blog. If I included the photos, parent groups across the land would try to get my blog yoinked from public school libraries… and they’d be right to do so.
Apparently he has the right degrees, the right education to technically work in the field of nuclear waste handling. But imagine being a standard, normal engineer tasked with working alongside this guy in his dresses and dog-play. Yeeeeesh. If nothing else, he is making everything in his life all about him. There are reasons why “professional attire” is what it is… and conformity is part of that. It is not strictly from an authoritarian desire to make everyone conform to some arbitrary standard, but to make everyone focus on their *job* not on their attire, or on what Bob’s wearing today. The physical sciences are hard enough without having to deal with loonies that you can’t respect. The job needs to be about *the* *job.* Intentionally dressing bizarrely as a way to garner irrelevant attention to yourself seems to denote massive narcissism, if nothing else.