Kyle Rittenhouse *should,* if this was a rational world, emerge as one of the richest men in America and a media mogul, owning several news outlets outright, after all the lawsuits are done. Of course this *isn’t* a rational world, so who knows. Celebrities, media corporations and politicians *should* be held financially to account for slander, libel and outright lies… but how about “lesser” folks who still have followers? For example, Bearing tears apart a doctor who repeats several lies about Kyle *after* the verdict came down. It’s an entertaining ripping apart of a man (there is some question about that; any man who feels the need to include his pronouns seems likely to be uncertain about it) who could benefit society by shutting the hell up, but would it be possible or practical for some lawyers to look at folk like this with a critical and lawsuit-happy eye?
Behold this little bit of “alternative facts:”
Self-defense from what? From the people he terrorized when he drove to a different state with an AR-style semiautomatic weapon on a Tuesday night when most other 17-year-olds across America were at home, chilling? #KyleRittenhouseTrialpic.twitter.com/gPtGyoQzzf
At the very least his license to practice medicine should be under serious question. A man who lies like that seems unlikely to make for a reliable and safer doctor.
Whenever there is an “unfortunate incident,” the masters of social media scrub their sites of the unfortunate evidence that the perpetrators left behind. But sometimes they are not fast enough, and other people save and archive at least some of that stuff. As an example: the vehicular attack in Waukesha was carried out by a guy with not only an extensive criminal record, but a long record of racist, pro-violence, anti-cop, anti-Trump postings of various kind including a number of “music” videos. That all got scrubbed. But it also got archived, as seen here:
Some “interesting” stuff there. It should be noted that Darrell Brooks is likely not an anomaly… he’d most likely a foretaste of the future. Humanity is getting dumber, and dumber people have lower impulse control and a higher predilection for violence. Dumber people are more likely to believe patently stupid stuff, like the libels about Rittenhouse, and then lash out stupidly and violently as a result. Video taken not long after his massive hate crime showed that he was not whacked out of his gourd either on drugs or insanity; he appears to be rational and planning for the future. This was an intentional act, and it’s certainly reasonable to suspect that he was driven to it not only by his criminal nature but by the drumbeat of lies from the media, politicians, even clergy, all of whom should be sued straight into the poorhouse. Brooks was someone who should have been permanently removed from society *years* ago, but after a recent attempted vehicular murder the local DA let him roam the streets with the very same vehicle he used in his last attack on a mere $1000 bail.
If it was possible to imagine a rational society, we would be planning prison reform, such that people like this would *never* again be released from prison, long before their rap sheets got as ling as this guys. People like this should be weeded out of not just society but the gene pool before they spread not only misery and death but another generation of their idiot ilk. At the same time, immigration reforms to assure that the best and brightest come in, the worst and dimmest are kept out. Welfare programs that discourage the poor from having kids that they can’t, or won’t, take care of; social policies that promote multiple children for those who are successful and useful members of society. But there is virtually no chance that such reforms are even possible. My last remaining hope not only for western civilization but mankind itself is space colonization. Because morons are self-limiting in environments that are infinitely hostile to dumb decision making. On a space colony – Moon, Mars, Asteroidal, Orbital – the stupid and the violent and the criminal are threats not only to themselves but to everyone else, so they would be dealt with in a permanent fashion. Science Fiction often has such types getting tossed out airlocks; this is, of course, also a stupid decision. Better by far to dump them into the waste reclamation system so that at the end they can provide at least some modicum of benefit to the society they would otherwise have harmed.
One less savory solution might be to let the Chinese deal with it. They have announced that they are working on genetic weaponry targeting ethnic groups; the presumed purpose would be to either wipe out or enfeeble every ethnic group on the planet except for the Han. But the same technology could presumably be used to attack people based not on the genetic markers of ethnicity, but genes regulating intelligence. A man-made plague that wipes out or sterilizes people with sub-90 IQ’s would be distasteful… and also almost certain to be apocalyptic as the disease mutates in the wild and begins to target a far wider range of targets. Cows and pigs and birds and fish, after all, all have sub-90 IQs; it would be pretty friggen’ awful if Earth was stripped of all animal life except for some rather startled smart folks.
As we race towards Idiocracy, things are only going to get worse. We now have obviously sub-normal elected officials pushing to empty the prisons, flooding the streets with exactly the sort of people who should rather have been launched through a Stargate with a trebuchet.
And if you were looking for a black pill to dim your outlook, this guy has you covered (assuming you can get through his rapid-fire rather jabbery presentation):
If you are a celebrity with a massive platform, maybe libel and slander aren’t such good ideas. Rittenhouse’s lawyers taking Goldberg’s fortune from her and turning it over to Rittenhouse – along with the fortunes of many other celebrities, media folk and politicians – would be a good way to make sure that not only can Rittenhosue afford the security he’ll need, but also *maybe* put the thought into rich dumb people’s heads that maybe they should learn the facts before opening their yaps.
I hesitate to say it, but I have a vague suspicion that there might be a little bit of sarcasm hidden within this video promoting tourism to Australia…
Whenever you hear about religious whackadoodles in the US, the press makes sure to point out that they are “right wing.” Fact is… the left is loaded to the gills with their own religious nuts. And this isn’t even referring to those who have accepted The Environment or The Historical Dialectic or all the rest as their proxy religion; I mean honest-to-Odin *real* old school fire and brimstone Christianity. Like those arguing for Young Earth Creationism, these religious crackpots are perfectly happy to lie right to your face.
A Lakehead University professor and her research team in partnership with traditional knowledge holders and Waasegiizhig Nanaandawe’iyewigamig Health Access Centre (WNHAC) are receiving $1.2 million in CIHR funding to explore the efficacy of using traditional healing to prevent cancer.
Dr. Lana Ray, Assistant Professor in Indigenous Learning at Lakehead and the University’s Indigenous Research Chair in Decolonial Futures, will work with WNHAC, traditional knowledge holders, and researchers from Lakehead University, Nipissing University and the University of Toronto to carry out the work over five years.
This project will implement traditional healing activities to address the impacts of colonialism in WNHAC’s service area. It will evaluate the impacts of the intervention through a pre- and post-design that will explore and measure risks and protective factors.
Using an Indigenous mixed methods research approach, this study will privilege Indigenous ways of knowing and doing and tangible outcomes for Indigenous communities through the implementation of medicine camps and traditional health practitioner visits.
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“When we do this, we also begin to think of cancer as a symptom of colonialism, which allows for expanded approaches to primary and secondary cancer prevention.”
Colonialism is fundamentally about severing Anishinaabe peoples’ deep spiritual relationships to land. The anti-thesis to that is Anishinaabe systems of traditional healing that are grounded in a deep love and respect for the land and the knowledge that it possesses, Dr. Ray explained.
That’s *glorious.* Not only are they woke, they’re willing to put peoples lives at risk to prove it. And when it inevitably proves to be of little or negative value, rest assured that they’ll blame colonialism for the failure of their bone-headed superstitious gibberish.
This heartbreaking verdict is a miscarriage of justice and sets a dangerous precedent which justifies federal review by DOJ. Justice cannot tolerate armed persons crossing state lines looking for trouble while people engage in First Amendment-protected protest. https://t.co/Uh95Uc1Ddo
For starters, it’s not illegal for armed American citizens to cross state lines. And for second… he didn’t cross state lines with a gun anyway. So Nadler is flat-out lying in order to either grandstand or to call for the end of the judicial system we’ve had since day one.
So a know-nothing journalist set out to research and write a hit piece on the concept of “ghost guns” by taking an 80% kit and finishing it to a functional firearm. The idea seemed to be to show just how easy it is for criminal types to get a gun that the law says they shouldn’t have. Two problems, though: first, the job turned out to be far harder than the journalist had expected. Second problem: the journalist set out to obey all the law in his quest to make a “ghost gun,” but in the process he seems to have unintentionally broken a truckload of laws. Thing is, these are dumb California laws, the sort of laws that clearly exist solely to trap regular folks. The kind of laws that exist solely to dissuade people from exercising their basic rights. But will *this* guy get charged? After all, he has the right politics.
A video was put together to explain what laws the journalist broke. Takes more than twenty minutes to go through it. Strictly speaking this guy is far more of a lawbreaker that Rittenhouse ever dreamed of being.
In saner times, we would all read this story and, while all admitting that it’s a sad tragedy, we’d also all look at the father described here and say “Now that… that was a man.” This would be followed by a grave head nod, a slow non-ironic golf clap, the pouring out of libations, the solemn murmurings of oaths and/or prayers, a warning given to those in Valhalla or StoVo Kor that A Man is coming. Sadly, these are not sane times.
A commuter plane went down, and a fathers last act was to try – successfully – to protect his daughter. He, and everyone on the plane who *wasn’t* his daughter, died.
You may wonder why I’m going at this new story from a cynical standpoint. Simple: the article suggests a “related” article:
Where we are informed that the urge to defend and protect is the result of white privilege, and that cowardice and unwillingness to defend self, family or strangers is the better approach. That white moms need to teach their white sons to disdain the very *concept* of willingness to help.
Hey, lady: ᚷᚩ ᚠᚢᚳk ᚣᚩᚢᚱᛋᛖᛚᚠ
If Kyle Rittenhouse were Black, I can guarantee he would not be on trial … he’d likely be dead and likely it’d be at the hands of local authorities.
