It’s more relevant now than when it was released two years ago:
If only Antifa and their fans had half the self-awareness as the characters here…
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Jul 192020
Hmmm.
Watch: Antifa Torch Portland Police Association, Break Into Federal Property, Threaten Police
For a group that doesn’t exist, Antifa is doing a dandy job of making the case *for* fascistic policing systems. Because what’s really needed here are some of the fictional technologies employed by the Judges in the universe of the Judge Dredd comic book. In particular: “riot foam.” Sprays out like fire-fighting foam, but within seconds sets up into a rock-hard solid that traps rioters in place. Somehow or other it’s “breathable” so that those trapped don’t suffocate. You then chip out rioters one at a time and process them.
Given that the insurrectionists here are using deadly weapons (thrown rocks, Molotov cocktails, clubs, etc.) as well as using green lasers for the purpose of causing permanent and irreversible retina damage, locking them up in riot foam for a few days while they are processed and sentenced to ten to twenty years in the FedPen, followed by deportation to their masters in China/Russia/wherever, seems like a good approach.
Antifa, like the Democratic People’s Republic of (North) Korea, is not only a fascist movement, they are actively agitating *for* fascism. When they gain power, such as in the CHAZ, they promptly set up authoritarian systems largely indistinguishable from fascist systems; and they have intentionally worked to make police-state tactics the *only* tactics to use against them. In places like Portland where Antifa has running dog lackeys and useful idiots in the local government who have held back the local police, Antifa and their Burn Loot Murder accomplices have simply run wild. Being nice to them, letting them have their way, has not worked.
Police state systems are never nice things to have and are generally to be avoided. Unfortunately they are sometimes necessary. Using them here is sadly becoming inevitable. The trick, of course, will be in reigning in the police state tactics after the insurrectionists are removed from society. Sadly, there isn’t much alternative, given that Antifa and their ilk are trying to burn civilization to the ground across the western world. They are traitors to mankind, and such people have never been well managed by rational discourse and reasoned debate. Some of them, perhaps even most of them, could be deprogrammed by those skilled in the art of extracting young idiots from cultish ideologies… but before you can remove someones cult thinking, you have to physically remove them from the cult.
Jul 172020
It seems that *finally* some law enforcement is starting to go after the Antifa domestic terrorists. This time, though, the cops are Feds… and getting arrested for tangling with, say, a US Marshall is *not* something that you can ignore.
Jul 172020
I *presume* a lot of the rounds fired here missed. Otherwise… that guy musta been on something impressive to take that many shots to go down.
Like one of the YouTube commenters sez:
“11 shots till he fell, “why do we need high capacity magazines”. Just imagine 3 of him invading your home and re ask that question”
In case you might have the smallest shred of sympathy for the guy, here’s news coverage (note that the reporter doesn’t understand the difference between clearing a jam and reloading a weapon… sigh, this is the Fourth Estate, people):
Jul 162020
Right at a year ago I posted some videos from a guy who welded two electric bicycles together to create an off-road wheelchair for his girlfriend. They are now about ready to go into production with a much refined version. Looks kinda slick. $4,750 is a fair chunk of change, but I suppose it’s not too bad compared to regular off-road electric wheelchairs, and it does seem to have a pretty good deal of zip to it. Might be of interest to those interested in such things.
One wonders if the fat bicycle tires could be replaced with wider-yet tires for sand & snow. And how difficult it would be to turn it into a treaded version. And LIFT FANS.
Jul 162020
Sometimes the way in which people dance around in order to avoid answering a question, answers the question. Such as here where the subject of slavery vs. employment results in many minutes of avoided the question “which is a happier society, the one with freedom or the one with slavery?”
This is what you get when someone believes something that they know society knows to be bunk. In this case the guy seems to believe that it’s just fine to enslave people because his religion tells him so… but the society in which he lives doesn’t believe that. But then, I wonder why he hesitates… it’s not like people are burning down and vandalizing *his* religious institutions, even though their support of slavery is much more recent – to the point of “right now, still” – than others who are getting attacked.
Jul 152020
Two high-rez photos of the Convair XB-46 have been added to the APR Extras Dropbox folder for 2020-07. This folder should be available to all $4 and up APR Patrons and Monthly Historical Documents program subscribers, both available HERE.
Jul 152020
The Smithsonian-affiliated National Museum of African American History and culture has a page on “Whiteness.” As expected, it is portrayed as bad to be white, with the usual fraudulent claims of “white privilege.” But… then they trot out a convenient graphic of what “white culture” is in the United States and… you know, more than 90% of it, I can fully support.
Behold the horror of whiteness: Rugged Individualism! The nuclear family! The scientific method! Actual history! Work ethic! Planning for the future! Respect for rule of law and property rights! And, gasp, politeness!
Once again I’m left to wonder if some of the “woke” people behind this might not secretly be people who *aren’t* actually ashamed about being white, don’t actually hate western civilization. Because what they describe is, on the whole, the secret to success and prosperity, not some horrible racist dystopia. I read that infographic and rather than feeling shame about white privilege or white supremacy or white nationalism, I think, “yeah, those are the ethics that in just a relatively few centuries ended slavery, taught Man to fly, gave the vote to everyone, learned what the stars truly are, made smallpox extinct, put Man on the moon and just in general made life on Earth vastly better than in all the many millenia that preceded it.”
Jul 152020
Some “celebrity” name of Nick Cannon rambles incoherently some loopy racist theories. He is quite clear that he thinks me subhuman… I find this monumentally amusing. My response to this is to laugh, point and mock. Oddly, it’s not to burn, loot and murder. Make of that what you will.
Below is, at least for the moment, the full thing. Skip to 12:30 to see an enlightening discussion with “Professor Griff” of how it’s impossible for them to be antisemitic, because they are Semitic, not those nasty Jewish white people. There is whackaloon-level discussion of secret societies like the Illuminatti. And then at 48:20, we learn the most important scientific truths of our age, about how melanin levels determine how much of a soul you have and how much compassion you have. I’m sure the Nobel committee will be along any moment now. At 52:50 you hear the startling truth that by 2050 everybody will be a “person of color.”
Hard to tell whether he’s Nation of Islam or Black Hebrew Israelite. In either case… this feller and the von Danniken-level gibberish he trots out are infinitely entertaining. I know some people are getting outraged, but that seems to me to be an inappropriate response. As with anyone who believes woo and rubbish, he hobbles his ability to progress. If he believes that melanin determines much of anything other than skin color… it’s no skin off my ass. Let him rant and rave, and I’ll stand and point and laugh with the same glee as I’d laugh at the loon shrieking about reptilians and crop circles.
Jul 142020
In 1963-64, NASA was looking forward to a very bright future. Moon landings within a handful of years, a serious space station or two in the early seventies, manned missions to the vicinity of Mars and/or Venus probably by the early eighties, manned Mars landings not long after. Moon bases, Mars based, nuclear rockets, missions to the asteroids and the moons of Jupiter… in 1964, the rest of the 20th century must’ve looked *fantastic.*
In order to pull all that off, it was clear that NASA would need to launch a *lot* of astronauts. Consequently, a request for proposals went out to the aerospace industry to design the capability to do just that. Boeing, North American, Martin, Lockheed… a great deal of interest was shown and work accomplished. One design produced is illustrated below, a Lockheed design for a two-stage fully reusable spaceplane capable of transporting ten tons of payload or ten passengers to an orbiting space station. The booster stage had a cockpit about where you’d expect; the spaceplane, conversely, had an offset spaceplane so that the crew would have *some* sort of forward view during landing. Both stages used advanced rocket engines; the first stage also had turbojets to get it back to the launch site. As with all pre-Shuttle designs, estimates of turnaround time and minimal launch cost are impressive and a bit depressing in just how fabulously optimistic they were.
An earlier three-stage concept was shown in US Launcher Projects #5.
The future looked bright. And then… LBJ.
