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  • Statolatry – The Smallest Minority

    The people on the statolatrist left have landed on a toxic mixture of statism, politics, mysticism, and atheism rolled up into a loose ball called “progressivism” as a substitute for Judeo-Christian theology. Progressivism is as much a religion as Catholicism, it just replaces a Pope with government, counting on the senior leadership of the Democrat party to be their High Priests. And in the process, this new religion became a very curious mix of the Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition (nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!) and the Flagellants, the 13th century group of Roman Catholics who practiced mortification of the flesh by various means. Statolatrists find pleasure in their self-inflicted pain but really enjoy dosing it out to non-believers as well. It is also the harshest of mistresses – if a believer questions any tenet, there is no force on the planet that can protect them from the fury of the scorned. If they show less than total subservience and compliance, they are declared apostates and excommunicated immediately. The problem is that no one really knows the rules of this new religion – they change to meet the needs of the moment. Often You can be right and wrong at the same time. What you can say or think and who you can say or think certain things about changes every minute – what was acceptable yesterday is not acceptable today and that random asymmetry makes it very difficult to fight on an individual level, so one must attack where the asymmetry is less and where their power resides, where it is concentrated.

    • I often put it: "Followers of a God they will not name, pushing Dogma that is not written"

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Horseshit

Obit

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

  • Meta Goes to War with Leakers

  • (2006) The Long, Strange Trip of David Hoffman

    In the 1990s, Internews began to attract serious money. George Soros and his Open Society Institute became supporters, as did, eventually, the Knight Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, and dozens of others. USAID had made the large grant to establish the Russian independent television network. Evelyn Messinger secured a large sum from the National Endowment for Democracy to study independent media in Eastern Europe. Internews secured $8 million to set up a media center, a news agency, and broadcast and print outlets in Ukraine. "It changed just about everything," recalls Makino. "We became a lot more effective because we could hire staff and cover a lot more ground. We also had to become much more professional." Messinger, who eventually would have a falling-out with Hoffman, didn't like some of the changes. "The first phase of Internews was really a lot of fun," she says. "We'd come up with little bits of money and do things, all pretty ad hoc. But then the organization began structuring itself around getting money from the government. David really loved it, and I'm sure he still does." She felt that accepting so much government support limited Internews' flexibility. "There was now an intersection between the political interest of the U.S. and the work we were doing." Internews used some of its new prosperity to support filmmakers who produced documentary footage of daily life in Sarajevo during the 1992-96 siege by Serbian forces after Yugoslavia fell apart.

  • TikTok Almost Won the Presidency for Romania's Far-Right Candidate

Musk

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

  • Among the Post-Feminists | The Point Magazine

    We are told, with increasing frequency, that we are living in a post-feminist age. As in, after feminism, chronologically. As in, over feminism, abandoning it, philosophically. Undeniably the gold-star celebrity feminists of the 2010s are changing. Writer-activist Lena Dunham dropped out of the discourse she once led, taking to bed with a doctor’s note. Audrey Gelman, founder of The Wing, a suffragette-inspired, girlboss coworking space, opened a homeware store described as “physically” in Brooklyn, but “emotionally … in the countryside.” Actress-who-reads and UN Women Goodwill Ambassador Emma Watson discovered that the only thing better than being equal to men is being divinely feminine: “This is 33,” she announced on Instagram last year, on her birthday. “Before 29 I hadn’t even heard of a Saturn Return as a concept. … Today I feel 🦋🦋🦋. Thank you to the witches in my coven.” Post-feminism is most commonly associated with Gelman’s new target customer: the tradwife, trading corporate America for 1950s cosplay back home, undoing progress with every stitch she crochets for her Stepford family. She’s been talked to death, but what about her sisters, catalogued likewise online? The chronic sufferer, shopping for detoxes. The she-shaman, ketamine-tripping from medieval hut to modern Tulum. The overgrown “girl”; the nun, vocation questionable, in a cloistered abbey. The outright scammer, convinced she can turn the lemons of misogyny into lemonade for herself. Seemingly unrelated, except for one unifying theme: they all consider themselves the victims, or survivors, of a vast feminist setup.

  • Feminism and the Grooming Gangs - by Janice Fiamengo

    Decades ago, feminists accepted that their most pressing project, and the one through which they secured their own moral authority, demanded an assault on western culture in general and white men in particular. To refuse to ally themselves with other dissident peoples opened them to charges of complicity in white privilege. Feminists’ politically-correct refusal to spotlight the reality of the grooming gangs should remind us that the protection of girls and women is not, if it ever was, modern feminism’s ultimate concern. Feminism is primarily a subversive and revolutionary ideology. It respects and at times promotes violence, including violence against girls and women, in the name of utopian cultural transformation and the overthrow of traditional norms and structures. To this end, it is committed to the destruction of white-majority Christian societies, which it claims to be ultimately responsible for global inequality and injustice. At its black heart, feminism encourages the degradation of girls and women, and the demoralization of good men, because it is at war with the civilized order itself.

  • Thomas Aquinas' Skull Reveals Appearance and Cause of Death

    “The authors postulate,” the study states, “that Aquinas may have suffered a traumatic brain injury and that his death at age 48 was occasioned by a chronic subdural hematoma.”

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

TechSuck / Geek Bait

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

Crypto con games

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  • U.S. pauses de minimis repeal as packages pile up at US customs

  • ‘The Licensing Racket’ Review: There’s a Board for That - WSJ

    The Venus of Willendorf, a prehistoric statuette with finely braided hair, is proof that hair braiding has been practiced for at least 30,000 years. For most of that history, no government license was required. Yet today, in many American states, hair braiders must obtain a license—and that often means hundreds of hours of cosmetology training that costs tens of thousands of dollars. The absurdities and inequities of occupational licensing have been highlighted in recent years by the Institute for Justice, which has defended individuals’ rights to work without a government license and has won some cases where the government failed to provide a rational basis for regulation. Nearly a quarter of American workers now require a government license to work, compared with about 5% in the 1950s. Much of this increase is due to a “ratchet effect,” as professional groups organize and lobby legislatures to exclude competitors. In her excellent book, “The Licensing Racket,” the Vanderbilt law professor Rebecca Haw Allensworth presents plenty of cases of hair braiders, barbers and interior decorators who have been prevented from working by license restrictions that inflate prices without improving safety or quality. But Ms. Allensworth has bigger targets in mind.

  • The Media Is Lying to You About Their Government Funding – RedState

    No matter the intent, it is an unassailable fact that in these three instances involving Politico, the New York Times, and the AP, the massive increase in their subscription business with the US government coincides with Joe Biden's election and is really obvious by February 2021, Biden's first full month in office. There is no such volume of subscriptions in either the Obama or Trump administrations.

  • Politico is scrambling to cover themselves

    I never believed for a moment that Politico Pro subscriptions weren’t purchased. My argument is that those are an insane price for something the taxpayers are purchasing compared to what they apparently got, and considering how Politico has backed every play of the Deep State, it looks more like this was the price that was paid to keep them on the Deep State’s side.

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