My god, how I have come to hate the term "misinformation". They basically use it as a synonym for "unapproved".
And it's not like it's complicated. It's not like the "misinformation" is untrue. Surely these people can see the data and the evidence and the truth of the situation, but they reject it for... ideology?
These people make me sick... and we are stuck with them - at least the elected ones - for at least two more years.
I'd like to see the term "conspiracy theory" go the same way as "woke." As with the term "misinformation, " denigration of critical thinking as mere "conspiracy theory" has done grievous harm to public discourse over the decades.
In 2020 I saw people on Twitter openly mocking the notion of critical thinking, reacting to well-reasoned posts as if it were an established fact that thinking for yourself is ridiculous in a world of credentialed Experts™ telling you how to think.
We need to be very wary and very active, imho. The other side is still writing Presidential Orders making cellular manipulation our goal and the International Treaty on PANDEMIC response is moving forward.
As are CBDCs. And Canada is moving forward on the trail of Euthanizia for dissidents.
Our world is hanging in the balance and we need every Bad Cat we can get!!!!
Many of us have seen it but most have not unfortunately. The majority now realize the vax doesn't work but that's as far as they'll take their thinking, i.e. it didn't work as well as they expected. Oh well, no one's perfect.
The idea that the "experts" were lying or making it up as they went along still isn't in the general public's consciousness. That the vax was a massive money-making fraud (at best, possibly much worse) still hasn't registered with them. The comment section here is not representative of the public at large.
I have a minor surgery upcoming and as part of the registration the nurse asked me "if I was up to date on my immunizations". I responded that as an adult I'm not required to have any immunizations therefore there is no such thing as "up to date". She clarified that she meant covid and flu, and I replied that I was declining to answer the question (as is my right).
How many people would have taken her question literally and thought it really was required? Or felt shame if they weren't "up to date"? Most I'm willing to bet. Sadly, the public still doesn't get it. Lockdown politicians paid zero price in the latest mid-term elections in the US, and most people aren't mad about them. People are done with Covid in general and won't tolerate more lockdowns (most likely) but they have not yet realized how badly they were misled.
Don’t sign the form allowing biologics! Jibby jabs fall under biologics but they won’t tell you that. I don’t put it past Drs and nurses to jab unconscious patients.
P.S. Lockdown politicians reaped rewards in 2020. The lockdowns made defeating Trump possible, among other political benefits. Then of course there's the personal enrichment from being able to choose which businesses are "essential" (follow the money).
Still too many people clinging to the new definition of vaccine that doesn't vaccinate. Too many believing (with a lot of effort) when they get sick that "it would have been worse if I were not vaccinated". You can show them papers, numbers, text-books (published before 2020) defining what vaccines do (immunize), and they still reject it as "misinformation from the anti-vax conspiracy".
I agree with your assessment. Tragically, will any of those who didn't do any research & were sheeple learn anything from this? Will they be so trusting the next time? I wonder as memories are short in the sheeple community. Fear reigns supreme.
I think those who took the jab don't want to hear about the side effects as this would make them confront their naviete then admit they screwed up. I have a friend whose son in law is now experiencing heart problems . No prior condition and the drs are "baffled" Yes, he got the jab. So, now the scramble to get him better and asking me for research assistance. Heavy sigh! And no my friend didn't get the jab & is saddened that her s-in- law didn't listen to her.
I had to visit an urgent care center last month while out of town (minor but painful infected finger). The nurse who took care of me asked a string of basic health questions ending with, "Have you received a Covid-19 vaccination?" I paused for a moment and then answered, "I decline to state." I have no idea why I put it like that, but she actually laughed and said "Good for you." Took great care of my finger too. They haven't all sold their souls in the medical profession.
I think a lot of people assume the Covid shot just "missed the mark" similar to how the yearly flu shot sometimes does. They won't think any farther than that, however.
I'm not so old that I can't remember those not-infrequent big exposes in the NYT and WaPo etc. on the annual death tolls from medical malpractice and how every prudent consumer of healthcare should get second opinions, and how legislation was even passed so health insurers had to pay for them, and how doing one's own research was, like, what the smart people did.
IN the end the "experts" did not show their work. We have to laugh in the faces of people that still mask and talk about injections and not shy away from polite conversation.
Experts who were completely wrong and should be the target of unrelenting, aggressive derision.
I have some sympathy for a masked driver - I don't know their circs or how indoctrinated they might be - I have nothing but I loathe those same who have decreed that should likewise be masked and afraid, by force if necessary.
I like this spasm of boriquagatoan optimism, but "everyone"? Do you really think the middle has shifted? I hope you are right, because I have felt for a while that -- heretic internet felines and Gatopals™ notwithstanding -- Home sapiens is a failed species.
My husband is in Germany, the home of utter and abject obedience to the "party line" as decreed by experts, and he says all of them, (the forced vax, lockdown, 25,000 Euro fine for failing to mask, types) are literally hiding in corners, terrified of facing the public.
That is the best news I've heard in a very long time.
If the Germans can get out of their mass formation any nation can!
I think the middle is the most influential portion of the electorate. They're just not very vocal. Ds are gonna vote D, Rs are going to vote R. Winning the middle is the goal of every candidate not in a Midnight Blue state like, say, MD. My home state.
Side-ish note: So, for $5 a month you're saying I, too, can be a Gatopal?
Is there an initiation? A secret handshake? Will there be snacks?
I would’ve liked to have seen about 5x as many wake up to the corrupt incestuous relationship between big pharma + big govt = medical mafia
I wish about 5x as many had Stopped blindly following along with tyranny so they could keep participating in an ever more perverse & self destructive society.
I rarely use "everyone" in anything I say because it's just not true. That's kind of what I found what was wrong with the narrative to begin with. Just about every media outlet was saying the same thing. That was what raised a red flag for me. Get two people in a room and even if they agree on the same solution, did they reach it for the same reason?
And now that time has passed and the narrative has not aged well, we will hear a variety of rationalizations. "We didn't know, we were in the dark" is one, and another one is "I thought I would lose my job" is another...but there are many reasons...
Certainly there are a lot of the "professionals" that are deeply upset by the "amateurs'". It has been interesting to watch.
For decades I've advised and encouraged people to seek primary sources when available. For example, to understand the potential impact of proposed legislation, read the bill yourself. It is surprising how many people simple refuse. Almost as though they know that it will reveal that what their party and the media has told them about it won't hold up if they know what's really in it. In my family I'm a troublemaker because I won't tell them what I think of a bill - I tell them to read it first, and then I'll be happy to discuss it. Outrageous, huh?
The freaking bills though can be incredible long, and I think that is part of why congress gets away with so much. They can write a 1000 page bill chalked with all sorts of crap, and most people don't bother to read it. This pandemic had me reading studies, and abstracts because I wanted to know where the narrative and the study deviated.
Al I know is, when the google search result has "CNN" as its source, I will sometimes read it, but am rarely if ever surprised. I see the source as more of a warning sign than a sign of objective journalism.
How many people do you know who actually think? Most avoid thinking as if it would kill them to do so. People seem to hunger to be led, which means they want to be told what to do and what to think. That gives a huge amount of power to the people they’re asking. And very few can turn away from exercising power.
Michael Crichton in his novel, Dealing (from the 70s): Power is not usually taken; it is usually given. And once given, it is not returned.
I suspect Crichton would have been good to have around the past couple years, as he would almost certainly have been on Team Reality. RFK Jr included an observation from Crichton in the Fauci book. The last part reads:
"There is no such thing as consensus science. If it's consensus, it isn't science. If it's science, it isn't consensus. Period."
(Which I co-opted it for my pinned tweet in my -- sniff, sniff -- blocked Twatter account
"People are best instructed WHAT TO THINK. No one gets booted from the tribe if you buy into and recite the approved narrative. Obeying your elite masters is good."
Repeat the above ten times upon arising each morning.
' Smith!' screamed the shrewish voice from the telescreen. '6079 Smith W.! Yes, you! Bend lower, please! You can do better than that. You're not trying. Lower, please! That's better, comrade. Now stand at ease, the whole squad, and watch me.'
critical thinking is the opposite of dogma. I stepped out of church because of catholic dogma and i stepped out of my family because of bullying so recgnize the signs. That will awaken your sense of critical thinking ! No experts here.
"In 2020 I saw people on Twitter openly mocking the notion of critical thinking, reacting to well-reasoned posts as if it were an established fact that thinking for yourself is ridiculous in a world of credentialed Experts™ telling you how to think."
And, no doubt, those same people on Twitter had for three years been loudly denouncing the threat of "authoritarianism" that Trump supposedly represented.
thats right. A while back I was having a discussion about investments in a mixed group and I mentioned that gold bullion is a historically good hedge against inflation and this younger guy in the group insisted that investing in gold and talking about wealth or preserving purchasing power was racist. I pressed him on why he thought that and has Ayn Rand used to write "blank out"
It’s going the same way as “fake news”. “Fake news” was a termed popularized by NYT when trying to question the 2016 election, but Trump immediately started using it and it became a MAGA term. The same thing will happen to “misinformation”. Luckily, we now have the term “malinformation” that the woke tribe can switch to using.
A leftist euphemism for "what you call truth, but our expert, highly trained and college educated propaganda and indoctrination specialists call misinformation, which in point of fact, therefore, heretoforeafter makes misinformation misinformation, if you know what I mean, Tigger.
I have noticed a uptick in defenders of the term "woke". Many posts on social media proudly proclaiming themselves as "woke" and decreeing their superiority to the "non-woke". In one I asked the proclaimer to explain to me, an undeniably white male of over 60, what "woke" means. "if you have to ask, you ain't woke" was the response.
The obvious irony is they are the ones spreading misinformation, while claiming to fight misinformation so that people can't honestly fact check their misinformation.
Science is a process that is observable, repeatable and predictable and you have to show your work. Everything else is propaganda.
I pass out masks all the time at my kids play group, parties and gathering as a joke. Everyone knows my position but it is too much fun to force them to fight against me handing them a mask with phrases like, "you never know" , "if it saves one life" or my favourite "Do it for grandma".
You know, I used to think that the crazy ones were those who still wear masks, now that it's no longer mandatory and most people stopped doing it. But recently I've started to feel like I respect them more than the others. At least they are more consistent.
They were told there's a pandemic and masks will protect them, so they started wearing masks. Nobody proved that Covid is gone, which it's not. So they continue wearing the masks.
Meanwhile, those that have seemingly gone back to normal - what's up with that? They were told to be afraid and wear masks, so they did, and gave the rest of us angry looks, and worse. Now they all just stopped, and they're acting normal again. What's up? The virus still exists! And you wanna just stop and pretend like nothing ever happened? And I'm supposed to treat you all like nice, normal people now that you've all decided to stop acting like crazy OCD fascists? I mean, at least some explanation or an apology would be nice!
the mask is an IQ test now. If you wear one knowing that masks do not stop transmission or infection, you are an idiot. Why? Because the people of japan wore masks and still got covid. If you walk into a cigar lounge and still smell the smoke you will prove to yourself that mask does not stop you from smelling smoke that is the same size as the COVID. WTF. Science, its repeatable, observable and predictable. Dont need anyone else to know this is true.
Not just misinformation but also gaslighting, indoctrination, and targeted propaganda while at the same time suppressing actual truth and actual science
Look at what they did during Covid. The suppression of the truths regarding ivermectin/hydroxy and other at home life saving treatments actually killed people. They lied about the vaccines. They lied about Covid deaths. They lied about the PCR tests and masks. They lied about two weeks to flatten the curve.
All of these people, from the lying media and government officials to the they/them Twitter censors deserve their final destination, a hard landing on the trash heap of history. Good riddance.
No doubt. It's a huge, huge crime all around. And they're not done. They won't face justice, unfortunately. But at least we can continue to build our lives and communities without them, and gradually make them weaker and irrelevant.
“Not just misinformation but also gaslighting, indoctrination, and targeted propaganda while at the same time suppressing actual truth and actual science” Hmmmmm. 🤔there should be a word for this.
Anyone whose Twitter account carried the vids of Biden and Wallensky saying that the vaxes were a 'dead end' for Covid should obviously have been banned forthwith.
Unfortunately, many people are stuck with them for a lot longer than that. If Gov’s Whitmer, Houchel, and Pritzker can be re-elected, then the majority of their voters must love the iron fist? Thank God I live in Free Florida.
Unless... and it is hard to imagine this could actually be... the democrats those lovers and purveyors of all things democratic would actually cheat and rig the elections! Nah, that would never happen.
I've said many times already on multiple substacks that the fact that not a single lockdowner lost reelection is yet another flashing sign to me that America is gone. People are so tribal that they'll willingly endure tyranny and subjugation so long as their team is holding the whip.
Gretchen Whitmer should have lost to dead Jeffrey Dahmer by 99 points and by a closer margin to anyone else.
I'm sorry, but the people in those states now deserve everything that's coming to them in the future: more masks, more lockdowns, more vaccine mandates. They asked for to and they need to get it good and hard.
EDIT: And before anyone says it, cheating in elections - which is real - only works if the margin is close. A sufficiently large enough segment of the population voted for this that they were able to cheat in the first place. Whitmer won by 10+ points. You can't cheat that big of a margin.
Hugo Chavez routinely 'won' with 70% of the 'votes' in a country where ~80% of the people despised him. Using the Diebold/Dominion/Smartmatic equipment.
The way to do that is the same as they did in the Soviet Union -- there's only one candidate on the ballot. Chavez was trying to give the impression of 'winning' when there were other candidates on the ballot, and the people despised him.
When Smartmatic/Dominion/Diebold went to Venezuela and tried to sell him the 'fastest, most accurate' voting machines in the world, he told them he wanted machines that would guarantee he won, not the most accurate machines. And he would pay handsomely, for such machines. So they went back to the drawing board and built what he asked for.
Since then they found that dictators and wanna-be dictators the world around actually wanted the same thing. And that is how we are, where we are.
It all depends on the cheating mechanism. There are many ways to fraud an election, from voting more than once, ballot harvesting, voting for dead people and people in nursing homes and other such ballot manipulations. In those cases, there is a limit to how much fraud can be implemented.
But the machines are capable of switching votes (it happened 'by mistake' in Antrim County, Mich., 2020) and they can do it by large margins, which is how Hugo Chavez won when the country for the most part hated him. There is no limit to the amount of cheating that can be implemented when you have machines that are up to the task.
A big part of the election results was apparently due to geographical sorting. People are moving. I can only see that intensifying over the next few years.
I’m not saying it is just or fair. But if you live somewhere that bought into the corona scam and voted for the same leaders your area is lost and cannot be redeemed. Your choices are to leave or be subjugated. There is no coming back from this for those areas
Yes. I believe only those of us who refused to get vaccinated experienced this period as a powerful enough incentive that they would switch political sides. If you know this whole thing is wrong, and you're being pressure into getting a vaccine that you absolutely don't want - that's enough to re-examine your beliefs and political belonging. If you're one of those who kinda trust the establishment... well maybe you don't like it, and you think government overreached somewhat... but you'll tell yourself they just made some mistakes because it was an emergency. You're certainly not going to vote for the "far right extremists and bigots" you're always warned about, just because you're not happy with some decisions that democrats made.
Because none of this was ever about a virus. Or climate change. Or bigotry. Or, or, or. All mere shibboleths to divide and to obscure the only real objective: power and control. Ever it was, ever it will be.
I think we were ushering in 1984 back in 1984; it was just that it tip-toed around the halls of power for several decades, seeping into cracks, and then in 2020 exploded out like the Stay-Puff man in Ghostbusters to wreak utter destruction Globally!
Maybe Twitter, who literally was the finest mouthpiece of that monster, can actually turn around and peck it's eyes out!?!
Yep, I think you’re spot on. Also, no matter anyone’s feelings of Trump, the result of his election is that it forced all of the rats out in the open for everyone willing to see, see. And that was sorely needed.
I'm a little embarrassed to admit, for practically all of the lead up to the election, I was of the mindset, "If they cheated in 2020, they're just going to do it again, so why expect anything different?"
Then I let myself get sucked in at the last minute and was disappointed when I shouldn't have been.
I have ❤ your comment about 30 times. The 1st 2 times it turned red, then erased it. Then it just quit doing anything.
The thing I'd like to add is, maybe China and Kennach (The Chinese company that runs our election software. --- I'm pretty sure I spelled it wrong.) deserve some of that thanks, too.
Actually, I think the Whitehouse Spokes-moppet very subtly answered a question she was not asked, and offered an answer to that question that everyone, or almost everyone, could agree with. Not a bad performance, from someone I loathe, TBH. The reporter asked about "misinformation" and how the popularity of Twitter should be controlled because of it. That's a bullshit control freak point-of-view. The press secretary answered that "hate should not be incited on any platform." Those are not the same thing! Hell, they barely relate to each other. Amazing how politicians, via their acolytes, in concert with the media, can create a narrative that did not exist, in only a minute.
Well, not really so different. It comes down to how one defines "hate". If we take the response in context of the last 4 or so years and examine what the current administration's party has deemed "hate speech", it includes pretty much any opposition to The Party. I think the answer included a not too subtle threat, too. These people are preaching with words like "moderation" the restriction of the most basic foundational principle of free and open debate. The premise upon which they stand remains absolutely false: that "hate speech" is dangerous, making a false equivalence of social media postings to actual violence. Acceptance of that premise, and anything launched from there, is a real danger to "our democracy" (which is a representative republic). This is not a new narrative at all. It is in fact as old as dictatorial domination by a minority with power. We can not allow dissent, it is dangerous.
Nope, I agree with non of her answer. Every word is wrong. The basic presumption is false. The censorship has to come from the reader: reject hate. Period. In all it's forms. EOM. You don't need nor should we tolerate government defining what is "hate".
What amazes me is how completely corrupted by elitism media has become, and how blind it has made them. Arguing that censorship is mandatory, and calling upon the chief executive to censor public discourse? From "the press"? That's insane on many levels. Equally amazing to me are the vast number of party faithful who suspend all logic and ignore thousands of years of history.
If AZ is lost, the Electoral College is lost. 2024 Dreaming. MI, WI, PA already stolen in 2022 sElections. democRats are Bolsheviks, planning ahead. Repubs not so much. CYA because TSHTF before 2 years are up, imo.
They co-opt terminology to reflect an ideological feeling, hiding behind the traditional definition, thus misleading ideological outsiders. Another example is "our Democracy". Democracy in its actual definition invokes a positive feeling for good reasons, especially among individualists as it grants power to the individual. But the inspiration they feel when using the word is not rooted in the actual definition. They've associated "democracy" with collectivism, which is the real wellspring of their inspiration. They've literally stolen the word from their ideological opponent. The maddening part is they're not aware of what they're doing. I'd say they're lying, but they're also lying to themselves. They're being led by pure ideological instinct.
OMG. The bios on the 4 contributors at Power Line. How did they find other conservatives in two of the darkest of blue states, CA and MN. There is hope.
She's America's prime example of an affirmative action hire at work. She's generally rather poorly informed so she uses a lot of gibberish to try to mask her ignorance.
In other news today another insane gubbermint worker appointed by Biden who oversees nuclear waste gets arrested. Why? Because he’s freaking crazy that’s why.
We can't keep just appointing "Check Box" candidates.
Diversity might be desirable if it occurs organically, by virtue of hiring the best person. Invariably, the best person for the job might look and behave differently that the person hiring.
Sure, diversity is nice. A lack of diversity _might_ be an indication that an employer isn't hiring the best people.
BUT - if your company/organization is diverse by force, then it's a sure sign that you haven't hired the best people.
They didn't hire the best person on purpose but, not having to turn a profit, they aren't subjected to bankruptcy or foreclosure.
The most important diversity is diversity of thought, and they are eliminating that as quickly as possible. All they have is a bunch of uniformly terrible people who are superficially 'diverse' -- as if all people from 'marginalized' groups are interchangeable and think the same way.
Allow me to play devils advocate. General Lloyd Austin has proven beyond the shadow of a doubt that a man of color can be a corrupt, strategically idiotic, warmongering, bloodthirsty Neocon as good as any white man can be. Boola Boola for Affirmative Action there !!
"DEFENDANT stated they left the clothes from the bag inside the drawers in the hotel room." Makes you wonder what this mutant does with the nuclear and other waste it apparently manages...secretly sending it to red states maybe.
They (the Biden Admin) are intentionally flaunting this idiocy in our faces, knowing for normal healthy people it as a travesty and an insult. They hate everything good about America and the values underpinning it. The awful thing is, they fear no consequences, because there are none. That is our fault.
If he can appropriate womanhood, why can't he appropriate a woman's luggage and her clothing too? Nobody thinks he actually left the clothes in his hotel room and only kept the suitcase (the hotel apparently confirmed no clothing was found after he checked out).
Malign creativity!!! Remember when Elon was a political darling? I scarcely can. I don't trust him to act in altruism here but I do trust him to be an iconoclast.
Well, he is definitely an iconoclast. And, currently he’s on our side. It has cost him. May cost him more. Hopefully his internal moral compass and strength of character will cause/allow him to persevere .
I agree with this sentiment, but I gotta say SM has really helped me to meet a lot of dissidents in person. People I didn't even know were out there when I was really lonely. So there is that!
One of problems with ‘online’ movements is that they’re, well, online. A group of 100,000 people may be a large one online, but when these people attempt to make real-world change, they tend to find they are actually quite spread out. This is something we discovered during the Ron Paul years, and something that Bernie supporters faced during his election runs.
So goal #1 in moving a movement from online into meatspace is finding meatsuits in your area. It sounds simple, but without this step nothing else matters. Connecting with like-minded people in person not only grows the support network, it’s also incredibly cathartic after a couple years of being forced apart and bullied by our peers!
How far we have gone down the road to tyranny, when the notion of government agents "keeping an eye on" people speaking their minds is just a throw-away line in a white house press conference. The very notion should enrage the population -- at least the portion that are not sheep. But I fear that that potion is becoming critically small.
When these woke lunatics use the term “freespeech” they are not talking about free speech. They are not using the term the way say Thomas Jefferson might have used the term. Or what most of us here in this forum think the term means based on an understanding of the American constitutional tradition. They are using the term with a different meaning.
We have to always remember that the left and progressives are expert at perverting and inverting words and phrases into meaning the exact opposite of what they have historically meant
The term “liberal” Is a prime example. 150 years ago liberal Meant laissez-faire limited government. Now it means nanny state authoritarianism. Because actual economic freedom is considered synonymous with oppression , exploitation, wage slavery and whole host of ridiculous false economically ignorant tropes.
In true Orwellian fashion the liberals and progressives have perverted the meaning of free speech, into a phrase similar to Orwells’ “rightthink”
To these shrieking ideologues freespeech means expressing only ideas that they agree with, that they approve of, that dont offend their sensibilities.
For them real honest expression of a truth to which they disagree is a form of hate or violence
They have a whole lexicon of perverted inverted terms
For us everything they say is a lie, everything is an obfuscation, a misdirection and perversion.
That’s what I came here to say! I have never really liked Twitter, I’m a loyal consumer once I find a brand I like and FB won that fight long ago. But fuck they sure don’t want to keep me around. The shadow banning is really a psychological mind fuck and I’m kinda reaching my limit in these dark days. After reading this I am more inclined to go where I never thought I would simply to support the idea. Interesting times.
I think once the suppression files are released it will show that we are much closer to the China model than we ever thought we would allow ourselves to be.
you know what's funny is how all my classmates wrung their hands about Trump and his "authoritarianism." they were aghast that americans had an appetite for it. now, either crickets or shrieking to stay home and save lives. to this day!
I find it RICH, this Jean Pierre dribble coming from the spokesmouth of the regime that regularly through direct links told their collaborators on social media what to censor and what to lie about! What a CLOWN SHOW!
But, see, they're the good guys, so they can't be wrong. Censorship is OK if the other side is the bad guys. And the other side is obviously lying since they are the bad guys.
I say that sarcastically, but it's actually pretty close to how they feel.
Nothing is out of bounds for this mealy mouth tyrants. They have named those that don’t goose step to there orders dangerous terrorists. Anyone that disagrees with there enlightened narrative is an enemy of the state and a threat to democracy. Fuck them all.
Maybe we should all organize a Misinformation Pageant. The could be Mis USA, Mis Universe.
Everyone could send in their best misinformation finds and we could compile them and vote. The we could make up some prize to send to the winner and the runners up.
My god, how I have come to hate the term "misinformation". They basically use it as a synonym for "unapproved".
And it's not like it's complicated. It's not like the "misinformation" is untrue. Surely these people can see the data and the evidence and the truth of the situation, but they reject it for... ideology?
These people make me sick... and we are stuck with them - at least the elected ones - for at least two more years.
Thanks America
i am coming to love it because it's so overused and so obviously dishonest.
it's going to go the same way as woke.
it starts as a rallying cry to signal faux virtue.
it will end as a millstone chained around their necks and a pejorative they cannot escape.
I'd like to see the term "conspiracy theory" go the same way as "woke." As with the term "misinformation, " denigration of critical thinking as mere "conspiracy theory" has done grievous harm to public discourse over the decades.
In 2020 I saw people on Twitter openly mocking the notion of critical thinking, reacting to well-reasoned posts as if it were an established fact that thinking for yourself is ridiculous in a world of credentialed Experts™ telling you how to think.
and then the "amateurs" mopped the floor with the wizards of woo-woo and utterly demolished their credibility.
and everyone saw it.
and the views of the middle shifted to "wow, these "experts" are self serving demagogues and fools who do nothing but lie."
i think people really underestimate how seismic a shift just took place in terms of trust in institutions.
The jobs not over. We need to continue to demolish the edifice of lies our institutions are constructed upon.
We're in the top of the second coach! Lots of ball left to play.
Thank you for all that you've done Mr. Bad Cat!
We need to be very wary and very active, imho. The other side is still writing Presidential Orders making cellular manipulation our goal and the International Treaty on PANDEMIC response is moving forward.
As are CBDCs. And Canada is moving forward on the trail of Euthanizia for dissidents.
Our world is hanging in the balance and we need every Bad Cat we can get!!!!
Many of us have seen it but most have not unfortunately. The majority now realize the vax doesn't work but that's as far as they'll take their thinking, i.e. it didn't work as well as they expected. Oh well, no one's perfect.
The idea that the "experts" were lying or making it up as they went along still isn't in the general public's consciousness. That the vax was a massive money-making fraud (at best, possibly much worse) still hasn't registered with them. The comment section here is not representative of the public at large.
I have a minor surgery upcoming and as part of the registration the nurse asked me "if I was up to date on my immunizations". I responded that as an adult I'm not required to have any immunizations therefore there is no such thing as "up to date". She clarified that she meant covid and flu, and I replied that I was declining to answer the question (as is my right).
How many people would have taken her question literally and thought it really was required? Or felt shame if they weren't "up to date"? Most I'm willing to bet. Sadly, the public still doesn't get it. Lockdown politicians paid zero price in the latest mid-term elections in the US, and most people aren't mad about them. People are done with Covid in general and won't tolerate more lockdowns (most likely) but they have not yet realized how badly they were misled.
Don’t sign the form allowing biologics! Jibby jabs fall under biologics but they won’t tell you that. I don’t put it past Drs and nurses to jab unconscious patients.
P.S. Lockdown politicians reaped rewards in 2020. The lockdowns made defeating Trump possible, among other political benefits. Then of course there's the personal enrichment from being able to choose which businesses are "essential" (follow the money).
Still too many people clinging to the new definition of vaccine that doesn't vaccinate. Too many believing (with a lot of effort) when they get sick that "it would have been worse if I were not vaccinated". You can show them papers, numbers, text-books (published before 2020) defining what vaccines do (immunize), and they still reject it as "misinformation from the anti-vax conspiracy".
I agree with your assessment. Tragically, will any of those who didn't do any research & were sheeple learn anything from this? Will they be so trusting the next time? I wonder as memories are short in the sheeple community. Fear reigns supreme.
I think those who took the jab don't want to hear about the side effects as this would make them confront their naviete then admit they screwed up. I have a friend whose son in law is now experiencing heart problems . No prior condition and the drs are "baffled" Yes, he got the jab. So, now the scramble to get him better and asking me for research assistance. Heavy sigh! And no my friend didn't get the jab & is saddened that her s-in- law didn't listen to her.
I have the same conceptions and, of course, I think you are completely correct.
I had to visit an urgent care center last month while out of town (minor but painful infected finger). The nurse who took care of me asked a string of basic health questions ending with, "Have you received a Covid-19 vaccination?" I paused for a moment and then answered, "I decline to state." I have no idea why I put it like that, but she actually laughed and said "Good for you." Took great care of my finger too. They haven't all sold their souls in the medical profession.
I think a lot of people assume the Covid shot just "missed the mark" similar to how the yearly flu shot sometimes does. They won't think any farther than that, however.
Yet, the same people responsible for that loss of trust continue to be re-elected or remain in their positions. Dan Andrews, for example? Jeezus!
And Gretchen Hitler in Michigan.
I still can't get over that.
I like to think that the elections are stolen, otherwise my heart would burst
S.elected…
I'm not so old that I can't remember those not-infrequent big exposes in the NYT and WaPo etc. on the annual death tolls from medical malpractice and how every prudent consumer of healthcare should get second opinions, and how legislation was even passed so health insurers had to pay for them, and how doing one's own research was, like, what the smart people did.
Crazy times them was.
IN the end the "experts" did not show their work. We have to laugh in the faces of people that still mask and talk about injections and not shy away from polite conversation.
Experts who were completely wrong and should be the target of unrelenting, aggressive derision.
I have some sympathy for a masked driver - I don't know their circs or how indoctrinated they might be - I have nothing but I loathe those same who have decreed that should likewise be masked and afraid, by force if necessary.
Even yesterday Fauci got some Good Old Fashioned Softball Screen Time.
I wish we knew how to Quit Experts.
I have held the same deep unrequited longing in my heart.....
Please God, save me from the EXPERTS!!
I like this spasm of boriquagatoan optimism, but "everyone"? Do you really think the middle has shifted? I hope you are right, because I have felt for a while that -- heretic internet felines and Gatopals™ notwithstanding -- Home sapiens is a failed species.
My husband is in Germany, the home of utter and abject obedience to the "party line" as decreed by experts, and he says all of them, (the forced vax, lockdown, 25,000 Euro fine for failing to mask, types) are literally hiding in corners, terrified of facing the public.
That is the best news I've heard in a very long time.
If the Germans can get out of their mass formation any nation can!
I think the middle is the most influential portion of the electorate. They're just not very vocal. Ds are gonna vote D, Rs are going to vote R. Winning the middle is the goal of every candidate not in a Midnight Blue state like, say, MD. My home state.
Side-ish note: So, for $5 a month you're saying I, too, can be a Gatopal?
Is there an initiation? A secret handshake? Will there be snacks?
Keep thinking to yourself : Overton Overton Overton
Sadly my optimism is as doomed as yours. Albeit the few, too much cognitive dissonance to dislodge.
I would’ve liked to have seen about 5x as many wake up to the corrupt incestuous relationship between big pharma + big govt = medical mafia
I wish about 5x as many had Stopped blindly following along with tyranny so they could keep participating in an ever more perverse & self destructive society.
"and everyone saw it"
Sadly not in my experience, plenty of mostly middle class types refusing to believe anything outside of the official narrative.
I rarely use "everyone" in anything I say because it's just not true. That's kind of what I found what was wrong with the narrative to begin with. Just about every media outlet was saying the same thing. That was what raised a red flag for me. Get two people in a room and even if they agree on the same solution, did they reach it for the same reason?
And now that time has passed and the narrative has not aged well, we will hear a variety of rationalizations. "We didn't know, we were in the dark" is one, and another one is "I thought I would lose my job" is another...but there are many reasons...
Certainly there are a lot of the "professionals" that are deeply upset by the "amateurs'". It has been interesting to watch.
For decades I've advised and encouraged people to seek primary sources when available. For example, to understand the potential impact of proposed legislation, read the bill yourself. It is surprising how many people simple refuse. Almost as though they know that it will reveal that what their party and the media has told them about it won't hold up if they know what's really in it. In my family I'm a troublemaker because I won't tell them what I think of a bill - I tell them to read it first, and then I'll be happy to discuss it. Outrageous, huh?
The freaking bills though can be incredible long, and I think that is part of why congress gets away with so much. They can write a 1000 page bill chalked with all sorts of crap, and most people don't bother to read it. This pandemic had me reading studies, and abstracts because I wanted to know where the narrative and the study deviated.
Al I know is, when the google search result has "CNN" as its source, I will sometimes read it, but am rarely if ever surprised. I see the source as more of a warning sign than a sign of objective journalism.
How many people do you know who actually think? Most avoid thinking as if it would kill them to do so. People seem to hunger to be led, which means they want to be told what to do and what to think. That gives a huge amount of power to the people they’re asking. And very few can turn away from exercising power.
Michael Crichton in his novel, Dealing (from the 70s): Power is not usually taken; it is usually given. And once given, it is not returned.
I suspect Crichton would have been good to have around the past couple years, as he would almost certainly have been on Team Reality. RFK Jr included an observation from Crichton in the Fauci book. The last part reads:
"There is no such thing as consensus science. If it's consensus, it isn't science. If it's science, it isn't consensus. Period."
(Which I co-opted it for my pinned tweet in my -- sniff, sniff -- blocked Twatter account
<!-- Yes, speaking in Killick -->).
https://twitter.com/mr_pique
Yet where the "climate change" meme is concerned, RFK Jr follows the herd and in direct opposition to Crichton's position on it.
"People are best instructed WHAT TO THINK. No one gets booted from the tribe if you buy into and recite the approved narrative. Obeying your elite masters is good."
Repeat the above ten times upon arising each morning.
' Smith!' screamed the shrewish voice from the telescreen. '6079 Smith W.! Yes, you! Bend lower, please! You can do better than that. You're not trying. Lower, please! That's better, comrade. Now stand at ease, the whole squad, and watch me.'
Sure. One-two...ten.
critical thinking is the opposite of dogma. I stepped out of church because of catholic dogma and i stepped out of my family because of bullying so recgnize the signs. That will awaken your sense of critical thinking ! No experts here.
"In 2020 I saw people on Twitter openly mocking the notion of critical thinking, reacting to well-reasoned posts as if it were an established fact that thinking for yourself is ridiculous in a world of credentialed Experts™ telling you how to think."
And, no doubt, those same people on Twitter had for three years been loudly denouncing the threat of "authoritarianism" that Trump supposedly represented.
That's solid proof of 1) psychosis, or 2) psyop. Take your pick!
"Conspiracy theory" has been so misused that it spawned the online meme:
'Q: What's the difference between a conspiracy theory and a fact?
A: About six months.'
it's going to go the same as racist, meaningless words now
thats right. A while back I was having a discussion about investments in a mixed group and I mentioned that gold bullion is a historically good hedge against inflation and this younger guy in the group insisted that investing in gold and talking about wealth or preserving purchasing power was racist. I pressed him on why he thought that and has Ayn Rand used to write "blank out"
Presumably, that's why the top tier of BLM don't like to discuss wealth or preserving puchasing power?
Francisco d'Anconia would like to have a word with your young friend.
Anytime
I pray you are correct.
It’s going the same way as “fake news”. “Fake news” was a termed popularized by NYT when trying to question the 2016 election, but Trump immediately started using it and it became a MAGA term. The same thing will happen to “misinformation”. Luckily, we now have the term “malinformation” that the woke tribe can switch to using.
I am sick of all the deceit and games
malinformation implying intent of evil ?
Anything that comes out of the criminal syndicate that calls itself "our government" should be called "piss-information" a la Bob Moran.
https://www.bobmoran.co.uk/other-work/pissinformaation-original-artwork
A leftist euphemism for "what you call truth, but our expert, highly trained and college educated propaganda and indoctrination specialists call misinformation, which in point of fact, therefore, heretoforeafter makes misinformation misinformation, if you know what I mean, Tigger.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/08/power-lines-lexicon-of-leftist-terms-update-2.php
along the way witches will be burned at the stake.
I have noticed a uptick in defenders of the term "woke". Many posts on social media proudly proclaiming themselves as "woke" and decreeing their superiority to the "non-woke". In one I asked the proclaimer to explain to me, an undeniably white male of over 60, what "woke" means. "if you have to ask, you ain't woke" was the response.
Pejorative: A word or phrase that has negative connotations. Meant to disparage or belittle.
The obvious irony is they are the ones spreading misinformation, while claiming to fight misinformation so that people can't honestly fact check their misinformation.
YES!
What they really mean is, "Doesn't agree with the official narrative that I have been asked to spread."
Ugh
*told to spread
Right! When will they be held responsible? Anyone know when Hell is freezing over?
Right........nooooow.
Great
Science is a process that is observable, repeatable and predictable and you have to show your work. Everything else is propaganda.
I pass out masks all the time at my kids play group, parties and gathering as a joke. Everyone knows my position but it is too much fun to force them to fight against me handing them a mask with phrases like, "you never know" , "if it saves one life" or my favourite "Do it for grandma".
I wore one during any required masking to other states that I had written “PLACEBO” on, in large neat sharpie. 😄
Hilarious.
You know, I used to think that the crazy ones were those who still wear masks, now that it's no longer mandatory and most people stopped doing it. But recently I've started to feel like I respect them more than the others. At least they are more consistent.
They were told there's a pandemic and masks will protect them, so they started wearing masks. Nobody proved that Covid is gone, which it's not. So they continue wearing the masks.
Meanwhile, those that have seemingly gone back to normal - what's up with that? They were told to be afraid and wear masks, so they did, and gave the rest of us angry looks, and worse. Now they all just stopped, and they're acting normal again. What's up? The virus still exists! And you wanna just stop and pretend like nothing ever happened? And I'm supposed to treat you all like nice, normal people now that you've all decided to stop acting like crazy OCD fascists? I mean, at least some explanation or an apology would be nice!
the mask is an IQ test now. If you wear one knowing that masks do not stop transmission or infection, you are an idiot. Why? Because the people of japan wore masks and still got covid. If you walk into a cigar lounge and still smell the smoke you will prove to yourself that mask does not stop you from smelling smoke that is the same size as the COVID. WTF. Science, its repeatable, observable and predictable. Dont need anyone else to know this is true.
Yukon Dave, you have a warped sense of humor. Just like me, I love it
Not just misinformation but also gaslighting, indoctrination, and targeted propaganda while at the same time suppressing actual truth and actual science
Look at what they did during Covid. The suppression of the truths regarding ivermectin/hydroxy and other at home life saving treatments actually killed people. They lied about the vaccines. They lied about Covid deaths. They lied about the PCR tests and masks. They lied about two weeks to flatten the curve.
All of these people, from the lying media and government officials to the they/them Twitter censors deserve their final destination, a hard landing on the trash heap of history. Good riddance.
No doubt. It's a huge, huge crime all around. And they're not done. They won't face justice, unfortunately. But at least we can continue to build our lives and communities without them, and gradually make them weaker and irrelevant.
“Not just misinformation but also gaslighting, indoctrination, and targeted propaganda while at the same time suppressing actual truth and actual science” Hmmmmm. 🤔there should be a word for this.
Anyone whose Twitter account carried the vids of Biden and Wallensky saying that the vaxes were a 'dead end' for Covid should obviously have been banned forthwith.
They were SELECTED, not elected!
If we're considering eliminating Alphabet Bureaucracies, I recommend that the Dept of Ed be first on the block.
PI Guy, your recommendation is an excellent selection.
Unfortunately, many people are stuck with them for a lot longer than that. If Gov’s Whitmer, Houchel, and Pritzker can be re-elected, then the majority of their voters must love the iron fist? Thank God I live in Free Florida.
Unless... and it is hard to imagine this could actually be... the democrats those lovers and purveyors of all things democratic would actually cheat and rig the elections! Nah, that would never happen.
dont even think it
Sounds like thought crime to me!
I've said many times already on multiple substacks that the fact that not a single lockdowner lost reelection is yet another flashing sign to me that America is gone. People are so tribal that they'll willingly endure tyranny and subjugation so long as their team is holding the whip.
Gretchen Whitmer should have lost to dead Jeffrey Dahmer by 99 points and by a closer margin to anyone else.
I'm sorry, but the people in those states now deserve everything that's coming to them in the future: more masks, more lockdowns, more vaccine mandates. They asked for to and they need to get it good and hard.
EDIT: And before anyone says it, cheating in elections - which is real - only works if the margin is close. A sufficiently large enough segment of the population voted for this that they were able to cheat in the first place. Whitmer won by 10+ points. You can't cheat that big of a margin.
> not a single lockdowner lost reelection
I'm looking forward to Steve Sisolak getting sent home from Carson City next month. That's one of the few bright spots in a generally shitty election.
Yes, that's a good catch. I need to modify my statement!
Hugo Chavez routinely 'won' with 70% of the 'votes' in a country where ~80% of the people despised him. Using the Diebold/Dominion/Smartmatic equipment.
In 1995 Saddam Hussein got 99.96% of the vote. Must be a record!
The way to do that is the same as they did in the Soviet Union -- there's only one candidate on the ballot. Chavez was trying to give the impression of 'winning' when there were other candidates on the ballot, and the people despised him.
When Smartmatic/Dominion/Diebold went to Venezuela and tried to sell him the 'fastest, most accurate' voting machines in the world, he told them he wanted machines that would guarantee he won, not the most accurate machines. And he would pay handsomely, for such machines. So they went back to the drawing board and built what he asked for.
Since then they found that dictators and wanna-be dictators the world around actually wanted the same thing. And that is how we are, where we are.
If the algorithm is set at + 10 points, then the win will be 10 points.
Why does the margin need to be close to cheat? I would imagine any cheating mechanisms would work no matter the margin? Would love more info!
It all depends on the cheating mechanism. There are many ways to fraud an election, from voting more than once, ballot harvesting, voting for dead people and people in nursing homes and other such ballot manipulations. In those cases, there is a limit to how much fraud can be implemented.
But the machines are capable of switching votes (it happened 'by mistake' in Antrim County, Mich., 2020) and they can do it by large margins, which is how Hugo Chavez won when the country for the most part hated him. There is no limit to the amount of cheating that can be implemented when you have machines that are up to the task.
Why should millions of anti-lockdowners who live in lockdown states be punished?
They shouldn't be, they need to move the hell out of there.
Exactly what I would have written in response.
A big part of the election results was apparently due to geographical sorting. People are moving. I can only see that intensifying over the next few years.
I'm retired, 76 years old, and in bad health. I'm not moving anywhere.
I’m not saying it is just or fair. But if you live somewhere that bought into the corona scam and voted for the same leaders your area is lost and cannot be redeemed. Your choices are to leave or be subjugated. There is no coming back from this for those areas
Sounds like a good choice, especially if moving would involve airplane travel.
Yes. I believe only those of us who refused to get vaccinated experienced this period as a powerful enough incentive that they would switch political sides. If you know this whole thing is wrong, and you're being pressure into getting a vaccine that you absolutely don't want - that's enough to re-examine your beliefs and political belonging. If you're one of those who kinda trust the establishment... well maybe you don't like it, and you think government overreached somewhat... but you'll tell yourself they just made some mistakes because it was an emergency. You're certainly not going to vote for the "far right extremists and bigots" you're always warned about, just because you're not happy with some decisions that democrats made.
Your last statement is the pertinent one for this election.
They didn't like the lockdowns, but, like I said, they can't fathom voting for the "bad guys" either, so they'll endure it.
Tribe over everything.
If you're still thinking this was an 'emergency' then you're past saving anyway.
Ditto!! on Florida😎
:-)
Because none of this was ever about a virus. Or climate change. Or bigotry. Or, or, or. All mere shibboleths to divide and to obscure the only real objective: power and control. Ever it was, ever it will be.
More like SELECTED ones.
I think we were ushering in 1984 back in 1984; it was just that it tip-toed around the halls of power for several decades, seeping into cracks, and then in 2020 exploded out like the Stay-Puff man in Ghostbusters to wreak utter destruction Globally!
Maybe Twitter, who literally was the finest mouthpiece of that monster, can actually turn around and peck it's eyes out!?!
What fun that would be.
🤞
Yep, I think you’re spot on. Also, no matter anyone’s feelings of Trump, the result of his election is that it forced all of the rats out in the open for everyone willing to see, see. And that was sorely needed.
"at least two more years?" We have lost honest elections altogether unless we massively intervene as the disenfranchised citizens we have become.
I think that is fair.
I'm a little embarrassed to admit, for practically all of the lead up to the election, I was of the mindset, "If they cheated in 2020, they're just going to do it again, so why expect anything different?"
Then I let myself get sucked in at the last minute and was disappointed when I shouldn't have been.
Won't be fooled again.
Yes!
Get to the "intervening!" Everyone!
👍
Could be worse.,,you could be stuck in canada. 😭
I have ❤ your comment about 30 times. The 1st 2 times it turned red, then erased it. Then it just quit doing anything.
The thing I'd like to add is, maybe China and Kennach (The Chinese company that runs our election software. --- I'm pretty sure I spelled it wrong.) deserve some of that thanks, too.
Actually, I think the Whitehouse Spokes-moppet very subtly answered a question she was not asked, and offered an answer to that question that everyone, or almost everyone, could agree with. Not a bad performance, from someone I loathe, TBH. The reporter asked about "misinformation" and how the popularity of Twitter should be controlled because of it. That's a bullshit control freak point-of-view. The press secretary answered that "hate should not be incited on any platform." Those are not the same thing! Hell, they barely relate to each other. Amazing how politicians, via their acolytes, in concert with the media, can create a narrative that did not exist, in only a minute.
Well, not really so different. It comes down to how one defines "hate". If we take the response in context of the last 4 or so years and examine what the current administration's party has deemed "hate speech", it includes pretty much any opposition to The Party. I think the answer included a not too subtle threat, too. These people are preaching with words like "moderation" the restriction of the most basic foundational principle of free and open debate. The premise upon which they stand remains absolutely false: that "hate speech" is dangerous, making a false equivalence of social media postings to actual violence. Acceptance of that premise, and anything launched from there, is a real danger to "our democracy" (which is a representative republic). This is not a new narrative at all. It is in fact as old as dictatorial domination by a minority with power. We can not allow dissent, it is dangerous.
Nope, I agree with non of her answer. Every word is wrong. The basic presumption is false. The censorship has to come from the reader: reject hate. Period. In all it's forms. EOM. You don't need nor should we tolerate government defining what is "hate".
What amazes me is how completely corrupted by elitism media has become, and how blind it has made them. Arguing that censorship is mandatory, and calling upon the chief executive to censor public discourse? From "the press"? That's insane on many levels. Equally amazing to me are the vast number of party faithful who suspend all logic and ignore thousands of years of history.
I hear you. Makes sense! Making false equivalences is what they appear to worship.
Even asking questions is now 'misinformation' as well as 'anti-democracy'.
If AZ is lost, the Electoral College is lost. 2024 Dreaming. MI, WI, PA already stolen in 2022 sElections. democRats are Bolsheviks, planning ahead. Repubs not so much. CYA because TSHTF before 2 years are up, imo.
genearly.substack.com
They co-opt terminology to reflect an ideological feeling, hiding behind the traditional definition, thus misleading ideological outsiders. Another example is "our Democracy". Democracy in its actual definition invokes a positive feeling for good reasons, especially among individualists as it grants power to the individual. But the inspiration they feel when using the word is not rooted in the actual definition. They've associated "democracy" with collectivism, which is the real wellspring of their inspiration. They've literally stolen the word from their ideological opponent. The maddening part is they're not aware of what they're doing. I'd say they're lying, but they're also lying to themselves. They're being led by pure ideological instinct.
I believe you should be thanking Ukraine. Without all that laundered money the Dems got, we wouldn’t have all those clowns in DC.
I prefer clowns from the circus. They don't use our tax money to make us laugh!
The clowns in DC don't make me laugh, at all.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/08/power-lines-lexicon-of-leftist-terms-update-2.php
These are great! Thanks.
OMG. The bios on the 4 contributors at Power Line. How did they find other conservatives in two of the darkest of blue states, CA and MN. There is hope.
Yes. Th ere is alwys hope
Funny thing how nobody needed "fact checkers" until the truth started coming out.
woa your avatar is dope
It is magnetic energies at the bottom of a spiral the cross being at the bottom........this is for our universe.
kinda like how we need more Diversity and Inclusion and Equality every year since The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 was passed.
Over Here, we're wondering why it takes that girl from TWH Press Office a hundred words to say what could be fitted into ten?
Misinformation is convoluted and lengthy. : )
She loves to hear herself talk
Most of her answers can be ‘we are monitoring this closely’ followed by ‘the President is firmly committed to ________’.
She's America's prime example of an affirmative action hire at work. She's generally rather poorly informed so she uses a lot of gibberish to try to mask her ignorance.
She's incredibly bad at her job, landing squarely between laughable and cringe worthy every time she answers a question.
Lots of actors in the WH.
She's a slow reader. And not very good at memorizing her lines.
She's a graduate of Doktor Jordan Peterson's Online School of Rhetorical Doublespeak, Scholarly Subversion, Truthishness, and Room Cleaning.
In other news today another insane gubbermint worker appointed by Biden who oversees nuclear waste gets arrested. Why? Because he’s freaking crazy that’s why.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/bidens-gender-fluid-nuclear-official-charged-felony-theft-after-lying-cops?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
"stealing is non-buy-inary."
LOL!! - Had to post this on twitter (I did give you credit though)
Bravo
https://youtu.be/CBE_eo_JGPM
You can’t make this shit up.
We can't keep just appointing "Check Box" candidates.
Diversity might be desirable if it occurs organically, by virtue of hiring the best person. Invariably, the best person for the job might look and behave differently that the person hiring.
Sure, diversity is nice. A lack of diversity _might_ be an indication that an employer isn't hiring the best people.
BUT - if your company/organization is diverse by force, then it's a sure sign that you haven't hired the best people.
They didn't hire the best person on purpose but, not having to turn a profit, they aren't subjected to bankruptcy or foreclosure.
The most important diversity is diversity of thought, and they are eliminating that as quickly as possible. All they have is a bunch of uniformly terrible people who are superficially 'diverse' -- as if all people from 'marginalized' groups are interchangeable and think the same way.
Allow me to play devils advocate. General Lloyd Austin has proven beyond the shadow of a doubt that a man of color can be a corrupt, strategically idiotic, warmongering, bloodthirsty Neocon as good as any white man can be. Boola Boola for Affirmative Action there !!
I'm pretty sure that neocons are just Democrats who don't like the gays or pot smokers.
Other than that, they want pretty much the same thing: Power over you.
"DEFENDANT stated they left the clothes from the bag inside the drawers in the hotel room." Makes you wonder what this mutant does with the nuclear and other waste it apparently manages...secretly sending it to red states maybe.
"Makes you wonder what this mutant does with the nuclear and other waste..."
That's what the $2,000 luggage is for.
#Science
Ha! Of course, our government at work.
😂
Wow! Mental illness on multiple fronts
Yes it’s especially telling as that lipstick simply isn’t his proper shade.
Actually snorted at that one.
He says he has over a decade working in nuclear waste...but he's still standing! What gives?
No brain damage is apparent either. He’s a miracle of science and a testimony that Fallout Is Indeed Good For You.
So that is what a woke Lex Luthor looks like.
Lexi Luther
Lex Luthor (when Gene Hackman played him at least) was much better looking.
Yes and was much better matching high heels with handbags like Corporal Klinger on MASH.
Check out this photo of Rachel Levine and Sam Brinton. I don't know when I've seen anything more hideous than the two of them. Seriously mentally ill. Also....they must be the laughing stock of the world. No other country does this kind of ludicrous thing. https://www.survivethenews.com/bidens-transgender-assistant-health-secretary-rachel-levine-and-gender-fluid-pup-handler-sam-brinton-attend-french-ambassadors-bastille-day-party/
They (the Biden Admin) are intentionally flaunting this idiocy in our faces, knowing for normal healthy people it as a travesty and an insult. They hate everything good about America and the values underpinning it. The awful thing is, they fear no consequences, because there are none. That is our fault.
Perhaps they thought it was a Halloween Party?
If he can appropriate womanhood, why can't he appropriate a woman's luggage and her clothing too? Nobody thinks he actually left the clothes in his hotel room and only kept the suitcase (the hotel apparently confirmed no clothing was found after he checked out).
Malign creativity!!! Remember when Elon was a political darling? I scarcely can. I don't trust him to act in altruism here but I do trust him to be an iconoclast.
Well, he is definitely an iconoclast. And, currently he’s on our side. It has cost him. May cost him more. Hopefully his internal moral compass and strength of character will cause/allow him to persevere .
real dissidents know better than to be on social media. real dissidents live in the real world and meet in person
I agree with this sentiment, but I gotta say SM has really helped me to meet a lot of dissidents in person. People I didn't even know were out there when I was really lonely. So there is that!
Yep. Substack won't be here forever.
https://simulationcommander.substack.com/p/this-is-not-a-drill-part-2
One of problems with ‘online’ movements is that they’re, well, online. A group of 100,000 people may be a large one online, but when these people attempt to make real-world change, they tend to find they are actually quite spread out. This is something we discovered during the Ron Paul years, and something that Bernie supporters faced during his election runs.
So goal #1 in moving a movement from online into meatspace is finding meatsuits in your area. It sounds simple, but without this step nothing else matters. Connecting with like-minded people in person not only grows the support network, it’s also incredibly cathartic after a couple years of being forced apart and bullied by our peers!
How far we have gone down the road to tyranny, when the notion of government agents "keeping an eye on" people speaking their minds is just a throw-away line in a white house press conference. The very notion should enrage the population -- at least the portion that are not sheep. But I fear that that potion is becoming critically small.
Here we are, November 2022. It seems things just keeps getting amazingly amazinger.
"Amazingly amazinger" and not in a good way.
When these woke lunatics use the term “freespeech” they are not talking about free speech. They are not using the term the way say Thomas Jefferson might have used the term. Or what most of us here in this forum think the term means based on an understanding of the American constitutional tradition. They are using the term with a different meaning.
We have to always remember that the left and progressives are expert at perverting and inverting words and phrases into meaning the exact opposite of what they have historically meant
The term “liberal” Is a prime example. 150 years ago liberal Meant laissez-faire limited government. Now it means nanny state authoritarianism. Because actual economic freedom is considered synonymous with oppression , exploitation, wage slavery and whole host of ridiculous false economically ignorant tropes.
In true Orwellian fashion the liberals and progressives have perverted the meaning of free speech, into a phrase similar to Orwells’ “rightthink”
To these shrieking ideologues freespeech means expressing only ideas that they agree with, that they approve of, that dont offend their sensibilities.
For them real honest expression of a truth to which they disagree is a form of hate or violence
They have a whole lexicon of perverted inverted terms
For us everything they say is a lie, everything is an obfuscation, a misdirection and perversion.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/08/power-lines-lexicon-of-leftist-terms-update-2.php
Inversion is satanism. Calling good evil and evil good. It's all around us in this day, indeed.
Are you back on Twitter? I’ll sign up for this if you are
my real account (and the kitten's) are still suspended.
I much prefer to read your Substack, dear bad kitty.
I saw that 60,000 suspended accounts are being reinstated this week.
That’s fine, I can wait as long as it takes 😊
I can wait longer. LOL.
I prefer the substack format anyway.
'my real account' now that's a bad kitty 😂❤️ 😂💯
That’s what I came here to say! I have never really liked Twitter, I’m a loyal consumer once I find a brand I like and FB won that fight long ago. But fuck they sure don’t want to keep me around. The shadow banning is really a psychological mind fuck and I’m kinda reaching my limit in these dark days. After reading this I am more inclined to go where I never thought I would simply to support the idea. Interesting times.
I think once the suppression files are released it will show that we are much closer to the China model than we ever thought we would allow ourselves to be.
you know what's funny is how all my classmates wrung their hands about Trump and his "authoritarianism." they were aghast that americans had an appetite for it. now, either crickets or shrieking to stay home and save lives. to this day!
They're incapable of shame (see also "COVID Soyjak Amnesty) so this might only motivate the censors to censor harder.
I never thought I would sign up or join something like twitter but I am tempted just to show support for non sensored speech.
A lot of the covid docs and whistleblowers are supposedly being reinstated this week (60K suspended accounts to be turned back on).
That's why joined a couple days ago; to support Elon in his cause.
Me too.
"vector of misinformation." Lost in Space meets Man From U.N.C.L.E.
I loved "the cat in a hat" Elon did Dr. Seuss and el gato malo proud.
white house correspondent with a hairdo from “the hunger games badguy salon” made belly laugh and almost spit my coffee.
My God Almighty! That thing -- that spokesthing? She is completely and utterly unwatchable. There are no words...for that moron. (Well, there's one.)
Thing? 😁
I find it RICH, this Jean Pierre dribble coming from the spokesmouth of the regime that regularly through direct links told their collaborators on social media what to censor and what to lie about! What a CLOWN SHOW!
But, see, they're the good guys, so they can't be wrong. Censorship is OK if the other side is the bad guys. And the other side is obviously lying since they are the bad guys.
I say that sarcastically, but it's actually pretty close to how they feel.
That's exactly how they think.
Nothing is out of bounds for this mealy mouth tyrants. They have named those that don’t goose step to there orders dangerous terrorists. Anyone that disagrees with there enlightened narrative is an enemy of the state and a threat to democracy. Fuck them all.
We can all sleep in our beds in the knowledge the government is keeping a close eye on misinformation. Yeah right!
Maybe we should all organize a Misinformation Pageant. The could be Mis USA, Mis Universe.
Everyone could send in their best misinformation finds and we could compile them and vote. The we could make up some prize to send to the winner and the runners up.
The winner will be crowned "Miss Understood" by The Ministry of Narrative Distributions.
"No, no, that's not what <insert name prominent Dem pol here> said. You just didn't understand."