Sadly Ryan, there are way too many people that are addicted to leftist media.
They are strung out on "experts" They are dependent on those ppl to
give them rules to live by. Funny and odd how those "antifa" people are the ones burning and destroying our country, I reckon it is for some kind of good cause? not sure. The left and democrats are mentally ill. Just imagine Looting at the highest level. That is what we have in the hand basket to hell
I have always said that! It is like you are in my head. FA's 100%. Stealing our words. It is an exact reflection on society as a whole. Antifa my *airquote*.
Heh, last time I saw that was on a bumper sticker on my graphic design teacher's VW bus in high school. The other sticker she had was "to err is human, but it takes a computer to really mess things up!" A real renaissance lady she was. Funny I remember this. Brains are strange devices.
The Dodo. A large flightless bird that had no experience with predators, so it just sat there and squacked while it was being eaten. Today there are scientists seeking to resurrect the Dodo using remaining genetic samples. Surely a sign of the times.
There are still plenty of buggy drivers, Ryan. They'll still have fuel for their vehicles after our psychopathic elites have destroyed our energy infrastructure. The future might well be Amish.
Speaking of tin lizzie's😃 These ignorant fools don't realize, that now. They are messing with a son of a bitch. I apologize once again.I couldn't help myself
I just realized I mixed up Nazareth's great song, now you're messing with a son of a bitch. with Tin Lizzie.It's early my bad.I guess I don't have to apologize for anything now😁
I always thought it was Thin Lizzie. WTH. Just goes to show that drinking a 6 pack all by myself when I was 16 and reading the cassette cover might lead to a lifelong bag of misinformation dragging behind me. Just like that song, Blinded By The Light? Wrapped up like a douche, another ruler in the night? Yeah, that one.
Well, it depends upon your age. I am just old enough to say “Yes, those are THE words” with such authority that the young will not question me and look it up.
There are so many songs that I got wrong but WTH we didn't have Spotify to show the lyrics or Internet. I don't remember if the lyrics were written on the album cover of my Kiss record. No lyrics on my parents 8 track of the Village People.
That's the way I heard it. LOL But my brother, once twice three times a lay back not lady and he would never ever listen to me trying to save him from some embarrassment.
"They love to have power and control. They want us to love it too."
Bullseye. This is what the socialist push is all about. They don't care about you. They don't care about kindness or helping others. Socialism is nothing but a sales pitch designed to make you think that putting all power in the hands of one or more sociopaths is a wonderful idea.
I just had an odd thing happened that scared me. The other side KNOWS there is power here on Substack and that we all become more hopeful and more powerful with our interactions. If they can disrupt our ability to talk to and support one another, then they can really screw with us and the election.
I just had 20 minutes where neither the app nor the browser loaded Substack or any of its pages or sections. I tried 5G and WiFi but it was down. My stomach clenched. I didn’t realize how important this space is to me, as are all of you. It got me to thinking how very upset I would be and how lost and alone I would feel to lose contact with all of you and all the writers.
I did rush over and find el Gato on X, but I can’t find anyone else there. Besides, X posts are limited in characters and it’s not conducive to the same kinds of discussions and information sharing in the same way Substack is. They both serve unique purposes. Substack IS alternative journalism and news!! We NEED Substack. And they are definitely going to be targeting it.
Fear not -- if they nuked Substack.com right now, my subscribers would have an article about it in 30 minutes. Unlike twitter, here we can export our subscriber list whenever we want.
There's a lot of problems that would come downwind of a ban, but you wouldn't be cut off from the community, it would just shift to a different medium for a bit.
How would we see such an article though if we don’t have access to Substack? Oh wait, duh! I forgot! Email!
💃 You just made my day. I don’t know why I forgot that there are email notifications. I just haven’t used them all this time. Thanks for easing my anxiety ❤️❤️❤️
They love "authorized" speech and despise and attack all non-authorized speech. They don't like el gato, who probably won't be publishing these great essays a couple of years from now if our rulers get their way.
Indeed. The problem of articles of faith, of untenable premises and assumptions conflicting with brute facts. Has played out in many ways over much of our history.
Think we've discussed this before but worth reading into the record again, at least as a cautionary tale -- not that many are listening:
"rejection of reason" -- lot of that goin' round these days, and on all sides.
Somewhat apropos of which, of a case of untenable and toxic articles of faith, there are the rather demented ideas that "sex is immutable" -- a mantra to match the transloonies', "trans women are women" -- and that everyone is male or female from birth to death.
As Pogo put it, "we have seen the enemy, and he is us".
You don't seem to subscribe to Andrew Gold's Heretics -- which you might like just for the name ... 😉🙂 But I took advantage of his recent "seven day free trial", as I often do and then cancel if I don't get any bang for the (potential) buck. In part, in his case, because he had a recent interview of Emma Hilton that I wanted to weigh-in on.
But more to the point of rejecting reason, and should you subscribe there, freebie or not, you might note my recent "cancellation" by a feminist/gender-critical for having "offended" her too-delicate "sensibilities" -- lotta that goin' round these days ...
Small-d democrats are some of the best people I know. authoritarians and
Bolsheviks, not so much. The good news is our Bolshevik class that took over in 2020 lacks the organizational competence of Trotsky or Beria and is completely inept rhetorically compared to Lenin.
I found it interesting when people were wanking on the Elon/Trump conversation. Oh, they sound weird, oh, Elon's a horrible interviewer, oh, sounds like Trump is on Adderall, etc. One, millions upon millions either listened or knew the event was happening, so comparing that to the critics, I would call the chat a massive success. Meanwhile, if you didn't like it, guess what, you don't have to listen!
That much of the left is rotted out with demented dogma doesn't really change the fact that Trump is a charlatan and a grifter, a know-nothing, an outright fraud, and a demogogue:
"So, supposing we hit the body with a tremendous — whether it's ultraviolet or just a very powerful light,” Trump turned to Bryan, “and I think you said that hasn't been checked because of the testing. And then I said, supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or some other way, and I think you said you're going to test that, too.”
Yes, although I believe the technology was being developed while he was President. I remember reading an article about it at the time, but couldn't find a link to that one. It involved using ultra-violet light if I remember rightly. I have no particular issue with Trump, but my guess would be he was trying to sound smart by talking about a new development that was not widely known, but it kind of back fired on him. Plus I don't think anyone trying to profit from the "pandemic" wanted any alternatives to what they were trying to push on people.
Yes, I chose the name because of its associations, but I understand it may be a myth, which somehow seems appropriate under the circumstances 😉
Cathy Newman (Peterson's interviewer) has *always* been an airhead. As for Thierry Breton, as I replied to Xavier Azalbert of France Soir today, the ex-CEO of French industrial giants Groupe Bull, Thomson Consumer Electronics and Atos (all essentially bankrupt now) has a chip on his shoulder. Because he wasn't an "X" (Polytechnicien), he attacks the other "X". He's having a tantrum. He is not used to being disobeyed. Since Napoleonic times, the overriding goal of the French (men, essentially), is to scale the preordained hierarchy, win prizes, and shit on the plebs ranking below them. I worked there; I saw it. Breton failed upward over and over, but only when you consider failure in terms of business success, as opposed to political success. You have to have lived in France to realize in what esteem total mediocrities are held. I suspect the majority of French are cheering Breton on. And I say this as a Francophile.
it used to be how the french aristocracy fed itself.
a successful entrepreneur would basically sell them his whole business and achievements for a title and a sinecure. the value of "position" was so far above wealth or achievement or freedom.
french was the language of "nobility." the whole system was hierarchy and revolutions may come, but the character of the people has remained. what's sad is how germany and others have been so so opted by it. the EC is a nightmare of nanny state intrusion and propped up sub-mediocrity. it's just a lame, fetid aristocracy trying to sustain itself while taking much and offering nothing.
The EU is "greater Germany" in economic terms, and "greater France" in political and social terms. I am not the first person to say that. Italy and Spain, with low self-esteem, have always followed France's lead. Eastern Europe has not.
The fact that Peterson's appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada on his forced indoctrination to the Ontario College of Psychologists' re-education program was dismissed just confirms that Canada's useless judicial, medical, educational and media establishments are thoroughly shot-through with brain rot. They are not fit for purpose and should be treated accordingly.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security…”
Very Interesting Pere. Why do you think it is that the majority hold mediocrity in such esteem? What would cause this? I know very little of French culture and find this information fascinating.
The French respect hierarchy. Yes, they riot (the Yellow Vests), and strike all the time, but they are very "socialized". (I'm not talking about immigrants.) Before 1789, the hierarchy was based on class. After 1800, Napoleon instituted an educational system where every student was required to learn and regurgitate exactly the same things, and those who did that the best, rose in grade and status. Independence of thought was severely frowned upon. Status was revered and rewarded. Rising in the hierarchy doesn't require any talent except for the ability to rise in the hierarchy. It was a meritocracy, but merit was defined by how well you passed various tests, intellectual, political, social. I didn't actually say they hold mediocrity in such esteem -- I said many mediocrities are held in esteem because they have successfully negotiated the hierarchy and therefore are deserving of respect. Your position defines your social status and therefore your worth. I could give dozens of examples of "know your place", but here is one: I used to be an equity analyst, and at a huge meeting of analysts/press for an Alcatel Alsthom press conference many years ago, I had the audacity to ask a panellist about some sleazy accounting. The hapless panellist didn't understand me. Then the CFO stood up 5 minutes later, and essentially publicly reprimanded me for daring to ask such a question. (Think Greta Thunberg!) I could hear the murmurs of disapproval (towards me) from the audience. I am not drawing an equivalence between status and mediocrity -- there are many talented people with high status (luxury goods, retailing, fashion, for example) -- I am just saying that status trumps everything else. The fact that a Frenchman rose to a position to be able to censor social media, because the EU imposes a 6% tax on worldwide revenues if it doesn't approve -- that impresses the French more than anything else. They don't care if he's a mediocrity. He made it, and he's sticking it to the world.
As a result of this French/euro bureaucratic dead weight, it took the the Wermacht all of six weeks, beginning in May, 1940 to overrun all of Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and France. I believe it took the German army about two weeks to skirt the Maginot Line and take over France. The latest Maginot Line being constructed in France is based upon restriction of free speech. As the prophet of our times, Jordan Peterson, PhD would say, "Good luck with that!"
“Since Napoleonic times, the overriding goal of the French (men, essentially), is to scale the preordained hierarchy, win prizes, and shit on the plebs ranking below them.”
Go ahead and holler it out loud, at the top of your lungs Rosemary. It's appropriate given the context of what's being done to the First Amendment by these cowardly assholes.
Gato, I have shared virtually every piece of your writing since following you. This one (and yesterday’s) are the pinnacle of truth and resistance. THANK YOU.
Our generation was raised on the mantra "Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me" and sadly this generation is raised on "Mommy, they called me names, stop them mommy!"
democrats love social media... until they can't control it.
They love to have power and control. They want us to love it too.
The great thing, dear Gato, is that you make your writings public.
I can share your writings and enthusiastic humor with some of my friends that are not hopeful.
I am grateful
Don't worry these fools might as well be driving around in buggys a hundred years ago in denial about the Tin Lizzies.
They don't realize quite yet that they are about to go the way of The dodo.
"tin lizzos"
; ]
Sadly Ryan, there are way too many people that are addicted to leftist media.
They are strung out on "experts" They are dependent on those ppl to
give them rules to live by. Funny and odd how those "antifa" people are the ones burning and destroying our country, I reckon it is for some kind of good cause? not sure. The left and democrats are mentally ill. Just imagine Looting at the highest level. That is what we have in the hand basket to hell
It's easy to riot with impunity when the FBI and DOJ have your back.
*makes air quotes* The Resistance.
"Funny and odd how those "antifa" people are the ones burning and destroying our country"
Funny how the Antifas are actually really The Fas.
Brownshirts...
Obama's Army.
I have always said that! It is like you are in my head. FA's 100%. Stealing our words. It is an exact reflection on society as a whole. Antifa my *airquote*.
yep!!! stupid people
Again, Rosemary, I am still trying to figure out what "perts" are and why so many of them have quit. A mystery, indeed!
Be alert. This country needs more Lerts.
Heh, last time I saw that was on a bumper sticker on my graphic design teacher's VW bus in high school. The other sticker she had was "to err is human, but it takes a computer to really mess things up!" A real renaissance lady she was. Funny I remember this. Brains are strange devices.
I am officially a "lert." Fist pumping right now.
It is a quitters world we live in. We live among the mind vacated.
"Quitters"? You mean like Tim Walz?
😖😤 awful human
Horse semen loving Walz… 🤮
🙌
The response on social media to Rosemary's comment would be:
"Where is your degree in journalism?" It's all about the experts, but only the experts that agree with them.
We should ALL endeavour to aid them in achieving this Milestone in their Evolutionary Journey into Eternal Oblivion.
Fingers crossed
(me) Praying AND crossing fingers. 🙏🤞
Hope springs eternal.
The Dodo. A large flightless bird that had no experience with predators, so it just sat there and squacked while it was being eaten. Today there are scientists seeking to resurrect the Dodo using remaining genetic samples. Surely a sign of the times.
All they would have to do is go down to CVS and pick someone out of the booster line to grab some remaining DODO DNA.
THEY think we are the dodos… 🔥
They would certainly like us to be. Don't fight, don't flee, just sit there and squawk as we get eaten.
There are still plenty of buggy drivers, Ryan. They'll still have fuel for their vehicles after our psychopathic elites have destroyed our energy infrastructure. The future might well be Amish.
As long as they leave us out of their wars and forced drugs, I'm down with it.
That's like wishing for a Taliban takeover.
Come Mister Tally-Ban Tally De Banana.
Day, O. Day-O.
I sure hope so.
meeeee tooooo
{...to go the way of The dodo...}
🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞 !!!!
The sooner, the better .
Speaking of tin lizzie's😃 These ignorant fools don't realize, that now. They are messing with a son of a bitch. I apologize once again.I couldn't help myself
I just realized I mixed up Nazareth's great song, now you're messing with a son of a bitch. with Tin Lizzie.It's early my bad.I guess I don't have to apologize for anything now😁
+1 Jailbreak
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMko8DlY9IA
I always thought it was Thin Lizzie. WTH. Just goes to show that drinking a 6 pack all by myself when I was 16 and reading the cassette cover might lead to a lifelong bag of misinformation dragging behind me. Just like that song, Blinded By The Light? Wrapped up like a douche, another ruler in the night? Yeah, that one.
That's not how it goes? Now I have to question every lyric I've ever yapped...
Well, it depends upon your age. I am just old enough to say “Yes, those are THE words” with such authority that the young will not question me and look it up.
There are so many songs that I got wrong but WTH we didn't have Spotify to show the lyrics or Internet. I don't remember if the lyrics were written on the album cover of my Kiss record. No lyrics on my parents 8 track of the Village People.
That's the way I heard it. LOL But my brother, once twice three times a lay back not lady and he would never ever listen to me trying to save him from some embarrassment.
That is so hilarious…I am dying. Well, not literally, because these days, well….
Isn't it Thin Lizzie? Now I am all messed up.
Yes. The Boys Are Back In Town.
I am genuinely curious what evidence you have that ANYTHING will change once the Election has ended...
Election? What election?
exactly.
What a joke👿👹💩
Oh it will be ugly. Nothing will change in the empty minds of the haters
"They love to have power and control. They want us to love it too."
Bullseye. This is what the socialist push is all about. They don't care about you. They don't care about kindness or helping others. Socialism is nothing but a sales pitch designed to make you think that putting all power in the hands of one or more sociopaths is a wonderful idea.
Socialism isnt a philosophy, it's a game plan for toletarianism
Emperor of the entire world . . . Is there anything that certain people would not do for that much power?
No. Some people would destroy the world rather than give up their power.
And they will.
Ask Hillary….
They learned it from Christendom. And from the other kill-people-to-save-them cults too.
Playbooks were all probably written in cuneiform, really. Nothing new, etc. etc.
Yes, it pretty much goes all the way back to Cain. Sorry you had to interact with people who use religion as a tool for power.
Everyone uses everything as tools for power. Ain't you learned that yet?
No, everyone does not use everything to gain power. Some people will use anything for power. Some, like myself, just want to be left alone.
You understand, though, that hyperbole is a rhetorical tool that people who enjoy words like to use sometimes?
I just had an odd thing happened that scared me. The other side KNOWS there is power here on Substack and that we all become more hopeful and more powerful with our interactions. If they can disrupt our ability to talk to and support one another, then they can really screw with us and the election.
I just had 20 minutes where neither the app nor the browser loaded Substack or any of its pages or sections. I tried 5G and WiFi but it was down. My stomach clenched. I didn’t realize how important this space is to me, as are all of you. It got me to thinking how very upset I would be and how lost and alone I would feel to lose contact with all of you and all the writers.
I did rush over and find el Gato on X, but I can’t find anyone else there. Besides, X posts are limited in characters and it’s not conducive to the same kinds of discussions and information sharing in the same way Substack is. They both serve unique purposes. Substack IS alternative journalism and news!! We NEED Substack. And they are definitely going to be targeting it.
Fear not -- if they nuked Substack.com right now, my subscribers would have an article about it in 30 minutes. Unlike twitter, here we can export our subscriber list whenever we want.
There's a lot of problems that would come downwind of a ban, but you wouldn't be cut off from the community, it would just shift to a different medium for a bit.
How would we see such an article though if we don’t have access to Substack? Oh wait, duh! I forgot! Email!
💃 You just made my day. I don’t know why I forgot that there are email notifications. I just haven’t used them all this time. Thanks for easing my anxiety ❤️❤️❤️
oh there are plenty of leftist substacks. Check out Dan Rathers "Steady"
In the Words of Wayne's World. "Dan Rather—Not."
They love "authorized" speech and despise and attack all non-authorized speech. They don't like el gato, who probably won't be publishing these great essays a couple of years from now if our rulers get their way.
Sort of like them guys at the several Councils of Nicaea.
Indeed. The problem of articles of faith, of untenable premises and assumptions conflicting with brute facts. Has played out in many ways over much of our history.
Think we've discussed this before but worth reading into the record again, at least as a cautionary tale -- not that many are listening:
"Why the Arabic World Turned Away from Science: On the lost Golden Age and the rejection of reason": https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/why-the-arabic-world-turned-away-from-science
"rejection of reason" -- lot of that goin' round these days, and on all sides.
Somewhat apropos of which, of a case of untenable and toxic articles of faith, there are the rather demented ideas that "sex is immutable" -- a mantra to match the transloonies', "trans women are women" -- and that everyone is male or female from birth to death.
As Pogo put it, "we have seen the enemy, and he is us".
Indeed right back at ya.
Doubly so ... 😉🙂
You don't seem to subscribe to Andrew Gold's Heretics -- which you might like just for the name ... 😉🙂 But I took advantage of his recent "seven day free trial", as I often do and then cancel if I don't get any bang for the (potential) buck. In part, in his case, because he had a recent interview of Emma Hilton that I wanted to weigh-in on.
But more to the point of rejecting reason, and should you subscribe there, freebie or not, you might note my recent "cancellation" by a feminist/gender-critical for having "offended" her too-delicate "sensibilities" -- lotta that goin' round these days ...
https://www.andrewgoldheretics.com/p/sex-is-changeable-insane-judge-rules/comment/66628721
Comment on his site is paywalled.
But I can imagine the dialogue...
#Gnostics
Not to mention their silver-coloured splinter-sect:
The Ag-nostics.
Small-d democrats are some of the best people I know. authoritarians and
Bolsheviks, not so much. The good news is our Bolshevik class that took over in 2020 lacks the organizational competence of Trotsky or Beria and is completely inept rhetorically compared to Lenin.
agreed!
"I can share your writings and enthusiastic humor with some of my friends that are not hopeful."
For _now_.
https://tenor.com/view/for-now-harry-potter-delores-umbridge-delores-umbridge-gif-19273338
I found it interesting when people were wanking on the Elon/Trump conversation. Oh, they sound weird, oh, Elon's a horrible interviewer, oh, sounds like Trump is on Adderall, etc. One, millions upon millions either listened or knew the event was happening, so comparing that to the critics, I would call the chat a massive success. Meanwhile, if you didn't like it, guess what, you don't have to listen!
That's what adults do.
But they are just adults who never grew up so "Make him stop talking, daddy!".
Those people, the never-Trumpers of the world, will never get Trump's ideas or understand who and what he is. So, they criticize inanely.
it is littttteralllly drilled into their skulls
Now it is festering and they love that feeling
That much of the left is rotted out with demented dogma doesn't really change the fact that Trump is a charlatan and a grifter, a know-nothing, an outright fraud, and a demogogue:
"So, supposing we hit the body with a tremendous — whether it's ultraviolet or just a very powerful light,” Trump turned to Bryan, “and I think you said that hasn't been checked because of the testing. And then I said, supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or some other way, and I think you said you're going to test that, too.”
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/late-stage-detrumpmentia?utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true
I think you'll find that what he was talking about back then was this:
Intense light protects against lung damage, research finds
Study says it stimulates proteins that can protect against acute lung injury as seen with COVID-19
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/03/220324104430.htm
Pneumonia treatment by photodynamic therapy with extracorporeal illumination ‐ an experimental model
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5350187/
Infrared light therapy relieves TLR-4 dependent hyper-inflammation of the type induced by COVID-19
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8451450/
Red Light Therapy Treatment used in a Severe COVID-19 Case
https://prismlightpod.com/red-light-therapy-treatment-used-in-a-severe-covid-19-case/
Thanks for the links. Though I see many were after 2020 so after Trump.
But we certainly live in "interesting times", something of a Chinese curse if I'm not mistaken ... 🙂
Yes, although I believe the technology was being developed while he was President. I remember reading an article about it at the time, but couldn't find a link to that one. It involved using ultra-violet light if I remember rightly. I have no particular issue with Trump, but my guess would be he was trying to sound smart by talking about a new development that was not widely known, but it kind of back fired on him. Plus I don't think anyone trying to profit from the "pandemic" wanted any alternatives to what they were trying to push on people.
Yes, I chose the name because of its associations, but I understand it may be a myth, which somehow seems appropriate under the circumstances 😉
If you stick your head out the window you can just smell the panic seeping out of their anxiety riddled brains!
It's rather enjoyable watching them look like a bride jilted at the alter.
Yes, RG. A schadenfreude festival!
Seduced and abandoned!
You sound like Tampon Tim's wife. Should have gone with the Apocalypse Now meme.
Cathy Newman (Peterson's interviewer) has *always* been an airhead. As for Thierry Breton, as I replied to Xavier Azalbert of France Soir today, the ex-CEO of French industrial giants Groupe Bull, Thomson Consumer Electronics and Atos (all essentially bankrupt now) has a chip on his shoulder. Because he wasn't an "X" (Polytechnicien), he attacks the other "X". He's having a tantrum. He is not used to being disobeyed. Since Napoleonic times, the overriding goal of the French (men, essentially), is to scale the preordained hierarchy, win prizes, and shit on the plebs ranking below them. I worked there; I saw it. Breton failed upward over and over, but only when you consider failure in terms of business success, as opposed to political success. You have to have lived in France to realize in what esteem total mediocrities are held. I suspect the majority of French are cheering Breton on. And I say this as a Francophile.
i think your assessment is a good one.
it used to be how the french aristocracy fed itself.
a successful entrepreneur would basically sell them his whole business and achievements for a title and a sinecure. the value of "position" was so far above wealth or achievement or freedom.
french was the language of "nobility." the whole system was hierarchy and revolutions may come, but the character of the people has remained. what's sad is how germany and others have been so so opted by it. the EC is a nightmare of nanny state intrusion and propped up sub-mediocrity. it's just a lame, fetid aristocracy trying to sustain itself while taking much and offering nothing.
The EU is "greater Germany" in economic terms, and "greater France" in political and social terms. I am not the first person to say that. Italy and Spain, with low self-esteem, have always followed France's lead. Eastern Europe has not.
Pretty much everyone else in the EU is just The Piper Playing the Called Tune.
The fact that Peterson's appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada on his forced indoctrination to the Ontario College of Psychologists' re-education program was dismissed just confirms that Canada's useless judicial, medical, educational and media establishments are thoroughly shot-through with brain rot. They are not fit for purpose and should be treated accordingly.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security…”
Very Interesting Pere. Why do you think it is that the majority hold mediocrity in such esteem? What would cause this? I know very little of French culture and find this information fascinating.
The French respect hierarchy. Yes, they riot (the Yellow Vests), and strike all the time, but they are very "socialized". (I'm not talking about immigrants.) Before 1789, the hierarchy was based on class. After 1800, Napoleon instituted an educational system where every student was required to learn and regurgitate exactly the same things, and those who did that the best, rose in grade and status. Independence of thought was severely frowned upon. Status was revered and rewarded. Rising in the hierarchy doesn't require any talent except for the ability to rise in the hierarchy. It was a meritocracy, but merit was defined by how well you passed various tests, intellectual, political, social. I didn't actually say they hold mediocrity in such esteem -- I said many mediocrities are held in esteem because they have successfully negotiated the hierarchy and therefore are deserving of respect. Your position defines your social status and therefore your worth. I could give dozens of examples of "know your place", but here is one: I used to be an equity analyst, and at a huge meeting of analysts/press for an Alcatel Alsthom press conference many years ago, I had the audacity to ask a panellist about some sleazy accounting. The hapless panellist didn't understand me. Then the CFO stood up 5 minutes later, and essentially publicly reprimanded me for daring to ask such a question. (Think Greta Thunberg!) I could hear the murmurs of disapproval (towards me) from the audience. I am not drawing an equivalence between status and mediocrity -- there are many talented people with high status (luxury goods, retailing, fashion, for example) -- I am just saying that status trumps everything else. The fact that a Frenchman rose to a position to be able to censor social media, because the EU imposes a 6% tax on worldwide revenues if it doesn't approve -- that impresses the French more than anything else. They don't care if he's a mediocrity. He made it, and he's sticking it to the world.
Alas I do not think this is unique to the French.
This is true in Australia, too. "Tall Poppy Syndrome"
To poke your head above the pack, means you think you're better than the rest of us equals, and must be cut down.
As a result of this French/euro bureaucratic dead weight, it took the the Wermacht all of six weeks, beginning in May, 1940 to overrun all of Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and France. I believe it took the German army about two weeks to skirt the Maginot Line and take over France. The latest Maginot Line being constructed in France is based upon restriction of free speech. As the prophet of our times, Jordan Peterson, PhD would say, "Good luck with that!"
“Since Napoleonic times, the overriding goal of the French (men, essentially), is to scale the preordained hierarchy, win prizes, and shit on the plebs ranking below them.”
That sounds like modern day Public Accounting.
"Because he wasn't an "X" "
So, like, Magneto?
Just saying "fuck you" over and over again might just save all of us.
...Your Own Face.
Fuck^ Your Own Face. *nods*
It's an immediate classic.
^ Sorry for the F-Bomb but it just seemed like the right way to go with this one. Loooord, I apologize.
https://tinyurl.com/mdbs7zrc
sadly true.
I have to say it under my breath.
Go ahead and holler it out loud, at the top of your lungs Rosemary. It's appropriate given the context of what's being done to the First Amendment by these cowardly assholes.
I can go a little extra loud for both of us, Rosie B.
https://youtu.be/X6n5ndX6yTs?si=6rEu-G6MWRsemD_A
LOL
If we'd like to be a little more courteous, "fuck that shit" is quite a handy phrase.
For me I prefer the Joe Pesci-inspired: get da fuck outta heere!
"You shouldn't hang me on a hook like that, Johnny. My father hung me on a hook once. ONCE!"
https://youtu.be/Ad9mlvyA84E?si=cvQ4b65zDqbO_RbQ
Just the wrong voice. For me.
The European's letter to a US citizen about his interviewing a US presidential candidate, hoo-weee, that was a 599 on the 100 tops scale of hilarious.
“free speech, free thought, free people.”
This will be the rallying cry of the based revolution
It was a rallying cry of the Ron Paul Revolution, which I credit with being the starting point of the current awakening.
I did not know that, thanks
Yeah, but geeze if we don't speed things up we'll all be time sharing apartment bunks with a permanent fentanyl drop to pacify us.
I think the https://reason.com/ tagline covers just another important freedom:
Free Minds and Free Markets
The Jordan Petersen clip is one of my favourites. For the other squirmy moment see Elon calmly dismantling a BBC jerk : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-73bN7n5jB0
That moment when you realise the guy you're interviewing is (a) smarter than you and (b) right.
And "C", you don't care that he's right but you got no way to refute him.
"And "C", you don't care that he's right but you got no way to refute him."
"And "C", you don't care that he's right AND you got no way to refute him."
Sorry, grammar was a bit off. 😆
no offense, just being a bit of a jerk
Know Your Conjunctions!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AyjKgz9tKg
: )
Gato, you’re the best! That was brain gourmet cuisine! Delicious!
Dangerous kitty:
“sure, pull my other paw it plays the theme song from “the price is right.”
How many leftist heads would explode upon reading that? Funniest thing I’ve read all week.
Once again, Gato slays it!!!
100%
Gato, I have shared virtually every piece of your writing since following you. This one (and yesterday’s) are the pinnacle of truth and resistance. THANK YOU.
Our generation was raised on the mantra "Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me" and sadly this generation is raised on "Mommy, they called me names, stop them mommy!"
Now it goes:
"Sticks and stones may be dodged when thrown, but words cut all the way through me."
Sticks and stones may dodged when thrown, but words cut right through to the bone.
Sorry, couldn't resist it.
That's perfect!
Where are we going? .... and why am I in this hand basket?
...why are we up this creek without a paddle?
why are we sliding down this greased pole to hell?
*promptly steals bullshit meme and makes it my profile pic thanks*
🏆
Bravo ferocious feline fullback in the great football game of life.....