True. But the problem of course is that once the government is the leviathan or the giant octopus with tentacles everywhere, it’s difficult to dislodge. Where does an 800 pound gorilla sit? Wherever it wants.
Your post ends with the exact same quote from the Declaration that I quoted in a comment to another post before I read yours. The point is we need to throw these bastards out. They aren’t here to help us and they are here to hurt us. They’ve proven that time and again. This us our country. It belongs to the citizens, not the powerful few or foreign interests or Commie tautological slogans. What’s it gonna take for us to throw these degenerates to the curb?
Yes, but who are the citizens? First order is to organize, optimize, then energize, then reclaim and restore. I was at a local lake yesterday hanging with the locals. So many of the people were tatted up to their necks and ankles, and about half were fat. This is not a fighting force. This is a slovenly slob of a people. Freedom isnt doing them any good if they do not use it well.
The question isn’t tats or BMI. It’s conviction and cojones. About 6% (revised number)of American colonists participated in the military at the time of the war for independence. Less than half of Americans supported the Revolution. Many fought with the British.
You don’t need everybody. You’re never going to get them. But before we get out the muskets we should continue boycotts of corporations shoveling political ideology. Demand election reform, prosecute corrupt officials - states AGs are dropping the ball here, and do other nonviolent things to defeat these effete cretins.
A good place to start is with what we regard as currency. How we trade with one another determines how we will survive. Keep the government out of your business, and the government loses its power over you. I recommend using ammunition as currency. It’s small, metal and has intrinsic value.
The cretins are also the other 50%. But I agree it only takes a small, committed force. Election reform is not going to happen nationally because the pretorian guard does not want it. The only prosecutions will come from Red State prosecutors. So far they are doing nothing. Marine LePen has the right idea.
If you look at the social decay, it starts at the top. People who were part of a formerly robust industrial sector have been displaced by intention, by globalist economics and domestic psyops- smoke pot, be lazy, be ignorant, be dependent, be ashamed. Those are government policies overt or covert. That’s what created the people at the lake. It doesn’t mean they aren’t good people. But they probably aren’t going to lead the charge, or get in your way if you are leading the charge.
I agree the slovenliness was imposed on them but the antidote is organization and empowerment. First they need to see themselves as victims of these bastards but only as a way to energize a resistance. Their power will come from unity. Trump has been doing some of that as has Steve Bannon, Tucker Carlson, and great folks in the health system resistance (I do not like the term "health freedom"). Kennedy is also doing amazing things, although unfortunately he is silly on many of the social issues.
The pick-up truck Americans are aware they are being screwed but the deep state/social media has been doing all it can to keep them from organizing.
I love your phrase “pick-up truck Americans.” My daughter and I remarked during the COVID tyranny that the guys in their pickup trucks (they were too macho to wear masks and kept working even when the effete leaders shut down the country) would save America.
Seems like Trump is the answer. He achieved much for a non-politician who was attacked and thwarted by Rinos and Dems and swamp creatures. Now that he’s mad and willing to take a bullet to disband the criminals i believe he just may do it. And i am not against 4 yrs of DJT followed by 8 from DeSantis.
Trump was precisely the other side of the coin the gato warns against. Ban this, dictate that, executive order this other thing. He did nothing to drain the swamp, he just curated his own brand of swampiness. Part behavior is the best predictor of future behavior. He's not up to the task. I'm not sure if DeSantis is either, but I'm willing to give him his shot.
He TRIED to drain the swamp, but his many of his people were swamp dwellers and turned on him. The bureaucrats were too powerful and the RINOs in Congress stood around and did nothing.
Barring some unforeseen circumstance, which happens about every 36 hours, DeSantis won’t get the nod. His campaign is curiously dead in the water, even according to his own people.
Probably because he is, as near as I can tell, the only effective chief executive in the country. That would be dangerous to have in an even higher position where he would actually get things done on a Federal level.
I am not very political. But if people let DeSantis fade away after he (uniquely) has demonstrated that he knows how to make a government work for the people, then they will get what they deserve. I can only see what people have done, but DeSantis' ability to surround himself with with people that are not inimical to what he is trying to do is part of his qualification. The ONLY real qualification of a chief executive is hiring the right people. Trump fails massively on this regard -- too egocentric to discern good hires, much as his ideas are often sound. This is a skill you either have or you do not...he does not. I want someone who has shown they can DO things. The choices seem very, very few.
It is what it is. If De Santis can’t run a campaign, the rest of it doesn’t matter. The thing of it is, he was previously highly effective. Now the wind has been sucked out if his sails. Curious as to why the problem is, but I’m still voting for Trump. DeSantis is the only other guy I might vote for. The rest of the GOP candidates are a joke - invertebrate liars and slimy ingrates, every one of them.
The one thing - perhaps the ONLY thing - our current lords and masters fear is the rise of competent leadership. In the opposition. Which is why it is highly improbable that DeSantis will ever be allowed to assume "higher office".
I saw a tweet once that said no society can survive without diversity. I responded “China”. There was lots of hemming and hawing about dynasties and such. But China still stands.
I saw interviews with people who moved from Belgium to Iran and other middle East countries. They were happy there. One woman moved to Austria, she hated it there. The mother of the husband is the tyrant of the family and bossed her around. The Iranian family adored that lady. differences are not just between races or religions. they are between people.
China remains one of the oldest civilizations on earth, and there is no diversity in China. That is my point. You can argue about how it is governed, which has changed many times through the ages, but China remains, and diversity of skin color is non existent there.
Skin color no. That’s true. But China is not one people. There are diverse groups of Chinese, with the dominant group being the Han. There are Muslims in China, even in the cold, far Northeast. There are an increasing number of Christians. But your point is correct. People have a homeland and that’s the way it’s always been around the world. Wholesale importation of masses of immigrants against the rushes of the dominant group is a suicidal Western invention in the last 60 years.
How "diverse" were Periclean Athens, Renaissance Italy, Victorian Britain, Colonial America or France from say 1500-2000? And why have the Scandinavian countries had the best life outcomes since maybe WW2?
People have been programmed to accept "Diversity" (usually only vaguely defined) as a sacred value, and as something all Good People believe in, so they have to ignore history and reality.
take it back to the root; then how did any of them get to any point where they could become diverse? how did they survive that duration while nonDiverse? funny puzzles. Personally I like diversity and multicultural exposure, just don't shove it down peoples' throats, let it occur organically because if it will it will.
A liberal Harvard prof found diversity has a downside (I still prefer a diverse place, and am “diverse” myself but I don’t think it’s necessary for survival of society)
A rather odd viewpoint. In fact few societies are diverse as the US. Who else can assimilate so many different cultures? In the past the US has been eventually quite tolerant of the "other". Those who have lived in other counties can see intolerance up close. Of course we have had times when too many of one culture arrived but by the third generation of those arrivals they have joined the culture at large.
What amazes me is the rising intolerance of our political parties. The number of incompetent politicians rising in lockstep by taking advantage of social divisions (pandering)- in the end aspiring to high office to achieve wealth without having to risk much. And we keep re-electing them which is poor reflection on ourselves.
I have a liberal friend who goes around at every party saying "Diversity is our strength!". All I hear is "I'm a moron"😂
Also. Black women are not Queens, Girls are not warriors. Boys don't need to "express " themselves. "Equity " is nothing but a stickup. Affirmative action is you watching you son thrown into the trash heap of history. Abortion is freedom is a total oxymoron etc... The gas lighting is deep and wide!
“There is no justification for taking away individuals’ freedom in the guise of public safety.”
—Thomas Jefferson
To celebrate independence and liberty today, I encourage people to join me in the call to #FreeAssange in honor of his fifty-second birthday and fifth year in Belmarsh yesterday.
As I wrote in the poem I dedicated to Julian and his dear friend and legendary whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg:
When a person who is not an American citizen and not residing in American territory is charged with violating American laws, you know it's long overdue for the American government to be cut down to size.
A lot of good points here. The big one is the idea that government should not be involved in this diversity thing at all. That when the focus is mandating hiring on basis of skin color, sex, ethnicity, and shoe size, we also are mandating a certain uniformity of thought.
We see that now with Covid. At one point they mandated masks and now in some quarters masks are banned. Sorry, but I no more want to ban masks than mandate them. My point has been to prevent government stepping in and determining how we should associate with one another and with whom.
In arguing against state wide and nationwide (in my case) vaccine passports in 2021/22, I suggested we just leave it to the venues themselves. My covidian friend could take her family to those with passports and feel all good and safe and I could patronize the venues who were hospitable to personal choice. Problem solved, no top down interference! That did not suit madame because guess what? She didn’t really mean it when she said “I know you’re doing the best you can, we all are.” She meant: you are a fucking idiot and I am smarter than you. And she is a constitutional law professor!! 🙄
There is a lot of that. Just about every tweet thread where I argue against mask mandates I am called ignorant, that I don’t understand the science, that I am stupid. I should also be dead thousands of times over for the sin of going madkless.
Said law professor openly stated unvaccinated should be denied medical treatment in favor of the compliant masses. Dangerous woman. Glad I live in another hemisphere and could cut her off forever with the click of a button! It's still hilarious that we're not the ones who even need hospital beds...
Certainly we are not occupying hospital beds due to Covid. There are a lot of people I no longer listen to after their proclamations about those of us who would not comply. I can’t watch Arnold anymore after his “f your freedom” comment. I didn’t listen to Howard Stern much before, now pretty much never. Jimmy Kimmel is marinated in the Covid and woke narrative.
As it is possibly more dangerous in hospital than out, I think the vaccinated are welcome to medical treatment from doctors who think vaccines and big pharma drugs are a Good Idea.
Doctors in UK gave me poisonous immuno-therapy which I eventually stopped when I worked out what was really going on. Ingredients of the therapy seem very similar to COVID 19 vaccines. The NHS allegedly has some new draft advice.
I am for store owners banning masks and you not allowing them in your home. I am against government banning them for the same reason I am against the government mandating them.
I agree. Diversity is just variety. Sometimes it's nice, sometimes it's functional. It's not inherently desirable without context. Heck, I see a diversity of turds left from a diversity of dogs left on the sidewalk by their diverse human owners when I walk my dog. But it's still poop.
"this endless epigram represents nothing but a post-modernist cudgel used to bludgeon and browbeat society into a shape it would not otherwise choose."
THIS!! A thousand times a thousand times more, this!
From personal observation I believe that the most dangerous people in the country are white suburban women/housewives. They don’t live with diversity resulting in them becoming bleeding hearts for unlimited diversity and immigration as they see no downside to it. Let them in they say. This country has room for all of them. And they do this with little or no awareness of the pitfalls inherent in mixing truly diverse cultures. . It’s really quite maddening. They should all read The Camp of Saints as Europe is living it now and we’re next on the list.
Europe is over. They just don’t acknowledge it yet. If you just let outside/foreign culture completely overwhelm yours in the name of diversity, it’s still a hostile takeover. When Muslims say that they are waging jihad and using the European social safety net to finance and facilitate it, believe them. When new immigrants come in illegally and spit in their host country, believe them. I’m not xenophobic, but if you care about your national identity, you don’t subsume it to abstract, theoretical concepts. This is fine for the elite who never suffer the consequences of their social engineering. They can leave or hide behind walls at least for a while. When in human history has a mass migration/invasion happened without bloodshed? Maybe the marketing department for the NWO is good enough, but I doubt it. Those countries that refuse to participate in the BS like Hungary and Poland will fare far better. The others will either have outright civil war or become something entirely different. You already see it in France , Sweden and you will see it in other countries as well. It’s war.
I was thinking about that when I made that comment! And I read somewhere that 4 of those people did end up staying, and are now working there as landscapers, or something similar.
I would like to qualify my statement above though. I have friends who are naturalized citizens. Of various ethnicity, including African. Two of them I helped when they were having difficulty navigating language barriers. One person, I, along with several other of my friends, helped financially when a scumbag lawyer filed his paperwork incorrectly and almost got him deported. (The lawyer took his money and ran) All are immensely proud to be American, and eternally grateful their children are Americans. Every single one of these new(er) citizens can recite, almost by memory, the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. I would be surprised if even 1% of American public school students could do that.
I love legal immigration (as opposed to invasion), I am grateful and thankful for an exchange of cultures and experiences. Keyword: Exchange. And we do need these people, as they need us. But our government is betraying both citizens and migrants. I have no answers or ideas except I know what’s happening at our borders serves no one. Except the ones who would divide us all for their gains. It’s very easy to say "let them in" when it’s not your children’s education being neglected because the teachers in the school your tax dollars are funding can’t teach because they’re too busy trying to meet basic needs of migrant children. And your taxpayer funded infrastructure is going to shit because your money is being diverted into various basic service black holes.
Again, I have no answers. But I am VERY tired of being accused of racism. Show me some solutions that don’t require me to give up everything I’ve worked for and I’ll listen.
Well said. I have a similar experience. I lived in the most diverse zip code in the US for over 10 years. Over 60 languages are spoken there. All of the neighbors and shop and restaurant owners I met felt blessed to be here with their families. Note that all of the ones that I really knew were here legally as this was prior to the open border policy. The issues we had in the neighborhood were caused by what I call, Home Growns as our neighborhood was adjacent to theirs. In every meeting to address the issues we had with the local police, immigrant women spoke up in support and defense of their children. I remember being impressed with how coherent and heartfelt their statements were. Then the mayor defunded the police and the violence and gunshots spilled into our neighborhood as the police became less visible and less effective. So we got out; we moved to a red state. I feel for the neighbors and families that are still there.
Bottom line - I’m all in for a rational and legal immigration policy. The current policy is insane and is meant to harm rather than help.
"I know what’s happening at our borders serves no one" --
This isn't true. It serves those engaged in human trafficking, which is as I understand the most profitable enterprise on earth... itself something to ponder.
Very well worded. As an immigrant myself, I always had a hard time understanding the anti-immigrant rhetoric of some of the politicians of my adopted country, even when I knew they weren't really talking about people like me, who are, if I do say so myself, model citizens. But after the past few years of crisis after crisis, I see things very differently. It's been building since well before covid: for example, if we didn't have the lowest rate of ICU beds in the EU we couldn't even pretend to need the extreme counter measures that did end up being put in place. That was clear immediately and got worse when they refused to scale up for the entire pandemic. But the insanity continues and we are accepting large numbers of Ukrainian refugees in the most densely populated country in Europe (and high on the world ranking as well) with a massive housing crisis and teacher shortage. It is just too much to bear. It would be cheaper and more effective to send the money we are spending to help them much closer to their homeland. I would be willing to sacrifice a bit for others if it didn't involve ruining our own country. As it is, we are just making everyone poorer and more miserable and no one will have the bandwidth let alone the inclination to give one hot damn about other people and their troubles.
AWFLs are the Church Ladies of the Social Justice religion, they use SJW morality (which is mostly grounded in White Saviorism) as a way to preen as morally superior to others, as a way to batter anyone they don't like, and as a way to get whatever they want in the moment.
They are the Big Sister of our surveillance state and believe they're on a divine mission to uplift the poor and brown.
The White Man's Burden is now the White Woman's emotional burden.
Every society, as far as we can tell, for the past at least 40,000 years has grown out of the agreement of its members as to what is proper and improper, tolerable and intolerable, attractive and unattractive, and so on. When agreement collapsed or had to be forced, societies became tyrannies and stagnated and sooner or later collapsed. And virtually all societies had as a foundation, a composition of similar individuals. Diversity is a false concept. The Balkans is a good model of what happens when dissimilar groups occupy the same area. And India, with its Caste System is an attempt to keep same with same to avoid the internecine mayhem that still plagues the Balkans. The meaning to the name many tribal people worldwide have for themselves is The People. Not A People, or One People Among Many, but THE People. These WEF Great Resetters and their running dogs on the left are pretending the history of Mankind isn't. Cultivate genuine critical thinking and distrust EVERYTHING presented by "government." And always remember, life is like sex. If you're not having fun with it, YOU ARE DOING IT WRONG!
Affirmative Action was never really about diversity. That’s a fiction used to cover for the ruling class’s desire to retain the status quo at all costs. Once it became such poor taste to continue racist practices as existed in Jim Crow America (thanks to the streets filling with its victims in the 1950’s and 60’s and the ugly reactions to this by the privileged poor who feared their little portion was about to get even smaller), the rulers came up with all manner of approaches to put a new bedspread on the broken bed. The Civil Rights Act propped the legs and replaced the bed boards while Affirmative Action added color (literally) to the blanket in an apparent effort to address the threadbare promise of justice for all. In fact, it never amounted to much for rank and file Americans if any shade. The rich kept getting chosen and preferred while the poor got even poorer; for the former, there was an explosion of color but for the latter, society remained as colorblind as ever. It’s been a lie from the start. I’m not sad to see it go.
Enforced diversity is an oxymoron. If all groups are forced to be diverse, they are all the same - equally divided - and therefore, not diverse.
Just let us figure it out, we've got plenty diverse opinions and capabilities on our own. Most substackers are humans, some are cats, and some are dogs.
My favorite question that never got answered was why it was not okay for gringos to dress as a Mexican but it was perfectly fine for a Japanese person to dress up as an German Oktoberfest partygoer. 🤷🏼♀️
True. But the problem of course is that once the government is the leviathan or the giant octopus with tentacles everywhere, it’s difficult to dislodge. Where does an 800 pound gorilla sit? Wherever it wants.
Your post ends with the exact same quote from the Declaration that I quoted in a comment to another post before I read yours. The point is we need to throw these bastards out. They aren’t here to help us and they are here to hurt us. They’ve proven that time and again. This us our country. It belongs to the citizens, not the powerful few or foreign interests or Commie tautological slogans. What’s it gonna take for us to throw these degenerates to the curb?
If it can’t be pruned, then it needs to be dismantled.
Yes, but who are the citizens? First order is to organize, optimize, then energize, then reclaim and restore. I was at a local lake yesterday hanging with the locals. So many of the people were tatted up to their necks and ankles, and about half were fat. This is not a fighting force. This is a slovenly slob of a people. Freedom isnt doing them any good if they do not use it well.
The citizens are ... wait for it... the citizens.
The question isn’t tats or BMI. It’s conviction and cojones. About 6% (revised number)of American colonists participated in the military at the time of the war for independence. Less than half of Americans supported the Revolution. Many fought with the British.
You don’t need everybody. You’re never going to get them. But before we get out the muskets we should continue boycotts of corporations shoveling political ideology. Demand election reform, prosecute corrupt officials - states AGs are dropping the ball here, and do other nonviolent things to defeat these effete cretins.
Also : Trump 2024.
A good place to start is with what we regard as currency. How we trade with one another determines how we will survive. Keep the government out of your business, and the government loses its power over you. I recommend using ammunition as currency. It’s small, metal and has intrinsic value.
I thought you were going to go to gold or Bitcoin. Anything that has utilitarian value in a barter economy is good.
The cretins are also the other 50%. But I agree it only takes a small, committed force. Election reform is not going to happen nationally because the pretorian guard does not want it. The only prosecutions will come from Red State prosecutors. So far they are doing nothing. Marine LePen has the right idea.
If you look at the social decay, it starts at the top. People who were part of a formerly robust industrial sector have been displaced by intention, by globalist economics and domestic psyops- smoke pot, be lazy, be ignorant, be dependent, be ashamed. Those are government policies overt or covert. That’s what created the people at the lake. It doesn’t mean they aren’t good people. But they probably aren’t going to lead the charge, or get in your way if you are leading the charge.
I agree the slovenliness was imposed on them but the antidote is organization and empowerment. First they need to see themselves as victims of these bastards but only as a way to energize a resistance. Their power will come from unity. Trump has been doing some of that as has Steve Bannon, Tucker Carlson, and great folks in the health system resistance (I do not like the term "health freedom"). Kennedy is also doing amazing things, although unfortunately he is silly on many of the social issues.
The pick-up truck Americans are aware they are being screwed but the deep state/social media has been doing all it can to keep them from organizing.
I love your phrase “pick-up truck Americans.” My daughter and I remarked during the COVID tyranny that the guys in their pickup trucks (they were too macho to wear masks and kept working even when the effete leaders shut down the country) would save America.
Seems like Trump is the answer. He achieved much for a non-politician who was attacked and thwarted by Rinos and Dems and swamp creatures. Now that he’s mad and willing to take a bullet to disband the criminals i believe he just may do it. And i am not against 4 yrs of DJT followed by 8 from DeSantis.
Trump was precisely the other side of the coin the gato warns against. Ban this, dictate that, executive order this other thing. He did nothing to drain the swamp, he just curated his own brand of swampiness. Part behavior is the best predictor of future behavior. He's not up to the task. I'm not sure if DeSantis is either, but I'm willing to give him his shot.
He TRIED to drain the swamp, but his many of his people were swamp dwellers and turned on him. The bureaucrats were too powerful and the RINOs in Congress stood around and did nothing.
If they were "too powerful" for him, he's not the man for the job. 🤷
maybe
but maybe a single man (or woman) can't do it alone.
We don’t need a candidate who worships Israel and both do. The ADL, AIPAC, etc should not run our government.
Barring some unforeseen circumstance, which happens about every 36 hours, DeSantis won’t get the nod. His campaign is curiously dead in the water, even according to his own people.
Probably because he is, as near as I can tell, the only effective chief executive in the country. That would be dangerous to have in an even higher position where he would actually get things done on a Federal level.
I am not very political. But if people let DeSantis fade away after he (uniquely) has demonstrated that he knows how to make a government work for the people, then they will get what they deserve. I can only see what people have done, but DeSantis' ability to surround himself with with people that are not inimical to what he is trying to do is part of his qualification. The ONLY real qualification of a chief executive is hiring the right people. Trump fails massively on this regard -- too egocentric to discern good hires, much as his ideas are often sound. This is a skill you either have or you do not...he does not. I want someone who has shown they can DO things. The choices seem very, very few.
Well, if my aunt had testicles she’d be my uncle.
It is what it is. If De Santis can’t run a campaign, the rest of it doesn’t matter. The thing of it is, he was previously highly effective. Now the wind has been sucked out if his sails. Curious as to why the problem is, but I’m still voting for Trump. DeSantis is the only other guy I might vote for. The rest of the GOP candidates are a joke - invertebrate liars and slimy ingrates, every one of them.
The one thing - perhaps the ONLY thing - our current lords and masters fear is the rise of competent leadership. In the opposition. Which is why it is highly improbable that DeSantis will ever be allowed to assume "higher office".
well said!
I saw a tweet once that said no society can survive without diversity. I responded “China”. There was lots of hemming and hawing about dynasties and such. But China still stands.
And Japan. And Scandanavia before the invasion. Switzerland too.
Stop SELLING here.
These trolls are now all over the place.
Ignore them.
Japan is one of the least diverse cultures on the planet.
As are all Islamic nations.
I saw interviews with people who moved from Belgium to Iran and other middle East countries. They were happy there. One woman moved to Austria, she hated it there. The mother of the husband is the tyrant of the family and bossed her around. The Iranian family adored that lady. differences are not just between races or religions. they are between people.
amen to that
There is very little gun crime in China, but when it does occur, you can be certain of one thing: Han shot first.
Ba-dum-TSHHH
yeah, but who wants to live in China?
Are they giving away free shit? okay, maybe they are giving away free 💩
China remains one of the oldest civilizations on earth, and there is no diversity in China. That is my point. You can argue about how it is governed, which has changed many times through the ages, but China remains, and diversity of skin color is non existent there.
Skin color no. That’s true. But China is not one people. There are diverse groups of Chinese, with the dominant group being the Han. There are Muslims in China, even in the cold, far Northeast. There are an increasing number of Christians. But your point is correct. People have a homeland and that’s the way it’s always been around the world. Wholesale importation of masses of immigrants against the rushes of the dominant group is a suicidal Western invention in the last 60 years.
It wasn't suicide. It was murder.
Yes, a deliberate policy to undermine and destabalise those countries.
How "diverse" were Periclean Athens, Renaissance Italy, Victorian Britain, Colonial America or France from say 1500-2000? And why have the Scandinavian countries had the best life outcomes since maybe WW2?
People have been programmed to accept "Diversity" (usually only vaguely defined) as a sacred value, and as something all Good People believe in, so they have to ignore history and reality.
"Reality" is highly overrated.
oh i couldnt agree more, but i do try to cling to it when others want to manipulate me with their lies and propaganda.
take it back to the root; then how did any of them get to any point where they could become diverse? how did they survive that duration while nonDiverse? funny puzzles. Personally I like diversity and multicultural exposure, just don't shove it down peoples' throats, let it occur organically because if it will it will.
A liberal Harvard prof found diversity has a downside (I still prefer a diverse place, and am “diverse” myself but I don’t think it’s necessary for survival of society)
http://archive.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/08/05/the_downside_of_diversity/
A rather odd viewpoint. In fact few societies are diverse as the US. Who else can assimilate so many different cultures? In the past the US has been eventually quite tolerant of the "other". Those who have lived in other counties can see intolerance up close. Of course we have had times when too many of one culture arrived but by the third generation of those arrivals they have joined the culture at large.
What amazes me is the rising intolerance of our political parties. The number of incompetent politicians rising in lockstep by taking advantage of social divisions (pandering)- in the end aspiring to high office to achieve wealth without having to risk much. And we keep re-electing them which is poor reflection on ourselves.
💬 I responded “China”.
Love the well-placed single-word winners! 🤩
Anyways. Maybe it made sense way back when. 50 years is enough. Let's move on.
I have a liberal friend who goes around at every party saying "Diversity is our strength!". All I hear is "I'm a moron"😂
Also. Black women are not Queens, Girls are not warriors. Boys don't need to "express " themselves. "Equity " is nothing but a stickup. Affirmative action is you watching you son thrown into the trash heap of history. Abortion is freedom is a total oxymoron etc... The gas lighting is deep and wide!
“There is no justification for taking away individuals’ freedom in the guise of public safety.”
—Thomas Jefferson
To celebrate independence and liberty today, I encourage people to join me in the call to #FreeAssange in honor of his fifty-second birthday and fifth year in Belmarsh yesterday.
As I wrote in the poem I dedicated to Julian and his dear friend and legendary whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg:
“We will trill your truth.
We will warble your song.
We will whistle your secret
to the world, until there are
too many of us to silence.”
—“Ode to a Whistleblower” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/ode-to-a-whistleblower)
When a person who is not an American citizen and not residing in American territory is charged with violating American laws, you know it's long overdue for the American government to be cut down to size.
💯
One sign of a declining country is its citizens consider it moral for their government to threaten physical force against honest, peaceful adults.
A lot of good points here. The big one is the idea that government should not be involved in this diversity thing at all. That when the focus is mandating hiring on basis of skin color, sex, ethnicity, and shoe size, we also are mandating a certain uniformity of thought.
We see that now with Covid. At one point they mandated masks and now in some quarters masks are banned. Sorry, but I no more want to ban masks than mandate them. My point has been to prevent government stepping in and determining how we should associate with one another and with whom.
In arguing against state wide and nationwide (in my case) vaccine passports in 2021/22, I suggested we just leave it to the venues themselves. My covidian friend could take her family to those with passports and feel all good and safe and I could patronize the venues who were hospitable to personal choice. Problem solved, no top down interference! That did not suit madame because guess what? She didn’t really mean it when she said “I know you’re doing the best you can, we all are.” She meant: you are a fucking idiot and I am smarter than you. And she is a constitutional law professor!! 🙄
There is a lot of that. Just about every tweet thread where I argue against mask mandates I am called ignorant, that I don’t understand the science, that I am stupid. I should also be dead thousands of times over for the sin of going madkless.
Said law professor openly stated unvaccinated should be denied medical treatment in favor of the compliant masses. Dangerous woman. Glad I live in another hemisphere and could cut her off forever with the click of a button! It's still hilarious that we're not the ones who even need hospital beds...
Certainly we are not occupying hospital beds due to Covid. There are a lot of people I no longer listen to after their proclamations about those of us who would not comply. I can’t watch Arnold anymore after his “f your freedom” comment. I didn’t listen to Howard Stern much before, now pretty much never. Jimmy Kimmel is marinated in the Covid and woke narrative.
Yes, hubs wanted to watch the Arnold show on Netflix and I said why bother? He's sadly lost perspective. My personal nadir is Chomsky.
There were way too many who went on record, almost eager, to denigrate dissent.
As it is possibly more dangerous in hospital than out, I think the vaccinated are welcome to medical treatment from doctors who think vaccines and big pharma drugs are a Good Idea.
Doctors in UK gave me poisonous immuno-therapy which I eventually stopped when I worked out what was really going on. Ingredients of the therapy seem very similar to COVID 19 vaccines. The NHS allegedly has some new draft advice.
https://baldmichael.substack.com/p/nhs-covid-19-vaccine-advice
AWFLs ruin everything, they are the Church Ladies of the 21st century.
Had to go to the urban dictionary for that one! Thanks for the new term!
The Mask-ists are very dangerous! And quite stupid.
https://baldmichael.substack.com/p/m-is-formasks
I rarely disagree with you. But I do here with masks.
I'm all for banning masks at the private/personal level. It is the only way to stop the state from mandating them.
I am for store owners banning masks and you not allowing them in your home. I am against government banning them for the same reason I am against the government mandating them.
Is just prefer to let them show.me who they are so I can choose whether I wish to associate with them.
No Mask? No Sale.
I agree. Diversity is just variety. Sometimes it's nice, sometimes it's functional. It's not inherently desirable without context. Heck, I see a diversity of turds left from a diversity of dogs left on the sidewalk by their diverse human owners when I walk my dog. But it's still poop.
Sometimes we are only given two choices, and no middle way. We must decide, or be annihilated. When you see a fork in the road, take it.
Or we will be 'spoon' fed the vaccines! :)
"this endless epigram represents nothing but a post-modernist cudgel used to bludgeon and browbeat society into a shape it would not otherwise choose."
THIS!! A thousand times a thousand times more, this!
Brilliant piece, thanks much for posting it.
From personal observation I believe that the most dangerous people in the country are white suburban women/housewives. They don’t live with diversity resulting in them becoming bleeding hearts for unlimited diversity and immigration as they see no downside to it. Let them in they say. This country has room for all of them. And they do this with little or no awareness of the pitfalls inherent in mixing truly diverse cultures. . It’s really quite maddening. They should all read The Camp of Saints as Europe is living it now and we’re next on the list.
And when they say "Let them in." The answer should be "Sure, how many can fit into your house? We will be right over."
Europe is over. They just don’t acknowledge it yet. If you just let outside/foreign culture completely overwhelm yours in the name of diversity, it’s still a hostile takeover. When Muslims say that they are waging jihad and using the European social safety net to finance and facilitate it, believe them. When new immigrants come in illegally and spit in their host country, believe them. I’m not xenophobic, but if you care about your national identity, you don’t subsume it to abstract, theoretical concepts. This is fine for the elite who never suffer the consequences of their social engineering. They can leave or hide behind walls at least for a while. When in human history has a mass migration/invasion happened without bloodshed? Maybe the marketing department for the NWO is good enough, but I doubt it. Those countries that refuse to participate in the BS like Hungary and Poland will fare far better. The others will either have outright civil war or become something entirely different. You already see it in France , Sweden and you will see it in other countries as well. It’s war.
"Let them in"...... but not in Martha's Vineyard.
I was thinking about that when I made that comment! And I read somewhere that 4 of those people did end up staying, and are now working there as landscapers, or something similar.
I would like to qualify my statement above though. I have friends who are naturalized citizens. Of various ethnicity, including African. Two of them I helped when they were having difficulty navigating language barriers. One person, I, along with several other of my friends, helped financially when a scumbag lawyer filed his paperwork incorrectly and almost got him deported. (The lawyer took his money and ran) All are immensely proud to be American, and eternally grateful their children are Americans. Every single one of these new(er) citizens can recite, almost by memory, the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. I would be surprised if even 1% of American public school students could do that.
I love legal immigration (as opposed to invasion), I am grateful and thankful for an exchange of cultures and experiences. Keyword: Exchange. And we do need these people, as they need us. But our government is betraying both citizens and migrants. I have no answers or ideas except I know what’s happening at our borders serves no one. Except the ones who would divide us all for their gains. It’s very easy to say "let them in" when it’s not your children’s education being neglected because the teachers in the school your tax dollars are funding can’t teach because they’re too busy trying to meet basic needs of migrant children. And your taxpayer funded infrastructure is going to shit because your money is being diverted into various basic service black holes.
Again, I have no answers. But I am VERY tired of being accused of racism. Show me some solutions that don’t require me to give up everything I’ve worked for and I’ll listen.
Well said. I have a similar experience. I lived in the most diverse zip code in the US for over 10 years. Over 60 languages are spoken there. All of the neighbors and shop and restaurant owners I met felt blessed to be here with their families. Note that all of the ones that I really knew were here legally as this was prior to the open border policy. The issues we had in the neighborhood were caused by what I call, Home Growns as our neighborhood was adjacent to theirs. In every meeting to address the issues we had with the local police, immigrant women spoke up in support and defense of their children. I remember being impressed with how coherent and heartfelt their statements were. Then the mayor defunded the police and the violence and gunshots spilled into our neighborhood as the police became less visible and less effective. So we got out; we moved to a red state. I feel for the neighbors and families that are still there.
Bottom line - I’m all in for a rational and legal immigration policy. The current policy is insane and is meant to harm rather than help.
"I know what’s happening at our borders serves no one" --
This isn't true. It serves those engaged in human trafficking, which is as I understand the most profitable enterprise on earth... itself something to ponder.
Very well worded. As an immigrant myself, I always had a hard time understanding the anti-immigrant rhetoric of some of the politicians of my adopted country, even when I knew they weren't really talking about people like me, who are, if I do say so myself, model citizens. But after the past few years of crisis after crisis, I see things very differently. It's been building since well before covid: for example, if we didn't have the lowest rate of ICU beds in the EU we couldn't even pretend to need the extreme counter measures that did end up being put in place. That was clear immediately and got worse when they refused to scale up for the entire pandemic. But the insanity continues and we are accepting large numbers of Ukrainian refugees in the most densely populated country in Europe (and high on the world ranking as well) with a massive housing crisis and teacher shortage. It is just too much to bear. It would be cheaper and more effective to send the money we are spending to help them much closer to their homeland. I would be willing to sacrifice a bit for others if it didn't involve ruining our own country. As it is, we are just making everyone poorer and more miserable and no one will have the bandwidth let alone the inclination to give one hot damn about other people and their troubles.
*air quotes* "Sanctuary" *closes air quotes*
Talk is cheap, and sometimes profitable.
My thoughts exactly.....
AWFLs are the Church Ladies of the Social Justice religion, they use SJW morality (which is mostly grounded in White Saviorism) as a way to preen as morally superior to others, as a way to batter anyone they don't like, and as a way to get whatever they want in the moment.
They are the Big Sister of our surveillance state and believe they're on a divine mission to uplift the poor and brown.
The White Man's Burden is now the White Woman's emotional burden.
Thanks much Clever. Your reply provided much insight and clarity.
sure, my pleasure. thanks!
If there one thing we can learn from cats it is practicing freedom of association
Every society, as far as we can tell, for the past at least 40,000 years has grown out of the agreement of its members as to what is proper and improper, tolerable and intolerable, attractive and unattractive, and so on. When agreement collapsed or had to be forced, societies became tyrannies and stagnated and sooner or later collapsed. And virtually all societies had as a foundation, a composition of similar individuals. Diversity is a false concept. The Balkans is a good model of what happens when dissimilar groups occupy the same area. And India, with its Caste System is an attempt to keep same with same to avoid the internecine mayhem that still plagues the Balkans. The meaning to the name many tribal people worldwide have for themselves is The People. Not A People, or One People Among Many, but THE People. These WEF Great Resetters and their running dogs on the left are pretending the history of Mankind isn't. Cultivate genuine critical thinking and distrust EVERYTHING presented by "government." And always remember, life is like sex. If you're not having fun with it, YOU ARE DOING IT WRONG!
P.S. I highly and strongly recommend rereading the Declaration of Independence at least once a week.
And the Constitution, at least once every three months.
I have a pocket Constitution but should read it more.
I think I'll read the Declaration right now.
Thanks, Mick!
Affirmative Action was never really about diversity. That’s a fiction used to cover for the ruling class’s desire to retain the status quo at all costs. Once it became such poor taste to continue racist practices as existed in Jim Crow America (thanks to the streets filling with its victims in the 1950’s and 60’s and the ugly reactions to this by the privileged poor who feared their little portion was about to get even smaller), the rulers came up with all manner of approaches to put a new bedspread on the broken bed. The Civil Rights Act propped the legs and replaced the bed boards while Affirmative Action added color (literally) to the blanket in an apparent effort to address the threadbare promise of justice for all. In fact, it never amounted to much for rank and file Americans if any shade. The rich kept getting chosen and preferred while the poor got even poorer; for the former, there was an explosion of color but for the latter, society remained as colorblind as ever. It’s been a lie from the start. I’m not sad to see it go.
Enforced diversity is an oxymoron. If all groups are forced to be diverse, they are all the same - equally divided - and therefore, not diverse.
Just let us figure it out, we've got plenty diverse opinions and capabilities on our own. Most substackers are humans, some are cats, and some are dogs.
Edit: Forgot I had this scheduled. https://open.substack.com/pub/argomend/p/diversity-is-our-strength?r=28g8km&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
The state is a paper tiger without paper-pushing bureaucrats.
They push the pyramids of power, ever higher, by increasing it's footprint. For every ounce of power, there is a pound of bureaucrat at the bottom.
Toppling the state is a bottom up exercise. That's how you cage the tiger.
"For every ounce of power, there is a pound of bureaucrat at the bottom."
And they know it. And fear is.
Which is why they go all Power.
Thank you!!!! I have asked friends who heartily embrace the idea of “diversity” what positives it brings and no one can give me a straight answer.
My favorite question that never got answered was why it was not okay for gringos to dress as a Mexican but it was perfectly fine for a Japanese person to dress up as an German Oktoberfest partygoer. 🤷🏼♀️
Former Axis partners have carte blanche maybe?
LOLOLOLOLOLOL
oh gawd that must be it....
"but it was perfectly fine for a Japanese person to dress up as an German Oktoberfest partygoer."
Well, Lederhosen are just another kind of pants that doesn't go all the way down to your shoe. Waka Waka Waka!
Or
"Ein! Zwei! Dlei! Gesuffen!"
A variety of food traditions and choices.
We have the recipes. They can go home now.
But you have to attribute or it’s appropriation 🤔 😂
I could go for appropriating some Kung Pao Chicken into my stomach.
Food demonstrates how "cultural appropriation" is just some dumb tribal thinking.
this