The Atlantic's headline "People Aren’t Meant to Talk This Much" is barely a step away from "Children are to be seen and not heard." For all the double-masking their reporters no doubt do, they're unmasking how they truly feel about the lowly masses, aren't they?
Apparently the atlantic: misses the “good old days when people listened to reporters and not to each other.” Really? Never again will I listen to reporters. Our lives depend on searching for the truth for ourselves. Reporters and politicians talk "to us" not with us. I'm tired of it.
The Atlantic was the first rag glorifying Transhausen by Proxy parents for transing their toddlers for social credit. They want to be first in "Wokieness" whenever possible.
OMG that typing cat is just hilarious. Couldn't stop laughing. Thank god people are waking up, more and more as news agencies spread the fake news of how good the jabs are. Do they think people can be fooled forever?
The responses to the tweet about the VA Dem false flag thing are hilarious. Like 75% of them are doubling down: "yeah well GQP is fascist and we've taken the high road too long"
Back on the original point... this stuff gives me hope for the democratization of power. It's AMAZING to see institutions throw tantrums when they can't arbitrarily control people.
I can imagine The Atlantic literally posting "Actually, Fascism DOES Prevent White Supremacy And Right-Wing Disinformation" in the next year or so.
You know how a kid will throw themselves to the ground kicking and jerking around? That's the tantrum in envisioning these institutions doing, literally doing behind closed doors.
Yes, it gives me a chuckle. It also gives me some joy to imagine the slightest flicker of insight that "they hate us" or just general frustration and suffering. I really don't care much about the manner of their suffering, simply that they suffer. Face flies, existential dread, herpes, whatever.
Here's the part that doesn't give me a chuckle:
I have personal professional experience of a 4-year old, when not permitted to leave the counseling room, comically attempting to pick up a chair to threaten me whilst screaming "I'm gonna crush your skull, bitch." (Take a guess where he learned that from.)
Sociopathic kids having an id rage are incredibly dangerous if sufficiently large and armed.
I was assaulted a fair bit. I stopped being a social worker years ago. I don't help anyone who hates me, now. It's hard enough to help the people you DO like as much as you wish you could.
Drowning the better angel of my nature in the bathtub was a very good move for my sanity. That bitch just keeps coming back for more abuse.
My mom worked as a social worker for about 2 years. And this was AFTER five years of working as a substitute teacher in the Chicago Public Schools system.
That cat on the laptop is the best thing I've seen all month. Can't stop watching it! Also, great post. And yeah, despite how sh*tty it feels to watch the censorship campaigns rev into high gear, it is also oh, so satisfying to recognize how desperate they are...and how helpless their efforts will ultimately be.
Ice Cube dropping out of that Hell No movie over a vaccine requirement is another example of a black celebrity resisting. As that trend builds, it gets more difficult for the authorities to maintain the facade of legitimacy to the lockdown structure.
This is really important. The dominant narrative is still that resistance to all this crap comes exclusively from Trump supporters, which is shorthand for uneducated, ignorant white hillbillies. But it will get harder and harder for everyone to ignore so many prominent black people in sports and entertainment basically saying, Let’s Go Brandon! Ice Cube gave up very serious money on principle. Hopefully that wakes a few people up.
The one comfort, possibly a delusional one, that I harbor is that while these outlets would have been far more able to get away with all this a decade ago, they also were not TRYING to get away with all of it a decade ago. Lying, misleading, sure, but not in the pathological, brazen way we see now.
The escalation and toxication of "public" discourse that started in '09 (Retweeting added to Twitter), more widely adopted in '12 (share button added to Facebook) and really got wild in '16 (you know what) — it really broke the brains of a lot of people. Legacy media saw it as their sacred duty to put a stop to it, which of course just broke things further.
My favorite quote of this great post, well, that and Tommy Robinson and the typing cat:
"it’s the squalid swansong of an entire edifice sliding into irrelevance and pining for past prominence as “reporter” increasingly becomes a backwater of bootlickers sliding into ignominy and penury.
who would trust such people and the dying dinosaurs of their mastheads?
you can feel him working up to saying “damnable deplorables and their confounded ideas! they need limiting! the bully pulpit is for ME not for THEE!”
Keep praying they slide into irrelevancy and help them along as much as you can!
Protests ended the Vietnam War and that's why future "conflicts" never embedded combat reporters or showed caskets returning after that. November 3 is a worldwide event. Doing nothing is what never works. Millions in the streets scares the pants off politicians; the only way to negotiate with them is when they fear the people.
Stand up, show up, speak up. The old adage is true about evil succeeding when good folks do nothing or in corporate parlance just do it! :~)
I agree I am of the Vietnam protest generation. So why so few young people of today aren’t standing up against this tyranny don’t know. (Actually I do know it is that they are rather pathetic and compliant and complacent. I also include many people from my generation too, who hacer turned into Sheeple wimps!)
I ‘marched’ a few times in ‘protests’ against The Vietnam War, ironically in Berkeley & San Francisco in the early 70’s. Both those cities are pathetic, run by tyrannical City government officials, full of mentally unstable people living and defecating on the streets, on freeway off ramps (Berkeley & Oakland). The place is a mess!
I'm a New Yorker big fan of street photography & have protest pics going back to Occupy. Last summer we had tens of thousands in the street & when DeBlasio imposed a curfew masses were outside Gracie Mansion all night banging pots and drums, honking horns and chanting F*CK your curfew.. it was reversed day three.. no NYC curfews..
The biggest challenge in my view is censorship and challenges finding who will be where and the conspiracy of silence by MSM so folks have no idea how many are protesting or where. Gotta be a virtual Sherlock Holmes to get more than a tale about a single airline afflicted by weather delays. Every global media corp has offices and studios within one block of Times Square but not one sent a camera down to the crowd of thousands. The march stopped at NYTimes offices with bullhorns and was totally ignored. Find where the Nov 3 events are near you and put feet in the street, network face to face folks are out in droves. Grab a flyer from and organizer and get on the list. It has links to groups and my flickr pics. :~)
Needs to be MORE than protests. We need to HURT the oligarchs and the governments to make them stop. General strikes by essential workers make a HUGE difference, as does boycotting businesses and corporations that force vax mandates on their workers or (especially) customers. And no, I don’t consider “I was just following orders” to be a defense! It didn’t work at Nuremberg for the Nazis and it won’t work today. You do some evil crap, and it doesn’t matter that you were following orders. You’re going to reap the consequences!
Well in Chicago and NYC, their mayors are getting increasingly shrill at the Villains of 2021, aka the Heroes of 2020, aka the "essential workers". I expect Lightfoot to throw a screaming tantrum at a conference before Thanksgiving. Gobble, gobble bitches!
Beetlejuice can throw all the tantrums she wants, eventually the six remaining taxpayers in Chicago will get sick of the city being a warzone and give her the boot.
I imagine her polling numbers today would be in the toilet, if anyone were asking.
I do not disagree with any of this entirely hypothetical fantasizing about political violence in a Minecraft simulation.
Here is a quote thoroughly unrelated to our discussion of Minecraft:
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? After all, you knew ahead of time that those bluecaps were out at night for no good purpose. And you could be sure ahead of time that you’d be cracking the skull of a cutthroat.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
I think we're watching a decades old propaganda machine finally becoming exposed by the powers of social media and crowd sourced fact checking. It just seems like the propaganda is more egregious now because it's being unravelled and is fighting to stay alive.
We should all be optimistic watching these corporate media conglomerates coming apart.
Love to see the world standing up and telling everyone from Soros to fauci to kool aid drinking docs and nurses, to neighbors that we will not stand for this any longer. I pray that if we have to march, that we can take on numbers like we see above in every major city in the US. Our brothers and sisters in other countries are examples of profiles in courage.
i learned some new words today and laughed and shook my head at the last meme. thanks for the hope shared in your post and starting my day out right, gato malo!!!
I never thought of reporters as a source I ‘must listen to’. In the best case scenario they were dispassionate tellers of what has transpired across the globe. Merely telling about happenings. Pretty please without opinion. I know that doesn’t exist 😝
The Atlantic's headline "People Aren’t Meant to Talk This Much" is barely a step away from "Children are to be seen and not heard." For all the double-masking their reporters no doubt do, they're unmasking how they truly feel about the lowly masses, aren't they?
They left a word out, didn't they... "SOME People Aren’t Meant to Talk This Much"
Course media co's the same ones prating about "engagement" every other breath so, oh look, more doublespeak!
Jemele Hill writes for them. Imma just leave this here.
It's worse, because he suggests more censorship. What a fascist.
Good point.
Apparently the atlantic: misses the “good old days when people listened to reporters and not to each other.” Really? Never again will I listen to reporters. Our lives depend on searching for the truth for ourselves. Reporters and politicians talk "to us" not with us. I'm tired of it.
I would even say they talk "at us".
Surely you realize they are media personalities and not journalism.
Good journalism requires the objective truth.
Yes I do, which is why I said what I did.
The Atlantic was the first rag glorifying Transhausen by Proxy parents for transing their toddlers for social credit. They want to be first in "Wokieness" whenever possible.
“Transhausen by Proxy” …💥BAM !!!
Right?
OMG that typing cat is just hilarious. Couldn't stop laughing. Thank god people are waking up, more and more as news agencies spread the fake news of how good the jabs are. Do they think people can be fooled forever?
yes, some can Ingrid:{
The responses to the tweet about the VA Dem false flag thing are hilarious. Like 75% of them are doubling down: "yeah well GQP is fascist and we've taken the high road too long"
Back on the original point... this stuff gives me hope for the democratization of power. It's AMAZING to see institutions throw tantrums when they can't arbitrarily control people.
I can imagine The Atlantic literally posting "Actually, Fascism DOES Prevent White Supremacy And Right-Wing Disinformation" in the next year or so.
To thunderous applause.
You know how a kid will throw themselves to the ground kicking and jerking around? That's the tantrum in envisioning these institutions doing, literally doing behind closed doors.
dont ever underestimate We The People or the citizens in other countries, we do have power and have to twist their arms until we break them.
Yes, it gives me a chuckle. It also gives me some joy to imagine the slightest flicker of insight that "they hate us" or just general frustration and suffering. I really don't care much about the manner of their suffering, simply that they suffer. Face flies, existential dread, herpes, whatever.
Here's the part that doesn't give me a chuckle:
I have personal professional experience of a 4-year old, when not permitted to leave the counseling room, comically attempting to pick up a chair to threaten me whilst screaming "I'm gonna crush your skull, bitch." (Take a guess where he learned that from.)
Sociopathic kids having an id rage are incredibly dangerous if sufficiently large and armed.
Oh geez! I can’t unread that!
Horrific !
WOW...
Yeah, my mother was a social worker at one point in her life. She didn't have a client like that but a co-worker did.
I was assaulted a fair bit. I stopped being a social worker years ago. I don't help anyone who hates me, now. It's hard enough to help the people you DO like as much as you wish you could.
Drowning the better angel of my nature in the bathtub was a very good move for my sanity. That bitch just keeps coming back for more abuse.
My mom worked as a social worker for about 2 years. And this was AFTER five years of working as a substitute teacher in the Chicago Public Schools system.
Glad she made it out alive.
😵💫😵💫😵💫
That cat on the laptop is the best thing I've seen all month. Can't stop watching it! Also, great post. And yeah, despite how sh*tty it feels to watch the censorship campaigns rev into high gear, it is also oh, so satisfying to recognize how desperate they are...and how helpless their efforts will ultimately be.
LOVE the cat on the laptop!
Censorship = Desperation
💥BAM !
Ice Cube dropping out of that Hell No movie over a vaccine requirement is another example of a black celebrity resisting. As that trend builds, it gets more difficult for the authorities to maintain the facade of legitimacy to the lockdown structure.
This is really important. The dominant narrative is still that resistance to all this crap comes exclusively from Trump supporters, which is shorthand for uneducated, ignorant white hillbillies. But it will get harder and harder for everyone to ignore so many prominent black people in sports and entertainment basically saying, Let’s Go Brandon! Ice Cube gave up very serious money on principle. Hopefully that wakes a few people up.
The one comfort, possibly a delusional one, that I harbor is that while these outlets would have been far more able to get away with all this a decade ago, they also were not TRYING to get away with all of it a decade ago. Lying, misleading, sure, but not in the pathological, brazen way we see now.
The escalation and toxication of "public" discourse that started in '09 (Retweeting added to Twitter), more widely adopted in '12 (share button added to Facebook) and really got wild in '16 (you know what) — it really broke the brains of a lot of people. Legacy media saw it as their sacred duty to put a stop to it, which of course just broke things further.
“…they also were not TRYING to get away with all of it a decade ago.”
We don’t really know what was censored a decade ago, because…uh…it was censored.
My favorite quote of this great post, well, that and Tommy Robinson and the typing cat:
"it’s the squalid swansong of an entire edifice sliding into irrelevance and pining for past prominence as “reporter” increasingly becomes a backwater of bootlickers sliding into ignominy and penury.
who would trust such people and the dying dinosaurs of their mastheads?
you can feel him working up to saying “damnable deplorables and their confounded ideas! they need limiting! the bully pulpit is for ME not for THEE!”
Keep praying they slide into irrelevancy and help them along as much as you can!
There's about two dozen favorite quotes per post.. such a brilliant thinker & wordsmith!
Tears!! OMG amazing
It’s nice to see protests, but have they accomplished anything anywhere? The ruling class has not budged.
Protests ended the Vietnam War and that's why future "conflicts" never embedded combat reporters or showed caskets returning after that. November 3 is a worldwide event. Doing nothing is what never works. Millions in the streets scares the pants off politicians; the only way to negotiate with them is when they fear the people.
Stand up, show up, speak up. The old adage is true about evil succeeding when good folks do nothing or in corporate parlance just do it! :~)
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/child-health-topics/health-freedom/worldwide-walk-outs/#video
I agree I am of the Vietnam protest generation. So why so few young people of today aren’t standing up against this tyranny don’t know. (Actually I do know it is that they are rather pathetic and compliant and complacent. I also include many people from my generation too, who hacer turned into Sheeple wimps!)
I ‘marched’ a few times in ‘protests’ against The Vietnam War, ironically in Berkeley & San Francisco in the early 70’s. Both those cities are pathetic, run by tyrannical City government officials, full of mentally unstable people living and defecating on the streets, on freeway off ramps (Berkeley & Oakland). The place is a mess!
I'm a New Yorker big fan of street photography & have protest pics going back to Occupy. Last summer we had tens of thousands in the street & when DeBlasio imposed a curfew masses were outside Gracie Mansion all night banging pots and drums, honking horns and chanting F*CK your curfew.. it was reversed day three.. no NYC curfews..
The biggest challenge in my view is censorship and challenges finding who will be where and the conspiracy of silence by MSM so folks have no idea how many are protesting or where. Gotta be a virtual Sherlock Holmes to get more than a tale about a single airline afflicted by weather delays. Every global media corp has offices and studios within one block of Times Square but not one sent a camera down to the crowd of thousands. The march stopped at NYTimes offices with bullhorns and was totally ignored. Find where the Nov 3 events are near you and put feet in the street, network face to face folks are out in droves. Grab a flyer from and organizer and get on the list. It has links to groups and my flickr pics. :~)
https://pameladrew.substack.com/p/thousands-join-nyc-nomandate-protest
Needs to be MORE than protests. We need to HURT the oligarchs and the governments to make them stop. General strikes by essential workers make a HUGE difference, as does boycotting businesses and corporations that force vax mandates on their workers or (especially) customers. And no, I don’t consider “I was just following orders” to be a defense! It didn’t work at Nuremberg for the Nazis and it won’t work today. You do some evil crap, and it doesn’t matter that you were following orders. You’re going to reap the consequences!
Well in Chicago and NYC, their mayors are getting increasingly shrill at the Villains of 2021, aka the Heroes of 2020, aka the "essential workers". I expect Lightfoot to throw a screaming tantrum at a conference before Thanksgiving. Gobble, gobble bitches!
Beetlejuice can throw all the tantrums she wants, eventually the six remaining taxpayers in Chicago will get sick of the city being a warzone and give her the boot.
I imagine her polling numbers today would be in the toilet, if anyone were asking.
Worldwide Walkouts is more than protest. It's biz shutdown.
I have seen this video and have heard 11/3 is an important day. Do you know of activities in cities/states?
Nov 3rd NYC will be Foley Square which is between the Courthouses and City Hall.. MFA has an NYC area event calendar.
https://mfany.org/local-events/
They also have links to other national groups so a little sleuthing should turn up towns or cities near you. :~)
https://mfany.org/action/support-groups-and-organizations/
Thanks.
My pleasure, glad you asked, knowledge is power that multiplies when we pass it on. Lucky us! :~)
This was on MFA list & has groups sorted by Nations and States
https://healthfreedomforhumanity.org/chapters/
This worries me as well.
I do not disagree with any of this entirely hypothetical fantasizing about political violence in a Minecraft simulation.
Here is a quote thoroughly unrelated to our discussion of Minecraft:
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? After all, you knew ahead of time that those bluecaps were out at night for no good purpose. And you could be sure ahead of time that you’d be cracking the skull of a cutthroat.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
I think we're watching a decades old propaganda machine finally becoming exposed by the powers of social media and crowd sourced fact checking. It just seems like the propaganda is more egregious now because it's being unravelled and is fighting to stay alive.
We should all be optimistic watching these corporate media conglomerates coming apart.
Tune in and tune out. The media does an excellent job at keeping people uninformed.
Based on their latest ratings, is anyone even watching CNN anymore?
Love to see the world standing up and telling everyone from Soros to fauci to kool aid drinking docs and nurses, to neighbors that we will not stand for this any longer. I pray that if we have to march, that we can take on numbers like we see above in every major city in the US. Our brothers and sisters in other countries are examples of profiles in courage.
i learned some new words today and laughed and shook my head at the last meme. thanks for the hope shared in your post and starting my day out right, gato malo!!!
…Like a “Vocabulary Workshop” class.
I never thought of reporters as a source I ‘must listen to’. In the best case scenario they were dispassionate tellers of what has transpired across the globe. Merely telling about happenings. Pretty please without opinion. I know that doesn’t exist 😝