Divide and Conquer

Posted on by Sarah A. Hoyt

Yes, the left’s technique, when trying to destroy a country is always divide and conquer. Find or CREATE a malcontent minority that you can use to tell everyone how the country/polity sucks because of how they treated this minority. Then weaponize the minority itself against the majority. Or find a minority (you know which, usually) and blame them for all the trouble fear and strife in the country and make destroying them the sacred mission of the country, while weaponizing everyone else against them. (Because, yes, Nazis were leftist they used this.)

I bring you news of great joy: Whether you are the majority or the minority you are not obligated to fall for this. You don’t have to fall for the brainwashing, the carefully picked screaming heads and the general insanity. It’s not true. it never was true. And it’s playing right into where the left wants you.

I had a friend who is frankly way smarter than this but was black-dogging fall back on “we need to expel every black person, because they’ve been weaponized against us.” Yes, I was pissed, but not awake enough — it was late at night — to tell him the logical “They’ve also weaponized women AS A MINORITY against the nation and everyone else. Do you want to expel all women too?” I suspect in his state of mind he would have told me women need to be burkaed and enslaved. And not realize the monstrosity of this, just like he didn’t realize the monstrosity of defining people by level-of-tan.

So, for those of you who might find yourselves going insane in that way: no, minorities aren’t the problem, Marxists are.

Let’s start with black Americans who are, yes, our most visible minority, in that most of them are physically distinct, kind of. Let me tell you right now, that unless these are people with a recent — i.e. immigrant. Voluntary — African ancestor, most people raised abroad can’t tell they’re black. For all the screaming and tantruming, Meghan Markle could walk the streets of Portugal and be identified as “black” less than I was while wearing an affro perm and a tan.

Most “American blacks” (No, I will not use the ridiculous African-American. Just like I won’t call myself Portuguese-American. I’m American-American, thank you so much. I worked for it.) as far as racial classification goes are what’s known as “Caucasian.” They will have, at most, a drop of black blood. To call them black is to subscribe to the South’s rule where octaroons (eh.) counted as “black” because they had one black great grandparent. The definition of this is “insanity.”

Yes most Americans can or think they can “detect” black. Whatever they look at might not have anything to do with appearance, but with culture and behavior. And those are not genetic. Trust me on this, because the behavior and culture of the black community in the US has changed completely after they became targets of indoctrination as “aggrieved minority.”

Do you know what other communities are going that way? Well, most people in the US perceive Hispanic/Latin as a race. HOW in heck they do that baffles me, but I know they do because they throw me into it. Technically Portuguese are…. mutts. Greeco Roman with bits of the rest of Europe. Neither Greeks or Romans are perceived as Latin/Hispanic, but Portuguese are.

I suspect most of this is hearing of the person’s origin. It does wonders for people’s perception. I remember the guy who having heard that I was from Portugal kept telling everyone I sounded JUST LIKE Ricky Ricardo. For the record, no I don’t. Which makes perfect sense, because our languages of origin are nothing like in sound. But having heard I was Portuguese before meeting me, he literally heard me with a (Cuban?) accent, like someone who spoke Spanish. Because, yes, most Americans think Portugal is in South America. Never mind.

The point here is that when the State department considered Latin/Hispanic separate “culture” within the US, they didn’t consider it a race. But everyone else considers it a race. And then goes looking for it.

To be fair, I’ve heard of Arabs being assumed to be Hispanic/Latin too, so the spectrum is really broad.

So, how come they/we are now an ethnicity? Well, because the state declared us a separate category, and that’s how humans work.

If you got rid of every visible minority — I’m not sure how getting rid of women works, but hey Johns Hopkins has ideas, apparently — the Marxists could create others out of clear blue sky. I mean, everyone knows gingers are discriminated against in film. How hard is it?

And once the state starts considering you a special, treated as special category, several things happen, none of them good for you.

One is that people start assuming none of your achievements or hard work are real. This applies to women as well as black people, Hispanics, etc. (Really glad for changed first name and married name. At least I escape some of that in writing. Well, not the woman. I am still, I swear, going to write mil sf under a male name and dare you to find me.) AND you are indoctrinated from day one to see every set back as the result of systemic discrimination, which in turn makes it hard — really hard — to improve and learn to be resilient.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with black people in America that being treated in a color blind way, and given the real history of world slavery (Everyone has slave ancestors. Yours might be a little closer. So what? And that’s a MIGHT since in the rest of the world there’s still a lot of slavery, sometimes under different names) wouldn’t fix.

It’s not genetic. It’s active manipulation.

And even then most blacks, most women, most Latins, etc are NOT the entitled stereotypes you see on TV and read about. No, those are the biased media amplifying them.

Most gay people are not the stereotypes you hear about. (When I went door to door for the republicans in get out the vote efforts, I hate to tell you how many gay couples I ran into, including the gentleman who was baking a cake, apron on and said “Do we need to go? It’s my partner’s birthday” (This was pre gay marriage in CO) and I said “we’re reliably told the dems have an advantage right now.” He took his apron off, and went inside yelling, “Honey, we have to go voting.” I was a door down, when I saw them pull out and drive away. Are they the majority. No. But they were sold a bill of goods about communitarian politics, which I explored in AFGM, actually.)

For heaven’s sake, most of the trans, particularly those who transitioned well before this, are not like the crazy idiot who wrote the Johns Hopkins thing talking of Men and Non-Men while saying he’s always been a woman. (For that deranged person only biological men can be women, I guess???) They’re just people who want to live their lives.

What the media sells you as versions of these groups is wrong. And if you got rid of these groups, they would weaponize other groups.

The cure is not to attack the people they tell you are the enemy, but to attack the ideology, and to point out that what you see on TV/online is not reality. (I have it on good authority most of the people you see online are dogs. Arf.)

And while the idiots exist, they are nowhere near a majority or even the numbers the media tells you they are.

It’s just gaslighting. And you’re not OBLIGATED to fall for it.

Also,could all right-side commenters stop saying “The country/republic you knew is gone” and variations thereonto? It’s stupid: the country and republic are occupied. Arguably this has been going on for oh… almost 100 years, but we just noticed now, because barn, horses, etc. (Also thanks to blessed Trump the mask-remover. If he did nothing else that would be enough to call him blessed!)

Our “elites” are a thin and brittle mask of scum at the top.

The people? The people are all right. A lot of us are broke, a lot are unemployed, and an increasingly large bunch are trying to figure out how to survive day to day.

BUT always remember in face of the most determined psi-ops against Trump and the right in general, which included mass house arrest to keep us from talking to each other and get us to watch TV again, people hunched their shoulders and voted for Trump — or against the leftists, more like — in unprecedented numbers.

The republic isn’t gone. Stop falling for the gaslighting. More importantly, stop aiding the gaslighting.

The republic — the PEOPLE — of these United States of America are fine. We are just occupied. But we are fighting back in myriad ways, including refusing going along with the narrative.

I do realize saying it’s all doomed, or it’s the fault of x minority, or even that “the republic is gone” excuses you from having to do anything about what’s going on. You can be depressed and tranq yourself into uselessness by one mean or another.

BUT is that what you want to do? Is it really? Or do you want to stand on two and build over, build under, build around?

I know which I want to do. Be not afraid.

We’ve got this.

141 thoughts on “Divide and Conquer”

  1. Huh; I knew that the Soviets had been very clearly implicated in a lot of the “popular Jewish purges” that they went in to put down, I didn’t know it was a blanket technique.

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    1. On consideration, I can see the matches in a lot of the middle east– say, how Saddam “protected” the Christians, and there were a number in his government.
      … ignore the part where his goons were wiping out entire villages and how being out of favor got your kids kidnapped and Variety Of Worse Then Deathed then deathed.

      They give official cover…but you got to keep paying, and if someoen seems reluctant… they tend to be the next “look how everybody hates you, you need me to save you.”

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      1. Members of generally persecuted minorities that manage to get into relative power on the coattails of a dictator tend to become incredibly loyal to the dictator because they know that when the dictator falls they and their families will be part of the revenge

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        1. And the Soviet Union made very sure that any reluctant relatives got very direct reminders of this.

          “Oh, look! A kidnapped kid showed up and said the Jews kidnapped him! Isn’t it odd that his dad is pretty high up in the Soviet backed group? And that the guys who were swinging clubs to murder the claimed kidnappers are from Soviet backed unions? It is a MYSTERY, good thing the Soviets came in to save us– after all the loudly reluctant folks were killed!”

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          1. A friend of ours from Estonia spoke of how the Russians were going to extort her father by holding her hostage. So they took her, and locked her in a room. A first-floor room. With an open window. She was home before they got there.

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  2. Don’t remember where I saw it, but a Republican Politician was debating “diversity” at the US State Department with a minion of the State Department and the Republican made a point of asking the minion if he (the Republican) was White.

    The poor minion really couldn’t answer that question and tried to ask if the Republican “considered himself White”. :lol:

    Oh, the Republican apparently had a Hispanic (culture) parent. [Crazy Grin]

    Final note, I worked with a Mexican-American woman and it was obvious that she had European ancestry not American-Indian ancestry.

    And that woman “boasted” of being Mexican-American and claimed a “kinship” with darker-skinned Mexican-Americans.

    Oh, I consider her a liar concerning that “kinship” as in Mexico she would be considered as being a Higher Social Status than those darker-skinned Mexicans.

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  3. Every child knows if he can divide the parents, he can get what he wants. Wise parents don’t let it happen.
    Just goes to prove that a winning strategy writ large can work wonders. And that the governments that ignore the tactic wouldn’t make good parents.
    And they are running governments?

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    1. When my sister and I were young, we’d ask Dad about something and his first question was “have you asked your mother about this”.

      Of course, if we had asked Mom, we better not have asked Dad to “reverse” her decision.

      On the other hand, he had no problem with us asking him because we thought Mom would say No.

      On the gripping hand, his usual answer was “I’ll talk with your mother about this”.

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  5. A bunch of middle-school kids in Burlington, MA (!) refused to wear rainbow gear to school for “Pride,” tore down posters, wore red, white and blue and said their pronouns were, “U.S.A”. The adults are scandalized.
    Guess they just aren’t used to,adolescent rebellion. <grin.>

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    1. The people who used to say, “Question Authority” really don’t want their authority questioned.

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      1. Oh, so much this.
        Those kids are probably as tired as I am, of being lectured about equity, gender orientation and the fabulousness of gays.

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  6. Much building has to happen. And keep the Marxists and their fellow-travelers out as a general rule.

    If you start seeing bulk purchases of chicken wire, lengths of chain, and a lot of flight time being booked on transport aircraft with rear hatches…we might be dealing with our Marxist problem.

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    2. I have been hearing and seeing a lot of fighter aircraft in the area the past week or so. This is not usual as Pease doesn’t have fighters assigned to it (being a refueling tanker ANG installation, and mostly civilian cargo for everything else.)

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      1. Yeah the nearest fighter stuff to Pease is probably on Cape Cod. That’s where the hardware came out of on 9/11 . Haven’t heard that stuff but late night I’m hearing lots of large helicopters lately. Either there have been a LOT of Medflights (almost anything north of here is going to go over my house on the way to Boston) or something screwy is up

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  7. We’re seeing grassroots pushback. The Armenians in Glendale, CA, the other day (which then provoked some interesting antics involving the video game company Activision; I’m curious how that will play out). The Muslim-majority city in Michigan that just banned the rainbow flag from city buildings. Sure, they banned all flags except for the National flag, state flag, and POW/MIA flag, and gave patriotic reasons for doing so. But everyone knows which specific flag they’re looking to block the display of, and why the banning took place during the so-called “Pride Month”.

    People are willing to put up with a certain amount of it regardless of their personal feelings as part of living in the US. And yes, I think that applies even in that Muslim-majority city (for some of the residents more than others, mind you). But it’s becoming clear that people are starting to snap. It looks like they’re starting to reach the point where even the LIVs are beginning to dig in their heels and say, “This is too far. Knock it off.” People are starting to realize that they’re not the only ones annoyed by all of this. The muscles that the “community organizers” and “activists” have worked so long to develop are starting to be flexed in ways that the organizers and activists didn’t anticipate.

    It’s like the Tea Party back during Obama’s first term, but not just the conservatives. And because it’s not just one side of the political aisle, those who participate in it are going to expect more than empty words and ignored promises.

    I think we’re about to see a well-deserved smack down as the people begin to express their frustrations. Where it will ultimately end up is anyone’s guess. It’s unlikely that this will all stop with the immediate problem, and it could lead directly to other problems in the future. But the future is never foreseeable. And we have immediate problems in the here and now that are extremely serious.

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    1. Also…

      I’m hoping that before everything is said and done, we get at least one politician or bureaucrat on the other side stripped naked, covered in (pine) tar and feathers, and tied (non-fatally) to the top of the nearest flagpole.

      :P

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        1. Remember – ridicule is our most potent weapon against them. That doesn’t mean you can’t ramp things up afterwards if the ridicule doesn’t do the job. But a politician stripped naked by the grass-roots locals (and not just a bunch of Antifa rowdies), tarred and feathered, and left out for all the world to see is a politician that’s been rendered ridiculous.

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        2. TWA, flying the retro Boeing 727 without the Cooper lock (or Cooper vane) so the aft ramp can be lowered in flight . . .

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      2. Covered in pine tar could be fatal in and of itself. If you’re going to put them on the top of a flag pole, you may as well go Vlad on the impalement.

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        1. Only if you heat it up.

          … or I suppose, if the recipient is allergic to it.

          Molasses might make a decent, non-scalding substitute, even if “molasses and feathers” doesn’t quite have the same ring a “tar and feathers”

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        2. I’ve read that pine tar doesn’t need to be heated as much as regular tar, which is why some think it was the tar usually used when “tarring and feathering’.

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          2. I’ve read that as well. It wasn’t so much the pain – it was the sheer humiliation of being stripped naked, covered in warm sticky stuff and covered with feathers, and paraded out of town, to the enthusiastic cheers of the mob.
            It’s an old custom – I can get behind renewing it.

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    2. And as our hostess noted above, even many in the LGB crowd are freaked out by this crap and trying to stand against it. Link to the Twitter feed for “Gays Against Groomers” showcasing an appearance by “D*kes On The Right” at an LA Pride event earlier this month (h/t Instapundit).

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  8. There is one race (that we know so far, anyway): human. I don’t give a rat’s ass what your melanin level is; I want to know if you act like a human or an animal (that is, predator, prey, or scavenger).

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    1. By denying their otherness, you are racist.

      By asserting their equality, you are supremacist.

      Yes, they are insane as well as evil.

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  9. I can’t help but get the feeling lately that Mom and Dad Normie are pulling the car to the side of the road, and little Mr. Millennial and little miss Z are going to get a lesson.

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      1. I’ve seen 0 ads for Budwiser anything during the baseball games [Astros] Mom watches. Miller, Coors, Shiner, but no Bud. Make of it what you will.

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      2. I’m deeply amused by the leftist whinging that anti-groomer boycotts are “economic terrorism”. Try the other one; it has bells on.

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        1. My reaction to that line, and more so the more I hear it, is instead more like “hm, saying the soft part right out loud, again.” Which is as smart as all the other millions of times they did it.

          To expand the point, imagine the following is the captions or text bubbles for a multi-panel comic strip — with a late-teens person looking in the mirror. (Or an early-20s programmer. Or a middle-aged housewife. Or a farmer just back from church…)

          “They say I’m an economic terrorist. I don’t think I’m a terrorist, I’m just a regular guy who could not buy their beer anymore, after seeing that bizarre spokescreature try to make me.”

          “Wait, I’m a terrorist, just for keeping my own money in my own pocket? Really? Even though I didn’t ever shoot anyone or blow anything up?”

          ((looks intently at self, then smiles))

          “I know I can do almost nothing on my own, still, but I AM AN ECONOMIC TERRORIST! Just like the French Resistance or the French Foreign Legion or the Texans at the Alamo, only a lot quieter and a lot safer. Together, people like me have a superpower. ECONOMIC TERROR! Who knew?”

          ((smiles at self very much like a hungry cat))

          “I am an economic terrorist! Wokercorps of the world, be afraid, I’m going to help sane people all across this country Bud-lite you all up!

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          1. All that we have to control are our own eyeballs, and our consumer dollar. And we can do … stuff with them. Especially by withdrawing them from entities and business which have annoyed us.

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        2. Your speech is violence. Their violence is speech.

          And they demand you listen to their conversation.

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          1. Except when they say they want a ‘conversation’ about race, gender, or whatever the subject du jour is, what they mean is, “Sit down, shut up and listen to (and agree with) what we tell you!”

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  10. I can’t help but get the feeling lately that Mom and Dad Normie are pulling the car to the side of the road, and little Mr. Millennial and little miss Z are going to get a lesson.

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      1. Very true. My kids doing great things. Work their little booties off. Also had pleasure of mentoring several young adults a few years ago. They needed grounding in various adulting aspects but the values were solid.
        That said trying to hire a few folks and it is ridiculous. Any of the under 28 crowd in the last two months of interviews have been so totally clueless that i am concerned for their safety in walking down the street or in the rain where like a turkey they will look up with their mouth open and drown.

        You are correct on the substance of this post. Raised colorblind and have never seen a reason to change it.

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        1. Are you familiar with protective coloration?

          On a Navy base, over twenty years ago– folks were shocked that I was Republican.

          When that was not unusual.

          And I literally had a W sticker on my car.

          Because even I learned to largely keep my mouth shut, so they didn’t get the signals they expected, so they saw what they “knew” would be there.

          (My crazy room-mate probably still thinks I’m a flaming liberal.)

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      1. Good Lord, I was trying to keep the joke short and pithy. I happen to have raised one fairly hard core right libertarian Millennial, and two quite conservative Gen. Zers myself.

        Yet they themselves regale me with stories of many of their insane generation counterparts, especially the Millennial, he despises they way his generation treated men and boys as he was coming of age.

        So yeah, I know there are good ones. However Ma and Pa Normie have had it up to HERE with the sniveling weasel ones….

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  11. Your friend, if you’ll pardon me for speaking the obvious, is an idiot.

    Do you destroy the tool, or the wielder of the tool? Where is he going to send them? Back to Africa? Good luck with that. Or is he going to designate one area of the country, call it a reservation, and put them all there?

    I have an idea. Let’s send all the idiots to Antarctica. Give them grow domes so they can grow their own food, and no return ticket.

    That way they won’t have to deal with the relatively sane, or whichever minority they’re being aimed at this week.

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    1. Having watched the argument unfold, I’m not sure he really believes scapegoating and either mass expulsion or mass violence against the groups in question ought to happen or was a good thing. He was depressed and blackpilled, to the point where he was sure that it was the only thing that could happen.

      The longer the leftists (who are no longer our countrymen) have access to the levers of power, the more likely that outcome is. If they aren’t stopped, it’s honestly the most likely outcome. So we have break them before they get there. It’s going to be painful and dangerous, but in the end they’re not as strong as they look. America might already be on the way to doing it right now.

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      1. In the past, the only way to isolate a population was to push them off onto a “frontier” and lock them in. There’s nowhere to push anyone to any longer. What, put them on the moon? On Mars? Deep in the ocean? Not to mention the sheer logistics of rounding up 10-15% of the population…against their will… (All of those sent to the camps were less than 1% of the German population, if I remember correctly. Gypsies, homosexuals, Jews, all together a miniscule number. The Japanese in WWII, again a tiny percentage.)

        We can’t “great divorce” the country–too many people own property and have financial interests in the areas that would be affected, not to mention loss of income for the products aimed at the populations in question. Genocide is the only “solution” that separates the population in the way people think.

        If people are thinking of genocide as a leftist option, it’s possible and they’ve tried it before. Not that they would try it with what they think is a captive population. But separation, or “driving out” a huge chunk of the population? Not going to happen. Not to mention physically separating conservative from liberal, which is another iteration.

        This idea that we can “Great divorce” 50 million people (15% of 350 million) is just idiocy.

        And yes, the left adores idiocy, they feed it and feed off of it. But we don’t have to buy into it.

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        1. You don’t genocide huge chunks of the population, but you can civil war a whole bunch of all the chunks. Which is why we really, Really, REALLY don’t want to be forced into that as an option. Everyone loses.

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                  1. Only so many people to kill in Cambodia. Pot Pol really needed a bigger stage.

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            2. I don’t think most people in the US understand the level of ingrained hatred (theoretically racial, but actually tribal) involved there. The Tutsis were a rival tribe, a rival family, by law lesser persons if they had to be considered human at all.

              They were considered, legally and socially, to be animals. With that base, it doesn’t take much at all to push hatred into extermination.

              The US as a whole does not now have, and has never had, a culture where humanity itself is based on tribal connections.

              I think most people in the US would find that mindset to be very close to alien.

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              1. Oh, I don’t know. The U.S. has a history of genocidal actions against indigenous tribes. Exterminate or immigrate, or place on reservations on the least wanted property in the country.

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                  1. How’s that saying go? Some tribes are more equal than others? I’m just irritated with SCOTUS over their ruling on placing non-tribal Americans dead last on adoption of children of alleged indigenous ancestry.

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                    1. Oh yeah. Don’t get me started. Talk about misguided priorities among the activists. “It’s better for the kid to languish in the fosters system/state home than to be adopted out of the natal culture.” Unless the child is Asian or European or maybe Latin American. Because that’s different.

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                2. That stuff was pretty proportionate to, and preceded by, the uncivilized behavior of those indian tribes.

                  Our default is pretty live and let live, and we have often returned easily to that default.

                  Case in point, see the Japanese.

                  If we liquidate the Democrats, or the judges and lawyers, or the activists, or the self proclaimed liberal arts scholars, you can rest assured it will be because of how hard they worked to earn that penalty.

                  Mass killings are usually preceded by information war.

                  There is always a risk to combat against a human, even in the most favorable circumstances for exterminating a group. Thus, you have to pay the people who do the killing work in some way.

                  A competent fighter is intelligent, and hence understands that they may die. For purely rational costs, it takes a certain amount of money to be worth the certainty of one’s own death. Rarely do mass murder sponsors want to spend that much.

                  Thus, they do seek to pay killers in ideas to a great proportion.

                  With freedom of speech, and with everyone free to mind their own business to their own great profit, it is only worth killing people who will not agree to a deal where they stop interfering with your business to a greater extent than the costs of killing them. (Or, will not stop failing to deliver where they purport to make such a deal.)

                  These customs make many Americans reluctant to do the work of significant killing, because they have more profitable things to do. Even where the people in question deserve killing.

                  It is also an environment where those opposed to the killing can make their voices heard.

                  This isn’t ordinary elementary school material, because the ‘liberal arts’ scholars have mostly been supplanted by marxist liars who have done their best to replace every element of theory with falsehood.

                  These falsehoods have been selected with an unrelenting focus on opposing human life, and on making private business expensive.

                  Ordinary people understand in their hearts that they have been lied to, but mostly are not interested enough in theory to articulate the specific reasons why that theory is obviously a lie.

                  However, we can feel the hatred that the theorists do have for us. Our choice not to fully return the sentiment may relate to a religious preference for attempting to love one’s enemies.

                  The current efforts at speech control are failing and incomplete. I am sure that Americans will again after deliberation choose mercy where mercy is appropriate.

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                  1. “Mass killings are usually preceded by information war.”
                    I’d say we’re smack dab in the middle of a DISinformation war right now.

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              2. twenty years before Rwandan genocide, there was a genocide in neighboring Burundi, of the Hutus by Tutsis.

                The Tutsis had prospered under Belgian colonialism, and in Burundi, they had succeeded in maintaining power. When the Hutus revolted, they were put down, and then the Tutsis massacred Hutus — more than twice as many as the casualties of the revolt — including every Hutu with secondary education.

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    2. It’s sad to see some people on the Right deciding to live down to the stereotypes of the Left. Racism is just another form of collectivism.

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  12. “The cure is not to attack the people they tell you are the enemy, but to attack the ideology, and to point out that what you see on TV/online is not reality.”

    How did Paul put it again? “We war not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers.” :pokes head outside, pulls back in: Yep, that checks out.

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      1. Certainly no race or ethnicity should be assumed to be an enemy. But those who choose to call themselves mainstream Journalists in this age, surely they deserve all the scorn we can come up with for them….

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  13. In the UK the Censorship Industrial complex has started calling very odd things “conspiracy theories”

    As I noted on twitter ( https://twitter.com/di2nu/status/1669540220587610112/ ) there’s a significant amount of truth in most of the top ones. Not only do they have considerable truth, that truth is obvious to anyone with open eyes. I’m not quite sure what good it does to label observant people as conspiracy theorists but it’s certainly very 1984ish.

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    1. “it’s certainly very 1984ish.”

      Interesting story from Not the Bee —
      https://notthebee.com/article/first-edition-of-george-orwells-1984-returned-to-portland-library-65-years-overdue
      “I meant to return this book in 1958 when I about to graduate from PSU, but somehow never got around to doing it.

      After re-reading, I realize that now, more than ever, this book should be put back in circulation. Significant parts are as relevant today as they were 65 years ago. (e.g. the opening text on page 207: Simply add the words internet and social media and you reading about 2023.

      Sorry to be so tardy. At age 86, I wanted to finally clear my conscience.

      WP

      May 16, 2023”

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          1. There are. As well as the great ideas in Atlas Shrugged, Brave New World, Animal Farm, Fahrenheit 451 and the Gulag Archipelago among others. The Left is apparently into dystopia mashups.

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  14. The show The Americans had too much gratuitous sex and way too much despair, but it had much accurate reporting of what Soviet infiltrators here actually did. It’s worth watching to see how the kgb turned black power activists into their agents and protestant church pastors to their agents.

    But one line has stuck with me from that show. The (white, well off, suburban) FBI agent trying to stop the KGB at some point figures out a certain black man is their agent. To find him, he needs a (black) working class friend of the man to give him up. He approaches that man and says something like “you and I don’t have much of anything in common, but we are both g**damned Americans.”

    That’s what the commies want us to forget, but it’s all we have to remember.

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        1. It was cheezy, it was over-the-top in spots, and it was soooo much fun. (A great comic book movie, in other words). I have the full soundtrack with all the Big Band vocals and stuff. It holds up really well.

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          1. I’ll have to watch it again sometime, maybe soon. When it came out, I was a day or two post-op on an ear procedure. Pre-op I was fairly deaf in both ears, but the packing put the fixed ear out of commission. I missed out on the goodness of the soundtrack.

            Now I can hear (mostly) and enjoy good music. As I recall, the visuals were great.

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          2. It’s a soundtrack that people still hear in theaters, since parts of it often get used in trailers for movies that don’t have soundtracks of their own at the time of the trailer’s editing.

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      2. Or even The Joker:
        “I may be a criminal psychopath, but I’m an AMERICAN criminal psychopath! Stay back, boys, this creep is MINE!”

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  15. Maybe yes maybe no. Might depend on how you define it. My opinion is yes the people are still here but the Republic is gone, the Constitution ignored (At least for now.). Our representatives no longer represent us, our leaders appointed, no longer really elected, they, the vast majority, almost all lie when they swear to support and uphold, unequal protection under the law, political prisoners in Washington jails… They decide, unless you’re a stainless steel rat, obey! Yes, the Republic lives on in our hearts but only a shadow remains on the streets of our nation.

    I don’t think it was a accident that, at the White House the gay flag hung higher that the stars and stripes earlier this month

    Not saying it’s gone forever, not saying it can’t be restored, but at this point, to do so, a certain number must be willing to pledge their lives, their fortunes, their sacred honor.

    Meanwhile yes, work around, up down, under and over. If we can’t find John Galt we can at least clearly see and avoid Tammany Hall.

    Black pilled? Me? I don’t think so. I protect me and mine, if possible I’ll help and support you and yours.

    If we can’t restore the Republic I think we’ll still get by and thrive. If we can’t restore the Republic I’ve done , and am doing, my best to pass along the skill necessary to do so to my delightfully savage teenage granddaughter, and her only slightly civilized, civil and uncivil peers with whom I come in contact. Hopefully you all are passing along sage advice and a thorough understanding of practical ballistics as well. Pity, in my humble opinion, any unmovable object in the way of that juggernaut as It would soon be dust and rubble.

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  17. From what I’ve been told, affluent while liberal women are the group getting most people pissed off at them.

    People do not like being condescended to.

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  18. To stop those who spread the lies of division, ignore them. Don’t send them hate mail, don’t yell at them on the street. Ignore them, if you see them on one sidewalk, walk across the street to other side. Do not reply to their tweets and posts. Ignore them, without your feeding them they are nothing, and will wither away in the bright light of day. Save your thoughts and words for those who need them, for those who have earned them. Hate only begets hate, oh defend yourselves as you feel you must. But other than that, ignore them as the slimy worms they are, hell even cockroaches are above them. Face it, no one cares about worms.

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    1. “Silence implies assent ” was a proverb for a reason, long before the Left perverted it.

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      1. I am ill suited for the soap box, so I will let those who are better suited to the soap box, do the soap box. I will do what I can, but it is best for us all if the ones like me who jerk their knees refrain from doing so and thereby hurting the cause of freedom and liberty. I’ll be the best neighbor I can be, and thereby let my actions expose their lies and defeat them. As the Hippocratic oath says, ‘First do no harm’.

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  19. An Indian professor (dot not feather) broke a picket line and wasn’t hassled because they assumed he was Mexican.

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  20. I decided today after getting in an argument with a Zoomer who thinks these ginned-up outrages are Real, that I’m just going to call the scammers communists from here on out.

    #BLM? Communists. #LandBack? Communists. #Extinction Rebellion? Communists. #Eco/Windmill/Solar freaks? Communists.

    Scratch a hashtag, find a communist. In most cases you don’t have to scratch hard, just brush a little dirt off and the hammer and sickle is right there.

    One of the problems (or advantages) of being old is that I REMEMBER the times -before- whatever fashionable cause is under discussion became fashionable, and most times I remember who made it the fashion. Communists. Every frigging time.

    #Communists. Saves time, identifies the real cause of the problem.

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        1. You reminded the Reader that we are still waiting for the products of Hoyt’s Huns Tee Shirts, LLC

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        1. “Hey Boss! The internet filter just popped a big one!”
          “Who is it this time?”
          “Some guy going by the name of Orvan Taurus. 8 hits in a single post! Should I alert the field agents?”
          “Zer, we’ve had him on watch for years. Tell you what, trip the Word Press Delenda Est application on him randomly for the next few days.”
          “Boss, I love this job!”

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          1. 1) And I might not even notice, considering how things go…

            2) I don’t know if I would be more impressed or disappointed if it was found that I was NOT any list(s).

            3) What background checks I’ve had have resulted in my being found (not an official term, I know): legally dull.

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            1. The Reader joins you in the legally dull category. At a periodic update some 20 years ago, the agent sent to interview the Reader led off with ‘You know, you are really unusual’ The Reader waited for the other shoe to drop. It hit the floor with ‘In 20 years of doing this, you are the first person I’ve interviewed that I wasn’t given any specific questions to ask’.

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    3. As I said to a friend of mine some time back, Communists are very good at creating front groups, and they’re not dumb enough to give those groups honest names like ‘Bolshevik Bastards with Bombs’.

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  21. OBS SF Mr. Costello Hero – 1953 (born Edward Hamilton Waldo did Mr. Heinlein get the term from his friend? ) Theodore Sturgeon says it as well as it could be said but with a sort of deus ex machina end that begs the question of what is to be done.

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  23. In my coughcough years, I have met one—1—gay guy who sort of fit what I call the coastal-queen stereotype of gay male behavior. And I don’t know how much of that was real and how much was an act, literally. He was a tech theater manager and instructor, who did costuming on the side. At the time I though his mannerisms were a little over-the-top, but boy did he know his stuff. Good people.

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    1. When I was in college in the ’80s, my dorm was full of marching band guys because it was the closest dorm to the band practice field. That included the guys in the flag and rifle corps…a large number of whom were quite gay. Only two of them stood out, though. One very short, very skinny, VERY faaaaabulous stereotypically simpering guy, and his tall skinny swishy black boyfriend who was a foot taller than him. Ever see Eddie Murphy do his exaggerated gay routine? That was this guy. They were cool, never gave anybody any trouble, just lived their lives and I have no idea what happened to them after they left. But you didn’t need gaydar to tell which team these guys played for and they gave no fluffs. And other than my roommate when he was drunk (and he was a real butthead when he was drunk) nobody gave them any grief. Live and let live.

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      1. “Live and let live.”

        That only works as long as both sides play that way.

        The Leftists are not playing that way.

        Although they will certainly retreat into it whenever anyone call them out on their BS.

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      2. One of my husband’s frat brothers was tall, slender, red-headed and always wore white. He talked about being, “pure.” A succession of girls all successfully “cured” him of being homosexual….

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    2. I think my high school boyfriend was using me as his beard. Theater guy, very nice, a bit over emotional but very nice. I should have figured it out when he got propositioned by another guy in Times Square on our high school humanities trip. (Talk about educational experiences…Times Square in 1973).
      I’m rather afraid he may have been a victim of AIDS. He was on steroids the last time I saw him.

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      1. HS years about the same time (’74). One classmate has since introduced his partner on FB graduation year HS page. The responses across the board? “No wonder we were always in the ‘friend’ zone! Sigh.” (Female classmates.) He was, and still is, good looking. Me? Looked but being in the friend zone was the standard for me. I didn’t start paying attention to males romantically until college, and even then, generally older (not hard since I started college at 17). Even then, I didn’t expect them to pay attention to me, generally surprised when someone did.

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        1. bit later (’84 grad) but a classmate came out to me one time after reconnecting online. Thought he’d shock us at a reunion (15 year?) as openly gay, but I told him I figured he was gay back in middle school, when one of the better looking girls walked up behind him as he was telling a story, rifled all his pants pockets looking for candy, and his voice never broke and he never missed a beat. I was only shocked when he said he wished someone had told him then because he had once been married and had a daughter.

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          1. Cousin came out as gay. Surprise to no one except his parents (he is my age, which in my family is not guarantied, given we have uncles not much older than we are). Only surprise to extended family was his marriage at age 19, and subsequent 4 children, before the divorce and declaration. He eventually ended up in abusive relationships. Died before he turned 60. .

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        2. 10 year HS reunion in 1982 – one of the members of my circle of high-SAT-scoring nerds didn’t show at that reunion. (The last and only one I was able to attend.) He was gay, and just didn’t want to show, although he had come out to certain other ones in the friend circle who had stayed local. The rest of us who had showed for the reunion kind of had the sads then – as the rest of us would have liked to have reconnected. I won the prize, BTW – as the graduate who had come the farthest to attend, as I was stationed in Greenland at the time, and had come home on mid-tour leave.

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    3. I’ve only known one gay that fit that personality even a little bit. Conductor of the (Mens) Glee club at my university. Mildly flamboyant and would joke about it (this in the late 70’s early 80’s). Darn good conductor, and an organist of such skill I would have said he’d give E. Power Biggs a run for his money with the right instrument. Did occasionally make passes at folks, but from what I heard only once and not rude about it.

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  24. I’m sure you know that it is well established that women are not a numerical minority in this country in relation to men. But I’m quite familiar with the Marxist “divide and conquer” strategy. Also with the ability of Marxists to either lie or ignore information that doesn’t fit their narrative. And it is much harder to sell the victimization of an oppressed majority.

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  25. I don’t want to ship all the blacks out of country, I just want to ship all the people who hate our country and the Constitution back to their ancestral homelands. (If I could, I’d send them back in time to when their ancestors left or were removed so they can experience why.) If you love this country, and the Constitution, and hate the state of the current government, you’re a member of our extended family.

    I’m not a dog. I’m an otter, the fun-loving member of the weasel family. Occasionally cute, and occasionally scary.

    Look at the groups that are all running around shouting, “it’s all doomed, or it’s the fault of x minority, or even that “the republic is gone”.” Those are almost all the preface to a request for money. Frankly, there’s too many organizations like that to pay a lot of attention to them. Pick one, dig deep on what they’re doing and how the money is being spent, BEFORE you donate to them.

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  26. The more time that goes on, the more their facades crumble and they are exposed for what they truly are. Children, poorly educated children. They will quit long before we will, ostensibly to take their ball and go home. That is what they are doing to Musk and Twitter. Oh, their childish temper tantrums will cause trouble. But that is exactly what they are, Childish, Temper Tantrums, and you should respond just in the way a mother in a grocery store responds, by ignoring the little shits. When one of my sisters was young she would hold her breath until she turned almost blue in the face. My mom said just ignore her. What if she passes out? Her body will take over and she’ll start breathing again. True enough, occasionally she would pass out, and just as true she would start breathing again. When it stopped working, she stopped doing it. Marxism fails not because of the people involved, but because it is a failed system. It will always fail, no matter who is involved. It may be great for insects and aliens but it sucks ass for humans. Deal with reality Lizard people, you’re not going to win, you always lose, suck it up buttercup and get out of the human’s way.

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  27. Popcorn, get yer popcorn! I’ve got plain, white cheddar, kettle corn, extra real butter, caramel, hot cinnamon, and tittu-fruiti (all sorts of flavors).

    Antifa in Calgary has declared that the Muslim parents protesting against the LGBTQ2S+ curriculum are not really Muslims, and are going to make their presence known to the parents. This should be …. interesting to watch. From Edmonton, or Bismarck.

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    1. Those sh!theads may soon learn they are not real revolutionaries.

      “That’s gonna leave Marx…”

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  28. Reports thousands of Catholics in LA are blocking the entrance to Dodger Stadium, protesting the “honoring,” of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. Good for them.

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    1. If you skip the employees, it looked like maaaaaybe a hundred people in the stadium for the “Honoring icky creeps” ceremony. Huge crowd outside the gates waving signs and objecting to the events inside.

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      1. Yeah, this appears to have been a complete disaster for the Dodgers. The only question is how many skipped out because of the LGBTQ angle, and how many skipped out because of the blatant anti-Christian (specifically Catholic) nature of the group.

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