Equal by Bill Reader

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Equal – by Bill Reader

The Left does not use words the way that you use words. We say the same things. We mean different things.

If socioeconomically, white people are found to be doing better in one area or another, the Left will shout white supremacy. We understand that to be an accusation that we believe white people are intrinsically better. The Left simply regard it as a tautological statement—that is, if the system is resulting in more successful white people, it is a system which favors whites. Having determined that that is always bad regardless of cause, they then go searching for causes. When they fail to find secret Nazis—and can’t manufacture any, must be said— that’s when things get funny. That’s when you get them beclowning themselves creating pamphlets where they say an expectation that people show up to something at an appointed time, or work hard at a task they’re being paid for, is white supremacy.         Because they saw a system resulting in different outcomes. They searched for actual discrimination, and couldn’t find any because there was none. So then they looked for any difference at all that caused people to be treated differently. And those, they found, so QED, that the culture favors the things that the white people are doing is the problem. What the things actually are is immaterial. It doesn’t matter if those things happen to be predicated on respecting others and their time, doing what you’ve agreed to do, and other basic behaviors that minimize strife and maintain social trust. As a matter of faith we are told to accept that the world would be better if people didn’t hold these behaviors as models, and we’ll go ahead and ignore that history has to date been a long journey specifically away from human cultures where people didn’t hold these behaviors as models. That their codification has slowly and painfully elevated humanity out of what resembled Hell on Earth is immaterial; as it results in disparity at certain places and certain times, we must accept that Hell would be preferable. Reason be damned, I want this fence down now!

Yet for all that, the people who say so will not move to the neighborhoods where a majority of people abide by those rules, probably reasonably as they wouldn’t last the night. Oh, well, they’ll say, everyone there is so impoverished, you know, there’s a lot of crime. “Poor but honest” isn’t a characterization to the Left, it’s a paradox. And this makes a great deal of sense besides, as famously, people in such places who make a great deal of money almost inevitably become paragons of virtue once their impoverishment is alleviated.

They also effectively argue that those things are intrinsic to white people, that they’re baked in and immutable. The way they view the problem is: the rules favor these behaviors, and these behaviors cannot be taught to group A, and are intrinsic to group B, so the group B will always win. The only way to make the groups equal is to discard the rules entirely. Which is to say, they isolate and analyze the problem exactly as Hitler would. They believe, in full agreement with Hitler, that there are irreconcilable differences between races (this despite the fact that neither he nor they can actually define what a race is because it’s an extremely artificial concept, but I digress). They even concur that these differences are actually an existential threat to society. They consider themselves superior solely because faced with the same set of beliefs the lesson they’ve taken from history is that society will just have to go. And in the resulting new society that will emerge after, they imagine, they will be discriminated against, and that will be fair turnabout. In fact, they’re lining up to self-discriminate for brownie points now, and advising their fellow “whites” to do the same. The official anti-white-supremacist statement is thus that society will and should inevitably be taken over by non-whites who will reduce whites to chattel. Curiously, as near as I can tell, that appears to also be the official white-supremacist outlook. And obviously the only rational thing a self-identified white person could do, presented with those options and no other information, is side with the people willingly submitting to be subjugated.

And that’s how it has to be, because obviously traits aren’t teachable. If these were teachable traits, it wouldn’t matter that society favored them even if they were entirely arbitrary (and as discussed above, they aren’t). Non-white people would simply learn them and that would be the end of the problem. The only impediment would be, say, if non-white groups had malignant subcultures that encouraged people to resist learning ways of approaching the world that help them to get ahead, and punished people so severely for not fitting in with the group that, even if they would otherwise have made productive progress by rejecting the group’s ideology, they are pulled down into the crab bucket if they try. But such (purely hypothetical) cultures, you would not be allowed to displace because that would be favoring a “white” culture over a “non-white” culture, because per the Left’s definition, the only authentic non-white culture is a dysfunctional low-trust culture that punishes people for doing things that will improve their lot and the lot of the people around them. Remember, that’s the official stance of the self-proclaimed anti-white supremacists.

Behold! These are the so-called thought-leaders of Western civilization, on the one hand restating Hitler’s central and most destructive thesis, on the other claiming to oppose what they imagine is the incipient rise of Nazism. Here, naked and glassy-eyed, stares the core philosophy of, *ahem*, “anti-Nazis” and “anti-fascists”— Mein Kampf in Birkenstocks. All the same dumb, dead-end ideological poison, but now it’s suicidal, rather than homicidal, so everything’s better.

The Left says all the time that they think they don’t communicate their message well. I thank the good lord they don’t communicate it more clearly. If people actually heard and believed them we’d probably have the race war they seem to so desperately desire. Instead the world has the Patriot Front (Group), and other less-organized random groups of “Nazis” who curiously are never followed and identified when covered by the same media who track down and personally threaten any and every ordinary conservative who gets in the way of the Left’s agenda.

Because it doesn’t profit a journalist to delve too deeply into the affairs of intelligence agencies.

But obviously, there is an alternative to all of this stupidity. Americans are better, and more critically, American culture is better than these race hustling halfwits. The man beside me is equal to me before God. He ought to be equal to me before the law, and one day, God willing, he will be. Communities that are already struggling don’t deserve the scourge of having their worst offenders released back into their midst with barely an acknowledgement of wrongdoing, again and again and again. Justice is still blind— to race, to political party, to everything except the question in the balance of her scales. Americans understand that and respect justice. But counterfeits abound, sullying everything they touch. “Racial justice” is just racial supremacy for browner brown-shirts. “Social justice” is socialist tyranny, returned in its most wretched and contemptible form: a patronizing but demonic voice telling society to kill itself for its own good. These so-called forms of justice refuse to be blind, cannot accept that men are equal, and their judgments are accordingly perverse.

Well, fie on them all. We beat the Nazis when their leader was named Hitler. Now their stupider and more depressive successors have chosen Ibram X. Kendi as their leader, and we’ll beat them again. And we mortally wounded communism, but we didn’t finish the job. That was a mistake. This time we ought to learn the lesson we knew from the movies as kids, and not turn our back until the monster is definitely dead.

American culture is the ultimate inherited treasure of Western civilization. It is thousands of years of lessons on building the best, most productive, safest, most trustworthy human culture. It allows for cooperative coexistence of people with a wide number of harmless variations, broader than virtually any other culture, and well it should, for this treasure is the rightful inheritance of every American, of every race and creed, be they born here or abroad. Shared properly it is both more valuable than any redistributed wealth— not least because it is a source of ongoing success rather than the disbursement of stolen goods— and more durable than any material thing in this uncertain world. Embody it and teach it to your children. There will always be tyrants, arguing for why now, today, this time, one group or another is special and should be treated differently. But they are wrong.

               All men… all men… are created equal.

92 thoughts on “Equal by Bill Reader”

  1. That’s the thing about Horseshoe Theory that the detractors don’t understand: it’s not that both ends are full of people who have the same goals, it’s that both share the same view of the world, they’re just on opposite sides.

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  2. Communism is a monster wearing your mom’s face. “I’ll feed you and take care of you. I’ll provide your every need!” Then the monster eats you.

    Time to double tap this thing once and for all.

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      1. It’s my medallion for my new fantasy series, the Centerville Chronicles. Each book in the series has this medallion on the cover. I’ll let my cover artist know that you liked it! Thank you!

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  3. A good description of the racial narrative, except that you didn’t mention Jews.

    No, Jews are not some kind of evil conspiracy. What they are is a culture that teaches their children exactly those positive traits that the racist blacks label as unteachable. This is why blacks hate Jews as strongly as Hitler ever did: as long as Jews exist as a culture, their success demonstrates that racism is bunk.

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    1. I think Bill’s intent is NOT to start a race war. Are racist blacks claiming those traits are unteachable? NO. the left liberals are. PERIOD. And they will punish black people who try to improve themselves. Yes, the left hates Jews. They honestly hate everyone.

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      2. Remember, it’s the left who decided that George Washington Carver was not to be mentioned, or only with disdain. Same thing with Mary McLeod Bethune, and tons of other positive role models.

        Frederick Douglass used to be required reading in a world only slightly removed from slavery; and now, magically, in these supposedly non-racist curriculums, he never gets read.

        Watch who gets thrown down the memory hole. Martin Luther King is just about on the event horizon.

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        1. All must fit the Marxist narrative of oppressed versus oppressor, with the only Salvation in Communism through Marxist Revolution.

          Thus the current message that no “person of color”/black/Proletariat can ever ever be free until the current/free-market/”capitalist”/Bourgeois are destroyed.

          The Left is very, very close to openly admitting it. Soon.

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        2. Leftists vandalized a statue of Douglass a couple of years ago, because it was obviously a tribute to white supremacy.

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    4. Almost all the so-called racial traits that are evidence of white supremacy are cultural, both the white positive ones (showing up on time etc.) and the ones that are not (showing up late)

      That’s why the Joos (and the Indians and the Chinese etc.) all count as “white” because they have the same positive cultural traits. But a lot of whites (and others – see e.g. Pakistanis) display a ton of the non-white traits because that’s their culture. And lots of non-whites who are considered to be racially unable to do these things (see most recent African immigrants to the USA or UK) display the “white” traits.

      The problem is that the left is unwilling to talk about culture because culture implies things can be changed whereas race, being your genes, can not.

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      1. Thomas Sowell wrote a book on how many elements of black culture were lifted from the culture of lower class whites.

        “white trash” was always the description my grandfather used.

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    1. I believe it’s actually envy (close to jealousy, but not identical), plus greed, pride, sloth, and wrath. They’re closely approaching lust (perverted, but still…) and only have to work on gluttony to make the Real Big Time. ;-)

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  5. Justice, with any adjective added to qualify it, is simply a misnomer for injustice to someone else. All men are created equal, in the eyes of God. So, supposedly, in the eyes of the law. Yet we need not look very hard to find many cases where the law does not treat men equally. So much for “the rule of law”. When the rule of law ceases to apply, can the law of “Might makes right” be far away?

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    1. Case in point, former President Trump is not being treated equally in regards to information he took with him, as former President Clinton was treated.

      Case two in point, former Senator and former Vice President Biden is not being treated equally with former President Trump in regards to information each of them took with them from office.

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      1. And there is a BIG difference. As President, Trump was authorized to keep those papers, even if they were classified at one time. Trump had the authority to declassify any document, at any time, for any reason, or none, just by deciding to do it. He didn’t have to announce that a document was declassified or go through some bureaucratic procedure. Those procedures are for everybody except the President.

        Biden wasn’t the President. Didn’t have any authority to handle classified documents outside the established security procedures. Biden can be prosecuted for mishandling those documents. Trump can NOT.

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        1. Biden also had classified papers going back to his days in the Senate and moved them around multiple times, clearly establishing intent. It is also very clear that those classified papers were used by Hunter Biden in providing info to his business partners and others involved in selling Joe’s official position for profit. They did so knowing that a corrupt FBI and DOJ would give them a pass and that any Congressional action would be blocked by Democrats who are fine with this kind of thievery as long as they are the ones doing it.

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      2. Don’t forget Hillary. She even had the gall to prance around in a “but her emails” cap with a smirk on her face, and STILL nothing happened to her.

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    2. ‘Tis naught but the skin suit, repurposed. Like the trans-whatever thing, the word before actually means “not.” Or “false.”

      So whatever word comes before justice means “not justice.” Whatever word comes before man or woman means “not man” or “not woman.” They seek the benefits of the latter.

      That’s just greed and envy. Often silly and illogical greed and envy. But, silly and illogical or no, such things are used for evil ends.

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    3. Functionally equal to “Anti-”

      Also implies annihilation when in contact with the original.

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    4. Also, ‘social’ used as a modifier for, well, pretty much everything, is a red flag ,for a Bad Thing. Social Scince. Social Justice. Social Security. Social diseases . . .

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    1. With WordPress, you can’t. OTOH, you can reply with a +1 (or +1000) or similar positive comment.

      FYI, WPDE == WordPress Delenda Est

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    2. If you go to the WordPress (DE!) site and navigate to this post, you will find a little ‘star’ below each comment next to the ‘Reply’ link. Click on the star to register a ‘like’.

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        1. I do have a WP account – and I’m logged in, right now (“You are commenting using your WordPress.com account”) – and I still never see the link-stars. I think you need to use some special WP-y URL, not just the blog. I haven’t bothered to figure it out.

          But I do get emails when someone likes one of my comments.

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          1. You have to read it on the WordPress site. The comments are organized differently there, you have to click various thingys to see them all, and it can be hard to find the one you want. WordPress (DE!) is a pain in all things.
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            Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!!

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            1. Yep. I do not have a WP account. The emailed comments have a “like” star. All I’ve done is use both boxes at the bottom of the comment boxes:

              “Notify me of new comments via email.” (Which sometimes I forget to click. Stupid WP, if I comment, I want the new comments! Usually, which I guess is the point, dangit.)

              And

              Notify me of new posts via email.

              I am not writing an article. Even if some of my comments are a bit, um, lengthy.

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  7. If the Minority groups do well, there is no need for Leftist Traitors. So they will be encouraged to remain dependent, until such time as the leftists take over, then the minorities will be exterminated as counter-revolutionaries. Because you see, the lefties are in charge now, Ergo no racism. So if there is no racism, they must be counter- revolutionaries. Nice how that works isn’t?

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  8. We certainly do have a lot of Envy going around. Not so much of it in places where people have real problems—the Envy folk are generally from a middle-class background at least.

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    1. The gang’s all here. Ain’t hard to see depictions of sloth. Tent cities around places that haven’t suffered fire, flood, or earthquake. Lust, well. The examples are hard to escape, sadly. Greed and gluttony- well, it’s campaign season soon. Their avatars are quite well represented.

      Wrath, see riot season. Envy is practically the engine that drives the political platform these days. Pride, recall the smugness of the FBI folks that were questioned by Congress, if I am recalling the incident correctly.

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  9. Given the fact that communism worships envy, I don’t think we’ll see it truly defeated until there is a new heaven and earth. That said beating back the monster is our generation’s task.

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  10. Interesting take on the situation, and yes, all men are equal (and women too), or were, under our form of government. Now, those that scream the loudest get the most… sigh

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  11. Reported on Twitter that the CEO of the company which runs the Titanic tours (and whose sub is missing) stated they didn’t hire “50 year old white guys,” because that wouldn’t be, “inspiring.”
    He’s on the sub. This may turn into a (formerly) living example of Heinlein’s remarks on stupidity.

    I flinched reading an article which said they got their lighting system from Camping World.

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    1. > “I flinched reading an article which said they got their lighting system from Camping World.”

      Oh, it gets better. I read that the sub is piloted using a Playstation 2 controller. It’s one of those things that makes you want to call “bullshit,” but then you consider all the other stupid decisions that got made…

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      1. Honestly, that one’s not particularly stupid. Assuming that it doesn’t need more controls than the number of buttons and control sticks that the PS2 controller has, then that’s actually a fairly smart decision. Because those things are carefully designed for ease of use: you’ve got all the controls right there under your fingertips, lots and lots of people have the control layout memorized already and are used to adjusting to different control schemes on the same set of buttons (in game X, the top button is “jump”; in game Y, it’s “open the menu”)… Plus, they’re easily available off-the-shelf hardware that’s built sturdy enough to last for years if they aren’t thrown against the wall. Pick up an old PS2 and, if it turns on and the CD loads, you’re pretty much guaranteed to find that the controller still works perfectly.

        No, there were plenty of other design decisions that went into this thing that were particularly stupid. But using a well-known, widely-used controller wasn’t one of them.

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        1. A: The USCG found wreckage and it was confirmed to be parts of the sub. The article said some of the sub was found, so one guesses that the implosion scenario was applicable.

          B: Taking a port dome rated for 1300 meters and using it at 4000 didn’t strike me as a wise decision. The fired safety engineer’s concerns about the carbon fiber hull also come into play.

          C: Gamers on Gab were saying that the Logitech controller was terrible for reliability. When I was doing semiconductors for a living, there were some very strong boundaries between devices rated for man-critical applications, industrial, and commercial. Some customers (Atari back in the ’70s) could use parts that might not meet commercial specs. I’ve been out of the industry long enough to not know details, but I’d rather have seen a mil-spec box with the necessary buttons. I’d also rather see a vessel that had gone through certification to deal with the conditions.

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        2. I suspect video game controllers are designed to withstand being thrown against the wall occasionally. :-P

          On the other hand, firing your Safety Engineer for bringing up safety issues seems…ill-advised, to say the least. Particularly in view of what happened to the sub.

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    2. Oh, it gets better.

      https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12215003/OceanGate-REFUSED-independent-inspection-missing-sub-fired-worker-raised-safety-concerns.html

      “OceanGate bosses fired David Lochridge, who was Director of Marine operations for the Titan project, in 2018 after it disagreed with his demand for more rigorous safety checks on the submersible, including ‘testing to prove its integrity’.

      The company also opted against having the craft ‘classed’, an industry-wide practice whereby independent inspectors ensure vessels meet accepted technical standards.”

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      2. Killing your customers is a lousy business model.

        Hm

        Can we subsidize this? I have a list of suggested passengers….

        Hm

        Oops. Thats a boxcar solution, isn’t it…

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        1. Yep. Some times, that’s the least awful option.

          If we believe so fervently in the values we espouse, we have to be willing to defend them. Certainly, our opposition will defend theirs.

          “And then, what are you prepared to do?”

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          2. Well, the CEO of OceanGate was on the “3 hour* tour”, so his shade is paying so Nemesis, meet Hubris.

            (*) The support vessel lost contact at 90 minutes, so that’s a better guess for the failure point. If I read it right, it was supposed to have taken 2.5 hours to reach the Titanic.

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    3. I just saw a video with James Cameron. He brought up an interesting point about the carbon fiber composite pressure hull.

      Fiber composites are strong in tension. They resist forces trying to pull the material apart. Fiber composites are weak in compression because you’re essentially pushing on the threads. If you form a closed 3-dimensional shape, like a cylinder with domed ends, it can contain high pressure from the inside, but will be weak against crushing pressure from the outside. Repeated cycles of crushing pressure can cause the layers to delaminate, possibly even allow water to infiltrate the material. Not so good for a submarine.

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      1. It’s also now running around that the Navy heard it go “crunch” on Sunday and the assumption is that the Malministration has been running all of this as a distraction from Hunter.

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  12. If we believe God is in control, we don’t need to worry, just be ready. What that means may well be different for each of us.

    I purposely have no guns, knives, or pointed stick that could be seen as weapons because I see communists, other traitors, and those perverts who molest/groom children the same way I see cancer.

    Something to be eradicated. Radiation, Chemo, or Surgery–“with a margin”…

    But I don’t see Bible verses that tell me it’s my job to slay the unbelievers or those who believe differently. Instead, I’m seeing verses that tell me to offer the Gospel to all creatures.

    Your mileage may vary, so I won’t interfere; but I might bring coffee and donuts, or offer to hold your coat.

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    1. Didn’t Christ himself tell his followers to sell their cloaks and buy swords?

      You can be armed for self-defense without attacking people just for being unbelievers.

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      1. Would love to sit down with you and our Bibles and some seasonally-appropriate office beverages and worknit out from the Word. :-)

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      2. That the wheat and the tares will not be on good terms.

        Given that he explicitly compared it to a quarrelsome household, it would reasonably be a metaphorical sword.

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          1. Apparently he said more than one thing. But in that context, it was metaphorical and not a call for familicide.

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    3. A 1911 is a scalpel to remove certain immediate violent social cancers. Use requires discernment and precision.

      Pacifism is a misreading of scripture.

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        1. We understand that what you’re practicing is not what Jesus preached. I’m an atheist who couldn’t care less about what the bible says and even I can see that.

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          1. While I respect your right to hold any opinion you like, my DD214 puts the lie to the idea that I’m a pacifist.

            And my choosing not to kill others matches very nicely with a lot of Christians.

            I recommend those who believe in Chris and disagree with my choices reread Psalm 91. I do not need to trust my own strength or human weapons.

            For those outside the body of believers, my only word is Romans 6:23.

            May you all be blessed with joy, health, love, and peace.

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    4. God acts through human agents. Always has. If He wants to act directly, then everyone will know it. Until then? Each of us has to make the best choice we can.

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        1. At the same time, if He means for us to have the allies to be successful, we probably will have the allies.

          Sometimes He tasks us with trying and failing in accomplishing the impossible, because the struggle is worthy.

          Sometimes He tasks us with items that are inside our ability with His help.

          Sometimes He plays hard mode, and wins with the pawn against all of the powers of the world.

          We should not be making too many assumptions about which sort of tasks that He has assigned us, and do our best with the mission provided.

          Despair is information that we think we have from worldly sources, or from an assumption that we have made about His purpose, where the information is wrong, and gets in the way of faith, love, and hope.

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  14. “Communities that are already struggling don’t deserve the scourge of having their worst offenders released back into their midst with barely an acknowledgement of wrongdoing, again and again and again.”

    Incarceration, fines, and the like are there not only as punishment for the guilty. They are also in large part protection for the guilty. An angry mob knows no moderation. Nor deliberation.

    The walls and bars of the prison keep the angered father of the raped daughter from castrating the guilty party, then lighting his ass on fire. They keep the shop owner from hunting down the thief and force feeding him his own fingers. They keep the assault victim from burning down the house with his attacker and all his family inside.

    Mob justice is not justice. It’s vengeance, nothing more. Justice is supposed to keep the vengeful victim from exacting his pound of flesh, but punish that soul in his stead in a workmanlike and standardized fashion.

    I do not believe much in this reform business that prisons purport to get on with. It does not occur save in minuscule percentages, to my knowledge. I do not yet know of a better way, but there are many, many worse ones.

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    1. Private citizens don’t have courts and prisons at their disposal, so they don’t have the luxury of sticking to more measured punishments even if they want to. They HAVE to be brutal to get the job done.

      Which is one reason it’s a very bad idea for governments to ignore crime. Sooner or later the citizenry has to take matters into their own hands in the name of self-preservation, with predictably ugly results.

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      1. The breakdown of “law and order” is a key element of Marxist revolution. They seek to render an area chaotic and ungovernable, to destroy the state and allow Communism to take root.

        They can’t seize power if anyone else has it. So they destroy anything that works.

        Thus the lunacy of Anarchists collaborating with Comunists. Those saps believe the lie that Communism fades away to true Anarchy.

        LOL. Idiots. The Anarchists are liquidated early. It is they who “fade away”, via work/starve to death.

        Poetic justice.

        So yes, that whole “sabotage LEOs” and “sabotage the DAs” is part and parcel of active Marxist effort to overthrow the USA.

        And once you see it, it makes sense. Nothing else does.

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        1. “So yes, that whole “sabotage LEOs” and “sabotage the DAs” ”

          Which, of course, allows Soros DAs and LEOs like the FBI to run amok because any criticism is met with “I thought you supported law and order”

          https://amgreatness.com/2023/06/20/if-you-work-for-the-fbi-quit-your-job/

          “The same goes for the Justice Department. There are surely pockets within the Justice Department that might remain professional and apolitical. But as a whole, these are not people who understand or care about equal application of the law. When they say they “took an oath to uphold the Constitution,” what they really mean is that they don’t have to answer to anyone except the Constitution which they have neither read nor care to understand.

          Nobody in the FBI cares about the constitutional prohibitions against illegal searches and seizures, free speech, free exercise of religion, or the Second Amendment. When Attorney General Merrick Garland says he believes in the “rule of law,” what he really means is that he believes politicized lawyers can and should be able to abuse the law to take out any political opponent.”

          Lots of links in the document,

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    2. The primary purpose of prisons is not punishment, or ‘rehabilitation’ — they are cages to keep dangerous criminals separated from society so they can’t hurt more people.

      Under normal conditions, those criminals make up about 2% of the population. Lock them up, and you prevent something like 90% of the crime. 80% of crimes are committed by known criminals that have been in jail before. Before the current insanity, more than half of the crimes were committed by criminals on parole or probation. They should have still been in jail!

      Now, where Soros sock-puppet DA’s have eliminated the consequences for crime, those with borderline criminal tendencies are irresistibly tempted to go for it. Why not? So, instead of 2%, we’re seeing 5% or 10% participating in crime. Society is breaking down.
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      When police arrest violent criminals to protect innocent people, they are condemned as Jackbooted Fascist Stormtroopers.

      When police arrest innocent people at the behest of corrupt politicians, they are hailed as National Heroes

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    3. Once upon a time, punishment for a crime was intended to hold peoples responsible for the wrongs they had done. If you go back to ancient times, the penalty often involved restitution. I don’t know how, when, or why the penalties evolved to incarceration instead, but I find myself in agreement with those who claim that this doesn’t work for purposes of rehabilitation.

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  16. I like your stuff lady. I read your blog most every day. You keep me from falling down a rabbit hole of despair at how downright stupid and self destructive so many folks are.

    Keep that shit up.

    Lalo

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  17. The first minute and a half of this video. A woman in Beijing climbed a tall tower and unveiled a banner. The top of the banner was the US flag, and the bottom of it appears to have been a list of elements of the US Declaration of Independence. Leaflets found underneath where the woman had stood listed arguments that will sound familiar to anyone who has read the Declaration.

    What pisses me off is that something important is happening in the PRC. Things are getting shaky, the people are getting troubled (which is why a lot of them are suddenly sneaking across our southern border), and the Chinese might actually be at that stage where they start to think it’s worth the risks to push for meaningful change in their governmental system. In short, it’s the perfect time for vocal and moral support from the US. But we’ve got the current crop of immoral, corrupt, depraved, perverted, self-absorbed fools running things here in the US right now. At a time when the Chinese people could really use some support (even if only diplomatic or vocal; it does make a difference, the Soviet dissidents noted) from the US, we have quite possibly the worst, weakest, and most willingly blind administration ever in our country’s history.

    I’d call the Biden administration “evil”, but evil implies a certain level of respect (not really the right word, but I hope it portrays the idea I’m trying to get across) that the Biden administration simply does not generate.

    I don’t know how big of an opportunity there actually is for the Chinese people right now. But I’m pretty confident that – short of an absolute miracle – the US is going to miss any opportunities to help it.

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      1. Yeah, I saw that. I suspect Blinkin’s comment is a fumbled attempt to say that the US is continuing the historical course of pressuring the RoC to not declare full independence (which would put pressure on the PRC to try and force the issue). But predictably, he bungled it in the worst possible way.

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        1. If there is a wrong thing to do, the Pedophile In Thief, Joe Biden will do it. And I am sorry, but Vile and EVIL is the perfect way to describe the Demon-crat Party and it’s UNHOLY leadership at this time. That includes the Gestapo at the Anti-Justice Department, and The Federal Bureau of Inquisition along with the Inquisition Revenge Service. May them and their unholy minions in the press all burn in hell for eternity.

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  18. This is late and maybe no one will see it. But Sarah turned me on to a couple of GREAT series, and I wanted to acknowledge that.

    Alright. Off-topic. I don’t normally post because have I nothing new to say. And this isn’t “new,” but it needs to be said.

    Kids can grow up faster, and are capable long before our current society proclaims it so.

    Besides past history, I want to hilight:

    Fictional series, where circumstances force adults to “accept” kids in important roles

    John Ringo’s take. https://www.amazon.com/Black-Tide-Rising-Anthologies-7-book-series/dp/B086X6KVD4

    Mackey Chandler’s take. https://www.amazon.com/April-Series-13-book-series/dp/B074C3X2NZ

    and E. M. Foner’s Lighthearted Earthcent Ambassador series: https://www.amazon.com/EarthCent-Ambassador-20-book-series/dp/B074C6WLD9

    Those are all clickable. You just have to CTRL-C and CTRL-V them. And they are ALL  GREAT  SERIES.

    You will feel better after you read them. I heard of them from Fran Porretto, Sarah Hoyt, Pixy Misa and others.

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    1. I’m addicted to the April and Family Law series(es?). I read them on KU, twice, then bought them for a third reading (seemed only fair). I’ve been through them a couple of times since. I try to figure out what makes them so compelling for a while, then I get sucked in, again.

      I loved the Earthcent series until book that’s-enough-for-me-now, whatever number it was (6? 8?). Sort of Vir meets Retief. Very fun books. Maybe I should figure out where I stopped and continue.

      If you like them, you’ll probably like Xen. He shows up in book 3 or 4 of Wine of the Gods. I recommend starting from the beginning, though, or you will be very confused. Since we’ve gone through the perspective of everyone involved with Comet Fall other than “Earth” (they’re all earths), I’m anxiously awaiting books 54-62 for that perspective. Hint, hint, Pam.

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      1. I’m hooked on the Rogue Angel series, Annaja Creed, Roux, and Garin. No relationships between the three. I have all 55. (It helped, a lot, that about the time I got hooked there was a huge credit applied to my BN account in response to “overcharging” on ebooks legal decision. BN wasn’t part of the lawsuit, supposedly giving the credit in “good faith” because of it.) I’m bummed that the new volumes are all graphic-audio-novels and not released in ebook format. Even if not co-released, but released after a year. :-( The books are a lot of “what if” fun.

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        1. Thanks for the tip on the Rogue Angel series. I’ll certainly try out the first one, Destiny.

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          1. I was wrong. I have 56 volumes, but there are 58 ebooks. First 3 can be gotten in: Renaissance (Destiny/Solomon’s Jar/The Spider Stone). There is always a bit of repeat on the original setup, how the 3 are intertwined and why, early-ish on in every book, that gets old, but never completely the same wording (makes sense, but still). Bit of a twist on current events, with a focus on history.

            There are 4 more with a 5th coming out. But they are the AudioGraphic only. Did go on their FB side and suggested another revenue stream with eBooks. $25/per is a bit steep for a medium I do not want as much as I am hooked on the series. (Faith Hunter, at least one option, has opened the option with her Junkyard Cats series. Comes out in Audio then 6 months later comes out in eBook, and now is coming out in print. All in response to her fans who do not do audio. It was something she fought for, for her fans.)

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      2. Thanks for the tip on Wine of the Gods.

        I realized that the past few years of real life had provided me with enough dystopian fiction. I like the confidence, competence and humor (comedy, to use another C) of the books I mentioned.

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  19. The Coast Guard just announced finding the debris of the Titan submersible about 3/8ths of a mile from the Titanic’s bow. They could have done a better job of explaining their findings, though. Some of the reporters were asking about the time it took to get the search underway, what could have been done better, did it collide with the Titanic, and so on.

    They should have concluded with something along the lines of:

    “All the evidence we’ve found indicates that the sub imploded Sunday morning, several thousand feet above the sea floor. It was all over in a fraction of a second. Nothing anybody did or didn’t do after that could have made a bit of difference. The crew didn’t mention anything wrong before contact was lost, so they probably didn’t have any warning. Just…POP.”

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  20. Anti-white? Yeah, that was tried in Haiti in the 19th century, it didn’t end well. It was tried in Zimbabwe during our lifetime, people are now starving there. It is in progress in South Africa, which has gone from a very productive and prosperous country to a hellhole that I couldn’t be paid enough to set foot in.

    Then there are the anti-white whites. This led to the rape of an estimated 100,000 very underage girls in the UK by “south asians” who were Pakistani.

    Antifa & BLM are made up of mostly anti-white whites, who did a billion dollars in damage in the name of a guy who died of an overdose.

    If this is the result of being anti-white, I’m all in favor of white supremacy.

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