Pedophilia And Power

Posted on by Sarah A. Hoyt

I’ve been wondering about the undeniable prevalence of “pedophiles in high places.” Undeniable because underneath everything there is still the fact that our “elites” not only aren’t interested in destroying networks of trafficking, but are openly hostile to any attempts to expose their existence: as their screams at Sound of Freedom showed. It’s not a good look.

It’s puzzled me, because such a fixation is by its nature anti-evolutionary and it’s a weird thing to be coveted by those who achieve money and power.

I mean, yeah, it happened throughout history, but lots of things happened throughout history that don’t happen and are unthinkable in the Western. However this seems to be something those in (at least the left) circles view as the ultimate delicacy and reward.

Sure, the forbidden, something not of mere mortals, blah blah blah. However this fixation and the attempts to make it “normal” seems…. bizarre.

I even understand ephebophiles, those who are attracted to the very young but who have passed puberty. (Note, understand, not approve of, particularly in our society when true maturity is delayed– not to say withheld by various societal mechanism — till the mid 20s or later.) Evolutionary males are attracted to very young, but fertile women. (And yes, gay guys once that mechanism misfires, are attracted to very young, post-pubescent males.) Absent mental control, the “legal” age becomes just a number, and the groin wants what the groin wants.

Epstein’s island from what I understand was not all ephebophiles. Oh, well, technically all had begun puberty, I suspect. But really, what sane male wants to consort with 12 or 13 year olds? What sense does it make.

It was a (very creepy) puzzlement, until I read a completely unrelated article about the actress (non-gendered names for things that you use your body to perform are bullship) in Snow White and the Seven Dwarves woke magical creatures. And it clicked with something in the back of my brain that has been grinding for a long time. Since I was in my twenties in fact.

The article which is here for those interested is about the son of the designer for the original Snow White animated feature disapproving of the new vision, as any sane person would.

But in the middle of it there were comments by the hapless actress Zegler about how they’re folding, spindling and mutilating a German fairytale which was always about the transition to adulthood and its relationships including, yes, marriage. When I read it it, something at the back of my brain clicked, including a lot of really bad advice I received (and ignored) in my twenties. And suddenly pedophilia as a creme de la creme temptation made perfect sense. Sick, twisted, but perfectly clear. Here is the passage:

When asked if the prince would even be in the film, Zegler answered, “We have a different approach to what I’m sure a lot of people will assume is a love story just because like we cast a guy in the movie, Andrew Burnap, great dude.”

Gal Gadot, who plays the Evil Queen in the upcoming live-action adaptation, interjected, “–She’s not gonna be saved by the prince.”

Zegler then affirmed, “She’s not gonna be saved by the prince and she’s not going to be dreaming about true love.”

Zegler elaborated, “She’s dreaming about becoming the leader she knows she can be. The leader that her late father told her that she could be if she was fearless, brave, and true.”

“And so it’s just a really incredible story for, I think, young people everywhere to see themselves in,” she concluded.

First, i want to point out, yes, it’s an incredibly dysfunctional story for people to see themselves in. I’m so very tired of the new Disney fixation on every woman and every little girl becoming “a leader.” And note they always find this power “within” themselves, with no effort, no growing, no practice, no misses and stumbles and getting up again. It’s all there, within themselves.

The advice it tied to was when I was … 24? Dan and I had been married a little over three years, and we were … um…. derpish. There were some issues of course, because different cultures. And we had discovered the child thing wasn’t likely to happen. Which brought a certain tension. BUT overall? We were young, stupid and stupidly in love. (We just argue like we do everything. Intensely.)

My SIL divorced her husband, and when I was talking to my MIL at one point she told me if I divorced, I could come live with them. And I was like “Uh” and she went on about how much I could grow and reclaim my power. And I’m going “The power to be alone and lost?” I think I just stared at her in horror. (I never had her approval after.)

I’d like to say my MIL was insane, but if so, she was representative of her generation all the way to women ten years older than me. I had variations of this conversation, every time a woman found out — after we moved to Colorado and we could (by the skin of our teeth) live on one salary –Dan had given me the great gift of being able to pursue my writing. Look, it’s not like he didn’t want to do writing and music. It’s that my one attempt at making enough for both of us had failed, so…. (And also we didn’t know how little writing would pay, once I broke in, but that’s another story. Most people not IN writing don’t know. And yes, there are exceptions. I wasn’t one.) I kept being told I needed to work so Dan didn’t have “power over you.” Some people decided he was an abuser, trying to gain “power over you.”

And there — yeah, this is crazy feminist stuff but the thing is, it’s in the whole culture, corrupting everything — is the crux of the problem.

We’re no longer allowed to “dream of true love” and men aren’t allowed to “rescue women” or have any power over them. While women are told they have to have “power” and be “leaders” all the time.

This is impossible and untenable. Particularly when coupled with “you don’t learn anything to do this. It’s just inside you.”

Both men and women are looking for ways to have power in a relationship. Because in deranged Marxist terms everything is about power relationships. Oppressed and oppressor. EVERYTHING. Even the most intimate partnerships humans yearn for instinctively. (Shut up. We’re not Bonobos. It’s a flawed model.)

So–

So, it’s power. And who do you have more power over than a helpless child? Particularly one imported from the third world or otherwise powerless?

Hence this has become the sin of choice of our so called elites. And btw, they think everyone is doing it.

It’s abysmal, horrendous, filthy. It’s the sort of thing that calls down the vengeance of heaven in the Bible.

It’s also the result of our very twisted mechanisms of thought and emotion. The result of not being allowed to simply be lovers and partners who raise a family.

It’s the result of the same insanity that bubble headed feminists like Zegler spout.

And there will be hell to pay.

214 thoughts on “Pedophilia And Power”

  1. “But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.” –Matthew 18:6 (ESV)

    How much are millstones in bulk multi-hundred-thousand orders? Just asking.

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    1. In my prayers I sometimes tell Himself that I don’t know if there are enough millstones in the world. (I’m thinking of all the people promoting, “gender affirming care,” too)

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        1. There is more than enough rock in one good-sized mountain to make millstones for every human being who ever lived; and more than enough sea in the Marianas Trench to drown them all in.

          It is good, sometimes, to be reminded just how small we humans are.

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    2. The trick is to chain several dozen sinners to one millstone. Then dump the entire lot at the 20-fathom curve. Crabs have to eat, too.

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          1. Just a matter of spreading out the overhead…..

            TTTO: Ballad of the Green Berets:

            “Drooling Comrades, from the sky.
            Dumb Comrades, who fall and die.
            500 more, we’ll drop today,
            Per the plan of Pinochet.

            “Pinochet inspires us all,
            but he’s thinking way too small!
            US has a faster way,
            Shove them from a C5A!”

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            3. Shoving them out is too slow, and too hands-on.
              Tie them together, with a weight every five, put a small parachute on the first one, and let him lead the way.

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        1. Tie everyone who insists we need to go back to watermills to the stones, too. Then we use modern means of milling grain.

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  3. Rape is generally accepted as not being about sex, but about power.

    No surprise.

    Bullies (and that term doesn’t begin to cover these crimes) are all about power as well.

    Same rotten fruit from the same rotten tree.

    Regarding crimes against kids, there are days when I feel like becoming a vigilante millstone distributor.

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  4. Remember #MeToo? The left thought everyone was doing that too. Then they found out that 99% of the abusers were on the Left and suddenly, no one cared anymore.

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    1. Yep. And when I commented that I had confronted those harassing me and said some very rude, crude, and socially unacceptable things to them, and thus ended the harassment, I was screamed at for “expecting me to tell my rapist to just stop.” Um, no. I didn’t say “rapist”, I said “harassment.” Two entirely different concepts. I “found the power within me” but I guess it was the wrong kind of power.

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      1. You are always wrong, it’s just a matter of figuring out how. Otherwise, the Left might have to concede you were innocent and leave you alone.

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      2. Probably related to the [jerk] who got mad when I pointed out that I’m a survivor, not a victim. In my view, if I spend my life staying the victim, the bastages win. They didn’t. I’m still here and still Odd.

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        1. Aren’t you more of a victorious paladin for winning the battle?

          Girls don’t give themselves enough credit. When guys do stuff like that we brag and say “I made him cry for his mother.”

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      4. Not crumbling up like a wet tissue at the first sign of harassment invalidates their instinctive victimhood reactions, and they don’t like that much.

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    2. Back in the day, I quickly came to the conclusion that the #MeToo movement was given the spotlight because the media thought it could be used to kill Donald Trump. When that failed, they threw it back in the cupboard where the rest of their skeletons are kept.

      (I find it amusing, by the way, to see why it failed. Republicans shrugged and said, ‘So what? We knew he was sleazy, but he still scares the pants off you guys.’ As Mrs. Hoyt says, Trump is not your leader, he’s your battering ram.)

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      1. There’s also a big difference between “sleeps around” and “routinely rapes women.”

        The Left already said they were okay with Bill Clinton routinely raping women, much less the Kennedys of back in the day.

        Yeah, it’s pretty amazing that it’s RFK Jr. who morally offends them.

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        1. Yeah. All evidence is that Trump’s encounters were consensual. The people that claimed otherwise (including the one that just won the court case) don’t come across as credible. It also helps that it appears he’s been completely faithful to his current wife.

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  5. One of the things noted about Trump’s time in office was that the Feds made more headway against the trafficking of minors than any previous administration had. Also, while the DNA tests for adults who hopped the border was aimed at people trying to take advantage of parent status to get more leniency, it probably helped cut back on the trafficking, too.

    Finally, Epstein could have been arrested when someone else was president. But it happened while Trump was in office. That probably wasn’t a coincidence.

    Oh, yeah. Was it someone here who mentioned that all of the FBI agents participating in Trump’s effort against kid trafficking were reassigned to investigate J6?

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  6. We’re no longer allowed to “dream of true love” and men aren’t allowed to “rescue women” or have any power over them. While women are told they have to have “power” and be “leaders” all the time.

    Which has the obvious flip side that if you can’t save yourself, you deserve to stay where your abusers have you.

    Guess who this really, really appeals to.

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        2. Some of the, “remove the stigma,” bits also work out to, “I want to do this, I’m gonna do this, and you can’t criticize me for doing it, bigot!”
          Looking at the whole, “fat-shaming,” thing, I wonder if these folks are going way back and trying to reproduce the Great Mother, Venus figures and all. If so, it’s the devouring mother.

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      1. If Mary hadn’t pointed out a story where the main character mocked kidnapped princesses who couldn’t OVERPOWER FREAKING GIANTS, I wouldn’t have thought of it that way.

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    3. I didn’t realize that angle either but you are right. This whole thing just keeps getting uglier.

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      1. Some….uninformed soul…was blatting on Twitter that Juliet didn’t need Romeo! She should have told her parents she wasn’t marrying anyone! That she didn’t believe in marriage. And then she should have gone to school and become an activist!
        Maybe it was a parody. I hope so. Because otherwise it was someone of almost breathtaking ignorance.

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        2. Breathtaking ignorance. Plus inside-the-box thinking.

          Smart Answer for Romeo and Juliet: Go to the Prince. He’s looking for a way to get these feuding families to stop…or an excuse to crack heads. Their marriage would provide him with it. Problem solved.

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          1. Brilliant. Everyone ends up alive and happy. But, sigh…… then Shakespeare has no story to tell.

            And in other tales, couldn’t an eagle just fly Frodo to Mt Doom? Sauron would never see it coming. But then there is no story.

            And in the latest Top Gun, instead of the very fancy low altitude flying, how about a B1 dropping a bunker busting MOAB from 60 thousand feet? Again, no story.

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            1. And in other tales, couldn’t an eagle just fly Frodo to Mt Doom? Sauron would never see it coming.

              Sauron has fliers, eagles have to land and rest, and landing exposes you to arrows.

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            2. You just have to plot around it. The resentful die-hards try to stop the wedding by murdering one or the other. Or the Prince.

              Many plotting problems can be worked around

              For instance, if you switched the plots of Macbeth and Hamlet — Macbeth’s reaction would have been cut down his uncle at once, but then his uncle would have known it and got bodyguards for his defense, and then Macbeth might have to feign madness to appear harmless — and Hamlet would have figured the witches knew their stuff, he could wait until the crown fell to him, and you’d have to have the Banquo character betray the knowledge, and then Hamlet might have to flee for his life and revolt.

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  8. “pedophiles in high places.” not sure how prevalent it is, semi high placed folks I only hobnob with rather occasionally, but pizzagate possibly, Epstein’s island, for sure.

    Pedophilia, power; perhaps a perversion of parenting. As a parent one has power over , is obligated to be responsible for and have absolute control of a lesser, originally helpless being, guide, support, discipline, lead said being to rationality. A major work, perhaps the greatest, hardest project one can undertake.

    As marriage rates drop, abortions increase, fertility decrease, perhaps the perverted see pedophilia as a kinky substitute, without the dirty diapers, all the power without any responsibility.

    Spur of the moment thought but does fall in line with our duly appointed leaders, influencers, wannabe masters, self images as the most powerful but must not held responsible for anything.

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    1. We still don’t know who killed Epstein, or who were ‘regulars’ at The Island. Why are those the only classified documents that didn’t wind up in Joe’s Garage?
      ———————————
      We could jam in Joe’s Garage
      There was just enough room to cram the drums
      In the corner over by the Dodge
      It was a ’54 with a mashed-up door
      And a cheesy little amp
      With a sign on the front that said ‘Fender Champ’
      And a second-hand guitar
      It was a Stratocaster with a whammy bar

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  9. Why pedophilia from those with money and power?
    (Not in any order of precedence)
    1. Destroy young of breeding rivals.
    2. Breeding with uninfected stock.
    3. Demonstration of power.
    4. Sexual gratification.
    5. Don’t see them as real people.

    Of course, the Left doesn’t seem to be very interested in going after the monsters because that would be contrary to their cult of death.

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    1. Droit De Segura, the lord got first dibs on all brides so he could take over the locals. Yes my spelling sucks.

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        1. It’s such an old story that The Epic of Gilgamesh has the title character practicing it at the beginning of the story.

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          1. As memory serves (it was over 50 years since I read it; pauses to read the Wiki Clif’s Notes), Tale of Two Cities included that as one of the abuses. (I see it was listed as abduction and rape in the plot summary, and key to the plot.) Whether or not it was based on reality is another issue.

            OTOH, the abuse of power by the French nobility has to be compared to the abuse of power by the revolutionaries. [To (mis?)quote H. Kissinger: “It’s a pity both sides can’t lose.”]

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            1. Sexual assault of lower ranking women is one thing (The Two Cities bit). Sexually assaulting brides? The people cried out to the gods against Gilgamesh. And were answered.

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      2. Peasant with no armor, and no weapons.
        “You want to rape my wife before I marry her? Uh, sure.”
        Any man (or even woman) with gun.
        “You want to rape my wife or husband before I marry her or him? Hope you enjoy Hell.” BANG

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        1. There was never any such thing as a peasant with no weapons. Most of the mediaeval polearms could be easily made out of pitchforks, bill hooks, and other common agricultural implements – which is why they were used in warfare.

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        1. I can’t really imagine a “first night” custom in a non-Christian society, either. Foremost, such societies supported polygamy. So if a lord really wanted a woman, he could just stick her in his harem as a concubine. Or make her a maid servant, which in many cases could be viewed as an audition for a lord’s harem.

          That’s not to say that it would be impossible. I just find it highly unlikely.

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          1. I don’t have the document on hand, but it’s known to happen in tribal societies– for exactly the reason it was rumored to be done by enemies, because it is a horrific violation of the mate-bond.
            The point is breaking the targets.

            It’s not about sex, it’s about power and violation.

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          2. Think like a variation on the “kill all the male children” thing which is well known in various societies, including Egypt, since it controls the lower group and saps their fighting strength. (Which is why that plague on the firstborn; the plagues all actually made sense, in culture.)

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          3. And I just remembered the secondary aspect of the rape-the-women thing– it meant you could not ever know if your first born son was your own.

            And had the side effect that if one of the target class was really exceptional, you declared that he was OBVIOUSLY a by-blow of the Superior Culture and took him.

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          4. “First Night” (prima noctae/premier nuit) and “Droit de Seigneur” are technically two separate things. First Night was at least theoretically supposed to be a pre-Christian thing that was about blessing the tribe/marriage and maintaining ties/spreading the blood of the bold, etc. Droit de seigneur was more of an ongoing thing and often involved unmarried females being available for playtime/concubinage.

            And it probably didn’t exist as a matter of law. Most likely more of an explanation given for relationships that already existed at some level of coercion or cooperation. But also keep in mind that a lot of our modern formulations of things like sexual assault and rape involve bodily autonomy issues that weren’t as much used as criminal complaints, as it were, back in the day. Forced marriage following rape was much more common than we’d like to think. (Probably not as common as some feminists would have you believe, though.)

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            1. See G.K. Chesterton’s “The Last Hero”.

              “The chance of battle changes — so may all battle be;
              I stole my lady bride from them, they stole her back from me.
              I rent her from her red-roofed hall, I rode and saw arise,
              More lovely than the living flowers the hatred in her eyes.
              She never loved me, never bent, never was less divine;
              The sunset never loved me, the wind was never mine.
              Was it all nothing that she stood imperial in duresse?
              Silence itself made softer with the sweeping of her dress.
              O you who drain the cup of life, O you who wear the crown,
              You never loved a woman’s smile as I have loved her frown.”

              https://allpoetry.com/The-Last-Hero

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        2. The first legend of “first night” that I know of is part of the folklore of Chanukah: Hannah, daughter of Yochanan the high priest, was to be married secretly (because of the imposition of droit de seigneur by the local Greek governor) to Elazar Maccabee, but the secret got out — and the resulting outrage triggered the Hasmonean rebellion. Latkes for everybody!

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          1. That… almost sounds like it could have happened? Because some of the Mesopotamian cultures did have a custom of women being supposed to go to temples to get deflowered as a sort of one-time sacred prostitute gig.

            There were also some Romans who allegedly did ritual defloration right before marriage, by an actual idol, which I guess would be a great face-saver for non-virgin brides. But I don’t think that was a common custom, even in Rome.

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        1. My spelling sucks in English, other languages forgidaboutit, if I can get in the right direction that is probably the best I can do. I didn’t even try and learn other languages over seas, all I did was confuse the local population and offend prostitutes.

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    2. They’re evil.

      And in dire need of meeting a wood chipper feet-first.

      When the Pizzagate thing got traction, I thought it was a crazy conspiracy theory and a distraction.
      But Epstein and Podesta have convinced me there’s fire under the smokescreen.

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    3. Don’t underestimate the power of (4). The one thing that the Left are most nearly religious about is their (claimed) sacred right to achieve orgasm by whatever means they choose. All ethical considerations take a back seat to that, until it becomes necessary to pretend otherwise in the interests of conducting a purge (#MeToo, I’m looking at you).

      The thing about the pursuit of unlimited sexual gratification is that one becomes more and more jaded, requiring greater and greater stimulus for lesser and lesser reward. In the end, ‘kink’ becomes its own reward, because even if it doesn’t get you off, it gives you the feeling of being one of an inside few who know a pleasure that the squares will never understand. Transgressiveness itself becomes the goal; and what could be more exquisitely transgressive than abusing children for your own sexual kicks? Especially if you damage them so quickly and thoroughly that you are always in need of a fresh supply.

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  10. Question.
    How can the left believe in ‘Equality’ if every relationship is Oppressor and Oppressed?
    If that is true, than even their preferred Trans/Gay/Homosexual/Whatever, relationship is also Oppressor and Oppressed.
    Their logic is truly baffling.

    Again they turn to power because they can’t find love. True love is hard, it takes time, and spoiled little children who never grow up are easily convinced it doesn’t exist, because they never find it. So everything must be torn down so they can find true love. That is another reason why Communism is a Religion, it replaces all their failures with excuses and petty power for Love. Everything is hard until you learn your ME lesson.

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    1. That’s why they switched from Equality to Equity. In fact, Equality is now a dirty word, and only those icky Republicans keep talking about it. (Like all terms the left abandons an the right criticizes them with, the left denies all knowledge of ever having used them for themselves.)

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    2. That’s where their “intersectionality” excuse comes from. So they don’t have to play Oppression Olympics. They’re all in solidarity with each other.

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    3. Somewhere in =The Screwtape Letters=, Screwtape holds forth on this thing called love: SOMEHOW one of them is making capital of the other. The first axiom of Hell is that one thing is not another, and my good is not the same as your good.

      Sound familiar?

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  11. Hi Sara–
    I’ve been studying this one a long time, both in deep history and the modern era. There are a couple things I think are missing from your analysis:

    First, historically one of the great motivations for achieving power is the guarantee of paternity. The more powerful a chieftain gets, the further back he’s able to push his ability to command the sexual monopoly of women (until it extends to the sexual monopoly of girls). Humans being human, the underlying bio-social drive for paternity guarantee is mediated through the second-order, perceptual drives for power and pleasure.

    Second, and perhaps more important for these purposes, the ruling class always and everywhere conducts themselves by rules that demonstrate their superiority over the commoners. What is anathema to the commoners is holy to the gods–intercourse across species (gods and humans, for example), the eating of taboo foods, the conduct of violence in ways not allowed to the commoners, etc. The exercise of these liberties is both pleasurable and in some sense obligatory, since the exercise taboo-breaking underscores their separation from the commoners and enhances their power and position in the eyes of their underlings.

    In the WEIRD world, the big taboos currently are:
    1) the exercise of plenary political power
    2) the co-option of public/institutional resources for personal gain
    3) slavery and other exploitations of dispoportionate power
    4) the abuse of children
    5) incest inside the third degree of consanguinity
    6) sexual imposition upon underlings, teenagers, etc.
    7) racism

    These taboos all have in common the rationale that humans are, in some important sense, equal. Breaking them demonstrates that those who break them are more equal than others. We should therefore expect that those in power would find themselves presented with the opportunity to break these taboos, and that those who are in power long enough will find themselves under the felt obligation to break these taboos quite regularly. We should also expect that, the stronger the taboo, the stronger will be the pressure upon the powerful to break them, and that, as taboos shift, so too will the behavior of the elite. Perversely, this means that were something like pedophilia or sex with young teenagers suddenly to be normalized, that behavior would become less common among the powerful.

    FWIW
    -J. Daniel Sawyer

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  12. I had hoped to be a SAHM when I got married. Not sure how better/worse things would have been for my son, if maybe we would have been able to have more kids if I wasn’t having to work full time and provide the benefits and then basically be the breadwinner.

    But the power thing makes sense. The left keeps telling us we should do things for the children. How many children did they kill/let die in Hawaii with their lack of response to the fires?

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        1. I thought of something even nastier: how convenient to send kids home from school, then pick them up during the fire for sale? Fresh native Hawaiian kids, and since everyone thinks they’re dead, noone will look for them.
          I think I’m being paranoid and the logistics wouldn’t work.

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          1. Paranoid, maybe. But the vast majority of children who go missing are never found.

            I think your paranoia is justified. Maybe incorrect, but reasonable.

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            1. I hope it’s dead wrong. One bad effect of a lot (too much?) social media is being trained to think the worst of just about anything. Makes me glad for the folks who post things of beauty or kindness.

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              1. I was like that long before social media reared its head. I remember in 2nd or 3rd grade deliberately changing the path I walked home from school, just in case. : ) And I haven’t improved with age.

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                1. I don’t post much on social media for that very reason. “Look new puppy!” “Look new kitten.” (sad face) “We lost our 22 year old cat” (or elderly dog). Otherwise, mostly private groups. Even then very little political comment.

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          2. Hard to organize on such short notice. The distressing part being that the idea is even halfway plausible.

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        2. There’s still the possibility of people who are in safe places, and don’t realize that they’re “missing”.

          But the chance of that grows increasingly slim the longer this goes on without them turning up. And yes, the vast majority of them probably are dead.

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        3. I am forced by the available evidence to question the word “incompetence” here. I think you’re letting them off too easy. The whole thing reeks of a setup.

          In related news, Climate Barbie formerly of the Shiny Pony cabinet has blamed “Conservative Arsonists” for the ongoing ARSON fires in Canadian forests. Leading me to conclude its a government job, because Liberals always project. Always.

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          2. Aside from assuming evil (too easy to do, I just did it), does she have any motive for why people who want to….well, conserve things….might destroy them instead?

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            1. Because of the obvious shenanigans from county-level officials, it seems reasonable to suspect a real estate scam against the locals, most of whom are native Hawaiians. Burn their farms, make them sell-up and move away.

              There’s also some kind of intramural clan warfare going on within the native community about who gets water, so that’s fun as well.

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                1. Pardon moi. ~:D

                  I’m just assuming Climate Barbie is blaming Conservatives for what she knows her guys did. Because lying liars lie, pretty much. We know it was arson, we just don’t know if it was organized and political. Could be Greenies, could be Indians, could be random firebugs, or it could be a bonafied Communist Plot. The Chinese have for-real Chinese “police” stations in Canada, why not Communist arsonists?

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                  1. Ick.
                    Again, in paranoid mode and hearing Yelowknife has been evacuated, I was thinking if you wanted, to get the people living way out back into areas under firmer control, burning their houses works as well as anything. But I really do prefer incompetence to malice as an explanation.

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                    1. Yeah, we know Yellowknife was arson for sure, and they’re still doing it. People are also stealing forward-placed firefighting equipment.

                      Make of that what you will, nobody else is saying jack about it beyond reporting the bare fact of it.

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                    2. There really is no rural population to speak of in the N.W.T., because no agriculture. Some of the indigenous folk live out in the bush, but they are micromanaged by the government to an incredible degree and ‘firmer control’ isn’t really a thing.

                      Government is by far the largest industry in the Territories, accounting for just under half the GDP of the Yukon, 60% in the Northwest Territories, and an astonishing 77% in Nunavut.

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              2. Yeah, apparently that whole area had recently had some zoning changes to allow for more development.And while we’re at it notice the whose large houses were miraculously spared from the 60mph moving fires. Conspiacy anyone?.

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                1. Rich folks can afford metal roofs and xerescaping. Also back-up power that can run the lawn sprinklers. Also, a bigger lot is inherently more “firebreak”.

                  Poor folks live in cheap firetraps.

                  After that big fire wiped out much of Rome, they mandated wide streets and brick/stone/concrete. Worked.

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  13. This makes sense. I never thought of it that way, but it does make sense. No, I don’t like it. Faced with such an onslaught of “the power is within you, you just have to recognize it” it’s no wonder so many young people are depressed. They are fed this line ad infinitum, and they dutifully look inside themselves. But they don’t know what they’re looking for, and they’re still have troubles, or they still want to have kids, or whatever other politically incorrect life avenue they want to travel. And so they assume that they DON’T have it within themselves, they have no power. So they get depressed because they also assume they’re the only ones who can’t find this elusive internal power. No wonder.

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      1. This is why Wreck-It Ralph (the original only) is such a great movie: It’s the only family film in forever to say, “No, you CAN’T be anything you want to be … but if you play to your strengths, you can accomplish great things.” Just saying.

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    2. Victim/oppressor, power, and collective are all nutty ideas that underlie behavior that can be really dysfunctional for an individual.

      Recently I saw a feminist ‘mean girl’ try to bully a leftwing academic loon. Key claims were trust the consensus of authority, sex positive, and trying to guilt trip the guy for potentially writing conservative/religious sexual mores. He uses a lot of historical models for his storytelling, and his on screen sexual behavior is heavily compatible with the hollywood/academic narrative.

      Bully was apparently looking for someone to pick on, because despite his characters including prostitutes, his most significant female protagonists are not prostitutes, and are not thinking/behaving like prostitutes.

      I didn’t go full talking about Clinton in the nineties and feminism, but thought about it.

      One of the things that struck me was the perfection of what is told to girls under the label of feminism.

      For me, it is a very basic and early insight that if someone can pass as a faction member by making rote statements, then anyone can choose to pass. Therefore, if my faction is where desired targets are, than strong predators will pass as that faction. Considering myself as a target, I absolutely apply scrutiny to those in my faction, and on my side, because that is also where I might find people targeting me.

      This stuff is so natural to me, that I find it very hard to comprehend someone so young in mentality that they have not yet realized it.

      Yet, what about the feminist ‘take power for yourself, individually?’ The definition of individual power there seems like it was formulated very carefully. If you are trusting someone else, whom you have an existing relationship with, to provide some service for you, then you are not being strong or powerful. (Now, I do believe in paying attention to whether people you trust are delivering on that trust, and in having alternatives to trust. But that is not the same as discarding something provided by one group of others, simply because another group dislikes the aesthetics.) At the same time, instead of keeping your own counsel, and being silent at times in support of that, the feminists encourage one to speak loudly every thought, and to always visibly be matching the rote thought of the current feminist party truth.

      I find this alien and backwards, because I have long found keeping my own counsel to be a major element of thinking my way to a survival strategy. At one point something like ‘truthful, simple, never submit to pressure, and “publish and be damned”‘ seemed to have really worked for me.

      Additionally, lots of predating seems to involve playing with a target’s perceptions of desiring one thing, or fearing another. Counter to the one is being willing to discard desires or ambitions when one’s self checks indicate that they are getting disordered, or if the strength of the desire makes one vulnerable to manipulation, by way of the apparent path towards the desire. I seem to have run temporarily short of the sense to summarize my view on strategies against fear.

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  14. Ya know… this whole effort to turn “mental disorders” and frankly, perversion, into a virtue is not only insane but will be very costly. The Mrs. keeps saying that in ten years or so there will be so many lawsuits over the transition foulness you won’t believe. I, being much more cynical, think there will also be an uptick of suicide and a whole lot of homicide as the poor fools who were talked into “transition” will decide to take a more direct approach to retribution than the court room. It also may be much sooner.

    I read one of those – The USA splits up and it’s crazy left versus sane traditional Americans – books and one plot feature was in the places where the totally crazy transition everybody left types were in charge found out it didn’t work. The crash of their societies and locations led to bands of “transition” people hunting down the doctors, administrators and supporters and stringing them up from lampposts. I’m not so sure that will happen but… the doctors and medical institutions that pushed and supported the transition craze will be paying a high price in the near future. Just my two cents.

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        1. I recall hearing something about that, and reflecting that it was a political refusal if I’ve ever heard one. They’ll keep that poor bastard alive forever if they can.

          They’re giving MAiD to people who are merely depressed, or merely poor for that matter, but they’re denying it to someone who is depressed AND has an intractable mental illness AND continuous physical suffering which will not be going away. Because they can’t afford to admit their “treatments” don’t work, and will only make everything worse.

          But they’ll kill your grandma. For sure, no problem. Sign the old girl up, plenty of room.

          The sheer corruption of it all is excruciating. I’m so glad to not be working in the Canadian health system, I can’t even tell you.

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    2. Slave societies -cannot- tolerate adjacent Free societies. War is certain, inevitable. The type of conflict varies, but it -always- happens.

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  15. I learned about power dynamics from the kink scene in the ’90s and early ’00s (and left about ’07/’08 because the people coming in were…not people I could trust with this kind of thing).

    And these people’s opinions on power dynamics is like all Marxist twaddle-it sounds all deep and thoughtful and intellectual, when it’s actually as complex as pond scum. I.e. not at all. It’s designed to confuse the hell out of you and to obscure exactly what they’re actually saying with a whole lot of five-dollar words and shibboleth. Wors that are used in ways that normal humans don’t normally use them.

    What are they actually saying? Easy! What they’re saying is-
    “I can do whatever I want to do, and if you don’t support me fully in whatever madness comes out of my head, I will use peer pressure and social dynamics to have you torn limb from limb. And if you’re really lucky, I won’t make you watch as the people you care about get torn apart as well.”

    So the rise of pedophilia doesn’t surprise me, especially among our “educated” “leadership” class. They can’t use their “power” in useful ways, so they have to use it on something, like most bullies.

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    1. Was going to mention the same thing, since I followed a similar trajectory. (Nothing like sitting at the same table with a bunch of people all discussing how they’d like to murder conservatives).

      At least BDSM put an emphasis on consent. But here’s, the point, Children can’t consent, and to these creeps, that’s not a bug, it’s a feature. If they can’t consent, they can’t withdraw consent either. There’s no negotiation, there’s just do whatever sick urge they have. If kids aren’t people in the womb, they’re not people out of the womb either, maybe not even when they become adults. To the powerful, people are only people if they have power too.

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      1. There is a movement to raise the age of “personhood” to about 5 (the age at which a child is socially functional–I can’t remember the exact phrase) and a corresponding but totally separate movement to reduce the age of consent…to age 5.

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      2. My big reason for leaving was a mixture of the serious BDS that people were having (they hated Bush II, except for the few months that they realized after 9/11 that President Gore would have been worse) and the falling of the masks off people when Obama was elected. Almost everyone I knew in the scene thought that the war was over-and the March of History had won.

        They had defeated all of those evil, nasty, icky conservatives and now it was all just a matter of mopping up what was left. Hillary! would be elected in 2018, and all of the Evil Conservatives would be purged from the world and it would all be sunshine and rainbows.

        (I think that Trump’s election broke them. Broke them in ways that they still don’t understand. They took their masks off and grew too large to ever put them back on again-and no mask they could wear would ever hide what they were.)

        And it’s sad how many of these people get angry about some of the worst conservative people out there…but “old elders” in the scene are forgiven easily if they have the right politics.

        …so very human.

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  16. It’s D/s with a non-consenting * individual in the role of submissive. That’s the best thing I can say about it. It’s all about control, and asserting authority over someone who can’t fight back, or who fights back but can’t win. I seem to recall that H. Weinswein got more pleasure from the aspect of coercion of the unwilling than from the physical act. And he wouldn’t try to force women who stood their ground and said, “No. Scram, creep.”

    *If either partner can’t say, “No, thank you” and walk away unharmed, or if either party is too immature to really understand what’s going on and what the results might be, he or she is non-consenting. If one party is in a position of authority over the other, then it is non-consenting.

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    2. “I seem to recall that H. Weinswein got more pleasure from the aspect of coercion of the unwilling than from the physical act. And he wouldn’t try to force women who stood their ground and said, ‘No. Scram, creep.'”

      Weinstein let them walk away but tried his hardest to ruin their careers. Mira Sorvino was one who told him to flake off, and he told any producer who was thinking about hiring her that she was difficult and a trouble-maker.

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  17. I’ve been through and through and through the various child protection training given by the Church, scouts, etc. I agree pedophilia is about power it’s also about not wanting to grow up. The wife is convinced of this and she’s more perceptive than I

    The wife hasn’t worked outside the home since the daughter was born. Anyone who says she’s subordinate to me around her wouldn’t enjoy the experience. This fixation on making woman’s labor taxable bothers me no end since it’s just Marxist anti family BS when you get down to its roots.

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  18. One aspect of power is the ability to defy restrictions. The restrictions of morality are regarded as transcendant, and those who break them in purposeful defiance want it so. The greater the crime, the greater the power they feel in exercising it. Leftists who urge their disciples to ever greater “transgressions” (violations) understand this.

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        1. Exactly, the facts are that building is harder than breaking.

          But if you destroy a thing, then the person who cared enough to build it, adn those who love it, can’t stop you, so you’re more powerful.

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    2. Fools. Morality is not there to turn your life into a misery of self-righteousness, it’s there to HELP you. To aid you in having a life that is happy, productive, and guilt/regret free.

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  21. To stop the Trans movement someone needs to Sue the NCAA for Title XI violations. IE, Nothing set up exclusively for Trans-Men/Women. In other words, if you have Swimming for men and women, you need to have swimming for Trans-Men/Women. And so on and so forth for every sport your school supports. Also Trans-Men and Women Bathrooms, Dorms, and you can’t just rename one bathroom and say it’s good for everyone, nope, a new one for every straight bathroom you have, and you can’t just build one across campus, new ones for every building. Yes the costs would destroy all their accumulated wealth. Serve the scummy communist bastards right.

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    1. What about the poor trans feelings when he sees that horrible thing between his legs not the wonderfulness of the female form there instead. The psychological strain would be too much to inflect on them, New Bathrooms, new pools, new dorms, new fields, new stadiums new basketball courts, and the college has to pay for it all.

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  22. In a previous career (late 90s), I worked for the Kansas prison system. A large part of my job was evaluation of sexually violent predators under the Kansas statute for civil commitment proceedings after they’d completed the prison sentence. In three years, I did about 200 evaluations.

    The thing about research into sexual paraphilia, is that all the data is self report. Usually coming from an incarcerated sex offender that is trying to explain the “why” of his behavior to the state psychologist. I heard a lot of those stories. The amount of justification, deflection, blaming the victim, and other more horrible excuses was astounding.

    All I really learned is that some people are broken in ways that simply cannot be fixed.

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    3. Supposedly, that’s one reason why pedophiles are so unpopular among the prison population – because they just won’t shut up about it.

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  23. It might be a back of the brain thing rather than anything with hard proof but it makes a lot of sense. That, and the other things you mentioned make the whole thing absolutely disgusting to see.

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  24. All the romances I ever heard of involved heroes and heroines who helped/fixed/rescued each other. They were about the couple being stronger than the two of them as individuals. The modern Left is mired in Marxist dogma…which is totally about power.

    It guts their ability to do, or even understand, love.

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  26. A friend of mine went to see Sound if Freedom and was telling me she hadn’t known. I sat there thinking, how could you not know?

    I have three friends who have brushed up against this on some level. Three who were willing to talk about it. How many more? Normally you’re looking at between 3 and 5% who are willing to talk about something that’s not socially acceptable. And these were not victims. If those three were the statistical 3%, there are 97 more who are silent.

    Add several who were victims and assume the same, there are likely 200 people that I know who have known about this or been victimized who haven’t said anything.

    And yet there are still people out there who didn’t know? Did I win the lottery of other people’s horror stories?

    As for blaming the victim–by blaming the victim they are inadvertently stating that they are so weak that this powerless object is able to force them into doing something they know is wrong.

    I doubt many abusers think of the ramifications.

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    1. The numbers I have seen are 1/10 have been abused as a child. That may be low.

      And yet, nobody says anything. Ever. If you are one of the lucky ~9/10, you might go to your grave and never know.

      On the other hand, if you picked a career in public health, policing, or social services…

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  27. Last night Gutfeld! showed us some left-winger bloviating about ‘neo-pronouns’. With everything else going on, that’s what’s important to them. Somehow, I suspect the refusal to let the Hawaii fire department have water to put out the fires had something to do with pronouns.

    That’s it. If some loser starts telling me about their ‘neo-pronouns’ I’m going to tell ’em, “You have obviously mistaken me for somebody that gives a shit.” and, “Awww, don’t go away crying, just go away.”

    Then comedian Jamie Lissow said, “I’m just wondering, how long before they take the ‘dic’ out of ‘dictionary’.” :-D

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  28. At the other end of the spectrum, I just watched a short video talking about the lengths that some Japanese women are going to in order to have some sort of male companionship. It’s not necessarily even sex (though it can be). It’s things like host clubs (like a traditional Asian hostess club, but with male hosts instead of female hostesses; since it’s Japan, nothing inappropriate takes place inside the club), hired males who provide a shoulder to cry on for their steady clients, rented male platonic companions, and similar things. Someone in the comments section of the video added that when he was in Thailand, he was tipped off to the fact that there are a lot of well-to-do Japanese women visiting that country who are basically sex tourists, looking for North American or European men in the higher-class hotels.

    Not good.

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    1. I knew that Japanese -men- certainly have all those problems, and certainly Thailand is filled to the brim with Japanese, Chinese and European men looking for “a good time.”

      But Japanese cougars out hunting English and America losers in Thailand? That’s nuts! ~:D Wow, what a world.

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  29. On this subject, I heard a Very Interesting Question today asked by Colonel Douglas Macgregor talking to Tucker Carlson on PooTube about the Ukraine War.

    He asked, and I paraphrase from memory, “There are something like 40,000 children listed missing in Ukraine right now. Where did they go? All those thousands of women in Ukraine sold into prostitution, where did they go?”

    That’s a -really- good question. Did the Rooskies get ’em? Probably not, because if they had, Putin would be showing propaganda films of the happy children in their nice new schools.

    So… where did they go? And why is it I have to listen to Tucker freaking Carlson on YouTube to hear someone ask it?

    Here’s another question, what’s happening to all the “unaccompanied minors” arriving in their thousands at the US border the last three years? Where do they go?

    I don’t have answers for that, of course. I have no idea. But I don’t ever even hear the question asked, much less addressed by government officials.

    You know how I was saying the other day that we can’t imagine how evil they really are? We probably can’t. But, eventually, we will find out. All that is hidden will be revealed.

    Oh and the millstone thing from the Bible? “…it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck…” Yeah, I’m not inclined to do them any favors. I’m sure the Almighty will find something appropriate.

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    1. That’s a -really- good question. Did the Rooskies get ’em? Probably not, because if they had, Putin would be showing propaganda films of the happy children in their nice new schools.

      While I don’t think Putin is exactly brilliant, he’s not quite so dumb as to brag about war crimes.

      Last I heard, they had claimed to have recovered an unstated number of orphaned ethnic Russian children and evacuated them from the war zone into Russia.

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      1. I guess that’s one way to increase their population.

        Somehow I doubt that they did gene tests to determine if those children were ethnically Russian.

        And I’m guessing none of them were over the age of 3.

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        2. As the Lebensborn children showed, you can probably manage up to ten as long as you keep the children away from investigators.

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        2. They have never bothered before.

          The MSM hasn’t even bothered to report the ones that have been noticed all over the lower levels of media.

          Not flashy enough, requires understandings of things like what war crimes actually are.

          That sounds like WORK!

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          1. Not flashy enough, requires understandings of things like what war crimes actually are.

            Including the part where “war crime” does not mean “effective weapon”.

            See the endless shrieking of ZOMG THERMOBARICS!!!!!1!!!1!1!!!one!!!!

            Also known as a fuel air bomb.

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        3. There have been reports in the news media of Russian war crimes committed in areas that they’ve gained control of. They don’t stay in the news for very long. The news has a short attention span, and without fresh fodder it will shift its attention elsewhere.

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        4. They have perpetrated numerous war crimes. The press covers some of it badly until the next media cycle. And half of the right says that it is all lies because globohomo something something.

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    2. All those thousands of women in Ukraine sold into prostitution, where did they go?

      –
      John Ringo wrote a book about sex slavery in Eastern Europe. Sounds like a good place to start looking.

      ‘Choosers Of The Slain’ is fiction, but the setting was all too real.

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    3. So… where did they go? And why is it I have to listen to Tucker freaking Carlson on YouTube to hear someone ask it?

      The catch is this is Tucker Carlson. On the subject of Russia.

      So discount the credibility of everything that is said somewhere between “doubt” and “how the #@$#) does someone fall for that?”.

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        1. Tucker seems to have a lot more credibility than most.

          Also, lots of people confuse being anti-Ukraine-with-our-tax-money with “pro-Russia”.

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          1. No. He is actually pro-Russia. And I have no idea why.
            I am not pro-Russia because Russia is a paranoid lunatic who will attack everyone because he’s sure they’re about to attack him.
            I am pro-ukraine in the sense they should not be invaded. (No, we shouldn’t either.) HOWEVER I don’t trust the current bunch to shoot a lame rat in a barrel much less run a proxy war. AND I think they’re playing both sides against the middle.
            BUT Tucker is PRO Russia. And I don’t WANT to know why.

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      2. Well, since you mention, please note that I’m not -promoting- Colonel Macgregor and his views, or Tucker Carlson. I have no way of checking most of that.

        However.

        He did ask an extremely interesting question that nobody else is asking, so he gets Phantom points for that. Good questions forward society better than good answers.

        As well, I have independently verified something of what the Colonel was saying about American war production potential right now. They really don’t have any surge capacity, just like he said. Particularly artillery and ammunition are currently being produced at a pace suitable for (mostly) replacing training requirements.

        If the USA suddenly needs 10,000 tank barrels, they will be buying them from South Korea, not making them in the USA. If they suddenly need 10,000 Patriot missiles, whoever is making that thing will have to suddenly build a bunch of new factories.

        It will take 5 years for the USA to tool-up production to 21st C capacity, and currently the USA buys all their tools from Taiwan, S. Korea and China.

        Oh, and India just put a lander on the moon today. Yep, India can put robots on the moon, right now. Just like America, and China.

        So all the crap about Russia and Ukraine, not all that relevant compared to what’s going on at home.

        I’m not even going to talk about Canada, the Canadian military couldn’t protect Toronto from determined Boy Scouts right now.

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        1. That assumes that the US will need 10,000 tank barrels, in addition to what we already have, and that the estimates are accurate.

          Given how many officers have earnestly assured the public that it will take at least a decade to do the anti-EMP hardening that was already done before 9/11, and this was in basic indoc information for enlisted coming aboard ship, I have solid x-for-doubt.

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          1. I got my heads-up on the urgent modernizing of production equipment coming at it from the machinist side. It develops that the -single- government arsenal producing tank guns is still using the same forge they were using in WWII. Its a cool machine for sure, but it was installed in 1942. Current gun production is a few hundred tubes per year, about what you need to replace shot-out training barrels.

            Same goes for tank ammunition, the government production line is in New Jersey or something, 1940s equipment and labor-heavy production environment. World War Two ready.

            Going by the way the Russians and the Ukrainians are burning through equipment, that’s not going to be enough.

            The South Koreans by contrast are all-CNC and producing hundreds of tubes a month. The US arsenal was -upgrading- to CNC. Meaning they won’t have it for a couple years, and they won’t know how to make it go for a couple more.

            During a war is not the best time to be training guys up and working the bugs out of a new robotic production system, or so I’m told.

            Do I know everything about the US arsenals and their production capacity? No. I am a house painter. I only know what I read.

            But when a US Colonel says the USA doesn’t have surge capacity in their production pipeline, I can see that they don’t. All you need to do is go back to the steel production level to see that. You know where that fancy steel for those guns comes from? Germany and Canada. Dofasco in Hamilton Ontario and Stelco in Nanticoke Ontario make the high-purity steel you need for forgings like gun barrels and high-tensile sheet for automobile bodywork.

            Dofasco and Stelco are in Canada. Arcelor Mittal, Dofasco’s parent company, is in Germany. Can US Steel step up? Sure, eventually. But if you need 10,000 gun barrels quick, you gotta buy offshore? That’s not good.

            As to why one might need 10K new gun barrels Right Now, that could happen if the US Pacific Fleet got sunk, or if your President left an expeditionary force and all its equipment for the enemy. Both those things have happened in living memory.

            But we’ve gone pretty far from pedos in high places. ~:D

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            1. Same goes for tank ammunition, the government production line is in New Jersey or something, 1940s equipment and labor-heavy production environment. World War Two ready.

              Didn’t get the state right, I have no idea if it’s the only location, and the Army’s plant in Iowa has been doing upgrades on their equipment for about half a decade, now– the new buildings got started back in 2020.
              The location was first built on in the ’40s, though, so….
              Website for the base:
              https://www.jmc.army.mil/Installations.aspx?id=Iowa

              And maybe reconsider the quality of the information you were given, when it couldn’t even get that right?

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              1. And turns out that in addition to the 2020 whole new production facilities, they’ve started at least one more major upgrade specifically for ammunition (as of June this year, and expected to be done in ’27), and stopped telling folks what their production levels are at all.

                Back in the ’20 groundbreaking article, it pointed out they’d done a minor surge from 14,000 to 20,000 a month, now the articles all give third party estimates that hover below the previously-standard-monthly amount for who knows why.

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              2. There’s a list of ordinance factories down the left side of that link. It may have been Scranton PA that I saw.

                The bit about the gun tubes was from an Army site and I can’t find it anymore. Oh well.

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        2. not even going to talk about Canada, the Canadian military couldn’t protect Toronto from determined Boy Scouts right now.
          ………………….

          What are the odds that the Canadian military would help the boy scouts? Inquiring minds want to know.

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  30. I don’t think the rate of pedophilia or incest will be lower among the high and mighty than it is among the lower classes. Our hostess has given an explanation as to why it could be higher, but I think there’s a bit more.

    The rich and powerful attract women (and men) eager to trade sex or adoring attention for status and money. “We have willing dames enough. There cannot be That vulture in you to devour so many As will to greatness dedicate themselves, Finding it so inclined.”

    Two reactions to such a surfeit seem likely: a jaded palate and a distaste for mercenary bed partners. What category of people might satisfy the latter, and give a zing of forbidden fruit to the former?

    Unfortunately it is possible to get even worse, as in parts of Africa where the purported cure for AIDS is sex with a child.

    Perhaps I’m just not the kind of person people confide in, but wrt Lauren’s observations, I can’t think of anybody I’ve known who knew anybody who was trafficked. People who knew people who had been molested by family or friends, yes.

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    1. Clarification: You are correct. Those I personally know were molested, not technically trafficked. I tend to conflate the two, since it’s still rape of a child.

      The others were people I know who have brushed against the evil of actual sex trafficking. Several didn’t know what they were seeing until afterward. Another was engaged and discovered that her fiance’s family was trafficking children.

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      1. I don’t think there was that much of it till recently. I think that like drugs and trafficking of WOMEN trafficking of children got worse and skyrocketed with the open board. Here I admit to having…. contacts at the border and hearing stories.

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        1. It was there. The people I mentioned all told their stories more than 5 years ago. The woman who found out about her fiance has children in their 30’s, so probably at least 30 years ago on that one. Another friend was sent to the border on a trafficking detail. He got back in 2020, I believe.

          It may have increased because of the open border, but you don’t bring children all that way on a maybe–the demand was already there, the delivery avenues set up, etc.

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          1. Democrat fraud probably goes back at least to Clinton.

            I tend to stop speculating there, because the evidence there that I am aware of is less certain, and continuing means that I have no reason to stop. It is very clear that a lot of Democrat political success post Reconstruction through the end of Segregation was based in fraud and terrorist suppression of political opposition. There is a theory that the Mugwumps were wrong to stab the Radical Republicans in the back, and that Reconstruction should have continued until the Democrat idiots had been replaced by a new party without any continuity. This theory is contentious. It is also a bit of an escalation in the context of current affairs.

            The theory of pedophile conspiracy, adn the theory of political fraud are remarkably complementary.

            Folks like Paul Krugman and Denis Hastert certainly tend to push the timeline on the pedophile conspiracy hypothesis back a bit.

            But, seriously, JFK was likely frauded into office with the assistance of the segregationist fraud machine. The Kennedys are very sexually disordered, and pedophilia in JFKs generation would have been far from a surprise.

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  31. Re: The use of aircraft as a solution for pedophiles: Shoving them out is too slow, and too hands-on.
    Tie them together, with a weight every five, put a small parachute on the first one, and let him lead the way out of the C-5A.

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  32. And about the Prog / Totalitarians and their debasement of language, from the standpoint of US law, they get to conflate criminal and non-criminal acts and try to force extreme solutions against less serious conduct.
    Eg: By defining “reckless eyeballing” as sexual assault, they have been able to claim that, by their definitions, (today’s versions) college campuses are horribly dangerous places.
    Prosecutors also play this game by getting laws passed which do not include provable intent, or provable conduct. An example is “Rape” vs “Sexual assault”. In most states, rape requires proof at trial of both the rapists intent, and penetration of the victim. Sexual assault requires only proof of contact to a “sexualized area, and intent can be assumed by the fact of the contact. The question of the participation / prior conduct of the victim is also thereby avoided.
    They go for the low-hanging fruit and the easy cases.

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  33. About Disney and Snow (Justice) White (SJW), these people keep talking about needing to update an “85 year old movie”, but, as our hostess points out, it’s actually a centuries old German fairy tale, that the late, lamented Walt made less crude. Why did Walt choose Snow White? Because it’s public domain. I know, squeeze the irony like a sponge. I remember seeing the remake of Cinderella as a TV movie musical a few years ago. I was amazed that they made it into Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. IIRC Cinderella became a celebrated fashion designer, and the prince just followed her around.

    As to the thrust of your post…, Wow! Just wow! As Burke said, “There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men.”

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  34. I don’t have time to read all the previous comments but speaking with Jasini a moment ago I commented on the power thing it’s the same kind found in all my communications Master’s classes. They talked about communications as power and we students did not like to think about it as power true there’s power in there but it isn’t ABOUT power.

    And then the Epiphany hit us. It’s not about power it’s about “itty bitty living space”. The true definition of hell is great cosmic power with itty bitty living space. You’re all alone with all that power but all alone.

    (Someone cue the Genii, a la Robin Williams.)

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  35. Wow, what a comment thread. Such interesting thoughts and links. This is an awful subject, but such an important one to contemplate.

    I have a daydream that a military tribunal will put the cabal, one by one, in the witness stand. Then, after their confessions and convictions, an immediate trip out back to the firing squad. Legal and tidy.

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  36. in my mind the root of most human evil is a desire to control other people … in most people its restrained by many factors … morals, ethics but MOST OFTEN its not having the POWER to actually control others … but in people with power this desire is all too often the driving force behind their claim to want “whats best for you” … they are doing xyz “for your own good” … nope … its just feeding the beast within them and making them feel good … mix power with the “anything goes” mindset of the new “non judgmental” social norms and you can see why child exploitation is on the rise …
    I always remember that someone who wants to control me often won’t take No for an answer, they start with suggestions, then mandates, then rules, then laws, then jail and if the answer is still No then death … one person saying No leads to 2 then 4 then everyone says No and they CAN’T abide that … resist them and they want you to die and while they are usually reluctant to just kill you they have no problem putting you in a place where death is easier … think Gulag …

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      1. You could go out and get some bricks, mortar, and a small cask of Amontillado… :-D
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        VOTE FOR CTHULHU
        We’ve had enough of all these lesser evils.

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