Month: August 2022

I keep seeing this group described as “right wing extremists” and as engaged in “political violence”, yet when I look up details, there are none.

Read this link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proud_Boys

One guy hit a protester with a stick.  There was a street fight in New York after Anti-Liberals chased them down the street.  A good chunk of this was filmed, and it looked to me like the Proud Boys were defending themselves from people who were chasing them.

And that’s about it.  There is nothing “neo-Nazi” about most of them.  I’ve talked to a couple in bars, and they are normal guys who are just sick of being shit on by the media every fucking day.  White males are insulted and denigrated literally every day.  I read today that I think in Minneapolis if they have a reduction in force the rules now read to fire white people first.  That’s overt racism.  It’s not unreasonable to be angry about overt racism, or people calling for the deaths of white people, as has happened dozens of times in the past few years, as articulated by professors and leaders of various sorts who keep their jobs and rarely face sanction.  Some do, thankfully, but many are clearly congratulated for their “courage” by coworkers and students.

So this whole violent, neo-Nazi lie is more or less akin to, and bears a strong family resemblance to, the ACTUAL Nazi claim that Jews were undermining Germany, and preventing her freedom and flourishing.  It was always a lie, but enough Germans believed it that you know what happened.

And I have been told that, say, the ADL claims White Supremacists are super violent, scary, and who we need to be worrying about.  Here, they claim they commit most of the murders: https://www.adl.org/resources/report/murder-and-extremism-united-states-2021

Here is the problem: the number is 26 out of 29.  By their way of reckoning, 26 out of 29 makes “white supremacists” the most dangerous group out there, justifying enormous FBI resources.  The problem is that all or nearly all of these murders are by biker gangs and prison gangs, and nearly all involve personal conflicts unrelated directly to race.  Do some digging.  Prove me wrong.

Here is the thing: whenever there is even the most flimsy and insubstantial POSSIBLE connection to white supremacy in acts of violence, it enters a news cycle it never really leaves.  The initial impetus for the protests in Charlottesville were to prevent the removal of a Robert E. Lee statue.  People argued it was part of their history, and that once started, historical revisionism through physical violence to artifacts of history would be hard to stop.  In the event, they were right.  Even Frederick Douglass was not immune, for reasons fully opaque to me.  Stupid is as stupid does, I suppose.  Then people they did not invite showed up, on both sides, and the Mayor ordered the police back to do what he could to ensure violence.  That is factually what happened.  Factually, Trump EXPLICTLY denounced the racists, in the part of that speech none of these lying jackasses ever quote.

But to take one obvious example, the Hell’s Angels, I am told by several people in Motorcycle Clubs, as they prefer to be called, told that that club is for “white boys”.  It was a black member of the Chosen Few who told me this, and biking was a huge part of his life.  It was later validated by someone I was talking with who had a relative who went to jail for the Hell’s Angels.  It’s white men and their women, and it has always been that way, or so I am told.

These are the sorts of people committing the VERY small number of murders that anti-Liberal jackasses are using to push their conspiracy theories about alleged right wing radicalism.  Our “right wing radicalism” is fucking hot dogs and ice cream on the 4th of July, a Christmas exhibit in the town square, and the right not to have racial insults thrown at us continually by mentally ill moral defectives and incompetents.

And consider this: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-02-22/pandemic-murder-wave-fell-most-heavily-on-young-black-men

In 2020 those identifying or identified as Black or African American made up 13.5% of the U.S. population, according to CDC estimates (that for definitional and other reasons don’t quite match the results of the 2020 U.S. Census). They also made up 55.6% of the homicide victims, and 65.6% of the increase in homicides relative to 2019. To put it another way, the homicide rate for Black Americans rose from 22.9 per 100,000 in 2019 to 30.7 in 2020. For all other Americans, the rate went from 3.2 to 3.8.

This whole rate way of calculating things makes some sense, but it still forces you to do some math that is normally not provided, in this case no doubt because the raw numbers are scary.

Assuming roughly 330 million Americans, then 13.5 equals 44.5 million.  44.5 million divided by 100,000 yields 445, which becomes our multiplier.  445 time 30.7–the murder rate per 100,000–gets us 6,096.

So, we live in a world where 26 murders–mostly or exclusively of bikers or prison inmates killing rivals, and possibly not even of minorities, since if the ACT was committed by a person who meets their definition of white supremacy then the murder then becomes a white supremacist murder, even if it is of another white supremacist–are the global and nearly exclusive focus of the news and national “law enforcement” agencies, but 6,000 murders are just something we need to forget about.

6,096 divided by 26 is 234.  So for every claimed “white supremacist” murder, 234 black folks, mostly young men, were killed, the overwhelming majority of them by other young black men, and very commonly using illegal weapons in cities where gun ownership was made more difficult by laws enacted by people who had bodyguards or who lived in gated communities, far from the violence.

I look at this stuff, and I just scowl.  I’m more educated than most, but none of this stuff is tough.  None of it is that complicated.  What I just did took twenty minutes.   A responsible reporter could do much better in two hours, and two days would put a nail in the coffin with respect to any possible dissent.  There’s just no there, there, apparently because there’s no Here, there, either.  These people live in the mist, floating aimlessly through the fog, not knowing where they are, where they are going, or where they have been, and yet somehow managing to be always angry and always certain their idiotic viewpoints are the only correct ones.

 

I have known about this Tweet, but just watched it for the first time: https://www.c-span.org/video/?507774-1/president-trump-claims-election-stolen-tells-protesters-leave-capitol

As soon as he heard reports of violence, he asked everyone to “go home”, to “not play into the hands of these people” (or something close to that).

Why don’t you know this?  Twitter deleted THIS Tweet immediately, while leaving the one encouraging protest, which is as American and legal as apple pie.

When you REALLY start looking, you start to see lies, crooks, and spiders everywhere.  It’s not a pleasant sight, which is why so many people cling to delusions about who Biden & Co. really represent.  If you are worth $10 million or more, on the low side, NOT YOU.  If your kids did not go to some fancy private academy in England or Switzerland, or at least the US equivalent of British “public schools”, then not you.  They ask for your support, because standing in reality for the 1% of the 1%, while denigrating, in actuality, if not rhetorically, both the first 99% and then the second, would not play well, and they need a sizable contingent of useful idiots for the time being.  The robots are not quite far enough along, and their trust among our armed forces is not enough for an open coup.

That former limitation, though, could quite easily change invisibly and suddenly.

I do continue to wonder about the sanity of military and LEO personnel who continue to fail to see the manifest, large scale, and extraordinarily frightening realities more or less obvious to anyone looking honestly.

It will interesting to see if the IRS can actually fill all those positions.  Everyone is having a hard time hiring, and this particular job opening might as well add to the advert that “people may hate you, and your friends may desert you.  You may get shot.”

The IRS has always of course been unpopular, but with all that just happened, that is going to double or triple.  It’s one thing to allocate the money; it’s another entirely to execute the plan.

And I would add that conservatives who need a job should be applying too.  We need people providing some level of moderation, if that is possible.

This is far from a fait accompli, although my personal instinct is that the moment that bill passed a lot of Dems said “we got this thing in the bag, and might as well start wrapping up.”  That was why they did not think through AT ALL the optics of the raid.

And they may be right.  I have no plans for violence against anyone, no matter how bad things get, but I do believe that in a completely corrupt world–where you have to tell fucking lies all day every day just to survive, which is all Communist regimes–the only honest places to be are jail and dead.  I fear both, but fear more selling my soul to buy a minute or two worth of respite from imbecilic thieves and psychopaths.

The fundamental claim being made by what I will call the GR partisans–billionaires and politicians–is that everything will be JUST FINE if we only trust in the fundamental benignity of people who just caused the deaths through managed medical malpractice of millions of people, and who even now are suppressing effective treatments in lieu of injections whose dangers are clear, and obviously vastly, vastly higher than competing ideas, of which the most simple is universal Vitamin D sufficiency.

Putting on my Captain Obvious hat, is there or could there be any reason to trust people capable of mass murder on that scale?  This is murder on the scale of Hitler and Stalin and Pol Pot, all of whom, in the end, may have posted lower numbers than the lockdowns, suppression of effective treatments, and insertion of dangerous and sometimes fatal injections.

Mao, of course, is the one to beat.  The guy who is on Chinese currency and whose picture is still everywhere caused the deaths of something like 50 million people through a combination of incompetence and callousness, and another perhaps 5 million through his Cultural Revolution, which, if enacted here, will see high school students beating their teachers to death with sticks in the courtyards and football fields of their schools.

Every day, every single day, I scratch my head and wonder how so many people can be so fucking stupid.  I really really think it is mostly LAZINESS and complacency,.  You can’t value what you have always had.  You don’t value freedom if you have never been told no in your life, and the great irony is that somehow, in the freest, most possibility filled world this planet has ever seen, large numbers of fat, stupid, complacent kids have convinced themselves that they, or people who have a higher standard of living than 90% of the planet, are “oppressed”.  It’s mind boggling.

Most of these “revolutionaries” would start crying and quit if they couldn’t get their favorite Starbucks beverage or craft beer.  Yet because they will have both, they are working hard to destroy everything which we were bequeathed by vastly better people, in general–certainly tougher, more dignified, and vastly less whiny–than them.

Children of Fear would work too.

The fabric of our shared social order was just ripped.  What Biden just did—and nothing of that potential political magnitude happens in the control obsessed world of the Democrats without the exlicit imprimatur via Biden of our real ruling oligarchs—was the equivalent of Nixon using the FBI to break into the Watergate Hotel on an invalid warrant issued by a political supporter, then blaming the Democrats for it, and the whole of the Republican Party erupting in celebration.

Nothing can be seen the same now. They have crossed the Rubicon.  The FBI stands naked now as a corrupt institution. Everyone who works there either IS a crook or knows one.

Probably not one American in 100 knows that reference, or how it ended. If you are in the 99, it ended poorly for both Rome and Caesar. But decadence has costs.

For me personally, I think my own highest and best use is continuing my own work.  In the end, all this results from spiritual sickness.  No generalized lasting solution can proceed from anything but generalized lasting spiritual renewal.

My work is very, very hard. It would shatter most people.

But I am not most people.

The ability to tolerate genuine difference—to be GENUINELY tolerant—is largely a function of how comfortable you are in your own skin. If your sense of self and community is strong, you do your thing and other people do their thing, and even if you dislike some things they do, and they dislike some things you do, you both recognize peaceful corxistence as MUTUALLY beneficial, so where needed you negotiate differences such that both sides are both equally happy and unhappy.

This is adult behavior, seen both at the individual and social levels.

The fundamental problem with the Left wing style is that they want to manage difference by DICTATING—through all means possible, includinv emotional, intellectual, and always eventually physical violence—that WE ALL HAVE TO BE AND THINK THE SAME, at least with regard to whatever issue they are freaking out about that day.

This is a style, a mode of being and interacting, that arises in FEAR. I might even call it a paranoid style, since it arises from the manic anxiety that someone somewhere may challenge their fragile egos, and thus call into question the edifice of lies amd bad ideas—mostly originating in a childish need to avoid mature responsibility—that constitutes the whole of their shallow, callow, and weak world view.

I might even term this a pseudo-culture, an ersatz, hollow culture; a tribe built on endlessly repeated and empty banalities, which uses the WORDS of true, real cultures, while retaining none of the deeply felt meanings and wise purposes behind them.”

I have from time to time wondered what happens to such people if they DO win. If they conquer the Earth and all its people, what do they THEN live for?  Their form of self creation through mutual self congratulation requires an Other, a nemesis.  This its defining feature and radical similarity with, say, the Nazis.

Yes, you build your beautiful cities and populate them with submissive people, but their souls are gone. Their selves are gone. All that is left is a superficial, unhappy shell, existing solely to enact a dismal, dishonest play on a stage seen only by fellow actors.

These are interesting times. The timing of the raid on Trump was not coincidental. They just passed a bill turning the IRS into a sort of personal political Army controlled by our senile kings handlers; and Trump—and the primaries—just proved the show trials—of Jan. 6 and Alex Jones—were not even remotely as they had imagined. Being narcissists, OF COURSE they don’t understand the psychologies or true needs of normies, and of course they consistently overestimate their own power and attractiveness.

As bad as this news is, I cannot help but feel a note of desperation.  All aggressions run the real risk of alienating former allies. The goal of an unopposed One Party State—everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State—has really become indisputable. Their cards are on the table. They are not the good ones. They are not protecting Americans. On the contrary, they are attacking non-elites by every means their devious and sociopathic minds can concoct.

In this war for civilization, for true human progress, we are perhaps in our darkest hour. We are where Churchill found himself in his own darkest hour, when everyone was telling him to give up.

I will admit to crying in that movie when the King visited him in the middle of the night to tell him it made him ANGRY to think of throwing in the towel to barbarians.

As Churchill himself said somewhere, its impossible to see the end at the beginning. All we can do is determine to never quit, and to do every day something to make things better. If there is a path, it will be revealed step by step.