As I say, I really hope Q is legit, but if you are a potential white hat and are waiting for the cavalry, don’t assume they are on the way. Hope creates the appearance, but not the reality, of a strategy.
My own work continues, with some success, which I will likely share eventually. I have a couple more hills to climb first. Always climbing, but that’s how it works.
Specifically, this most recent insurgency was OBVIOUSLY intended to make sure black people got mad at the “right” people. They SHOULD be mad at the governments which even now are destroying them by preventing them from working, and preventing their kids from going to school. That is who should be the target of anger.
Instead, Target gets attacked, and statues get attacked. I wonder how long this misdirection can last, since their misery right now is scarcely hidden from most black folks, or anyone else.
But the goal of sane people–any moderate Democrats remaining, and honest Republicans–should be to peel the white radicals away from ordinary working class blacks.
We need a slogan. I propose “Better Schools, Better Jobs”. This is what they need, isn’t it? It’s what they have LONG needed, isn’t it? Single parent homes are in no small measure driven by economic malaise and the difficulty of the man (and the woman for that matter, but most will not abandon their child) in earning an honest living. Good jobs make for better marriages. And good schools make for better jobs.
Add “Police Reform” to that if you want. Blacks do suffer more violence from cops, even if not more death, per capita.
But it would actually make more sense to say something like “End our war on ourselves” or “Stop killing your brothers and sisters”.
But that violence, too, is a result of economic malaise brought on by schools which are war zones and which graduate hundreds of thousands of kids every year barely able to read, and whose job prospects are dim, and will never get better. Ever. Not unless they do a turnabout and do the work and go to college. And of course most don’t.
Democrats want blacks ignorant and angry. They want them to continue to fail to see how they are using them, and how they have used them all these many years, to win elections by promising progress which never comes, and which they reverse when they can. This is the root reason DeBlasio killed the Charter Schools in New York that had inner city kids in the 90th percentile, which is fantastic. Smart blacks realize they are being played. They can’t have that, at least until they can legalize 10 million Hispanics, who they can then play instead.
The whole thing is a sick, amoral game, played by gangsters for power and money. It is evil. Our nation is at war with evil, and what we need to realize is that evil has been winning for many decades, due to our complacency, ignorance, and willingness to be sidelined by aggressive bullies who call us names we know we don’t deserve, but who KNOW this, and whose only goal is to shame their opponents into silence.
Anyone who opposes them WILL be called names. They WILL be attacked. But this is the price of defending actual, honest decency.
Stop retreating America. And, again, the counterattack looks like this: “Better Schools, Better Jobs”, combined with plans. Charter Schools are the obvious first step, and tax shelter zones and other targeted investment the second.
And self evidently, the recent riots set the black community back quite a bit. The damage is fixable, but the radicals need to be culled from the mix, or they will ruin the black community for another generation. The radicals feel nothing but hate and love nothing but violence. It is my understanding that Dostoevsky’s book about similar radical in his time–who came to be called Nihilists–which is usually translated “The Possessed” could equally be translated “The Demons”. Recall that his “demons” eventually won, and that perhaps a hundred million people around the world died, and billions suffered and continue to suffer.
And I would speak directly to the black community: why would you want to continue to allow yourself to be led by white demons and their black proxies? The white people you need to be watching are not the rednecks, but the Ivy League graduates who say they are your friend. They are not your friend. They are your worst enemy.
Rednecks you can talk to. Rednecks you can reason with, and you can over time cause even the most racist among them to see you as a person and even to like you.
But radicals can never, ever, ever be made to see any individual as a person, or to feel affection for anyone who is not playing a concrete role in an abstract work which has as its end the destruction of everything good in the world.
No radical will ever see black people as individuals. They can only see race. They can only see your group. They cannot differentiate the homicidal psychopaths from the saintly church going grandmothers. All are equal to them. There is no difference.
Ponder this.
Virtually everywhere else, the restrictions being placed on the places they may work–most of them being in face to face sorts of jobs which collectively might be termed the service industry–make them underemployed. Less people are needed. Less work is done. Many businesses of course have closed permanently, or chosen not to reopen yet even if allowed to.
Servers are making very little money. Restaurants by the millions are hanging on by a thread.
And to state the obvious, masks are not helping us get back to normal faster. They accelerate nothing, popular misconceptions to the contrary notwithstanding. In probably 95% of the cases they are worn, they literally do nothing, because the person wearing them is not infected, nor is anyone in their environment.
Masks make sense for people at risk. And this being a free country where the default assumption is that people are capable of looking after their own welfare, those people should take care not to get sick.
But the fastest path to normal is for all healthy young people to stop being terrified of this squirrrel and get on with their lives, including by finally popping their cherry and joining all the rest of us who have already had this.
If Black Lives Matter to you, then your goal needs to get all of them back to work as soon as possible. When people haven’t worked for three months, tearing down century old statues might be a useful distraction, but it is very certainly not a useful help.
Fear, in particular, is a useful emotion. People without any fear do not live long.
The only way out of fear is surrendering your life and all hope of comfort peace and ease.
But having done so in principle, you may find them in reality. This practice, itself, is a risk, but I think this is the essence of Chod, which is intended to cut fear off at the root. I believe Chod in fact means “to cut”.
I probably copied that from somewhere but I can’t say where.
Our intelligence and law enforcement agencies should be protecting us, but they seem to be part of the problem. This is the sort of problem we associate with the rest of the world, not this country. Corruption and greed are historic norms, but not to this extent, here.
So many people are blatantly breaking major laws and not paying for it. Hillary nearly won a Presidential election after it was revealed she committed hundreds of felonies which clearly damaged national security badly and most likely led to covert sources being caught and shot, particularly in Iran.
Joe Biden CLEARLY did what he is accused of in the Ukraine. The sitting President was impeached for vastly smaller allegations, which were untrue, and HE DID IT. We have the audio. He felt no shame and no fear of repercussions.
It’s hard not to wonder if maybe this country would be in a much better place if people had just been shooting left wing professors the past thirty years, and thereby prevented them from spewing the lies which have so split this country.
But this idea makes me sick. This is not who we are. The good people of this country–which is most of them–rightly reject violence, and privilege dialogue and compromise. We have been patient, because it is the right thing to do. Everyone has the right to their opinion, and the only reason left wing views have carried so far is that most of us are lazy and complacent. They are not hard to debunk and show as the ridiculous and horrifically bloody farces they are.
But I can’t help but wonder if QAnon–with all these vague hopes that something will change, that FINALLY the good guys will do what good guys do, and deal out justice to those who have hurt people and committed crimes–could not just be one more way the intelligence services are stringing us out by providing false hopes of justice and reform that are not coming.
I hate this thought. I really, truly hate this thought. I don’t want to say it, but it is a perspective which could be accurate. If nobody ever goes to jail, if our system truly is broken beyond repair, what then? I honestly don’t know. I really don’t.
Personally, if the government really does clamp down, it will be hard to resist. The technologies available to the various agencies are unbelievable and we don’t even know half of them. But real time surveillance of nearly everyone is a present reality.
Absent mass arrests, I don’t see how we don’t lapse into something like China. That may sound stark, but that is the literal truth as I see it.
I’ll have to figure out a meaning. Prone to sexual mistakes perhaps?
“You know, logically, if there is a G spot, there should be A through F spots too. I’m going to try and locate them all. I’ll save that one for last.”