Eetan
9mo ago
God isn't real, of course, and I doubt Vivek thinks so either.
And so it begins. Second Great Internet Atheist War, exactly 20 years after the first one.
No idea if Vivek wanted it, but if he insists in returning to God talk of halcyon times of Bush admin, this is what he will get, together with second, even more crushing defeat.
And it was completely unneccessary, nothing about current material and cultural battles is about religion.
The other nine proposals lead to concrete political demands and actions, but what about this one?
"God is real", then what? Teach creationism intelligent design in schools?
If there was something good about Trump and Trumpism, it was dropping this futile and embarrassing stuff. Now you want to bring it back?
Just start your points with "America is great" or something similar. This will energize your base and enrage your enemies much more.
Eetan
9mo ago
The Washington Post reports: Florida schools drop AP Psychology after state says it violates the law
If only.
Dateline 1723: Gazette de France reports: Venerable University of Utrecht drops medical classes after state finds it violates the law against heresy.
What tragedy! Where will now Dutch students study the four humors science, where will they learn the proper methods and proper astrological signs for bloodletting and applying leeches?
Even by standards of modern sciences, psychology stands out as complete fraud.
Not all of it - there is one part of psychological science - one involving IQ and racial differences in IQ - that reliably replicates and stands to scrutiny. Something tells me that Florida psychology courses do not cover this.
One can only wish that DeSatanis got his pitchfork out for real and cleaned this nest of superstition Khmer Rouge style. One can dream.
Eetan
2mo ago
I can scarcely put into words my profound disappointment and heartbreak learning that the CHIPs act was killed by DEI bullshit.
@DaseindustriesLtd disproven again, there are no traces of any secret cabal keeping things under control. "Von Neumanns" are not in politics (and if they are, they are busy maneuvering to climb as high as possible and divert as much money and resources for themselves as possible).
As said Dominic Mckenzie Cummings, someone with extensive experience in government:
You might think somewhere there must be a quiet calm centre like in a James Bond movie where you open the door and that is where the ninjas are who actually know what they are doing.
There are no ninjas. There is no door.
No God, no Caesar, no hero is going to save us, we are on our own.
Eetan
4mo ago
For non-Western perspective, see Russian official list of "extremist material".
It is grab bag of various stuff, mostly videos, that were found by Russian courts to be "extreme". Unlike western democracies, Russia still does things in old formal state-bureaucratic ways (when these methods fails, other, less formal like exotic teas or unsafe windows are applied).
As of January 2024, list is 5408 entries long, growing every day and behind every entry is long prison term for "extremism" and "hate".
Eetan
6mo ago
In the Xth best world, the media would stop signal-boosting all the evil cardiologists. Assuming that this actually happened as described, there's a difference between a non-representative person and a representative one.
If this person was just old geezer of no importance, no one would care about dispute between Stuart the Pensioner and Mohammed the Halal Vendor.
But this person is someone of note, and it is worthy to ask whether he is representative of his class and milieu, and, if so, what it means for understanding of American diplomacy and foreign policy, what it means for trust in American-negotiated "Mideast peace process".
Eetan
4mo ago
And now some news from Ukraine: Gonzalo Lira is dead.
More details about his demise in Ukrainian prison.
You probably heard about him. Former pickup artist guru who turned into journalist/propagandist lambasting Ukraine and Zelensky - from Ukraine in war time. Whatever you think about him and his opinions, this tooks serious guts (and GL was well aware of the risks).
English Wikipedia finds him not enough notable and deleted him at 4th attempt, but, strangely enough, simple English Wikipedia keeps his article.
Now, he is notable enough to be noticed by Tucker Carlson and notable enough make it to Twitter worldwide trends (as for now), notable enough to be added as another reason for Red tribe to oppose supporting Ukraine.
Not smart move from Ukrainian government. You gained a little bit of sadistic revenge and even smaller bit of intimidation of people inside Ukraine (who already know well what will happen to them if they open their mouth too much). You lost rather bigger piece of credibility with people whose support you desperately need.
RIP Coach Red Pill. Whatever you were in your life, now you are symbol and martyr.
Eetan
4mo ago
Does anyone have a link to a sincere presentation of the case for him being a federal agent? Googling it literally only shows references to a “debunked far-right conspiracy theory” but not one genuine presentation of it from a right-leaning source
Check https://revolver.news/
Eetan
4mo ago
Excellent list.
Some genres of banned books you missed:
Criminal literature/art - writings/memoirs by unreformed, unrepentant, non-ideological criminals extolling and celebrating life of crime.
Pro final exit writings - not philosophical defenses of the act, but how-to manuals for effective final exit. This content is also strongly censored, because TPTB deeply care about every human life.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctioned_Suicide
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Peaceful_Pill_Handbook
In 2008, the Society for Promotion of Community Standards objected to the book's publication. This led to its banning in New Zealand on the grounds that it was an objectionable publication.[5] A short time later, the book was republished in redacted form and is available only if sealed, and an indication of the censorship classification is displayed.[6][7]
Eetan
5mo ago
What if we also merge with Mexico?
Only over John C. Calhoun's dead body first.
John C. Calhoun, speech on Mexico (January 4, 1848).
The next reason assigned is, that either holding Mexico as a province, or incorporating her into the Union, would be unprecedented by any example in our history. We have conquered many of the neighboring tribes of Indians, but we have never thought of holding them in subjection, or of incorporating them into our Union. They have been left as an independent people in the midst of us, or have been driven back into the forests. Nor have we ever incorporated into the Union any but the Caucasian race. To incorporate Mexico, would be the first departure of the kind; for more than half of its population are pure Indians, and by far the larger portion of the residue mixed blood.
I protest against the incorporation of such a people. Ours is the Government of the white man.
Eetan
8mo ago
Most significant accomplishment of Sardinians?
Rule of law and limited constitutional government, much better system than, for example, "one failed artist can do whatever he wants, including declaring war on the whole world".
All of this without even one drop of very special Aryan blood. Remember, by Aryan theory these people should be capable only of grunting and rooting for grubs.
Eetan
10mo ago
Once upon a time, in a land far, far away there was beautiful and noble kingdom ruled by wise old king, kingdom where if you wanted to be anything then dirt grubbing peasant, if you wanted any qualified job, office or position you had to be a noble. No commoner filth allowed.
You are not born a noble? Fortunately, the king is good and kind, and will grant title of nobility to you if he likes you and thinks you could make a proper noble.
Ofc it is not for free, you do not get your patent of nobility without paying a fee.
You are broke loser? No worry, king's friends from Shark, Mosquito & Leech Banking House will lend you the necessary sum, at reasonable interest rate. Do not even think about welshing on the debt.
The system works well for everyone, as it should in fairy tale land, but there are some people who are still unhappy.
Some think that King when issuing the noble titles favors some provinces in his kingdom, and should distribute the patents of nobility more equitably.
Some think that the fee paid for patent is too high, and should be more affordable.
Some think that nobles who cannot repay their debt because there do not have any well paid office or position, should have their debts reduced or forgiven.
Some think that the King does not grant enough patents of nobility, and rejects many qualified applicants who can pay.
Some think that the King grants too many patents of nobility, and devalues nobility by admitting unworthy applicants.
Some think that the King grants patents of nobility just according to his whim and whims of his officials, and the process should be made more transparent.
Some think that corruption might be involved in the whole process of handing patents of nobility, and the King should crack hard on his officials demanding additional pay and favors for themselves.
But no one questions the principle of monarchy and nobility, and rightly so, because fairy tale kingdom without kings and nobles is not a fairy tale kingdom!
Eetan
5mo ago
After decades of ridiculous claims, I will believe that we have been visited by aliens the moment one of these whistleblowers tosses an extraterrestrial corpse onto a table in broad daylight and not a moment sooner.
... and then allows scientists from all over the world, including Russia and China, unrestricted access to alien remains, materials and technology.
Grainy pictures, splotchy videos and "I am US military/CIA/journalist of record, you can trust me, bro" are not persuading me, and should not persuade you either.
Eetan
6mo ago
Eetan
6mo ago
One general observation, not directly connected to middle eastern affairs, but not entirely unconnected.
Big Twitter OSINT accounts watching Ukraine war are being deleted, one by one. Including the big one, the master of the lists, Oryx.
The reason given (if any is given) is that they are "too tired", that they are dirt poor and their work will not make them any money, that Pentagon and CIA keep profiting from their effort - and it is more threadbare than "dog ate my homework" excuse from your school days.
These people claimed to be hobbyists, observing wars in Syria and Ukraine just from pure interest and rejected with contempt any suspicions that they are something else, that they are somewhat connected to US/NATO military and three letter organization.
Not implausible in itself - bird watchers and train spotters dedicate their lives to their passion without being paid by Big Bird or Big Rail, and war can be nearly as interesting and fascinating.
Except that hobbyist will not destroy his life work in a fit of pique. You will not see rail fan threatening to smash his model trains and throw away his collections if railroad company does not pay him, and then following on his threat. But you will easily see paid employee closing down his office and shredding his archives when his rail branch is closed and he is reassigned to other work elsewhere.
So what to expect? If the dead bird site is true reality and material world just follows what happens there, we can expect that the whole Ukraine affair is going to wind down, all the way to (official or unofficial) cease fire, and all "happenings" will be once again happening in the Middle East.
As some may be aware, Europe has stricter non-trademark restrictions on what one is allow to call their product. In the EU a cheese may only be called a Feta or Parmesan if it is produced according to specified procedure in Greece or Italy, respectively and contains specfied ingredients. This geographic restriction even includes pastry such as Kalakukko. That a consumer might not taste the difference (or even find the johnny-come-lately superior) is irrelevant in the eyes of the law.
Based and trad.
Such strict laws defining ingredients and production methods of foodstuffs are old tradition in Europe (yes, beer was always considered basic foodsfuff in German lands)
The argument goes that people might be reluctant to try new things and that they would be unfamiliar what to do vegan neologism-labeled products. That overcoming this reluctance, by hook or by crook, is necessary not only for the benefit of soy farmers and Impossible Foods™ but for the whole of humankind as replacing meat with vegetables reduces the risk or severity of climate crisis.
Yes. exactly such crap creates "climate skeptics".
If everything about this issue is so fradulent, maybe the whole thing is fake to the core, greenhouse effect does not exist and Earth is not warming at all.
edit: link
Eetan
11mo ago
China does not claim to represent the white pilot's values, China does not demand any "duty" or "service" from them, the pilot's work in China, if they sign up, would be voluntary on purely capitalist mercenary basis. Not the same thing.
Eetan
11mo ago
One of the many conflicts around the world that has been overshadowed in the past year by the Ukrainian war has been the ongoing civil war in Burma (or Myanmar, if you insist).
Not surprising - the rebels in Burma/Myanmar lack money, connections and lobbying/public relation skills to make their cause heard in the Western world, and no one who has them sees promoting this cause as useful (for now).
But there is one unlikely group watching them - 3d gun printing community, overjoyed when they see for, the first time in history, printed guns used in real war.
https://twitter.com/N0t0ri0usHTX/status/1455919338297434115
https://twitter.com/Jake_Hanrahan/status/1587989148589330434
https://twitter.com/Jake_Hanrahan/status/1596443095415296001
https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgwyga/3d-printed-guns-gangs-rebels
Eetan
2mo ago
We may be seeing the GOP becoming pro-China in real time.
We may be seeing the US becoming Brezhnev time Soviet Union in real time.
Remember when American culture ruled supreme, when other countries banned American movies, music and other cultural artefacts, including blue jeans? Remember when other countries tried at enormous expense stop American cultural influence?
And remember when the bans were not respected by anyone and widely disobeyed?
Now the shoe is on the other foot.
DO YOU WANT OUR YOUNG PEOPLE LISTEN TO FILTHY CAPITALIST RADIO? ARE YOU A TRAITOR TO OUR GLORIOUS WORKER COUNTRY?
What you want is immaterial. Young people want their TikTok and will do what it takes to get it, including installing and configuring VPN. Yes, only minority is going to do it, but active minority is what always mattered.
Eetan
2mo ago
Understanding what is going on, understanding that the experts are not to be trusted, understanding that the elites are not the best and brightest, understanding that the authorities are not there to serve and protect you, can make very real difference in your personal life, even if you are alone or one among very few with such understanding.
Eetan
4mo ago
“When I look at the donation list from my daughters’ schools, I see fewer Chinese names than some other ethnic groups…Some Chinese parents ask, ‘We are already paying so much tuition, why do we need to give more?’” The culture of alumni giving is still relatively new in China and Hong Kong.
Exactly. Are the universities capitalist firms selling a product, or charitable organizations living off begging?
Pick one. If the thing they are sellling is valuable, they should openly name a price. When you buy burger, you pay and it is finished, McDonalds will not pester you for rest of your life into "donating".
Eetan
5mo ago
There is overwhelming evidence that aliens are here observing Earth, and have been for some time.
Correction: there is overwhelming evidence that Pentagon/MSM/friendly three letter organizations (or some groups/factions inside them) want us to believe that aliens are out there, observing Earth.
It is serious, even Tucker Carlson jumped on the bandwagon and went full bore into UFO/UAP issue.
Should we believe? Who wouldn't want to believe, after all?
Eetan
9mo ago
Update of some culture wars hot topics covered there lately.
1/Room temperature superconductor
Status: not looking good
Beijing Superconductor Levitation Video Author Admits Fraud, Takes it Down
Hopes Dashed As LK-99 Confirmed Not To Be A Room-Temperature Superconductor
Status: going strong and bringing new surprises every day.
According to unverified crucified bird speculations, mysterious man who started new effective altruist crypto project worth $100 million is nobody else than SBF himself busy in his parents basement.
https://twitter.com/BillBillpet/status/1688954234639724553
https://twitter.com/hype_eth/status/1686126115947941890
https://twitter.com/hype_eth/status/1686124409289895936
If not true, it should be. SBF is the superhero of our time, superhero we need and superhero we deserve.
Status: Earth still exist, humans still not eaten and replaced with exactly identical robots.
No breaking news, except that someone leaked medical records of UFO whistleblower David Grusch.
So, where ayyys came from?
2/Case that ayyys are demons, summoned in 1946 by amateur magicians Jack Parsons and L. Ron Hubbard.
Only one little mistake happened, Aleister Crowley predicted it.
https://archive.org/details/kaos_20200608/page/4/mode/2up
Jack Parsons’ blunder on the Seventh Aire
Liber 49 mentioned above is part of The Book of Babalon received by Jack Parsons. In line 23 Babalon instructs Parsons: “Also seek me in the Seventh Aire.” On re-reading the text I was surprised to see that Parsons had blundered in his fifth invocation by intoning in Enochian the 7th Angelic Key, which, though the 7th Call, is not “The Call of the Seventh Aire”, as he erroneously titles it.
He should have substituted deo for lil in the 19th Key, the Key of the 30 Aires, to access the 7 th Aire or AEthyr. This seems a very basic error for someone who had been “engaged in the study and practice of Magick for seven years, and in the supervision and operation of an occult lodge for four years”, as he writes of himself in the introduction to The Book of Babalon.
3/Case that ayyys are long psyop by ... church of Scientology.
Eetan
4mo ago
Weirdly enough some of the critiquing of the translation by the book was done by one of the New Atheist minor figures, Richard Carrier. Once you get into the weeds these things really do become a small world.
Critiquing not only the translation, but the whole thing as completely fradulent.
Hitler’s Table Talk: The Definitive Account
By the conclusion, you start to get the clear picture, as did Nilsson, that a lot of what went wrong had to do with what one single con artist—the unrepentant Swiss Nazi banker François Genoud—did to manipulate decades of historians into doing his bidding by replicating and validating his own myths and fabrications. A single man behind it all; mostly invisible to the public, as his involvement was barely if ever even mentioned in historical treatments and third-party publications of the Table Talk, and thus all his devices and manipulations went unnoticed until Nilsson uncovered them all. I was among the first to signal this might be the case, as it was my article in GSR that exposed the first evidence of Genoud being the actual fraud behind it, when I uncovered how he doctored his own French translation, and that the English translation was based on that—for reasons I then did not know and could not explain; Nilsson uncovers the hidden truth: Genoud had forced by secret contract everyone involved in producing the English edition—publishers, translators, and its editor and endorser, the renowned Hitler historian Hugh Trevor-Roper—to only use his French as their base text. Nilsson explores various reasons why Genoud did that, though certainty may never be ours, as his motives Genoud took with him to the grave…along with the original manuscript, apparently—no version of which survives (apart from a few pages recovered by the U.S. Army after the war, which I was also for some reason the first to publicly reference beyond merely mentioning they exist; it appears Nilsson may have also located three other notes from it copied from Genoud’s archive that have still never been published, p. 241). In fact, apart from those few sheets (and a mere handful of some photocopied pages reproduced in various places), no person still living has even seen the original notes forming the Table Talk. So really getting to the bottom of things here may be forever impossible now.
There is a massive population of white Americans, mainly Evangelicals, who had been indoctrinated with this meaningless Judeo-Christian gibberish that just means "everything good in the world".
Not only Americans, strongly Zionist Evangelical churches are spreading worldwide, from Brazil to Finland. One of lesser known American cultural exports.
Maybe the future is two moron mobs beating each other heads with rainbow and Israeli flags, all over the world, for all eternity.
So now we will be having New Atheist influencers peddling this stuff harder (and old fighters for Pure Reason like Gad Saad will be asked to pipe it down with habitual anti-whitey remarks). We'll also be seeing more "based" recruiting ads for the Army. As Trump has proven, the Republican base only asks for tokens of respect, nothing more, so I expect this vulgar pandering to work well.
We might also see greatest American allies moderating themselves and stopping spitting on and assaulting Christians in Israel, at least the American ones.
It is something going on for a long time against local Arab Christians, but recently Western and even American Christians became targets too and even Western press began noticing.
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In another related dead bird news, Vivek goes into full Hindu Zionist mode.
2000's Onion satire again becomes 2020's reality.
Very strange for professing Hindu to say.
Yes, technically, all life has a divine soul and divine essence, but we know Vivek does not wanted to say it, we know he wanted to say: "Hello my fellow Evangelicals, I am one of you! Vote for me!"
And, judging from bird site, it does not work. Every Vivek's tweet talking about God is followed by numerous Christians posting pics of many armed Hindu deities and asking "What God, Vivek? WHAT GOD?"
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