If thou gazest long into the Pit, the Pit will also gaze into thee

NYPD in Blackface! White Power White Jesus Fanatic Gone Wild! Wheeeee! https://twitter.com/MikeCarterTV/status/1284568883492519938 Can anyone do anything without their phone? What if an emergency situation required you to use two hands for something? Even in the Portland riot footage I have seen it...

Karen or not-Karen? https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/starbucks-customer-who-refused-to-wear-mask-demands-half-of-baristas-105000-in-tips/ Sounds legit :lol: : Gilles said she’s unable to wear a mask, citing a 2015 pelvic exam for ovarian cysts and a handwritten note from an anonymous chiro...

Link to the museum: https://nmaahc.si.edu/learn/talking-about-race/topics/whiteness Some of the evils of whiteness include: — Respect for authority — Being on time — Hard work — Delayed Gratification — Politeness — “Objective, rational thinking” We are on the verge of civil war. No hyperbole. For w...

at the end hey disagreed with Brett's idea that more money for schools (for example) would improve outcomes. The pushback was that it is more a cultural issue than a school funding issue. They've been throwing gobs of money at schools since before I started going to school, and the schools have jus...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHGt733yw3g Fun game: make a list of Black Public Intellectual clichés, from Lsuoma's essay link. Write each one on a little coin of paper. Then play Bingo with the grid of faces, each time you hear a cliché in John D's weinstein link. :dance: (actually, most of the ...

How long has it been since the defunding? https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2020/07/13/new-york-city-shootings-nypd-anti-crime-unit-eric-adams-tony-herbert/ NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — After another tragic weekend of gun violence, including the death of a 1-year-old, two members of the Black community called...

Here's what Damon wrote: [...] A predictable result of this upheaval has been a critical mass of white people either doing the absolute least or the absolute most. This is where I’m supposed to write, “Not all white people.” I won’t. But if it helps, you can imagine I did. [...] [...] Sorry, not to...

Defund the police. My girlfriend mentioned that they could say "reform the police". Why don't they? Follow the money. There are people who no doubt want the money redirected to themselves. I am sure they are the people who think they will be in a position to skim from whatever "community organizatio...

I like Ryan Grim's take on Robin DiAngelo & 'White Fragility'... he sez DiAngelo is a wealthy corporate consultant-- hired when companies get in trouble for racial stuff-- to cover their ass, put on an empty show, avoid making real change or costly sacrifice. Corporations would rather listen-to a s...

Matt Cavanaugh wrote: ↑ 'Squad' members introduce the "Breathe Act" to completely defund police, close all prisons and jails:

https://breatheact.org

The Brown New Deal. If you read the summary it has most of the same stuff as the Green New Deal.

Corona rounded up those who had dodged a bullet .... ? https://twitter.com/fatemperor/status/1280077973295677441?s=21 Why is the expected all-cause mortality up by 14 percent in only six years. Is it really just an aging population and a bit of population growth? B. This analysis makes no sense. Do...

What is it going to take for the sane to explode? Is Western civilization going to going to die cowering? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHkdfl8drwM Same shit happening in the UK. Police bow before the crowd, until the anti-BLM protesters come out. White woman did not have a good reason to brandis...

James Lindsay on Joe Rogan:

I haven't watched yet but I can't imagine it being anything but good.

People are a bit on edge. Video shows white woman drawing gun on Black mother, daughter: 'You cannot just walk around calling white people racist' Cool.... this is not far from me. :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: The news conference starts in 5 minutes. The husband and wife are both already charged w...

Jordan Peterson is back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLWgVpmo1e0 He looks older, and tired. He seems relaxed. Before he disappeared he seemed to appear agitated and mad in interviews. Some were with somewhat hostile journalists but it was still difficult to watch. I watched an older talk and it ...

Post at WEIT about new Reddit rules. This is interesting: While the rule on hate protects such groups, it does not protect all groups or all forms of identity. For example, the rule does not protect groups of people who are in the majority or who promote such attacks of hate. I assume this is applie...

More community based safety patrol action: https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/crime/2020/06/25/displaced-residents-burned-house-devastated-after-civil-unrest/3260616001/ Hall, 31, watched Tuesday's confusion and chaos unfold: from activists claiming the three-unit house was a haven for sex traffick...

One that puzzled me was Debra Soh. It seemed like he was interrupting her constantly. It felt odd listening to it. It didn't seem like she was a non-talkative guest and he was trying to make it more interesting, and he wasn't disagreeing with her. It just seemed like he kept interrupting. It's poss...

I wonder how many of the demands will be met in NYC: https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2020/06/28/06/30137792-8467361-Among_the_protesters_demands_are_defunding_the_police_and_freein-a-18_1593322674635.jpg I assume the "repeal laws criminalizing survival" demand means be like California and decriminalize...

Rogan is consistent... he consistently shifts his opinion to agree with each guest. Joe Rogan fascinates me because we're about the same age, and while my energy and focus level has obviously flagged a bit over the last 10 years to the point it's increasingly challenging maintaining a high level in...

So this has started to infect the company I work for. It's a small, private company; maybe 40 people. Mostly Australians, but we have 4 Americans. 3 of the Americans are pushing to change the long standing "Master/Slave" terminology we've had into our software since the beginning. None of the Austr...

Previous comment: "him" = Glenn Loury. I was thinking about Black Lives Matter. I think it is a smart trick: when you get someone to repeat "black lives matter" they could be saying that the lives of black people matter, or they could be saying they support the organization named Black Lives Matter....

I have also been listening to him. His conversations with John McWhorter are excellent he does a good job pf playing devil's advocate. Let me mention Thomas Sowell's Black Rednecks... book. It goes a long way to explaining things ("black culture" is really redneck culture). Also, since BLM wants to ...

The Ahmaud Arbery case has been largely eclipsed in the media by the George Floyd case, but the grand jury returned full slate indictments for the McMichaels and William Bryan, the driver of the following vehicle. https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-06-24/3-men-indicted-on-murder-charge...

Daily Mail had photo of the actual NASCAR noose: https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2020/06/25/17/30055792-8460495-image-m-32_1593104312802.jpg That does look like a noose to me. I wonder what the other pull ropes look like? I'm surprised no one has shown whether they are all like that or just the one. Si...

More protests recently. This one is interesting. Protests happened after he was arrested: https://madison.com/wsj/business/state-street-businesses-threatened-harassed-as-worry-escalates/article_ed8d7dab-be7f-58f2-a79b-2b49d81ebecc.html#tracking-source=home-top-story Police said, and videos showed, J...

Apparently the "noose" found in Bubba's NASCAR garage has been there for nearly a year (verified by video), and was actually a pull handle for the garage door. Bubba only got assigned the garage last week. Bubba sez: "It was a noose," he told CNN. "Whether tied in 2019 or whatever, it was a noose. ...

When the leftist MSM and the internet mob fall into apoplexy over George Floyd, but ignore Tony Timpa or Justine Damond, when BLM and its Useful Idiots decry the "genocide" of 9 unarmed blacks killed by police last year (only two of whom were not in the midst of committing a crime) out of c. 15 mil...

Service Dog wrote: ↑

Hey -- you try walking downhill with 3" lifts.

I agree Dog - the problem is that the cops don't have consent to be governed by black people. Blacks, in general, do not consent to be governed.... period. It is not just the cops they hate. But - the solution to this problem is unclear. A few police reforms will not move the needle. What might mov...

What is the easiest way to cook an egg - with the least amount of fuss and cleaning up? And is there a gadget to to it? Yes, I'm pre-emptively ruling out a micro-wave. I suppose it might come down to a pot of boiling water. If you are talking hard boiled, then something like this. They are cheap an...

Well.... I am defeated. It is time to hunker down. I am pretty much hating everyone anyway.... so let the fucker burn. Perhaps something will come from this, but I don't care enough to fight. Below is a part of an email sent from my HR department. My public and private speech can clearly get me fir...

[...] The organized secular/atheist movement has over-emphasized opposition to religion or the belief in a god for its own sake, rather than prioritizing the problem of harm posed to social justice from any direction. [...] Maybe there needs to be another movement, one that incorporates atheism and...

Matt Cavanaugh wrote: ↑ Seattle Commune's demands. They are a hoot:

My advice to them: don;t hold your breath.

So true. Confess your sins and they just shove you further into the meat grinder. Seems like a good quote to use before presenting this: https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/2020/06/digital-trends-portland-tech-site-faces-twitter-outcry-over-coos-gin-and-juice-party.html The only actual sin pr...

[...] Our society is manifesting something akin to mass BPD / 'emotional disregulation'. Triggered by something trivial, the emotional meltdowns come on suddenly, heighten rapidly, with an abnormally prolonged intensity. But they drop away precipitously, then the subject then acts as if nothing had...

Abolishing the police department, huh? Well, I'm all for it. I mean, sure. As long as they can live with the consequences. I say shut off all the cities that support it and let pandemonium unfold. Courtesy of #BlackLivesMatter. The great sage Tucker Carlson speaks truth. The lefty politicians don't...

Pulled from the comments over at WEIT: I heard this on the radio this morning and it sounded just ridiculous to me. That ‘instead of calling 911, you would just call your social worker or neighbor’. Didn't that approach get us the Ahmaud Arbery case? This seems to me to be the tear down the current ...

I assume "defund the police" means redirect that money to my "community organization" so that I can skim as much as possible off the top.

If you think the police are corrupt, redirecting the money to hastily chosen replacements will be even worse.

New Discourses piece that is relevant to the current situation: https://newdiscourses.com/2020/06/problem-white-fragility/ It is about "White Fragility" and Robin DiAngelo. She talked at Evergreen State College before it spiraled out of control. I find it ironic that her talk was part of the "coming...

[...] Trump's opponents have an unreconciled identity-crisis. On one hand-- they want to take the HIgh Road-- campaign that they're holier than Trump. On the other hand-- they want to stoop to Trump's level-- hit below the belt/ beat trump at his own game/ take the Low Road. They fluctuate. So they...

Someone needs to make a red hat that says "Bunker Inspector".

Know what's insane? In California, a theft of less than $950 cannot by law be prosecuted, while possession of a magazine with a capacity of greater than 10 rounds is a felony. Citation? I might be returning to CA sooner than I thought, and making a bee line for the candy store. After Proposition 47...

More local news: Oh-- I didn't know you lived there. I went to a couple years of high school there. Got any other local news? Cool. I live near there but lived there for many years. I haven't paid that much attention to goings on until now since not much was happening other than the Foxconn factory...

More local news: This store looks cleaned out (outdoor store, looks like the clothing section): https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/madison.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/4/00/40063c69-48a3-5c09-a807-8bed498e2c02/5ed6dfa1e27e1.image.jpg?resize=1200%2C800 Caption for this one: "Front ...

I've seen: Armed US survivalists protesting that they have had to stay indoors during a pandemic. A US President saying that violent protesters are inhibiting the rights of peaceful protesters, then federal police are sent in, in his name, to violently clear peaceful protesters so that he can have ...

Hey... I went to the protest in my suburban city of Troy Michigan... Haha... IMG_2371.JPG https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/madison.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/d/4d/d4d06831-0e8f-5125-9353-f74ab04baaa6/5ed62c911d6c3.image.jpg?resize=750%2C500 The caption is "A group of young wo...

Scott Adams crushes this one... and I think he has finally realized that the riots and protests are not about progress..... they are about revenge. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13Ek-aZQksU James Lindsay has been creating some excellent content on critical theories. He just posted an article that...

John D wrote: ↑ you don't have to watch the whole damn thing.... but you have got to watch starting at 55 minutes.

The Daily Mail is on the case:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... woman.html

jugheadnaut wrote: There are occasional real sightings in the Toronto area, but usually when a bird resembling a bald eagle is spotted in the air, it turns out to be a turkey vulture, which is remarkably similar looking while in flight. They don't make many shortlists for national symbol. When you ...

Does anyone here support (financially or otherwise) the AAI, the FFRF or any of the other various atheist or secularist activist organisations? Or did you support them in the past and stop? If so for what reason? Curious minds want to know - and after all I am what some might call a most curious in...

As someone who has basically split their adult life between Canada and the U.S., I find the relatively small cultural differences between the countries interesting, especially the counter-intuitive ones. In that vein, I note the difference in mask policy between Costco U.S. and Costco Canada. Mask ...

As someone who has basically split their adult life between Canada and the U.S., I find the relatively small cultural differences between the countries interesting, especially the counter-intuitive ones. In that vein, I note the difference in mask policy between Costco U.S. and Costco Canada. Mask ...

Lsuoma wrote: ↑ Stacey C5Abrams...
Stacey M1Abrams

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/ ... -war-77621

As far as I am concerned you two are arguing about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin... Not really. While it's foolhardy to try to mind read from the video, one can come to quite confident conclusions on what is and isn't consistent with the actions in the video. For instance, it's cle...

Keating wrote: ↑ Wouldn't the baby be the one who's closest?

The baby is closer but he ain't talkin'.

If you are going to breastfeed you can't wait a few days and then try, you have to start immediately. I think the issue is when do you acknowledge that it isn't working and switch to formula. Don't the formula makers give free samples to new mothers? If you start with that then you are stuck with t...

Since the FT popped up (so to speak) - is anyone worried about the malign influence of 'Big Tittie' on society? Starting at 22 min for the curious... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbHUKg4tJ00 You might enjoy taking a look at http://www.skepticalob.com/ where a retired obstetrician rants and raves...

Has anyone made MAGA facemasks yet?

Google backing off on Diversity and Inclusion?: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/current-ex-employees-allege-google-drastically-rolled-back-diversity-inclusion-n1206181 One well-liked diversity training program at Google called Sojourn, a comprehensive racial justice program created for employee...

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