[Anerican Greatness] We are in the midst of one of the most radical revolutions in American history. It is as far-reaching and dangerous as the turbulent years of the 1850s and 1860s or the 1930s. Every aspect of American life and culture is under assault, including the very processes by which we govern ourselves, and the manner in which we live.
The Revolution began under the Obama administration that sought to divide Americans into oppressed and oppressors, and then substitute race for class victimization. It was empowered by the bicoastal wealth accrued from globalization, and honed during the COVID lockdown, quarantine-fed economic downturn, and the George Floyd riots and their aftermath. The Revolution was boosted by fanatic opposition to the presidency of Donald Trump. And the result is an America that is unrecognizable from what it was a mere decade ago. And many believe the "Revolution" continues under an Obama administration.
Here are 10 upheavals that the Left has successfully wrought.
Free expression. In large swatches of American society—particularly the corporation, the media, the government, the public schools, and the university—it is suddenly dangerous to speak freely. At a DEI workshop, politely object that "whiteness" does not account for all the challenges of "marginalized peoples," and you will become either ostracized, reprimanded, or perhaps fired.
Suggest to a class that man-made climate change and the state remedies for it, are still under debate—and your career and livelihood are endangered. In 2020, state that Covid lockdowns would do more eventual damage than the virus—and your career was through. Express doubt that there are more than two biological sexes, and if an athlete or high school principal you will be shunned or rendered professionally inert.
The government, in league with social media, censors the news. "Liberal" universities often first require McCarthy-era type "diversity" statements for one to be hired. Commissars review syllabi to spot incorrect or improper speech or insufficient DEI zeal. Follow the gov't grants and money
The Left now seeks to modify the First Amendment, and its empowerment of "hate speech," defined as most anything impeding the progressive project. The state and the universities properly issue word lists of approved vocabularies.
The old ACLU or Sen. Church Committee would now probably be deemed rightwing. The methodologies of Joseph McCarthy and J. Edgar Hoover are the preferred models, once they were rebooted to the right cause.
The Weaponization of Justice. Administrations and their efforts to stock the justice department with supporters come and go. But in the last decade the Left has viewed the Department of Justice as a political extension of the party—whose unchecked power must properly be directed to hurt enemies and help friends. No wonder Eric Holder described himself as Obama’s "wingman" and became the first Attorney General to be held in contempt for ignoring a congressional subpoena.
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[REGNUM] About the fact that Americans are destroying themselves, being absorbed by neo-Marxism, BLM, LGBT + and other ideologies, only the lazy did not speak. But lately, much less attention has been paid to the madness of sodomites, feminists and disadvantaged blacks there, which is quite understandable - the most terrible meat grinder in Europe over the last almost century has somehow diminished interest in them. Instead of suffering minorities among compassionate representatives of Western countries, Ukrainians are now suffering, and in general, the war is a little sobering and makes you think about really important things. But this does not mean that the process is stopped, not at all. The United States is burning in the fire of a culture war against itself, and this is most evident today in what its pop culture churns out. I am infinitely far from her and I haven’t watched serials filmed in the USA for a very long time. And so, being on rehabilitation after being wounded, I decided to include a manifesto of modern America, mocking at itself, at everything that was sacred and dear. A ram to beat the brains of young people with excellent ratings, reviews and an extensive fan base. The series "The Boys", aka Boys.
[ZERO] The algorithm knew you back before you were a screaming slime child, back before they washed off the uterine gunk and handed you a smartphone and made you get a landlord, back before you knew that war is sane and poverty is normal, back before you were mature enough to understand that speech is violence and cluster bombs are peace.
You can trust the algorithm to tell you the truth — not the truth you asked for but the truth you need. The truth that sees Nazis in America but not in Ukraine. The truth that sees war crimes in Ukraine but never in Yemen. The truth that applauds millionaire comedians who never criticize the Pentagon for their bravery in criticizing trans people.
The truth that sails aircraft carriers into the South China Sea and sends headless hounds built by Boston Dynamics to patrol the streets and uphold the rule of law.
The algorithm learns your political biases and feeds you self-validating social media posts to assist you in confirming them. The algorithm listens to your conversations and presents you with helpful advertising to assist you in achieving your maximum consumer potential.
Don’t cover your laptop camera like some weird conspiracy theorist, the algorithm is trying to watch you masturbate.
The algorithm is always a step ahead of you. You have never once fooled the algorithm. The algorithm knows you act confident but secretly you fear you’re inadequate and everyone hates you.
The algorithm knows that those times you quickly pause and screw your eyes shut are because you remembered something embarrassing that you did in the past.
It’s okay.
Don’t worry.
Your secret is safe with the algorithm. It’s a private little secret just between you and the algorithm and the NSA.
In the old days we prayed to omniscient gods who never existed.
Now we ignore omniscient gods who are as real as ourselves.
Strap me in to a VR headset and let Mark Zuckerberg send me to heaven.
In 2020 most new cars sold in the United States come with built-in Internet connections, including 100 percent of Fords, GMs and BMWs and all but one model Toyota and Volkswagen also. Guess data the Algorithm is collecting and sending.... Hell even the WaPo reported this.
Watched a Gray-Hat ITSEC demo of 3rd party remotely having a Smartphone take and send pictures to a collection site.
Smartphone IMEI code tracking is free and widespread.
Just google/DD2 "IMEI Code Tracking".
Btw: A few Cellphone companies sell the Customer IMEI code lists.
[BabylonBee] CHICAGO — Mayor Brandon Johnson advised Chicago reporters to stop using the word "Chicago" when describing anything that happens in Chicago because of all the negative connotations associated with Chicago.
"You can call it 'The Windy City' or 'Downtown Deep Dish' but do not, under any circumstances call it Chicago," said the mayor of Chicago. "That just wouldn't be appropriate."
The city formerly known as Chicago has been under particular strain of late due to large "mob-like" gatherings disrupting businesses with "loot-like" behavior. Mayor Brandon hopes that calling the city literally anything else will cause the problem to go away.
"There's history in this city. I don't want to be responsible for the birth of more ’baby Al Capones'," Brandon said. "Only by hiding our problems with inoffensive language can we truly overcome them."
"And you can put that quote on an inspirational calendar," he added.
At publishing time, the crime rate of the City-Which-Must-Not-Be-Named continued to rise for some reason.
[Daily Caller] West Africa is on the brink of armed conflict as a regional security bloc must decide whether to intervene against the junta leaders in Niger, at least one of whom previously trained under Department of Defense (DOD) programs. An historically bad neighborhood. Send in a small reconnaissance team in 200 years to conduct an area study update. Until then, stay out of it.
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), a Nigeria-led economic and security group, set a Sunday ultimatum for the military officers who seized control of Niger in July to restore the ousted president under threat of force, according to Reuters. But the deadline passed without a change in Nigerien leadership, and the ruling elements of Niger’s security forces on Sunday announced pre-positioning of troops ahead of a possible ECOWAS invasion.
If launched, it would trigger the first conflict involving multiple countries on the continent in decades, according to Politico. A Politico prediction of hoped for conflict and mayhem.
ECOWAS heads will discuss the matter Thursday.
“Niger’s armed forces and all our defense and security forces, backed by the unfailing support of our people, are ready to defend the integrity of our territory,” a junta representative said in a statement, according to Reuters.
West African leaders say they have spectated over too many coups in recent years and need to restore credibility, but breaks in the bloc have already formed, according to Reuters. Member states Mali and Burkina Faso, both run by U.S.-trained military officials who wrested power from their predecessors in the last two years, have pledged to come to Niger’s defense if needed.
Niger closed its airspace Sunday, warning of an attack from a foreign power, and promised to defend against invading forces, Reuters reported. In previous days it sent a delegation to Mali asking for spare Russian-affiliated Wagner mercenaries to join the fight in the event of a Western-backed intervention. In other words 'Yankees and other meddling Westerners go home.' Why do we always miss the underlying themes and local sentiments ?
ECOWAS leaders over the weekend developed a war plans, adding that operational decisions would be left up to individual heads of state, Reuters reported. Nigerian president Bola Tinubu has asked the senate for authorization to take military action against Niger.
France, which has about 1,500 troops stationed in Niger, announced it would support ECOWAS operations on Saturday but did not specify the nature of that support, Politico reported. Niger, a former French colony, cut off military cooperation activities with France after the coup attempt.
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...at least one of whom previously trained under Department of Defense (DOD) programs.
*Sigh* This crap again. I remember the same garbage being floated in the 90's about The School of the Americas at Ft. Bragg being the cause of Central American 'death squads' by anal retentive leftists. The foreign country picks some bright, well-connected officer for a cushy junket in the US 'learning' at staff schools (paid vacation, yay!) so naturally they will be a 'hard-liner loyalist'.
#6
An historically bad neighborhood. Send in a small reconnaissance team in 200 years to conduct an area study update. Until then, stay out of it.
Yeah, that makes sense. Too bad our government can never stay out of messes like that. They'll waste several billions of dollars and get thousands if not millions of people killed so that whoever is left standing will hate us.
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Skidmark, those are some of the most disgusting creatures I have ever seen. The only comfort I can take from it is that denizens of The Swamp deserve them.
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Nothing will happen…
There will be no ECOWAS invasion because the major challenge to any such military intervention is the lack of popular support for such a measure against Niger in all ECOWAS members states populations, In Nigeria alone over 78 % of the population is against intervention. Without Nigeria, ECOWAS does not have the resources necessary for such an operation. The Nigerian newspaper This Day noted on Monday that the Nigerian Senate refused to grant Nigeria President Bola Tinubu the authority to send troops to the neighboring country.
“Tinubu had, through a letter to the senate, asked for approval for military action as agreed by ECOWAS“. But the senate, in rejecting the request, asked the president, who is also Chairman of regional body, and other leaders in the region to tread with caution in addressing and embracing the colonialist quagmire of Niger.” Before this latest news, the French and the US governments were ready to provide all the air defense deemed necessary.
Now ……What air defense? It's a big country, 1,000 miles east-west and 800 miles north-south. 😂 😆
Ps. Algeria is also considering military support for Niger.
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[Economist] The boy’s existence had been little more than a rumour. When he appeared during a ceremony in March on a small throne below the Dalai Lama, the ageing leader of Tibetan Buddhism, the monks and nuns in the audience didn’t seem to recognise him. The boy, about eight years old with short black hair, wore a copper-tinted robe with oversized cuffs covering his hands and — as if to add to the mystery — a white mask over his face.
Midway through the ceremony, held in Dharamsala, the north Indian refuge for Tibetan exiles, the Dalai Lama paused and gestured nonchalantly toward the boy: "We have the reincarnation of Khalkha Jetsun Dhampa Rinpoché of Mongolia with us today." This was, in the world of Tibetan Buddhism, a mic-drop moment. The last Jetsun Dhampa — one of the religion’s most important figures — died in 2012. But the significance of the announcement was not only religious. The Dalai Lama had managed to outmanoeuvre China in the geopolitical chess game of reincarnation.
Seven years ago, the Dalai Lama told a press conference in Mongolia that he was convinced Jetsun Dhampa’s reincarnation had been born in the country. "However, the boy is very young right now," he said, "so there is no need for haste in making an announcement." The Chinese government, which claims sole authority over all Tibetan Buddhist reincarnations, was incensed. It closed its main border crossing with Mongolia and delayed loan negotiations with the cash-strapped country.
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[BabylonBee] CHICAGO — Mayor Brandon Johnson advised Chicago reporters to stop using the word "Chicago" when describing anything that happens in Chicago because of all the negative connotations associated with Chicago.
[Daily Caller] West Africa is on the brink of armed conflict as a regional security bloc must decide whether to intervene against the junta leaders in Niger, at least one of whom previously trained under Department of Defense (DOD) programs.
