[CityJournal] The images of the recent protests at Columbia University have grabbed the attention of the American public: students chanting for a Palestinian state, "from the river to the sea"; activists setting up a mass tent encampment on the campus lawn; masked occupiers seizing control of Hamilton Hall. For some, it was a sign that ancient anti-Semitism had established itself in the heart of the Ivy League. For others, it was déjà vu of 1968, when mass demonstrations last roiled campus.
After weeks of rising tensions, Columbia president Minouche Shafik resolved the immediate conflict by summoning the New York City Police Department, which swiftly disbanded anti-Israel student encampments, removed the occupiers of Hamilton Hall, and arrested more than 100 students, who were subsequently suspended.
President Shafik feigned surprise. In a statement to students, she expressed "deep sadness" about the campus chaos. But to anyone who has observed Columbia in recent decades, the upheaval should not come as a surprise. Behind the images of campus protests lies a deeper, more troubling story: the ideological capture of the university, which inexorably drove Columbia toward this moment. Columbia for decades has cultivated the precise conditions that allowed the pro-Hamas protests to flourish. The university built massive departments to advance "postcolonialism," spent hundreds of millions of dollars on "diversity, equity, and inclusion," and glorified New Left—style student activism as the telos of university life. These are not anti-Israeli protests. Not even anti-American protests. IMO, what we've been seeing in the last few years is Nihilism pure and simple. They will run wild at any excuse - because they want to run wild. And they want to run wild because, deep down inside, they know they're second rate.
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They used to be called anarchists.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike ||
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These are "look at meeeeee!" protests.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
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#1 From wiki Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that is against all forms of authority and seeks to abolish the institutions it claims maintain unnecessary coercion and hierarchy, typically including the state and capitalism. Anarchism advocates for the replacement of the state with stateless societies and voluntary free associations. As a historically left-wing movement, this reading of anarchism is placed on the farthest left of the political spectrum, usually described as the libertarian wing of the socialist movement (libertarian socialism).
Nihilism (/ˈnaɪ(h)ɪlɪzəm, ˈniː-/; from Latin nihil 'nothing') is a family of views within philosophy that rejects generally accepted or fundamental aspects of human existence,[1][2] such as knowledge, morality, or meaning.
Although, I might be giving them too much credit - and they're simply savages looting.
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As I recall, about 40% of them are outsiders, come to help the students do it right. Not only that, but many of the outsiders and quite a few of the students are being paid for the work, with supplies and funds for supplies provided as a package deal. A big funder of the protests is IT billionaire Neville Roy Singham, the notorious Maoist who lives in Shanghai. The People’s Forum is one of his projects, as Code Pink is his wife’s.
The cause is never the cause, as someone said. The cause is always revolution.
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Walter Sobchak:
Nihilists! F*** me. I mean, say what you like about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos.
Posted by: Frank G ||
05/25/2024 9:59 Comments ||
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BDS is a dirty word. It's literally illegal in the USA to do that to Israel.
Posted by: Cromonter Spawn of the Faeries8107 ||
05/25/2024 14:43 Comments ||
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It’s literally illegal at the state level for state or local government entities in certain states — I think about 27 of the 50 — to engage in BDS against Israel, or to do business with those who are engaged in BDS. Private businesses, individuals, and groups can do anything they want, even in those states, and anyone can do so at the federal level.
We have had this discussion several times before, Cromonter Spawn of the Faeries8107. But you refuse to accept reality counter to your fevered imaginings.
[Rumble] Sometimes Vice President Kamala Harris expresses a thought so esoteric as to be . . . well, indecipherable. But The Daily Show has this vignette that might explain what's going on. And if you didn't know that The Daily Show could poke fun at Democrats well -- neither did we, to be honest Pretty funny. Someone got a call after this aired, I'm sure
From a Grom comment that I feel deserves its own posting.
[Pipeline] There’s a joke going around that it must be maddening to be a "direct action" climate-change protestor setting out in the morning to block a highway or deface a museum piece before gluing yourself in place, only to arrive and find the pro-Hamas protestors got up earlier and are already blocking the highway.
Of course this problem was quickly solved by fusing the two issues, which is easy for the left since the issue is never the issue—it’s only the revolution that counts. It only took days after October 7 for banners to appear at pro-Hamas marches declaring that saving Gaza necessarily involved "climate justice," while The Nation magazine, apparently with a straight face, announced that "The Single Most Important Thing President Biden Can Do for the Climate Is Enforce an Immediate Cease-Fire in Gaza." Just to make sure no one missed the linkage, St. Greta Thunberg ratified the marriage of the two issues by turning up to protest the Israeli contestant in the Eurovision Song Contest decked out in a large keffiyeh scarf, which totally isn’t a cultural appropriation when someone of the left does it.
Beyond the all-too-easy and predictable union of the left’s two main current obsessions is how massive the lavishly funded "non-profit sector" has become to the overall project of the left. It is important to understand the playbook, because the left’s grand strategy goes beyond private philanthropy to radical causes, and now includes direct taxpayer support (in the form of federal grants and legal fee reimbursements) as well as buying off corporate support with tax breaks and subsidies. Universities are always the main hub for these efforts, but the spokes now radiate out deep into the corporate world and the halls of government.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — As controversy continued to swirl around Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez demanded to know where Alito bought an upside-down U.S. flag.
After reports surfaced that an inverted American flag had been spotted flying over Alito's home, AOC issued a statement calling for the source of Alito's offensive flag so that the vendor could be reprimanded appropriately.
"Where does someone even get an upside-down American flag, anyway?" Ocasio-Cortez asked reporters. "Every store that sells flags should know how offensive an inverted U.S. flag is and should never manufacture or sell them to anyone. I think we all deserve to know where Justice Alito was able to purchase an upside-down American flag, don't you?"
AOC even went as far as to threaten legislative action to hold Alito accountable. "Don't even think I won't get to the bottom of this," she said. "Anyone who is selling inverted American flags should be publicly outed as un-American and a threat to democracy itself! As a Supreme Court judge, Justice Alito must be held to a higher standard. If there is some type of black market for upside-down U.S. flags, the American people deserve to know about it."
AOC expressed concern that more people would begin purchasing upside-down American flags if they were made easily attainable. "The next thing you know," she warned, "everyone will be able to have an inverted flag."
At publishing time, AOC was unable to be reached for further comment due to getting her head stuck between the spindles of the U.S. Capitol staircase banister.
[Kunstler] There comes a time when the rigors and exertions of being insane just aren’t worth it anymore. You end up in a deadly Pareto distribution in which 80 percent of your energy gets wasted on hallucinating and the rest is barely enough to get yourself dressed, comb your purple hair, and choke down a granola bar.
Verging on a long, hot summer, the party behind “Joe Biden” looks like a 1950s horror movie, complete with lurching ghouls, evil scientists in white lab coats, and the sore beset denizens of Anytown USA screaming down the streets. Only it’s the actual life of our nation now, and it looks like an awful lot of the people who live here lawfully have had enough of it.
The mysterious cabal in power knows that they must ditch the old stumblebum pretending to run for president, and time is running out to get the dastardly deed done. They are staring down a month of dread days that lead to the proposed great debate between the major party candidates, which is doomed to play like a combo of the classic horror movie endings — the unmasking of the phantom with a wooden stake driven through his heart, with Donald Trump cast as Prof Van Helsing. Can our resourceful intel blob instead maybe find a way before that to make it look like the “president” passed away peacefully in his slumber? Or perhaps it would suffice to just leak the voice recording of his interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur and allow people to compare what’s in it with the already-released printed transcript.
Here’s just how crazy the party is: rumor has it that they might just rudely shove oId “JB” aside and try the Hail Mary pass of inviting RFKJr back on-board from exile to head the ticket. The Kennedy name alone used to be synonymous with the party’s brand, is their thinking, you see. Trouble is, the Democratic Party is, in reality, synonymous with the intel blob that infests it, and protects it in the service of protecting its own sorry ass. You might recall that RFKJr has publicly stated that his father and uncle were murdered by that selfsame intel blob, which he has promised to treat very harshly were he actually elected. So, scratch that gambit.
Beyond that, you’re back to the maddening rotation of Gavin Newsom, Michelle, and Rodan the Flying reptile, a.k.a. She-Whose-Turn-It-Is — all of them appallingly impossible. Gavin might have been Mr. Dreamboat incarnate — that hair! that height! those teeth! — prompting a pandemic of The Vapors among ladies who lately predominate in the Democrat rank-and-file. But, alas, under his charge California degenerated into a Woke bedlam of diseased homeless junkies shitting all over his cities, with non-stop flash-mob looting, carjacking, and drag queen promenading in the background, and there’s no way of hiding it. Gavin Newsom has a big “L” carved on his forehead the way that Charlie Manson used to sport a swastika.
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Given the Liberals, Socialists & Democrats that now make up the (D) party. Many have noted their growing adoption of Immoral lifestyles, sexual perversions, Race hate speech, their protesting of Christian values and support of Genocidal Terrorist groups.
It is no wonder some Internet commenters are referring to them as the DEMONcrat Party.
#5
Funny and spot on
Americans do have a third option
Just vote in RFK jr as independent candidate
He is the only anti-corruption man you have
Get him in to clean house because you already know from last time Trump won't do it
President Kennedy will do it. Knows how and has the will - and cannot be bought.
Don't waste your vote on the 2 oligarch-controlled parties.
Clean house.
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^ Thanks for Aussie opinion. RFKjr is an idiot. Research his positions since 2000. If his name was Bob Smith, he's have trouble running for City Council
Posted by: Frank G ||
05/25/2024 11:29 Comments ||
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RFK, Jr. gets a few things very right, but many more terribly wrong, Anon1. Not being corrupt cannot be the deal maker, under the circumstances.
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It still tickles me that the dems have gone so far left that they have basically turned their backs on Camelot other than to publicize any of his relatives who say they won't vote for him.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
05/25/2024 13:35 Comments ||
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Daria Rakic
[REGNUM] At a meeting of the UN General Assembly yesterday, they considered a draft resolution on “genocide” in Srebrenica. There were more people who spoke “against” the controversial document and abstained from voting than those who voted “for”. However, the resolution was still adopted.
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Former Yugoslavia is where, IMO, the currently humanity threatening Globalist/Islamist alliance was founded. With USA (idiots) providing the muscle.
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Look, this is just dredging up ancient history in an attempt to promote antisemitic conspiracy theories about a so-called "genocide" happening in Gaza. The latest thing is to attempt to trigger R2P, responsibility to protect, which requires the world to intervene in any genocide that happens anywhere.
Ain't gonna happen, folks. The only genocidaires here are Hamas. And the US is already intervening by sending hundreds of billions of dollars to Israel and keeping the bomb factories operating day and night.
Posted by: Cromonter Spawn of the Faeries8107 ||
05/25/2024 3:38 Comments ||
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On ancient history, knowing the relationship of the Serbian military, the Black Hand and the subsequent assassination of a Austrian archduke in 1914, the world might like a discussion about the consequential incineration of the globe that lead to. Talk about a body count.
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