Wikipedia has a good summary of the events of 12 August, 2921, when Jake Davison, 22, who had lifelong untreated mental health problems, killed his mother with a legally owned pump action shotgun, then walked up the street shooting the people he encountered for the next quarter hour before killing himself.
there has been much discussion of the ‘incel’ subculture that many now hold responsible for Jake Davison’s murderous actions. Notably, the aftermath saw a flurry of appearances by (typically blonde and middle-class) morally correct female ‘experts’ on TV and radio, to offer insights about the new menace.
Possibly if this young man had gotten the treatment he needed, he would not have become an incel, or at least wouldn’t have run amok with a shotgun.
One such was cartoonist and creator of Instagrammable wokeness, Lily O’Farrell, with a series of cartoons describing her 18-month ‘deep dive’ into incel forums that landed her an appearance on BBC Woman’s Hour.
Her foray into this potentially hostile unexplored terrain has all the hallmarks of the intrepid explorers of the European colonial era. First they gain the natives’ trust by living alongside them before writing detailed ethnographies for consumption among respectable people back home.
I don’t know if O’Farrell meant to reference this pith-helmeted history of imperialist objectification when she depicted herself in camo trousers and backpack accessorised with binoculars, but it’s a shame she didn’t add puttees and a couple of native bearers as well.
Sarcasm aside, it’s probably inevitable that whichever regime currently dominates will send its favoured missionaries out to fact-find about groups deemed alien or hostile. In turn, they will try to recoup them for the ideological mainstream. Despite its protestations of anti-imperialism, the current regime is in that sense no exception.
O’Farrell’s cartoons list a series of common and fairly mainstream memes on her account. It glosses them with some simple observations about lack of opportunity, companionship or mental health support for young men. She then abruptly handbrake-turns into dismissing all such meme-based subcultures as a noxious outworking of patriarchy and as a terrorist threat.
The solution, we gather, is to treat meme-lords with suspicion, and (empathetically) strangle misogyny at the root. What this means in practice is less clear, though it surely cannot be a redoubling of those lectures about ‘toxic masculinity’ that drive young males to mutinous muttering in online subcultures hostile to women. More at the link
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The primary problem is mental illness, Wren. Incel is one result — shooting the neighbours is another. Treat the mental illness and he’d have bandwidth to handle social interaction.
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You can never treat incels, they exist in millions and they are extremely misogynistic. In India itself they are going to be millions of incels who'll never find a spouse.
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You can never treat incels, they exist in millions and they are extremely misogynistic.
I an differentiating between the specific case of a mentally ill young man who gravitated toward an incel mindset instead of jihad or some other social movement because he is not capable of maturing in a normal way and those who got there for another reason, Wren. Almost all of those who call themselves incels do not shoot up their neighbourhood.
If there are millions of incels in India who are not mentally ill — still a small percentage of the total population, yes? — then y’all need to go back to older habits of deliberately socializing children starting in the primary grades, to ensure they have the skills they need to succeed in life and when courting potential romantic partners. The same over here, of course. And not just the boys — our girls need to understand that man-hating behaviours are not acceptable if they want a boyfriend and later to keep a husband.
Former Navy Seal pretended to be the President to explain how to fix Afghanistan mistakes
Jocko Willink took to Instagram to share his plan for rest of the evacuation
Pretending to be the President, he said: 'I made some critical errors'
Courtesy of Besoeker, Fox News reports the video has gone viral. He comments, “Jocko gets it. Why do these feckless traitors in Washington NOT get it ?”
Jocko Willink, a retired Navy SEAL, took to Instagram to post a brief video Monday imagining he was the U.S. commander-in-chief during an address to the nation about the Afghanistan calamity and steps that he would take to resolve the problem.
The Biden administration has been on the receiving end of sharp criticism from those who say the U.S. withdrawal could hardly have gone any worse. Jen Psaki, the White House press officer, grew visibly annoyed during a briefing when she was asked about "stranded" Americans. She said it was inaccurate to say they are stranded and reconfirmed the U.S. commitment to bring home every American who wants to leave.
Willink appeared in the black-and-white video in a black t-shirt and close-cropped haircut. He sounded firm and spoke in short bursts of declarative sentences. He explained in the video caption that this is how he would address the situation to the world.
#3
Willink gives the speech that nobody other than Trump or Desantis would have the balls to give as CINC. None of those Obama era some flag rank officers have the guts to do so either. But the captains/commanders and Sgts/chiefs could get it done if we had some one with the courage, fortitude and character to speak plainly and do what needs to be done.
#5
Wonderful declaration by Mr. Willink! I haven't felt such patriotism to and for the US since Bush stood on that pile of rubble 20 years ago! Biden is a wuss, God bless the USA!
[Western Journal] "There is no hope for these people to get out safely — apart from a miracle by the hand of God — & that’s what we need to pray for. Will you join me in praying?" he asked his followers.
[Strategic Culture] It certainly looks like a domino that has been put in position poised to fall waiting for others to take their places in the line.
With America withdrawing from Afghanistan abruptly after some 20 years, one big question is being discussed throughout the strategic sphere by those both in big institutions and laying on their couches — is the American loss in Afghanistan the first domino to fall in the eventual collapse of the Global Hegemon? After all, Afghanistan is the "graveyard of empires" probably because it is an expression that sounds nice and because the Soviets fell apart a few years after losing to the locals. So this must be the "beginning of the end" right?
Well, we should never be so quick as to jump onto narrow narratives without looking at the big picture. Side-by-side images of the Americans and their allies fleeing Vietnam and Afghanistan by helicopter are flooding Facebook, posted by those in the Alternative Media who take great joy in any loss by the 21st century’s "Evil Empire" but they seem to forget that just a few decades after losing in Vietnam the United States won the Cold War and took dominance over the planet.
It is our assessment, that you have failed in your mission as an 'agent of influence', all indications are the people see right through you, no credence is being given to your posts and commentaries, and they have devolved into nothing more than thoughtless childish tokens of harassment.
Now finish your bottle of Slivovitz, and come along, we have other fish to fry elsewhere.
#8
Maybe if leftism is humiliated and Jiahdists do their thing we'll start to have sane immigration policies about letting just about anyone into the west.
#9
Gotta kinda think this was in the works when Biden approved the Russian gas pipeline, way back when. He thinks he kept Europe from becoming another Ukraine.
[IsraelTimes] Several top members of terror group, which has been blamed for some of the deadliest attacks in Afghanistan, among Islamist leaders gathering in Kabul to discuss new regime.
Some of the Taliban ...Arabic for students... ’s top leaders are gathering in Kabul to discuss the formation of a new Afghan government — including a representative from the Haqqani network
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The hypothetical "average Afghani" didn't fear this enough to resist it. See also American shitholes big cities with decades long dem misgovernance.
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[JEWISHWORLDREVIEW] The War on Terror began with men plunging to their deaths from the highest floors of skyscrapers hit by airplanes; it ended with men plunging to their deaths from the undercarriage of a US airplane taking off from what's left of "Hamid Karzai International Airport" (the signs will be coming down even as you read this).
America is a global laughingstock right now, but that's no reason not to give Chairman Xi and Putin and every up-country village headman in Helmand a few more yuks. Step forward, State Department spokeswanker Ned Price:
State Department calls for Taliban to include women in its government
The United States is dead as a global power because of this kind of indestructible stupidity. You've lost, you blew it, it's over: The goatherds just decapitated you; could you at least have the self-respect not to run around like a headless chicken too stupid to know it's nogginless? Or like a broken doll lying on its back with its mechanism jammed on the same simpleton phrases: "Diversity is our strength... diversity is our strength..."
Contrast the Washington presser with that in Kabul:
Taliban spokesperson Zabiullah Mujahid says 'We have defeated a great power.'
Hmm. Ned Price vs Zabiullah Mujahid: tough call. The mountain of non-existent dollar bills that the bloated husk of federal government blows through every minute surely should buy sufficient self-awareness to know that, whatever else it may be, this is not a day for wankery as usual. Even CNN has a more proximate relationship to reality.
Just for the record, the Kingdom of Afghanistan introduced votes for women in 1964 - whereas Switzerland did not get even a very limited female franchise until 1971, and full suffrage not until the Nineties.
Yet, oddly, every Pushtun warlord prefers to keep his retirement account in Zurich.
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A nation is a mirror of its people and their mindset. The new majority mindset was a group of minorities just a few years ago. it is a very different mindset than the white majority that founded and ruled this nation until very recently.
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I'm glad the state department is worried about the real problems.
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US will need to rebuild our military and cull the woke elements from command ranks. I don't really know how easy/difficult that is but its necessary.
[OneIndia] A decision on whether or not to ban both factions of the Hurriyat Conference is currently awaiting a decision at the highest levels. There is every possibility that a ban under the stringent provisions of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act may be imposed on both factions of the Hurriyat, which is at the forefront of the separatist movement in Jammu and Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... A recent probe learnt that the granting of MBBS seats to Kashmiri students by institutions in Pakistain clearly indicate that the money being collected from the students being used to fund terrorism in the Valley.
Whether or not to ban the Hurriyat has been a subject matter of debate for long. The fact is that a lot of money was being by the State on the Hurriyat. The debate on whether to use the tax payer's money to guard the Hurriyat leaders who promote separatism and terrorism has also been debated.
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[Arutz-7] - I had already started writing this article when I stumbled upon an article in The Atlantic, "The Week the Left Stopped Caring About Human Rights. It’s remarkable how quickly liberals abandoned the women of Afghanistan." The initial impetus was U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s remarks earlier this year when he said the "administration will stand against human-rights abuses wherever they occur, regardless of whether the perpetrators are adversaries or partners."
It needs to be pointed out that The Atlantic is not some right-wing outlet, but is a leading light for the Democrat Party. So kudos to them for publishing this article.
"Get the hell out has ... been the liberal position for two decades, until about 72 hours ago, when Democrats suddenly became so concerned about the fate of Afghanistan. ... You can call for American troop withdrawal for 20 years. ... But you need to be ready to take it on the chin when you get what you ask for, and the inevitable happens: girls being forced into child marriage and forbidden to go to school or to leave the house without a male relative. Is your conscience prickling. ... It’s remarkable how quickly the left took up the cold calculus of realpolitik. How quickly it forgot its love for Malala, the young Pakistani girl who survived a Taliban bullet to the head, her only crime getting an education and trying to help other girls get one too. The White House must have known she’d give Biden a bad news cycle or two, and indeed, she appealed to the president to take ’a bold step’ to stave off disaster."
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How quickly it forgot its love for Malala, the young Pakistani girl who survived a Taliban bullet to the head
And was subsequently recruited under threat of a second attempt. Or that was the game all along. Graze her skull with a low power bullet and if she survives you've got a respectable spokeswoman for 'moderate' islam into the international forums.
NGOs and humanitarian concerns are not really saints, they play in muddy waters for their own agendas, and they know who they're playing with, that most of their beneficiaries do not really deserve anything.
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Funny. I would think all these humanitarian groups, aid workers, social workers would be flocking to Afghanistan, seeing as how for the last 20 years they have been peacocking about how they could do Afghanistan better.
#4
Well, Malala is the same lady who blocked a lady on Twitter after she asked for her opinion about the underage Hindu girls, who are in minority in Pakistan, being abducted and forcibly converted to Islam and married off to Muslim Pakistani men and denied any contact with their own families.
Malala is about as useful to the oppressed women as an appendix is to a human.
#5
I seem to recall that Malala Yousafzai‘s father is a communist of some sort, but Wikipedia claims he is a Pashtun, the son of a Sunni imam who taught theology at a government high school, and a member of the secular leftwing Awami Nationalist Party — which stands for Pashtun autonomy within Pakistan.
Malala was well trained to puppet her father’s talking points. Whether Oxford has since taught her to think for herself remains to be seen.
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#5 I seem to recall that apostasy is punishable in Pakistan. Which is why I'm unable to grasp how Communists are able to exist in Pakistan. Can a Muslim really be a Communist if he/she is not an apostate?
Of course there are Christians, Sikhs and Hindus in Pakistan as well, who can become Communists. And then there was this case of Afghanistan having a Communist government as well. How does that work out; how does Communism exist in a Muslim country?
Trailer is in Russian, but in a translatable format.
[RedStar] The film, produced by the Tri XMedia film company, was shot jointly with the Russian Ministry of Defense with the participation of the Russia-1 TV channel. This is the first feature film about one of the operations of a Russian military group in the Syrian Arab Republic.
The film, directed by Igor Kopylov, is based on real events in the Syrian Arab Republic, when in the north of the country, on the Syrian-Turkish border, on November 24, 2015, a Turkish fighter jet shot down a Russian supersonic fighter-bomber Su-24.
The crew managed to eject. Navigator Konstantin Murakhtin survived and was rescued. Pilot Lieutenant Colonel Oleg Peshkov, who was descending with a parachute, was shot in the air by the militants. Later, all the terrorists involved in the death of the Russian pilot were destroyed, and the deceased pilot was awarded the title of Hero of Russia posthumously.
Now there is a fighter-bomber named after Oleg Peshkov, and the roll call in the fifth company of the Yekaterinburg Suvorov military school, where he studied, begins with his last name. A monument in honor of Hero of Russia Oleg Peshkov was erected in Syria at the Khmeimim airbase.
Nearby Khmeimim airbase, there are also monuments to his comrades who have completed their military duty to the end: the helicopter pilot Colonel Ryafagat Khabibullin, who died in 2016 while liberating Palmyra from militants, and the pilot of the Su-25SM attack aircraft Roman Filipov, who was shot down by terrorists over the Syrian province of Idlib in 2018 performing a combat mission in the Syrian Arab Republic.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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Jocko Willink, a retired Navy SEAL, took to Instagram to post a brief video Monday imagining he was the U.S. commander-in-chief during an address to the nation about the Afghanistan calamity and steps that he would take to resolve the problem.
[Western Journal] "There is no hope for these people to get out safely — apart from a miracle by the hand of God — & that’s what we need to pray for. Will you join me in praying?" he asked his followers.
[IsraelTimes] Several top members of terror group, which has been blamed for some of the deadliest attacks in Afghanistan, among Islamist leaders gathering in Kabul to discuss new regime.
[JEWISHWORLDREVIEW] The War on Terror began with men plunging to their deaths from the highest floors of skyscrapers hit by airplanes; it ended with men plunging to their deaths from the undercarriage of a US airplane taking off from what's left of "Hamid Karzai International Airport" (the signs will be coming down even as you read this).
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
