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Can we pause and take a moment to appreciate just how absolutely pants-on-head retarded this is?
> major driving factor was the passage of “Measure 110” decriminalizing all drugs in 2020, which was backed by 74 percent of Multnomah County’s residents. Voters couldn’t — or at least didn’t — anticipate how this policy change would reshape a city already strapped for money, dealing with a public health crisis and confronting rising rates of homelessness and fentanyl abuse.
> Drug use shot up, homelessness worsened and taxpayers fled.
This article is saying with a straight face that voters could not realize that legalizing drugs would make more people do drugs.
If that is an accurate reflection of Portland voters and not just editorializing on the part of the article writer, then they deserve to lose their right to vote because they are not smart enough to qualify as human beings.
At least, that's what I would say if voting mattered.
“Portland sort of found a … compassion red line,” LOL
Is that how you'd describe the decivilization process of few police, few laws, state-subsidized fentanyl camps and a 100-day riot over some petty criminal who resisted arrest and got choked out by the cops 1000 miles away—"compassion"??
Modern liberals can't run anything and can never say NO to anyone claiming victimhood because there is no higher value to them than performative COMPASSION, which basically means being the world's most indulgent parent and even agreeing to shine the shoes of people who hate and want to harm you.
You can take away their jobs, cities, parks, countries etc, but there is no force on earth that could rob the Western liberal of their staggering self-righteousness and moral arrogance. They would rather rot and die than lose their halos.
Ascetics hid from the world and had no need for its approval, the disciples of Social Justice put their dinners on Instagram so everyone knows it's organically sourced and can see how wise, good and compassionate they are.
Portland dystopia offers challenges to match St Anthony's in the desert. Here is a song from a Portland folk rock band. It could very well become the anthem for the world that the Boomers left behind. Good tune. Chilling lyrics.
Status derived from the regime endorsed moral consensus is all many people have going for them. It is a consolation for the empty lives, frustrated ambition and humiliations inflicted by a society in decay. The Western liberals are no different from their rw critics who subscribe to an angry counter-consensus that confers psychic pay-offs in the form of self-regard. Life in the pod, the breakdown of family and community, the substitution of entertainment for education and virtual reality for experience is driving much of the population into a state of low intensity derangement. The Underground Man resembles a Renaissance prince by comparison with the average urban Westerner today.
Not be too Nietzschean about this, but a lot of these problems could be alleviated with breathing through the nose, getting more and better sleep and fewer processed foods, a good book now and then and real life friends.
"Moral judgment and condemnation is the favorite revenge of the spiritually limited on those who are less so, as well as a type of compensation for having been slighted by nature, and an opportunity to finally acquire spirit and become refined: – malice spiritualized." POW!
It’s not retarded. It’s cheap real estate following the arson called civil rights. It’s a tried and worn legal form of land piracy that really should have its own futures market. It’s a cliche.
It’s actually boring.
1) civil rights - Crime, Riots
2) 🔥 +Crime- look, this is it, ok?
3) dirt cheap prime real estate
4) law& order, see Giuliani NYC
5) Developers
6) Gentrification
7) Soaring profits and revenue, rents , booming economy
8) Young Democrats want to be elected so…
9) Police Brutality is discovered
10) Return to start
This is the story of the Fall, Rise and Fall again of NYC in just my lifetime. See also Jersey City, Baltimore but only the Harbor came back. Washington DC.
Why Portland? Is there water in Portland? I read that Detroit is bound to come back because there's water there. Water is the most valuable commodity of the future, so the big guys are buying up anything close to water supplies
Yes Columbia and Williamette Rivers. “north–south and east–west Interstates, international air terminals, large marine shipping facilities, and both west coast intercontinental railroads are all economic advantages.[170]
The city's marine terminals alone handle over 13 million tons of cargo per year, and the port is home to one of the largest commercial dry docks in the country. The Port of Portland is the third-largest export tonnage port on the west coast of the U.S., and being about 80 miles (130 km) upriver, it is the largest fresh-water port.” - wikipedia
Aha! There you have it then! One has to always leave sentimentality and petty politics behind, to be able to look at the big picture. Thanks for the reply
Actually dealing with drug addicts isn't that easy. Too harsh policies make the problem worse, not better. The US failed in its fight against alcohol addiction with the Prohibition in the 1930s. It increasingly looks like a some kind of consensus will arise about soft drugs and they will be allowed widely.
As for hard drugs, there are many functioning addicts too who have a house and an income and who don't need to steal to get their shot. Putting them in jail robs them of their job and their family of an income.
The best policy is something that makes drugs hard to get, yet doesn't aim to destroy the lives of the addicts, but instead softly pressures them to get clean.
Oh, HELL! Fuck, no. "The best policy..." -- no! The "best policy" is one that let's "functioning addicts" continue, and takes those (the MANY/MOST) who aren't *off the streets* and puts them in treatment (jail, if they're criminal offenders). "Soft pressure" is BS... it doesn't work (never did), and FUCKS with the rest of us. Go back to A-dam.
The only kind of strict policy that I have seen that works rather well is only used in some developing countries. It involves rehab centers where they are intensively mentored. Lots of physical training too. And after they are released they are guided towards a job. But you won't see that in "prosperous" Western countries. Here being strict involves letting them rot some time in jail and then throwing them on the street again. Somehow those "strict" politicians are almost always scrooges who don't want to invest in people.
> Actually dealing with drug addicts isn't that easy. Too harsh policies make the problem worse, not better. The US failed in its fight against alcohol addiction with the Prohibition in the 1930s.
It's not the government's job to deal with addiction, and I don't want them to. In fact, if anything I want them to facilitate it. After all, if I'm buying meth at Walgreens, I know there's no fentanyl in it. I know what the dosage is. I know what is or isn't in that pill. Or however meth comes; I don't do meth
It _is_ the government's job to deal with violent crime, and it turns out, counter-violence is extremely effective at that
If someone's getting methed out and chilling at home not bothering me, I say let them. If someone's getting methed out and then assaulting people in public, assault is already illegal regardless of whether or not you're high, and shooting those people solves the problem of them assaulting people, forever.
> A city can’t be run on homeless shelters and a laissez-faire attitude towards hard drugs. The latter was tried by Amsterdam and Lisbon, and both have turned their backs on it after experiencing similar outcomes to what Portland is now facing.
I still believe strongly in complete and total drug legalization. However, if it's not paired with ruthless and aggressive enforcement of existing laws, then it causes problems.
But we could legalize drugs just fine if we shot every drug addict the second he tried to rob someone.
Well, when people do it in their apartment, you won't see it, and you won't know that it's happening.
But also that's happening to a lot of people regardless of whether or not drugs are legal. Society is failing people like me and nobody really cares. At least drugs make it hurt less.
Spoken like someone who knows exactly zero about the mental health establishment.
Anti-depressants don't work. They're a massive scam, perpetuated because their side effects are sufficiently mild that people take them, and they don't help, but they don't stop taking them, and voila, drug companies now have a stable new source of recurring revenue.
Anti-depressants also don't help, if the reason you're sad is because your life is fucked because society hates you. When you can't get a job because you're not Diverse™ enough, and then you can't afford rent, there is no drug that will make that not sad. If there is, it should be opposed; you _should_ be sad when society is ruining your life.
You know what 'anti-depressants' work? Adderall, cocaine, and lsd. Oddly, all three of those are heavily restricted and in many contexts criminalized. The government doesn't want you using drugs that work. The government wants you using drugs that dull you, so you do as you're told and don't cause any trouble
Why? You want me -- a stranger -- to care about [people like] you? Why would I/we do that? Why SHOULD I/we do that? השומר אחי אנכי? (am I my brother's keeper?) If you were dying of thirst in the desert, I wouldn't piss in your mouth.
Unfortunately, it can't work because the people of this country have shown time and again that they are not willing to stomach real law enforcement. At least not against blessed demographics.
Trump, Putin, and Elon supporters seem to have an insight into their minds that no one else does. 🤔 You "know" they are secretly fighting the forces of evil.
There is no mystery here. Meloni could personally toss refugee children alive into piranha tanks, and the Atlantic Council would sing her praises, as long as any realistic alternative were opposed to American hegemony in general and the War On Russia in particular.
I don’t know a thing about this except to say that Elon could very well fall in love with Giorgia, as she is both beautiful and has tons of personality.
Well, one more thing. I remember reading a memoir about the war on the Eastern Front written by a German soldier. He was talking to an Italian soldier about the war, and about Mussolini’s forays into Africa. The Italian soldier said that he thought the idea of an Italian empire was nonsense, saying “What for? In Italy we have everything we need.”
I had a geography teacher in 11th grade in high school who told me that his father was in the Italian Army while it was occupying Dalmatia in WW2 and that he told him that no one wanted to be there, as they were perfectly fine in Italy already.
Saw something similar from WW1: a German soldier who fought on all 3 major fronts remarked that the Italians were the only ones who didn't fire on retreating enemy soldiers. Inherent Italian reluctance to fight abroad (more than 10 km from their hometown).
The Italians did enough damage when they were Romans. I'm just prepared to entertain the idea that the Italians learned something from their Roman Empire days (like the English, they started by murdering and enslaving their neighbours first, fellow Italians) to behave better in the 20th and 21st century.
Given that the Italians and the Pope were the lead players in the Sack of Constantinople in 1204 which eventually lost Europe its most beautiful city, and the incredibly vicious conduct of both Venetians and Genoese in contesting their trade empires, probably not. Meloni is par for the Italian course. Deeply hypocritical, melodramatic, capricious and vicious.
Cautionary? For whom? Business schools will use Portland as an example of best practice in extracting profit from misery. Students who will one day run either the not-for-profit or welfare sector will learn from all this. The Portlands of the future will be way worse.
You repurposed my common sense plea for practical solutions that work - by praising the chaos as a laudable make work project for the adherents of the progressive ideologies. It’s very true: we’ve overproduced social workers and fucking everything up is helpful, it validates their education and allows them to save the world and of course feel superior.
That’s it, human beings are dumb we don’t see we are in a trap. So, our best intentions are destructive and yet we persist, because, nobody wants to see it as such. Think about it, it is your kids that are fucking everything up . Your lovely little daughter and her good intentions are laying waste to the world and wreaking havoc, but isn’t she a sweetheart!
Good intentions are the mechanism of function for subconscious malice. You see this most clearly in the advocacy for gender affirmation by childless teachers envious of the reproductive sucess of others. But the examples are practically limitless.
And chaos only makes work for the grunt-level parasites. Apex level collect capital gains on it.
Collect capital gains on it, but blithely, they care not why or how, it’s just money and if it’s luxury beliefs that sells - then nonsense it is.
What I am saying is people don’t care to know. If you make them aware, if you show them, they will at best reject you out of hand and just as likely they will try to kill you.
I am speaking of my loved ones, it’s very disconcerting. Do you have that experience?
In a milder way. I have a very close relative who has sentimental illusions or very conventional opinions that I do not share but we do not argue. It is not a huge deal. I was brought up in a very contentious family full of people with strong, often conflicting, opinions. Pluralism in ideas was natural. It took me a very long while before I realised that people in general were actually threatened by alternate ideas. To a large degree I was very ill prepared for the real world. NB the family tore itself apart long ago over personalities and, to a less extent, resources, not ideas.
At the moment I am horrified by the number of people I know who have lost friends of alienated relatives over bullshit like politics. It is truly truly frightening. Very demoralising. The ridiculous thing is that most people are NPCs politically. It just does not matter what they think but opinions are used as a test. If you disagree that is a sign that you do not share the underlying emotion that the idea expresses. It is this resistance to shared emotion that triggers the baboon or chimp response. The pressures from conformism are escalating. The visceral aggression towards dissent or difference suggests something nasty is possibly on its way. I am retired, but if I was younger I'd definitely be an outcast.
Something very nasty has already arrived. I am 60 and I feel massively isolated. We are lost.
On the day of the 911 attacks, just one hour after the planes hit, my Iranian colleague told me not to tell people what you think they will hate you forever. I will never forget that. He was right.
"some of you may be wondering why X owner Elon Musk would attend an event hosted by an organization that runs counter to his stated principles at X."
Uhhhh, Elon Musk still censors and remember "freedom of speech, not freedom of reach"? I don't understand how people think these inside corrupt oligarchs especially fake tech people who know nothing like Bill Gates or Elon Musk are not puppets.
Won’t comment on Meloni, except she doesn’t have that strong a hand to start, does she?
Blackrock’s intentions are well known.
As for Musk, here he’s committed to Trump . As in Commitment in decisive terms, such as when the military uses it in war. As to him branching out to the little too emotionally involved writing to disparage objectively (remember Dictator me would end NATO) Reagan had dinner with Armand Hammer, it did not change his Soviet policy.
Musk wants Mars, and to get Mars he needs the America he came to - we’re a launch platform. Which is fine.
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“ranked choice voting” 🤡
I'm a fan of RCV. It seems to deliver better outcomes, regardless of ideology
Lol we can have thousands of elections nothing changes, in aggregate we have had thousands. Talk and voting is nonsense now.
Can we pause and take a moment to appreciate just how absolutely pants-on-head retarded this is?
> major driving factor was the passage of “Measure 110” decriminalizing all drugs in 2020, which was backed by 74 percent of Multnomah County’s residents. Voters couldn’t — or at least didn’t — anticipate how this policy change would reshape a city already strapped for money, dealing with a public health crisis and confronting rising rates of homelessness and fentanyl abuse.
> Drug use shot up, homelessness worsened and taxpayers fled.
This article is saying with a straight face that voters could not realize that legalizing drugs would make more people do drugs.
If that is an accurate reflection of Portland voters and not just editorializing on the part of the article writer, then they deserve to lose their right to vote because they are not smart enough to qualify as human beings.
At least, that's what I would say if voting mattered.
“Portland sort of found a … compassion red line,” LOL
Is that how you'd describe the decivilization process of few police, few laws, state-subsidized fentanyl camps and a 100-day riot over some petty criminal who resisted arrest and got choked out by the cops 1000 miles away—"compassion"??
Modern liberals can't run anything and can never say NO to anyone claiming victimhood because there is no higher value to them than performative COMPASSION, which basically means being the world's most indulgent parent and even agreeing to shine the shoes of people who hate and want to harm you.
You can take away their jobs, cities, parks, countries etc, but there is no force on earth that could rob the Western liberal of their staggering self-righteousness and moral arrogance. They would rather rot and die than lose their halos.
"They would rather rot and die than lose their halos."
Makes them sound like ascetic monks or something.
Ascetics hid from the world and had no need for its approval, the disciples of Social Justice put their dinners on Instagram so everyone knows it's organically sourced and can see how wise, good and compassionate they are.
Moralism comes in all sorts of flavors.
I saw those monk cells at Petra, I have seen actual monks in monasteries too. But they’re poor, see?
i love those wacky desert hermits.
there's an excellent novel called Thais by Anatole France that has one for a protagonist.
found it online in case u havent read and are interested:
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2078/pg2078-images.html#link2H_4_0004
Thanks !
Portland dystopia offers challenges to match St Anthony's in the desert. Here is a song from a Portland folk rock band. It could very well become the anthem for the world that the Boomers left behind. Good tune. Chilling lyrics.
https://youtu.be/gzDqCcTeSmY?si=_2kS6vrzrUTL29va
Status derived from the regime endorsed moral consensus is all many people have going for them. It is a consolation for the empty lives, frustrated ambition and humiliations inflicted by a society in decay. The Western liberals are no different from their rw critics who subscribe to an angry counter-consensus that confers psychic pay-offs in the form of self-regard. Life in the pod, the breakdown of family and community, the substitution of entertainment for education and virtual reality for experience is driving much of the population into a state of low intensity derangement. The Underground Man resembles a Renaissance prince by comparison with the average urban Westerner today.
Not be too Nietzschean about this, but a lot of these problems could be alleviated with breathing through the nose, getting more and better sleep and fewer processed foods, a good book now and then and real life friends.
"Moral judgment and condemnation is the favorite revenge of the spiritually limited on those who are less so, as well as a type of compensation for having been slighted by nature, and an opportunity to finally acquire spirit and become refined: – malice spiritualized." POW!
BG&E
One can't improve on that.
Spot on!
It’s not retarded. It’s cheap real estate following the arson called civil rights. It’s a tried and worn legal form of land piracy that really should have its own futures market. It’s a cliche.
It’s actually boring.
1) civil rights - Crime, Riots
2) 🔥 +Crime- look, this is it, ok?
3) dirt cheap prime real estate
4) law& order, see Giuliani NYC
5) Developers
6) Gentrification
7) Soaring profits and revenue, rents , booming economy
8) Young Democrats want to be elected so…
9) Police Brutality is discovered
10) Return to start
This is the story of the Fall, Rise and Fall again of NYC in just my lifetime. See also Jersey City, Baltimore but only the Harbor came back. Washington DC.
San Francisco.
Chicago.
Detroit (ain’t getting back up).
Civil Rights is Real Estate,
my N|ggaz. Lol. 😂
I'd believe it on the part of.city hall. I don't believe it on the part of random voters who own the property that is getting devalued.
They’re voting for civil rights, progress and by or against race.
No misery is left unexploited by the experts or their patrons. Monsters do not live in the dark. They collect the rent on it.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/1419-the-assassination-of-new-york
Why Portland? Is there water in Portland? I read that Detroit is bound to come back because there's water there. Water is the most valuable commodity of the future, so the big guys are buying up anything close to water supplies
Yes Columbia and Williamette Rivers. “north–south and east–west Interstates, international air terminals, large marine shipping facilities, and both west coast intercontinental railroads are all economic advantages.[170]
The city's marine terminals alone handle over 13 million tons of cargo per year, and the port is home to one of the largest commercial dry docks in the country. The Port of Portland is the third-largest export tonnage port on the west coast of the U.S., and being about 80 miles (130 km) upriver, it is the largest fresh-water port.” - wikipedia
Aha! There you have it then! One has to always leave sentimentality and petty politics behind, to be able to look at the big picture. Thanks for the reply
Actually dealing with drug addicts isn't that easy. Too harsh policies make the problem worse, not better. The US failed in its fight against alcohol addiction with the Prohibition in the 1930s. It increasingly looks like a some kind of consensus will arise about soft drugs and they will be allowed widely.
As for hard drugs, there are many functioning addicts too who have a house and an income and who don't need to steal to get their shot. Putting them in jail robs them of their job and their family of an income.
The best policy is something that makes drugs hard to get, yet doesn't aim to destroy the lives of the addicts, but instead softly pressures them to get clean.
Oh, HELL! Fuck, no. "The best policy..." -- no! The "best policy" is one that let's "functioning addicts" continue, and takes those (the MANY/MOST) who aren't *off the streets* and puts them in treatment (jail, if they're criminal offenders). "Soft pressure" is BS... it doesn't work (never did), and FUCKS with the rest of us. Go back to A-dam.
The only kind of strict policy that I have seen that works rather well is only used in some developing countries. It involves rehab centers where they are intensively mentored. Lots of physical training too. And after they are released they are guided towards a job. But you won't see that in "prosperous" Western countries. Here being strict involves letting them rot some time in jail and then throwing them on the street again. Somehow those "strict" politicians are almost always scrooges who don't want to invest in people.
> Actually dealing with drug addicts isn't that easy. Too harsh policies make the problem worse, not better. The US failed in its fight against alcohol addiction with the Prohibition in the 1930s.
It's not the government's job to deal with addiction, and I don't want them to. In fact, if anything I want them to facilitate it. After all, if I'm buying meth at Walgreens, I know there's no fentanyl in it. I know what the dosage is. I know what is or isn't in that pill. Or however meth comes; I don't do meth
It _is_ the government's job to deal with violent crime, and it turns out, counter-violence is extremely effective at that
If someone's getting methed out and chilling at home not bothering me, I say let them. If someone's getting methed out and then assaulting people in public, assault is already illegal regardless of whether or not you're high, and shooting those people solves the problem of them assaulting people, forever.
Key to understanding Portland is that all sane people moved to the suburbs surrounding the city decades ago.
Common story!
> A city can’t be run on homeless shelters and a laissez-faire attitude towards hard drugs. The latter was tried by Amsterdam and Lisbon, and both have turned their backs on it after experiencing similar outcomes to what Portland is now facing.
I still believe strongly in complete and total drug legalization. However, if it's not paired with ruthless and aggressive enforcement of existing laws, then it causes problems.
But we could legalize drugs just fine if we shot every drug addict the second he tried to rob someone.
Well, slowly fading away by yourself in a lonely apartment doing heroin is also something I don't want to see, or know is, happening.
Well, when people do it in their apartment, you won't see it, and you won't know that it's happening.
But also that's happening to a lot of people regardless of whether or not drugs are legal. Society is failing people like me and nobody really cares. At least drugs make it hurt less.
Perhaps so, but in that case the drug you want is anti-depressants
Spoken like someone who knows exactly zero about the mental health establishment.
Anti-depressants don't work. They're a massive scam, perpetuated because their side effects are sufficiently mild that people take them, and they don't help, but they don't stop taking them, and voila, drug companies now have a stable new source of recurring revenue.
Anti-depressants also don't help, if the reason you're sad is because your life is fucked because society hates you. When you can't get a job because you're not Diverse™ enough, and then you can't afford rent, there is no drug that will make that not sad. If there is, it should be opposed; you _should_ be sad when society is ruining your life.
You know what 'anti-depressants' work? Adderall, cocaine, and lsd. Oddly, all three of those are heavily restricted and in many contexts criminalized. The government doesn't want you using drugs that work. The government wants you using drugs that dull you, so you do as you're told and don't cause any trouble
I'm on ADs. They work.
Nope... works fine for me/us. Read the room, soy-boy.
How do you read a room?
Kill yourself, faggot
Why? You want me -- a stranger -- to care about [people like] you? Why would I/we do that? Why SHOULD I/we do that? השומר אחי אנכי? (am I my brother's keeper?) If you were dying of thirst in the desert, I wouldn't piss in your mouth.
Your plan could work Eidein.
Unfortunately, it can't work because the people of this country have shown time and again that they are not willing to stomach real law enforcement. At least not against blessed demographics.
The one group of non-whites that woke Westerners revile is Hindu nationalists
Do tell. What. You. Mean.
Perhaps. And I wonder if Tulsi Gabbard and the woke disdain for her is almost solely responsible for that.
Just an observation, repeated over time
As to Elon's attendance, keep your enemies closer...if you can stomach it.
Trump, Putin, and Elon supporters seem to have an insight into their minds that no one else does. 🤔 You "know" they are secretly fighting the forces of evil.
The enemies of my enemies...
There is no mystery here. Meloni could personally toss refugee children alive into piranha tanks, and the Atlantic Council would sing her praises, as long as any realistic alternative were opposed to American hegemony in general and the War On Russia in particular.
You got played, that is all.
Nope. Check her donors list to see where you are wrong.
Instruct us.
I don’t know a thing about this except to say that Elon could very well fall in love with Giorgia, as she is both beautiful and has tons of personality.
Well, one more thing. I remember reading a memoir about the war on the Eastern Front written by a German soldier. He was talking to an Italian soldier about the war, and about Mussolini’s forays into Africa. The Italian soldier said that he thought the idea of an Italian empire was nonsense, saying “What for? In Italy we have everything we need.”
If only more people could have that attitude.
I had a geography teacher in 11th grade in high school who told me that his father was in the Italian Army while it was occupying Dalmatia in WW2 and that he told him that no one wanted to be there, as they were perfectly fine in Italy already.
Saw something similar from WW1: a German soldier who fought on all 3 major fronts remarked that the Italians were the only ones who didn't fire on retreating enemy soldiers. Inherent Italian reluctance to fight abroad (more than 10 km from their hometown).
The Italians did enough damage when they were Romans. I'm just prepared to entertain the idea that the Italians learned something from their Roman Empire days (like the English, they started by murdering and enslaving their neighbours first, fellow Italians) to behave better in the 20th and 21st century.
Given that the Italians and the Pope were the lead players in the Sack of Constantinople in 1204 which eventually lost Europe its most beautiful city, and the incredibly vicious conduct of both Venetians and Genoese in contesting their trade empires, probably not. Meloni is par for the Italian course. Deeply hypocritical, melodramatic, capricious and vicious.
I for one I’m glad the Portland is going to continue to decline: it is a cautionary tale.
No, it’s Civil Rights, which has always been a long term cheap real estate play.
Cautionary? For whom? Business schools will use Portland as an example of best practice in extracting profit from misery. Students who will one day run either the not-for-profit or welfare sector will learn from all this. The Portlands of the future will be way worse.
That’s funny.
You repurposed my common sense plea for practical solutions that work - by praising the chaos as a laudable make work project for the adherents of the progressive ideologies. It’s very true: we’ve overproduced social workers and fucking everything up is helpful, it validates their education and allows them to save the world and of course feel superior.
That’s it, human beings are dumb we don’t see we are in a trap. So, our best intentions are destructive and yet we persist, because, nobody wants to see it as such. Think about it, it is your kids that are fucking everything up . Your lovely little daughter and her good intentions are laying waste to the world and wreaking havoc, but isn’t she a sweetheart!
Good intentions are the mechanism of function for subconscious malice. You see this most clearly in the advocacy for gender affirmation by childless teachers envious of the reproductive sucess of others. But the examples are practically limitless.
And chaos only makes work for the grunt-level parasites. Apex level collect capital gains on it.
Collect capital gains on it, but blithely, they care not why or how, it’s just money and if it’s luxury beliefs that sells - then nonsense it is.
What I am saying is people don’t care to know. If you make them aware, if you show them, they will at best reject you out of hand and just as likely they will try to kill you.
I am speaking of my loved ones, it’s very disconcerting. Do you have that experience?
In a milder way. I have a very close relative who has sentimental illusions or very conventional opinions that I do not share but we do not argue. It is not a huge deal. I was brought up in a very contentious family full of people with strong, often conflicting, opinions. Pluralism in ideas was natural. It took me a very long while before I realised that people in general were actually threatened by alternate ideas. To a large degree I was very ill prepared for the real world. NB the family tore itself apart long ago over personalities and, to a less extent, resources, not ideas.
At the moment I am horrified by the number of people I know who have lost friends of alienated relatives over bullshit like politics. It is truly truly frightening. Very demoralising. The ridiculous thing is that most people are NPCs politically. It just does not matter what they think but opinions are used as a test. If you disagree that is a sign that you do not share the underlying emotion that the idea expresses. It is this resistance to shared emotion that triggers the baboon or chimp response. The pressures from conformism are escalating. The visceral aggression towards dissent or difference suggests something nasty is possibly on its way. I am retired, but if I was younger I'd definitely be an outcast.
Retired, I had intuited you as being young.
Something very nasty has already arrived. I am 60 and I feel massively isolated. We are lost.
On the day of the 911 attacks, just one hour after the planes hit, my Iranian colleague told me not to tell people what you think they will hate you forever. I will never forget that. He was right.
( edit? I don’t know without checking who SIO is nor Tim in Italy, I can infer. )
"some of you may be wondering why X owner Elon Musk would attend an event hosted by an organization that runs counter to his stated principles at X."
Uhhhh, Elon Musk still censors and remember "freedom of speech, not freedom of reach"? I don't understand how people think these inside corrupt oligarchs especially fake tech people who know nothing like Bill Gates or Elon Musk are not puppets.
Won’t comment on Meloni, except she doesn’t have that strong a hand to start, does she?
Blackrock’s intentions are well known.
As for Musk, here he’s committed to Trump . As in Commitment in decisive terms, such as when the military uses it in war. As to him branching out to the little too emotionally involved writing to disparage objectively (remember Dictator me would end NATO) Reagan had dinner with Armand Hammer, it did not change his Soviet policy.
Musk wants Mars, and to get Mars he needs the America he came to - we’re a launch platform. Which is fine.
Martians get homesick. Who knew?
Robert this comment is very acceptable.
Lol Portland! This is the usual Civil Rights arson for the long term real estate bought cheap, then developed and gentrified.
By cheap I mean taxpayer subsidies of some sort.
This is a Civil Rights Control Fraud for real estate scam that never gets old it seems.
You’ll find the Pritzkers, Blackrock before Blackrock here, or the same cast and crew.
What do people think happened in Detroit and many other cities?
LMAO 🤣. They deserve it.
They shouldn’t be allowed to move when they vote for this, that’s how the poison spreads.
The Left aren’t Utopians, they’re Locusts in America. The 12,000 who fled will do it again elsewhere.
Social media as war; if you’re not following @JohnRobb and his stack Nico you miss the John Boyd of Networked War.
Social media is a video game. People who forget that act in very amusing ways.
Excellent Kohn Nationalist link, thank you.
Oh no, I’m going to be sad about Old Forge aren’t I ? 😢