It is now clear that "it costs you nothing" to comply means "it may cost you everything if you defy." The route from passive aggressive wheedling to open threats and attacks is increasingly short.
@wesyang
All natural, ethical, and epistemological boundaries are to be removed: children/adults, women/men, choice/coercion, feelings/knowledge, observation/conclusion, accusation/guilt, disgust/attraction, truth/lies, mind/matter.
@cliftonaduncan
"I'm going to forget all the trauma I inflicted so I can get back up on my high horse without shame or restraint for Tyranny, Round 2."
@gran1te_mtn
The first time I watched NCFOM I became fascinated by the visuals of nihilism, from bolt gun wounds in heads and doors, to the loops behind the gas station guy, to the mother's complaint of not knowing anyone in El Paso, the coins. Voids everywhere.
@martyrmade
@JDVance1
If Russia had remained Communist in some form it would still be the darling of academia and media. If, after the Soviet collapse, it had permitted rapacious Western asset stripping to continue it would have been the new mascot of GlobalCap empire mongers.
@SeanMcCarthyCom
It would be cool to project a hologram of Albright saying "It was worth it" over every image of the towers and over the memorial every September 11th all day long. Just Albright saying "It was worth it" in an endless loop.
@drsimonegold
During those 10 days the students will be pressured into pro-mask ideology. When the 10 days are up they, in turn, will exert peer pressure on students who don't wear masks. They are running a social experiment.
@eugyppius1
The few I've listened to or read accounts of strike me as insightful about their mistakes, stoic in the face of suffering caused by folly and hubris, and intent on preventing others from taking the same path.
@julie_kelly2
The same tactic of leaving buildings lightly defended in order to bait protesters was used in Germany in August 2020. Provoking and enabling violence in order to crack down in an is old, effective trick. Don't go for the bait.
@FischerKing64
GloboCap--the new collectivist ideology reducing all values to the transactional and all culture to petting zoos. Synthetic technosphere.
@BillboardChris
“No man in the wrong can stand up against a fellow that’s in the right who just keeps on a-comin’.”
--Captain William Jesse McDonald, Texas Ranger (1852-1918)
@walterkirn
Bought a couch and wanted 100% cotton velvet. They don't use wool or cotton velvet anymore because "consumers" complained that they're hard to clean. But they last FOREVER. Our old couch is 32 yrs old and is comfy and looks pretty good, except for the port stains.
@DavidBCollum
Friend asked what's going to happen when people grasp the enormity of this sin.
I said, "Nothing. They will deny, taking refuge in 'long covid,' climate change, and any other spoon-fed obvious lie."
Still, I urge them to read "Sickening," but w/o mentioning current events.
Neighbor: We're hosting a big dinner at X restaurant and you're invited so long as you get vaccinated first.
Me: That's okay. I'll just wave at you from another table.
It's not about health; it's about ostentatious disapproval of your disobedience.
@pmarca
"Trade and money, which go together in a stream of energy, inevitably wash away the enclosing walls of a society of status."
--Isabel Paterson, The God of the Machine
@herandrews
I worked with a robust 33 yr old woman who was shocked when her doc said her first pregnancy was "geriatric" and might be difficult. She developed pre-eclampsia and spent the last two months hospitalized. Baby born healthy but it was a nail biter.
@goinggodward
Public schools should be required to keep track of and publish data in statewide and local media on the number of fights occurring on school grounds/buses, daily, weekly, and annually.
@tomselliott
For some politicians and for all types of superficial social masqueraders, family and pets are mere accoutrements intended to make themselves seem normal.
@eugyppius1
The tone, style, and diction are adolescent and feminine, appropriate for a dinner theater hysterical monologue of self-righteousness. Even he did not write that.
@drnathimdladla
"From now on stop using stitches and use only butterfly bandages."
"Why are all these people bleeding to death?"
"Blood loss is so bad. Whaddya gonna do? Such a tragedy."
"Stitches?"
"NO!"
@FischerKing64
I have a friend who "corrects" me every time I use hyperbole. Her sense of humor begins and ends with mirthless, ponderous sarcasm. Basically, she can't keep up and I've tired of saying "I'm joking. This is not a deposition but a conversation FFS."
@tomselliott
From "there is no evidence" to "none of us know the details" to "this is standard." This is less about Biden and more about corporate media laundering their regime propaganda.
The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.--Joseph Conrad
@SethDillon
I worked with a 90 year old (1991) who said, "Most people would rather live well than live long. And when that is reversed they won't be people worth knowing."
@JuanMVP
Officer rethinking everything he could have done differently, like testing driver for alcohol impairment--even if only to slow the process and kill the adrenaline--arresting the driver on the spot for recklessness, and having car towed. Instead he gave the driver a "break."
@RealDSchmidt
They're the high IQ version of Todd Alquist, played by Jesse Plemons on Breaking Bad and in El Camino. "Opie dead-eyed" ciphers who do what they've been programmed to do and are "nice" while doing it.
@naomirwolf
Submitting to abuse just leads to more and greater abuse. Some fight from the start, some later, some never, and some join the abusers--also from the start or later.
@AlexBerenson
"I didn't support mandates, but I spent hours of my life thinking up ways to punish and isolate people who wouldn't do what I want, like denying them entry into emergency rooms and ICUs because....consequences."
Receipts for this line of "reasoning" should also be saved.
@BretWeinstein
The two buttons are "fear" and "obedience," which are pressed until the average person learns to fear their own disobedience and resent that of others.
@Watchman_motto
Our O'Keefe Merritt range doesn't have a self-cleaning function but has only had one repair, last year ($200). Manufactured in 1968. Same washer, dryer, and fridge for past 20 years, all from Sears. No repairs.
@EricaJSandberg
@cliftonaduncan
They recognize it and they revel in it, baring their fangs at the only chance they will ever have to dominate in what is turning into a massive scapegoating event.
@AlexBerenson
The purpose of the US sabotage of N2 is to prevent Germany from advocating for a peace settlement in the face of massive protests from citizens. It stands as a warning to any other state to not advocate for settlement no matter what citizens want.
@paulkrugman
Virginia, specifically Northern VA is the most subsidized--all military, Feds, fed contractors, intel community, creepy tech/security firms that serve the IC, econ consultants, and all the usual leeches.
One giant tax suck from every other state.
@CatherineKronas
@WesternU
Saying "I believe the least qualified person should get the job" is also forbidden because someone might get a big laugh and laughing is a macro-aggression, genocide even.
@nua_peasant
Also: Physical modesty is a virtue that protects women--and children--from predators. Attempts to mock, deride, and banish modesty are attempts to delude and disarm the physically vulnerable. If you choose to jettison modesty you better carry and know how to use a gun.
@MaxBlumenthal
The new, blood-based trickle down economics:
"Those people were willing, as the Ukrainian people are, to use their blood and our bullets."
"Most of the money is spent here in America."
@AmberFaire1
They identify with the aggression and hostility of the creep and stave off this unpleasant bit of self-awareness by demanding empathy for the creep. Such faux morality is performative and self-soothing, not at all kind or enlightened.
@alon_mizrahi
The "deadly strike" is described as if it were lightning, an act of nature. It could have been described as an instance of "bomb violence," much like the "gun violence" beloved of journos to suggest that inanimate objects just do evil acts for no reason.
@matthewstoller
I love the map. Virginia, specifically Northern VA is the most subsidized--all military, Feds, fed contractors, intel community, weird tech firms that serve the IC. One giant tax suck from every other state.
@robkhenderson
Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their deliberate actions, long persevered in, which they hold to be motivated by high ideals toward virtuous ends.
― Isabel Paterson, The God of the Machine (1943)
@FischerKing64
You can find meanness in the least of creatures, but when God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it.--Blood Meridian
@synedra
@scrollpastthis
@NumbersMuncher
They will soon be out of beds because the personnel who staff them are being fired for not being vaccinated. Oh, we have 50 beds but can only staff 3 because self-righteousness is our supreme value.