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Saturday, September 19. 2020Saturday morning linksPostmodernism: Some Corrections and Clarifications Folks, do not watch this movie if you want to be happy the rest of the day or get some sleep. The US Constitution and the Importance of Writing It Down Betsy DeVos Calls Princeton's Bluff: If You Really Are Racist, No More Federal Funding Trump Administration Banning TikTok Downloads in US Climate Change Apocalypse: "Permanently Immunized From Falsification" Connecticut strives for highest electricity rates in the USA Oxford Museum Removes Displays to Advance Decolonization Another Mary Statue Toppled and Destroyed — This Time in Brooklyn, New York MacDonald: Fearless Thinking in an Age of Conformity - 10 Blocks podcast Minneapolis is beginning to reckon with its disastrous Marxist policies Poll: Support For Black Lives Matter Drops, More Voters Now Consider Unrest ‘Riots’ Not ‘Protests’ Who's Really Looting America? Liberal warnings about Trump's Middle East policy have proven embarrassingly wrong Comments
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RIP R.G.B.
Buckle up, we are about to explore new heights of mendacity and TDS. One wonders if the timing of her death is an act of God?
I was raised in a home with the philosophy of "be kind to those people (black)they are having a hard time of it".
I easily slipped into the habit of calling them African/American. I no longer feel that is the correct way to refer to members of that community. I now feel it is correct to say someone is black, or from the black community. That is what they do in Australia. I also think the decision by the media--many years ago--to stop identifying some criminal with a picture, or a text description that made clear the offender is front the black community. This decision was made a long time ago--and I believe that is also the wrong strategy. Let the news report the story--if the shooter is from the Black community---say it! QUOTE: Minneapolis is beginning to reckon with its disastrous Marxist policies Skin in the game, at long last. “Postmodernism: Some Corrections and Clarifications”
A few people and my modest self were once at a reunion chatting about Ayn Rand and her ideas when we were joined by someone who was introduced to us as a professor of physics in some university or another. This pretentious dude was of the kind that puts forth that “reality is whatever anybody thinks it is” I suggested a very simple philosophical experiment of the practical kind that would go like this: with his explicit permission I would punch him in the nose as hard as I could and he would just think that nothing had happened and go on sipping his drink, quite happy and unharmed. A little crestfallen he declined mentioning some vague excuses of the kind of “I suspect I might not feel well with the results of the experiment” and was laughed at uproariously by the people around us. So I proposed a second simple philosophical experiment of the practical kind that would involve him exiting the building by merely thinking that we were at street level instead of a 5th floor and going straight out through the window and proving that his mind was the absolute arbiter of reality and that “reality was whatever he thought it was” He again declined, a little more crestfallen than before and soon was pointing the ship of his sorry existence to other parts of the meeting followed by more laughter and mocking looks and comments. Talking is cheap. But although they want to live denying it, they KNOW that there’s a reality out there that they don’t dare to challenge. It’s all a con. A game. That only works for as long as there are others paying the price. It always comes back to the notion that hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, weak men create hard times. There are people who live by BS because others tolerate them and because they have access to stolen taxpayers money. The people who pay the taxes, mostly men and mostly NOT living by BS standards get little say in the matter. Today we already owe more than our GDP. What has all that money bought us? Almost nothing. Almost all of it was stolen. And a sizable portion of it went to feed the ridiculous notions and fantasies and dreams of tyranny of the left and the Deep State Swamp. ALL of the BS that is about to destroy America and Western civilization is “just a massive con” And this massive con only works for as long as the strong men allow it. Because all the “everything is relative” and “reality is whatever we think it is” lefto pukes out there would die off very soon without the production the safety and the comfort provided by better people than themselves who live by very different standards. We should stop tolerating their antics and stop paying for their sorry lives with our taxes. No physics professor believes that reality is what you think it is. If you can formulate a question at at least a high school level, I will try to explain what he meant. I'm not holding my breath.
You have an answer to a question yet to be formulated? Damn, you're good!
WE (you and I and everyone at MF) need to train our people to pick up a sign, meet at the corner and march in demonstration. Not just sit here on the internet and whine. What counts is the visual!
Excellent article by Lee Smith, link below:
I'd call it "the 10,000ft. view": America’s China Class Launches a New War Against Trump - Tablet Magazine https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/americas-china-class-fights-trump RBG.
There's got to be Rules of how replacement happens in spite of what someone said, or what her wish was. If she felt that strongly, she should have stepped down at a time of her choosing. Another person brings up the very real problem: The election more than likely will be contested, which may go up to the Court. Get the position filled in a timely manner to remove one more obstacle to government function. Growing concern about Lockdown from doctors in Belgium
https://drmalcolmkendrick.org/2020/09/19/growing-concern-about-lockdown-from-doctors-in-belgium/#comments re Betsy DeVos Calls Princeton's Bluff: If You Really Are Racist, No More Federal Funding
It will be most interesting to hear Princeton explain how it is systemically racist and yet does not discriminate or cause harm to people of color. One of the hallmarks of today's struggle sessions is to make claims that are un-falsifiable - i.e., can't be disproven by observation or experimentation - but nonetheless require redress at the expense of someone else. Anthropogenic Global Warming! We all must pay for the sin of using oil, and live without air conditioning - is a great example of this kind of premise, and the Manhattan Contrarian just wrote about it.
Systemic Racism is another example of un-falsifiable claims where the complainant is demanding redress. But now we have a terrific solution presenting itself. So Princeton: You claim you have systemic racism throughout the system, eh? Well! Thank you very much! No more federal funds until you have proven that you have solved your problem. Re: Princeton
Administrative subpoenas are a real bitch, that one's truly onerous. You can tell that whoever wrote the subpoena was having a lot of fun putting the school through the wringer. Re: The importance of writing it down - There is a clear method by which the Constitution can be amended right in the Constitution itself. Those who know they don't have the votes to change the Constitution by the proper method desire to change it by "reinterpreting" the plain language, by ignoring language that "doesn't apply to our modern world", by simply pretending to imagine what our Founding Fathers should have done. They can't change the Constitution legally, so they've opted to change it extra-legally and cloak their subterfuge in obfuscation.
FWIW, RBG clearly favored this method of changing the Constitution, despite her oath to uphold the compact, she used every opportunity to subvert it. She had a clear idea of what the Constitution would have looked like had she written it and, having no doubt she was much wiser than James Madison, she tried her best to change the document as she saw fit. |
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