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Friday, April 1. 2022

Friday morning links



Note: Not one of today's linked absurdities is an April Fools' jokes. 


 Warhol: The Void Beneath the Emptiness


Disney Silent On Leaked Videos That Tout Injecting ‘Queerness’ Into Kids’ Shows


 Disney death wish?


 California Reparations Panel Struggles To Decide Which Black Americans Should Receive Handouts


 No Free Thinkers Need Apply. Equity advocates have captured the field of public health.


 AT THIS POINT, EVERY “HATE” INCIDENT IS PRESUMPTIVELY A HOAX


 HOW CDC COLLUDED WITH TEACHERS’ UNIONS TO DEVASTATE AMERICA’S CHILDREN


 Rachel Walensky and the CDC Allowed Teachers Unions, Not "Science," to Dictate the Nation's School Closing and Masking Policies




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I started to buy additional food in preparation for the coming food crisis. Every time I go shopping I buy a little extra of the foods that will store easily. So yesterday when I got home my neighbor was waiting outside for his ride to healthcare. He is an older gentleman who is a really nice neighbor. He saw me making multiple trips into the house with bags of groceries and commented on it. As we were talking I told him my plan to stock up and he got real serious and told me I shouldn't tell anyone what I'm doing. Kind of surprised me. Why, I asked him? he said that if things get bad the government will come after people who stocked up calling them hoarders and may even punish them and take their food storage away. I didn't know what to say but then his ride came and he was gone. Now I'm worried. I would chalk it all up to an old man's conspiracy theory but as we all know the conspiracy theories of the last few years have turned out to be early warnings of actual truths exposed later on. Now I'm a little worried and I'm hiding canned goods under my bed. Our government would come to our homes and take our food from us would they? And put "hoarders" in jail, right?
#1 polyanna on 2022-04-01 11:14 (Reply)
Have you ever heard of Operation Northwoods? In 1962 the DoD and CIA concocted a plan that involved shooting down a plane full of American passengers and then blaming it on Cuba, so as to justify invading Cuba. That was 1962. A time when the morals of our government were in much better shape. What are they capable of doing today?
#1.1 B. Hammer on 2022-04-01 16:25 (Reply)
reparations:
How about reparations for Japanese internment? Much more recent and more clearly a direct cause by Federal/State government internment.

The Hagiwara bonsai garden in Golden Gate Park was "appropriated" by the government (then "donated" to Golden Gate Park) from Hagiwara, the bonsai master.
#2 ns (Link) on 2022-04-01 11:23 (Reply)
How about reparations for those who fought the Japanese in WW II?
#2.1 JustMe on 2022-04-01 12:06 (Reply)
Reagan signed the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 awarding every survivor of Japanese internment $20,000 and a formal apology.

This is in no way similar to what the slavery reparations movement today wants. They want to take money from people who never were slave owners and give it to people who were never slaves.
#2.2 mudbug on 2022-04-01 12:12 (Reply)
I have several arguments to justify internment which I believe are persuasive, but really it comes down to the question, "Were interned Japanese men subject to conscription?" The answer is in some places yes and in some places no.
#2.3 SF jeff on 2022-04-01 13:20 (Reply)
We may need internment again since we chose to import so many people who hate us. But I doubt we will do it so we will suffer the fate of the stupid. My uncle was drafted into the Army as soon as the war started and he fought in the South Pacific. I remember the stories (after the war) of the brutality and torture by the Japanese. I am not trying to infer that the Japanese who lived in the U.S. or were interred were in any way responsible but I am saying that they spent the war at "summer camp" while a few million of our men fought in terrible battles and some died or carried injuries for life. All things considered those who were interred got off easy.
#2.3.1 JustMe on 2022-04-01 14:52 (Reply)
There are no persuasive arguments for interning American citizens on the basis of race or ethnicity.

The fact that you have to ask any question about Japanese-American servicemen means you don't know enough to have an opinion worth making or hearing. ProTip: google 442nd Regimental Combat Team and the 100th Battalion.

Then go find someone to apologize to.
#2.3.2 officially Black on 2022-04-01 14:55 (Reply)
"There are no persuasive arguments for interning American citizens on the basis of race or ethnicity."

If you are blind maybe. We see it everyday. Terrorism! Almost every Western country has immigrants who hate their adopted country and the people in it. They kill and maim with impunity and their reason is exactly race and ethnicity. Internment is a defensive measure against an aggressor and ironically the aggressor is an aggressor because they hate your race and ethnicity, If you don't see that you are blind.
#2.3.2.1 JustMe on 2022-04-01 15:45 (Reply)
Retired USN. There's more to this world than you learned playing first person shooters on the internet, and I'm not into your conspiracy BS.

But I'm glad I schooled you on a little history of the much decorated 442nd RCT and 100th Infantry Battalion (Separate) which became 1/442 RCT and together the most-decorated unit in U.S. military history for its size and length of service. The 442d suffered almost 9,500 casualties. A list of its battle honors would fill even the pit of your ignorance.

To make it clear, since facts can't penetrate your skull, these were almost entirely second generation Japanese-Americans. From the internment camps. Imprisoned for no other reason than being of Japanese descent. Comprende? Sabe??

Internees were in "summer camps" ? You can't possibly be this ignorant.

30,000 Americans of Japanese descent volunteered in WW2 from your "summer camps."

Continue to trash American servicemen. I get the feeling you've only just begun to insult war dead.
#2.3.2.1.1 officially Black on 2022-04-01 16:26 (Reply)
You didn't school me on them a Japanese American that I worked with and who was interred as a child did.

Yes Internees were in "summer camps" compared to what draftees had to endure, Comprende? Sabe??

"Continue to trash American servicemen." Reading comprehension a problem for you?? I too retired from 20 years in the service and cherish my service. Would never trash them.

"I'm not into your conspiracy BS." That's too bad, you will be surprised then when it happens.

Let me school you: Roosevelt contacted Japanese-American leaders in California to ask for their help in identifying other Japanese-Americans there who were planning sabotage. He was refused and decided that he couldn't afford to have internal enemies and since they wouldn't help him find them he opted for internment which is actually a hell of a lot better than imprisonment, i.e. summer camp. Maybe you are too young to know better but in 1941-42 we did not know we would win. There was a fair chance that Japan and Germany would win. We needed full commitment and that included keeping potential saboteurs from harming us. Take it or leave it I could care less. Internment was still a lot better than fighting in Okinawa or Iwo Jima.
#2.3.2.1.1.1 JustMe on 2022-04-01 19:34 (Reply)
Scientists now believe that the Omicron variant was not from natural causes but was created in a lab and intentionally released. The theory is that it was created to be far more transmissible and that it was released to test it's transmissibility. The next step is believed to be to now alter that virus to make it more deadly as well. Wake up this is China and the world is under attack.
#3 Anon on 2022-04-01 12:09 (Reply)
A different belief is that it was released as the real vaccine.

Someone is doing experiments. Russia knows that those labs in Ukraine are existential threats to it.
#3.1 DrTorch (Link) on 2022-04-01 13:01 (Reply)
"Black Crab" on Netflix

Spooky shit.
Check it out.
#3.1.1 Zachinoff on 2022-04-01 15:24 (Reply)
"Scientists" believe that, do they?
Listen to yourself.
#3.2 Assistant Village Idiot on 2022-04-03 20:45 (Reply)
Russia is not suffering under the sanctions, in fact their exports have increased dramatically and they are taking in more money than ever. It is Americans and Europeans who are suffering under the sanctions. Was that the intent? It would seem to be as everything Biden does harms us more and clearly those actions are intentional. In just a few days Biden plans to remove the last impediment to illegal immigration and the estimate is 500,000 illegals in a month. Then there is the effort to reduce the strategic oil reserve to nothing. It is already at the lowest point in 40 years and Biden intends to pump from it for the next 6 months. Who owns Biden?
#4 OneGuy on 2022-04-01 12:16 (Reply)
Sign me up for California free stuff. As of today, I Identify as a black guy, descended from slaves. Family history, exactly like Sen. Fauxohantas. Bring on the bling and Colt Fo-Five.
#5 officially Black on 2022-04-01 13:27 (Reply)
So, Mexico is a country in North America. And it is south of a bigger country, a country called the United States. A caravan of real people, people in Mexico, are heading north to come to America. I mean, let's take a moment and understand what is really going on here, a caravan of people are walking to America. So, basically it is people walking, in a caravan of people.
-K Harris.
#6 B. Hammer on 2022-04-01 14:05 (Reply)
Funny thing, I actually know a lot of these children, and their parents. They aren't devastated. If the CDC exaggerated, can we not say that conservatives are exaggerating far more now? Hyperventilating doesn't make it true. Most of the scare stories (the kids are all going to be stupid and then die) about the move to online or hybrid schooling - please note that those are not "closing" schools - are based on supposition and poor data.

As for the stimulus checks - no, they were not worth it to the country, though I am sure they helped some individuals who needed it. The current inflation is economic damage from covid interfering with business plus stimulus costs. The cost of Biden's poor energy choices, build back better, and the downstream effects of war in eastern Europe are still to come. And no, electing Republicans this fall, though greatly to be hoped for, will not be anywhere near in time to turn that around. We are screwed for five years no matter what we do.
#7 Assistant Village Idiot on 2022-04-01 17:25 (Reply)
When do my "reparations and pain and suffering" checks arrive? I expect them as all my Asian, Polish, Irish, and German ancestors, from whom I am directly descended, were enslaved, indenture, oppressed, and discriminated against by someone, somewhere, somewhen. Gotta place my order for a full-house Ford 350 now. Laterz.
#8 Ted on 2022-04-01 23:10 (Reply)

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