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Thursday, July 6. 2023

Thursday morning links

How to get blocked by @PETA 


 Do you belong to a sex club?  If so, do you claim your sex club dues as an expense on your income tax? 


 Ben & Jerry’s ugly 4th of July tweet shows why woke brands fail


 Reports on judge halting Biden admin's ability to censor Americans go full state media


Should be a big deal. Governments have little incentive for truth.


 Chris Hedges: They Lied About Afghanistan. They Lied About Iraq. And They Are Lying About Ukraine.


 MSNBC hopes to Make Fascism Great Again with full-throated advocacy for government censoring Americans


 "Orwellian Ministry Of Truth" Busted - Judge Bars Biden Officials, Agencies From Contacting Social Media Companies


 "It doesn’t quite have the ring of driving Miss Daisy, but on Independence Day a federal judge enjoined the Biden administration’s communications with social media companies. You can tell this is good news by the dyspepsia of the New York Times..."


Say Farewell To The "Diversity Benefits" Rationale For Affirmative Action


 The Downside of Diversity


Heather:   A Battle for Cultural Survival - In the face of the Left’s hyper-aggressive transgender ideology, conservatives must reassert the legitimacy of bourgeois norms.


 America traditionally had few immigration restrictions, but since the 1920s, the law has banned most aspiring immigrants. Today, fewer than 1 percent of people who want to move permanently to the United States can do so legally...


 After years of hearing immigration downplayed by official apologists, the French now realize just how much mass migration has changed the country...




Posted by Bird Dog in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 07:30 | Comments (22) | Trackbacks (0)

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Has anybody linked the spread of Islam to global warming yet? Maybe that might get more people interested in fighting that particular danger.
#1 Jerryskids on 2023-07-06 09:30 (Reply)
I don't have a link but I am pretty sure the current migration to Europe has been blamed on Global Warming in some quarters.

But why would we fight it, Jerryskids? Islam is "The Religion Of Peace" in the West and our ruling masters bend over backwards to accommodate it.

The French will likely 'solve' their current problems by levying more taxes on French citizens and give that money to the Muslim immigrants plus criminalizing criticism of the migrants and government policy towards them.
#1.1 feeblemind on 2023-07-06 11:07 (Reply)
I'm wondering how long before we hear that climate change is behind the latest bout of sunspot activity.
#1.2 JJM on 2023-07-06 12:44 (Reply)
Macron has already identified the problem as 'free speech and videogames'. I'm serious.
#1.3 Lord Heathen on 2023-07-06 17:57 (Reply)
The downside to diversity ... Trust vanishes.

Immigration changes the country ... dirt is not magic. Landing in France or any country, including the US does not make you French or American when the third world culture is still practiced and assimilation ignored.
#2 indyjonesouthere on 2023-07-06 09:57 (Reply)
If you make diversity a civic virtue, you're always going to be disappointed.

Diversity is merely a set of demographic statistics. It might mean your town has a really good selection of ethnic restaurants. But it could also mean your town has riots and murders because the local Bongolian and Strombonian communities despise one another.

The civic virtue is - and always has been - tolerance. That's the idea that that everyone has a right to live their life as they see fit and, although we might not personally agree with them, we are prepared to tolerate them (within the reasonable limits of civil society).

Not the same thing as diversity at all.
#2.1 JJM on 2023-07-06 13:09 (Reply)
Tolerance is highly overrated. It has provided us with drag queens in the buff, Islamist shooting firecrackers at cops, drag shows at military posts, grab and go shoppers, and a myriad of other offenses from BLM and antifa that simply keep escalating to more extreme perversions.

At some point we have to decide if that is the NEW and improved culture. Not for me. There is a reason for immigration control. An interesting feature of which is Quebec allowing Haitian immigrants because they speak French. Never mind that they killed off the French in Haiti. The foolishness has reached epidemic levels i never expected to see. DEI is marxism in drag. So is ESG. An old Marx saying is that communism is banning property ownership. And what is WEF but communism in drag. "You will own nothing and be happy".

Perhaps you dislike the word diversity but most of us know the word as the diversities and everyone knows who they are. Leave them to their own culture and their own closet.
#2.1.1 indyjonesouthere on 2023-07-06 14:13 (Reply)
I wonder---would it be possible to still expect (demand?) that local communities fight their own governments for "their own democracy"? Why is it always that they have to run away to America because they are not strong enough, or smart enough, or organized enough to do their own tough work? WTH can't the Venezuelans, or the Algerians, or the whoever fight their own damn battles? Why is it assumed that the individuals can just run here get safe, get fed, and we will go fight their battles for them? If there is a large Jewish community in that country why isn't it expected that Israel will go in and clean up the mess?
#3 Apple Pie on 2023-07-06 10:08 (Reply)
In a cell phone world everyone can see where the grass appears greener and that's where they head. They want more stuff.
#3.1 indyjonesouthere on 2023-07-06 20:48 (Reply)
What a silly article. Since the immigration act of 1965. Open the floodgates of immigration. We have had over 65 million illegal immigrants come to this country. In addition, many people suspect there are at least 30 million illegal immigrants in the country. An article moaning about how difficult it is to immigrate is just more open border propaganda. I would imagine less than 1% of men that want to have sex with supermodels are able to achieve this desire. Who cries for them Argentina? Immigration is a racket. It's a transfer of money from labor to capital. The only people that benefit our immigrants and the people who hire them. In the meantime they transfer all the social economic, and environmental burdens on tour poor communities. We need an immigration moratorium. Check out the studies by Prof. Borjas of Harvard who is a tenured professor specializing in the study of labor and immigration. Immigration is all about profit power and punishment.
#4 Robert Moffett (Link) on 2023-07-06 10:12 (Reply)
There is no good reason for a white man to join the U.S. military. They will be passed over for promotions in order to give promotions to POC and women. He will be required to attend demeaning lectures on his assumed racist life that he cannot correct because he is white and should forever be penalized for. He is forced to work for and work under incompetent leaders who achieved their position by virtue of their skin color or gender. He will be treated like shit and expected to kowtow to POC and females in the military. This is all fact. Why would any white man subject himself to this?
#5 OneGuy on 2023-07-06 10:41 (Reply)
Nurse Fired for Not Calling for Help After Having Sex with Dialysis Patient in Her Car

https://scrubsmag.com/nurse-fired-for-not-calling-for-help-after-having-sex-with-dialysis-patient-in-her-car/
#6 feeblemind on 2023-07-06 10:53 (Reply)
More and more people are being banned by their banks. It wasn't long ago that to read this was funny. I would joke "go get your money and use cash". But the implications are far worse of course. AND now that it is obvious governments are going to remove money/cash the problem caused by being debanked is much more serious. But consider the governments attempt to remove all sources of energy except for electricity. Your electricity can be shut of easier than your bank account. Will your electricity be shut of because of wrong think so that you can freeze or starve to death?
#7 Anon on 2023-07-06 11:25 (Reply)
Ice cream powerhouse Ben & Jerry’s used the Independence Day holiday to chastise the whole country via tweet: “This 4th of July, it’s high time we recognize that the US exists on stolen Indigenous land and commit to returning it.”

Perhaps Ben & Jerry could right that wrong by deeding their real estate and businesses to me, with my 1/512 Native American ancestry. Or maybe they could deed their real estate and businesses to my cousins who are 1/16 Native American.
#8 Gringo on 2023-07-06 11:59 (Reply)
This was as predictable as the sunrise.

White House Cocaine Story Evolves Again, 'Unlikely' Culprit Will Be Found

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/07/05/white-house-cocaine-story-evolves-again-unlikely-culprit-will-be-found-n771426
#9 feeblemind on 2023-07-06 11:59 (Reply)
Failure in Afghanistan is on your current president's head, I'm afraid.

And regarding Ukraine, all the talking-head quibbling over cause has been trumped by effect: the bungled Russian invasion, which completely changed the situation and status quo overnight on 24 February 2022.
#10 JJM on 2023-07-06 13:18 (Reply)
Kennedy Jr. empathizes with Ukrainians, raises concerns on NATO expansion, US INF treaty withdrawal, and the West's rejection of an April 2022 peace agreement.

https://wwwkanekoa.news/p/robert-f-kennedy-jr-sheds-light-on

Jun 29,2023

found at Citizen Free Press
#10.1 indyjonesouthere on 2023-07-06 16:19 (Reply)
France is burning. This is no surprise anyone could have predicted that some event would allow the excuse the invaders wanted to torch the country. An interesting thing happened. Vigilante groups formed to fill the void left by the government. There are stories of vigilantes turning over ziptie handcuffed terrorists to the police. SO what would you expect the government to do in response? Well of course! In the midst of this madness with burned building and cars and murders and assaults the French police have decided to investigate those citizens who captured terrorists and turned them in to the police. Do you doubt for a second that is exactly what will happen in the U.S. when some of these "migrants" Biden invited in burn U.S. cities?

The West isn't going to make it are they? We really are witnessing the end of civilization aren't we? Yes! I know! I don't want to believe it either, turn on the TV and let's watch some sports and have a Bud Light. It's fine...
#11 OneGuy on 2023-07-06 13:36 (Reply)
This time it's zip ties. Next time, toe tags. Terrible things happen when white folks finally decide to chimp out.
#11.1 Mike Anderson (Link) on 2023-07-06 14:17 (Reply)
The diversity cultures do not belong.
#12 indyjonesouthere on 2023-07-06 14:17 (Reply)
Good thing France has carbon credits, huh?
#13 Zachinoff on 2023-07-06 17:55 (Reply)
"Diversity Is Our Strength", reads the motto on a billboard encouraging businesses to locate to a nearby Township. This claim is repeated religiously everywhere these days, invariably without any justification or evidence that it is true. That is a characteristic of religious dogma--as is the fact that it is considered heretical to question it. One can't help but wonder if those proclaiming it suffer from persistent doubts about its veracity, which they try to assuage with these public declarations of piety.

The truth, in my experience, is that diversity (racial, ethnic, age, sex, whatever) is not so much a strength as a problem to be managed, when it exists in an organization. It is hard enough to get a group of people working together cooperatively on a goal when they do not have greatly different backgrounds, assumptions, or preloaded suspicions and resentments on board. It can be done, but it consumes time and energy that does not contribute to the mission.
#14 Hairless Joe on 2023-07-07 09:11 (Reply)

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