We’re Moving to a Faster Pace

 

Look out, here comes the Master Race! Warning: language, because AUTHENTIC PEOPLE who have THE RAGE always swear.

This fellow went on quite a tear about the Wisconsin case. While you can wave away most of the effervescent fulminations on Twitter, it’s always fun to see what the Verified Voices are saying.

So: second wave. I think he means a global Second Wave, which is lapping at the shores of every nation. Note that that ol’ goose stepper Youngkin is a standard-bearer for the new nightmare.

What seemed to be the big issue towards the end of the VA election? Education, and the rights of the parents vs. the ideology of the state. But since the statists were the good people – they just wanted to teach about history and racism and marginalized sexual identities! – the parents were fascists who wanted sanitized panegyrics to whiteness.

Progs: whiteness is a systemic evil!

Ordinary Americans, perplexed: that seems like a rather racist worldview.

Progs: oh look who’s imagining he’s being persecuted

Same dude:

Perhaps the “American Right” was focused on the self-defense issue, but sure: there were people who did not mourn “Jojo,” as actor Mark Ruffalo called the child rapist, and regarded the violent rioters as, well, violent rioters. This is the peculiar moral inversion of the era: it is meet and right to burn and destroy, but the people who object to the destruction are the shock-troops of fascism. It is noble to deface a building with a painted slogan; the very act of spraying graffiti is sanctified by the rightness of your cause. The only possible explanation for someone preventing you from defacing the building, or washing it off later, is because they disagree with you, and if they do, then voila: they are fascists. It’s really that simple.

A reminder: if Rittenhouse had been killed that night, no one would remember his name. The trial of his killer would not have been national news. (Like Gosnell, a “local story.”) Killing him would have been necessary, Because Fascism.

Why, perhaps it still is.

Another verified genius weighs in, with a reminder.

Should this happen, it will not be a sign that street violence is a terrible thing to countenance, and leads to hideous ends; it’s a sign that the horrible system under which we labor produces injustices that produce lamentable, but understandable, reactions. I mean, if you don’t want judges shot down in the streets, elect better judges, y’know?

Oh by the way he didn’t mean it like that you idiots.

We continue:

One might say that the summer of 2020, with its impotent reactions to criminal destruction of American cities, might, in some tortured sense, be defined as “anarchy.” The left’s defense of destruction For Great Justice, and waving away of the plight of the “victims” might also be construed as a “validation” of “mayhem.”

I mean, it’s not an unreasonable idea, is it?

It is? Sorry. I guess that’s the sort of blinkered foolishness you’d expect from someone who is not making plans to flee:

The left is completely powerless to prevent this, it seems. They have no power. The government, the educational establishment, the media: all weak as Parvo-stricken puppies, unable to muster anything more than a feeble bleat of disapproval. Soon the streets will fill with angry men who want to break store windows and set cars on fire.

No no not those guys, they’re good! We mean the bad ones.

There will be mobs who attack Jews. No no not those guys, they’re angry about colonialism or acting out whiteness doctrines of otherizing, please keep up.

There will be throngs of white men in positions of authority demanding that Asians be suppressed in academic admissions –

What? No, no, that’s different. Please, you’re not conversant in the prismatic subtleties of the intersectional matrix, so maybe sit this one out? Once you’ve done the work, then perhaps you will be alert to the neo-Fascist elements who will restructure society to otherize those who do not have pure blood –

What? No, no, that’s different. That’s a matter of public health. Of course, you should have to show your papers. Point is, America is a lost cause. Soon, very soon, a group of people will try to burn down a city because they saw some tweets about a thing, and there will be a horrifying moment when the authorities prevent it. The nascent subterranean Fascist instinct ignites in the citizens, and they will join the police to prevent the people from smashing the store windows and burning down the legislature building.

When the morning rises and the streets are not twinkling with broken glass – Kristall-not!  –  and the legislature is not a smoldering heap – well, then you’ll know.  The Second Wave of Fascism has crashed on the shores of America, and engulfed us all.

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  1. Barfly Member
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    Yeah, it is accelerating. My $0.02 is that we must replace the private information systems that step-functioned the whole socio-system into instability. I mean Gargle, Fatbook, and Borgazon. Replace them with open distributed substitutes – I can see how it might be done, and I’m sure there are devs who have even better ideas.

    Our substitutes need to be good enough to be competitive, mastery of the market isn’t required.

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  2. Percival Thatcher
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    Barfly (View Comment):

    Percival (View Comment):
    They’ve pushed out as far as they can, and it hasn’t been enough. They are overextended.

    I’ve thought about that. Traditionally, overextension means stretching one’s logistic train and leaving it unprotected.

    They depend on the tech base. That’s what we have to address.

    That’s true, but the other part of overextension is being engaged in more places than you can handle. Even that can be okay if you are dominating most of those positions. They are losing everywhere. We’ve got an Energy Secretary touting the decision to release 50M barrels of oil from the Strategic Oil Reserve who doesn’t know that represents less than three days worth of oil.

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  3. kedavis Coolidge
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    Percival (View Comment):

    Barfly (View Comment):

    Percival (View Comment):
    They’ve pushed out as far as they can, and it hasn’t been enough. They are overextended.

    I’ve thought about that. Traditionally, overextension means stretching one’s logistic train and leaving it unprotected.

    They depend on the tech base. That’s what we have to address.

    That’s true, but the other part of overextension is being engaged in more places than you can handle. Even that can be okay if you are dominating most of those positions. They are losing everywhere. We’ve got an Energy Secretary touting the decision to release 50M barrels of oil from the Strategic Oil Reserve who doesn’t know that represents less than three days worth of oil.

    And it will be sold at current-market prices, except maybe for the part that’s been pre-allocated to China, India…

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  4. Barfly Member
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    Percival (View Comment):

    Barfly (View Comment):

    Percival (View Comment):
    They’ve pushed out as far as they can, and it hasn’t been enough. They are overextended.

    I’ve thought about that. Traditionally, overextension means stretching one’s logistic train and leaving it unprotected.

    They depend on the tech base. That’s what we have to address.

    That’s true, but the other part of overextension is being engaged in more places than you can handle. Even that can be okay if you are dominating most of those positions. They are losing everywhere. We’ve got an Energy Secretary touting the decision to release 50M barrels of oil from the Strategic Oil Reserve who doesn’t know that represents less than three days worth of oil.

    I don’t think they consider any of that “losing.” They don’t show signs of retreat or fracture on any front, even those where they’ve caused openly acknowledged disasters.

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  5. CarolJoy, Not So Easy To Kill Coolidge
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    I just watched a video that compares the Values and Principle Tenets of Jim Jones to the current day Values and Principle Tenets of The Virtuous Woke Nation, and the parallels that actually exist are scary.

    Disdain for the nation of the US, its traditions, its society, its institutions — CHECK!!

    Acceptance of The Doctrine That White People and all cultures which  the “White Man”   have influenced as being oppressive, slave-creating cultures — CHECK!!

    Being willing to turn over all personal income, monetary streams, personal property so the society will benefit — CHECK!!

    Being willing to engage in a society in which your thinking should always line up with that of the Principles announced by the society leaders — CHECK!!

    Willingness to participate in a ritualized ceremony that could end your life – a suicide for the benefit of the leader of the community and your fellow brothers and sisters in the society with the only benefit being the rejoicing with one another over their devotion to doing what was required to remain in the  Jim Jones society– SEMI-CHECK!!

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    I did not  realize til I viewed the presentation that Jim Jones ran these “suicide runs” continually, so the first few rounds of this ritual were ceremonies some people did not participate in. So those who did not play along were alternately disparaged, by other members, but then given a loving audience with Jones himself. So once it became, through experience, simply a ritual that everyone lived through, and by which the survivors could congratulate first themself and also each other, why wouldn’t an individual participate in the ritual?

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  6. CarolJoy, Not So Easy To Kill Coolidge
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    Barfly (View Comment):

    Yeah, it is accelerating. My $0.02 is that we must replace the private information systems that step-functioned the whole socio-system into instability. I mean Gargle, Fatbook, and Borgazon. Replace them with open distributed substitutes – I can see how it might be done, and I’m sure there are devs who have even better ideas.

    Our substitutes need to be good enough to be competitive, mastery of the market isn’t required.

    I love redstatemedia DOT com, with Stew Peters. He just instituted a 5 to 10 dollar a month subscription model, in order to view the best of the videos. I was donating more than that, but I hope there are scholarships available for people who cannot afford it. (Especially given that many people who need his work are now laid off w/o a  any pay due to their not succumbing to their hospital or clinics dictate about getting vaxxed.)

    As far as the Zuckerberg Dorsey soc media,  etc,   there is this:

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  7. I Walton Member
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    Henry Racette (View Comment):

    It occurred to me today that perhaps my general sense of optimism is…

    wait for it…

    insufficient for the occasion.

    Seriously. I was thinking about the miserable dynamics of the modern hard-left progressive woke. These people can handle neither victory nor defeat with anything other than outrageous excess. In victory they feel emboldened to rocket ahead, further alienating the vast middle of America. In defeat they lash out and destroy… further alienating that same vast middle.

    I don’t think the left can rein in their crazies. They fed this tiger and now they’re stuck riding it.

    Nor do they have to.  When have totalitarians failed by being less totalitarian or reigning in the crazies that destroy on the streets.  Has the left or even moderate democrats done anything to make elections more fair, less open to fraud?    

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