i am a black woman. this racist bs is chum in the water and these racist bigoted young people ARE the modern day kkk with nothing better to do than disrupt the peace in people’s lives. ignore all of it because it is pure weaponized stinking bs. we have FAR more important things to do than accuse people enjoying the rain of racism🫣🤡
Well, as I am neither black nor white, but a member of the Speckled Band, I wasn't really denigrating my own skin color, now was I?
I could make the racially charged call for my speckled brethren to rise up and throw off the chains of their bland-skinned oppressors, but that's a topic for a different time... 😁😁😁
i'm sure it's all gonna work out at the pearly gates! we've been made to feel that what's between our legs and the color of our skin is more important than what is embedded in our hearts. let us begin to unravel this historical hex and live like it's 2025 and we don't really need no revolutions or pierce nosed influencers telling us how the world works. good grief. make the nonsense stop!
We were working towards that idea for a long time but influencers from several races sabotaged all the progress that was being made. That and social programs designed to keep black people dependent on the "plantation" of government subsidies and handouts.
I don't know about you but I found it horribly demeaning when the left stated that voter ID is racist - as if black folks are too stupid to get an ID or bring it with them to the polls. •`_´•
oh,yeah man. the whole thing has been a DIRTY game for longer than i've been alive and i've been around for a minute! i, for one, am quite vocal about the whole sham. i call out my liberal friends and accuse them openly of their own projections and bigotry by even RACIALIZING or SEXUALIZING anyone. this is the very core of all this idiocy. i'm also vocal with young black people addicted to the bogeyman of 'white supremacist.' calling voter id racists is the BIGGEST insult to any community but especially people who cannot possibly do ANYTHING without id. and if you don't have it,guess what?? you don't vote. it kinda works LIKE THAT. funny how the focus is on all this identity but we're forbidden from pointing to obesity, diabetes etc ravaging poor communities. talk and talk a lot is my motto. glad you're on board. we do better work together fighting these corporate lying toxic paper demons.
God bless you and all people of all races who think as you do. Seeing people, especially black people, who buck all the leftist stereotypes and rhetorical horse manure gives me hope for a better future in my lifetime. Thank you, thank you!
Calling out racism even when it does not exist is confrontational. Confrontation is entertainment. Entertainment buys clicks. Clicks buy ad revenue. I do wonder whether the leftwing loonies are helping to move the Overton window toward the individualist end of the spectrum.
Oh, they absolutely are. Most people are appalled at their repugnant rhetoric - and it pushes them ever closer to the idea that maybe giving power to some far-away, uncaring bureaucracy is not the brightest idea in the brain-bag.
In a word, yes. The world is completely insane. I mean, who has a war between Pakistan and India on their bingo card for 2025? But I digress.
Perhaps the world has gotten far too small. The internet has given nearly everyone access to everyone else. Now, very recently, we have added intersectionality to the mix of a humanity desperately seeking to find a place to feel “special.” When we were a Christian West we found our identity in who God deemed us to be. Made in the image of God, each loved by him without condition. Without the Christian worldview, people now have to find their identity “in the world“. Since we cannot find our specialness in our beauty within, being like God and loved by God, we have to find our uniqueness in our weaknesses, faults, and flaws. It started as a group identity, intersectionality. The problem with intersectionality is that it will always fractionate down to the individual. The “Well, yeah, but I…” mentality will prevail. The Outliers. What is problematic with that is more and more people are becoming Outliers. Fractionation down to the individual.
I understand why you would feel that the world is insane because lots of people make bad decisions. But for those who's circle of friends includes people who hold to traditional western / christian values, we see things more as a challenge and an opportunity to help others and become stronger.
Here in the US, we are doing our best to dismantle Leviathan and I do pray that other nations may find the strength to stand up to the Beast as well.
I completely agree that there are still many circles where Western/Christian values are still held in high regard. As you say it should be seen as a challenge and an opportunity to help others and grow stronger. My dilemma is to know what that looks like. I know what I can do along with my family. We homestead, try to live sustainably, and strive to disconnect from the corporate established rat race. But how does one build a community when so many are either unaware or…. Gosh I don’t even know what they are.
Anyway Christopher asked our opinion, I gave mine. I didn’t intend to offend anyone, if I did please forgive me.
Sounds like a little missionary work is in order. 😁 it'll take courage and you will need to watch for openings to talk about things. Just don't be judgmental.
My best friend was an atheist. He often told me that I was the only Christian he knew who didn't tell him that he was going to hell. When he died, I was a little embarrassed at his funeral. All his other friends treated me like a celebrity. They said that my friend had told them that I was the smartest guy he had ever known.
Because we live in a rural area our actual neighbors are not in close proximity. However I do attend a church within walking distance of our homestead. We have Bible study groups that meet before the Sunday service. So it is with my group I have tried to get at least a conversation going. I’ve tried to get them to read books as a group. On I suggested was “Live Not By Lies.” I am also trying to follow Joel Salatin’s sustainable farming and ranching methods, which also strongly leans toward community. So I’ve suggested to others in my group to read it as well. I am trying to create a food forest on our property, working to grow as much of our own food as possible AND to create as much edible landscaping as will grow here where I live. I have offered to anyone in my group to join me in this endeavor and share in the produce of combined labor. I think my biggest problem is that I am 68 years old. Many of my group members are my age. I don’t feel old and I work long hours in the gardens, feeding the animals (chickens and goats specifically, as well as maintaining a home and homeschooling my two youngest grandchildren. But doing all of this by myself I becoming more difficult each year. I think I told you before that this is a family homestead. My son, his wife and their 5 children, my youngest daughter and her daughter, and myself and my husband all live here. My husband and I are retired, my DIL is a stay at home mom, but my son, daughter and granddaughter all still work outside the home. Everyone does his best to pitch in but it’s a lot of work. Anyway, the gardens are my responsibility and it would be so wonderful if it could become a community garden. So many in my group have small gardens of their own. But no one is seeing the bigger picture.
I have this vision of the 600 ppl who live in my small town having town halls with big meals once’s month where the people get to really know one another and share their advice and skills to help one another. And more, so much more.
On the town halls idea—have you suggested it? Maybe don't use the term "town hall," with its political implications, and instead suggest a monthly community potluck dinner, just for fellowship purposes. That way, there's no preplanned agenda other than fun. And you can see how it develops organically. I think it's a great idea.
On the gardens, etc., someone might come help with incentives. Money is the standard incentive, of course. Does your son make enough to substitute money for time and provide just a little bit of incentive to someone? It probably wouldn't take much, especially in a rural small area. Maybe others could even chip in…
Saying the world is completely insane isn’t the same as saying everyone in the world is insane. Perhaps I should pay more attention to Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules For Life, specifically # 10 Let Your Speech Be Precise. I’ll keep the rest in my mouth.
It's tough to be precise 100% of the time when moving fast and making quick comments. Believe me, I know, with all the talking I do. Even when I am trying to be precise, I sometimes mess up!
This is why I avoid fraudbook at all costs. I am still battling the idea that the movie "Black Rain" may be racist and that daylight might be racist because it isn't black, red or yellow. If anyone wants to dance in the rain, who gives a fricking gosh darn if some idiot complains?
If you are on social media, it's not entirely possible to avoid platforms which put the money they make off your information towards groups that support tyranny. However, I do hope Facebook goes the way of Google+ and MySpace. Facebook Jail is infamous and a badge of honor for those who had there accounts suspended.
The great sickness of our time is the encouragement of anyone who isn't a white male to claim "victimhood" for any disappointments, especially in school or work. Playing the resentful victim locks the practitioner away from self-respect and thus a truly fulfilling life, but for the unimaginative, it apparently is fun in a certain way. But victims need oppressors, and when circumstances don't provide a satisfying stream, they must be manufactured, either by trying to turn an innocent act into one motivated by hate, or by actually faking a hate incident.
Laughing at people who manufacture outrage over nothing is probably the best response.
Marxist Critical Theory dictates that all things are subject to criticism - that means everything from technological marvels to rain-dancing actresses. And Trump Derangement Syndrome seems to embed this idea into all those who are consumed thereby.
The left worships violence. Their ideal society is one where all means of production (people as well as industries) is concentrated in a single violent organization (government). This individual, in their small way, is simply using Critical Theory to target Ms. Barrymore's video in order to beat the drums of their violent ideals.
And then Postmodernism gets layered on top of Cultural Marxism, making it "legitimate" for every single person to criticize everything from the perspective his own "personal narrative," completely unmoored from any facts or standard of logic. Which means the criticism can take any form they like and it must be deemed valid.
I don't believe any of the Communist proponents of Critical Theory mentioned anything about using logic. Mises mentions in his book "Socialism" that the proponents of Marxism never logically address the objections of their detractors but instead use character / ad hominem attacks to stifle them.
I once climbed a tree during the tail end of a hurricane to break a branch that was slapping into a window. The wind had slowed a little, but it was still pretty crazy. I was maybe 14?
The anti-racists are exceedingly racist. In order to display anti they somehow feel the must be anti white. I am white and like every human being I prefer being around others like me. Duh! Have they never understood "birds of a feather flock together?" That is not racism. Is there such a thing as racism? Yes, of course. It is the extreme form of species preservation.
It has been my experience that all people are capable of deep insight, even if they meant something else. The secret is to question your own personal dogmas.
Agreed. But still, I would be willing to bet that there is a fair amount of de facto segregation by intelligence level. Not intentional, but I bet it shakes out that way. It's just a theory, though.
Sure. There's tons of intellectual snobs out there that only associate with "their own kind". I prefer to live by the words of Elwood P. Dowd:
"My mother always told me 'Elwood' (she always called me 'Elwood') - in this life you have to be oh so smart or oh so pleasant. For years I was smart - I recommend pleasant. You may quote me. " 😁
i am a black woman. this racist bs is chum in the water and these racist bigoted young people ARE the modern day kkk with nothing better to do than disrupt the peace in people’s lives. ignore all of it because it is pure weaponized stinking bs. we have FAR more important things to do than accuse people enjoying the rain of racism🫣🤡
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Any such accusations will just make me enjoy the rain harder and louder.
These activists are merchants of sadness!
total waste of attention
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(And normally, these days, I do ignore them. This was just a temporary flutter :-)
Some pasty white guy with a bear avatar liked your post ... :-)
I don't think anyone should mock their own skin color: https://christophercook.substack.com/p/academic-fraud-skin-color-figment-imagination
Hum, I don't think anything should be considered unmockable.
Fair enough. See the link in that comment for my rationale (FWIW).
Well, as I am neither black nor white, but a member of the Speckled Band, I wasn't really denigrating my own skin color, now was I?
I could make the racially charged call for my speckled brethren to rise up and throw off the chains of their bland-skinned oppressors, but that's a topic for a different time... 😁😁😁
My wife is a member too. Freckles upon freckles!
i'm sure it's all gonna work out at the pearly gates! we've been made to feel that what's between our legs and the color of our skin is more important than what is embedded in our hearts. let us begin to unravel this historical hex and live like it's 2025 and we don't really need no revolutions or pierce nosed influencers telling us how the world works. good grief. make the nonsense stop!
We were working towards that idea for a long time but influencers from several races sabotaged all the progress that was being made. That and social programs designed to keep black people dependent on the "plantation" of government subsidies and handouts.
I don't know about you but I found it horribly demeaning when the left stated that voter ID is racist - as if black folks are too stupid to get an ID or bring it with them to the polls. •`_´•
oh,yeah man. the whole thing has been a DIRTY game for longer than i've been alive and i've been around for a minute! i, for one, am quite vocal about the whole sham. i call out my liberal friends and accuse them openly of their own projections and bigotry by even RACIALIZING or SEXUALIZING anyone. this is the very core of all this idiocy. i'm also vocal with young black people addicted to the bogeyman of 'white supremacist.' calling voter id racists is the BIGGEST insult to any community but especially people who cannot possibly do ANYTHING without id. and if you don't have it,guess what?? you don't vote. it kinda works LIKE THAT. funny how the focus is on all this identity but we're forbidden from pointing to obesity, diabetes etc ravaging poor communities. talk and talk a lot is my motto. glad you're on board. we do better work together fighting these corporate lying toxic paper demons.
God bless you and all people of all races who think as you do. Seeing people, especially black people, who buck all the leftist stereotypes and rhetorical horse manure gives me hope for a better future in my lifetime. Thank you, thank you!
Calling out racism even when it does not exist is confrontational. Confrontation is entertainment. Entertainment buys clicks. Clicks buy ad revenue. I do wonder whether the leftwing loonies are helping to move the Overton window toward the individualist end of the spectrum.
Oh, they absolutely are. Most people are appalled at their repugnant rhetoric - and it pushes them ever closer to the idea that maybe giving power to some far-away, uncaring bureaucracy is not the brightest idea in the brain-bag.
Yes. Their insane overreach is one of our best weapons.
The world looking so nuts has a lot to do with the "news" being fabricated, the moneyed psychopaths degrading education, and a lot of bots and agents.
In a word, yes. The world is completely insane. I mean, who has a war between Pakistan and India on their bingo card for 2025? But I digress.
Perhaps the world has gotten far too small. The internet has given nearly everyone access to everyone else. Now, very recently, we have added intersectionality to the mix of a humanity desperately seeking to find a place to feel “special.” When we were a Christian West we found our identity in who God deemed us to be. Made in the image of God, each loved by him without condition. Without the Christian worldview, people now have to find their identity “in the world“. Since we cannot find our specialness in our beauty within, being like God and loved by God, we have to find our uniqueness in our weaknesses, faults, and flaws. It started as a group identity, intersectionality. The problem with intersectionality is that it will always fractionate down to the individual. The “Well, yeah, but I…” mentality will prevail. The Outliers. What is problematic with that is more and more people are becoming Outliers. Fractionation down to the individual.
I understand why you would feel that the world is insane because lots of people make bad decisions. But for those who's circle of friends includes people who hold to traditional western / christian values, we see things more as a challenge and an opportunity to help others and become stronger.
Here in the US, we are doing our best to dismantle Leviathan and I do pray that other nations may find the strength to stand up to the Beast as well.
I completely agree that there are still many circles where Western/Christian values are still held in high regard. As you say it should be seen as a challenge and an opportunity to help others and grow stronger. My dilemma is to know what that looks like. I know what I can do along with my family. We homestead, try to live sustainably, and strive to disconnect from the corporate established rat race. But how does one build a community when so many are either unaware or…. Gosh I don’t even know what they are.
Anyway Christopher asked our opinion, I gave mine. I didn’t intend to offend anyone, if I did please forgive me.
Sounds like a little missionary work is in order. 😁 it'll take courage and you will need to watch for openings to talk about things. Just don't be judgmental.
My best friend was an atheist. He often told me that I was the only Christian he knew who didn't tell him that he was going to hell. When he died, I was a little embarrassed at his funeral. All his other friends treated me like a celebrity. They said that my friend had told them that I was the smartest guy he had ever known.
Don't judge.
" But how does one build a community when so many are either unaware or…. Gosh I don’t even know what they are."
—This is an excellent question. (I am thinking about buying some land.) What methods have you tried so far?
Because we live in a rural area our actual neighbors are not in close proximity. However I do attend a church within walking distance of our homestead. We have Bible study groups that meet before the Sunday service. So it is with my group I have tried to get at least a conversation going. I’ve tried to get them to read books as a group. On I suggested was “Live Not By Lies.” I am also trying to follow Joel Salatin’s sustainable farming and ranching methods, which also strongly leans toward community. So I’ve suggested to others in my group to read it as well. I am trying to create a food forest on our property, working to grow as much of our own food as possible AND to create as much edible landscaping as will grow here where I live. I have offered to anyone in my group to join me in this endeavor and share in the produce of combined labor. I think my biggest problem is that I am 68 years old. Many of my group members are my age. I don’t feel old and I work long hours in the gardens, feeding the animals (chickens and goats specifically, as well as maintaining a home and homeschooling my two youngest grandchildren. But doing all of this by myself I becoming more difficult each year. I think I told you before that this is a family homestead. My son, his wife and their 5 children, my youngest daughter and her daughter, and myself and my husband all live here. My husband and I are retired, my DIL is a stay at home mom, but my son, daughter and granddaughter all still work outside the home. Everyone does his best to pitch in but it’s a lot of work. Anyway, the gardens are my responsibility and it would be so wonderful if it could become a community garden. So many in my group have small gardens of their own. But no one is seeing the bigger picture.
I have this vision of the 600 ppl who live in my small town having town halls with big meals once’s month where the people get to really know one another and share their advice and skills to help one another. And more, so much more.
I hear you on all of this. I understand.
On the town halls idea—have you suggested it? Maybe don't use the term "town hall," with its political implications, and instead suggest a monthly community potluck dinner, just for fellowship purposes. That way, there's no preplanned agenda other than fun. And you can see how it develops organically. I think it's a great idea.
On the gardens, etc., someone might come help with incentives. Money is the standard incentive, of course. Does your son make enough to substitute money for time and provide just a little bit of incentive to someone? It probably wouldn't take much, especially in a rural small area. Maybe others could even chip in…
“Completely insane” is pretty all inclusive. I disagree.
Saying the world is completely insane isn’t the same as saying everyone in the world is insane. Perhaps I should pay more attention to Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules For Life, specifically # 10 Let Your Speech Be Precise. I’ll keep the rest in my mouth.
It's tough to be precise 100% of the time when moving fast and making quick comments. Believe me, I know, with all the talking I do. Even when I am trying to be precise, I sometimes mess up!
This is why I avoid fraudbook at all costs. I am still battling the idea that the movie "Black Rain" may be racist and that daylight might be racist because it isn't black, red or yellow. If anyone wants to dance in the rain, who gives a fricking gosh darn if some idiot complains?
If you are on social media, it's not entirely possible to avoid platforms which put the money they make off your information towards groups that support tyranny. However, I do hope Facebook goes the way of Google+ and MySpace. Facebook Jail is infamous and a badge of honor for those who had there accounts suspended.
I love the rain too! All BS!
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Craziest tend to be the loudest - if the yard signs in my neighborhood are any indication. :-)
You should take pictures!
The great sickness of our time is the encouragement of anyone who isn't a white male to claim "victimhood" for any disappointments, especially in school or work. Playing the resentful victim locks the practitioner away from self-respect and thus a truly fulfilling life, but for the unimaginative, it apparently is fun in a certain way. But victims need oppressors, and when circumstances don't provide a satisfying stream, they must be manufactured, either by trying to turn an innocent act into one motivated by hate, or by actually faking a hate incident.
Laughing at people who manufacture outrage over nothing is probably the best response.
Yes, it is a source of great social discord. And yes, laughing at it is a very good plan.
I would answer your end question thusly.
Marxist Critical Theory dictates that all things are subject to criticism - that means everything from technological marvels to rain-dancing actresses. And Trump Derangement Syndrome seems to embed this idea into all those who are consumed thereby.
The left worships violence. Their ideal society is one where all means of production (people as well as industries) is concentrated in a single violent organization (government). This individual, in their small way, is simply using Critical Theory to target Ms. Barrymore's video in order to beat the drums of their violent ideals.
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And then Postmodernism gets layered on top of Cultural Marxism, making it "legitimate" for every single person to criticize everything from the perspective his own "personal narrative," completely unmoored from any facts or standard of logic. Which means the criticism can take any form they like and it must be deemed valid.
I don't believe any of the Communist proponents of Critical Theory mentioned anything about using logic. Mises mentions in his book "Socialism" that the proponents of Marxism never logically address the objections of their detractors but instead use character / ad hominem attacks to stifle them.
Fair to say that what Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse, et al got rolling, Derrida, Foucault, and Lyotard raised to an art form?
Yes, yes, probably
And the world only seems nuts when we focus on the media and think that most people agree
People focus on them because they're loud. And they're loud because they're amplified by captured media, both legacy and social.
I usually ignore loud people because it feels like I’m being yelled at
😁😁😁
I even ventured twice outside in a hurricane...well the one in Japan was called a typhoon.
Exciting!
I once climbed a tree during the tail end of a hurricane to break a branch that was slapping into a window. The wind had slowed a little, but it was still pretty crazy. I was maybe 14?
The anti-racists are exceedingly racist. In order to display anti they somehow feel the must be anti white. I am white and like every human being I prefer being around others like me. Duh! Have they never understood "birds of a feather flock together?" That is not racism. Is there such a thing as racism? Yes, of course. It is the extreme form of species preservation.
It is certainly the case that you are part of the only cohort that is not "allowed" to express such views.
I don't care what a person's skin color is. I care about how they think. "Brains of a feather flock together".... 😁
"Brains of a feather flock together"
—I think this may be literally true when it comes to IQ band. Like, do people with 92 IQs ever actually hang out with people with 159 IQs?
More likely the opposit.
There's knowing stuff and then there's intelligence.
https://substack.com/@thememoryhole/note/c-105227432?r=1n814z
It has been my experience that all people are capable of deep insight, even if they meant something else. The secret is to question your own personal dogmas.
Agreed. But still, I would be willing to bet that there is a fair amount of de facto segregation by intelligence level. Not intentional, but I bet it shakes out that way. It's just a theory, though.
Sure. There's tons of intellectual snobs out there that only associate with "their own kind". I prefer to live by the words of Elwood P. Dowd:
"My mother always told me 'Elwood' (she always called me 'Elwood') - in this life you have to be oh so smart or oh so pleasant. For years I was smart - I recommend pleasant. You may quote me. " 😁
~Elwood P. Dowd; "Harvey"
I definitely enjoy the company of pleasant people!