The white supremacy industry in America with a healthy fundraising and publishing arm stood right beside him giving him talking points and a twisted history to justify his rage...
It simply isn’t enough to say we have to “rid America of the scourge.” The individual has to end his complicity with the collective, withdraw from the context of patriarchal tribalism, and re-create himself as a founding member of collaborative holism.
Morning in America! In a crimson red state. The restaurant is abuzz; the line is long; the unavoidable murmur of conversation both strangely cheery and happily delusional, as one would imagine in the cafeteria of the local looney bin. A curious study of subhuman behavior in the wild. Bite your tongue. Too early for this shit...
The average, indigestible Republican voter/hater/liar persisting in power, clogging the pipes of representative democracy despite repeated flushing, is wrong on: the fundamental purpose of government; true history and the proper education of children; religion and morality; crony capitalism and wealth disparity; crime and punishment; war and peace; science and climate destruction; health and happiness; just about everything from sunup to sundown... even what to order for breakfast. (Try the veggie omelet with egg whites and nondairy cheese instead of the "meat lover's platter" loaded with lard and cholesterol.)
OK Scariest heard today. Miles Taylor, fmr Chief of Staff, Homeland Sec. on MSNBC "GOP on Defense over Replacement Theory" segment, maybe this is a YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUjiRrOFGmI "...Extremely hard to de-program..." millions...
turning to violence....We are past any tipping point where McConnell or McCarthy could re-leash the dogs if they tried. I don't know how what's her name moved on to next "guest." I'm sorry, but I am going back to my forest hideout and just hope it doesn't burn.
The weekend was gruesome coast-to-coast. What's with Thom's "dislikes?" Did I just never notice before? I've already registered my two cents that Kyle Rittenhouse will kill again. Wasn't a congressman offering him an internship? When his 15 minutes are up, he'll get itchy. I saw a good YouTube post: white 18-year-old with AR-15 is a "kid." Black 18-year-old with a bag of candy is a "thug." Yup. That's where we are.
After Bacon's rebellion in 1676 where European indentured servants joined forces with black slaves the elites have worked to insure that this would never happen again. The enacted the pass laws and slave patrols and enlisted dumb white settlers to provide free labor. President Lyndon Johnson put it best when he stated “If you can convince the lowest white man he's better off than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."
White workers have had their standard of living erode over the past 40 years to the point where their life expectancy is declining. The response of many has been to buy more guns and support billionaires for public office. Critical thinking is largely absent from the American public.
If I was graduating from high school today I would be deciding to which country to emigrate and begin my adult life.
There's little discussion of the fact that the shooter survived because the cops talked this 18 year old white boy into surrendering instead of suicide. It's their job, but the rest of what I have to say about that is unseemly, and I won't go there. I suspect there were more people standing beside him from his home. If the reports are correct, his father bought him a rifle at age 16. This has been a factor in other cases.
It is never one thing, just as Thom has pointed out. It takes a dysfunctional village.
I've read your reply 4 times and while I love the humor, I really cannot find anything to argue with. You nailed it.
As my wife said yesterday, she knew humanity was doomed when she read the writings of John Muir, and the public response, which was "This fellow is interesting and probably correct but right now I need to go pave the back 40 to build a subdivision".
what i'm sitting with ... "In the end, white people all stand right beside the Buffalo Terrorist if those of us with that white privilege don’t push with everything we have to rid America of the scourge of racism and the big money and death-dealing industries that support it."
OK, I've heard all this stuff before. The bottom line is we can spend massive amounts of money to detect most white supremacist terrorists in the years while they are still carefully planning their terrorist attack. We can do a lot to protect citizens as well. However, if we simply get rid of all guns that are useless for self defense or hunting, we eliminate 90% of the problem.
Hey Thom. Your approach raises all kinds of questions, namely should vert complex moral matters be summed up in simple binary terms? This kind of rhetoric simply allows a good versus evil conclusion and a strict binary to our very complicated social problems. Take Chicago for example, the Democrat super majority in Chicago has been in total control for a century. Using your logic they therefore must be responsible for all the social decay of the City Chicago has been deemed the country’s most corrupt city. The fact is, the Democrat super majority Party stood right by the side of all those that have given the city this title. This fact is axiomatic, since the vast majority of the corruption has been done by Democrat politicians. For the facts, read the following report by University of Illinois at Chicago professor and former Ald. Dick Simpson. https://pols.uic.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/273/2021/02/Corruption-Spikes-in-IL-Anti-Corruption-Rpt-13-final2.-1.pdf
Using your approach, can I conclude that the Democrat super majority in Chicago has stood right beside all those democrat politicians that have demoralized the city’s law enforcement? The Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) shows a 45% increase in the retirement rate and a nearly 20% increase in resignations in 2020-21 compared to the previous years.
The same Democrat super majority stood right beside all those politicians that established a weaker criminal court system and watched an enormous flow of illegal guns into the city. Because democrats have controlled all the levers of power, they must certainly bear all responsibility for all the spikes in violent crime. Indeed, Chicago democrats oversee a crime rate of 3,926 per 100,000 people. That’s 67% higher than the national average.
The logic allows me to conclude that the Democrat super majority has stood right beside the criminals that have perpetrated 230 vehicle thefts, more than 75 burglaries, 55 aggravated batteries, 110 robberies, 76 criminal assault just in the 18th district just this year.
The Democrat super majority also stands right beside those that live in two adjoining Garfield Park neighborhoods and watch while the crime rate is 462% above national average. In East Garfield Park crime rate is 308% above national average. These are just two of dozens of neighborhoods with abhorrent crime rates.
The Democrat super majority stood right beside those that committed more than 800 homicides in 2021, a level not seen in 25 years. This same Democrat super majority stood right beside those 264 shooters on the Chicago-area highways last year. Out of those 264 only 22 resulted in an arrest.
The Democrat Party stood right beside all those corrupt political decisions that pushed the city’s liabilities to more than $48.billion. The City now only has $9.9 billion of assets available to pay bills. This means a Democrat supper majority stood right beside all those in the party allowing the city to be buried in the $38.7 billion financial hole. To erase this shortfall, each Chicago taxpayer would have to send $43,100 to the city.
These are just a handful of the problems that have made Chicago the most corrupt city in the country. And no doubt, the Democrat super majority has stood right beside all those that have mismanaged all the City’s financial responsibilities. They have raised taxes and dissuaded countless businesses to take any risks in any of the areas of the city. They stood right by all political regulators that have created massive bureaucratic agencies and stood right beside all democratic super majorities that have rigged the size and dimension of the cities wards. They’ve contributed to all the chaotic power of the aldermen and women , allowing them to retain control and wield power without little, if any accountability.
The dire list of issues could go on forever. But if we apply your rhetoric we can level all the blame on the Democrat super majority Party. That party simply stands right beside all the corruption and watches while the City plummets into a collective demoralized social reality. With your logic it’s a simple conclusion: we should level the entire guilt onto the entire Democrat super majority. They continue to stand right beside all this that have issued all this destruction.
I suppose leveling singular blame for all the problems of an entire city is easy, and acknowledging that the problems are overwhelmingly complex is just too demanding. But your approach does exactly the same. You’ve reduced an overwhelming complicated problems to the most simplest conclusions regarding race and privilege. Your words simply denote that one entire race and one political party are to blame for an insane terrorist that enacted terrible mayhem and premeditated mass murder.
Such a rhetorical approach dumbs down the complexities. Whether espoused by the right or the left, this kind of rhetoric encourages the sides to demonize their opponents. It does absolutely nothing except empower the sides to hate each other.
It simply isn’t enough to say we have to “rid America of the scourge.” The individual has to end his complicity with the collective, withdraw from the context of patriarchal tribalism, and re-create himself as a founding member of collaborative holism.
Morning in America! In a crimson red state. The restaurant is abuzz; the line is long; the unavoidable murmur of conversation both strangely cheery and happily delusional, as one would imagine in the cafeteria of the local looney bin. A curious study of subhuman behavior in the wild. Bite your tongue. Too early for this shit...
The average, indigestible Republican voter/hater/liar persisting in power, clogging the pipes of representative democracy despite repeated flushing, is wrong on: the fundamental purpose of government; true history and the proper education of children; religion and morality; crony capitalism and wealth disparity; crime and punishment; war and peace; science and climate destruction; health and happiness; just about everything from sunup to sundown... even what to order for breakfast. (Try the veggie omelet with egg whites and nondairy cheese instead of the "meat lover's platter" loaded with lard and cholesterol.)
OK Scariest heard today. Miles Taylor, fmr Chief of Staff, Homeland Sec. on MSNBC "GOP on Defense over Replacement Theory" segment, maybe this is a YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUjiRrOFGmI "...Extremely hard to de-program..." millions...
turning to violence....We are past any tipping point where McConnell or McCarthy could re-leash the dogs if they tried. I don't know how what's her name moved on to next "guest." I'm sorry, but I am going back to my forest hideout and just hope it doesn't burn.
The weekend was gruesome coast-to-coast. What's with Thom's "dislikes?" Did I just never notice before? I've already registered my two cents that Kyle Rittenhouse will kill again. Wasn't a congressman offering him an internship? When his 15 minutes are up, he'll get itchy. I saw a good YouTube post: white 18-year-old with AR-15 is a "kid." Black 18-year-old with a bag of candy is a "thug." Yup. That's where we are.
After Bacon's rebellion in 1676 where European indentured servants joined forces with black slaves the elites have worked to insure that this would never happen again. The enacted the pass laws and slave patrols and enlisted dumb white settlers to provide free labor. President Lyndon Johnson put it best when he stated “If you can convince the lowest white man he's better off than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."
White workers have had their standard of living erode over the past 40 years to the point where their life expectancy is declining. The response of many has been to buy more guns and support billionaires for public office. Critical thinking is largely absent from the American public.
If I was graduating from high school today I would be deciding to which country to emigrate and begin my adult life.
There's little discussion of the fact that the shooter survived because the cops talked this 18 year old white boy into surrendering instead of suicide. It's their job, but the rest of what I have to say about that is unseemly, and I won't go there. I suspect there were more people standing beside him from his home. If the reports are correct, his father bought him a rifle at age 16. This has been a factor in other cases.
It is never one thing, just as Thom has pointed out. It takes a dysfunctional village.
I've read your reply 4 times and while I love the humor, I really cannot find anything to argue with. You nailed it.
As my wife said yesterday, she knew humanity was doomed when she read the writings of John Muir, and the public response, which was "This fellow is interesting and probably correct but right now I need to go pave the back 40 to build a subdivision".
what i'm sitting with ... "In the end, white people all stand right beside the Buffalo Terrorist if those of us with that white privilege don’t push with everything we have to rid America of the scourge of racism and the big money and death-dealing industries that support it."
OK, I've heard all this stuff before. The bottom line is we can spend massive amounts of money to detect most white supremacist terrorists in the years while they are still carefully planning their terrorist attack. We can do a lot to protect citizens as well. However, if we simply get rid of all guns that are useless for self defense or hunting, we eliminate 90% of the problem.
Hey Thom. Your approach raises all kinds of questions, namely should vert complex moral matters be summed up in simple binary terms? This kind of rhetoric simply allows a good versus evil conclusion and a strict binary to our very complicated social problems. Take Chicago for example, the Democrat super majority in Chicago has been in total control for a century. Using your logic they therefore must be responsible for all the social decay of the City Chicago has been deemed the country’s most corrupt city. The fact is, the Democrat super majority Party stood right by the side of all those that have given the city this title. This fact is axiomatic, since the vast majority of the corruption has been done by Democrat politicians. For the facts, read the following report by University of Illinois at Chicago professor and former Ald. Dick Simpson. https://pols.uic.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/273/2021/02/Corruption-Spikes-in-IL-Anti-Corruption-Rpt-13-final2.-1.pdf
Using your approach, can I conclude that the Democrat super majority in Chicago has stood right beside all those democrat politicians that have demoralized the city’s law enforcement? The Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) shows a 45% increase in the retirement rate and a nearly 20% increase in resignations in 2020-21 compared to the previous years.
The same Democrat super majority stood right beside all those politicians that established a weaker criminal court system and watched an enormous flow of illegal guns into the city. Because democrats have controlled all the levers of power, they must certainly bear all responsibility for all the spikes in violent crime. Indeed, Chicago democrats oversee a crime rate of 3,926 per 100,000 people. That’s 67% higher than the national average.
The logic allows me to conclude that the Democrat super majority has stood right beside the criminals that have perpetrated 230 vehicle thefts, more than 75 burglaries, 55 aggravated batteries, 110 robberies, 76 criminal assault just in the 18th district just this year.
The Democrat super majority also stands right beside those that live in two adjoining Garfield Park neighborhoods and watch while the crime rate is 462% above national average. In East Garfield Park crime rate is 308% above national average. These are just two of dozens of neighborhoods with abhorrent crime rates.
The Democrat super majority stood right beside those that committed more than 800 homicides in 2021, a level not seen in 25 years. This same Democrat super majority stood right beside those 264 shooters on the Chicago-area highways last year. Out of those 264 only 22 resulted in an arrest.
The Democrat Party stood right beside all those corrupt political decisions that pushed the city’s liabilities to more than $48.billion. The City now only has $9.9 billion of assets available to pay bills. This means a Democrat supper majority stood right beside all those in the party allowing the city to be buried in the $38.7 billion financial hole. To erase this shortfall, each Chicago taxpayer would have to send $43,100 to the city.
These are just a handful of the problems that have made Chicago the most corrupt city in the country. And no doubt, the Democrat super majority has stood right beside all those that have mismanaged all the City’s financial responsibilities. They have raised taxes and dissuaded countless businesses to take any risks in any of the areas of the city. They stood right by all political regulators that have created massive bureaucratic agencies and stood right beside all democratic super majorities that have rigged the size and dimension of the cities wards. They’ve contributed to all the chaotic power of the aldermen and women , allowing them to retain control and wield power without little, if any accountability.
The dire list of issues could go on forever. But if we apply your rhetoric we can level all the blame on the Democrat super majority Party. That party simply stands right beside all the corruption and watches while the City plummets into a collective demoralized social reality. With your logic it’s a simple conclusion: we should level the entire guilt onto the entire Democrat super majority. They continue to stand right beside all this that have issued all this destruction.
I suppose leveling singular blame for all the problems of an entire city is easy, and acknowledging that the problems are overwhelmingly complex is just too demanding. But your approach does exactly the same. You’ve reduced an overwhelming complicated problems to the most simplest conclusions regarding race and privilege. Your words simply denote that one entire race and one political party are to blame for an insane terrorist that enacted terrible mayhem and premeditated mass murder.
Such a rhetorical approach dumbs down the complexities. Whether espoused by the right or the left, this kind of rhetoric encourages the sides to demonize their opponents. It does absolutely nothing except empower the sides to hate each other.