Category: Commentary, Critique, and Response

  • That has to be the funniest truism I’ve heard this week

    That has to be the funniest truism I’ve heard this week…


    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-05 14:29:13 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/673147117679022082

    Reply addressees: @Daggy1

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/673146431763406849


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    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/673146431763406849

  • So we are reduced to shame and gossip like pre-teen teen mothers now?

    So we are reduced to shame and gossip like pre-teen teen mothers now?


    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-05 10:32:04 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/673087433928531968

    Reply addressees: @thehill

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/672990297580773376


    IN REPLY TO:

    @thehill

    Jeb’s biggest donor plans to run ad calling Trump “a narcissistic BULLYionaire” https://t.co/5JSMsvzctq https://t.co/zTQxFUtP3v

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/672990297580773376

  • “VOX” : LIES DAMNED LIES, AND MORE LIES (an example of failing the test of full

    “VOX” : LIES DAMNED LIES, AND MORE LIES

    (an example of failing the test of full accounting)

    It’s a race problem. The data has consistently demonstrated that it’s a race problem.

    We punish people who train their dogs because of the people who dont.

    We punish the people who have insurance because of the people who dont.

    We punish the people who produce because of the people who dont.

    We punish the people who behave well in parks becasue of the people who dont.

    We give moms in minivans going 4mph over the speed limit yet it takes 9 convictions before a car thief sees jail time, and the police do not even investigate property crime perpetrated by meth gangs.

    We punish people for tax problems yet the IRS takes no responsibility for their advice.

    We punish people in courtrooms for the crime of being too poor to take a day off from work for a procedural problem.

    We make people renew drivers licenses every four years while the rest of the world works in decades or lifetimes.

    We tax elderly out of their homes so that higher taxes can be extracted from a new generation.

    Now you want to punish the people who behave well with guns because of the people who dont.

    I can go on with this list of injustices forever.

    This issue is done. The public won’t change. We increase gun ownership every year.

    Fix the mental health problem.

    Fix the out-of-control race problem.

    Fix the injustice problem.

    Otherwise the only reason we have guns – to eliminate injustice by replacement of a corrupt government with a new one – will be the consequence.

    http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2015/12/4/9851102/gun-deaths-us-children


    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-05 09:27:00 UTC

  • THIS SAYS IS ‘NO CONVERTS ALLOWED’ : BRANDED. WALLED GHETTO, LEAVE, OR DIE

    http://forward.com/opinion/159955/converts-who-changed-the-church/WHAT THIS SAYS IS ‘NO CONVERTS ALLOWED’ : BRANDED. WALLED GHETTO, LEAVE, OR DIE.


    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-05 09:01:00 UTC

  • Untitled

    http://m.scmp.com/lifestyle/article/1879850/chinese-most-dishonest-japanese-and-british-least-study-finds


    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-05 02:59:00 UTC

  • Ceremony is a deceitful substitute for meaningful action that changes the course

    Ceremony is a deceitful substitute for meaningful action that changes the course of events.


    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-04 19:37:40 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/672862352262504449

    Reply addressees: @SpeakerRyan @uscapitol

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/672860628973977600


    IN REPLY TO:

    @SpeakerRyan

    The @uscapitol flags are flying at half-staff in remembrance of the innocent lives lost in #SanBernardino. https://t.co/pIjDmiP7bW

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/672860628973977600

  • USE OF TRADITIONAL HYPERBOLE RE: First, I like that you’re pointing out his tech

    http://blog.talkingphilosophy.com/?p=9080TRUMP’S USE OF TRADITIONAL HYPERBOLE

    RE: http://blog.talkingphilosophy.com/?p=9080

    First, I like that you’re pointing out his technique, and how long Trump has been using it – his whole career.

    However, I think I might want to help you understand just how ancient this technique is in the west – given our many-thousand-year-old culture of oath-making.

    You can notice rather quickly once aware of it, that traditional westerners who carry on the ancient traditions of oath-making (conservatives, or more correctly, aristocratic egalitarians) rely upon exaggeration in order to make the point that “this small thing if done by all of us will lead to tragic consequences”.

    Conservative thought, which has its origins in the limits imposed by Anglo Saxon Oath that all men must give at maturity – meaning that men cannot steal in any capacity nor say something false or misleading – but they can still make use of exaggeration to illustrate intertemporal effects of behavior.

    In other words use of hyperbole is no different from the use of Greek Fable, or Germanic Fairy Tale, or Shakespearian Drama, and no different from Michelangelo’s use of oversized hands, feet, and head, of his sculpture of David.

    The use of exaggeration to illustrate a fundamental truth, is very different from misleading. It is in fact an exceptional means of communicating moral principles: that which we permit of one, will result in this bad of many.

    Hyperbole is the language of parable.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine


    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-04 09:21:00 UTC

  • IF WE ARE SO PRIVILEGED, THEN WHY DON’T WE CONQUER AND OPPRESS YOU? I mean, that

    IF WE ARE SO PRIVILEGED, THEN WHY DON’T WE CONQUER AND OPPRESS YOU?

    I mean, that what a ‘bad’ person would do with privilege, right?


    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-04 09:01:00 UTC

  • “WHITE DEBT?” ARE YOU KIDDING? YOU’RE KIDDING? NEW YORK TIMES – CHIEF DISTRIBUTO

    “WHITE DEBT?” ARE YOU KIDDING? YOU’RE KIDDING?

    NEW YORK TIMES – CHIEF DISTRIBUTOR OF STATIST PROPAGANDISM

    (trigger warning)

    –“White Debt: Reckoning with what is owed — and what can never be repaid for racial privilege.”— By Eula Bliss

    White people, for all their failures of colonization, have in the ancient world and in the modern world, dragged humanity out of ignorance, poverty, and illness. Not once but twice.

    While Jews converted authoritarian Egyptian religion into scriptural monotheism – the First Great Lie, the Greeks invented truth telling, the jury, rule of law, the greater-jury: the senate and therefore politics, reason and science, freedom and liberty.

    While Europeans invented anglo-saxon rule of law, while the templars invented moral insurance, fractional reserve banking, credit and interest, what had other nations done? What did the most literate people in Europe do: the Jews? Nothing contributed to man whatsoever.

    When Europeans spread the high arts of Architecture, Painting, Drawing, Etching, the Opera, the Play, The Symphony, and the greatest sculptors the world has ever known, what did other nations do? What did jews do? Nothing.

    While Europeans spread the industrial revolution, accounting, rule of law, parliamentarianism, medicine, electromagnetism, photography, and invented empirical economics, and social science, what did other nations do? What did the Jews do: they invented pseudoscience and propaganda and lying as a virtue under: Boazian Anthropology, Freudian Psychology, Marxist Economics, Cantorian “Sets”, Misesian economics, The Frankfurt school of Gossip and Ridicule (“Critique”), the systemic use of “heaping undue praise” on these pseudoscientists and liars, Randian and Rothbardian Libertinism, Straussian NeoConservatism. And the institutionalism of lying via media that we call ‘critique, loading, framing, and overloading’: the industrialization deceit.

    While Europeans converted from christian monarchy to classical liberalism, what did others do? What did the Jews do? They maintained virtual slavery of the peasantry in Eastern Europe, prevented the creation of a modern state justice and liberty. And when given the chance under the Bolsheviks, filled the secret service, disproportionately contributed to policy, and used marxism and propaganda to create the most murderous government in history other than that of the Chinese. The Ukrainian Genocide was not constructed by ethnic Russians, but by a Georgian and Jews. – So great were their crimes that even the Russians with experience under Mongols, Tatars, and Ivan the Terrible cast them out. When given the chance under glasnost, they repeated their crimes which led Putin to cast them out.

    When persecuted in Europe and given protection in the USA, what did they do but use Columbia University to produce the systematic Gossip and Lying of the Frankfurt School.

    So in both the ancient and the modern world, westerners created truth and it’s consequence: empirical science, technology, medicine, and law, and spread it through colonization. Not all of it good. But not all of it bad either. And why were they able to spread it? Because the Islamic world had failed to create sufficient trust that they could construct a bureaucracy and advanced economy. Because the Jewish World (in Eastern Europe) could not create sufficient trust to construct an advanced economy. Because the Hindu world had failed to construct sufficient trust that they could create a bureaucracy. Because the african world had failed to create even the first semblance of trust.

    What did other nations do? What did the Jews do? In the ancient world they created the First Great Lie: Monotheism spread by Writing and Preaching. In the Modern world they created the Second Great Lie spread by new media and propagandism using both the fallacy of Critique, and the fallacy of “Heaping Undue Praise”.

    So before you criticize white people for their imperfections and at the same time willfully ignore their vast contributions, lets compare them to the imperfections and outright predations of others, and their tragic lack contributions.

    White people did almost everything meaningful in human history to advance truth, understanding, justice, beauty, health and prosperity. Meanwhile others spread lies (Jews) and others spread ignorance and poverty (Muslims).

    If there is anyone to blame in history it is the creators of lies and poverty.

    So please that NY Times Author Eula Bliss engages in “Critique” and “Heaping Undue Praise” In other words, the author is a liar and propagandist. Nothing more.

    SO DEBT? YES, OTHERS OWE US THAT DEBT.

    So here is the debt we want repaid: we want the fall of the roman empire, the thousand years of ignorance, and the past century and a half of pseudoscience, including the destruction of truth telling, the destruction of rule of law, and the destruction of the Civic Society paid for. We want Constantinople back, Greece and the Balkans back.

    And we won’t even charge the rest of humanity for dragging the brutality of asians, the dishonestly of middle easterners, and the ignorance of africans out of ignorance, poverty, illness and disease. Those are just freebies.

    What we do want, and what we demand, is that you stop propagandizing, loading, framing, overloading, lying, rallying and shaming, creating the Great Lies of mysticism in the ancient world, and pseudoscience in the modern, both of which were two of the most murderous and destructive forces ever unleashed upon humanity.

    So, given the vast differences in scale, how will you repay that debt?

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine

    http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/06/magazine/white-debt.html


    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-04 07:39:00 UTC

  • THE LIE OF CULTURAL APPROPRIATION Here is the propertarian translation of the cr

    THE LIE OF CULTURAL APPROPRIATION

    Here is the propertarian translation of the criticism of Cultural Appropriation:

    “I want something reason to feel good about myself, despite my people’s lack of excellences, achievements, talents, ability – I need to convince myself that I have status despite the contrary signals that I don’t.

    “When competitors demonstrate yet another mastery, the mastery of my identity rituals, this deprives me of my false signals of status. It forces me to confront the reality of my status as it exists rather than as I wish it to be.

    “Meritocracy only assists the superiors. The inferiors need means of finding acceptance and reward as well.”

    (h/t Lesley Drabble )


    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-03 06:20:00 UTC