Haven't kept up with Chomsky lately but I read a good chunk of his old stuff. He basically just shits all over the state, the media, the megacorporations, and warmongers. I don't come close to agreeing with him 100% but he certainly has some based takes.
We need state-based .wins to organize maskless gatherings.
But yes, this is the way forward. Civil disobedience, mass noncompliance, and open resistance to tyranny.
Even clueless normies who don't believe in election fraud should consider this retarded.
Votes should not take days to tabulate. That alone is a red flag -- timeliness and accuracy are inextricably linked.
Great quote. This is what I've been trying to get through to people lately.
When the New York Times prints an article about double-masking or "white supremacy" or a "are light bulbs racist?" piece, they really aren't trying to "convince" you of anything -- they're trying to make you feel out of step with the world, like you no longer belong anywhere, and all your long-held beliefs are tainted. It's some insidious, evil shit.
I write game reviews. I once had someone accuse me of plagiarism. The source that I allegedly plagiarized was locked behind a paywall. I couldn't even view it. That's what this argument sounds like. "Your white privilege exists -- you can't comprehend it though; just trust me bro."
Even if this dude was right -- if we are to assume that white privilege is both real and "bad" -- he still can't properly explain how government tyranny provides a "solution."
I always like to remind people that Sweden and Michigan have near identical populations. Now compare policies and COVID deaths.
This is anecdotal on my part, but remember all the hype for Redneck Revolt, John Brown Gun Club, and the SRA while Trump was in office? Not hearing much of the "left-wingers need guns to defeat white supremacy" rhetoric since Biden took office. Looks like leftists are circling back to being anti-gun.
Shitlibs are deep into performative aesthetic politicking. They never shut the fuck up about "fascism" yet refuse to meaningfully confront government and corporate tyranny. Quite curious!
Yes we all know that flu cases and deaths are being coded as COVID.
But normie shitlibs are already building the next goalpost moving narrative -- the idea that maybe masks don't prevent COVID but do prevent the flu due do difference in "particle size." This will be yet an another argument to support eternal muzzling -- "you don't want people to die of flu do you?" A tyrant always finds a pretext for their tyranny. As soon as COVID panic runs its course there'll be something there to replace it.
lol levels of projection that would make IMAX envious.
Yup.
It's funny..... the "celebrity doctors" (Dr. Drew, Dr. Oz, Dr. Phil) all had totally normal sensible takes when this thing all started: keep yourself healthy and practice good hygiene, we'll get through this. This was the politically "incorrect" opinion and they all were subsequently dragged by the media.
Yup.
This is more culture war bullshit. Blame is shifted from the elites and their disastrous policies to "right-wing anti-maskers" and so forth. Completely transparent and shitty.
Sort of.
There's a difference between "masks work" and "mask mandates work" ("work" here meaning slowing or stopping the spread of a respiratory virus).
Of course specific masks are effective in sterile medical settings; this is why they're worn by doctors during surgery and so forth. There's a world of difference between this type of mask use and "mask mandates" where the state forces people to cover their face with zero regard to mask type, fabric, condition, duration of use, etc.
In regards to your other statements, there is zero evidence to show that widespread masking has slowed down the spread of the virus. Most of the data that says otherwise is either based on lab studies (again, looking at sterile, medical mask usage and then "generalizing" it across the population) or is based on wholly unscientific "models" that predict calamity and then "conclude" that mask mandates prevented armageddon (see COVID Act Now and other political lobbying groups). The actual data, state by state, country by country, does not display any strong correlation between mask wearing and slowed virus spread. As I'm sure you're aware, in many cases deaths and cases have increased after the mandates were put into place.
As someone who "came out of the left" (see username) I say yes.
The dichotomous political compass bullshit is crumbling, and is largely maintained by the elites to divide citizens.
Patriots share many interests with specific leftists: anti-idpol socialists, "real" anarchists, union dudes, Christian leftoids, Greenwald/Hedges/Taibbi types, and so on.
It will be hard to unify with the trannies, bugmen, lockdown lovers, and "are pancakes racist?" idiots, but we really overestimate how many of these people exist. Their numbers seem amplified because they never shut the fuck up.
Kanye looking pissed about his votes being transferred to Biden.
I like this rationale. Remind people that, in some way, "no one" actually voted for Biden. He was going to be installed no matter how the numbers pan out.
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Kaitlan Collins is the hottest woman at CNN but also has the worst case of TDS.
Remember when she worked for The Daily Caller and said "fag" on Twitter?
For the last four years populism has been called "fascism" and "white supremacy." Make no mistake, they're doing this on purpose.
I ran track and coached track.
I've known high school runners that slack off persistently, take the weekends off, eat like absolute shit, and just generally lack focus and they're still faster than the fastest women in history.
Here's a California boys high school championship meet, results of the 800 meter race: https://ca.milesplit.com/meets/339050-cif-state-track-and-field-championships-2019/results/656713/formatted
Here are the fastest female 800 meter runners ever: http://www.alltime-athletics.com/w_800ok.htm
So, if the fastest woman EVER was tossed into this high school boys meet and was able to replicate her performance, of even improve slightly, she would finish EIGHTH. Anyone who thinks it's fair and equitable to allow XY individuals into women's sports is just insane.
lol @ this "Rinaldi" person.
Everyone loves a good rags to riches story and it's great when people make it to the top while eschewing the "typical" pathway of being born into privilege. This makes Boebert 100 times cooler than the 10 million lawyer-turned-politician freaks.
One of the worst things about modern leftists is their hatred for their fellow citizens. Politicians and corporate tyrants are literally destroying the world, and leftists are much more angry about people who post Pepe memes and "misgender" others on Twitter. Reddit is full of "watchdog" spaces like this, the most notable being the coomer hangout "Against Hate Subreddits" where degenerates spend hours combing the website looking for cases of wrongthink. Oh, and they do it for free.
Yup. Plenty of "trans rights" folks start becoming sympathetic to "TERFs" once they actually research what the other side is advocating.
Preaching to the choir here, but it is interesting how any and all websites that promote "socially liberal" / nanny state ideology are also HEAVILY censored and moderated (see Reddit, for example). It's simply because such ideas are not organic or self-evident; instead they need to be forced upon people, repeatedly, by authoritarians.
Truly an interesting man and one of our great American writers.
But holy shit does he have shit ass political opinions and his Twitter "quips" are not not nearly as clever as he thinks.
I think the issue with many of these dudes is that they're obsessed with pedantic political definitions and "political compass" bullshit. They're so hyper-focused on opposing anything that's performatively "right-wing" that they'll ignore hostile governments and corporations provided that they appear "liberal" or politically neutral. They hate people with Pepe the Frog Twitter avatars more than they hate Amazon and Raytheon.
As the cartoon demonstrates, when you talk to these people you need to get on their level. So, don't call the lockdowns "tyranny" -- call them "medical fascism." And so on.
There are only really two positions. Free speech absolutism or censorship.
Modern leftists seem unable to grasp the concept of slippery slopes (or they'll disingenuously claim that the concept doesn't exist). So, they'll draw a line between, say, "acceptable speech" and Holocaust denial -- but as we've all seen, that "line" has a way of moving. Look at Twitter: first "white supremacists" were banned, then "conspiracy theorists", then "covid deniers" and those alleging election fraud, then "right-wingers" generally speaking (plus maybe the random anarchists that aren't state-sponsored agitators), and so on. Where does it end? It doesn't. One restriction on speech will lead to a million.