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Post by artraveler on Feb 6, 2023 14:07:44 GMT -8
it's completely possible that here was a guy who needed a good killing. Yes, it is. I have told myself that every time I have taken a life. My conscience is clean, they did need killing. I was acting as agent for government who had ordered me to take life. I don't think these cops have that exception. Even if Tyre was a criminal deserving of punishment, it was not for these five thugs to execute him. Once the cuffs go on police must restrain the urge to further use force on the criminal. It is the reason they are our police and not soldiers. The net is full of reasons why the cops beat him, but the reality IMHO is because they wanted to.
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Post by kungfuzu on Feb 6, 2023 14:26:53 GMT -8
I couldn't agree more. They beat the man to death. Furthermore, the cops involved were part of a special unit which the Chief of Police set up a year or so back. That unit was not in the business of simply stopping people driving home from work. Something stank from the beginning.
I have heard, from conservative sources, that Tyre might have been a personal target of one of the cops involved. It seems he was dating the cop's ex-wife, girlfriend, whatever. If this is true, the charges will increase to first-degree murder. Deservedly so. We will see.
As I have made clear in the past, the police are not necessarily our friends. They are not necessarily our enemies either. On a personal basis, the few interactions I have had with the police have been good, except in one case. In that case, the cop was an asshole and was put in his place by a judge.
In any case, police are given powers far beyond those a normal citizen has, thus they must be held to a much higher standard than the rest of us.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Feb 6, 2023 14:43:55 GMT -8
Somewhere between beating a man to death and cowering on the sidelines while children are being murdered, there is a happy medium.
I don't trust the police. I don't want anything to do with the police. I'm not a paranoid hillbilly living off the grid and weaving stories of how the government is out to get me. I know the government is out to get me, in ways big and small.
If you believe in God, in the two sexes, in the Constitution, in the virtues of masculinity, in personal responsibility, in color blindness, in fair elections, in border integrity, in fiscal responsibility, and/or in the free market, you are an enemy of nearly every power that exists today.
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Post by artraveler on Feb 6, 2023 15:04:33 GMT -8
If you believe in God, in the two sexes, in the Constitution, in the virtues of masculinity, in personal responsibility, in color blindness, in fair elections, in border integrity, in fiscal responsibility, and/or in the free market, you are an enemy of nearly every power that exists today. Well said.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Feb 7, 2023 17:02:45 GMT -8
Don't listen to the brunette with the big tits. Frankly, she moves her lips but adds nothing to the conversation that I can discern. But listen to the smart blond chick who she has on at about the 35 second mark. And the video below should start at that point.
Some of the comments to that video definitely reflect Reality Culture, such as this one:
This isn't bad either:
And the last sentence in this one could be the very Official Theme of Reality Culture:
The feminist movement has been based on lies. Those who say "It started well, but got off track" have no idea what the feminist movement was about or who was promoting it. But in any area of social life, if you been fed a bunch of self-serving lies, it will lead to that "complete lack of self awareness." And that is why Reality Culture needs to exist in the first place. The self-deluding that is going on in our culture is ginormous. Hey, you even have men thinking they are girls.
And I do believe a number of women have been turned into little princess Nazis because of this factor:
Speaking to that point, another commenter said:
And there's not much I can add to this:
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Post by kungfuzu on Feb 7, 2023 19:19:00 GMT -8
Among the bigger lies on which the feminist movement was based was, "You can have it all." Only fools and children would believe such a lie, but given the state of things, there must be a huge number of fools and children of the female persuasion. Why should they be any different? Most people are not terribly bright or self-aware, but culture and tradition keeps them within certain moral guard rails and balances expectations with reality. We are seeing what comes of "dim and deluded" in the modern world. "Feminism was developed to allow unattractive women access to the mainstream." I agreed with Rush before I heard him say it. All one has to do is look at Betty Friedan to understand this.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Feb 7, 2023 21:51:34 GMT -8
One of the interesting aspects is that I'm not on the dating circuit...and presumably neither are you or Mr. Artler. We have to learn second-hand from reports here and there.
It's good to watch out for confirmation bias. But we're seeing more and more reports – as lips become loosened for one reason or another – of just how much today's women repel the men.
Granted, there's another side to this as well. Maybe a lot of the men are just making excuses. Many, we know, are sitting at home playing video games instead of securing a career. The toxicity of feminism is just another aspect for them, and it may not even be the deciding one.
But my gut tells me that men have always been slobs to some degree. But useful slobs. I think (know, really) that women's expecations are completely out of whack with reality, no matter the shortcomings of the men.
I can't do better than what the blond chick said. If women become de facto men, why would men want them? There are things men need from women. And none of these things are masculine traits...unless, as that blond chick said, they are gay men.
But most men (duh) are not homosexuals. Most men just want a little feminine TLC. They want to be respected and admired. Yes, this also needs to be earned to a large degree. Even so, in interpersonal relationships, there is a certain amount of social lubrication required (white lies, if you will) needed for a good relationship.
And I would bet my bottom dollar (the top one as well) that today's women do not have it in them to be anything but the little-princess center-of-attention. She has had it too easy. She has had it all her way. None of these is news to me. But I'm not on the dating circuit so I don't have first-hand accounts. But all the signs were there.
You may not be a structural engineer, but you can see that the roof is leaking. You see that the boards are rotting. You see the mice in the rafters. And you know the building is going to collapse just from the logic of physics.
And there is a logic to social behavior as well. If you approach relationships from a self-centered narcissistic point of view, good luck finding any takers. And that is what women face. The have become toxic. We know for a fact that political correctness and "wokeness" forbids most from offering valid criticism and advice to the little princesses. So they acquire unrealistic expectations.
And reports are firm from all quarters that women, in general, have never been so unhappy. Well….stop ball-busting men and don’t be afraid to act like a woman. Stop trying to be the man. Leave room for the man to be that.
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Post by artraveler on Feb 8, 2023 8:20:24 GMT -8
Sarah Sanders gave a good, not great but better than usual for Republicans response to the lying state of the union from senile Joe. I watched, but did not listen to the SOTU. It was interesting to watch the democrats and republicans all clap and sit on their hands, like trained seals. Still it is worth watching or listening. www.oann.com/newsroom/sarah-huckabee-sanders-sotu-response/"The choice is between normal and crazy"
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Post by artraveler on Feb 8, 2023 8:52:15 GMT -8
In my time I have know several remarkable women. My first wife, we married much too early, but to get away from her I followed my father into the USMC and until 1976 I pretty much swore off women. After returning from the 73 war I spent two years as a functional drunk. The love of my life found me, loved me and rehabilitated me. More than any other she showed me that love and respect are compatible. In 1979 she and our son moved to Israel where she received her doctorate in psychology and in 1996 was murdered. There has been a hole in my heart since. We were never formally married but the tie exists to this day. My second wife/third wife was an Air Force brat we had one son and were married for 22 years. One other wife which did not last long she was raising a son a a single parent, too much drama and we called it quits after four years. My current wife and I are in our 14th year. Life in retirement for both of us is still a challenge but livable. there are good men and women everywhere.
I wonder, why those under 30 are so disoriented about the who, where, what, when and why of life. We are all faced with death, sooner or later. If there is one god that cannot be defeated it is death, but we can say, "not today you bastard" Modern youth seems incapable of saying not today. They appear to desire death in all it's brutal any myriad forms. We are opposed by a death cult and in the long run there will be blood.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Feb 8, 2023 9:18:20 GMT -8
Yep. Good, forthright observation by the governor.
There is about zero chance that any of the back-slapping David-French-like mainstream Republican would say anything like that.
She sounds like one of us. And with all due respect (actually, very little at all), I put Trump on the crazy side of things. God forbid that jerk elbows his way in. I wonder if the Arkansas governor is going to run.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Feb 8, 2023 9:30:41 GMT -8
You have a remarkable life story. And it seems to be filled with some good women...and maybe some who are so-so. One of the Kungian themes around here is the unreality bred by watching a lifetime of false images and hearing false messages, whether in advertising, politics, the media, or movies and TV shows. "Real" is up for grabs. These days, many can't even confess the reality of a man and a woman. With that up for grabs, what else isn't? And what does it do to a mind and soul that has grown up on wall-to-wall delusions and lies? Almost all the images we see are false or doctored. If women have an unrealistic idea of what it is to be a woman, can you blame them if all they see as the ideal are faked and Photoshopped images of the perfect woman? One can see (and perhaps even understand) a rebellion under the guise of treating fat women as normal, although I still mostly see that as an offshoot of man-hating feminism. But surely a large element of rejecting the falsehood of fashion could be implicit in that. I was watching one of Louis Rossmann's videos the other day about Samsung "shadow banning" comments to a AMA (ask me anything) they did on Reddit. Samsung was famous for making commercials that mocked Apple for deleting the headphone jack from their phones. But now that Samsung has done the same thing, all those old advertisements have apparently been scrubbed from the web. And in this AMA, some (including Louis) asked a question that included "When are you going to add a headphone jack to your phone?" And here's the interesting bit, although I don't purport to have first-hand knowledge. But what they can apparently do is delete the comments so that others don't see your comment but you still can (thus you don't know that your comment was deleted). But you can apparently get around this by logging in with some kind of anonymous web browser where you can indeed then see that your comment was deleted. So falsehood is becoming mainstream, and way beyond the normal exaggeration of advertisers or even politicians. We are regularly being told absolute lies and being manipulated in sinister ways. And all this can't help but boil down and poison the relationships between men and women. Perhaps it is meant to. In the Kungian view, this is taken as self-evident.
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Post by kungfuzu on Feb 8, 2023 10:05:28 GMT -8
Yet in the end, reality has a way of bringing you back to earth. In the last hour, I passed a 1/4 inch kidney stone and no amount of pretending could wish it away.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Feb 8, 2023 10:18:57 GMT -8
Which brings us back to the expected central corrective aspect of the Kungian Reformation. It will (in this theory) be driven by experiencing the pain of all these hair-brained schemes of the Left (and the passive complicity of the right).
Like a giant societal kidney stone. We, of course, wish for a relaxed and pleasant day for Mr. Flu after his recent passing, as it were. But it could be a harbinger of things to come for the rest of society that is "stoned" in a very real way.
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Post by artraveler on Feb 8, 2023 17:02:22 GMT -8
I wonder if the Arkansas governor is going to run. Sarah is only 40 so she has a lot of time to be governor at least one successful term before she should consider national office, assuming there is a nation left. My personal choice right now is DeSantis and Tim Scott from S. Carolina. Sarah has two terms as governor that is 8 years, giving her two free years to build and run a campaign for 2032. We will all be in our 80s by then. But in politicalize a month is a lifetime so who knows?
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Post by Brad Nelson on Feb 15, 2023 17:42:55 GMT -8
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Post by Brad Nelson on Mar 3, 2023 9:39:20 GMT -8
Put this in the realm of "We could have predicted this": Critical Race Theory Teaches Kids To Hate Each Other, And The Proof Is On The PlaygroundI'm not sure I would have predicted this exact scenario. But if follows from the fact (fact!) that critical race theory (or any theory derived from Marx or the Left) is meant to stir up racial grievance, not assuage it. The critical links here are gullible women and sissified men who won't call a spade a spade on this subject. Conclusion: Get your kids the hell out of public schools.
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Post by artraveler on Mar 3, 2023 12:47:51 GMT -8
Article in AG on the differences of a population and a people. I would say nation rather then people but that is a small difference. amgreatness.com/2023/03/02/are-we-a-population-or-a-people/For people are not united by geopolitical boundaries, political machinery, or constitutional by-laws. They can be united only by what transcends their time, their place, and their economic or political interests.
It is widely known among almost every nation that Americans of every creed, ethnic or religious ideals can be easily spotted just walking down a street. Americans stand out in a crowd. the world can spot us almost anywhere. It is culture that gives people a chance to learn to speak to one another about the most important things in life, and they do so speak, not only across the backyard fence but across hundreds of years and thousands of miles.
It is one of the marvelous benefits of being a southerner that the rich culture of the South can be instantly spotted in a crowd. Some time a simple head nod conveys everything that need be said, and other times lead to a long conversation between complete strangers, sharing their life, their misfortunes, and loves. It is a southern thing, but by extension also an American thing. When American jurists ruled that the sacred texts of the Christian and Jewish faiths must be treated as anathema in our schools, it was as if they had said that there must not be an American peopleIt was as if someone had taken a knife to the nation’s soul and performed a spiritual lobotomy, so that people would no longer have the words to talk to each other about glory; so that Americans, when they did happen to encounter Ahab in his fury, raising his fist against the God who spoke to Job from the whirlwind, would be, at best, like cheerfully dopey tourists gaping up at the windows in Notre-Dame de Paris, and saying, “Gosh, they’re big. I wonder what they’re about?”—and then looking back toward the door, because they sense that they should feel something or know something, but they don’t, and they don’t.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Mar 3, 2023 15:30:47 GMT -8
I don't think this aspect has been articulated better...at least not that I've read.
Yep, and we all know this here...the Purveyors of the Perspicacious. Few others do...at least they don't act like it.
That certainly resonates with and verifies everything we've been saying. Talk about being on the same page.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Mar 3, 2023 15:41:23 GMT -8
That makes me think of the ghastly hollow verbal sound-effect of an unrooted population merely mimicking a people when I hear "Stay safe." I instinctively cringe but never before (until I read this article and your observation about unstated, hat-tipping Southerness) did I understand why.
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Post by artraveler on Mar 3, 2023 17:06:25 GMT -8
Stay safe I am a veteran of more fights then I care to count. Vietnam, Chile, Latin America, Europe, Middle East and the last 20 years of the Cold War, which encompassed all. I proudly ware my Marine cover in public and often T-shirts. By Marine standards I am reasonably quiescent. I do fly the American flag in the front yard and just below it the blue and white Magen David. On our house is the flags of Arkansas and the EGA of the Marines. For years after moving out of CA people would give me a "thank for your service". When it first started happening my first reaction was similar to yours, along the line of "so where were you and why me and my family?" I suppose I have mellowed, or just gotten wiser. Today, when thanked I return the complement and smile inwardly. I just take them at their word and know that I have had the pleasure of living with, and fighting beside some of the finest men and women the world will ever know. I has been my privilege to have their 6 and I hope they feel the same to have mine. So when someone says "stay safe, or thank you for service", to me they are the ones who have not experienced all of the wonders, good and bad, that life offers.
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