Culture wars and wedge issues are perfect to distract humans from the issues that the Empire actually cares about, keeping the plutocrats happy and keeping the wars well stoked.
There are those humans who are content with this, if humanity goes up in a mushroom cloud, or if they all disappear into a global totalitarian dystopia resembling 1984, or just an oligarchy resembling Brazil under the Colonels but without the more pleasant aspects, at least we have pronouns.
Keep in mind that none of this overeducated navel-gazing and status-seeking outrage, the endless struggle sessions over proper descriptors (do we call a person paralyzed from the neck down a "quadriplegic" or "a person with quadriplegia"?), the diversity committees that turn out to be jobs programs for grievance studies grads, the Wokemon matchups pitting a queer math-challenged Native American versus a schizophrenic mixed race male who *personally identifies* as a three-headed lesbian, none of this stuff affwxts the stupid wars or changes the way the economic pie is sliced.
Feral Finster: Have you been to Brazil? I have. The locals would joke about when the military took over Brazil. The Army drove tanks onto the beach as if they were going to blow up people playing volleyball. LOL!
Han - this is Caitlin's response to you absurd hijacking of her prior piece - the fact that you fail to realize that just further proves your total cluelessness.
I like the fact that you don’t throw around the word “troll” just because someone on here seems determined to disrupt. Clueless is a great description, or as my gay brothers say…Sans a clue.
So these posts, deleted by the time I got here, are from this Han.
In another thread, Han took my Substack handle literally--that's getting to be a lot of "literallys"--and then immediately demonstrated what it's mocking by calling me a fascist.
(Han's a funny one. I feel sorry for it, but what can we do?)
We've all been isolated for several years and I suspect Han needs interaction. but if I post a response to a substack I put some thought into it, try not to waste other people's time, and appreciate some modicum of the same from others. Last time I posted here Han lit into me and my email was attacked. Coincidence? Maybe. It's tiresome. And then when I went on this substack the next day I found a lot of people had received emails (as I had) that pretended to be from Caitlin but weren't which is probably why I had to confirm my identity before I could post here. This isn't the only substack this has happened at but a lot more people were targeted here than anywhere else. I'm spending too much time online as it is. I'm happy to talk to anyone of any age, but Gen Zers need to understand that they might be seeing a smaller portion of the big picture than people who have more experience with life. They have valuable insight BECAUSE of their age. But their lack of general knowledge irritates and depresses me. It's not their fault; I get it. They also tend to lack common courtesy in talking to strangers. Something destructive happened online in the 1980's so it started with Gen X (or whoever immediately followed the Baby Boomers) and it's been getting worse. Again, understandable given the mess the world has been in their entire lives. But life really is short. And there's a lot I need to do in a day.
As for Caitlin's essay, I do think that some issues that are definite distractions are also essential to deal with right now. The transgender issue, in particular, is very disturbing and I think is a continuation of an attempt to lessen our population world-wide. It is the responsibility of older people to watch out for the young and there appears to be a concerted attempt to sterilize as many people in the younger generations as possible, whether through the COVID vaccine which they knew from the start was going to harm significant numbers, or through removing reproductive organs. If we do not understand this and take a live and let live attitude, the Boomers will probably be okay financially if they tighten their belts a lot but the next generation will have a harder time in their 60's and beyond because there will be fewer workers to fund their retirement. And each successive generation will suffer even more. And a society cannot survive without younger generations, no matter what the billionaires think. This is not rocket science. World-wide infertility is alarmingly high. Besides which sterilizing the young (or anyone) is criminal.
At the recent WPATH conference they apparently put a lot of energy into "transableism"--removing body parts for people who think they should have been born handicapped. They are still resisting "transracialism" which is really disturbing. Race has no biological reality. But then I guess gender doesn't either.
Let me be clear, Han. YOU are a troll. I was telling Bill Wolfe to ignore you. Australia is very racist and the US was peopled by criminals and people in debtors' prison as well. You ought to try to learn from your elders instead of just spraying your invective everywhere. No need to respond to this. I won't take the bait.
Han: You throw out insults to someone you don't even know like spittle from a drooling ape. If you don't want to speak proper English, fine. Don't expect the readers to know what the feck you are talking about.
"Draw attention to how disgusting what they’re doing is. Draw attention to how deeply evil this behavior is."
This is what everyone needs to do 24/7, 365 days a year. I do it, and I get comments like, "You're so negative," or "Aren't you being judgmental?" But it's amazing that pointing out the evil does start to sink in little by little. The next time you meet that person you pointed out how inhumane and evil endless wars for oil are, don't be surprised if they casually mention something like, "They're just raising prices because these greedy bastards can't stop their endless wars." You do get through to their subconscious with your repetitiveness of pointing out reality. They won't know it, but they'll have begun seeing the evil, disgusting things going on in the world all on their own. And maybe they'll come to a point where they'll want to change things, too, and join in your protest, direct action or open act of rebellion. One more fighting against the corrupt system. And then they'll make another one...and another one... and so on and so on.
"But it's amazing that pointing out the evil does start to sink in little by little." - I doubt it's because of yours or mine, or anyone else's individual efforts.
What happens is - little by little the situation changes and news start trickling in suggesting something's wrong. The zombies hear it and remember you. Then they might recognize your "input".
From the United States Bankers’ Magazine of 1892: “We must proceed with caution, and guard well every move made, for the lower orders of people are already showing signs of restless commotions. Prudence will, therefore, dictate a policy of apparently yielding to the popular will until all of our plans are so far consummated that we can declare our designs without fear of organised resistance. The Farmers’ Alliance and the Knights of Labour organisations in the United States should be carefully watched by our trusted men, and we must take immediate steps to control these organisations in our interests or disrupt them. The coming Omaha Convention, to be held July 4th, our men must attend and direct its movements, or else there will be set on foot such antagonism to our designs as may require force to overcome. This, at the present time, would be premature. We are not yet ready for such a crisis. Capital must protect itself in every possible manner through combination and legislation. The courts must be called to our aid. Debts must be collected, bonds and mortgages foreclosed as rapidly as possible. Where, through a process of law, the common people have lost their homes, they will be more tractable and easily governed through the influence of the strong arm of government, applied by central power of imperial wealth, under the control of leading financiers. The truth is well known among our principal men now engaged in forming an imperialism of capital to govern the world. While they are doing this the people must be kept in a condition of political antagonism. The question of tariff reform must be urged through the organisation known as the Democratic Party, and the question of protection and reciprocity must be forced to view through the Republican Party. By thus dividing the voters we can get them to expend their energies in fighting over questions of no importance to us, except as teachers to lead the common herd. Thus by discreet actions we can secure all that has so generously planned and successfully accomplished.”
What a great example of the unabashed capitalist's point of view. I guess they didn't have to worry about statements like this being turned around and used against them in 1892--how many populists at the time read the US Bankers' Magazine?
Now, they're usually, not always, a bit more circumspect, preferring to talk about "freedom" and "democracy" as opposed to openly ballyhooing the accumulation of vast amounts of capital by the few at the expense of the many.
It's not just "left and right", or however many political ones, that work to divide. The government itself is busy in keeping the population under control. Yesterday's Kim Iversen interview with David Bell was quite informative. Starting at around 47:28 here
David says "most English-speaking countries now, call themselves democracies, they have attached to the higher levels of government or cabinets these powerful psychology groups ... these groups are there to manipulate people and to ... install fear even when it's irrational ... "
That top-down command of emotion is basically what "civilization" is, and this festival of misrule where everyone gets to play Supreme Emoter for fifteen minutes is basically what "social democracy" is. Even the notoriously classist Pacific Northwest Indian tribes manufactured unnecessary emotional influences, certainly when their classes saw their society's culture and aesthetics in crisis. For example, Graeber:
>For people living in such a bounteous environment, the Kwakiutl seemed to place a peculiar emphasis on hunger. The spiritual beings that populated the Kwakwala cosmos, as Stanley Walens (1981) has emphasized, were creatures driven primarily by their ravenous appetites—spirits, animals, and humans all endlessly consuming one another. Ritual involved constant creation of the experience of hunger: as Walens notes, not only was self-control and self-denial at table considered a crucial mark of noble status, but rather than being moments of collective indulgence, feasts were almost always solemn affairs at which the portions served were unsatisfyingly small—and nobles were not even supposed to finish their portions. Everything was happening as if the system was meant to create a feeling of deprivation where none really needed to exist. The most reasonable place to look for an explanation, it seems to me, is in the existence among the Kwakiutl of something very much like a class system.
“….One of the great challenges faced by westerners who oppose the political status quo today is the way the narrative managers of both mainstream factions continuously divert all political energy away from issues….”
However you cannot fight the framework while operating within the framework, and even validating it.
“Westerners”? Well you know the very concept that there is a west” - and by implication surrounded by a “jungle” - is THE original culture war promoted by the empire. Why? To provide cover for capitalist imperialism and exploitation.
You will never break the shackles of the empire while validating it and promoting its original mirage as real.
The instant I see any headline with either “Republicans” or “Democrats,” I keep scrolling. It becomes so blatantly obvious once see what’s really going on. you realize we’ve been so successfully pitted against the other party that we spend our whole lives never questioning why we only have 2 teams playing to begin with
I think you are right that there are more important issues, but we should spend some time caring about people who don't matter to the system, like the homeless, like women having their rights taken away by the new gender ideology, like children who are being taught that they can change their bodies through drugs and surgery to become happier people. These are issues liberals ought to care about as well.
Comrade, you are getting too close to crossing the line. Traditional Liberal is now Wacist, and Women's Rights is Sexist or Transphobia or something. Children need to be castrated for their own good, to avoid childbearing or other Capitalistic White curses.
So many mawgahs have strict semantic rules to follow. Each letter is a dog whistle or definitive legal codex and slight variations in spelling or tense always provide the proof they need for a new conspiracy theory or demon possession
I ignore the people who say ignorant things like voting for the green party is a spoiler vote. I'm voting green! Cornel may not win but I believe he will spread the truth even further and succeed in bringing consciousness to many people.
I fucking LOVE cornel west. I know everyone says he doesn’t have a snowballs chance in hell of getting elected but we’re obviously living in hell already and everyone hates the other 3 candidates. If he were to win shit would actually change.
I'm voting for West with every intention to win. If the United States is going to have any chance, this country must vote in Independents at every level.
Also, term limits for Congress and the Supreme Court!
Thought provoking piece. Thanks! I’ve been wondering lately if we are paying attention to what is going on in the US and working on the things that are important? As a nation. Where is the dialogue and debate about something other than culture. How engaged am I as a citizen? Is AP psychology really something I should care about right now? As a boomer I’m really thinking about my generation hanging around in Congress and what we are leaving people who are 20, 30 and 40 years my junior? I’m going to work on waking up a little bit.
Bill Foley: Good comment. I've been active in my community for over 20 years. All I've accomplished is getting an alley paved. I couldn't stop the stupid renovation of a narrow 1921 truss bridge (should have been replaced). I couldn't stop the masks. I couldn't stop the school, business, and church closures. I couldn't stop the parklets in the street. I couldn't stop the forced proof of injection to attend City Council meetings.
I couldn't stop any of the bad shite.
But I did get that alley paved. LOL!
PS: I also gave lectures twice about being an aircraft mechanic to the shop class. I was not invited back.
russian_bot: LOL! The high school teacher of the shop class seemed to like my presentation. He asked me back the next day and I went. I showed slides from my mechanic adventures in the Amazon on the movie set.
But it was the first class of the day right after the "Spring Ahead" time change and most of the class was asleep. LOL.
Basically, I told the students that the most important tools in their tool box are their bodies and minds. Take care of them. Eat right, exercise, and read the manual.
Speaking of the Right/Left Divide ..... Why did Fox keep the movie "Sound of Freedom" on the shelf for 3 years? It was finally sold and then seen, made millions, with no MSM media advertising. Well the Leftists on MSNBC attacked it as Q Anon, but the movie was made years before QAnon and is based on actual events, hmmmm
Then even the FIB, a darling of the New Leftists, was able to find Child Sex Trafficing......
but I want to be Fair & Balanced since the Bushie Cartel and Clintoon Cartel shared soo much Imported Cocaine $$$ back in Medina, AR when Billy & Hilarity were co-Gubernors in partnership with HW's CiA.
Bush the Younger later gave the USSA 20years of NWO $$$ Wars with 9/11. Then The "O"Bamy with his Shadow Deep Statist Comrades at the FIb/Doj/Dod pulled another Coup on Jan 6 .... Pelousy & Judas Pence agreed.
So Comrades, no need to get in a twist about things, It will all unfold, for all to See. Please keep the screaming and knashing of teeth to a minimum, others are sleeping.
Hahahahaha. Talk about disrupting the culture wars—the Lakota just had a two-spirit powwow in Racist, I mean Rapid City, Sodak. It was amazing. All gender binaries were dropped so that anyone could do the dances, boys doing girl dances and girls doing boys. People of good will came from miles around and the Black Hills Monument police kept them safe. They made enough money to contribute to the Feed The Buffalo Fund, and people still greet them in the grocery stores asking when the next one would be. So again I say, get off your butts and take action, disrupt the dominate paradigm and maybe do it by having a good time.
Your analysis is spot on... yet it is hampered by the invocation of 'left - right' ... as if this faux spectrum were not itself part of the culture war dynamic.... The powers that be are not called neo-liberalism for no reason.... The corporate state system is left and right....
and I was accused by the Resident Stinky Communist posting here of being insane for thinking the NWO mother WEFers had combined Internationalist Corporism with International Communism under the umbrella of International Banksterism.
Liberty is impossible with Any Central Gov running your life in minute detail. Seems selevident to me.
It's like a lab experiment: You take the Militarism cell, hypodermically extract the Racist culture within it, squirt it into a Petri dish, then forget all about the Host cell while babbling on about all of the Racism going in that Petri dish, like that's the only thing happening in the lab. Culture Wars are also driven by an appeal to Narcissism, which of course is a core Western value...
Napolitano says: no outrage because we have no love of liberty, we don't care what happens to others, as long as it doesn't happen to us. Bobby Kennedy just sued YouTube and Google. Good on him!
Culture wars and wedge issues are perfect to distract humans from the issues that the Empire actually cares about, keeping the plutocrats happy and keeping the wars well stoked.
There are those humans who are content with this, if humanity goes up in a mushroom cloud, or if they all disappear into a global totalitarian dystopia resembling 1984, or just an oligarchy resembling Brazil under the Colonels but without the more pleasant aspects, at least we have pronouns.
PRONOUNS, humans! PRONOUNS!
"Sure, we're evil. But it's an ANTIRACIST evil. Isn't that better than a racist evil."
"Uh...yeah, I guess so."
"Another voter in the bag."
I will make every effort to never again read any of your insulting posts.
Keep in mind that none of this overeducated navel-gazing and status-seeking outrage, the endless struggle sessions over proper descriptors (do we call a person paralyzed from the neck down a "quadriplegic" or "a person with quadriplegia"?), the diversity committees that turn out to be jobs programs for grievance studies grads, the Wokemon matchups pitting a queer math-challenged Native American versus a schizophrenic mixed race male who *personally identifies* as a three-headed lesbian, none of this stuff affwxts the stupid wars or changes the way the economic pie is sliced.
Feral Finster: Have you been to Brazil? I have. The locals would joke about when the military took over Brazil. The Army drove tanks onto the beach as if they were going to blow up people playing volleyball. LOL!
That's Brazil in a nutshell.
No, you're just another right-wing liar like your idol Sowell.
@Timmy Taes is very upset with pronouns. They are not friends of his. He seems unable to figure out what/who they refer to. He needs names.
russian_bot: Yes. I am upset with pronouns. Today was a good example from the Orange Huckleberry, Donald Trump.
"If you go after me! I will go after you!"
Who the feck is Donald talking about. Do you know russian_bot?
I wasn't paying attention. I can guess it wasn't me.
russian_bot: I think the Orange Huckleberry follows your every word. Hahaha.
I elect them. He'd better.
russian_bot: You mean, "I elect politicians. They better follow my every word."
Han - this is Caitlin's response to you absurd hijacking of her prior piece - the fact that you fail to realize that just further proves your total cluelessness.
I like the fact that you don’t throw around the word “troll” just because someone on here seems determined to disrupt. Clueless is a great description, or as my gay brothers say…Sans a clue.
Ignore him. He's a troll.
I assume we are talking about Han? I would call him/her/whatever a crybully more than a troll.
So these posts, deleted by the time I got here, are from this Han.
In another thread, Han took my Substack handle literally--that's getting to be a lot of "literallys"--and then immediately demonstrated what it's mocking by calling me a fascist.
(Han's a funny one. I feel sorry for it, but what can we do?)
We've all been isolated for several years and I suspect Han needs interaction. but if I post a response to a substack I put some thought into it, try not to waste other people's time, and appreciate some modicum of the same from others. Last time I posted here Han lit into me and my email was attacked. Coincidence? Maybe. It's tiresome. And then when I went on this substack the next day I found a lot of people had received emails (as I had) that pretended to be from Caitlin but weren't which is probably why I had to confirm my identity before I could post here. This isn't the only substack this has happened at but a lot more people were targeted here than anywhere else. I'm spending too much time online as it is. I'm happy to talk to anyone of any age, but Gen Zers need to understand that they might be seeing a smaller portion of the big picture than people who have more experience with life. They have valuable insight BECAUSE of their age. But their lack of general knowledge irritates and depresses me. It's not their fault; I get it. They also tend to lack common courtesy in talking to strangers. Something destructive happened online in the 1980's so it started with Gen X (or whoever immediately followed the Baby Boomers) and it's been getting worse. Again, understandable given the mess the world has been in their entire lives. But life really is short. And there's a lot I need to do in a day.
As for Caitlin's essay, I do think that some issues that are definite distractions are also essential to deal with right now. The transgender issue, in particular, is very disturbing and I think is a continuation of an attempt to lessen our population world-wide. It is the responsibility of older people to watch out for the young and there appears to be a concerted attempt to sterilize as many people in the younger generations as possible, whether through the COVID vaccine which they knew from the start was going to harm significant numbers, or through removing reproductive organs. If we do not understand this and take a live and let live attitude, the Boomers will probably be okay financially if they tighten their belts a lot but the next generation will have a harder time in their 60's and beyond because there will be fewer workers to fund their retirement. And each successive generation will suffer even more. And a society cannot survive without younger generations, no matter what the billionaires think. This is not rocket science. World-wide infertility is alarmingly high. Besides which sterilizing the young (or anyone) is criminal.
At the recent WPATH conference they apparently put a lot of energy into "transableism"--removing body parts for people who think they should have been born handicapped. They are still resisting "transracialism" which is really disturbing. Race has no biological reality. But then I guess gender doesn't either.
big oil's
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we're gonna hafta go
Full-on Test Tubers
from now On.
.
or soon
Let me be clear, Han. YOU are a troll. I was telling Bill Wolfe to ignore you. Australia is very racist and the US was peopled by criminals and people in debtors' prison as well. You ought to try to learn from your elders instead of just spraying your invective everywhere. No need to respond to this. I won't take the bait.
I don't agree that Australia is "very rascist" in general.
Han: We are talking about pronouns in general. You see the problem now with pronouns? You don't even know what we are talking about.
Han: If you want to communicate what you wish to communicate use a noun so that the reader knows what the feck you are talking about!
Han: You throw out insults to someone you don't even know like spittle from a drooling ape. If you don't want to speak proper English, fine. Don't expect the readers to know what the feck you are talking about.
"Draw attention to how disgusting what they’re doing is. Draw attention to how deeply evil this behavior is."
This is what everyone needs to do 24/7, 365 days a year. I do it, and I get comments like, "You're so negative," or "Aren't you being judgmental?" But it's amazing that pointing out the evil does start to sink in little by little. The next time you meet that person you pointed out how inhumane and evil endless wars for oil are, don't be surprised if they casually mention something like, "They're just raising prices because these greedy bastards can't stop their endless wars." You do get through to their subconscious with your repetitiveness of pointing out reality. They won't know it, but they'll have begun seeing the evil, disgusting things going on in the world all on their own. And maybe they'll come to a point where they'll want to change things, too, and join in your protest, direct action or open act of rebellion. One more fighting against the corrupt system. And then they'll make another one...and another one... and so on and so on.
"But it's amazing that pointing out the evil does start to sink in little by little." - I doubt it's because of yours or mine, or anyone else's individual efforts.
What happens is - little by little the situation changes and news start trickling in suggesting something's wrong. The zombies hear it and remember you. Then they might recognize your "input".
Today's Greenwald brings up changing attitudes in the US. Worth checking out: https://rumble.com/v34q12a-system-update-124.html
From the United States Bankers’ Magazine of 1892: “We must proceed with caution, and guard well every move made, for the lower orders of people are already showing signs of restless commotions. Prudence will, therefore, dictate a policy of apparently yielding to the popular will until all of our plans are so far consummated that we can declare our designs without fear of organised resistance. The Farmers’ Alliance and the Knights of Labour organisations in the United States should be carefully watched by our trusted men, and we must take immediate steps to control these organisations in our interests or disrupt them. The coming Omaha Convention, to be held July 4th, our men must attend and direct its movements, or else there will be set on foot such antagonism to our designs as may require force to overcome. This, at the present time, would be premature. We are not yet ready for such a crisis. Capital must protect itself in every possible manner through combination and legislation. The courts must be called to our aid. Debts must be collected, bonds and mortgages foreclosed as rapidly as possible. Where, through a process of law, the common people have lost their homes, they will be more tractable and easily governed through the influence of the strong arm of government, applied by central power of imperial wealth, under the control of leading financiers. The truth is well known among our principal men now engaged in forming an imperialism of capital to govern the world. While they are doing this the people must be kept in a condition of political antagonism. The question of tariff reform must be urged through the organisation known as the Democratic Party, and the question of protection and reciprocity must be forced to view through the Republican Party. By thus dividing the voters we can get them to expend their energies in fighting over questions of no importance to us, except as teachers to lead the common herd. Thus by discreet actions we can secure all that has so generously planned and successfully accomplished.”
What a great example of the unabashed capitalist's point of view. I guess they didn't have to worry about statements like this being turned around and used against them in 1892--how many populists at the time read the US Bankers' Magazine?
Now, they're usually, not always, a bit more circumspect, preferring to talk about "freedom" and "democracy" as opposed to openly ballyhooing the accumulation of vast amounts of capital by the few at the expense of the many.
They play the long game both relentlessly & pitilessly.
And here's the truth in the puddin'!
It's not just "left and right", or however many political ones, that work to divide. The government itself is busy in keeping the population under control. Yesterday's Kim Iversen interview with David Bell was quite informative. Starting at around 47:28 here
https://rumble.com/v34ioet-rfk-jr-declines-debate-over-israel-the-who-is-leading-us-towards-internatio.html
David says "most English-speaking countries now, call themselves democracies, they have attached to the higher levels of government or cabinets these powerful psychology groups ... these groups are there to manipulate people and to ... install fear even when it's irrational ... "
That top-down command of emotion is basically what "civilization" is, and this festival of misrule where everyone gets to play Supreme Emoter for fifteen minutes is basically what "social democracy" is. Even the notoriously classist Pacific Northwest Indian tribes manufactured unnecessary emotional influences, certainly when their classes saw their society's culture and aesthetics in crisis. For example, Graeber:
>For people living in such a bounteous environment, the Kwakiutl seemed to place a peculiar emphasis on hunger. The spiritual beings that populated the Kwakwala cosmos, as Stanley Walens (1981) has emphasized, were creatures driven primarily by their ravenous appetites—spirits, animals, and humans all endlessly consuming one another. Ritual involved constant creation of the experience of hunger: as Walens notes, not only was self-control and self-denial at table considered a crucial mark of noble status, but rather than being moments of collective indulgence, feasts were almost always solemn affairs at which the portions served were unsatisfyingly small—and nobles were not even supposed to finish their portions. Everything was happening as if the system was meant to create a feeling of deprivation where none really needed to exist. The most reasonable place to look for an explanation, it seems to me, is in the existence among the Kwakiutl of something very much like a class system.
“….One of the great challenges faced by westerners who oppose the political status quo today is the way the narrative managers of both mainstream factions continuously divert all political energy away from issues….”
However you cannot fight the framework while operating within the framework, and even validating it.
“Westerners”? Well you know the very concept that there is a west” - and by implication surrounded by a “jungle” - is THE original culture war promoted by the empire. Why? To provide cover for capitalist imperialism and exploitation.
You will never break the shackles of the empire while validating it and promoting its original mirage as real.
The instant I see any headline with either “Republicans” or “Democrats,” I keep scrolling. It becomes so blatantly obvious once see what’s really going on. you realize we’ve been so successfully pitted against the other party that we spend our whole lives never questioning why we only have 2 teams playing to begin with
Batman doesn't need Robin. You can make a perfectly suitable Batman movie without the Boy Wonder.
But take away The Joker and Batman is a larping weirdo.
The kicker is that the Democrats and the Republicans are essentially the same.
Because competition generates false truths, and the game like all games is a sham.
I think you are right that there are more important issues, but we should spend some time caring about people who don't matter to the system, like the homeless, like women having their rights taken away by the new gender ideology, like children who are being taught that they can change their bodies through drugs and surgery to become happier people. These are issues liberals ought to care about as well.
Comrade, you are getting too close to crossing the line. Traditional Liberal is now Wacist, and Women's Rights is Sexist or Transphobia or something. Children need to be castrated for their own good, to avoid childbearing or other Capitalistic White curses.
So many mawgahs have strict semantic rules to follow. Each letter is a dog whistle or definitive legal codex and slight variations in spelling or tense always provide the proof they need for a new conspiracy theory or demon possession
I ignore the people who say ignorant things like voting for the green party is a spoiler vote. I'm voting green! Cornel may not win but I believe he will spread the truth even further and succeed in bringing consciousness to many people.
cornelwest24.org
I fucking LOVE cornel west. I know everyone says he doesn’t have a snowballs chance in hell of getting elected but we’re obviously living in hell already and everyone hates the other 3 candidates. If he were to win shit would actually change.
I'm voting for West with every intention to win. If the United States is going to have any chance, this country must vote in Independents at every level.
Also, term limits for Congress and the Supreme Court!
Thought provoking piece. Thanks! I’ve been wondering lately if we are paying attention to what is going on in the US and working on the things that are important? As a nation. Where is the dialogue and debate about something other than culture. How engaged am I as a citizen? Is AP psychology really something I should care about right now? As a boomer I’m really thinking about my generation hanging around in Congress and what we are leaving people who are 20, 30 and 40 years my junior? I’m going to work on waking up a little bit.
Bill Foley: Good comment. I've been active in my community for over 20 years. All I've accomplished is getting an alley paved. I couldn't stop the stupid renovation of a narrow 1921 truss bridge (should have been replaced). I couldn't stop the masks. I couldn't stop the school, business, and church closures. I couldn't stop the parklets in the street. I couldn't stop the forced proof of injection to attend City Council meetings.
I couldn't stop any of the bad shite.
But I did get that alley paved. LOL!
PS: I also gave lectures twice about being an aircraft mechanic to the shop class. I was not invited back.
That last one explains the lack of applicants for Boeing from Northern CA. Good/bad job!
russian_bot: LOL! The high school teacher of the shop class seemed to like my presentation. He asked me back the next day and I went. I showed slides from my mechanic adventures in the Amazon on the movie set.
But it was the first class of the day right after the "Spring Ahead" time change and most of the class was asleep. LOL.
Basically, I told the students that the most important tools in their tool box are their bodies and minds. Take care of them. Eat right, exercise, and read the manual.
Gotcha. You forgot to mention game consoles and that was your downfall.
russian_bot: I still don't understand game consoles. I am a dinosaur.
That didn't help either.
Speaking of the Right/Left Divide ..... Why did Fox keep the movie "Sound of Freedom" on the shelf for 3 years? It was finally sold and then seen, made millions, with no MSM media advertising. Well the Leftists on MSNBC attacked it as Q Anon, but the movie was made years before QAnon and is based on actual events, hmmmm
Then even the FIB, a darling of the New Leftists, was able to find Child Sex Trafficing......
https://rumble.com/v34sanq-sound-of-freedom.html
but I want to be Fair & Balanced since the Bushie Cartel and Clintoon Cartel shared soo much Imported Cocaine $$$ back in Medina, AR when Billy & Hilarity were co-Gubernors in partnership with HW's CiA.
Bush the Younger later gave the USSA 20years of NWO $$$ Wars with 9/11. Then The "O"Bamy with his Shadow Deep Statist Comrades at the FIb/Doj/Dod pulled another Coup on Jan 6 .... Pelousy & Judas Pence agreed.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/qkk9TzE0lH5b/
So Comrades, no need to get in a twist about things, It will all unfold, for all to See. Please keep the screaming and knashing of teeth to a minimum, others are sleeping.
Hahahahaha. Talk about disrupting the culture wars—the Lakota just had a two-spirit powwow in Racist, I mean Rapid City, Sodak. It was amazing. All gender binaries were dropped so that anyone could do the dances, boys doing girl dances and girls doing boys. People of good will came from miles around and the Black Hills Monument police kept them safe. They made enough money to contribute to the Feed The Buffalo Fund, and people still greet them in the grocery stores asking when the next one would be. So again I say, get off your butts and take action, disrupt the dominate paradigm and maybe do it by having a good time.
Your analysis is spot on... yet it is hampered by the invocation of 'left - right' ... as if this faux spectrum were not itself part of the culture war dynamic.... The powers that be are not called neo-liberalism for no reason.... The corporate state system is left and right....
and I was accused by the Resident Stinky Communist posting here of being insane for thinking the NWO mother WEFers had combined Internationalist Corporism with International Communism under the umbrella of International Banksterism.
Liberty is impossible with Any Central Gov running your life in minute detail. Seems selevident to me.
genearly.substack.com
Well said - a critique AND a strategy- do more of this Caitlin
It's like a lab experiment: You take the Militarism cell, hypodermically extract the Racist culture within it, squirt it into a Petri dish, then forget all about the Host cell while babbling on about all of the Racism going in that Petri dish, like that's the only thing happening in the lab. Culture Wars are also driven by an appeal to Narcissism, which of course is a core Western value...
Great article, share widely!
Napolitano says: no outrage because we have no love of liberty, we don't care what happens to others, as long as it doesn't happen to us. Bobby Kennedy just sued YouTube and Google. Good on him!
https://youtu.be/qrVT8HA0uBQ